Will I get to stitch today???

I do dislike that, you always hear men saying about women keeping their legs crossed when talking of single mothers - well in my book it takes two and I straight away tell them that I advocate a Bobbit for any male who creates a child and then leaves the mother on welfare.

Additionally we need to teach kids before they become fertile just how to avoid becoming pregnant. Since some parents won't or don't, there should be specific teachers who travel round the schools dispelling all the stupid myths such as: You won't get pregnant the first time you do it ~ You won't get pregnant if you only do it standing up etc etc.

Way back when I was in school there was a doctor who came and lectured once a year. Nothing was left unsaid, all questions answered, great slide show so there could be no mistake about anything - it seems strange to me that in this bright, modern age they no longer have lectures like that. Maybe it's actually even more important because I am sure there is all sorts of misleading info on the net.

I missed something - marzipan??? A totally addicting concoction, especially when dipped in rich dark chocolate

Cheryl

Next door neighbor's DH was recently called - nearly 45% the expected pool for Rockingham County didn't show up and it was a "good turn out". But next county over, 90% show up on average (hockey acquaintance is a bailiff in Hillsborough).

While I have no issues with interpreter for the deaf, is justice really served with an interpreter for a foreign language? Sounds to me like a good basis for an appeal for both criminal and civil cases.

Cheryl

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Make the cut higher up.

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Not entirely, not by a long shot. Parenting and values help, but there have been unintended pregnancies from time immemorial, and they've happened in the Very Best Families, even those with the strictest father figures and the most "blistered bottoms." We just don't always hear about them.

Best wishes, Ericka

Maureen covers her rich fruit cakes in a layer of marzipan before she puts on the royal icing. Apparently it keeps the cake nice & moist, tastes good too

Moan - that sounds SO GOOD.. Perhaps a bit rich for breakfast, but none the less...

Ideal for supper - iced rich fruit cake and a slice of crumbly, white Cheshire cheese. Almost as tasty as boiled black pudding with English mustard...

I always made my Xmas cake like Maureen - a big one too even after the kids were gone - and we would eat it slice by slice until by summer it was usually gone. After David died I decided I would stop making it as I did not need the calories.

There's a white, crumbly Welsh cheese I like, Caerphilly but it's very rare I find it when I am over. Someone told me it was because it is a raw milk cheese, but I really don't know.

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I was one of four but there was at least six years between each of us and there is 12 years between my two children but I hope I've been a good mother and that I'm passing on sensible ideals to my children

Marzipan on christmas cake under the icing

Had supper of cheshire and lancashire cheese with hovis crackers and pickles last night yum

I love those, if they are the ones I am thinking of - sort of loaf shaped and rather sweet. Somewhat like a darker digestive ?

Unfortunately I can only get them if I buy a packet of Carrs Assorted which is not a great buy.

Caerphilly is made from full cream raw milk. And it is difficult to find in the shops unless you go to a speciality delicatessen. See

"lucretia borgia" wrote

I was going to comment on marzipan, but have to wave a big "me too" on the Caerphilly. One of my total favourites, long missing since DnqXH didn't like any cheese except medium cheddar. Now I am going to have to go out and look for some. Maybe a good honest cheese is not so much in fashion these days---one of the stores near me touts "sticky toffee pudding cheese" (yuck). Anyone for Ski Queen gjestost??? Dawne

and sometimes they make it into lovely little pink pigs, which are lucky for New Years (and fun to bite the tails off first) Dawne

I don't think you will find it. Remember all the stink when the Feds tried to stop the production of Oka cheese ? That is a raw milk cheese and eventually it was determined they could continue, with a label that warned people.

OTOH they successfully closed out a nice yogurt making concern in Lunenburg that employed 300 people, because they said it wasn't safe. I had been eating it for about ten years with no bad results. Nanny governments bah!

Not to mention mice. Heads off first lol