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Fbg 6.8

Been looking online for overnight accommodation after my Eye Hospital appointment. Not done that before. But might be a wise move. Was surprised how reasonable many of the prices were. I looked at the Adelphi initially, and that was where I first met the the EvilStepmother. The signs were already there from that first intense interrogation I got from her....

But Adelphi had the lowest number of stars...and not so good reviews.

YHA was tons cheaper at £18 AND private parking, a very important consideration in Liddypool...
However it is bunk beds in a dormitory, I would need a bottom bunk.

I did find a rock bottom price dormitory one in Anfield at £14, and the star rating was was still far higher than the Adelphi, but I know the area, and my car would be nowhere to be seen by morning. In addition I looked inside the the dormitory room. Imagine in your living room you have bunk beds 3 (three) high with a locker at the end of each one. I couldn't even physically have squeezed through the narrow gap to get in the bottom one....sailors at sea get more space than these, you needed to be a stick insect to get in.

At the moment the YHA on the Docks is the best bet. For that price it gives me options. And I might not even stay the whole night. I just need a short (4 hour? It is all I usually have at home) sleep before I come back home. And I can get that in before 12 midnight, and then be back home in my own bed for the rest of the night. The reception is open 24 hours, so I would be able to do that. I need to request the bottom bunk though, and they were a nice height to get into. Very good reviews on that one.

Will decide later today...

My nighttime wildlife camera ...
The fox eyes in the bush belong to a fox I call Skinny Fox. At the very start there are cat's eyes to the left of Skinny Fox. Then you see Skinny Fox's eyes dance all over the place, and then Ghost Cat emerges and leaves. Midnight is on his patrol. Then cat Jade gets on the swing, and Skinny Fox starts with the dancing eyes again...


Creative is a digital painting started yesterday...
I wasn't feeling good when I started it, a bit down...but finished it this morning, and introduced some light into it...

Just thought. The Adelphi allows pets. If I can find the dog harness and lead, perhaps I could take Midnight...

More research and decisions later today....

Time for a cuppa...

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I need to throw open all my doors in my bungalow to the outside air, to let that 12C outside temperature into my freezing bungalow, it's 3.6C in most rooms!

Take that you stupid smart meter. That smart meter was nagging me last night telling me I had vastly overused my energy to the tune of £12.26 this week. And it was scrolling that nagging message continuously across that screen, and nothing I could press would remove it from scrolling on and on.

12C! That is positively tropical temperatures for me. Where's my summer shorts...
 
Must take octavia out today and get some diesel and have a run long enough to get warm.
Takes 10 miles to have heater come up.
Need to get a bit of practice in to take better half to hospital Wednesday pm in Carlisle.

Can't believe the temperature this am.

The World Cup was amazing yesterday, too exciting for an old man.
D.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Been looking online for overnight accommodation after my Eye Hospital appointment. Not done that before. But might be a wise move. Was surprised how reasonable many of the prices were. I looked at the Adelphi initially, and that was where I first met the the EvilStepmother. The signs were already there from that first intense interrogation I got from her....

But Adelphi had the lowest number of stars...and not so good reviews.

YHA was tons cheaper at £18 AND private parking, a very important consideration in Liddypool...
However it is bunk beds in a dormitory, I would need a bottom bunk.

I did find a rock bottom price dormitory one in Anfield at £14, and the star rating was was still far higher than the Adelphi, but I know the area, and my car would be nowhere to be seen by morning. In addition I looked inside the the dormitory room. Imagine in your living room you have bunk beds 3 (three) high with a locker at the end of each one. I couldn't even physically have squeezed through the narrow gap to get in the bottom one....sailors at sea get more space than these, you needed to be a stick insect to get in.

At the moment the YHA on the Docks is the best bet. For that price it gives me options. And I might not even stay the whole night. I just need a short (4 hour? It is all I usually have at home) sleep before I come back home. And I can get that in before 12 midnight, and then be back home in my own bed for the rest of the night. The reception is open 24 hours, so I would be able to do that. I need to request the bottom bunk though, and they were a nice height to get into. Very good reviews on that one.

Will decide later today...

My nighttime wildlife camera ...
The fox eyes in the bush belong to a fox I call Skinny Fox. At the very start there are cat's eyes to the left of Skinny Fox. Then you see Skinny Fox's eyes dance all over the place, and then Ghost Cat emerges and leaves. Midnight is on his patrol. Then cat Jade gets on the swing, and Skinny Fox starts with the dancing eyes again...


Creative is a digital painting started yesterday...
I wasn't feeling good when I started it, a bit down...but finished it this morning, and introduced some light into it...

Just thought. The Adelphi allows pets. If I can find the dog harness and lead, perhaps I could take Midnight...

More research and decisions later today....

Time for a cuppa...

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All the best with your accommodation searching - bunk beds - nooooooo! Thank you for another wonderful winter scene. Really liking these.
 
19.12
7.35am FBG 5.7
Very dark and wet this morning, but temps well above freezing at 6c. Still only just getting light at 9am.
Put up some decorations yesterday and wrote, belatedly, nearly all the cards we are sending this year. The list has shortened considerably the last few years. We are no longer sending cards out of a feeling of obligation. Is this maturity or stinginess?
Kiki was showing great interest in a small (1cm wide) gap under the units by the kitchen sink, so I removed the kickboards as we have had mice under there several times before. She is right. There are fresh signs of mouse invaders. Left the boards off although am not sure this is a good idea. It might just give access to the whole kitchen...
The much put off shopping trip seems to be happening this morning. I had better get dressed.
Cranberries or the ready made sauce may not be available. Stilton is not easily found here either. It's going to be fun.
 
Good morning everyone on a windy 10 degree bag of warmness start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north and the faint hope of another 3 by this afternoon. Shopping - the challenge of the week is to choose the safest day and time with the fewest people and the most availability. As the shops will or might be closed for a whole day, we probably need 100 miniature cabbages, 5 pork loins, a couple of capons, a side of beef, four fried chickens, 3 whole well dressed salmon, two lobsters and a parsnip (it is Christmas after all). Art bit - finished off the details, colour to be added. I hope you all have a pleasant day and a Happy Hanukkah. More koffy needed.

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SlimLizzy said:
19.12
7.35am FBG 5.7
Very dark and wet this morning, but temps well above freezing at 6c. Still only just getting light at 9am.
Put up some decorations yesterday and wrote, belatedly, nearly all the cards we are sending this year. The list has shortened considerably the last few years. We are no longer sending cards out of a feeling of obligation. Is this maturity or stinginess?
Kiki was showing great interest in a small (1cm wide) gap under the units by the kitchen sink, so I removed the kickboards as we have had mice under there several times before. She is right. There are fresh signs of mouse invaders. Left the boards off although am not sure this is a good idea. It might just give access to the whole kitchen...
The much put off shopping trip seems to be happening this morning. I had better get dressed.
Cranberries or the ready made sauce may not be available. Stilton is not easily found here either. It's going to be fun.
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Good luck with the shopping trip and the search for Stilton. Perhaps Bleu d'Auvergne might work as a substitute or even Fourme d'Ambert or Roquefort.
 
dunelm said:
All the best with your accommodation searching - bunk beds - nooooooo! Thank you for another wonderful winter scene. Really liking these.
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Bunks are not the best, last time was over ten years ago when four us went to Fair Isle. We were all in the same dormitory. One guy snored so badly it reverberated the bunk structure.
I had to take Zopiclone to sleep at night that Helen said I blagged off the GP.:)
 
SlimLizzy said:
19.12
7.35am FBG 5.7
Very dark and wet this morning, but temps well above freezing at 6c. Still only just getting light at 9am.
Put up some decorations yesterday and wrote, belatedly, nearly all the cards we are sending this year. The list has shortened considerably the last few years. We are no longer sending cards out of a feeling of obligation. Is this maturity or stinginess?
Kiki was showing great interest in a small (1cm wide) gap under the units by the kitchen sink, so I removed the kickboards as we have had mice under there several times before. She is right. There are fresh signs of mouse invaders. Left the boards off although am not sure this is a good idea. It might just give access to the whole kitchen...
The much put off shopping trip seems to be happening this morning. I had better get dressed.
Cranberries or the ready made sauce may not be available. Stilton is not easily found here either. It's going to be fun.
Click to expand...
Possibly letting Kiki play under the units will be enough to scare the mice away. While we had cats there was never a sign of a mouse in the house. There were some in the loft but we couldn't let the cats go up there because we had fibre glass insulation all over the loft floor. We eventually had to give in and get mouse traps to deal with them, much as I disliked mousetraps.

It was almost pitch dark when Em left for school this morning. She has reflective patches on her schoolbag but her jacket is black, which concerns me since we have no pavements on our roads. I made sure she took a torch with her, not so much so that she could see, but so that she could be seen by parents in cars taking their children to school.
 
Hello from the other side of #Minusstupiddegreesgate even though it remains winter so clout casting and dispensing with central heating would be wholly in keeping with the direction of our recent leadership. Meanwhile in Qatar, Argentinians were given non fungible sustenance via a football match - yes it matters sometimes. Logic and reason? Many of us would be best served by isolating in terms of infection control. Strep A, scarlet fever. tonsillitis, chicken pox, covid, flu and stinking colds are circulating in this area with some, not all, in this family infected. If this were a neat little problem I'd advise putting up a sign saying isolating, go away or a more pithy Anglo Saxon version. Yesterday we had a family meal with some of the foregoing circulating. Social animals my fundament. Spiritual yes. The gathering and meal worked spiritually but rationally it was clearly an almighty mistake of Boris proportions. Anyhow, @gennepher I hope you resolve the acommodation issue and thank you for the creative. @dunelm thank you for sharing the latest leg of the journey to the end of this piece of art. Where will it end? @SlimLizzy as for Christmas cards, not mean just plain common sense imho. Two links shared which I think compliment each other and show the limits of pure, cold, hard-headed reason. The first is today's Advent sonnet - the exact genre is important here. The second is a song - I like BM's version best. Have a great day, if not try again tomorrow. Mankind shall neither live nor flourish by logic and reason alone - we'd all be on multiple psychotropics within 48 hrs.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Been looking online for overnight accommodation after my Eye Hospital appointment. Not done that before. But might be a wise move. Was surprised how reasonable many of the prices were. I looked at the Adelphi initially, and that was where I first met the the EvilStepmother. The signs were already there from that first intense interrogation I got from her....

But Adelphi had the lowest number of stars...and not so good reviews.

YHA was tons cheaper at £18 AND private parking, a very important consideration in Liddypool...
However it is bunk beds in a dormitory, I would need a bottom bunk.

I did find a rock bottom price dormitory one in Anfield at £14, and the star rating was was still far higher than the Adelphi, but I know the area, and my car would be nowhere to be seen by morning. In addition I looked inside the the dormitory room. Imagine in your living room you have bunk beds 3 (three) high with a locker at the end of each one. I couldn't even physically have squeezed through the narrow gap to get in the bottom one....sailors at sea get more space than these, you needed to be a stick insect to get in.

At the moment the YHA on the Docks is the best bet. For that price it gives me options. And I might not even stay the whole night. I just need a short (4 hour? It is all I usually have at home) sleep before I come back home. And I can get that in before 12 midnight, and then be back home in my own bed for the rest of the night. The reception is open 24 hours, so I would be able to do that. I need to request the bottom bunk though, and they were a nice height to get into. Very good reviews on that one.

Will decide later today...

My nighttime wildlife camera ...
The fox eyes in the bush belong to a fox I call Skinny Fox. At the very start there are cat's eyes to the left of Skinny Fox. Then you see Skinny Fox's eyes dance all over the place, and then Ghost Cat emerges and leaves. Midnight is on his patrol. Then cat Jade gets on the swing, and Skinny Fox starts with the dancing eyes again...


Creative is a digital painting started yesterday...
I wasn't feeling good when I started it, a bit down...but finished it this morning, and introduced some light into it...

Just thought. The Adelphi allows pets. If I can find the dog harness and lead, perhaps I could take Midnight...

More research and decisions later today....

Time for a cuppa...

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It is amazingly warm here also. A good idea to open all the windows to warm up your home.

Hope that you get the accommodation sorted.
 
Annb said:
Possibly letting Kiki play under the units will be enough to scare the mice away. While we had cats there was never a sign of a mouse in the house. There were some in the loft but we couldn't let the cats go up there because we had fibre glass insulation all over the loft floor. We eventually had to give in and get mouse traps to deal with them, much as I disliked mousetraps.

It was almost pitch dark when Em left for school this morning. She has reflective patches on her schoolbag but her jacket is black, which concerns me since we have no pavements on our roads. I made sure she took a torch with her, not so much so that she could see, but so that she could be seen by parents in cars taking their children to school.
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You could get a couple of reflective strips to wrapped round her upper arms They take off and roll up easily into a small roll.
I wouldn't be happy with no strips on arms.
D.
 
jjraak said:
Evening all.

An acceptable 6.2 this AM , given my transgressions yesterday.


A delightful day out.

Lauren , myself & Frankie hit the Xmas market at Chiswick house.

A good spell as Frankie enjoyed the social aspect of running, chasing , being chased & generally putting his nose where polite society doesn't , and was amenable to others, so interested

Then onto the market stalls themselves .
A nice way to reduce the weight of anyone's wallet with of all things doggie Christmas pudding ...:wideyed:

Various livers, chicken, etc crafted into what I could only describe as miniature 'Cakes', the kind of which you'd find in patisserie Valerie & like minded top end Cake shops .

Sure to barely touch the sides, but it makes the girls happy.

Doeswoershttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dro%C3%ABwors

Purchased in chilli flavour, again.

Pricey but I think worth it for the treat.

The biltong was also nice, but I couldn't really tell the difference from the ones I can buy more locally, more my taste buds fault then the quality of the product, so I skipped that & doubled up on the Droëwors..nom nom.

A squint at nature under ice rules, poor ducks & co, muddling around the small portion of lake not iced up.

A very naughty hot chocolate & a nibble of Laurens fabulous chocolate brownie, finished of a lovely outing.

A few pics of the day.
(Frankie's the one in blue jacket 1st pic)

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Looks and sounds like a great day out. Obviously I homed in on the photo with the Sight Screen but all were wonderful.
 
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Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. Have you all had an out and about type of Morening? The residents of Tilehurst Towers have.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.7, now if you ignore the decimal point it reads 57, now the surprising thing is 57 is not a prime number, a fact of no relevance whatsoever.

A fiend of Mrs J’s has just rang up complaining about a semi trained pooch someone they know owns and asking for opinions. I never said a word, I walked into the kitchen picked up a carving knife and steel, walked back into the room where this conversation was taking place sharpening the carving knife. Some people have no sense of humour, but do provide a good definition of the word ballistic. Needless to say I am now taking up residence in my shed / workshop.

Stay safe, stay dry and I shall try not to get murdered before the day gets much older.
 
SlimLizzy said:
19.12
7.35am FBG 5.7
Very dark and wet this morning, but temps well above freezing at 6c. Still only just getting light at 9am.
Put up some decorations yesterday and wrote, belatedly, nearly all the cards we are sending this year. The list has shortened considerably the last few years. We are no longer sending cards out of a feeling of obligation. Is this maturity or stinginess?
Kiki was showing great interest in a small (1cm wide) gap under the units by the kitchen sink, so I removed the kickboards as we have had mice under there several times before. She is right. There are fresh signs of mouse invaders. Left the boards off although am not sure this is a good idea. It might just give access to the whole kitchen...
The much put off shopping trip seems to be happening this morning. I had better get dressed.
Cranberries or the ready made sauce may not be available. Stilton is not easily found here either. It's going to be fun.
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Ah!
Kiki has maybe found her vocation @SlimLizzy
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a windy 10 degree bag of warmness start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north and the faint hope of another 3 by this afternoon. Shopping - the challenge of the week is to choose the safest day and time with the fewest people and the most availability. As the shops will or might be closed for a whole day, we probably need 100 miniature cabbages, 5 pork loins, a couple of capons, a side of beef, four fried chickens, 3 whole well dressed salmon, two lobsters and a parsnip (it is Christmas after all). Art bit - finished off the details, colour to be added. I hope you all have a pleasant day and a Happy Hanukkah. More koffy needed.

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Looking forward to the colour...

Enjoy your shopping @dunelm
 
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