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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone, a bit late today but there were kitchen duties to attend to - a not coq au van to prepare and put into the slow cooker. A not coq au van is made with chicken rather than a proud cockerel and has no wine in it. According to our latest local news sheet shoved through the door last night, we have an ice sculpture trail to look forward to on 17th so we are looking forward to seeing that. Art bit - a new outline. Hope that everyone has as good a day as you can. I have already had my koffy.


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Wandering the mysterious ancient castle/fortresses ... To some long forgotten place...
 
I had my opticians appointment today.

Last year I had an arrogant optician who I had never seen before, and told me I had the beginnings of macular degeneration, and cataracts, and that I had a bleed in one of my eyes. And showed me these things on the OCT scan. Last year this arrogant optician was telling me to expect the worst. And was putting me down. And I had left with a feeling of dread.

I have been worrying all year. And was dreading today

A really nice Indian optician greeted me this year. He said the OCT scan showed very healthy eyes, very good condition. No sign of the bleed. No sign of any diabetic retinopathy (which the arrogant optician had said about last year). And no signs of any thing else. Just perfectly healthy looking eyes, with a very healthy colour. I said I didn't believe him. Would you like me to do the OCT scan again he asked me? Yes I said. And they threw in another test which apparently I did very well at. Same results, same healthy eye photograph

You mean I have been worried all year about nothing.

That stuff can't just all vanish like that from last year, can it?

I know it sounds silly, but since this appointment today with this lovely optician who explained some other stuff to me about the important necessary laser treatment (which saved me losing my sight) I had 3 years ago, I feel I can see so much better and clearer, and I'm not worried about my eyes at all.

I must be doing something right for my eyes to have improved in this way.

I am grateful for my eye health.
And checking our blood sugars is so important.

I was talking about me doing painting and he asked me what angle I painted at, whether using tablet or paper and the distance it was from me. I said flat on the table. He said you need a third pair of glasses (painting glasses) because we change angle of something in it so that you can see to do your painting and it has a plus 1.75 on top of your prescription. I don't have a clue what he's talking about but he said it would make a big difference for painting.

I will get them in a fortnight, so I shall find out if it does make a difference.
 
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gennepher said:
I had my opticians appointment today.

Last year I had an arrogant optician who I had never seen before, and told me I had the beginnings of macular degeneration, and cataracts, and that I had a bleed in one of my eyes. And showed me these things on the OCT scan. Last year this arrogant optician was telling me to expect the worst. And was putting me down. And I had left with a feeling of dread.

I have been worrying all year. And was dreading today

A really nice Indian optician greeted me this year. He said the OCT scan showed very healthy eyes, very good condition. No sign of the bleed. No sign of any diabetic retinopathy (which the arrogant optician had said about last year). And no signs of any thing else. Just perfectly healthy looking eyes, with a very healthy colour. I said I didn't believe him. Would you like me to do the OCT scan again he asked me? Yes I said. And they threw in another test which apparently I did very well at. Same results, same healthy eye photograph

You mean I have been worried all year about nothing.

That stuff can't just all vanish like that from last year, can it?

I know it sounds silly, but since this appointment today with this lovely optician who explained some other stuff to me about the important necessary laser treatment (which saved me losing my sight) I had 3 years ago, I feel I can see so much better and clearer, and I'm not worried about my eyes at all.

I must be doing something right for my eyes to have improved in this way.

I am grateful for my eye health.
And checking our blood sugars is so important.

I was talking about me doing painting and he asked me what angle I painted at, whether using tablet or paper and the distance it was from me. I said flat on the table. He said you need a third pair of glasses (painting glasses) because we change angle of something in it so that you can see to do your painting and it has a plus 1.75 on top of your prescription. I don't have a clue what he's talking about but he said it would make a big difference for painting.

I will get them in a fortnight, so I shall find out if it does make a difference.
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That all sounds so hopeful. I'm so glad you are feeling happier about your eyes now and that the stress of thinking things were going to get worse will be alleviated. Good on that man!
 
It's 4.30 am. I've been up an hour. Couldn't sleep because my legs were "gi'in me laldy" as my mother-in-law used to say. Not sure what laldy is, but it sounds so descriptive of what my legs are doing. I took pain killers at 3.30 and had hoped that they might have had an effect by now. I have to admit that the pain has eased off a bit, but my leg muscles are jumping all over the place. Not sufficiently strongly to actually move my bulk, but enough to make me jump around in my chair.

BG at 3.30 was 7.5 - very acceptable for me.

I have an appointment with a podiatrist! The surgery phoned yesterday afternoon and offered me 13th December. Great. I fully expected to have to wait until into the new year for this appointment. Amazing how exciting a simple thing like a podiatry appointment can be. Says something about our life and times.
 
Just found this:

laldie, gie something laldy​


The Dictionary of the Scots Language (www.dsl.ac.uk) defines laldie as follows: “A thrashing, a punishment, a drubbing, generally in phrases to get or gie laldie also figurative of any vigorous or energetic action.” Although DSL sometimes uses rather quaint language – when was the last time we heard of someone getting a drubbing? – more or less all the senses of laldie are covered by the definition.
 
Annb said:
It's 4.30 am. I've been up an hour. Couldn't sleep because my legs were "gi'in me laldy" as my mother-in-law used to say. Not sure what laldy is, but it sounds so descriptive of what my legs are doing. I took pain killers at 3.30 and had hoped that they might have had an effect by now. I have to admit that the pain has eased off a bit, but my leg muscles are jumping all over the place. Not sufficiently strongly to actually move my bulk, but enough to make me jump around in my chair.

BG at 3.30 was 7.5 - very acceptable for me.

I have an appointment with a podiatrist! The surgery phoned yesterday afternoon and offered me 13th December. Great. I fully expected to have to wait until into the new year for this appointment. Amazing how exciting a simple thing like a podiatry appointment can be. Says something about our life and times.
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My legs do what I call a shaken up fizzy pop bottle, and that feeling just won't stop, it is agony. Sounds like your 'laldie'! There is no way I can get out of bed and walk when they are like that. I have to wait until that shaken fizzy pop bottle sensation subsides @Annb

Great news for getting your podiatry appointment!
Strange the things that are now exciting to us folk!
 
Fbg 6.6

On the YouTube video of my nighttime trail camera recordings, here is the fox I call this fox Skinny Fox. It has been around for about awhile now, ever since I started recording. It is always the first wild creature in my garden of late afternoon as it is getting dark. It was searching for food. Maybe it was the runt of the litter, or had been ill. Finally I caved in and put food out specifically for it. It has built up some body weight and its fur is now looking much sleeker.

I sent an earlier video of Skinny Fox to someone and I was advised to specifically feed this Skinny Fox. The advice was to feed it, so that at some later date because I am target feeding at a regular times, if it needs treatment, or even trapping for treatment, then that would make things easier. At the moment, it is wait and see. But things are looking good, it is putting on weight, it is much more confident than it was when I first recorded him. You can see his wedding tackle, so he is a boy, which I am grateful for, because if it had been a she and mated it would not have stood a chance.

I am locking up at night, and putting the SD cards in the trail cams, and I can already see movement in the undergrowth. The second I turn the key in my door Skinny Fox is out eating the special food I put out for it. Other foxes and badgers visit my garden later in the night, but at least I know Skinny Fox has got his food.


Creative is something a bit different. A digital painting of the scene in front of my bungalow. The Moon and the Lamplight.

Time for a hot cuppa.

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were a solid 9.2, no explanation will be given.

@gennepher, I have a special pair of glasses I use for reading sheet music whilst sitting at my keyboard, you are not alone.

Here in Tilehurst Towers this afternoon will be devoted to tree and bush trimming by the man with the equipment and blessed with fitness and youth, Mrs J and myself will be clearing the debris and mulching. This morning will be spent in preparation and possibly that gate / post repair I mentioned last week, oh the joys of limited energy, but wisdom, well nearly, of age.

Now if you don’t mind it’s time to sign off, if you do mind one word tough, wishing you all a pleasant day stay safe.
Koffy is calling and plinky plonky.
Oh blast Mrs J is muttering Christmas decorations words….
 
ianpspurs said:
Methinks AJ is pulling our collective pud. Arf, arf, guffaw, belly laugh, chortle wheeze. Would Alexa, Siri, Google etc or a voice activated remote make life easier?
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I'd agree on the voice control .

Once set up, we found Amazon's Alexa worked well with the TV search & station selections .

However, while I love a gadget, I think there is a niche market for a graded approach to Remotes deliver with TVs etc.

Graded choices from a zillion buttons to a simple more basic remote
Station up / down
Volume up / down.
On / off

Ours has a button Laurens occassionally presses that puts up subtitles, that I find distracting.

Took a little while to figure out what button turns it off .
(Not the ones I expected )
 
gennepher said:
I had my opticians appointment today.

Last year I had an arrogant optician who I had never seen before, and told me I had the beginnings of macular degeneration, and cataracts, and that I had a bleed in one of my eyes. And showed me these things on the OCT scan. Last year this arrogant optician was telling me to expect the worst. And was putting me down. And I had left with a feeling of dread.

I have been worrying all year. And was dreading today

A really nice Indian optician greeted me this year. He said the OCT scan showed very healthy eyes, very good condition. No sign of the bleed. No sign of any diabetic retinopathy (which the arrogant optician had said about last year). And no signs of any thing else. Just perfectly healthy looking eyes, with a very healthy colour. I said I didn't believe him. Would you like me to do the OCT scan again he asked me? Yes I said. And they threw in another test which apparently I did very well at. Same results, same healthy eye photograph

You mean I have been worried all year about nothing.

That stuff can't just all vanish like that from last year, can it?

I know it sounds silly, but since this appointment today with this lovely optician who explained some other stuff to me about the important necessary laser treatment (which saved me losing my sight) I had 3 years ago, I feel I can see so much better and clearer, and I'm not worried about my eyes at all.

I must be doing something right for my eyes to have improved in this way.

I am grateful for my eye health.
And checking our blood sugars is so important.

I was talking about me doing painting and he asked me what angle I painted at, whether using tablet or paper and the distance it was from me. I said flat on the table. He said you need a third pair of glasses (painting glasses) because we change angle of something in it so that you can see to do your painting and it has a plus 1.75 on top of your prescription. I don't have a clue what he's talking about but he said it would make a big difference for painting.

I will get them in a fortnight, so I shall find out if it does make a difference.
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Well that is all very positive. So good when people do their jobs properly.
 
Annb said:
Just found this:

laldie, gie something laldy​


The Dictionary of the Scots Language (www.dsl.ac.uk) defines laldie as follows: “A thrashing, a punishment, a drubbing, generally in phrases to get or gie laldie also figurative of any vigorous or energetic action.” Although DSL sometimes uses rather quaint language – when was the last time we heard of someone getting a drubbing? – more or less all the senses of laldie are covered by the definition.
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Not a spurs fan then, @Annb ..;):D
 
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