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dunelm said:
I love a good moaning and complaining neighbour - what a treat, what a challenge. Listen, smile, nod, ignore. Nearly as much fun as inviting Jehovah’s Witnesses in and give them a cup of tea when they knock on the door, then discussing Woden, Thunor, Tiw and Frig before chatting about the authenticity of scenes in the film Life Of Brian.
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Hi Dunelm, The problem is keeping them off their pre programmed ideas.
They give my door a miss when they come into the hamlet so I don't get a chance to reason with them.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
Hi Dunelm, The problem is keeping them off their pre programmed ideas.
They give my door a miss when they come into the hamlet so I don't get a chance to reason with them.
D.
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My uncle always kept a bucket of water handy on the first floor landing next to a widow directly above the front door just for them not saying I approved but uncle Bill was a law unto himself.
 
Evening all.

Oh @gennepher that Berlin wall spells trouble.

I do hope the neighbour takes some action once the first highish winds rattle that fence about.

@Lamont D , fascinating post re Berlin.

No fbg, not back testing yet.

Still much going on.

Retinopathy check check today, all good on T2D front, but damage to left eye more pronounced.

Appointment at eye hospital end of month, trying not to worry too much about the outcome.
Leaning into its rectifiable, going by opticians when testing previously...please God.

Others tests still ongoing.

A needed MRI scan for deteriorating knee is becoming a farce.

Appointment given, then cancelled at short notice.
Then informed it was still available 2 hours after it was scheduled...aaggh

Now told at short notice it's this Saturday....but it's a small staff & strict rota at work, so I'm having to rearrange it again... :banghead:

Others then that everything's hunky dory.

So I try not to sweat the small stuff....

the big stuff squeezes any potential sweat out of me first..:hilarious:

Namaste all.
 
jjraak said:
Evening all.

Oh @gennepher that Berlin wall spells trouble.

I do hope the neighbour takes some action once the first highish winds rattle that fence about.

@Lamont D , fascinating post re Berlin.

No fbg, not back testing yet.

Still much going on.

Retinopathy check check today, all good on T2D front, but damage to left eye more pronounced.

Appointment at eye hospital end of month, trying not to worry too much about the outcome.
Leaning into its rectifiable, going by opticians when testing previously...please God.

Others tests still ongoing.

A needed MRI scan for deteriorating knee is becoming a farce.

Appointment given, then cancelled at short notice.
Then informed it was still available 2 hours after it was scheduled...aaggh

Now told at short notice it's this Saturday....but it's a small staff & strict rota at work, so I'm having to rearrange it again... :banghead:

Others then that everything's hunky dory.

So I try not to sweat the small stuff....

the big stuff squeezes any potential sweat out of me first..:hilarious:

Namaste all.
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Thank you for the commiserations.

Hugs for all your ongoings @jjraak
It is stressful.
 
Annb said:
11.1 at 3 am but after painkillers and a cup of tea it dropped to 8.9 by 6.30. Now 8.4.

I got my job done, cleaning under the kitchen chest of drawers and realised that I needed to make a start on the larder, so I did that instead of making cakes. Didn't finish it, so will have to do that today. Cakes first though. That's the first job after breakfast.

Then I can get back to the larder. It has to be done because I bought some nuts in bulk and some new containers for them, then found I didn't have enough space for them in the larder so it needed sorting out and getting cleaned at the same time. Plenty of detergent spray and bleach being used.

Sarsparilla tea bags, which I really didn't like, thrown out plus a jar of some unidentifiable powder, which might have been wheat germ, but I wasn't sure, has also gone and a packet of digestive biscuits which had been opened, goodness knows when, stored in a plastic box on a lower shelf and forgotten, also gone now as well as a plastic box of boiled sweets bought as an emergency supply to deal with hypos, but been there so long that they'd gone sticky, like the ones which had made 2 of my handbags all sticky. There may be other things to go out as I work through them.

Neil is still working on that 2nd extension leaf for the teak table.

It's all go!
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Doing some good work in the larder, but don't tire yourself out
 
Scared of spiders? I'm not and neither was my daughter. She used to name them and handle them quite happily until her first day at school where she apparently learned nothing except that girls are scared of spiders and scream if they see one. She is still like this today. Mother of three daughters to pass the inappropriate response to. So annoying.
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jjraak said:
Evening all.

Oh @gennepher that Berlin wall spells trouble.

I do hope the neighbour takes some action once the first highish winds rattle that fence about.

@Lamont D , fascinating post re Berlin.

No fbg, not back testing yet.

Still much going on.

Retinopathy check check today, all good on T2D front, but damage to left eye more pronounced.

Appointment at eye hospital end of month, trying not to worry too much about the outcome.
Leaning into its rectifiable, going by opticians when testing previously...please God.

Others tests still ongoing.

A needed MRI scan for deteriorating knee is becoming a farce.

Appointment given, then cancelled at short notice.
Then informed it was still available 2 hours after it was scheduled...aaggh

Now told at short notice it's this Saturday....but it's a small staff & strict rota at work, so I'm having to rearrange it again... :banghead:

Others then that everything's hunky dory.

So I try not to sweat the small stuff....

the big stuff squeezes any potential sweat out of me first..:hilarious:

Namaste all.
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What a rabble of nuisances. Fingers crossed for your Saturday appointment. Keep the shiny side up.
 
Need to get back to normal for me. Son2 arriving tomorrow evening and not even made the bed yet.
So fed up with contradictory advice about legalities and insurance. So stressed with driving. Being MrSlim's taxi is exhausting. But according to some friends its not neccessary... changing our licences isn't required....confused much.

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We did take professional advice about the driving license situation. So maybe it's the "knowledgeable" friends who are talking out of their ****( lack of information). Either way, I was hoping for a bit of sympathy and support, but all I got was a lot of "you don't need to do that." ..implying that we are taking a wrong course of action and uneccessarily complicating our lives.
Of course it's all because of Bloody Brexit.
 
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jjraak said:
Evening all.

Oh @gennepher that Berlin wall spells trouble.

I do hope the neighbour takes some action once the first highish winds rattle that fence about.

@Lamont D , fascinating post re Berlin.

No fbg, not back testing yet.

Still much going on.

Retinopathy check check today, all good on T2D front, but damage to left eye more pronounced.

Appointment at eye hospital end of month, trying not to worry too much about the outcome.
Leaning into its rectifiable, going by opticians when testing previously...please God.

Others tests still ongoing.

A needed MRI scan for deteriorating knee is becoming a farce.

Appointment given, then cancelled at short notice.
Then informed it was still available 2 hours after it was scheduled...aaggh

Now told at short notice it's this Saturday....but it's a small staff & strict rota at work, so I'm having to rearrange it again... :banghead:

Others then that everything's hunky dory.

So I try not to sweat the small stuff....

the big stuff squeezes any potential sweat out of me first..:hilarious:

Namaste all.
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When I had prostate cancer twenty years ago I had to see a consultant at Guildford privately to get radical treatment.

Carlisle made me pay for a MRI I needed for the visit anyway. The Consultant at Guildford referred me for Radiotherapy at Newcastle within two days. The scan was used by Dr Pedley at Newcastle General who was a great guy and I got NHS treatment at the General.

Carlisle had a policy of not giving prostate cancer radical treatment. They had no machine to do it but wouldn't send men to Newcastle. Now they can treat with more sophisticated linacs at Carlisle.

You would not realised I had worked for some time as my retirement job at Carlisle as a Chief Technologist working on radiotherapy kit for nine years a few years before. I knew their oncologist.
Had I not been a fighter I would have died years ago.

I had inherited genes through my mother that caused deaths by prostate cancer for two uncles and two cousins and the cousins were much younger than I am.
D.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Scared of spiders? I'm not and neither was my daughter. She used to name them and handle them quite happily until her first day at school where she apparently learned nothing except that girls are scared of spiders and scream if they see one. She is stikl lije this today. Mu of tbree daughters to pass the inappropriate response to. So annoying
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Peer pressure has a lot to answer for. We have a large spider having the time of it’s life in our sitting room. I have named it Eric (small body and long legs so probably male). We have had quite a few during the past few weeks but it is their mating season. Eric seems to have decided to stay on. Should we charge rent?
 
dunelm said:
Peer pressure has a lot to answer for. We have a large spider having the time of it’s life in our sitting room. I have named it Eric (small body and long legs so probably male). We have had quite a few during the past few weeks but it is their mating season. Eric seems to have decided to stay on. Should we charge rent?
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A few years ago I had a chunky spider on my bedroom ceiling that I named Boris. I took loads of photos of her. Occasionally she went in the bathroom. But a couple of years later Boris disappeared for good. I missed Boris...

This inset is from when I found Boris all bunched up in Popeye's bucket of water. I rescued her, and she climbed my bedroom walls back on the ceiling and lived another year.....

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Good morning everyone on a bright, sunny yet quite cold start to bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this am. Caught up with a couple of friends that we have not seen for quite some time. A very pleasant four hours in a pub we used to frequent when work and keeping an eye on the time seemed important. Today I will get a bag down from where bags are stored in readiness to pack next Tuesday for my trip over to Bordeaux on Wednesday. Just an under seat bag but I need to get it down while I think about it or I may forget! Best check with the airport as well to see what the latest bonkers rules are regarding liquids, electronic devices, shoes, belts, preferred pronouns and so called flying etiquette. Pretty sure that life was so much easier and travel so much more reliable in ‘the olden days’ before the turn of the century, when the thin societal glue finally washed away and societies began the slow and painful slide into the primordial sludge foretold in Animal Farm. Still, we have grandparent duties today - so all is well in our tiny bubble as long as we don’t turn the heating on or dive into that emergence 20 year old tin of Spam. Art bit, onwards and upwards. I hope your day gives you some joy, I shall finish my koffy and go for a walk in the pale sunshine. Humbug! ;)


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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a bright, sunny yet quite cold start to bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this am. Caught up with a couple of friends that we have not seen for quite some time. A very pleasant four hours in a pub we used to frequent when work and keeping an eye on the time seemed important. Today I will get a bag down from where bags are stored in readiness to pack next Tuesday for my trip over to Bordeaux on Wednesday. Just an under seat bag but I need to get it down while I think about it or I may forget! Best check with the airport as well to see what the latest bonkers rules are regarding liquids, electronic devices, shoes, belts, preferred pronouns and so called flying etiquette. Pretty sure that life was so much easier and travel so much more reliable in ‘the olden days’ before the turn of the century, when the thin societal glue finally washed away and societies began the slow and painful slide into the primordial sludge foretold in Animal Farm. Still, we have grandparent duties today - so all is well in our tiny bubble as long as we don’t turn the heating on or dive into that emergence 20 year old tin of Spam. Art bit, onwards and upwards. I hope your day gives you some joy, I shall finish my koffy and go for a walk in the pale sunshine. Humbug! ;)


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Brilliant. I love this sketch. It radiates peace @dunelm
 
Fbg 6.7



Yesterday I conferred with some friends in England.
Their advice was the same as my thoughts.

Mr Berlin Wall Xmas Lights neighbour's bungalow was up for sale when I moved here 20 years ago, and he has been trying to sell his bungalow ever since. But it never sells. Every year or so the For Sale signs go up for a year or so, sometimes signs from 2 or 3 estate agents. Then the next year he tries again with different estate agents. I think he has run out of estate agents now....


Wildlife nighttime camera
#ukwildlife
Badger gets on the swing!!! And looks in the trail camera.
This is Pa Badger. His son, Boy Badger, tries but fails.
1min


Creative...
The Magic Tree
I need some magic...

Have your best day.

Time for a cuppa.

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Another spider in my bedroom last night but I caught it and put it out using my spider vacuum. This phobia is not one I picked up at school. I had it from a very young age - well before I started school. It wasn't helped when my grandfather - a kindly and well meaning man, played a silly trick on me. I was given a cup of tea flavoured milk and was just lifting it to my lips when he tossed a dark green "spider" (I thought) from a tomato (can't for the moment think what that part is called) into my cup. Everyone thought it was funny when I panicked and threw the cup of tea away from me then burst into tears. I was not yet three years old and have never forgotten that moment of sheer terror.
 
5.7 this morning. I did wonder if having both jabs on Tuesday would raise fbgs - but am really pleased that it did not.
Dog walk and Aldi shop done. Coffee drunk. A friend, who is a hairdresser, is popping in later to give us both a quick trim. Then must catch up with admin and of course more coffee.
 
gennepher said:
A few years ago I had a chunky spider on my bedroom ceiling that I named Boris. I took loads of photos of her. Occasionally she went in the bathroom. But a couple of years later Boris disappeared for good. I missed Boris...

This inset is from when I found Boris all bunched up in Popeye's bucket of water. I rescued her, and she climbed my bedroom walls back on the ceiling and lived another year.....

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Good name for a spider. I believe that female giant house spiders can life for several years but could be wrong.
 
Annb said:
Another spider in my bedroom last night but I caught it and put it out using my spider vacuum. This phobia is not one I picked up at school. I had it from a very young age - well before I started school. It wasn't helped when my grandfather - a kindly and well meaning man, played a silly trick on me. I was given a cup of tea flavoured milk and was just lifting it to my lips when he tossed a dark green "spider" (I thought) from a tomato (can't for the moment think what that part is called) into my cup. Everyone thought it was funny when I panicked and threw the cup of tea away from me then burst into tears. I was not yet three years old and have never forgotten that moment of sheer terror.
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Our friends years ago were a youngish couple and she played a trick on her husband with a cut tomato top which she had in her hand. She held it up to him and said look a spider and opened her hand and he jumped back over the easy chair he was sitting in, she knew he was arachnophobic. She was really sorry she did it.
 
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