What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[jjraak]

I do agree, for the foreseeable future, the point was the Thin End of the Wedge. I have a real uneasy feeling that we will now quickly move to The demonisation of car ownership. Also I ask myself unless there is a first class vaccination against this virus would I want to risk visiting campsites, shared toilet blocks and showers or come to that holiday cottages, hotels and b&b. Wildcamping yes but that is illegal in the U.K. So VW camper, what use?

Yes, very good points.
Sure some will be all over this, as you suspect.

Until that gold standard, life is going to be a lot more different in how we behave, then I'd say I or many have really considered..

Sorry how your feel about the van ..
Hope it is brought back into action ASAP

For now we just do our best.

Stay well
Fella.

 

[gennepher]

Thank you @jjraak
That pinkness is annoying me cos the original is much nicer...

Going to try and reduce the pinkness in the second one through a photo app to try and get it nearer the original...

Just put it through a photo app and played with curves to get rid of that excessive pinkness the first photo took @jjraak It looks better now...I left both pics on the original post...to compare...

 

[Ryhia]

Bit late posting as distracted with other things - click and collect for one. Got everything we needed apart from the bottle of wine I decided to add at the last minute. Thought we could have it along with with some Aberdeen Angus steaks I did get. Guess
it just wasn't meant to be.

Bloods 5.6 this morning.

 

[geefull]

Good evening all

4.2 this morning

sunny again but still with a chilly wind, couldn't see across the firth this morning for haar.

We managed to get a bit more strimming done and raked up yesterday's hay which seemed a productive use of our outdoor exercise

Hope your day is treating you well

@gennepher I'm enjoying the outdoor pastels the first one reminds me of Lake Garda
@Muddy Cyclist - good work on the lone tree in the landscape pic. with a nice sense of scale and I look forward to seeing vista 1 when it's completed

Art catch up for today -
As @gennepher mentioned with her artwork my scanner tends to make colours just a touch more vibrant although I wonder if it's because the result is being viewed backlit on a screen rather than with reflected light
no 1 a bit of a bash at a windy day - Kuretake paints

no 2 - trees again, still need to work on skies, Daler Rowney paints

 

[gennepher]

Another not completed painting, will finish tomorrow. Moet the Labrador walking next on list.....

A4 size the first in my Vistas, Scotland Road Trip in VW Camper.... number 1 Old Man of Storr from a picture I took.

View attachment 40616

I do agree, for the foreseeable future, the point was the Thin End of the Wedge. I have a real uneasy feeling that we will now quickly move to The demonisation of car ownership. Also I ask myself unless there is a first class vaccination against this virus would I want to risk visiting campsites, shared toilet blocks and showers or come to that holiday cottages, hotels and b&b. Wildcamping yes but that is illegal in the U.K. So VW camper, what use?

I like this moody painting @Muddy Cyclist

 

[gennepher]

Nice atmosphere caught in both of these pastels. Not an easy medium and like you say very messy to work with.

Thank you @Muddy Cyclist
I enjoy pastels, but not indoors, I cannot breathe at all then...
I used to do the Victorian technique of painting on black velvet. Pastels can be an extension of that.
Once I have used up all my pastels, it will take awhile, I won't do any more.

 

[gennepher]

@gennepher I'm enjoying the outdoor pastels the first one reminds me of Lake Garda

That name rings a bell...I think it may have been that...

As @gennepher mentioned with her artwork my scanner tends to make colours just a touch more vibrant although I wonder if it's because the result is being viewed backlit on a screen rather than with reflected light

Yes, my photos were coming out too intense in colour...
It is a nuisance...

I love both your paintings @geefull

If I have a favourite, it is the bottom with the rolling landscape and the line of trees on the horizon...that one takes me somewhere....

 

[HarryBeau]

The two beasts will christen it with their claws.

Surely yopu mean the dangerous pets gennepher

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Good evening all

4.2 this morning

sunny again but still with a chilly wind, couldn't see across the firth this morning for haar.

We managed to get a bit more strimming done and raked up yesterday's hay which seemed a productive use of our outdoor exercise

Hope your day is treating you well

@gennepher I'm enjoying the outdoor pastels the first one reminds me of Lake Garda
@Muddy Cyclist - good work on the lone tree in the landscape pic. with a nice sense of scale and I look forward to seeing vista 1 when it's completed

Art catch up for today -
As @gennepher mentioned with her artwork my scanner tends to make colours just a touch more vibrant although I wonder if it's because the result is being viewed backlit on a screen rather than with reflected light
no 1 a bit of a bash at a windy day - Kuretake paints
View attachment 40619

no 2 - trees again, still need to work on skies, Daler Rowney paints
View attachment 40620

Like both of these, skies can be such a mystery, I often overwork them, my best skies are the ones done with some quick brush strokes or wet paper and let the colours merge.

I liked the sense of distance in your tree painting.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Surely yopu mean the dangerous pets gennepher

Regarding dangerous pets - Mr K often jokes (since he broke his hip falling over the Labradors) that walking Labradors is more dangerous than riding his motorbike.

 

[jjraak]

oh..well done admiral.
at least it's something.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52367030

 

[jjraak]

while i love your van, at the moment i do think the car bans are a good idea.

when i'm out and about i see so many just pass each other as if it was pre covid, some stop in street to chat and gossip regardless of those trying to pass at safe distance.

and stepping into the road, maybe not the best idea, even with as little traffic as now.
dog owners are walking their dogs ...and dogs are stopping to sniff each other regardless of as govt guidelines
again forcing many into the road.

None of this is really bad, but right now it's not helping.
short term it helps..will they abuse it and make it long term...i can't lie..maybe

Jogger run past on pavements, at pace, puffing and leaving potential germs in their wake.
(*side note, not sure if you read already , but i think you ride solo, but advice is to ride abreast, rather then in line, as lead cyclist leaves a cloud of invisible droplets in their wake, and next riders breathes that cloud in constantly..so they say.

Would make side roads more safer, for all if no cars ?

i believe Barcelona and maybe the states, had an idea to make side streets a convoluted one way
so through traffic chose to go around rather then through districts.

have to suspect many IF possible won't trust Public Transport for a while, so will find alternative ways in to work
so i expect gridlock those first we weeks in major towns and cities.

cheeky but just to add, something i just spotted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52367529

 

[jjraak]

brave ....
bravo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52371977

 

[SlimLizzy]

21-04-2020
Colourful food day

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.9
Temp 35.6

Another day waking up in paradise...

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Stayed up and finished Tuesdays watercolour first in the Vista series. All will be from my Scotland Road Trip in our VW Camper. A4 just under two hours.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Good Morning and 5,8 for me today.

Although I said I was not going foraging we need some fresh provisions or eat from the freezer, so a quick OAP shop at Tesco wrinkly hour, I'm not looking forward to it and will be taking care, who'd have thought shopping for food would have become so fearful? Tried the delivery/pickup slots but non available.

Daughter, SIL and granddaughter stopping bye to say hello, they are stopping at bottom of drive and Mrs MC and I at top, about 30 feet so safe distances will be respected. Strange how little things we once took for granted suddenly become exciting events even in the watered down non contact format.

So keep plodding on do the best you can with respect and care.

Is it my imagination, have I missed som posts or is this threads community even thinner on the ground? If so it's very concerning when friendship and support in the world is most needed.

 

[gennepher]

Stayed up and finished Tuesdays watercolour first in the Vista series. All will be from my Scotland Road Trip in our VW Camper. A4 just under two hours.

View attachment 40631

Amazing...I love the Scotland Road Trip. Please do loads more.

J and I were planning another road trip. We had done South West Scotland with Whithorn Priory and St Finian’s Cave (I have print photos of him, somewhere, of J sitting in the cave like a hermit), Glasgow, Stirling, Dunblane, and back down through Edinburgh and back home. I had wanted to go to Glencoe, because of my ancestors, but J refused. This all was shortly before he died, and I had finally managed to persuade him to go, and I would take him further afield in Scotland. But time ran out. I have a photograph of a single lone windswept tree in Glencoe, that I have had since I was a child, and still have it. So it will always remain a dream now...

 

[gennepher]

Good Morning and 5,8 for me today.

Although I said I was not going foraging we need some fresh provisions or eat from the freezer, so a quick OAP shop at Tesco wrinkly hour, I'm not looking forward to it and will be taking care, who'd have thought shopping for food would have become so fearful? Tried the delivery/pickup slots but non available.

Daughter, SIL and granddaughter stopping bye to say hello, they are stopping at bottom of drive and Mrs MC and I at top, about 30 feet so safe distances will be respected. Strange how little things we once took for granted suddenly become exciting events even in the watered down non contact format.

So keep plodding on do the best you can with respect and care.

Is it my imagination, have I missed som posts or is this threads community even thinner on the ground? If so it's very concerning when friendship and support in the world is most needed.

Take care on your foraging trip.

Just looked back...most of the usual suspects appear to be on this thread...it varies from time to time anyway...and for me, during the day, because of my iffy internet connection all the pages don’t load and I miss posts that don’t show, and I also have a problem pressing likes and emojis which can take a few minutes to register on the post. Frustrating for me.

Have a good expedition!

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Just looked back...most of the usual suspects appear to be on this thread...it varies from time to time anyway...and for me, during the day, because of my iffy internet connection all the pages don’t load and I miss posts that don’t show, and I also have a problem pressing likes and emojis which can take a few minutes to register on the post. Frustrating for me.

Thanks, I must have missed some posts, often happens even with my supposedly fast internet connections.