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FBG yesterday sunday 5.3
FBG 5.8
After several days resting have decided I need to be Nike and just do it. Whatever needs doing. However rubbish I am feeling. I have a visitor coming on Wednesday so really need to tidy and clean up. Plan to bake some biscuits as well.
MrSlim is possibly going to put up feature wallpaper in our bedroom today, which will cause considerable disruption, probably requiring us to temporarily sleep elsewhere. He will also probably need assistance, thus putting my plans for the day on hold. ...
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a bright-n-breezy L.A. where world cup cricket final day meets 10 person family lunch on the Eve of an 11th birthday for #1 grandson. Cast list ranges in age from 2 to almost 94. Thanks be to God that I'm here for that and we are blessed to share his grace and mercy. Pork shoulder all round - no crackling for 2 and almost 94 year olds please. @jjraak hug for the injuries and prayers for healing. @lindisfel I hope the antibiotics are working without transit issues. @dunelm thank you so much for sharing the art. Those finishing touches always elevate things so much. No blinis or bolderbols means no jackanapes just nibbles. Enjoy your day - Virat is in early so I need to concentrate.
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Thank you @ianpspurs and also for clearing up the mystery of those odd words for nibbles.
 
Annb said:
7.5 at 0230 today and up to 8.8 before breakfast. Insulin before breakfast and now it is 6.3.

Visited an old friend yesterday afternoon. She lives about 25 miles away in the Lochs area of the Island and isn't able to get out these days after a great deal of ill health, several falls and a car crash when she passed out at the wheel. She's a bit more than a year younger than me, but not wearing so well (;)as if I'm as fit as a younger person). I couldn't get there myself so my always-so-helpful friend took me in her car. We had a pleasant couple of hours together but I was completely shattered by the time I was delivered home again. Didn't help that my old friend has four steps down from the road, into her garden. I knew they were there so was prepared, but it wasn't easy to get down (and later up) the steps.

BG was 4.5 by the time I got into the house, so had a RyVita with some liver pate to keep within range. Then it actually rose to 8.8 before bed time. Not surprised at the 7.5 this morning.
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Friends just are. She will be so pleased that you are there for her.
 
Annb said:
2 or 3 houses around here have Christmas lights all over them, as well. Maybe their days/nights need to be brightened up, or maybe they're just showing their neighbours how to do it. Who knows? As long as it makes them happy... and doesn't impinge on me, or anyone else, of course.

Just folded piles of washing ready to go away and have put more in the machines to refill the baskets. Not much of a chore, but my legs and back are complaining about it. Ah well. Short rest, maybe another cup of tea, and onwards with the huge list of things to be done. Next one is emptying and moving the position of a couple of bookshelves to get some bigger books in. Not going to enjoy that, but I will enjoy the finished job. While there, I will inspect the furniture and see if there's anything I can dispose of.

One thing I have got rid of is a pile of books - one complete set of hardback Patrick O'Brien novels, sold on ebay, and a couple of boxes of miscellaneous tomes to the one remaining charity shop which will accept books. Seems few people buy 2nd hand books these days. Don't know how else to get rid of them. I hate the thought of just burning them, even though they would be providing some heat if I did. Could be broken up and put into the recycling, I suppose, but I don't like that idea either. The ones I have got rid of have hardly made a dent in the overall number we have here. I've never counted them but there must be more than a couple of thousand. Even Neil, who speed reads, will never get through all those. I did get rid of some cookery books but there's still about 150 of those - none of which I use because I never stick to a recipe, except for baking. So that's a possibility, if I can get the charity shop to take them.

EDIT: Then there's a huge collection of LP's, DVD's, CD's, cassettes and videos which Tom kept. I haven't even looked at those for the last 7 years. My own collection is much smaller and takes up very little space.

The main problem, though, is furniture. How can I get rid of the 150 year old chaise long which sat under Tom's family window for the first 100 years of it's life? Or the Cherrywood box that Tom's great grandfather made? Or the little mahogany table from the same house? Or the cut-down settee that came from some big house in the Highlands and was given to Tom's great aunt as a settee, too big for the little house she and her new husband had. It was old when the chaise was new and is a family character all by itself. It's part of the family's history.

I know, and it has been said on this thread, that when I am gone, nobody will want it and it will, possibly, get thrown out ignominiously, but I can't bear to do it.
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It’s an issue, letting go of things and my parents went though similar 10 or so years ago. Mum was stoic about it, “it’s just stuff” but it’s also memories and dad found it difficult, especially with the thousands of books, LP’s and tapes. My mum is currently parting with quite a lot of artwork that she had painted through the years and didn’t want to sell (or didn’t sell) and also the art recovered from my sisters house after she died. She still has bits of fine thread crochet work, each with a hook inserted at the place where the unfinished piece was left after my granny died - memories. But it’s only stuff. All the best with it.
 
gennepher said:
Am late today...

Fbg 6.6

I have been reading/investigating more into this FODMAP way of eating.
It does explain stuff that I didn't understand why it was so, and stuff I've read so far makes sense to and for me.

Fennel Tea is still helping...

Absolutely pouring with rain here....where does all this water come from?
It's windy as well.


Nighttime wildlife camera
Cat watches Fox & Badger - Badger eats berries off the bush
51secs


Creative - an old digital painting I never finished, and some old digital photos which I superimposed over each other, and this is the result...

Time for a nap....

A cuppa first...

I hope you are having your best day...

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Well that turned out into a very splendid piece, I like the transition from the very obvious ground, up into a sky with those hints of vegetation. Smashing.
 
SlimLizzy said:
FBG yesterday sunday 5.3
FBG 5.8
After several days resting have decided I need to be Nike and just do it. Whatever needs doing. However rubbish I am feeling. I have a visitor coming on Wednesday so really need to tidy and clean up. Plan to bake some biscuits as well.
MrSlim is possibly going to put up feature wallpaper in our bedroom today, which will cause considerable disruption, probably requiring us to temporarily sleep elsewhere. He will also probably need assistance, thus putting my plans for the day on hold. ...
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Can’t you insist that he helps to make the important biscuits instead? :angelic:
 
Good morning everyone on a distinctly nithering start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Good catch up with some old army pals in Harrogate yesterday - we have been brothers since the 1960’s. My pal from LA was over so a good excuse. He is staying with us now until Wednesday when he returns home - via Frankfurt of all places as they have a bit of property there and are flogging some of it. It’s exhausting just thinking about all that flying about in long thin cigar tubes. Art bit, quick splodge of ink - a study of another work. Will add some colour to it later on this afternoon. In the meantime, there is koffy.


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Morening Ladies and Gentlemen

A self induced at 2:00 am snacket resulting in a 7.6 this morning.

Therefore today will be spent hiding in my shed / workshop sucking my thumb and crying mummy.

Now if nobody minds bye bye
And have a great day.
 
6.8 this wet and windy, garden full of foliage again manic Monday.
Already made three phone calls and not even thought about going shops, chores are in abeyance. I've put washing machine on. But there is all more to do. Everything is happening Thursday, it just is!

Gotta go.
Sir Patrick is spilling beans.
 
Morning all from a dry and mild L.A. Hive thermostat showed 18C (+2 from target) at 6.40 this morning and 21 (+3) last evening with no heating on all day. Today is both the Feast day of St Edmund King of the East Angles and our grandson's 11th birthday. By chance yesterday's family meal offered the opportunity to celebrate both.11 years ago I was still working, both my parents were alive and living in Breckland wasn't even my wildest fever dream. Within 6 months both parents died and things changed - gives one pause (I've never heard anyone say that) The O/T passage for today from Isaiah does resonate in terms of the pooh show all 7 grandchildren have been born into. Very similar rupture between the ways of God and running of this nation (and the City on a hill one) - awful mess as a consequence both times. The family meal yesterday was wonderful so the tag line from Isaiah (Izaayer round here) but his hand is stretched out still is so apt personally. (There is a theme here) Turkeys are on the shelves here since Thursday is Thanksgiving - interestingly so much more sensibly priced than they will be next month. We have a wreath on the front door so we blend in but I'm not about to wear fatiques. @lindisfel take it easy. @SlimLizzy don't be too Nike and that French phrase is so accurate. @Krystyna23040 that phrase for raining is very NFN in my experience - although hosing down (whoseing) is also popular. @dunelm yesterday sounds just the ticket for all of you. Thanks for sharing the art. Not sure this finds you as it left me but what's done is done and cannot be undone eh Lady M?
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a distinctly nithering start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Good catch up with some old army pals in Harrogate yesterday - we have been brothers since the 1960’s. My pal from LA was over so a good excuse. He is staying with us now until Wednesday when he returns home - via Frankfurt of all places as they have a bit of property there and are flogging some of it. It’s exhausting just thinking about all that flying about in long thin cigar tubes. Art bit, quick splodge of ink - a study of another work. Will add some colour to it later on this afternoon. In the meantime, there is koffy.


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I wonder where the colour will go @dunelm
Hope the coffee was good...
 
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