Thursday 14 March 2019

SOMETIMES I DESPAIR.. SO I EAT MY ONE BRAZIL NUT & TRY TO STEAL HERS.

Is she a cretin, I asked myself when she gave me her quiz marks yesterday and I saw that some of the questions she hadn't even attempted or put any answer, let alone the right one!

What on earth had happened, I asked her and she said me there had been so much noise coming out of the kitchen that everyone complained but for her being deaf, it made it impossible to hear the questions. But hey diddle diddle, it's not the end of the world.

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here were lots of questions on modern music and she knows zilch about heavy metal bands or rap artists and their music.

She knew George 3rd was on the throne at the time of the French Revolution and that Charlotte Corday murdered Jean-Paul Murat, the French revolutionary leader, in his bathtub.

They packed up before 4pm and she put on her raincoat and pulled on a beanie hat for, true to the weather forecast, it was now raining.

However, instead of coming home, she turned left out of the building and went to have tea with Jane.

Upstairs, with mugs of spicy tea, they went to her cosy small sitting room. Sore point: we used to have a cosy sitting room once upon a time where she used to entertain people to tea and supper but that was long ago before hell broke loose in that poor room!

At 6pm she said her goodbyes and left to walk home, the rain had stopped but it was cold, certainly cold enough to remind her to replace the padded liner into her coat that she took it out when it went to be cleaned and hadn't put it back.

Supper was light, IshPol with chicken brawn and steamed vegetables. Pudding was a tangerine and brazil nuts with a couple of hazel and walnuts.

Do you eat this wonderful nut? They've lots of good things packed inside of those hard shells, all of which are extremely good for you and me.. I lurve brazil nuts because they give me and you the following:

Calcium, magnesium and potassium and fibre which is good to lower cholesterol. 

An antioxidant called selenium and here's an interest fact. That taking antioxidant supplements do not provide the same benefits as eating food high in antioxidants!

They have a good quanity of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and these, together with the relatively low saturated fat content, help to decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Because these fats won't make you fat!

They contain copper, which is a really important mineral of our health, plus thiamine aka vit B-1, the lack of thiamine is suspected as being one of the contributing factors of Alzheimers, so not only are they good for the health of our heart, they are good for our brain too!

If or when you don't eat animal protein you have to combine a couple of foods in order to get a complete protein.. rice and beans are the classic example.

However, brazil nuts contain all of the essential amino acids and brazils can certainly help you in your intake of protein.

She eats nine a day. I eat one. I don't do quizzes.

GeeGee Parrot.
14th Mach, 2019.

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