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LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 22 Oct 2013 02:37

ewwwwwwwww!!

I remember picking hips & haws when I was a child, but had no idea there was so much work involved in making the jelly.

I now understand why Mum and Grandma took so long to make it, and why we kids were banished outside!

Sharron

Sharron Report 22 Oct 2013 00:14

No, the little hairs fly and get under your collar in particular.

If you don't get the hairs out now you suffer even more after you have eaten them but you won't be wanting to read about that.

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 21 Oct 2013 23:57

lol Sharron....... you always make me laugh.

Could you use rubber gloves? Not the big ones we wear when washing dishes etc, but the thin ones. I bought a box of 100+, I use them when doing messy things, like making fish or meat patties.

:-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 21 Oct 2013 23:33

As I spent a happy afternoon painstakingly picking through haws and putting off doing the rose-hips because they have to be done in water otherwise you spend a lot of time in pain from the little hairs inside that stick in your skin, I was thinking that I can understand the logic behind keeping stroke patients indoors looking out of the window.

It's cheaper too because they don't need pocket money and you know where they are