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dunelm said:
Starmer played a blinder. If Boris doesn’t do the circuit breaker thing and the tier system doesn’t work then he can point the finger and say I told you so. He’s also hoping Boris doesn’t, it all goes Pete Tong then Starmer gets the northern votes back - not. Blokes a fence sitting opportunist but at least he’s backing the gov in the biggest crisis in our lifetime....no wait!
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Starmer is clearly an upgrade from Jezza fence sitting or not. Goodness knows how low one would need to sink before Johnson was an upgrade. I'll leave The North to those as can tolerate it but this iteration of The Blues will lose it as sure as eggs is eggs. On course to raze rather than raise. They've cut you adrift already. The Red Team just need to avoid frightening the horses down here - may take 2 leaders and/or carnage this winter. Much riding on the world going no trumps. President Harris would (will?) be interesting if Joe wins and takes early retirement having saved the world. Fun to observe and comment if so many lives weren't at stake.
 
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gennepher said:
I will have another look at them today @dunelm
I was not in a good mood earlier with it.
One of the packs had been taken out of its original clear plastic bag and folded badly like someone had pressed a sharp fold with their hands. That pack is irretrievable as large sheets.
The other 4 packs may respond to a ton of books on top. I will look later today. I did lay them out flat yesterday so I will look at them later.

I won't bother returning, more bother than it is worth. And to go on Amazon chat can take too long, although can get a result.

I was mentally prepared for them coming folded, although I had hoped they wouldn't be. And I had decided, if that happened, I would use them as half sheets. Looks like I will be using them as half sheets, or for making my postcards for my Postcrossing. In that case I have enough sheets to last a lifetime...

Thanks for your link. I will look in a minute when I have made another cuppa.
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Just think you could make a book of your paintings and staple them through their individual centre fold navels! :)
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Okay, I think I am entering my Green phase in iPastels now...

Time for a cuppa...

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Green is good. I have a strong feeling your piece today is a frame from an animation where the green objects are slowly crumbling away, defying gravity and tumbling into the night sky.
 
dunelm said:
Wow - is that the green manalishi?
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Actually @dunelm
it was inspired by me driving around a huge roundabout over a motorway...
I was still in the lane next to the roundabout island when suddenly the most amazing sight happened. It was daylight. I can't remember the time, but the sun hadn't reached the highest zenith in the sky. The sun was ahead of me. To my right, where I should have seen motorway below me, was the most amazing ethereal pale green scene, with trees either side, and a path in between. (There should have been motorway). I looked back at the road in front of me because I had to with with all the traffic.
Wasn't that amazing I said to J.
What? Said J.
The entrance to Fairyland, I said.
J looked at me blankly.
I drove round the roundabout again.
But fairyland had gone.

I suppose it was a trick of the light, and the atmospheric conditions.
But it was truly amazing for a brief second.
I have done many watercolours and acrylic paintings to recreate what I saw, these last 11 years. J died later that month (he was nearly 80).

Maybe I did see the entrance to fairyland.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Green is good. I have a strong feeling your piece today is a frame from an animation where the green objects are slowly crumbling away, defying gravity and tumbling into the night sky.
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That is a beautiful explanation @Muddy Cyclist
Thank you :)

Have a read of the explanation I gave to @dunelm above this post.
 
gennepher said:
Actually @dunelm
it was inspired by me driving around a huge roundabout over a motorway...
I was still in the lane next to the roundabout island when suddenly the most amazing sight happened. It was daylight. I can't remember the time, but the sun hadn't reached the highest zenith in the sky. The sun was ahead of me. To my right, where I should have seen motorway below me, was the most amazing ethereal pale green scene, with trees either side, and a path in between. (There should have been motorway). I looked back at the road in front of me because I had to with with all the traffic.
Wasn't that amazing I said to J.
What? Said J.
The entrance to Fairyland, I said.
J looked at me blankly.
I drove round the roundabout again.
But fairyland had gone.

I suppose it was a trick of the light, and the atmospheric conditions.
But it was truly amazing for a brief second.
I have done many watercolours and acrylic paintings to recreate what I saw, these last 11 years. J died later that month (he was nearly 80).

Maybe I did see the entrance to fairyland.
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Hope you don't think me insensitive for rating that winner but hug didn't seem right for such a final sentence.
 
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gennepher said:
Interesting @dunelm
An incredible amount of people done in an extremely efficient way.
No one took my temperature, nor asked me if I had any Covid symptoms/or if I felt okay.
I was done in total isolation today, with no other soul around as I walked in, and as I was taken down the deserted corridor, told to wait, then told to walk to the door, it was virtually done in the fresh air because it was done right by the open door to outside.
I had this eerie feeling I was being led to a concentration camp.

This was a vast contrast to last year, obviously pre-Covid, where everyone was milling around, and there was cake and biscuits and tea and coffee, and stalls all around the huge waiting room with community based stuff, where we had to sit and wait after the jab (for 15/20 minutes) with all this around us, and people were gossiping and talking. It was almost like a community outing last year rather than just a flu jab.
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Yet another sad reflection of how this virus has change everything
 
SlimLizzy said:
14.10.2020
6.50am FBG 6.4.
Not hungry so waited to see if last few days pattern of going down continued. Did go down, but very slowly
8.10am F G 6.2 hungry, so had breakfast.
Cat has got over his temporary dislike of his bed, it being the lower half of pet transporter. Seems more himself this morning. He was a bit disoriented last night, nervous and agitated. He has had a lot to cope with and more changes in routine are coming.
Today hope to finish tidying and taking out all extra stuff from the motorhome, yesterday discovered a leak. MrSlim says it's not important as it only drips my side of the bed! Now taxed it's road ready.
Cold this morning, only 3c Brrrrrr. Time to test motorhome central heating.
Time to brave the day, did I say I hate being cold?
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A Winner for the tempered style you portray.
Rolling with the punches of life, just getting on with it..( what more can we do)
And hugely so where the cats concerned.

Does he/ she have a name yet..?
Motorhome ..Mmhh Romany or tinker comes to mind...;)

Good luck mr Slim fixes leak before first bedtime rain fall.:D
 
gennepher said:
Great dramatic trees. Emphasised by that tiny figure...

My rice paper came from Amazon, exactly the same order as yours @dunelm but the **** of a packer had folded each pack over. It was divided into 5 separate packs, which had been flat sheets in their plastic bags with no folds. And each of the 5 packs was separately folded over and individually put in 5 sealed grey plastic bags. And then they were put in a cardboard box which was big enough to have put the flat packs of paper in without folding. The air was blue here. I was more than furious.
I could iron them, but I don't even iron my own clothes. The last thing my iron was used for was encaustic wax paintings, and the iron has coloured wax in the little steam holes...

Good news twin sister can visit MIL now.

Edit: it put stars in post. I can assure you I did not swear, well I might verbally say naughty words, but I would never write them down in a post. I did say T.W.A.T of a packer. Is that a swear word?
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A hug for the creased paper.
I also usually find Amazon will deliver a box FAR too big for the product.

And indeed a post to them MIGHT result in money back, without having to send back ...does happen.

And THAT word...Mmhh

As said, would not have said offensive..but the powers that be, made it very clear that is a no-no

Well for me anyway...;)


Hope the day improves :happy:
 
Being pedantic here.

A circuit breaker is fine, it is designed to interrupt the current to a fault.
On power systems they may try to auto re-close a couple of times and then lock out.

But a circuit break is different, it occurs when there is fault within a system or piece of kit. For example on a printed circuit board there may be a dry joint or failed component or break in the circuit foil.
It's a case of getting out a soldering iron or meter.
Ignorant politicians who wouldn't know a resistor from a capacitor!
D.
 
jjraak said:
A hug for the creased paper.
I also usually find Amazon will deliver a box FAR too big for the product.

And indeed a post to them MIGHT result in money back, without having to send back ...does happen.

And THAT word...Mmhh

As said, would not have said offensive..but the powers that be, made it very clear that is a no-no

Well for me anyway...;)


Hope the day improves :happy:
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Thank you @jjraak
I will salvage what I can from that paper.
It might, but I have other things to do.
Have a good day
:)
 
lindisfel said:
Being pedantic here.

A circuit breaker is fine, it is designed to interrupt the current to a fault.
On power systems they may try to auto re-close a couple of times and then lock out.

But a circuit break is different, it occurs when there is fault within a system or piece of kit. For example on a printed circuit board there may be a dry joint or failed component or break in the circuit foil.
It's a case of getting out a soldering iron or meter.
Ignorant politicians who wouldn't know a resistor from a capacitor!
D.
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OOh! Resistors - BBROYGBVGW
 
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