Happy holidays, Gentle Readers...they're not over. The traditional Christmas season lasts twelve days and overlaps with minor holidays like Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Short Films Day (a secular alternative to Holy Innocents Day, on the 28th of December), and National Braille Day (4th of January).
Books
Christmas, Ongoing
Why The Nephews did not get cars: Nobody wanted to provoke this kind of hysterics (the last video, at the end).
Computer Graphics
Take your time, the actual post is sweet and heartwarming, but what I wanted to share was THE ULTIMATE computer graphic at the bottom of the comments section. Best use of standard computer characters as a drawing ev-ah.
Fashion
I found it at Messy Mimi's blog. Google traces it to someone called Heavendancer on Pinterest.
Food (Yuck)
Last winter I mentioned having unusual reactions to peas and pea products.
A reader I didn't want either to snub, or to mislead, had to ask: Have other people had such reactions?
Very few, it seemed, at the time--though my reactions were so new-to-me I didn't feel isolated by other people's lack of reactions to peas. In September of 2023 I ate peas and liked them, as I'd done for fifty-some years. In October and November the store ran out of peas, and when the store restocked and I ate the new crop of peas, I had vertigo after eating them.
I had the funniest feeling, at the time, that I was reacting to a new chemical or spliced-in gene--that if they'd been the same kind of peas I used to raise, I would have been able to enjoy them as much as I ever did.
But I'm mortal and fallible and wanted to see some evidence before I said that.
Now the evidence is there.
Doctors who don't want to hurt the feelings of any corporate sponsors have resolutely reframed what they've seen as mere "food allergies," never suggesting that chemicals added to food might be to blame, but new cases of "pea allergies" popped up in a few places in 2021 and increased dramatically in 2023.
Google now has a few pages of links to pages specifically about "pea allergies." Most of those pages were created during the current calendar year.
The best thing that can happen to farmers who've been raising toxic foodoids and selling them for use as food would be to find the toxic foodoid substances gathering dust on store shelves, being collected and burned, because We The People stop believing that we've suddenly become isolated "allergy" sufferers when, in fact, food has been made toxic.
This does not leave us with a lot of choices about what to eat. Inevitably people buy the toxic "food" products that our systems seem, for now, to tolerate. I bought another case of corn that probably has BT spliced into it this week. I'll never forget the year when about the only road food I could tolerate was Planters peanuts--which are delicious, and which also, like all peanuts that make it into supermarkets without half of them showing black rot, have been marinated in fungicides. Because black rot is equally toxic, we as a society may be stuck with regulatory requirements that peanuts be made toxic to a minority in order to be useful to the majority. But corn would do just fine without BT if people would rotate and alternate plantings, give up poison sprays, and get through the years when recovering fields produce more earworms than edible corn. Peas would still be a healthy nourishing food, and a soul food for those of British descent I might add, if whatever has recently been done to them weren't done again. We need to start looking at the "pesticides" and any genetic modifications that have been done as PRIME suspects when the population suddenly breaks out with a previously unheard-of "allergy." It's not a "food allergy" and it will be more common, and worse, every year until people stop raising these toxic peas.
That is scary about the peas.
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I hope you have a most wonderful New Year. I agree, that's awful about the peas. I have some food allergies so I always have to be careful.
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