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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this a.m. and already washing is on the line, the twins have breakfasted and are now dressed and busy arguing about whose apple is the juiciest. Food festival yesterday should have been renamed “who can park a car like a ****”. Events and beauty spots nowadays seem to be like attractive crops for plagues of locusts. Anyhow, £9 for a hot dog - look away kids! Most things on offer either big sticky buns or something shoved into a massive lump of carbs. Ice creams down on the beach - more again today. The grandchildren want to go down through the woods this morning - excellent - then onto the lower prom - buckets and spades in hand. Best make a picnic. I think that grandma is taking them into the big town for new sandals later today - very exciting. Art bit - a brace of tree. Enjoy your day if you can in spite of any distress. I shall make koffy and get on with the picnic making.
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Love the tree and shading @dunelm
Have a great day...
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from what promises to be a sunny day here in L.A.. I know not my fbg since I doubt the steroid and antibiotic fuelled level would help me in managing The D going forward one jot or tittle. @Annb hug for the leg issue: busy day organised in your head - have a Jess Glynne song. @Krystyna23040 I hope you and Mr K have a wonderful time with your daughter and grandchildren. @dunelm enjoy the joy, wonder and hope those girls will bring: yes, there will be a trade off in tiredness - blame Adam and Eve's bad choices. @gennepher thoughts and prayers with you in this warm/hot spell. Steroids reliably woke me at 4.12 am so that I could organise P world ready for JKP to go collect two amazing, life affirming grandchildren from Cambs by 7.00 am. The D and Elsie Keto suck: not as much as BP and the Big C but God has a way of cutting through life’s bucket of carp and just now those two children will do nicely thank you. Enjoy Monday if at all possible. Now excuse me as I must vacuum (whose idea was it to have two dogs JKP?), hopefully without waking MIL.
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Hope you also have a lovely day with your grandchildren @ianpspurs
 
lindisfel said:
I was hoping my scan was a clear indication I have not got Lewi body. Its not definitive
however, I am going to have to admit it now looks like learning new stuff is a problem.
How long we will manage without family help up here is difficult to guess.
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Extra hugs for you @lindisfel

I am a great believer in believing the best can happen. I would not have got this far In life otherwise, with my problems.
I do worry about the future being on my own, but it doesn't help worrying.
Live every day as best you can.
Find joy in every minute you can.
Take care Derek
 
gennepher said:
Extra hugs for you @lindisfel

I am a great believer in believing the best can happen. I would not have got this far In life otherwise, with my problems.
I do worry about the future being on my own, but it doesn't help worrying.
Live every day as best you can.
Find joy in every minute you can.
Take care Derek
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Thank you, gennenpher, your a great exemplar for us all.
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
I was hoping my scan was a clear indication I have not got Lewi body. Its not definitive
however, I am going to have to admit it now looks like learning new stuff is a problem.
How long we will manage without family help up here is difficult to guess.
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It's a bitter pill to swallow but, if you can, try to stay optimistic. Worrying doesn't help anything but planning might. Worth trying to future proof things, if that is possible, but try not to let potential problems get in the way of the here and now. We didn't know about Lewey bodies until very late in the day and it came as a shock when we were told that Tom was suffering from it so we didn't make provision until it was very late and then it was rushed. We got by though but did have help, especially from Neil.

Thinking of you frequently and praying for your health to stabilise at least.
 
dunelm said:
Broad beans - such a faff for so little reward - French beans - blanch a bit, drain, bit of olive oil, grated parmesan and into the salad.
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Am growing two types of French bean this year. The ordinary Haricot Vert and for the first time also growing Haricot Buerre. Very different from the English Butter Bean.
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Yes, they really are that yellow.
MrSlim is still in a lot of pain so nearly all preparations for the viewing tomorrow morning have been added to my job list
 
Bit of a saga with bg 2.9 at 3:30 AM then back up to 4.8 an hour later the 3.8 and now 4.4 just been one of those nights.
Have started the day with abdominal pain and diarrhoea hope it’s not going to be one of those days lucky that I had some Imodium to take so things easing up now.
Over a sometime I have been getting this at random times just put it down to the randomness of life but then when they removed the polyp the other week they discovered diverticoli I am wondering if it has been mild diverticulitis all along so will up my fibre intake a bit and see if that helps.
 
Annb said:
It's a bitter pill to swallow but, if you can, try to stay optimistic. Worrying doesn't help anything but planning might. Worth trying to future proof things, if that is possible, but try not to let potential problems get in the way of the here and now. We didn't know about Lewey bodies until very late in the day and it came as a shock when we were told that Tom was suffering from it so we didn't make provision until it was very late and then it was rushed. We got by though but did have help, especially from Neil.

Thinking of you frequently and praying for your health to stabilise at least.
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Thank you Ann. All of the prayers from friends are precious.
Thanks
Derek
 
@gennepher and @dunelm thank you both for sharing your creative talents. @JohnEGreen hug for the issues with your transit system. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you as always. Perhaps my signature may be of use in working through God's way forward for you and Marjorie. I seem to have been blessed with the time to share with my boys and get my "ducks in a row" for JKP many aren't so blessed. You also have some time and a similarly loving family. God bless you both now and always.
 
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ianpspurs said:
@gennepher and @dunelm thank you both for sharing your creative talents. @JohnEGreen hug for the issues with your transit system. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you as always. Perhaps my signature may be of use in working through God's way forward for you and Marjorie. I seem to have been blessed with the time to share with my boys and get my "ducks in a row" for JKP many aren't so blessed. You also have some time and a similarly loving family. God bless you both now and always.
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Thank you Ian, you have much in the way of Christian encouragement.
I remember this forum a year ago when I was clearer thinking before the clouds came in.
Agape/ shalom.
Derek
 
ianpspurs said:
@gennepher and @dunelm thank you both for sharing your creative talents. @JohnEGreen hug for the issues with your transit system. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you as always. Perhaps my signature may be of use in working through God's way forward for you and Marjorie. I seem to have been blessed with the time to share with my boys and get my "ducks in a row" for JKP many aren't so blessed. You also have some time and a similarly loving family. God bless you both now and always.
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Thank you @ianpspurs for appreciating the art we do...
 
Very hot here. Sweat pouring off me. Cannot drink enough water...need to get my ice maker going again today....
Thunderstorms due on Thursday...I hope it includes rain with it...
Relocating the kitchen garden (what's left of it from the badgers from the back garden, although the tree kale and the tree cabbage will stay in the back because that takes care of itself and it is well rooted) to the wall by the kitchen door. It's raised off the ground quite a bit (I did have some stuff to go to the tip, but I don't have the energy without help, and so covered some it, and raised the new kitchen garden that way) and will be barricaded in by a metal fireguard (I won't finish this off today, but I have made a good start and my brain has found some brain cells and is working out the next step.
So, much easier to water from the kitchen door.
There was already wet soil in the containers and very large bins. I just moved some soil and worms from my depleted wormery, then later this evening I have to cover the wormery with the plastic covered chicken wire stuff...
Then found some nasturtiums that had self seeded.
I might add a bit of my hanging gardens of Babylon for tomatoes etc for next year...

In meantime I need water and a nap..

I also have a problem where the badger appears to be breaking the new cat flap I installed in the kitchen door. Pieces have been broken off...
I have been thinking about this for a few days.
Several solutions have cropped up, mostly including another fireguard, which I already have for when I was trying to keep the beasties off the swing ...and failed...the badgers just got cleverer...

My goal now is to keep the badgers totally out of that section of the side passage by the kitchen door...
 
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SlimLizzy said:
Am growing two types of French bean this year. The ordinary Haricot Vert and for the first time also growing Haricot Buerre. Very different from the English Butter Bean.
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Yes, they really are that yellow.
MrSlim is still in a lot of pain so nearly all preparations for the viewing tomorrow morning have been added to my job list
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Smashing beans which look as though you might graze on them. Is Mr Slim getting enough sleep with those painful ribs.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.1

Nighttime wildlife video
Badger (is he missing the cats?)....and then chewing (?) up my mats...
This is Pa Badger, from last year, who is doing the extreme stretching in the beginning of the video.
He always tended to do this kind of stretch...but this is the most extreme I have seen him doing it...
47secs


Badgers were having a party last night, and destroyed one of my smaller sun colourful beach parasols protecting my vegetable gardens from the sun. I cannot take them down each evening, it is just too much for me.
I hadn't quite finished my protection with plastic covered wire fencing to make a cover for the second wormery. I was too tired in the very warm day yesterday, and so I left it until today.
Alas the badgers made their one last foray into that second wormery (the size of a large black dustbin), and ate a third of the worms...a few thousand worms?
I get the ground is hard, no proper rain for some time, and so they are in destructive mode trying to find food.
Anyway I'll finish it off in a minute before the day gets too hot.

Creative...ink blots...what to do today, since my last brain cell is on strike...er...a something or other for absolutely no reason at all...

Sun is out.
Clear blue skies.
Have your best day.


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Naughty badgers but the drive for food will be strong. Well that is different - wonderful illustration worthy of any book - probably of poetry for the younger reader.
 
dunelm said:
Naughty badgers but the drive for food will be strong. Well that is different - wonderful illustration worthy of any book - probably of poetry for the younger reader.
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Yes, the drive for food is strong for the badgers @dunelm

Just having a bit of fun with the inblots for a few days.
I have ordered some new Kuratake paints and pens for me for me. No, I don't need any more...but these I have ordered are a special late birthday treat for myself...who else is going to treat me!!!!
 
lindisfel said:
I was hoping my scan was a clear indication I have not got Lewi body. Its not definitive
however, I am going to have to admit it now looks like learning new stuff is a problem.
How long we will manage without family help up here is difficult to guess.
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I might think to prepare for the worst outcome and enjoy each and every day, one day at a time. Photographs and notes, a diary perhaps. Life is wonderful, tell yourself about it.
 
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