Lamb chops, vegies and couscous.
Also I sliced up a fennel for a side salad authentic recipe which I fot from writers camp ... not on curriculum ... tut tut
I am ok with food conversations now .. but there were about 20 years that it just made my hair stand on end ... I did not join in and was not invited ...
so thanks @Former-Member .. a bit of ole fashioned manners goes a long way.
@Sehnsucht I still struggle to wipe out some of the more bigoted ugly ways of speaking around me. It was enough to turn me against my own racefor a while.
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ie about AUS kulchur
and I was relieved to talk to some foreigners cos they had more to talk about and better ways to say it.
The shift in emotional tone of my smileys show the shift in my feelings over time. At first I knew the people werent talking about me ... so no was not paranoid ... or rude or answered bak ... few people like to be told not to speak like that ... I have found they can be rough and tough or or well established well dressed and well heeled ... I am pretty polite when I am assertive ... it seems it can be a test .. now ... how far can I trust you .. well you cannot trust me to collude with MH/MI or ethnic and racial bigotism. However I can be drawn into anti fatcatism .... I am biased ...
I was rapt when political correctness first came in ... as the general chat in the community went up a notch.
I will play with the vernacular ... but am VERY CLEAR about the boundaries in language ... YAY .. just not about standards of living or interpersonal revelation or comfort.
hi everyone,
just stopping in again, feeling really low tonight, been called a dole bludger and other horible things by a family member, gosh sometimes i wish i was an orphan so i did not have to deal with family.
just some comfort food for me tonight, macaroni and cheese.
sorry to bring the tone down, just wanted to say hi to everyone.
Jacques
@Bimby2 Great to see you ... and great chow.
@Former-Member Ha Ha ... I did not cook dinner for 2 nights 
... its just that tonight it is on ... we were sick anyway ... went through stacks of oranges & mandarins tho ... not sure if the boy will eat the fennel .. it might be one that I finish on me lonesome.
I compromise tho ... my kids got plenty of tiny bags of chips in lunch boxes with their fruit when that was the right thing to do ... and my son got eased off chips ... painlessly .. cos he was exposed to more of them than the girls, just cos of the crappy side of Aus kulcha in the schools etc ...which I am finally turning around and understanding more of thru reading GREAT MODERN OZLIT ...
it helps me forgive all the rotten things intimates & random passers by did or did not do ...
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SANE values diversity. We are committed to providing a safe, culturally appropriate, and inclusive service for all people, regardless of their ethnicity, faith, disability, sexuality, or gender identity.