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Thankyou,
I found Simon Armitage's poem about the unknown soldier very moving, John.


JohnEGreen said:


Ernest Blackmore
1900–1915
BIRTH APR 1900 • Parracombe, Devon, England
DEATH 4 OCT 1915 • Killed in Action France & Flanders

Charles Henry Fiske III 1896–1918
BIRTH 3 DEC 1896 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH AUGUST 24 1918 • Died of wounds in France

Sydney Passmore
1881–1915
BIRTH 28 DEC 1881 • Combe Martin, Devon, England
DEATH 13 MAY 1915 • Died at sea Body Not Recovered For Burial HMS Goliath

A few of those I think of on this day that never returned home.

My fbg 5,6 today.
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For 17093, Cpl Ben P, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 15-9-16, age 29. Son of John & Mary Ann Prior, of Colne. Born Colne, enlisted Huntingdon. Buried Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, Somme, France.
He and Herbert Gibbs would have lived 2 doors apart. I have his medals and the framed letter "from the king" to his mother. For basically a tiny hamlet the impact is clear.

 
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ianpspurs said:
For 17093, Cpl Ben P, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 15-9-16, age 29. Son of John & Mary Ann Prior, of Colne. Born Colne, enlisted Huntingdon. Buried Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, Somme, France.
He and Herbert Gibbs would have lived 2 doors apart. I have his medals and the framed letter "from the king" to his mother. For basically a tiny hamlet the impact is clear.

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We studied a lot of Owen at school... this poem is stunning in its brutality of message.
 
I think of men like the first war officer Harry Westbrook who taught us boys at senior school. The lads were really cruel and mocked him when the shell shock took over. At times he had to go into the corridor walking up and down rubbing his face. We boys called him Mad Harry behind his back, he knew and it must have made him feel much worse.
He should have had more help.

I hope he found peace.
War fractures lives.
D.
 
Another long day, I need peace so Thursday is mine, hopefully.

I have started another watercolour this is Womere pool high on the heathland of Cannock Chase a mysterious place with cotton grass growing earlier in the year, this is the place in Autumn. Will finish Thursday....

A4 watercolour...
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ianpspurs said:
For 17093, Cpl Ben P, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 15-9-16, age 29. Son of John & Mary Ann Prior, of Colne. Born Colne, enlisted Huntingdon. Buried Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, Somme, France.
He and Herbert Gibbs would have lived 2 doors apart. I have his medals and the framed letter "from the king" to his mother. For basically a tiny hamlet the impact is clear.

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A fine poem illustrating the old lie.

However I worked as a civilian training MOD personnel for 15 years, in all that time I only met one who didn't wish to take part in armed action. Whilst they did not wish to lay down their lives, they accepted the risks and they did think it was afine and honourable thing to defend their country even if it meant they may face the jaws of death.
 
good evening all :)

4.4 this morning

shopping day but back home by 10.30am for our reflective moments.

National bin day safely accomplished again :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - I like your Popeye silhouette very much it has such descriptive simplicity, and your narration of the process reminds me how zen the company of cats can be..... sometimes ;)

@dunelm - that's a pleasing tree, again you've managed to anchor it firmly in the landscape, and I really like your bamboo, it's beautiful you have such strong stroke control :joyful:

@Muddy Cyclist - hope your gate repair endeavours have met with success :) that's a nice sky for a starter, I look forward with interest to the next stage :)

art bit - this painting is my version inspired by a work from an artist called Miriam Smith whose colour work I like :)

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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.4 this morning

shopping day but back home by 10.30am for our reflective moments.

National bin day safely accomplished again :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - I like your Popeye silhouette very much it has such descriptive simplicity, and your narration of the process reminds me how zen the company of cats can be..... sometimes ;)

@dunelm - that's a pleasing tree, again you've managed to anchor it firmly in the landscape, and I really like your bamboo, it's beautiful you have such strong stroke control :joyful:

@Muddy Cyclist - hope your gate repair endeavours have met with success :) that's a nice sky for a starter, I look forward with interest to the next stage :)

art bit - this painting is my version inspired by a work from an artist called Miriam Smith whose colour work I like :)

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Your painting today is full of hope and happiness, those colours in the flowers keeping the foreground near and interesting, great wet sky and light on those hills, a really good composition, very enjoyable.

Thank you for appreciation of my Sky, I can see in my mind how I want Womere to appear but will have to see if my hand achieves it.

Gate, needs to be welded, I have now removed both to the safety of the back garden and wait to see if my young (50 well that's young isn't it?) agricultural engineering friend can help me out.
 
lindisfel said:
I think of men like the first war officer Harry Westbrook who taught us boys at senior school. The lads were really cruel and mocked him when the shell shock took over. At times he had to go into the corridor walking up and down rubbing his face. We boys called him Mad Harry behind his back, he knew and it must have made him feel much worse.
He should have had more help.

I hope he found peace.
War fractures lives.
D.
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While researching family history I found the military record of my grandmother's sister's first husband he served in World War I, he was discharged from the army during the war reason unfit for combat duty reason given lunacy, Delusional Insanity today that would be recognized as PTSD that war broke men's minds as well as their bodies.

He was awarded a pension though.

MY fbg today at 4 AM was 6.7
 
Morning all
5.8 ➡️
I will happily take that after a naughty pizza but it is the real Napolitan deal - the thinnest base imaginable and swimming in Mozarella so I hit the dizzy heights of about 9+ and settled back quite quickly into the green and stayed there all night which I am happy about.

Back to some low carb to use up veggies before the next shop and a look at whether the panic buyers have left anything on the shelves!

I was chatting with my rellies in our WhatsApp and one of them freaked out about my thumb mishap and demanded I go to A&E. I rang and got a GP phone appointment and explained that I had used plasters over the weekend and then bought gauze, micropore and some surgical spirit and was dunking it nightly in a salt water bath and then giving it a thorough swipe with surgical spirit and a dab of Sudacrem to help speed up the healing and already I can press down more on it. I wear a glove if I am cooking meat.

GP seemed impressed that I know to rinse out the wound in sat water and that surgical spirit can be used to help the split edges along!

I have to call back immediately if it reopens or starts oozing or if the colour of my thumb changes from healthy pink to frightening blue!

Boxing and weights this morning and then more commentary practice to submit a demo.

have a good day all!
 
Good Morning and 5.6 for me today.

The day is mine, well almost, Mrs MC is at long last getting the flu jab, I suspect I will be asked to drive in case parking is a problem at the small village practice she attends.

So Muddy Cycle ride, painting, music making, I'm learning a new Mandolin Tune, and relaxation.

Let the day take you where it will. Keep safe.
 
I thought that my combinations and volume of food were too high yesterday and expected it to show this morning. It does, but not in the way I expected.

5.3 FBG and 4.5 ketones, the latter being totally unexpected. I did do my 2-mile walk so maybe that contributed. Time for that was virtually back to normal :)

Enjoy the day
 
11.11.2020
8.20am FBG 6.3

12.11.2020
8.05am FBG 6.2

After one day back into fives, am back in the sixes again. It is possible that DP has something to do with these results as both days had been up over half an hour before testing.
We are supposed to get the car back from its MOT today and plan to travel to Norfolk, most likely tomorrow. MrSlim has video calls booked for work mid morning, so we can't go until after those are done.
Am hoping Cat ( who has now been named Errant - the French word for stray pronounced Erraunt, and is begining to respond to voice calls) will not find the journey too difficult. We will be taking the car, so he will have to be in his hated transporter. I have got the Feliway pheromone spray, which should help. Once again he will be in an entirely strange environment. Forced to adapt. The only constant being us and his blanket. Sometimes i wonder if we have actually been kind in adopting him.
 
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Good morning all. Yesterday was a bonus day for me on the road back to lighter, warmer days. The Goose was excellent - such wonderful skin and lots of fat for roast veggies - and I came across an excellent 2010 St Emillion which paired well. Two granddaughters all day and grandson to collect from school so another day filled with enough joy to offset the season and #LCfoodgate. Girls seem to approve of starting Advent per St Martin . We are now watching Arthur Christmas - I may like the run up to Christmas! Toodle Pip- oh I must fit a sensor or draw blood soon.
 
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SlimLizzy said:
11.11.2020
8.20am FBG 6.3

12.11.2020
8.05am FBG 6.2

After one day back into fives, am back in the sixes again. It is possible that DP has something to do with these results as both days had been up over half an hour before testing.
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Could be. I find if I test before 6am I get lower numbers than at 7am. I have given up worrying about this as even if I take the earlier reading BG is still going to be higher at later time, just not seen. Can only do our best.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.4 this morning

shopping day but back home by 10.30am for our reflective moments.

National bin day safely accomplished again :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - I like your Popeye silhouette very much it has such descriptive simplicity, and your narration of the process reminds me how zen the company of cats can be..... sometimes ;)

@dunelm - that's a pleasing tree, again you've managed to anchor it firmly in the landscape, and I really like your bamboo, it's beautiful you have such strong stroke control :joyful:

@Muddy Cyclist - hope your gate repair endeavours have met with success :) that's a nice sky for a starter, I look forward with interest to the next stage :)

art bit - this painting is my version inspired by a work from an artist called Miriam Smith whose colour work I like :)

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Such a happy picture , you want to be there and enjoy the view. I do like the way you did the flowers in the foreground. Thanks for your comments about my trees and bamboo.
 
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