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ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a ch-ch-ch-changes day here in L.A. To be sure this isn't the Kingdom but in the meantime we can have some probity and competence while we wait. My aunt will be laid to rest today but no funeral. I had a long conversation with her daughter and completely agree with the way she and her sister will organise things. Very tasteful and dignified final journey along a route passing all the important places in her life with only the closest family including her only living sibling. Burial next to her husband and other daughter. Sad demise and part of an enquiry into care home deaths. Later I must report to CUH - Addenbrookes - to be bled, weighed and told, well this is a mess Mr P - No whatsit Sherlock. But we can continue managing the major issue again starting next Thursday. @dunelm thanks for sharing the very solid wall - not even Sir Ed D will break through that. Enjoy graduation - Ede and Ravenscroft are very busy I happen to know. While that grinning Jackanapes Farage is still about there will be a nasty edge to life but the Greens have as many seats so keep him off our TV screens please. Enjoy your own funky Friday - I need more tea. God bless and keep you all now and always.
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Sad about your Aunt @ianpspurs
My condolences.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a ch-ch-ch-changes day here in L.A. To be sure this isn't the Kingdom but in the meantime we can have some probity and competence while we wait. My aunt will be laid to rest today but no funeral. I had a long conversation with her daughter and completely agree with the way she and her sister will organise things. Very tasteful and dignified final journey along a route passing all the important places in her life with only the closest family including her only living sibling. Burial next to her husband and other daughter. Sad demise and part of an enquiry into care home deaths. Later I must report to CUH - Addenbrookes - to be bled, weighed and told, well this is a mess Mr P - No whatsit Sherlock. But we can continue managing the major issue again starting next Thursday. @dunelm thanks for sharing the very solid wall - not even Sir Ed D will break through that. Enjoy graduation - Ede and Ravenscroft are very busy I happen to know. While that grinning Jackanapes Farage is still about there will be a nasty edge to life but the Greens have as many seats so keep him off our TV screens please. Enjoy your own funky Friday - I need more tea. God bless and keep you all now and always.
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Very sad what happened to your aunt but what a lovely way her daughter has chosen to say the final goodbye to her.

Hope your day goes well.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a ch-ch-ch-changes day here in L.A. To be sure this isn't the Kingdom but in the meantime we can have some probity and competence while we wait. My aunt will be laid to rest today but no funeral. I had a long conversation with her daughter and completely agree with the way she and her sister will organise things. Very tasteful and dignified final journey along a route passing all the important places in her life with only the closest family including her only living sibling. Burial next to her husband and other daughter. Sad demise and part of an enquiry into care home deaths. Later I must report to CUH - Addenbrookes - to be bled, weighed and told, well this is a mess Mr P - No whatsit Sherlock. But we can continue managing the major issue again starting next Thursday. @dunelm thanks for sharing the very solid wall - not even Sir Ed D will break through that. Enjoy graduation - Ede and Ravenscroft are very busy I happen to know. While that grinning Jackanapes Farage is still about there will be a nasty edge to life but the Greens have as many seats so keep him off our TV screens please. Enjoy your own funky Friday - I need more tea. God bless and keep you all now and always.
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Sad time for you, Ian but it sounds like a very dignified way to say goodbye to her.

Sorry for the ongoing problems with healthcare, but hopefully things will get better from Thursday.
 
BG on the high side still at 8.5 and climbing. In the 9's after breakfast despite a significant dose of insulin.

Our election result won't come in until very late - maybe even Monday. The votes have to be collected from the various islands in the constituency and brought - usually to Stornoway - for counting. If they don't all get here by fairly early on Saturday, they won't be counted until Monday. At least that's how it worked out last time. Of course, they could decide to ignore the Sabbath and do the counting then. I don't suppose they will though - too controversial.

There's doubt this time about which way the vote will go. Our previous MP split from the SNP and stood as an independent. The SNP fielded another candidate, so that will split the SNP vote. The Islands were strong Labour supporters in the recent past so it may well fall into Labour's lap. Time will tell.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning pop pickers on an all things bright and beautiful if windy start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.8 this a.m. and I expect that some folk will be viewing the day through rose tinted glasses and as someone in the blue team said last night as he fell on his sword, today will be like “a bunch of bald men arguing over a comb.” Enough of that transient stuff. The spectacular for today is the news that we will be going to witness the graduation ceremony of The Girl In The Bubble and teeny chums from pre-school. I got the whole inside story yesterday afternoon; “you shake the hand of the teacher grandad, get your certificate and then sit back down on the benches.” - No mention of the cost of hiring gowns or where the alumni booze up will be taking place afterwards. I suppose we will be footing the bill for graduation lunch and then probably an ice cream 99. Art bit, this has taken a bit of time. I hope your day is a sunny one and that folk in Scotland especially will feel OK about what comes next. My cafetière is calling out for a refil.
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Not to be rude or critical...........
Is it finished?
A lot of work has gone into it........
Apologies, but is it a megalith or a monumental thingy, a side of a mountain?
It is very good.
Be kind.
Bht, I need to know....
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Nighttime wildlife video
Badgers & Foxes & Cats
41secs

Creative...Kaleidoscope...using Laboscope...from my garden...from my rubber mats on the ground (that stop me slipping) with weeds growing through, and the bit of white in the middle is white dead nettle flowers, and some dried twigs which make the middle pattern...

Got to play catch up today...

But a nap first (was awake half the night!) ...and a cuppa...

Saw one of the nighttime black cats in the daytime for the first time yesterday, he has been on the nighttime videos for months and often sits at the other end of the swing to Midnight. He was a big cat, but had a tatty battle scared face, and looked starving. He looked at me and did the slow blink thing, and I got off the swing to feed him, but a black ball of fury (Midnight) came charging along and said 'ABSOLUTELY NOT' and sent him packing...
Somehow I will try to feed him later today...but the birds, blackbirds, and that magpie can get Jade's breakfast before she turns up. It's dried biscuits in a dish if the cat is not immediately present in daytime, but wet food if the cat comes and personally asks for it.

Have a great day....

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Smashing - in the green, in the green
 
Lamont D said:
Not to be rude or critical...........
Is it finished?
A lot of work has gone into it........
Apologies, but is it a megalith or a monumental thingy, a side of a mountain?
It is very good.
Be kind.
Bht, I need to know....
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Thank you @Lamont D - it might have been something previously seen that popped into my head that I sketched out in outline but no idea really - probably a rock face.
 
6.4 and a very good morning to you all, even though it's aftrrnoon.

First of all @ianpspurs, hope the day is a reminder of our vulnerability, and you find peace with your loss, and your on going issues with your own issues, keep battling mate.

There isn't a blue MP within if not more than 50 miles of my constituency, not one at all in my metropolitan county. All red.
No blue in Wales, only two pliad cymru.
The more interesting info, is who came second?
Well it was greens here, but in others, ref...! were next, to overwhelming majoritys of red.
The blues were blown away in a lot places.
And in my opinion rightly so!
Let us hope and pray (Behave you lot) that our new PM can get things moving quickly and make a difference.
It will take time tho!

Spent most of the morning in the sunshine, in the front garden one of the bushes needed a trim, grass got cut, and weeding done.
Just a thought, no rain, no cold wind, lovely sunshine, a nice summer's day. Pleasantly warm.
It's as if the weather has improved for some reason!!!!!!!
It wasn't forecast?????

I have done too much, again!
Had a sneezing fit, it hurt my neck, but with the work I had done.
And my hand has been locking my fingers and thumb, after holding a tool.


Mrs L is behaving by having a long nap from mid morning till about a couple of hours ago.
Unfortunately, as you lot will be aware, as soon as my back is turned, that is when the little things happen and of course, believing that Mrs L is not in her sixties, her ability on her own, is not as good as it was many years ago.
No advice from anyone sinks in. No assistance necessary to be mobile, until it does.

Just a final utterance, whilst in early hours seeing the first results come in, Mrs L, stated that her Nan would be disgusted with the results.
Of course, her Nan always voted blue.
For that moment, Mrs L was back to when her Nan was alive.
And, you could see in her demeanour, that she was back as she looked at me.
She does seem to be passing into her past, to refrain from thinking of her grief. That refuses to budge.

Have an enjoyable weekend.
My best wishes to you lot as per.

We will keep the red flag flying......
 
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