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jjraak said:
Liking the pic @gennepher

Feel the Sadness In the tone.

Hope the memory still shines a warm glow on you.
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Thank you very much @jjraak
 
I remember one of my favourite pubs in Irthington getting flooded a few years ago... hope it's ok with you...
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.5 this wild and windy morning.

First day of the Easter vacation so will relax and read today and maybe do some admin. Am halfway through a lesson plan for class members for their home practice.

Am a bit naughty and 'borrow ' pictures from the internet to illustrate my lesson plans and exercise sheets. Although I think I did read somewhere that it was ok to do if it was for education purposes..

So looking forward to the end of 'house arrest ' tomorrow.
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I think sadly many in the UK will ignore the rules and there'll be spikes in Covid :(

Easter weekend will be the tell tale...
 
dunelm said:
Hug for feeling blue but dragged up memories are a bit of a lottery, especially those that have been put into a corner. A very emotive piece from you today. The colours ‘shine’ from within the constraints of their defined borders. I feel the sadness in the tree as she reaches across the moon.
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You are right @dunelm
I hadn't expected it to hit me hard now from 25 years of putting it 'in a corner' as you put it.
I have never tried painting memories before. It never occurred to me. It did more on me feeling emotions than two years of therapy did after the event.
 
gennepher said:
You are right @dunelm
I hadn't expected it to hit me hard now from 25 years of putting it 'in a corner' as you put it.
I have never tried painting memories before. It never occurred to me. It did more on me feeling emotions than two years of therapy did after the event.
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Interesting, do you think, how cathartic art can be, if you allow it. Hope your day is a good one for you.
 
Lunch was had - another all in one contraption washed down with a pot of green tea with mint leaves...They all looked good, but I had my fave of duck n bits...

Videoing the UK shortly. Mrs and daughters x 2 in one co-joined call.

The Gulfstream which'll bring me home Wednesday has just departed California with 4 on board and is heading out over the Pacific.

They'll land in 13 hours or so and I won't be able to meet them - the big Q for them - new normal strikes again. It feels very weird!

Got most of my work and backlog done, heading out to watch sunset later which is in c 2½ hours. UK now an hour nearer thanks to the time change your end! Makes a difference.

Have fun this Sunday

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

This started out with one emotion, but then it drew out other sad emotions, and so it changed in the colouring...it is a specific place from long ago...

I liked my first, earlier versions of this, but then they weren't valid any more, at least not to me....

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Art from emotions is always good. I am really liking this style of art you are giving us at the moment, more please.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a noisy and blustery hour lost start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Tom Yum soup with FibreFlour flat breads came in at 4.4 this am

Clocks a kimbo - Old wooden case clock needs sorting and of course kitchen not very smart stuff also. Good news is that the garden clock and the clock on my motorcycle are now correct (I never bother changing them). I noticed that the wonder wheel blood sugar app has just compressed two hours into one (1 and 2 am).

I made a dashi yesterday, Awasi type, but then realised that Mrs Miggins does not like the taste of dried bonito flakes dropped into hot water. So, I just used it as a base broth and made Tom Yum soup - it’s light, filling, very low in carbs and quite soothing. I use Stevia rather than traditional cane sugar.
Three fence panels worked on yesterday - one repaired and two replaced. We now have a pile of smashed up fencing to go to the recycling centre.

I did three paintings yesterday, experimenting with different brush strokes. This particular one is on very absorbent single ply and unsized rice paper. You can see how my brush was not quite dry enough at the top of the waterfall. Never mind. Hope everyone has a splendid Sunday. Koffy time here.

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Like you @dunelm I never change some clocks, potting shed and garage clocks always stay the same.

Analogue is easiest to change, the others are objects of mystery...

I have some dried bonito flakes (got them from Amazon end of last year), but I have never used them. Would they go in miso soup?

An effective waterfall.
It is hard when a brush says 'hey I am holding extra water unbeknownst to you'...
 
BRSBRI said:
I think sadly many in the UK will ignore the rules and there'll be spikes in Covid :(

Easter weekend will be the tell tale...
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Sadly I think that you may be right. The rules are very clear except for the rule 'Stay Local and minimise Travel' which can be open to interpretation.

We have taken that to mean that we stay in our village the majority of the time but can occasionally travel a bit further into the countryside to walk around out closest National Trust property which is 20 miles away. Hopefully we have interpreted this correctly. The problem with rural Norfolk is that everything is so far away.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a noisy and blustery hour lost start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Tom Yum soup with FibreFlour flat breads came in at 4.4 this am

Clocks a kimbo - Old wooden case clock needs sorting and of course kitchen not very smart stuff also. Good news is that the garden clock and the clock on my motorcycle are now correct (I never bother changing them). I noticed that the wonder wheel blood sugar app has just compressed two hours into one (1 and 2 am).

I made a dashi yesterday, Awasi type, but then realised that Mrs Miggins does not like the taste of dried bonito flakes dropped into hot water. So, I just used it as a base broth and made Tom Yum soup - it’s light, filling, very low in carbs and quite soothing. I use Stevia rather than traditional cane sugar.
Three fence panels worked on yesterday - one repaired and two replaced. We now have a pile of smashed up fencing to go to the recycling centre.

I did three paintings yesterday, experimenting with different brush strokes. This particular one is on very absorbent single ply and unsized rice paper. You can see how my brush was not quite dry enough at the top of the waterfall. Never mind. Hope everyone has a splendid Sunday. Koffy time here.

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You always manage to create such scale with your minimal ink paintings. The too wet brush strokes could easily be seen as distant trees just visible above the trees, I am always impressed with the brushwork you show us.

Clocks, we have too many old wooden clocks to sort, thank goodness all the chimes are unwound or it could become a real nightmare.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I am still diligently researching cashews. I had 5 cashews with breakfast but unfortunately they didn't drop BS at all this time. They were, however, absolutely delicious.
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I probably have about 10 of those half cashews @Krystyna23040
They lower my blood sugars in a morning if it is before I have eaten anything at all.
I did read a handful would lower them early evening, BUT that did not work at all for me, it raised my blood sugars then.
So, cashews are effective for me early in the day.
So to put in context.
I do keep slightly different hours to most of you. I am usually awake at 3am. Coffee and tea are my beverages. Maybe chicory coffee at that time of day. The cashews might be about 6 am.
What I call breakfast is probably what you would call lunch/late lunch, because that can happen either at 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 noon, or even 1pm and depends when I feel like it.

Generally I have one meal a day.
I may or may not have the cashews early on, it's just what I feel like.
If my breakfast is early, early for me being 9am, then I might have some cottage cheese at noonish.

This is all if I am being 'good'.

Like anyone I have my naughty days...maybe a cream cake or two, but only from one bakery where those cakes are heaven...
 
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