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Fbg 6.5

I was outside on my thatched swing this morning in the early dark hours drinking my first cuppa tea, as I usually do if it is not raining.

I was taking photos with my Android phone, because I want a night time colour palette for Procreate. I had wanted a better blue for the little glass windows on the roof of my fairy toadstool I have been painting. This fairy toadstool can be lit up with a night light. It is in my garden. It is another one of those fairy things that J bought me...

There is a luminescent blue glass ball on a metal pole in my garden. It usually glows most of the night. So I was taking photos of that for colour reference. Quite big moths are flying round my phone and into me in the dark.Then something with wings did a fly past in front of my face...it might have been the female blackbird, but if it wasn't, well I came in then.

I have two of those little white griffins. I need to find the other one before the plants in the garden do their Jack and the Beanstalk act...

In Procreate, my digital painting for today...

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Now I need another coffee or two or three...
I have 25 postcards to write today. More if I have time. Then 3 snail mail letters to pen friends, a group of us agreed to write the old fashioned way with fountain pens and I have just treated myself to a new one which I am eager to try. And 3 conversational emails to my email pen friends.

My daughter in Oz says what on earth can you find to write about for all that. I explain it's an exchange of ideas between countries, anything can be discussed. Also, the postcards I bid on are meaningful to me, and they are places I have been to in the past, and so there is plenty to 'talk' about. And, because I am profoundly deaf, and it was only relatively recently, just over 10 years ago, that I got the cochlear implant (which is not like the switch people think it is - oh you can hear speech now?!?!), I have never been able to verbally enter an interesting conversation, all my life, in the way hearing people do. But I can do this in emails, postcards, and handwriting letters...

Catch you all later...
Have the best day you are able to, and that is a winner!
 
lindisfel said:
It may be Paddys day but we got married this day in 1962
Its going to difficult celebrating being married 59 years today.
But at least we are still here and together even though a lot of water has passed under the bridge.
Have a good day everyone.
D.
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Many many congratulations!

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

I was outside on my thatched swing this morning in the early dark hours drinking my first cuppa tea, as I usually do if it is not raining.

I was taking photos with my Android phone, because I want a night time colour palette for Procreate. I had wanted a better blue for the little glass windows on the roof of my fairy toadstool I have been painting. This fairy toadstool can be lit up with a night light. It is in my garden. It is another one of those fairy things that J bought me...

There is a luminescent blue glass ball on a metal pole in my garden. It usually glows most of the night. So I was taking photos of that for colour reference. Quite big moths are flying round my phone and into me in the dark.Then something with wings did a fly past in front of my face...it might have been the female blackbird, but if it wasn't, well I came in then.

I have two of those little white griffins. I need to find the other one before the plants in the garden do their Jack and the Beanstalk act...

In Procreate, my digital painting for today...

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Now I need another coffee or two or three...
I have 25 postcards to write today. More if I have time. Then 3 snail mail letters to pen friends, a group of us agreed to write the old fashioned way with fountain pens and I have just treated myself to a new one which I am eager to try. And 3 conversational emails to my email pen friends.

My daughter in Oz says what on earth can you find to write about for all that. I explain it's an exchange of ideas between countries, anything can be discussed. Also, the postcards I bid on are meaningful to me, and they are places I have been to in the past, and so there is plenty to 'talk' about. And, because I am profoundly deaf, and it was only relatively recently, just over 10 years ago, that I got the cochlear implant (which is not like the switch people think it is - oh you can hear speech now?!?!), I have never been able to verbally enter an interesting conversation, all my life, in the way hearing people do. But I can do this in emails, postcards, and handwriting letters...

Catch you all later...
Have the best day you are able to, and that is a winner!
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Fab! I think your paintings are brill, btw.
 
gennepher said:
This thread has been a bit haphazard in the posts appearing on my screen, last few days. I checked the posts earlier this morning, and looking now 7:11 am, quite a few posts have appeared from yesterday and some hours ago, that were not there when I looked earlier this morning.
So I apologise if I have missed/not replied to stuff
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Have the same issue here...hopefully will catch up too
 
lindisfel said:
It may be Paddys day but we got married this day in 1962
Its going to difficult celebrating being married 59 years today.
But at least we are still here and together even though a lot of water has passed under the bridge.
Have a good day everyone.
D.
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Congratulations to you and Mrs L - I’m sure that you will celebrate in some way.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a dull, overcast morning here on Paddy’s day.
The wonder wheel of salad with eggs and prawns came in at 4.8 this am

Yesterday’s wet and windy day soon dried up - the wind didn’t drop - but that all adds to the fun of walking along the prom pushing a pram - which has a safety strap that you have round a wrist - you can pretend to be Ben Hur at the chariot races as the wind pushes you, and the pram, along. Our prom, from the bandstand, is 2.5 km long - there is a marker every 100m to keep you on track on the way out - and then the misery of count down on the return (are we nearly there?)
International bin day here today but will probably miss the parade. Bit of trivia picked up yesterday. In Finland, pea soup is traditionally eaten on Thursdays followed by flatulence oven pancake for dessert. There is a nice recipe for it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/finnish_pea_soup_71758 - not sure about the pancake but might (might) have some of that - “pass me the ham hock, Maude”.

Art - I am practicing mountains - well, the tops. The one on the right here looks a bit out of place but I don’t have a kango hammer big enough to knock some lumps off it. Have a wonderful St Patrick’s Day, Guim La Fheile Padraig shona agus siochanta ort agus ar do mhuintir. Time for koffy.


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Great mountains @dunelm
I love these.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

I was outside on my thatched swing this morning in the early dark hours drinking my first cuppa tea, as I usually do if it is not raining.

I was taking photos with my Android phone, because I want a night time colour palette for Procreate. I had wanted a better blue for the little glass windows on the roof of my fairy toadstool I have been painting. This fairy toadstool can be lit up with a night light. It is in my garden. It is another one of those fairy things that J bought me...

There is a luminescent blue glass ball on a metal pole in my garden. It usually glows most of the night. So I was taking photos of that for colour reference. Quite big moths are flying round my phone and into me in the dark.Then something with wings did a fly past in front of my face...it might have been the female blackbird, but if it wasn't, well I came in then.

I have two of those little white griffins. I need to find the other one before the plants in the garden do their Jack and the Beanstalk act...

In Procreate, my digital painting for today...

View attachment 48139

Now I need another coffee or two or three...
I have 25 postcards to write today. More if I have time. Then 3 snail mail letters to pen friends, a group of us agreed to write the old fashioned way with fountain pens and I have just treated myself to a new one which I am eager to try. And 3 conversational emails to my email pen friends.

My daughter in Oz says what on earth can you find to write about for all that. I explain it's an exchange of ideas between countries, anything can be discussed. Also, the postcards I bid on are meaningful to me, and they are places I have been to in the past, and so there is plenty to 'talk' about. And, because I am profoundly deaf, and it was only relatively recently, just over 10 years ago, that I got the cochlear implant (which is not like the switch people think it is - oh you can hear speech now?!?!), I have never been able to verbally enter an interesting conversation, all my life, in the way hearing people do. But I can do this in emails, postcards, and handwriting letters...

Catch you all later...
Have the best day you are able to, and that is a winner!
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Great story(s) and another meaningful piece of art. Mrs Miggins and I collect postcards from places that we visit, including art galleries and museums - we use them as note cards when writing to friends and relatives and it’s always fun to try and find one that someone might like.
 
BRSBRI said:
Thanks K. I also heard yesterday someone ran off with my daughter's stethoscope. She put it down for 30s she tells me. What's the world coming to? Dad bought her a new one and it'll arrive to supplement her spare today or tomorrow
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That is appalling. Good that you bought her a new one.
 
dunelm said:
Great story(s) and another meaningful piece of art. Mrs Miggins and I collect postcards from places that we visit, including art galleries and museums - we use them as note cards when writing to friends and relatives and it’s always fun to try and find one that someone might like.
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Thanks @dunelm
Bidding on eBay, which I never thought I would ever do, has proved invaluable to get the amount of postcards I need.
And I have just learnt the art of haggle on eBay...you look at a selection of postcards (that are a fixed price) you like often enough, but don't put in your eBay basket, then an offer from the seller comes through, adding free postage and packing on top. I write back...not low enough (or whatever)...then I look at other postcards similar/same from other sellers (there must be some tracking that they follow on my activity on eBay (so I use it to effect...), because 15-20 minutes later another lower offer arrives (and I have had a freebie thrown in!). Brilliant...result!
 
St Patrick's day is noted in C of E contemporary morning worship but ignored in the BCP version - quite odd. No mention of the 59th wedding anniversary of @lindisfel and Majorie elsewhere either but we who are now ITK offer our congratulations. New Swipey was insistent I be 4.7 on waking - so be it. Nosce Teipsum (as per this week's main poem but other versions on offer) isn't always instantly useful or comforting. Modern wearable tech gives me three (at least) graphs to pore over in the morning. Libre claims to track bg and fitbit tracks sleep and oxygen variation. The more sagacious among you would instantly know what to tweak so that vim, vigour and world domination would ensue. I'm all wt heck do I do about that? Some known unknowns are perhaps best left alone like sleeping dogs and dragons.
 

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who dance the Irish jig on national bin day.

Many thanks for all the kind notes about my hospital consultation.
Congratulations to @lindisfel on surviving so many years of marital domination :)

A 5.9 on that wayward meter of mystery.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers here in Tilehurst Towers it is a day of sorting things out, planning and if the deity of your choice ( deity is subjective and me and me's plough our own furrow ) is willing starting a new woodworking project.

Stay well, stay safe and there is no truth in rumour that growing a beard will protect you from the doom mongers that work in the media.
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Stay well, stay safe and there is no true in rumour that growing a beard will protect you from the doom mongers that work in the media.
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Shall you tell him, or should I?
Have a great one...@alf_Josiah



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