WARNING: Rice with heavy metals

Sorry MawBroon, I intend to soak the rice overnight.

Can't do anything about our house; But we'll have a detailed survey on the next smaller property We've been here for 40 years, but want to move South where I know
from experience it is warmer. My Mum's tomatoes were always a week ahead of mine

We were always taught to wash rice well before it was cooked to remove the starch - makes the rice fluffier too. Wonder if the same thing applies to pre-cooked vacuum packs of rice - we buy quite a lot of them.

Soak your rice overnight/during the day then rinse well and it is OK and also comes out fluffier. Always use lots of cooking water and strain when cooked.

My house is built on sand. What's a little bit of arsenic to me when I'll probably slide into the Wear.

Intend (to do ) what luckyducky?

What lurks beneath our feet: I still intend

I watched and listened to a Geologist advice on TV, advising property buyers to be aware of the soi9l structure. He was standing to one side of a sink hole where most a house had fallen into a sink hole. The property had been built on clay.

Our property has been sitting on 2 feet of clay (since the 1920s), so our hope is 2 feet of clay is OK. Did anyone see the broadcast about 2 years ago?

Your right Wheniwasourage. I think the full phrase is '“Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.”.It's author is John Cleese!

It's worse than that, M0nica, life is a sexually transmitted condition which is invariable fatal .

Whatever.

Well, it is certainly a terminal condition.

Well, it is certainly a time-limited condition.

Life is not an illness.

Life is a terminal illness.

Where I lived in Cornwall we had Radon and Arsenic

merlot I had a vision of Deep Purple riffing away when I saw that heading too! Great minds.

If you live in an area with granite rock you could be exposed to radon.

We are all doomed.

We had lead pipes in our 1930s semi until we had the kitchen replaced, but the pipes from the road to the house were still lead. We had the same advice as you, Anya. Does anyone know how long this rice/arsenic thing has been a problem? Is it historic or fairly recent? In my youthity, I once went potholing in some old lead workings (we were told they dated back to the Roman occupation).

Have not gave...and for not fior...?

Jalims we gave lead pipes from the road to our house. I just had Severn Trent test the water and we should be OK providing we let the tap run fior a few minutes every morning.

I eat a lot of rice, gulp

Has anyone got lead pipes?

Greyduster - you're right, I never thought of that!

We're all doomed ????

Yes I read that too, Ana. That presupposes that you are organised enough to know that you will be having rice the next day - more often than not, I am not that organised. It's more a case of "shall we have rice with this for a change?" What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - or it makes your hair and teeth fall out, or you grow another nose, or.....
It is more what the authorities choose to cover up that bothers me rather than what they are keen to let us know about.

Regular, very small doses of arsenic give you clear skin and wonderful lustrous hair. The Victorians saw it as beneficial and the Elizabethans used arsenic paste to whiten their skin. Just thought that might help ?