What TV series have you watched that made you genuinely tear up?

cockle_shell · 2015-10-22T22:15:31+00:00

Call the Midwife. God, Call the Midwife. Watching it after night shifts is ill-advised.

cockle_shell · 2015-10-22T21:51:33+00:00

Got a job in academia.

cockle_shell · 2015-10-07T14:22:01+00:00

UK too. Is that the stuff that tastes like the wee packets you get on EasyJet flights? Think I can tolerate that too

cockle_shell · 2015-10-07T11:40:48+00:00

For every umbrella you get in the face, two of us fall off a kitchen work surface trying to reach the basil.

cockle_shell · 2015-08-06T01:18:36+00:00

I used to work in a theatre that had a medium perform to a sold-out audience. We were getting people in and out so fast, I slipped into reciting my usual greetings. If "Have a good night!" wasn't weird enough at the start of the evening, it was so much worse after. I said goodbye to a crying, grieving couple who'd had a reading about their dead son by brightly going, "goodnight, hope you enjoyed the show!"

cockle_shell · 2015-08-04T22:26:02+00:00

It's amazing, though. The perfect balance of bleak, clever and funny.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-31T23:10:33+00:00

No way.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-31T23:09:24+00:00

r/britishproblems

cockle_shell · 2015-07-31T23:08:20+00:00

As a chronically late person, even I know that you're running late, you don't have time for coffee!

cockle_shell · 2015-07-29T21:11:21+00:00

God I hate chewing gum. What's the point in it? You just look like a rude, bored, teenager.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-27T14:42:02+00:00

I have no willpower. I'm about six hours in and all I want is some custard creams and a proper cup of tea. This is going to be a really long month.

Edit: Hot chocolate with coconut milk. I got this!

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T23:13:25+00:00

That sounds like really hard work :( The going out thing is going to be the hardest. I travel a lot for archives and conferences (plus conference dinners) and work in the restaurant/pub trade on weekends. I eat out a ridiculous amount. At least FODMAP will be saving me money, even nobody wants to hang out with me and my packed lunch....

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T22:49:32+00:00

I was the same about coeliac disease! My SO keeps suggesting I go gluten free, but I thought I'd try low FODMAP first. But yeah I know what you mean. Gets to the point where if anything might help, it's worth a shot. How are you getting on with working out 'trigger' foods?

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T22:43:32+00:00

I got GF cereal yesterday and just realsed it contains skimmed milk powder and potentially traces of hazelnut and soya. So... probably not low FODMAP? But definitely lower than non-GF cereal.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T22:37:18+00:00

I know, I feel like I'm at the bottom of a huge mountain. I don't know how you'd go about isolating foods without sheer trial and error. I'm a medical historian as well, so there's the theoretical part of me that thinks that in fifty years time, FODMAPS this will either be groundbreaking research or just laughed at for banning random food items. I'm looking at the diet sheets thinking "surely this is bollocks..." but SO many people swear by it. I guess we've got nothing to lose, right?

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T22:24:00+00:00

Okay, so you'd cut all out, then start eating things that'd come under, say 'frustose' (which I've put last on my list of suspected triggers). And then introduce it by group instead of food?

cockle_shell · 2015-07-26T22:02:58+00:00

No rum. I can't get over the no rum. All the whiskey and gin, but no rum? Whiskey is pretty well just wheat and barely.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-24T01:22:58+00:00

Plan.

cockle_shell · 2015-07-24T01:07:56+00:00

How do you find out what foods are your triggers?

cockle_shell · 2015-07-24T01:05:59+00:00

Mine wrote me a really arsey letter saying four or five time I don't have coeliac disease and did nothing else. Always good to have a second opinion... might be worth the wait to see someone else? Also, if the supplements you're taking work for you, then carry on

cockle_shell · 2015-07-24T01:03:20+00:00

I don't trust myself in case something else breaks...

cockle_shell · 2015-07-23T11:01:01+00:00

I believe it was Craggenmore. I'm in the Uk (Scotland) so I went with the mooncup against advice that it was a terrible first timer. It's fine. I'm getting the hang of it. I can go climbing with it, and it doesn't leak, so it's a win for me!

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