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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.9 today

Oh well, at least my eye is settling down a bit, it's still a bit sticky in the morning but not so sore :joyful: lots of eye drops are helping, not as if you can nip into the health centre ;) I got something in it the other day whilst we were out walking but I thought my tears had cleared it out at the time.

Heating oil delivery arrived today so that's OK ;)

Flippin' cold here tonight, not as bad as the -7'C on Wednesday (so far anyway), but definitely cold, we've got the woodburner lit :D

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@lindisfel - lovely snowy photos, what a beautiful landscape. We woke to a little dusting this morning but there was about an inch at Mum's :)

@dogslife - good news that your mum is more settled :)

@gennepher - so good that you have found that friendly post office and shop :joyful: our own little village shop/office is very friendly also, makes a big difference. Nice that you will be able to get a good range of stamps for your post-crossing friends.

I remember that years ago every little sorting office had it's own metal 'franking' stamp and people used to collect first day covers stamped on the day of issue from different locations. I provided cover for someone whilst they went on holiday and one of the most nerve wracking things I ever had to do was endorsing the first day covers ready for despatch :hilarious:

Lovely frosty dawn picture, it's not easy to capture that, it's very reminiscent of the one we had today :)

@dunelm - I confess I really like the hemp paper, adds a pleasing touch of texture, a lovely painting today with that contemplative figure taking the air, so detailed :joyful:

@Muddy Cyclist - that's a great painting, a lovely frosty landscape, I paricularly like the way you have shot colour through the middle ground under the trees, very effective :joyful:

Art bit -

no 1 - Since I missed a day, this is a quick sketch I did before Christmas with some new coloured pens I got from Home Bargains, saw them and thought I'd try them, they are very fine point and pleasingly, they are waterproof :joyful: pack of ten colours for about £1.50 this sketch is about life sized.

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no 2 - snowy over the Firth ;) just bigger than A5 painted with my White Nights.

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Thank you for your comments on my frosty painting.

Two fine pieces from you today, I do like your snowscape, once again your techniques with watercolour have captured the atmosphere of a cold snowy mountain day. The distance you have achieved with the middle ground green hills and beach and receding mountains, brilliant.

We have had our log burner on since before Christmas with our heating on in the background. Since weight loss and maybe diet I feel the cold so am blessed to be able to afford to keep this warm, I am aware how many can't keep their houses so warm. For years I volunteered with Shelter and the Samaritans and remember the cold winters we had that caused many problems for the homeless, sadly for many that situation remains.

Hug for continuing eye problem, if you think there is something still in it go to the health centre.
 
Morning all.
Proper brass mpnkeys here overnight. Glad I left my boat's hot water immersion heater on overnight. Will have to check it out later, when ice on deck has thawed.
8.0 FBG just now. On LCHF and nil booze, so must be burning fat (good). On the scales shortly.
Have a good day.
 
Good Morning and 5.1 for me today.

Another hard frost here so walks and log fires again, too icy for Muddy Cycle ride.

Keep safe, Stay vertical if you venture out.
 
Hi all,
Have a great day in almost total lock down.

Another very cold night here after temperature was below freezing all day yesterday.
Temperature probably below -6.0 now.

If this snow stays, it hasn't melted at all, it will be difficult getting up and down the drive when we need to.
Then there is mile and half to the main road.
After all these mild winters one gets caught out. I expect it to melt over the weekend.

Most of my rich neighbours have Chelsea tractors!:)
Will have to treat myself!

My little problems, its next wednesday when I hope to have my second jab I need to get out.

But I am thinking primarily of all the battles that are taking place in hospitals up and down this land and how bad it will be when the Christmas madness peak hits the hospitals with more deaths.
Science is doing its best and if we have a faith we look to our Source of strength for help. God help us.
D.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.9 today

Oh well, at least my eye is settling down a bit, it's still a bit sticky in the morning but not so sore :joyful: lots of eye drops are helping, not as if you can nip into the health centre ;) I got something in it the other day whilst we were out walking but I thought my tears had cleared it out at the time.

Heating oil delivery arrived today so that's OK ;)

Flippin' cold here tonight, not as bad as the -7'C on Wednesday (so far anyway), but definitely cold, we've got the woodburner lit :D

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@lindisfel - lovely snowy photos, what a beautiful landscape. We woke to a little dusting this morning but there was about an inch at Mum's :)

@dogslife - good news that your mum is more settled :)

@gennepher - so good that you have found that friendly post office and shop :joyful: our own little village shop/office is very friendly also, makes a big difference. Nice that you will be able to get a good range of stamps for your post-crossing friends.

I remember that years ago every little sorting office had it's own metal 'franking' stamp and people used to collect first day covers stamped on the day of issue from different locations. I provided cover for someone whilst they went on holiday and one of the most nerve wracking things I ever had to do was endorsing the first day covers ready for despatch :hilarious:

Lovely frosty dawn picture, it's not easy to capture that, it's very reminiscent of the one we had today :)

@dunelm - I confess I really like the hemp paper, adds a pleasing touch of texture, a lovely painting today with that contemplative figure taking the air, so detailed :joyful:

@Muddy Cyclist - that's a great painting, a lovely frosty landscape, I paricularly like the way you have shot colour through the middle ground under the trees, very effective :joyful:

Art bit -

no 1 - Since I missed a day, this is a quick sketch I did before Christmas with some new coloured pens I got from Home Bargains, saw them and thought I'd try them, they are very fine point and pleasingly, they are waterproof :joyful: pack of ten colours for about £1.50 this sketch is about life sized.

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no 2 - snowy over the Firth ;) just bigger than A5 painted with my White Nights.

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Lovely pair of paintings - fabulous bauble - I wonder if you can replicate onto one? Snow over the Firth - I do like the way that you get the sky and the mountains in tune.
 
lindisfel said:
Hi all,
Have a great day in almost total lock down.

Another very cold night here after temperature was below freezing all day yesterday.
Temperature probably below -6.0 now.

If this snow stays, it hasn't melted at all, it will be difficult getting up and down the drive when we need to.
Then there is mile and half to the main road.
After all these mild winters one gets caught out. I expect it to melt over the weekend.

Most of my rich neighbours have Chelsea tractors!:)
Will have to treat myself!

My little problems, its next wednesday when I hope to have my second jab I need to get out.

But I am thinking primarily of all the battles that are taking place in hospitals up and down this land and how bad it will be when the Christmas madness peak hits the hospitals with more deaths.
Science is doing its best and if we have a faith we look to our Source of strength for help. God help us.
D.
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Tricky if that snow stays so hope it does melt over the weekend - perhaps think about sourcing some snow socks: https://www.snowchains.com/snow-soc...-6WaHe7aXC6OMytQbG37kip3C4s2259RoCyqUQAvD_BwE
 
Good morning everyone from what promises to be a bright and rain free day in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of spiced whole roasted cauliflower with roasted cauliflower greens came in at 4.8 this am

A really wet day yesterday - all day rain, as much as you can take for one all in price and moving from heavy to monsoon but without the warmth. Meanwhile just a couple of miles up the road (and a bit higher up) snow plough in ditch. Granddaughter had anti-all-sorts injections yesterday - two in each leg - she is going to be little miss grumpy for a wee while.

Art today - unsized rice paper - about 8 x 6 inches. Hope everyone has a decent Saturday. Koffy time.

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geefull said:
@gennepher - so good that you have found that friendly post office and shop :joyful: our own little village shop/office is very friendly also, makes a big difference. Nice that you will be able to get a good range of stamps for your post-crossing friends.

I remember that years ago every little sorting office had it's own metal 'franking' stamp and people used to collect first day covers stamped on the day of issue from different locations. I provided cover for someone whilst they went on holiday and one of the most nerve wracking things I ever had to do was endorsing the first day covers ready for despatch :hilarious:

Lovely frosty dawn picture, it's not easy to capture that, it's very reminiscent of the one we had today :)

Art bit -

no 1 - Since I missed a day, this is a quick sketch I did before Christmas with some new coloured pens I got from Home Bargains, saw them and thought I'd try them, they are very fine point and pleasingly, they are waterproof :joyful: pack of ten colours for about £1.50 this sketch is about life sized.

View attachment 46728

no 2 - snowy over the Firth ;) just bigger than A5 painted with my White Nights.

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Click to expand...

Thank you for the painting compliment.

It is great when the post office will use their personal franking stamp. I wonder if this post guy has one. I am guessing he will. Thanks for reminding me. I will ask. That is a wonderful story. I would have been terrified I blurred when I stamped those first day covers!

Your Christmas bauble is beautifully delicate with those fine pens @geefull

And your painting is a gorgeous romantic looking painting of a heavy blanket of snow. It is wonderful. I love it!
 
Fbg 6.5


I found out I had mice in the kitchen again...with the very cold below freezing weather. How did I find out? I lifted a tray of eggs, and had to put them down quick. I had already taken some a few days before, but it looked as though some eggs were missing.

Didn't make sense. But as I lifted it I found the mice had gone in between the underneath of the cardboard base tray and broken the eggs from underneath after eating the cardboard. Eaten the eggs. And left the shells underneath the cardboard tray. And it had been done surreptitiously from underneath so I didn't notice. I had to deal with that and threw away the rest of the tray of 30 eggs :(

I have been spraying peppermint, anyway, but the little blighters must have been starving this freezing weather. And I had been pouring bleach every couple of days in the area under the sink ( because I know they like to visit when the weather is below freezing), and they never come in the kitchen when I keep topping up that bleach. I did fill in these holes a few years ago and with steel wool, and cemented the hole in. This problem began when my gas supply pipe was replaced, and when I lifted the unit base, I could see the gaps round the new gas supply pipe. The mice didn't come back for a few years, but I presume they have dug a new way in knowing there is food in here.

But it appears they have the last few days with this cold weather. Popeye's face has said mice in the kitchen the last two days. But I hadn't seen any evidence of it, and kept pouring the bleach where those pipes are. So now I have some mess to clear. And I have been scrubbing everywhere. I haven't finished yet. I have moved stuff and cleaned behind things.

I researched again, and there is some different stuff suggested to kill the mice. Bay leaves is dangerous to mice but is okay for house pets. (But I am not letting Popeye in the kitchen anyway now. I don't want him catching and eating a mouse, or tackling something larger...). Chocolate is poisonous to mice. Apparently they die a few days later after eating onions. Instant potato apparently kills them.

So I have given them a feast last night of all the above where they come in.

So with Popeye, I am still looking for more natural ways. The rest of the kitchen is going to get the deterrent stuff. More peppermint, etc. So, I am checking everything and cleaning everything to check they haven't been anywhere else in the kitchen.

All food is in plastic containers anyway (from the last experience) and they haven't touched them at all. It was only the eggs that I left out which I have always done. They have never touched the eggs before.

I did have a couple of spare bottles of washing up liquid, but the mice chewed through those. Hence a puddle of washing up liquid. Also they chewed through two of my washing liquid stuff for the washing machine. Again...puddles, but it didn't leak until I picked it up, and obviously I squeezed it when I lifted it...and this fountain came out...

Apparently mice don't like silver foil, and won't attempt to chew that. So I wrapped an egg in silver foil. Left it on the floor. And if they don't touch that egg, then I will assume that works and do some more stuff in silver foil.

They have nibbled the bottom of my kitchen curtain so I need to replace that.

This is going to be an all day job Saturday as well.

I have a few other tricks up my sleeve...
But they haven't bothered me all year.
They must be starving now.

I took a pic of their feast so I will be able to tell what gets taken... and I will put more of that down...

So, Saturday now, I got up at 3 am this morning. The onions, dark chocolate and milk chocolate had all gone. They had walked through the potato flakes. So replaced all that. They hadn't touched the egg wrapped in silver foil.

Then I decided to take the net curtains down, and found they had chewed through my blinds as well, just a small hole. So, I thought in for a penny, in for a pound. I took nets and blinds and the fittings all down. I had a shower curtain left over from doing the bathroom. The colour and pattern looked great in the kitchen, and matched. Also found some curtain wire I had bought for the bathroom, but was reluctant to use on the upvc (plastic) frames, but I didn't care now. So managed (with difficulty), to put those small curtain wire hooks in the frame. Hung the shower curtain. Cut the excess length off. Found I had enough in width to make some box pleats. That made it look good and you couldn't see the metal rings in the plastic.

Then, behind the cooker I found another entry point up the skirting board. That needs blocking up with steel wire etc. And I will have to check some more skirting board.

This is all going to take a few days work to sort...

I am having a very well earned rest now. Consequently my digital painting is just a very rough sketch quickie...

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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from what promises to be a bright and rain free day in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of spiced whole roasted cauliflower with roasted cauliflower greens came in at 4.8 this am

A really wet day yesterday - all day rain, as much as you can take for one all in price and moving from heavy to monsoon but without the warmth. Meanwhile just a couple of miles up the road (and a bit higher up) snow plough in ditch. Granddaughter had anti-all-sorts injections yesterday - two in each leg - she is going to be little miss grumpy for a wee while.

Art today - unsized rice paper - about 8 x 6 inches. Hope everyone has a decent Saturday. Koffy time.

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You get in an amazing amount of detail in such a small piece of paper @dunelm
It is a great painting. I love the colours used, and that blue-green.

I was going to start real painting this morning, but the best laid plans of mice and men...
 
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