charlytune

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[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 6 months ago

Probably even better for OP if they have no money is the Olio app, where people give away free food (and non-food). It depends on activity in your local area, but in many areas there are people who regularly collect food from supermarkets at the end of the day to give away. I've given away portions of meals before when I've cooked too much to freeze it all.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And let's not even get into the labelling of the UK and Ireland as one country... We still haven't sorted out the mess from last time.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Oh wow, TIL. Yeah I am not a fan of them. Urgh.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh no, someone who writes about gardening!! In a magazine for the elderly!!Look, it was just the first article I could find while I was in the middle of baking, that wasn't an American health and wellbeing website. I'm not American so I don't know those websites and I don't know what they all are. I just wanted to help the person I was replying to. The article links to the charity that has done loads of research into it. Yes I could have found a better link and fucking hell I wish I hadn't bothered even commenting now.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's my phone autocorrecting. I'm not sure why anyone would think I meant 'restrain', but oh well. I'll edit, thanks for pointing it out.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

I only realised I'd lost my smell completely when I smelled some perfume and thought it must be off, because it smelled of nothing. Then I realised that my other perfumes were 'off', and then went around my home smelling random things and finally realised it was me. I think it was the effect on my taste that was the hardest thing though. Onions and garlic especially made everything taste horrible.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

Thank you. I should have realised that it needed more of an explanation. Shame that people don't engage their brains before a trigger finger downvote in a science thread though.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (17 children)

Apologies if you've already tried this or something similar, it doesn't work for everyone, but I got mine back by using essential oils to retrain [edited as my phone autocorrected to 'restrain'] my olfactory system. After over a year of my food tasting like trash, or like it was off, and a dangerous incident (with a trip to A&E) where my brain fog meant I left an unlit gas oven on all night and couldn't smell it until I'd already got carbon monoxide poisoning (thankfully mild and temporary), I regained my smell and taste in about a week. Here's an article about it, it links to a charity that works in the field of loss of smell : https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/health-wellbeing/treatments/smell-training-for-anosmia

Edit: if the down votes are because people think this is alternative medicine or woo, it isn't, it's a technique used in conventional medicine clinics. Try reading before you down vote.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do you figure that?

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

I think every airport I've been to in Spain is connected to the rail network. Connection to rail and bus is pretty standard, in Western Europe at least.

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