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Autumn Edition Issue No: 20

Millport Fundraiser Outing (Cycling)

We left early for the 9.20am train to Largs. It was fun on the train even though when we got off the train it was cloudy and there were a few spits of rain. By time we got on to the ferry to Millport the rain was chucking down.

We got our bikes from the cycle hire shop and went for a practice run. Then as soon as everyone was ready we took off and 5mins into cycling Marie fell off her bike and landed a peach on her backside. Everyone stopped and laughed at her – she asked me to help her up I said “I could help but your fall was that funny I would just keep laughing at you for the rest of the day”.

We were all doing well until the rain hit us and we were drenched by the half way mark, so me and Linda stopped for a wee break. She tried to spark a fag but her lighter broke so it was a bummer. After a while we got started again and managed to finish in good time. We ended up beating Ann who was last – she kept moaning about everyone going fast and leaving her behind. I said it’s not our fault she can’t keep up; she should go back to the gym.

We all went for lunch in a nice big hotel – only problem was everyone was sitting around in the soaking wet clothes. However, I was the smart one - I had a spare set of clothes so I was nice and dry and everyone just growled at me he he!

All in all it was a smashing day and everyone enjoyed themselves. We also raised a good amount of money for further activities during the rest of the year.

Camping is next – ye ha!

By Michael Boyne (Somerset Place)

West Coast Travel

Arran

Mallaig

Millport

Camping in Arran We all got up at 9am got ready and met in the lounge at 10.30am to go over some ground rules for the trip. We checked we had all our stuff and headed off to Central Station in a taxi. We got the train from Central Station to Ardrossan Harbour which took around 50 minutes. From there we got the ferry to Brodick town. Meanwhile on the journey one of the service users were threatening to jump in the sea for a wee swim, shame he never went overboard. We arrived at Brodick and took the bus to Kildonan to Seal Shores campsite where we set up our tents. When the tents were set up Ross and Nathan went fishing and John Paul and Michael went for a swim in the freezing cold sea. Michael swam about 300 metres right across to some rocks.

We cooked burgers for dinner on the barbeque, we had to flip burgers with a plastic knife (which melted) as we had forgot to bring cooking utensils. After the barbeque we built a fire on the beach and sat around talking until it got cold then we went to the TV room and played cards before settling in our tents for the night.

The next day Ross got up at 7am and tried to get everyone up. When everyone was up we went looking for breakfast. We headed into Brodick town again, had breakfast then went on a shopping spree. I got myself a chain, Michael bought the whole shop and Nathan bought some fishing weights. Some of us played football for a while next to the shore. Before we knew it, it was time to get the ferry back home. Everyone was tired and couldn’t wait to get back to their beds and Derek couldn’t wait to get back to and get some sun cream for his sun burnt head, he looked a picture in Lee-Ann’s hat. By John Paul (Somerset Place) The end

Trip to Mallaig Service users James, Jim and Donald enjoyed a day out on the Jacobite Steam train to Mallaig. Watch out for them on TV later in the year as the trip was being filmed by a Television crew for a travel programme. (Photo of James and Donald, Oban)

Culdees

On Friday the tenth of April, me and 3 other female service users and two project workers from Millhill project set off for our weekend residential trip away to the Culdees. This is an eco friendly village where we would be staying for the Easter weekend. We left the Musselburgh project at around one in the afternoon so that we could enjoy the scenic route in the mini bus (which was a laugh and full of song and laughter the whole journey there and back). When we arrived at the farm where we were staying we got a lovely greeting from Maryse the lady that owned it and a tour around the facilities we would have. Later on that night we all got together with Maryse and played a game that was very emotional but it was a really good experience in sharing our feelings and deep emotional thoughts. It made you think in a different light.

On the Saturday morning we all got up early and helped with the breakfast as we were going on an 18 mile cycle so we needed lots of energy! The cycle was great fun but tiring so we stopped half way and went to a little coffee place and took some pictures of the lovely scenery. During the cycle we had split up into two different groups. My group finished the cycle, but the other group did not as one of the girls got a punctured tire, and they had to walk 3 miles to find a phone box which was pretty amusing to my group as we were nearly finished and just thought that they had gave up. Of course we found out what had really happened when they finally caught up. At the end of the cycle we visited what is to be considered the oldest tree in the world called the YEW! Pretty amazing don’t you think? So we thought we would take a little picture for memorable sakes. Later on that evening we had a proper BBQ in the barn which over looked Loch Tay. There was a bonfire built as well which was really good when it started to get dark.

On Sunday we went white water rafting which was a brilliant but slightly scary experience as none of us had done it before but we all made it out alive! While in the raft we played games and jumped into the water. The instructor was really funny and put us at ease as some of the others where slightly scared. One of workers that came with us fell in right at the end, at the roughest bit of the rapids which I had to admit was pretty scary but we did see the funny side to it later on and I must say we looked gorgeous in our wet suits, jackets and helmets. Later on that day we went to visit the crannog centre and a reconstruction of a crannog which is built out of timber above water. It was really great to understand how our ancestors lived all those years ago and how they made various things out of stone and wood such as fire, tools and houses!

Overall the whole trip was really really good and it opened all our eyes to what’s really out there, its not just “hills” it’s a gorgeous place to live, go for a holiday, or even just a short break like ours. It is a completely relaxing place to be and to take your mind away from any troubles that you have because I know it worked for me. I do wish I could have stayed for longer and

would definitely go back I enjoyed it that much. I would like to say a really big thank you to Cheryl who organised the trip and Nikki another worker that came with us, the trip would not have been the same without them! They felt more like family than our workers I was in a comfort zone all weekend with people that I enjoy spending time with.

Saffron Dickson x (Millhill)

Loch Tay & Loch Lomond

Trip to the Culdees Four of us went on a trip to the Culdees which is near Aberfeldy don't know where that is think it is up North. Anyway it was one of the best experiences Ive ever had, we went white water rafting and a really long cycle think it was about eighteen and a half mile but me, Steph and Nikki didn't make it all the way as Stephs tyre popped so we had to walk three mile to a phone box then we phoned the guy to come pick us up I was relieved after all that walking and cycling but we got back at least. The next day we went white water rafting now this was the best thing Ive ever done me, Saffron and Nicki jumped into the water oh my god it was freezing but it didn't really matter since we were having so much fun. Shannon (Millhill)

Venture Trust My name is David and I live at the Clydebank Project, I recently went on a course with Venture Trust.

I heard about the course through Turnaround and thought it would be good for building my confidence. First it was two overnights to start off with, then the expedition.

The first two nights were at a camp at Lapwing Lodge where we done a hill walk to get to know each other better. On the second day we did a raft building exercise which was fun. On the second overnight we done a good hill walk up into hills at Lanark then went back to camp where we got used to all the equipment and putting up tents. On the second day we also did canoeing on the river Clyde.

On the expedition we planned three days of hill walking and three days canoeing on Loch Lomond, we camped out at Arrochar Alps and that was a great experience, the views were great. Just being out there was great for my confidence as I was getting on great with everyone and we were all helping each other out. Then we moved on to the canoeing but only had one day of that due to the weather (torrential rain!) but there was lots more to keep us busy.

At the end of it all we had a presentation where we received our awards for taking part and the workers at Venture Trust have said they want me to go back as a volunteer, which I will do, as it was a great experience and a lot of fun.

Loch Lomond

Culdees

Day out on the Waverley We set off at 12:45 to start with it was a bit cold to start with, but soon warmed up to a lovely day. It was fun to be on the ship, meeting all the people, a pleasant run up the west coast round the mull of Kintyre past the southern islands to Oban we had a great time, Sandy kept me going with lots of laughs, Iain really enjoyed himself too. Billy McTaggart (Lochgilphead)

“PADDLIN’ UP THE WATTER” At a meeting back in January, local members of the Blue Triangle met in Campbeltown and set several goals. One was to go for a ‘paddle’ when the weather improved. On Friday 29th May at 1pm, kitted out for all weathers and with ample rations, we joined the Paddle Steamer, ‘The Waverley’ at Campbeltown Pier to achieve our goal (with over 700 others). Despite all living locally, few of us had ever ‘island hopped’ before. It is true that we never fully appreciate what is on ‘our own doorstep’. Although initially quite misty, we were able to view, from a different perspective, Davaar, Sanda, Sheep Island, Gigha, Carra, Islay, Jura, Luing, Easedale, Colonsay, Kerrare, Mull and a few we’d never heard of before. Even the cancellation of a scheduled stop at Port Ellen (Islay) did nothing to spoil our day. The informative commentary over the P.A. system, during the cruise, only added to our enjoyment. We disembarked at Oban at 8.15pm and returned to Campbeltown by coach, only to have more views of some of the same islands, this time from the mainland.

“10 memorable moments” 1. The most stunning views ever! 2. The onboard ‘live’ entertainment! 3. The price of a bottle of beer! 4. There’s ‘port left in the bottle’ - port is on the left

(provided your bum is facing the blunt end)! 5. Sharing the experience with like minded folk! 6. A friend boated out of Crinan on his ‘Gemini’ to cheer us on! Thanks! 7. Our ‘leader’ topping up her tan against the warm funnel! 8. There’s a ‘right star aboard’ - starboard is on the right when facing the pointed bit! 9. The author (me) realised I had on my boxer shorts back to front. Unlucky to change them, I

was told—The Waverley might sink! I didn’t and she didn’t sink! 10. We were diverted from day-to-day health issues and then had the best night’s sleep for

ages! Thank you Blue Triangle By Sandy (Lochgilphead)

Waverley and East Lothian

Our Trip Down Butter Dean. On the 14th of May 2009 Myself, Cheryl and 2 other residents went on a trip to Butter deans. This was an exciting and rather quite interesting outing.

On this outing we would be learning about different plants and making different types of tea out of them. We got the bus from Musselburgh at roughly 4:40pm to start heading along to our outing which was roughly half way along Gladsmuir Road. I thought it was a wee shame on Cheryl so when a space came up on the bus I went down nearer the front of the bus and sat beside her so she wasn’t sitting herself. It took us roughly 20-25mins to get to our location where we were going.

We jumped off the bus and I really needed a cigarette so I had one quickly before we went on our journey through the woods.

We met up with the two rangers who were very nice and they had their two sheep dogs with them. When we got to their cars they got what looked like big gardening gloves so we didn’t get stung by nettles. They explained a couple of the things we were going to do then we started our journey. I was getting curious as I had never done nothing like this before and was excited to see what it would be like. The ranger Nick went through the different plants we would be picking on that day. There were 3 different plants they were called pine, sorrel and nettles. When I heard that we would be picking nettles I was very surprised as I certainly didn’t know that you could drink nettles.

When we got to the part of the woods where we would be making our nettle tea we collected lots of small branches and bigger ones as we were going to make our own fire. I got really excited at this point as I thought we would be making it like the olden days by hand, but know we just got given a lighter so we just done it with that. We started to build a fire and we had to pile the sticks on top of each other by having a layer of thin sticks followed by thicker ones so and so forth. Once we got the fire up and running we went on our search for the three different plants we would be making tea out of. We all helped each other get them as this made it a lot quicker as well. We were able to eat the

sorrel plant and pine, they were both rather nice to eat in fact, and I was surprised.

Once we gathered our plants we went back to the fire. We had to boil a pot of water on top of the fire we made so we could put the plants in the water and clean them to make sure it was safe to drink. We boiled the pine and sorrel separately and it was finally time to try them. I tried the pine first. Wasn’t too keen on the pine tea as I thought it had quite a bitter taste to it but I was glad I tried it anyway. Second to try was the sorrel. I really liked this tea as I thought it had quite a sweet taste to it. We then put the nettles into the boiling water as we had to sterilize them really good to get all the stings out of them before we could drink the nettle tea. I was a bit paranoid about trying the nettle tea in case the stings were not out the nettles properly but I know the rangers knew what they were doing so that put my mind at ease a little more. Finally the nettles were ready to put into tea. I tried the nettle tea and surprisingly it tasted very good. I never drank it all as it’s not something I would drink everyday but it was still very nice.

That took us to the end of our outing. I was glad I went on the outing as it was a good experience and I learned lots of new things. This was an experience I thought I would never had and Im glad I got given the chance to do it. I would like to say thanks to Cheryl for organising this trip and taking us as if it wasn’t for her we would not have had the chance to experience this great experience.

Thanks for taking your time to read my story.

Samantha… (Millhill)

Oban Charities Day Oban Outreach project had a successful day fundraising at Oban Charities Day on the 6th June 09. The weather was kind to us for our second charities day. We had been given fantastic prizes from local businesses including a 2 night hotel break and a £72.00 hotel meal voucher which were used for the Tombola, The lucky dip and giant balloons were a hit with the kids, thank goodness John had brought a diving aqualung for inflating them! Thanks to all the staff and service users – especially Angela and Peter who worked really hard to make the day worthwhile.

Sma Shot Day A big thank you to everyone who donated goods to the Project for our stall at Paisley’s annual Sma Shot day on 4th July. Before we could even get the stall set up we were really busy with customers after a bargain. We sold everything from books, DVD’s ,toys, clothing, toiletries and jewellery. We also had a tombola which was really popular and thanks to Asda Linwood we had a DVD donated and the local Frankie and Benny’s restaurant also donated a £20 meal voucher as prizes, this kept our customers coming back to try their hand at winning! Staff and residents worked flat out on the stall from early morning until late afternoon and by the end of the day we had raised a total of £430. We were all really pleased as this was much more than we made at a previous Sma Shot day. We hope to use the money for an outing but we’re still deciding, suggestions include Go Karting and paint balling so watch this space.

Fundraising news

Brian Blue Fund Sadly in January this year Brian Blue passed away. Brian had been accommodated at various BTHA properties for several years and is remembered fondly by staff, service users and the wider community alike. Since his death his family have worked tirelessly to raise money for Blue Triangle Outreach to be used to provide assistance to people who are overcoming addiction problems. So far they have raised an astonishing £2284. They have also embarked on landscaping an area behind our office to provide a quiet place of reflection for our service users to enjoy. They have purchased a small shed and garden furniture and have tended to the gardens, planting an array of colourful flowers. The official garden opening is scheduled for the 22nd August and all are welcome. Special thanks to Fiona and Brian for this thoughtful and kind gesture and the hard work they and their family have contributed.

Canvas Art Service Users at the Clydebank project decided to brighten things up in one of the living rooms. After looking at different types of art in books and on-line they decided to do a modern abstract theme on 9 separate canvasses. The Service Users then each created a design on A4 paper and a vote was taken to decide which would be used. Several people took turns in painting the individual canvasses over a few weeks (even out in the garden when the weather was nice). Now the living room is a lot brighter and the picture can be changed whenever we feel like it.

Creative minds

Motherwell Project’s Summer Barbecue

The summer barbecue was a great success. Five service users and two staff members took part and the whole day cost £25.00 which was great value. All staff and service users got a great tan as the weather was so hot. Many thanks to Assistant Manager Ian Clarkson who ‘donated’ 3 rainbow trout that had been freshly caught, by him, the day before. They were delicious!!!

Some of the service users spent a few hours the day before preparing the garden and making it look very neat and tidy and it was greatly appreciated by everyone.

NUMBER 1 WENT OUT ONE NIGHT WITH MY SISTERS FELLA, HAD A LITTLE TOO MUCH STELLA, GOT IN A FIGHT FOR NO REASON, NEXT THING I KNOW IT’S BAR-L SEASON, MY LIFE THEN GOT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, IN THE JAIL I STARTED TAKING BROWN, WHEN I GOT OUT I HAD SO MUCH PLANS, BUT IT WENT TITS UP NONE COULD UNDERSTAND, I TRIED TO KEEP CONTROL OF IT, BUT THERE WAS NO WAY THAT I COULD STOP IT, I MET A BIRD WHO I LOVED AND THOUGHT COULD CHANGE ME, BUT ALL SHE DID WAS DE-ARRANGE ME, SO I HEADED TO BRIGHTON FOR A FRESH NEW START, BUT MY EX WAS ALWAYS IN MY HEART, I THINK ABOUT HER EVERY DAY, AND MY FEELINGS JUST WONT GO AWAY. NOW I’M IN THE BLUE TRIANGLE, TRYING TO FIND A DIFFERENT ANGLE, BEING CLEAN HAS GAVE ME TIME TO THINK, JUST WISH I COULD GET THROUGH A DAY WITHOUT A DRINK, GOING TO GET AN EDUCATION AT COLLEGE, ‘COS CAN’T GET THROUGH LIFE WITH JUST STREET KNOWLEDGE, SO I’LL FORGET ABOUT PAST AND OF THINGS TO COME, AND I KNOW I’LL END UP NUMBER ONE.

My experience in being homeless.

I would like to write this story for people out there who might be thinking there’s no way forward for them. I want to try my hardest to let people realize that, yes it isn’t easy and, it will be hard at times

being homeless but you can get through it and have a positive out-come in these situations of being homeless.

I became homeless at the age of 16. Things were not too great at home at all. I didn’t get on with my mums boyfriend and, my mum also has an illness called Multiple Sclerosis which didn’t make

things much easier for me, and my younger brother had been put into foster care. I had a job at this point working with ELCAP. I really enjoyed this job but whilst looking after my mum at the same

time things got a bit too stressful at a point that I ended up giving up my job to look after my mother.

Things were o.k. until I flipped out on my mum’s boyfriend because of the way he treated her and spoke to her. That was when he chucked me out of the house. I was homeless’. I started to panic

and got really scared. I just felt like a vulnerable young girl who had no where to stay or go and god knows what could have happened to me.

Instantly I got myself down to the homeless and got myself registered. My Auntie let me stay with her until I found somewhere to stay. I can’t thank her enough for

everything she has done for me. Thankfully a placement came up at Blue Triangle, Musselburgh. I got a placement there. For the first few days everything went o.k. that’s when my abusive drinking started. I would drink alcohol every day to the stage where I didn’t know what I was doing. After continuous warnings from the

project about my behaviour whilst drinking I had a 28 day warning to leave the premises, to which I deeply regret.

My ex-boyfriend back then was happy enough for me to move in with him at Dunbar. I couldn’t have been any happier, well that’s what I thought anyway. The first couple of months were great,

then it was like we never seen each other. He would stay out most nights and sometimes he would even come back really drunk after leaving me in the house all day myself.

I knew this wasn’t right and he was seeing other girls but before I had the chance he ended the relationship and wanted me out of the house. Right at that moment I thought oh no I am back to square one again, I am homeless once again. This time I was petrified because I didn’t think my

Auntie would let me go and stay with her again. Thankfully she did. I then got put into New Horizons a couple of months later but this didn’t work out for me so I left to move in with my partner in Musselburgh. Things worked out really good during my stay there but

because of housing reasons I could no longer stay there, so I am now staying back in Blue Triangle, Musselburgh. I am really grateful to have been giving a second chance in Blue Triangle,

Musselburgh as the support has been endless. I have been back in Blue Triangle Project for almost three months now and I am really enjoying my stay here. The help and support I have had from them has been great and I appreciate that. They

have made me realize a more positive side to life. I couldn’t thank them enough. I would also like to say a huge thank you to Saffron (a great friend from the project who is more like a sister to me bless her) and my boyfriend Jamie for all the help and support they have giving me. I

don’t know what I would have done without them. I hope after reading my story this has helped a lot of people realize that they can get through this

and make something good of their lives, even through the hard and bad times. Good luck to all you people.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

Anonymous.

Your stories

Another First for Musselburgh!

Two Musselburgh service-users (Saffron Dickson and Shannon Hope) achieved their Tenancy Awards recently. This is an entirely new accredited qualification devised by Borders College. John and Audrey (Staff at Millhill) are Tenancy Award assessors and worked with Saffron and Shannon to collate the material for their qualifications. The award consisted of five modules; three compulsory modules (Rights and Responsibilities of being a Tenant, Health and Safety Awareness at Home and Safety and Security in the Home) and two optional modules from a list of over thirty. The graduation ceremony was held in Millhill’s garden and was attended by Hestor and Susan from Borders College, Cath and Ian from Headquarters and staff and service-users from Musselburgh. Saffron and Shannon were presented with their certificates, commemorative plaques, flowers and £20.00 in Argos tokens. Cath presented the successful candidates with pens on behalf of Blue Triangle Headquarters. Then everyone had homemade soup and homemade barbequed hamburgers all washed down with fruit punch. Well done Saffron and Shannon the first-ever Tenancy Award graduates in Scotland!

Sean Starrens receiving his certificate of completion from Patrick McKay Area Manager Glasgow. Sean has just finished the Blue Triangle in-house training programme. Sean who is about to move into his own tenancy said that the great thing about the programme is being able to apply his new found skills to decorate his own place. Sean managed to paint his entire tenancy in just seven days. We’re impressed.

Congratulations!

Cooking on a Budget Congratulations to service users at Chalmers Court who completed an eight week cooking course ‘Cooking on a Budget’. Keith McAllister (shown in the photo receiving his certificate) and Gerry Carlin have donated this edition’s back page recipe: Saucy Chocolate Pudding.

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Sport

5-a-side Footie The Blue Triangle in Viewpark held a five a side football tournament on Saturday 25th July. The tournament was held locally at Tannochside Primary School from 12pm to 2pm. The tournament consisted of five teams. The teams were made up by local people and local businesses. The teams that entered were:

The aim of the tournament was to raise awareness of the project in the local community, build positive relationships within the local community and to raise funds for the service users to have a day out during the summer. How we spend the money will be agreed by the service users at the next residents meeting. The day was a great success, the weather was lovely, the teams played well and the tournament was well supported in the local community. The final was tense and went to penalties with the winners being ‘Ajax Trees Down’. Second place went to ‘Mini Milan’, well done to everyone that played. Thanks to all the teams, staff and spectators for their support, the event was such a success we are thinking about making this an annual event.

Busy Summer for Oban OPPS Football Club

What looks like being a busy summer for Oban OPPS Football club, run by Kerrera Lodge/Solas Project Worker Chris Wardle with assistance from Gary Jack (Night Project Worker) and Struin Doull (ex service user), started on the 28th June with a trip down to Glasgow for a free Street Soccer tournament and selection day for this years Homeless World Cup.

O.O.F.C. was established by Chris, along with the support of the Opportunities for All (OPPS) group over three years ago to provide football for BTHA service users, ex service users and those in the community who experienced issues with drugs, alcohol, homelessness and/or social isolation.

David Duke, Coach of the Scottish Team, then contacted Chris recently to say that pictures taken that day, and at previous Homeless World Cup selection days, could now be seen on www.streetsoccerscotland.tv …..fame at last for the O.O.F.C. He also added that he would be visiting Oban in August to join the O.O.F.C. at their usual Tuesday evening training session to discuss bringing street soccer, already established in Glasgow, to the rest of Scotland.

With the possibility of Coaching training and competitive matches and tournaments throughout Scotland as well as some friendly matches, at 5’s, 7’s and 11-a-side levels coming up this promises to be another busy summer for the O.O.F.C.

Any teams from other BTHA projects who would like to take on the O.O.F.C. are invited to contact Chris Wardle at Kerrera Lodge.

My name is Charlie McFarlane and I have been attending street league for almost 8 months. I am writing this to inform people of the benefits from attending street league and the change it has made in my day to day life. When I started going to street league I seen it as an opportunity to meet new people and improve my fitness and leisure at sport.

It has worked very well, but street league also helps in aspects of confidence and health, and is a great way to start a routine in your life and help you to move on and get away from habits that you may not have had the support or help on your own. I have enjoyed my time attending street league training sessions where I receive the support from staff and others where they guide me in games and health tips. In all they have led me to try and create five a side team for the street league tournaments between all the blue triangles, there has been some interest amongst young people and I am eager to help get it started. So if anyone is interested in the team they can contact Liz Harris at 0141-333-9770.

Street league has weekly training sessions and are willing to take on more numbers. If you are interested you can contact the street league office at 0141-285-6440.

Charlie says...

Saucy Chocolate Pudding Method

Use all ingredients at room temperature to avoid curdling.

1. Grease a 1.5 litre [2 and a half pint] round heat proof dish.

2. Place all pudding ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat until thoroughly blended. Turn into prepared bowl and level surface.

3. Make sauce by blending sugar, cocoa with water. Carefully pour sauce over the pudding mixture.

4. Cook on full power for 4 1/2 mins 650w [3 1/2 mins 800w]. Allow to stand for a few minutes before serving.

Recipes

Ingredients 75g [3oz] self-raising flour 50g [2oz] caster sugar 50g [2oz] soft margarine 2 eggs 1 dessert spoon cocoa powder sieved half teaspoon cinnamon half teaspoon baking powder few drops vanilla essence Sauce 75g [3oz] brown sugar 1 desert spoon cocoa powder 150ml [quarter pint] warm water

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