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Lamont D said:
Who would have thought that tyres wear out?
Who would have thought that tyres are designed that way?
Who would have thought that the rubber used in tyres are toxic?
Who would have thought that the rubber ends up in the sea?

The professor has already written a report to change the design, so that the amount of spent rubber does not end up in our waters!

Who would have thought that it is not plastic that is not the major concern, at the moment?
Who would have thought that it will become a major problem in the future?

Rishi doesn't think, rishi doesn't care unless if fills his bank account!
Who would have thought?
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RishGPT seems a tad grouchy that people have seen through his latest cunning plan. Whatever you think of what some call the green cr*p this is a fair summary of the knots in which he has tied himself. Also very funny imho.
 
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ianpspurs said:
RishGPT seems a tad grouchy that people have seen through his latest cunning plan. Whatever you think of what some call the green cr*p this is a fair summary of the in which knots he has tied himself. Also very funny imho.
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The meat tax got me.!!!!!
Tory t.......s!
James O'Brien on LBC, did a great job on the unbelievable prospects of not doing something when the government didn't have plans to do it!
I kid you not!
Wholesale lies to give to the client media!
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.3

Yesterday the weather was atrocious, but I decided, after deliberation, that reading a book at home indoors (because the deluge prevented me sitting in the garden to read) was not going to cut it. So it was going out.

Everything prevented me going going. My car keys decided to play hide and seek. Then my cochlear hearing processor and my iPad (where the remote is to alter settings, the settings go back to the default setting and I have to adjust them each time I put it on or else the sound coming in is intolerable and even indoors sounds like a busy 6 lane motorway) were not playing ball with each other. It would take a whole short novel to write the struggle I had with that. I thought I had sorted it, but before I got to the front door the processor was trilling away, signalling it had gone back to default setting. So back to the iPad again. By the 3rd time it had done this, an hour had passed and time was getting on, and I was ready to say forget about wearing the processor today, and go back to driving with no incoming sound (I managed that way from 17 until 60 years old, when I had the cochlear operation, with no incident). Finally, after nearly annihilating the iPad (the problem is apple software which connects to my processor when it shouldn't), I left the house wearing my hearing processor.

So I was late, and couldn't do something I had intended to do first.

Next problem was the 20 mph. And the total confusion reigning with all drivers in big and little vehicles. I was harassed by truck drivers trying to get me to do more than 20 mph, and believe it or not I was harassed by buses, and I am in a 20mph (I googled when I got back home and it turns out the bus drivers are still keeping to 30mph in a 20 mph zone because this messes with their schedules and connecting buses, and the bus companies have not done a new timetable, it cost money). GoSafe the partnership that runs the mobile speed cameras etc in this part of Wales, say that they will prosecute those who reach 26mph in a 20mph.

But the worst was the horrible increase in pollution. I still haven't got out of the 20mph zone yet. I felt really sick and was having problems breathing, so I had to shut my car window and turn on the air con, and used my inhaler, I do have asthma.

This area, where I live, is right by the A494 and Expressway, and most of it is low lying at virtually sea level. When I finally get to the end of the 20mph, the vans that had come out of the delivery distribution centres around here, suddenly floored it and shot into the distance (to try and catch up with their delivery schedules presumably). It took me a moment to adjust from the soporific 20mph to 70mph.

Flooding on the roads with the deluge. But finally I got to my destination, a village hall that does hot home cooked dinners once a week. The dinner was delicious and I enjoyed it (raised my blood sugars a bit because not diabetic friendly, but worth it, comfort food). No one else there, the other diners came as I left, so it was easy for me to have conversations with the cook and her helper.

BUT, no getting away from discussions on the 20mph in Wales. I am in England now, in Cheshire. It turned out this village did not have a post office any more, but once a week, a mobile post office came from Wales, from Flint. And the post office lady was getting everyone to sign the petition against the 20mph in Wales. Oh we've all signed said the food ladies.

By the way the signatures have reached over 330,000, the biggest petition that has ever been submitted to the Senedd. More than 330,000 calling for the 20mph speed limit in Wales to be rescinded. I have signed.


I will be going back to those home cooked meals. they were absolutely delicious.


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Pa Badger - an absolutely determined badger trying to get on that swing.
Pa Badger tried for half the night, again and again to try and get on that swing.
No stray cats that night on the swing. They are getting a bit narky that they can't sit on the swing during the night. Cat Midnight is getting cross over this. He watches, hidden from the badgers, from my vegetable garden.
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Creative - using the ink tree designs in the china tea cup from yesterday, I managed to create a landscape of a coppice of trees @Annb

I have to go to the bottom High Street to do something. Hopefully I can leave the High Street before the pollution gets worse with going to work traffic. Thank goodness I live at the top of a hill...so glad I resisted people saying sell your bungalow and move closer to the shops...

Is there a mask you can get that helps where there are traffic pollution fumes?

Time for a cuppa.

Have your best day.

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Lovely artwork and sorry to read about your day. You could look up Respro - DACC masks for pollutants.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a 3 layer start here which should half as one of my 5 pledges. Fbg of 5.2 according to NoSwipeynocry - perhaps I'll just call it Bob. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and bed sounds like the correct call. @gennepher I'm glad the meal was worth the hassle and thanks for sharing the amazing creative. Here's some info on masks: review of some; one I was intrigued by (obviously) . I need more tea - nearly always. Go well people
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Thank you @ianpspurs. Sleep seems to be the ticket.
 
SlimLizzy said:
FBG 5.6 astounding as many biscuits consumed yesterday.
Both overslept this morning until nearly 10am. Perhaps making up for loss of sleep on previous nights.
Zoom meeting results.
MrSlim is not legal to drive anywhere!
**** lucky to have got away with it for so long!
I can drive our car in France, but not in UK. Might make the expected visit for Christmas impossible. Not sure how I feel about that.
We both have to apply for exchange to French license.
Apparently because of the many layers of confusion over exchange of driving licenses and the backlog caused by that and Covid, the French are being unusually lax about applying the rules and we may get our licenses without any problem. Even though we are both well outside the normal time limit dfor exchange. This is more likely for me. Worst case scenario: either or both of us might have to take a French driving test.
As is normal in france the application requires multiple documents to be scanned and emailed.
Driving license obviously.
Insurance details.
Passports
Carte séjour. ( right to live in France)
Household bill.
Proof of address. The bureau Postale changed our road name and renumbered the house so we need two proofs and the official notification of the change.
Birth certificates
Marriage certificates. 2nd marriage for us both so also
Copy of decree absolute.
EPhotos of us both. These have to be taken in an appropriate photo booth. We went and spent a frustrating half an hour being told that the images were not compliant. But both of us were unable to see why. In the end we sent them to our helpful administration service anyway.
Other news: BabyIV has several appointments with various specialists next week. Although she is not an obviously unwell baby she is slow to gain weight, seems to have some difficulty in feeding and has persistent low grade jaundice. Also family history of cows milk intolerance makes supplementary bottles a non starter. However the health professionals repeatedly suggest this to my daughter's increasing annoyance. Grandson is 5. He had severe milk intolerance and has only in last few months overcome it.
Torrential rain and strong wind last night, but not too much damage in the garden.
@dunelm hope your covid is mild and you recover quickly.
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Thank you @SlimLizzy. French bureaucracy is quite a nightmare, my parents still get tripped up with it after living there for nearly 30 years.
 
Lamont D said:
Along with everything else, I have had a dairy intolerance since very young. Going through school dinners and family that didn't understand that the reason I was throwing up all the time, was the milk, butter, cheese that was cooked for me, induced it all!
I was asked to stay for tea at my friends, I redecorated the poor woman's living room!
Who puts butter, when having beans on toast? It was a right mess!
it has been found that my youngest grandchild has an egg intolerance!
the number of people reporting from tests to have an intolerance to food is growing as fast as T2!
Mostly, dairy and wheat! Though the percentage of gluten intolerance is not the majority of wheat intolerance.
It has been ascertained to be caused by the increasing amount of pollution.
My gast is flabbered, at rishis decision to stall the 2030 resolution.
There is only one reason as is most Tory policy, more money for the rich, and sod the rest of you!

My best wishes to you all as always!

Oh yeah 6.3 today. I had an hour in the garden this morning, mainly clearing up the debris from the hurricane (ish) winds and the monsoon (ish) downpours for the last two days. It was quite warm in the sun, but has gone hiding again and started spitting as I write from inside! Lancs are out playing in the Sunday on the box.Physio first thing tomorrow for my sciatica and spine!
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Beans on buttered toast - smashing - well, it used to be before I ended up with diabetes. Like peanut intolerances, most can be sorted by the pregnant woman eating the stuff when pregnant, giving it in small doses to the teeny child and most of all, not sanitising their skin and environment all the time - imune system needs stuff to work with, same as gut microbiome. My mother never used wet wipes or bleach - utter madness.
 
dunelm said:
Beans on buttered toast - smashing - well, it used to be before I ended up with diabetes. Like peanut intolerances, most can be sorted by the pregnant woman eating the stuff when pregnant, giving it in small doses to the teeny child and most of all, not sanitising their skin and environment all the time - imune system needs stuff to work with, same as gut microbiome. My mother never used wet wipes or bleach - utter madness.
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As you are well aware, I grew up in a very industrial environment, very close to all kinds of muck, which also included bomb sites, dips in the river, any amount of cuts, grazes, broken bones, the usual kids stuff! Besides the dairy, which I still baulk at and come out in sweat, I was never Ill past a few sniffles!
I never spent a day in hospital for my health until I was getting diagnosed for RH!
Why this carb intolerance came about, I have no idea except for my eating habits?
But since the turn of the century, I was on the supposed healthy intake but unbeknownst to all and sundry, that is what was killing me!
No carbs, healthy! Carbs ill!
The basic foods are not healthy for me!
It is weird, it is hard, it is so rare!
I have sympathy and empathy for the boy in the bubble!
But I do feel like him sometimes.
There is a bakers across the road. There is nowt, I can eat in there, nothing at all!
Sorry! The fruit in small pieces!

It is what it is! And that is what I have to do, to be healthy, as I can be!

Keep safe.
 
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Not worth testing at present until the covid infection is over. Hospital called yesterday to talk about giving me some anti-viral drugs. They come with a host of possibly nasty side effects but I declined - my symptoms are not that bad. In fact, if this sunshine dries our overly long grass a bit, I will get out there hunting tigers to the music of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Art bit, a bit of fiddling about with the tree from yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and perhaps later, a big plate of bacon - the great cure all.


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5.6 this morning. All admin virtually up to date so am looking forward to continuing with my training videos later this morning - after relaxing with a coffee and reading.

Yesterday Google calendar had a glitch. That is the only calendar I use so I was quite concerned I couldn't access it. Luckily they fixed it quickly.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Not worth testing at present until the covid infection is over. Hospital called yesterday to talk about giving me some anti-viral drugs. They come with a host of possibly nasty side effects but I declined - my symptoms are not that bad. In fact, if this sunshine dries our overly long grass a bit, I will get out there hunting tigers to the music of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Art bit, a bit of fiddling about with the tree from yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and perhaps later, a big plate of bacon - the great cure all.


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Really good that your symptoms are not that bad. @dunelm .
I really like your painting.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Not worth testing at present until the covid infection is over. Hospital called yesterday to talk about giving me some anti-viral drugs. They come with a host of possibly nasty side effects but I declined - my symptoms are not that bad. In fact, if this sunshine dries our overly long grass a bit, I will get out there hunting tigers to the music of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Art bit, a bit of fiddling about with the tree from yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and perhaps later, a big plate of bacon - the great cure all.


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In the picture very obviously the vulgar boat men from the Yintong Didle I Pooh band.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Not worth testing at present until the covid infection is over. Hospital called yesterday to talk about giving me some anti-viral drugs. They come with a host of possibly nasty side effects but I declined - my symptoms are not that bad. In fact, if this sunshine dries our overly long grass a bit, I will get out there hunting tigers to the music of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Art bit, a bit of fiddling about with the tree from yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and perhaps later, a big plate of bacon - the great cure all.


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Glad you feel you are not too bad @dunelm
I hope you improve quickly.
The painting is great...
 
Fbg 6.5

I couldn't sleep last night. No idea why. Did all my usual stuff for sleep to no avail.

So I got up at 3 am.

Then I had a bright idea. I have never driven my new car in the dark yet. I might as well drive to the the postbox (I had some letters and postcards to post) and get a little practice in. There was something else I wanted to try as well. My new car is automatic, as was my last car. My last car was easy to keep at the 30 speed limit down the steep hill, but this new car was not. I was driving down the steep hill on my brakes to keep to the 30. But now we are 20mph my new car being on automatic I am driving the entire way down the steep hill on my brakes. I have only done it twice so far. So, I thought time to figure out the plus and minus sign on the D setting. My last car had a dedicated first and a dedicated second gear for steep hills and stuff, it was easy to use. This one you have to knock the drive setting to the right, and then knock it up (+) and knock it down (-) to get your gear. I found out it has 3 gears (useful), and a green light comes on when the car thinks you need to knock it up or down a gear. Green light was easy to see at night, not sure what it would be like in daytime.

I am driving up and down my steep hill in the dark before the rat run starts. And just in case I get stopped by police (which does happen) for loitering in the night (which happens, has happened), I have a bunch of letters and postcards on the passenger seat.

This shifting to manual is brilliant for going down the steep hill in 20 mph. I am now driving on my gears and do not need to use the brake once. So job well done, and I feel confident to do this when other cars are around now. I didn't have the courage to try something new in the daytime with other cars around speeding down the hill, all of them just using brakes, aall the way down. Presumably that is why some of them skid and end up in hedges or garden walls on the way down.


Yesterday I was sitting in my garden, looking at my sparrows feeding from the fatball feeders, when with no warning, and the sparrows did not have time to sound their alarm calls, through the tops of my trees and bushes at the speed of light, came a sparrowhawk who thought he was going to pluck a sparrow off the feeder while in flight. My sparrows slid up the heavily leaved branches, that I have surrounding the feeders, like greased lightning, and the sparrowhawk carried on his speedy flight, and left with nothing. It literally took a nano second. And if I hadn't been actually watching my sparrows I would not have known what happened right in front of me. It was so swift.

I was almost 100% certain the sparrowhawk had left with nothing. I waited for the sparrows to return, and they were all present and correct. Phew.

What I have done is cut some Buddleia down and temporarily made a canopy of branches and crisscrossing them so the sparrowhawk, I would assume could not plunge through. This canopy is over the bird feeders. I shall have to see.

I know it is a fact that larger birds have to prey on smaller birds/creatures to survive, but they are not doing it my garden. My garden my rules. This came about because we have buzzards (there is a lot of industry here and they hover for ages in the thermals, I think created by the steelworks and stuff), and they used to swoop on my cats. One buzzard took away one of my small cats from the potting shed roof. I saw it, and nothing I can do. I thought she had ended up being the buzzard's lunch. But a few days later she returned in a heck of a state, but still alive. The buzzard must have dropped her when it flew into the woods. And she was very neurotic after that experience. I was traumatised watching it happen in an instant from my window. None of my cats slept on open roof spaces after that.

Wild life camera.
Cat Midnight, watches Fox & Badger
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Creative is that black ink shapes in the white china cup again. I put it through an app called Tiny Planets and then some photo effects!

I think I have done a full day's work by now!

Going to make a fresh cuppa.

Have your best kind of day whatever life is throwing at you!

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