A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Tried to bake some shortbread this morning. I'd made some before so it's not like I did anything wrong in the recipe/cooking time. I came back 20 minutes after I put them in the oven and they were completely burnt. How?! 15-20 minutes was the cooking time recommended, I definitely put the timer on 20, I even took the temperature down from 190 to 180 because our oven gets quite hot. It has put a real dampener on my morning - I was really looking forward to a biscuit with a cup of tea! :/
 
gerbilord said:
Tried to bake some shortbread this morning. I'd made some before so it's not like I did anything wrong in the recipe/cooking time. I came back 20 minutes after I put them in the oven and they were completely burnt. How?! 15-20 minutes was the cooking time recommended, I definitely put the timer on 20, I even took the temperature down from 190 to 180 because our oven gets quite hot. It has put a real dampener on my morning - I was really looking forward to a biscuit with a cup of tea! :/
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I cook shortbread on 150 for around 20 mins.
 
It’s just butter, flour and sugar isn’t it? Maybe I’ll make some with the girls next half term. I can’t eat them now 😭
 
Siikibam said:
It’s just butter, flour and sugar isn’t it? Maybe I’ll make some with the girls next half term. I can’t eat them now 😭
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Yep. 6 ozs p flour, 4oz butter and 2ozs caster sugar. Rub it all together, roll out and prick with a fork. Bake for 15-20 mins at 150.
 
Mmm that looks yummy.
I love shortbread, I should make myself some. I don't bake at all now as my partner has so many food allergies and can't have wheat, fat or dairy. It never seems worth putting the oven on just for me, shame piggies can't eat cake and shortbread!
 
piggieminder said:
Mmm that looks yummy.
I love shortbread, I should make myself some. I don't bake at all now as my partner has so many food allergies and can't have wheat, fat or dairy. It never seems worth putting the oven on just for me, shame piggies can't eat cake and shortbread!
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Bake it anyway for a treat and freeze the rest.
 
Pity we don't have cookie cutters. I used to be known as the scone queen at home. I used to make them quite regularly. Haven't done them in a while. Hmmm...
 
Technology.

Cooking fever game stopped working two days ago. It comes up with the loading page & diappears. It worked fine on Weds & by Thursday it had stopped working. No idea why.

Yesterday my laptop spent an hour doing its Norton security scan. Then once that was done it told me it needed to do disk optimisation... which took forver! Of course after thay it needed to do updates (the thing needs weekly ones to be happy)...

Today it tells me that windows 10 needs updating. Why can't it do everything on the same day!?
 
Sar said:
Technology.

Cooking fever game stopped working two days ago. It comes up with the loading page & diappears. It worked fine on Weds & by Thursday it had stopped working. No idea why.

Yesterday my laptop spent an hour doing its Norton security scan. Then once that was done it told me it needed to do disk optimisation... which took forver! Of course after thay it needed to do updates (the thing needs weekly ones to be happy)...

Today it tells me that windows 10 needs updating. Why can't it do everything on the same day!?
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Completely sympathise @Sar

I now hate technology - however, I may be able to cheer you up with news that Norton is no longer required, really just keep Windows Defender (or whatever it's called these days) up to date and it'll be fine, you may even find that Norton is making your computer slow.
 
My rant today is about hayfever. I have had it every year for 40 years. I now take hayfever tablets all year round. The lining of my nose has bled several times already this week :yikes: and we're not in the high pollen season yet! I can't breathe this morning my sinuses are so blocked, I feel all headachy because I can't get enough oxygen to my brain as I'm so blocked up and this is AFTER I've taken my hayfever tablet.
 
Betsy said:
My rant today is about hayfever. I have had it every year for 40 years. I now take hayfever tablets all year round. The lining of my nose has bled several times already this week :yikes: and we're not in the high pollen season yet! I can't breathe this morning my sinuses are so blocked, I feel all headachy because I can't get enough oxygen to my brain as I'm so blocked up and this is AFTER I've taken my hayfever tablet.
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So sorry ☹️ Would a decongestant spray work? Or a different tablet? Hugs.
 
Betsy said:
I can't use a decongestant spray and I changed my tablets last year. Thanks for the suggestions though.
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Have you tried honey? I've heard that if you have honey from your local area it helps? Something to do with the pollen the bees collect and it somehow helps with symptoms? I'm not 100% how it works but worth a thought?
 
Betsy said:
My rant today is about hayfever.
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Hubs once tried acupuncture on recommendation of a midwife (they're having this conversation and I was "hey, trying to have a baby here...")
She said she went every year and it reduced symptoms by about 50% each time so by third year she was fine without tablets. He went for a couple of sessions and indeed symptom reduction about half. The next year he went back on the tablets because he couldn't be bothered: he doesn't get it that bad and to be honest he loves taking a tablet for anything (whereas distrusts 'witch' medicine). It's expensive as you need a few sessions to start with which is about £40 a go here, and they put needles in your face apparently so he looked like he had whiskers. But worth looking into?
 
Free Ranger said:
Hubs once tried acupuncture on recommendation of a midwife (they're having this conversation and I was "hey, trying to have a baby here...")
She said she went every year and it reduced symptoms by about 50% each time so by third year she was fine without tablets. He went for a couple of sessions and indeed symptom reduction about half. The next year he went back on the tablets because he couldn't be bothered: he doesn't get it that bad and to be honest he loves taking a tablet for anything (whereas distrusts 'witch' medicine). It's expensive as you need a few sessions to start with which is about £40 a go here, and they put needles in your face apparently so he looked like he had whiskers. But worth looking into?
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I've had acupuncture in the past for hayfever and regularly have it on my left hand to stop it from seizing up (a legacy of RSI from one of my previous jobs 30 years ago). I usually have acupunture for my hayfever in Jan or Feb and it does help relieve the symptoms but couldn't this year because of Lockdown. I'm going next week and I'm going to mention it then to see if Justin can do anything for it. :)
 
I’ve had an appointment come through for neurology for the 16th April but it’s at a hospital that’s 25 miles and an hours drive away! I wouldn’t mind but we have 3 hospitals locally so why can’t I just go to one of them 😞
 
My ears tend to get a bit dry and scabby every now and then (only the back of them though), and it hurts every time I accidentally catch a scab whenever I tie my hair up.
 
Betsy said:
I don't either. The only reason I have a Facebook account is that I needed to look up a rescue on Facebook and had to have an account to do so and I was a member of my SW group but only cos I had an account. I am friends with a few people but don't really need to know that one of them has been in her job for 10 years! What did she want a medal?
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That’s exactly the same reason I opened a Facebook Account, to access a Rescue, think it is the same one as you 😆 I have one friend, Debbie at TEAS! and the other rescue
 
Sonnet said:
My ears tend to get a bit dry and scabby every now and then (only the back of them though), and it hurts every time I accidentally catch a scab whenever I tie my hair up.
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I was going to ask if this was eczema - my mum gets outbreaks on the back of her neck at the hairline. But I was also suggesting to her that she might have an intolerance to her shampoo/conditioner. Is yours anything to do with that? The back of the ears would be in contact with the hair. Or arms of glasses?

One of my relations was treated for armpit fungus for over a year... itchy, red, moist, really unpleasant for him. And so embarrassed in changing rooms / swimming pools etc. Turned out he had an allergy to a fragrance widespread in deodorants. Better within a week!
 
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