The Weekend from Hell

[apollanaut]

Urgh! We went back to Hamilton last weekend to help my partner's elderly mother settle back in after her week in hospital. It went really well - for all of three hours. Then she went down with a really bad case of diarrhoea. So we were up all night helping her to the bathroom and back to bed - sometimes as often as every five minutes! This carried

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[marie13]

Oh dear...(sigh) ..What a nightmare..! I hope the worst is over..I can't believe you had the energy to post. Just when it looked liked things were improving..I trust the shit-storm is over :-)

I know you will remember to replace your fluids and electrolytes. Flus like that can really drain a person.
Wellness*

BTW what is a cold-store?

[apollanaut]

A cold-store is a low-temperature warehouse for storing perishable goods. They use volatile gases for cooling and there were many gas cylinders on site which all exploded.

The cold-store in Hamilton was mostly storing cheese, and this is what fueled the fire after the initial blasts - imagine thousands of tonnes of cheese burning to produce an immense cloud of greasy black smoke!

I'm well on the road to recovery now, in fact I'm back at work. I have lost quite a few pounds in the last four days, which is no bad thing. However, I would not recommend this as a dieting technique!

God bless the cheesemakers...

[marie13]

Glad you're well again.
Cheese as fuel..who knew?