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Thank you @ianpspurs for the compliment on my painting. It could be an alternative illustration for the poem...

Enjoy your cuppa!
Mugga (750 mls) and Fattbar almond and vanilla cookie while reading this. I adore Time from DSOM so any article which can draw on that is a winner. It also helps that Harris has highlighted the misguided analysis of our problems or outright duplicity of Nigel and the distraction tactics over Meghan and wokeness. I rather enjoyed that combination. I do love me a good axeman as they used to say.
 
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Catapult would work...
I load mine with a bag of hard pulses (one by one of course, not the whole bag in one go) I buy cheaply from the Polish shop.
I have become a very good aim....been practising since the first lockdown...

Other idea would be a big water gun that children play with.

I have a friend (who fortunately for me and my cats, lives a long distance from me) has one of these big children's water guns, and thinks nothing to charging out of her front door, in full view of her neighbours every time one of the neighbour's cats roams on her property to do a number 2....

Would that work for you @lindisfel ?
Excellent gennepher, It reminds me of being chased around by my grandson Dylan at York, with his water rifle, getting a thorough wetting until I decided to have a turn and the boot was on the other foot. It was good fun on a warm summer day.
Dylan knew better than spray his mum, with her red hair she is a right firebrand.
Derek
 
Not having had any real education Ian, I made myself a mine of useless information. :)
D.
Anyone who reads your posts knows you are well read, thoughtful and loving so job very much done like many a great man throughout history. Having started off believing strongly in education as a force for good and essential to social mobility I feel increasingly guilty by my part in the process which leads youngsters into debt just to be the Phd making my Americano with cream. The process seems rigged so the few always win out and perpetuate their privilege. I still want my grandchildren to go to either Oxbridge or a Russel Group University. #conflicted
 
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Mugga (750 mls) and Fattbar almond cookie while reading this. I adore Time from DSOM so any article which can draw on that is a winner. It also helps that Harris has highlighted the misguided analysis of our problems or outright duplicity of Nigel and the distraction tactics over Meghan and wokeness. I rather enjoyed that combination. I do love me a good axeman as they used to say.
I have seen the Pink Floyd twice @ianpspurs , something like late 1968 and and again in 1969. But it was very much psychedelia and light shows, and nothing that I could dance with. I needed something with vibration eg the floorboards or whatever, or me touching/holding the speakers, that gave me something to dance with. But at this time it was just a guy/guys doing a lot of what I assume was screeching/screaming (I would say they were very high), and their music did not come out through the speakers with anything like a rhythm or a beat. Just a continuous vibration with no defining bits, is best I can describe it as a profoundly deaf person. And I found the Pink Floyd very boring at that time. All my hearing friends went to lots of dances and concerts etc, and so I did too.

But this link you have included above, with the words, now sheds a completely different view of Pink Floyd for me. Those lyrics are so very poignant and true. I had no idea they wrote like that.

As I have grown older, I am very much more aware you can waste time. I have probably most of my life being pretty much aware of that, but as I'm growing older I've become aware of all the finer subtle ways you/I can waste time. And I will catch myself, maybe several times a day, and question myself if I'm making the best use of my time.

I am glad you posted those lyrics/words Ian. Thank you.
 
Fbg 6.8

On wildlife cameras in the night - The night of the fox I call Foxy Loxy
And he is constantly checking the swing.....



Creative is a second attempt with ZenBrush3

It is still raining here...

Time for a cuppa and a nap!

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Lovely colours in ZenBrush3 - I haven’t upgraded to that version.
 
Clear and frosty morning in North Cumbria. Looks like being a one off day since heavy rain is forecast later.
Got a difficult problem. :))
This male pheasant is cleaning up all the fallen seed that usually feeds all the ground feeding passerines and particular it's stopping the Yellowhammers feeding.
It won't get the message it's not wanted.
Any solutions?
Catapult? :)
D.
Wave a roasting tin at it
 
Catapult would work...
I load mine with a bag of hard pulses (one by one of course, not the whole bag in one go) I buy cheaply from the Polish shop.
I have become a very good aim....been practising since the first lockdown...

Other idea would be a big water gun that children play with.

I have a friend (who fortunately for me and my cats, lives a long distance from me) has one of these big children's water guns, and thinks nothing to charging out of her front door, in full view of her neighbours every time one of the neighbour's cats roams on her property to do a number 2....

Would that work for you @lindisfel ?
Ah, catapults - i wonder if a figure 4 trigger on a baited trebuchet would add entertainment value
 
Good afternoon from a manic Monday of a morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble has decided that Chicken Pox needed a go. So, quick check in NHS website and down into town. We have two pharmacists and according to NHS website both are open - oh no they’re not - must be pantomime season. So, back home (bonus 3 mile walk). Upshot is that camomile lotion and antihistamine linctus has now been obtained. Art bit - it’s all in the detail. Enjoy the remains of the day, I should have another koffy, I deserve another koffy - but - it’s past the yard arm and I dearly want to have a nap.


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I have seen the Pink Floyd twice @ianpspurs , something like late 1968 and and again in 1969. But it was very much psychedelia and light shows, and nothing that I could dance with. I needed something with vibration eg the floorboards or whatever, or me touching/holding the speakers, that gave me something to dance with. But at this time it was just a guy/guys doing a lot of what I assume was screeching/screaming (I would say they were very high), and their music did not come out through the speakers with anything like a rhythm or a beat. Just a continuous vibration with no defining bits, is best I can describe it as a profoundly deaf person. And I found the Pink Floyd very boring at that time. All my hearing friends went to lots of dances and concerts etc, and so I did too.

But this link you have included above, with the words, now sheds a completely different view of Pink Floyd for me. Those lyrics are so very poignant and true. I had no idea they wrote like that.

As I have grown older, I am very much more aware you can waste time. I have probably most of my life being pretty much aware of that, but as I'm growing older I've become aware of all the finer subtle ways you/I can waste time. And I will catch myself, maybe several times a day, and question myself if I'm making the best use of my time.

I am glad you posted those lyrics/words Ian. Thank you.
Very profound post @gennepher. Hug for not fully enjoying/getting? Pink Floyd live. I have seen them live but as a hearing person the experience was obviously different. You are very welcome to all the lyrics I can post. We have previously touched on the different ways you and I predominantly need to have information presented to gain the most benefit. You seem to be more of a visual and sensual person whereas I need words or sport. I frequently feel guilt about being largely unmoved by many aspects of the natural world/creation others strongly connect with. I love my dogs and a nicely cut lawn/sports field or neat field of crops. Much of the rest is a mystery - then suddenly something stirs - The Glance. The best use of your time is interesting. Seems to me you use yours well. There is an army of people desperate to make us all feel guilty we aren't "living our best life" as defined by them. Usually that involves making money for them or their paymasters and usually turns out to be far from our best life.
 
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Good afternoon from a manic Monday of a morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble has decided that Chicken Pox needed a go. So, quick check in NHS website and down into town. We have two pharmacists and according to NHS website both are open - oh no they’re not - must be pantomime season. So, back home (bonus 3 mile walk). Upshot is that camomile lotion and antihistamine linctus has now been obtained. Art bit - it’s all in the detail. Enjoy the remains of the day, I should have another koffy, I deserve another koffy - but - it’s past the yard arm and I dearly want to have a nap.


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Hug for the Girl in the bubble and I sincerely hope she doesn't develop the complications some do. Thanks for sharing the latest development of your art. Do take that nap what with all the extra steps. Remains of the day? Hopkins gets everywhere.
 
Good afternoon from a manic Monday of a morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble has decided that Chicken Pox needed a go. So, quick check in NHS website and down into town. We have two pharmacists and according to NHS website both are open - oh no they’re not - must be pantomime season. So, back home (bonus 3 mile walk). Upshot is that camomile lotion and antihistamine linctus has now been obtained. Art bit - it’s all in the detail. Enjoy the remains of the day, I should have another koffy, I deserve another koffy - but - it’s past the yard arm and I dearly want to have a nap.


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This is turning into a very confusing set of stairs. Looking forward to the finished version and hoping it won't make me asdizzy as it does right now.
 
The best use of your time is interesting. Seems to me you use yours well. There is an army of people desperate to make us all feel guilty we aren't "living our best life" as defined by them. Usually that involves making money for them or their paymasters and usually turns out to be far from our best life.
Yes there are @ianpspurs
"Their way" is always the right way, maybe the only way according to them.
They may have an occasional snippet, which is useful to teach/guide us, but otherwise run for the hills, as far as possible from them.
They only have their own interests and pockets close to their hearts.
 
Good afternoon from a manic Monday of a morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble has decided that Chicken Pox needed a go. So, quick check in NHS website and down into town. We have two pharmacists and according to NHS website both are open - oh no they’re not - must be pantomime season. So, back home (bonus 3 mile walk). Upshot is that camomile lotion and antihistamine linctus has now been obtained. Art bit - it’s all in the detail. Enjoy the remains of the day, I should have another koffy, I deserve another koffy - but - it’s past the yard arm and I dearly want to have a nap.


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Hope you had a good nap after all your efforts.
You needed it.

Interesting illusion @dunelm
 
Fbg 6.1

Wildlife nighttime camera

Fox & Cats

Main characters:

Midnight patrolling
Jade checking her garden and swing
Foxy Loxy mooching around and checking the swing


Creative - I had planned on a ZenBrush3 painting, but I needed a little painting for a snail mail letter I wrote this morning. So, this is what I created for my pen friend. And I haven't got all my art materials back together yet, so this was cobbled together with a gel print I did at the beginning of lockdowns 2020, ordinary felt tip pens, some Tippex for the moon.

So, during January, at least, will be a combination of digital ZenBrush3 painting, and any little art sketches I create with whatever materials I have to hand. Just whatever I feel like that day.

Time for a cuppa and a quick nap...

Have your best kind of day!

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