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good evening all :)

4.7 yesterday and 4.7 today

fell alseep yesterday evening and missed posting, we'd been up early to drop the car off and do the shopping, finally got the 'steering fault' car back, they've cleaned all the contacts on the sensors and now we keep our fingers crossed that it has worked otherwise looks like it may be expensive. So far so good.
We got that car because Mum couldn't get out of the older one but we kept the old volvo as a backup, which we were glad of this week but it developed a horrible grinding on the way home yesterday :banghead::bigtears: mr gee says he thinks it's a drive shaft bearing. Can't get it into the garage until next Wednesday, not our week for cars :sorry:


Otherwise it's been a lovely day today :) so warm and sunny there were kids playing in the sea. We enjoyed our walk round the village.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - Your dragons are very effective and I enjoyed their backstory :joyful: I especially like the way you've used the green shadows and mirrored it in the foreground.

How nice for you to have your 'fairy' things around the garden and your toadstool painting glows :) I see the dragon is putting in a guard shift there too.

Postcrossing sounds like a really interesting and friendly way to communicate @gennepher but
you're braver than me going for a fountain pen, I do think they make you concentrate on the form of your writing though.

@BRSBRI - hugs for mrs B and many congratulations to your daughter :)

@Cumberland - nice to see you :)

@alf_Josiah - good results :joyful:

@Mrs T 123 - commiserations and better luck next time.

@dunelm - what a fantastic sense of scale both your mountain pictures have, like them both very much. I'm with you on the idea of ironing the paper, I like the effects the water has and the way it adds to the texture.

@Muddy Cyclist - haven't sung 'Now is the month of Maying' for years, you managed a fine performance despite the technical difficulties of being separated.

I really like you Aldburgh painting, the colour in the sky and the complementary echoes in the water and foreground are lovely, very dramatic with just the silhouette of the buildings :joyful:

and two fine skies to start the next part of the series, I do enjoy seeing this stage and then the finished paintings.

@lindisfel - many congratulations to you both :joyful:

art bit -

I've ordered some bigger paper which will hopefully be coming in the next few days, got to try it sometime ;)

some unusual colours seen on the way home from Mum's a few days ago, the sea was quite coppery and the hills violet

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gennepher said:
Oh dear. Hugs.
But it sounds you got some good experience with that Skype interview @Mrs T 123
It doesn't sound as though they were very prepared for the interview.
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Yes it was originally Skype, the day before the interview they changed it to teams and half an hour before the interview she e-mailed me to say it was to be done on Skype!
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.7 yesterday and 4.7 today

fell alseep yesterday evening and missed posting, we'd been up early to drop the car off and do the shopping, finally got the 'steering fault' car back, they've cleaned all the contacts on the sensors and now we keep our fingers crossed that it has worked otherwise looks like it may be expensive. So far so good.
We got that car because Mum couldn't get out of the older one but we kept the old volvo as a backup, which we were glad of this week but it developed a horrible grinding on the way home yesterday :banghead::bigtears: mr gee says he thinks it's a drive shaft bearing. Can't get it into the garage until next Wednesday, not our week for cars :sorry:


Otherwise it's been a lovely day today :) so warm and sunny there were kids playing in the sea. We enjoyed our walk round the village.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - Your dragons are very effective and I enjoyed their backstory :joyful: I especially like the way you've used the green shadows and mirrored it in the foreground.

How nice for you to have your 'fairy' things around the garden and your toadstool painting glows :) I see the dragon is putting in a guard shift there too.

Postcrossing sounds like a really interesting and friendly way to communicate @gennepher but
you're braver than me going for a fountain pen, I do think they make you concentrate on the form of your writing though.

@BRSBRI - hugs for mrs B and many congratulations to your daughter :)

@Cumberland - nice to see you :)

@alf_Josiah - good results :joyful:

@Mrs T 123 - commiserations and better luck next time.

@dunelm - what a fantastic sense of scale both your mountain pictures have, like them both very much. I'm with you on the idea of ironing the paper, I like the effects the water has and the way it adds to the texture.

@Muddy Cyclist - haven't sung 'Now is the month of Maying' for years, you managed a fine performance despite the technical difficulties of being separated.

I really like you Aldburgh painting, the colour in the sky and the complementary echoes in the water and foreground are lovely, very dramatic with just the silhouette of the buildings :joyful:

and two fine skies to start the next part of the series, I do enjoy seeing this stage and then the finished paintings.

@lindisfel - many congratulations to you both :joyful:

art bit -

I've ordered some bigger paper which will hopefully be coming in the next few days, got to try it sometime ;)

some unusual colours seen on the way home from Mum's a few days ago, the sea was quite coppery and the hills violet

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Hugs for cars, great when working a pain in the derrière when not.

Thanks for appreciation of music and art. Music on your own is very strange. What you do realise is how much you don't do correctly when performing with others.

I do like that Sea/landscape and it's colours, you have managed to portray the light on the water especially where it meets the land mass.

Larger paper, brave. I do stick to my A4 and like the quality of the cold pressed cotton Archers paper. Expensive £20ish for 12 sheets of A4 but such quality.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.7 yesterday and 4.7 today

fell alseep yesterday evening and missed posting, we'd been up early to drop the car off and do the shopping, finally got the 'steering fault' car back, they've cleaned all the contacts on the sensors and now we keep our fingers crossed that it has worked otherwise looks like it may be expensive. So far so good.
We got that car because Mum couldn't get out of the older one but we kept the old volvo as a backup, which we were glad of this week but it developed a horrible grinding on the way home yesterday :banghead::bigtears: mr gee says he thinks it's a drive shaft bearing. Can't get it into the garage until next Wednesday, not our week for cars :sorry:


Otherwise it's been a lovely day today :) so warm and sunny there were kids playing in the sea. We enjoyed our walk round the village.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - Your dragons are very effective and I enjoyed their backstory :joyful: I especially like the way you've used the green shadows and mirrored it in the foreground.

How nice for you to have your 'fairy' things around the garden and your toadstool painting glows :) I see the dragon is putting in a guard shift there too.

Postcrossing sounds like a really interesting and friendly way to communicate @gennepher but
you're braver than me going for a fountain pen, I do think they make you concentrate on the form of your writing though.

@BRSBRI - hugs for mrs B and many congratulations to your daughter :)

@Cumberland - nice to see you :)

@alf_Josiah - good results :joyful:

@Mrs T 123 - commiserations and better luck next time.

@dunelm - what a fantastic sense of scale both your mountain pictures have, like them both very much. I'm with you on the idea of ironing the paper, I like the effects the water has and the way it adds to the texture.

@Muddy Cyclist - haven't sung 'Now is the month of Maying' for years, you managed a fine performance despite the technical difficulties of being separated.

I really like you Aldburgh painting, the colour in the sky and the complementary echoes in the water and foreground are lovely, very dramatic with just the silhouette of the buildings :joyful:

and two fine skies to start the next part of the series, I do enjoy seeing this stage and then the finished paintings.

@lindisfel - many congratulations to you both :joyful:

art bit -

I've ordered some bigger paper which will hopefully be coming in the next few days, got to try it sometime ;)

some unusual colours seen on the way home from Mum's a few days ago, the sea was quite coppery and the hills violet

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Thank you geeful for your congratulations, we have been very fortunate.
D.
 
Mrs T 123 said:
7s all day again today - could be better but I suppose it could be worse - sooo weird and no stress at all today so?
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Don't give up, our body chemistries are all different, roll with the punches. Any below a 10 is good for me and me's with all my chemical help. We are all rooting for you.
 
BRSBRI said:
Just jaw dropping. She's also suffered verbal abuse when she was in Emergency. And all she and her colleagues were doing is simply trying to help...

Still has a fab sense of humour she said "Imagine going to Cash Converters with a Littmann stethoscope and asking how much for this chief"? !
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It is really sad that this sort of thing happens. I do agree that she has a fab sense of humour.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Hugs for cars, great when working a pain in the derrière when not.
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Yep..

all hunky dory, then it's the occasional "Chug, Chug "..:woot:

so it's all "come on, you can do it"...<insert prayer/ expletive of choice>

and then it's out with the tool kit..:rolleyes:

Like to say I'd never had the John Cleese moment at any point.

but I'd be lying :sorry::hilarious:

Good luck getting car sorted, @geefull

on the bright side a good old Volvo, never really dies
so think of the cost spread out over the next decade or so..:D
 
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Good Morning and 6.1 for me today. High again but this time I know why, self inflicted as I ignored the advice of Mrs MC and had too much Carrot and Parsnip Mash with some locally made Pork sausages that did have 3 grams of Carbs per sausage. Felt I deserved the risk after all the fence painting, regret it this morning, such is life. :)

Misty start here but promises to remain dry so with a bit of luck and a fair wind I shall finish the fences and put a second coat of paint on the shed.and bin store. Might even paint the wood store as I seem to have a can of paint left over.

Keep safe and seek something memorial from the day.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.7 yesterday and 4.7 today

fell alseep yesterday evening and missed posting, we'd been up early to drop the car off and do the shopping, finally got the 'steering fault' car back, they've cleaned all the contacts on the sensors and now we keep our fingers crossed that it has worked otherwise looks like it may be expensive. So far so good.
We got that car because Mum couldn't get out of the older one but we kept the old volvo as a backup, which we were glad of this week but it developed a horrible grinding on the way home yesterday :banghead::bigtears: mr gee says he thinks it's a drive shaft bearing. Can't get it into the garage until next Wednesday, not our week for cars :sorry:


Otherwise it's been a lovely day today :) so warm and sunny there were kids playing in the sea. We enjoyed our walk round the village.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - Your dragons are very effective and I enjoyed their backstory :joyful: I especially like the way you've used the green shadows and mirrored it in the foreground.

How nice for you to have your 'fairy' things around the garden and your toadstool painting glows :) I see the dragon is putting in a guard shift there too.

Postcrossing sounds like a really interesting and friendly way to communicate @gennepher but
you're braver than me going for a fountain pen, I do think they make you concentrate on the form of your writing though.

@BRSBRI - hugs for mrs B and many congratulations to your daughter :)

@Cumberland - nice to see you :)

@alf_Josiah - good results :joyful:

@Mrs T 123 - commiserations and better luck next time.

@dunelm - what a fantastic sense of scale both your mountain pictures have, like them both very much. I'm with you on the idea of ironing the paper, I like the effects the water has and the way it adds to the texture.

@Muddy Cyclist - haven't sung 'Now is the month of Maying' for years, you managed a fine performance despite the technical difficulties of being separated.

I really like you Aldburgh painting, the colour in the sky and the complementary echoes in the water and foreground are lovely, very dramatic with just the silhouette of the buildings :joyful:

and two fine skies to start the next part of the series, I do enjoy seeing this stage and then the finished paintings.

@lindisfel - many congratulations to you both :joyful:

art bit -

I've ordered some bigger paper which will hopefully be coming in the next few days, got to try it sometime ;)

some unusual colours seen on the way home from Mum's a few days ago, the sea was quite coppery and the hills violet

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Oh dear and hugs for the continuing car problems @geefull

Thanks for the painting compliments!

The dragon is a very good guard!

I prefer an italic nib. This is an ordinary nib on this fountain pen. My writing is neater and more readable when I use italics...

Your painting - it is dreamy, calming, soothing, draws me in to a beautiful place...
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Good Morning and 6.1 for me today. High again but this time I know why, self inflicted as I ignored the advice of Mrs MC and had too much Carrot and Parsnip Mash with some locally made Pork sausages that did have 3 grams of Carbs per sausage. Felt I deserved the risk after all the fence painting, regret it this morning, such is life. :)

Misty start here but promises to remain dry so with a bit of luck and a fair wind I shall finish the fences and put a second coat of paint on the shed.and bin store. Might even paint the wood store as I seem to have a can of paint left over.

Keep safe and seek something memorial from the day.
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Meal sounds delicious @Muddy Cyclist
:)
 
Fbg 6.8

Digital painting in Procreate for today.
This lighthouse is in my garden. It actually has a light (solar powered), and guards my garden at night with its intermittent searching light beams...
My garden changes at night...

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My done list (in emails, postcards, and messages) for this morning is quite long, it kept getting longer...but hopefully it really is done because I am having a garden day today. It is grey and cold, and I would really like that sun to come out...

One annoying thing about messages and photos in different chat apps, is that my friend sent two photos of her mum in hospital, and I didn't reply for another hour because I was busy doing something else, and I wanted to think about the most positive response I could give. Then, when I did get back to it an hour later, the two photos had self-destructed, presumably after being viewed. I hadn't looked at them properly and I wanted to respond to them. Next time I will take a screenshot....
Fortunately though, I do have a pretty near photographic memory still (the rest of me may be falling apart...), and I can wander round the hospital bed and room in my mind, and 'hold' her hand...

Yesterday I made an exceptionally cheeky offer for 150 postcards on eBay. It was never going to be accepted...but a few hours later, I had an email to say my offer had been accepted...
 
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Muddy Cyclist said:
Thank you. I gave in on taking it easy and went out fence painting. Apparently next dooor neighbour says it's next Wednesday for lumberjack show.

Only 6 panels left to paint. Shed now repaired replaced rotten wood and now painted a nice shade of grey, not my choice I like my wood looking like wood. Mrs MC wants everything grey some gardener on TV says it's the way to go.

Also the exercise worked, aches gone, head ache gone and I can add things to my done list, winner all around.

Like them Mountain tops bursting out of the misty valley, good art from your good self.
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - grey garden - sounds like a municipal car park - have fun!
 
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