Very tempted to visit another cheese establishment today, run by the parents of the sheep-cheesemaker I visited yesterday. But I won't. I already have too much cheese in the fridge as it is.
@hazardwarning Something worked, probably the anti-gout tablets. There was something more than just osteoarthritis the last few days. Today most pain is gone, swelling is reduced, range of comfortable movement much increased.
In the end I bought four cheeses from the sheep-cheese place, one was a cows-milk blue-vein produced by the farmer/cheesemaker's parents on another more distant property. I also chose his sheep-milk blue-vein plus two of his hard/semi-hard aged cheeses. Here's the website http://www.promcountrycheese.com.au/products for you all to drool over.
Visited a sheep-milk cheese maker on a farm yesterday. It's run by the son of other artisan cheesemakers but the parents deal in cow's milk products. Both places sell some of the others' produce. For $10 I had a sample platter of 10 cheeses before buying.
My arthritic left knee has been a sea of PAIN all day today. Won't fully bend or straighten and pain meds don't work.
@matigo An ex-Sri Lankan fellow I used to work with used basmati rice exclusively. It was par-boiled then steamed for ten minutes to finish off.
// @sumudu
TIL not to use crunchy peanut butter when mixing peanut & honey. The nut remnants take up the honey and lose their crunchiness.
The old fan heater (when it last worked) was used in my mother's caravan because it was exceptionally quiet. My brother then bought the van from her and insisted on using a noisy old fan heater in its place. I've never established why this was a logical choice. I'm the only family member who's inherited Dad's electrical tinkering skills. The rest of the family are electrical idiots.
Example: two of them couldn't get Mum's favourite reading lamp to work so they threw it out, claiming the switch or the bulb base was crook.
Not so, turns out the halogen bulb they took out of its little box was blown. Fortunately the rubbish hadn't been collected when I arrived and I rebuilt it.
Take one dead 20+ year old fan heater & cut off its 2.8 metre-long power cable. Then unscrew the base of the newer fan heater & remove its 1.6 metre power cable, replacing it with the one from the old heater. Easy fix.