Sometimes it's BRATT - for Toast and Tea. I can't stomach herbal teas, but I drink heaps of green and jasmine tea, as well as ginger. When I get my winter cold and cough, I live on ginger, boiling water and honey. I was growing my own ginger but with the rain and humidity of the last week, it has rotted!

Best cure for an upset tummy - pour boiling water into a mug and stir in a spoonful of vegemite, and also dry toast with vegemite.
I would die if I ever got sick and didn't have my vegemite!

The BRAT diet is the best. Whenever I am sick I go straight on it. Sometimes if I'm really nauseous I'll also have some almost flat lemonade but I don't like fizzy drinks and lemonade is always so sweet. Apple juice too, is good for an upset stomach. As for ginger, never in a billion years! I hate fresh ginger with a passion (it is 3rdth on my list of most hated foods, after Chocolate, Celery & just a smidge before fresh coriander) and I can't stomach it at all, I don't know if this stems from my formative years when I suffered for excruciatingly bad motion sickness so I was always given ginger pills before we went on a long drive.

I'm with you on the Vegemite front though. It's the only thing I can have on my toast if I'm sick and I do love it as a hot liquid too! But sometimes I prefer Bovril in my hot water, more of a beef tea than a yeast extract tea! Vegemite (or Dick Smiths OzEmite, which is what I use because it's Gluten Free) is simply the best thing for sliced bread, so much better than any of that other stuff.

As much as I hate the evil WIPs I have been sucked into a couple lately. I think I'm losing my self restraint, I guess because of my fic funk and the fires I've become more spontaneous, trying anything to lift myself out of my non-fic reading state. It's worked too! When we were at home today I actually managed to sit down and read more than a few chapters of the same (WIP  ) without giving it the flick!

My husband has insisted on introducing nutella to each of our children, despite my protests.  (I would have raised them on regular peanut butter, but he likes to be the good cop.)  IMHO, vegemite does not look like nutella.  Vegemite looks like sludge.  You Aussies have to teach your children from birth to like it, otherwise they wouldn't touch it!  But Astro, I admire your gastronomic fortitude.  I have to stop thinking about it.  It's upsetting my gastro-intestinal system.  I loved everything else about Austrialia, though.  And this is true despite the fact that we stayed in a hotel in the red-light district of Sydney!

We don't train our children to like it, they just know what's good for them. When I was at Summer Camp in the USA I took lots of Vegemite over there and all the kids in my cabin loved it, and lots of the others did too. Their favourite way to eat it was by dipping Goldfish crackers into it! They also went mental for Aussie Skittles, due to the Green Apple and Blackcurrent flavours instead of Lime (YUCK!) and grape.

I do agree though, it does not look like Nutella at all and it does look a bit like sludge, but yummy sludge. I mean Nutella is gross and looks like poo, and Vegemite is yum and looks like sludge. Although it possibly looks like sludge because that is what it is made from, the sludge left over in the bottom of the vats after they're done making beer....

If you paint a dab of vegemite on a cold-sore as soon as you feel that first itch, the cold-sore will be gone by the next morning!

First the BRAT diet and now this...Gosh - I could be a doctor...if I didn't have to deal with snot and blood and vomit and pus and sick people!

Instead, I'll just read fics about sexy Doctorward and re-watch the prostate scene from Cosmopolis

Yay! One more WIP down. Nobody's Little Girl by HelloElla has been marked complete!

I really liked this fic. One of the few hurt/comfort fics where none of the characters drove me to destruction. Bella/Kid starts out Homeless and after a rather, shall I say unlucky, encounter with Edward he takes her in and the story unfolds. It's well written and the plot is solid, it isn't dragged out unnecessarily like some other fics of this genre and while Bella is pretty reliant on Edward she isn't a simpering mess. There are elements of romance but it's certainly not a romantic fic, however the relationship between Edward and Bella is really nice and so well written you don't miss it.

A billionaire couple searches for their long lost daughter. A lonely, troubled young man finds and gives refuge to a homeless girl with no name. Paths are crossed and hearts are given, but you can't keep what was never yours.
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People were complaining about this fic on adf.

People were complaining about this fic on adf.

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I'd need to read it again, sometimes I get lost in between all the updates, but there was nothing that red flagged it to me.

I can't read real person fic, at all. I love the B/E characters, not necessarily Rob/Kristen.

I think I'm in a fic funk  Since I read that biker book I'm having a hard time finding a fic that just sucks me in like that one did. I got over halfway through one that was pretty decent, different plot and then the author killed it when Bella was in love about 3 days after meeting Jasper....and he wasn't a lovable character at that point. After that it just kinda sucked so I flounced.

Now I'm reading another biker book (with a Twi spin on it) that I seriously could not put down last night. I'm going to have to comb through my library after I finish this to find a vampfic

Astro~I'm with Ella, your emoticons are hysterical. That one you put where the smiley died and the ghost did a peach out? Loved it.

Hope all of you ladies are feeling better! We had 67 degrees today and are looking at 23 tomorrow morning, so short sleeves to winter coats in about 24 hours. We will all be sick 

you shoudnt be reading books!!!!!!!!!!!! they make fanfiction look bad.

I dont read BXJ, but this was on ADF. are you reading it?


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Though My Eyes Could See
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Author: Love Well Spent PM
But then she heard the voice. It was a deep, harmonizing voice, wrapped in a gorgeous high country drawl. Never had she heard such a distinctive voice. And what he said, well... "Hey there, darlin'." It made her heart pound mercilessly inside her chest. AH, Jasper/Bella. Revised.
 
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance - Bella & Jasper - Chapters: 11 - Words: 22,615 - Reviews: 80 - Favs: 70 - Follows: 110 - Updated: 01-28-13 - Published: 01-04-13 - id: 8876022

I can't read real person fic, at all. I love the B/E characters, not necessarily Rob/Kristen.

I think I'm in a fic funk  Since I read that biker book I'm having a hard time finding a fic that just sucks me in like that one did. I got over halfway through one that was pretty decent, different plot and then the author killed it when Bella was in love about 3 days after meeting Jasper....and he wasn't a lovable character at that point. After that it just kinda sucked so I flounced.

Now I'm reading another biker book (with a Twi spin on it) that I seriously could not put down last night. I'm going to have to comb through my library after I finish this to find a vampfic

Astro~I'm with Ella, your emoticons are hysterical. That one you put where the smiley died and the ghost did a peach out? Loved it.

Hope all of you ladies are feeling better! We had 67 degrees today and are looking at 23 tomorrow morning, so short sleeves to winter coats in about 24 hours. We will all be sick 

Which fic did you flick? Yes, I'm a nosy bitch.

Morning, lovelies

I still feel like a$$ and want to crawl in a hole and die. Yeah, the flu effing sucks 

I'm currently re reading Fridays at Noon... it's an oldie but a goodie. I couldn't find anything fluffy to read so this was the best option. Pennyward makes my heart pitter patter 

I've never had that Vegemite stuff. Never heard of it before. Bovil I have, we use it as soup stock here so I'm not sure it's the same. I've the Brits have the same kinda thing. Marmite?? Not sure if that's the correct word, what I've heard, it will def grow hair on your chest. Not sure how I feel about that. 

its AWFUL. you are not missing anything. 
But Promite i had to google.

Never heard of that either... but I do know that a lot of people have never heard of Smarties... I don't know about the UK or Australia but last I heard the US doesn't have them either. I could be wrong. Chocolatey goodness at it's finest

I did almost faint when I heard the UK doesn't have Peanut Butter. Why is this and has this changed?

I just googled it. UK and Aussie dooo have smarties 

They have it! I ate some there.
I think its not as common.Its the same here, you can find it on the supermarket but people dont really eat it.
Or nutella, its a treat. Not an everyday part of the meal.

I also had smarties before. Im a chocaholic. I taste all the brands and differents flavours.
But i hate orange flavoured chocolate. eww.

I hate Nutella... I think I'm the only person on the planet who does. That shit tastes gross. I don't like hazelnuts.

My fave chocolate is mint... gah, after eight mint sticks are the lays chips of the chocolate world, betcha can't eat just one!

My ultimate store is Sugar Mountain... all kinds of goodies that will have you hopped up on sugar for weeks