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[gennepher]

Glad you and Popeye had such a peaceful night, even if not much sleep. The meditation music was obviously good for you both. Hugs for Whitney’s rude interruption though - that would jar every bone in my body at any time. Hope you continue to have a relaxing day.

Thank you @DJC3
The meditation music is very relaxing.
I will chill out today, thank you.

 

[gennepher]

Gennepher your selflessness for your dear boy almost broke my heart. I am so glad he is better, steadier and eating. Your dedication and love is healing him. I know you like to keep busy but I recommend you both curl up together for a good snooze today. Not for the first time you are inspirational to me. Take care.

Thank you @PenguinMum
All animals need love to heal.
Don’t worry I will be in the front window with Popeye at midday when the sun reaches round there. I am relaxed, and yawning, but in a relaxed way. I will have dozes this afternoon in the all day sunshine we are promised.
You take care too

 

[DJC3]

Obviously, great to hear of the appreciation for Mr C and colleagues. I can't judge the voting habits of those pensioners (fair guess based on psephology though) but there is some breathtaking cant and hypocrisy suddenly coming out of the rabid right along with everything we already knew.
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-raking-in-billions-during-coronavirus-crisis Nominative determinism Mr Odey. Emily Maitliss's broadside on Newsnight Wednesday probably not viral in his mansion (s)

Hmm I think you’re wrong! The area is quite deprived: ‘retirement village’ is a twee title for a few tiny prefabs,
I don’t think voting preference has anything to do with the basic niceness or otherwise of people. Rabid right or Loony left are minority clubs like the supporters of David Ike and his conspiracy theorists. You simply can’t call a whole bunch of decent people hypocrites just for daring to show appreciation.

 

[DJC3]

Had a wobble and had two shortbread fingers, yes two, with coffee. Needed. Back on the wagon. Going to be warm today, might ressurect my sandals from the back of the cupboard and get my lily whites out of hibernation. Have the best day you can everyone. .

I bet those shortbread fingers tasted divine!
I rooted my flip flops out yesterday too and boy my lilly whites were whiter than white.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hmm I think you’re wrong! The area is quite deprived: ‘retirement village’ is a twee title for a few tiny prefabs,
I don’t think voting preference has anything to do with the basic niceness or otherwise of people. Rabid right or Loony left are minority clubs like the supporters of David Ike and his conspiracy theorists. You simply can’t call a whole bunch of decent people hypocrites just for daring to show appreciation.

I didn't call those guys hypocrites and mentioned the appreciation I think, It was sloppy to add the psephology reference but in some ways so was retirement village. It would be a shame for a good deed in a weary world to cause problems. Truce?

 

[PenguinMum]

I bet those shortbread fingers tasted divine!
I rooted my flip flops out yesterday too and boy my lilly whites were whiter than white.

Oh they were! The only thing putting me off the open toes today is Bobs brought in 3 mice yesterday and let them loose! Managed to catch all using a large flowerpot and ran to the back of the garden and set them free! Today new rules Bobs goesout and catflap locked until I can see her on the mat ready to come in and mouseless!
Great that your OH got that recognition from people. I have left a thank you note on our door for our postie and on the bins also. Am waving and thumbs up and big smile for any delivery drivers. (mr PM thinks I probably scare them lol). These people deserve our thanks and respect.

 

[PenguinMum]

@SlimLizzy thanks for thinking of me and yes I did sleep much better last night went through to 5am so should be less grumpy today Hope you have a good day and get some time to relax.

 

[karen8967]

Good morning everyone from a wonderful world in blossom in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of a very late night and a startled waking came out of the starting gate at 5.0 this am

What’s going on? Mrs Miggins made three abortive attempts to visit our local supermarket yesterday. The queues were so long that temporary Glastonbury portaloos should surely be provided. Anyhow, ingredients in recipes are there to be substituted in order to be fair to those bits and bobs at the back of the cupboard that were bought five years ago to attempt that meal that you saw on Master Chef The Professionals - The Final and who cares what the use by date says, cumquat oil and pomegranate molasses last forever, don’t they? Fusion - so that’s what it tastes like.

No egg hunting today, make sure your rabbits are at least two metres apart and only eat hot cross buns if you are wearing gloves.

Have as wonderful a day as you can - kofee time.

shops same here dunelm at all the supermarkets queues were horrendous didnt wait

 

[Ryhia]

Had a really awful night but feel ashamed to say that after seeing the photograph of the nurse. Hugs go out to her. Lots of bizzyness and friendliness (or truces) and lovely arty things going on in the thread as usual - great to read even if I don't always post individual responses, I do appreciate you all. You all seem to have much more interesting lives than I do. Probably going to have a lazy day today and try to catch up on my sleep. Wonder of wonder though my bloods this morning were 4.9. Don't know how that was achieved - have a good day everyone.

For those interested, the broccoli seems a write off but on the plus side, lettuce and cabbage stump are still holding their own and I've got a second tomato seed sprouting.

 

[ianpspurs]

Had a really awful night but feel ashamed to say that after seeing the photograph of the nurse. Hugs go out to her. Lots of bizzyness and friendliness (or truces) and lovely arty things going on in the thread as usual - great to read even if I don't always post individual responses, I do appreciate you all. You all seem to have much more interesting lives than I do. Probably going to have a lazy day today and try to catch up on my sleep. Wonder of wonder though my bloods this morning were 4.9. Don't know how that was achieved - have a good day everyone.

For those interested, the broccoli seems a write off but on the plus side, lettuce and cabbage stump are still holding their own and I've got a second tomato seed sprouting.

Great fbg. Right now less interesting lives is probably the goal of vast swathes of the world. Tomatoes are seemingly very easy to propagate. Our chickens loved them and the next year so many tomato plants grew all around the garden - tomatoes obviously flourish on chicken manure.

 

[gennepher]

My daily painting done today with the same recalcitrant app as yesterday...
SketchesPro app.
So much to learn...

Popeye is insisting on 'me' time...so bye for today....

 

[dunelm]

shops same here dunelm at all the supermarkets queues were horrendous didnt wait

We will just have something else. Lots of things can be made with cumquat oil and a drop of pomegranate mollases.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I'm so glad you have time to read fiction again. Please don't feel guilty. Enjoy!
(Speaks a retired librarian. )

You are right - I shouldn't feel guilty. Reading fiction has been one of my great joys in life and I have been quite sad that I got too busy to read.

I wonder if it is not just about taking on too many clients (which I definitely have) but also because I am getting older and maybe a bit slower at doing things. Then there is the problem I have with trying to do everything perfectly - which definitely can slow me down.

So maybe looking at not taking on so much work.once we are back to 'normal'.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

What’s going on? Mrs Miggins made three abortive attempts to visit our local supermarket yesterday. The queues were so long that temporary Glastonbury portaloos should surely be provided.

Snap, same here today at Tesco OAP shopping hour no idea why. I almost abandoned but at 9 the manager walked down the long line allowing anyone 70+ to go to the front of the line. Lots of young people and middle aged waiting. Young were fine, middle age turned very aggressive, no violence thank goodness. I could see their point they were shopping for large families who in their eyes could put a greater burden on NHS if they all became ill. Felt very guilty being there at all and walking to the front. The man causing all the trouble had managed to get others like him arguing with the manager and security guard, he was quite a reble rouser, it felt very intimidating. Then he started shouting about politics and who to vote for, unnecessary, quite despicable, and visibly his support divorced themselves from him and the situation calmed down, manager had called the police by then, scary. I think if Mrs MC and I are careful enough we might manage a few weeks without shopping or having to ask kids to shop, I don't wish to see anything like that again.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Don’t feel guilty about reading, I’m really glad you’re finding time again. I haven’t read any of the Rebus books but I enjoy crime fiction too. My current favourites are the Tom Thorne books by Mark Billingham. I’ll earmark Ian Rankin for my next series to binge read.

I haven't read any of the Tom Thorne books but have just looked on Amazon and they look really good. So have added the first one of the series to my Amazon wish list.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Fbg 6.6

Temp 35.6


Awake all night, but not in a bad way. Popeye hadn't looked too good later on yesterday. His poor face and eyes said he'd had enough. His lip was trembling. I felt so sorry for him. I have been bathing the abscess on his head with warm salted water.

So, last night I decided I was play him healing meditation music from YouTube. I have been playing this all evening, and instead of taking my Cochlear Speech off at bedtime (I am always so glad to get that Speech Processor off, my head/brain has always had enough of listening to sound...I do keep the radio, during the day, on as advised by the hospital, with living on my own and having no telly for sound input, so my brain is constantly working trying to make sense of sound and speech...even though I still cannot actually make out what is being said in full...I can make out odd words), I kept my Speech Processor on during the night last night. I have tried playing so called relaxing music (in the night) in the past, but I don't receive what a hearing person receives as regards music and my brain gets agitated with sound 24/7.

Surprisingly, I still have my Speech Processor on now (6:49 am), after listening to this healing type meditation music on all night. I am not streaming it to my Speech Processor, because this is solely for Popeye, so my phone is on full blast all night, playing these particular frequencies of sounds. In addition he has insisted on being held and stroked all night.So, he has had my undivided attention the last nine and a half hours.

I never actually fell asleep as such. I was awake most of the time, but relaxed, and dozed off for short stretches, until YouTube for reasons of its own suddenly put Whitney Houston in between the binaural (for Popeye as he has 2 working ears) and monaural (for me as I have one sort of working ear) frequencies, which jolted both of us and jarred every bone in my brain, head, and body. I grabbed my phone to see what You Tube had done, and it was a video of Whitney Houston singing with others, one of whom seemed to be a young Elton John. I have no idea what that was, and got You Tube back on the healing frequencies type music.

I am very relaxed with these particular frequencies, but it wasn't for me. It was for Popeye.

Popeye is very chilled out and relaxed. The abscess appears to be healing. He is eating more. He took me to the kitchen in the night for some wet food, and I did not mind, There is dried food in my bedroom, but he has been off food. He is now steady on his feet this morning. He is more alert. His eyes look nice and big and bright as they normally do. I am really pleased this morning how he has improved since yesterday.

He now has a monk's tonsure...

So pleased that Popeye is feeling better, but how do you feel as you didn't have a good night's slerp?

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

feel as you didn't have a good night's slerp

There is the problem @gennepher needs to do more slerping, Gin perhaps?

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

My daily painting done today with the same recalcitrant app as yesterday...
SketchesPro app.
So much to learn...

Popeye is insisting on 'me' time...so bye for today....

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Hope you get to relax and all continues to go well for you both. Thanks for the art, it actually has inspired a thought for today's painting of mine, night, glow, clouds what is not to love. I shall be useing it for the last of my Fence Line series.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Snap, same here today at Tesco OAP shopping hour no idea why. I almost abandoned but at 9 the manager walked down the long line allowing anyone 70+ to go to the front of the line. Lots of young people and middle aged waiting. Young were fine, middle age turned very aggressive, no violence thank goodness. I could see their point they were shopping for large families who in their eyes could put a greater burden on NHS if they all became ill. Felt very guilty being there at all and walking to the front. The man causing all the trouble had managed to get others like him arguing with the manager and security guard, he was quite a reble rouser, it felt very intimidating. Then he started shouting about politics and who to vote for, unnecessary, quite despicable, and visibly his support divorced themselves from him and the situation calmed down, manager had called the police by then, scary. I think if Mrs MC and I are careful enough we might manage a few weeks without shopping or having to ask kids to shop, I don't wish to see anything like that again.

Really horrible thing to have happened while you were queuing this morning. I wonder if the same thing has happened at our Tesco because the police turned up this morning while we were queuing. They seemed to be there just to observe the queue - perhaps to prevent any problems like you experienced.

 

[ianpspurs]

Shopping from my sofa for a few things to keep me going for the next 3 months
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hellmanns-...uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl