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dunelm said:
Pork chops getting a grilling - hopefully not like a scene in Basic Instinct.
“Smithereens," first appearing in English in 1829 as "smiddereens," is likely derived from the Irish word smidirín or smidiríní, meaning "fragment." [I did look it up]
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another question this one to do with sport..........
when did it become fashionable for men to shave their armpits?
And I'm not talking about the swimmers, as they shave everything!!!!
 
Lamont D said:
another question this one to do with sport..........
when did it become fashionable for men to shave their armpits?
And I'm not talking about the swimmers, as they shave everything!!!!
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Tight ski outfits? Luge - spray on suits? The best a man can get advert cash? Baywatch - that blooming Hof?
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg was 7.1...I think...

I had a couple of messages to do this morning,and a parcel I was expecting late this week came yesterday, and so I decided to go and pick that up.
But I was late in leaving as I didn't have a good night. So, by the time I got back, I needed lunch and an afternoon siesta...

So no time now to experiment with my new brushes and stuff...and so Creative is a side shoot of teasel against the blue sky shot with Laboscope...I rather like it...

Nighttime wild life video
A Badger & then a Fox jumps up on the swing
24secs

Time for an afternoon coffee...
Have your best kind of day...
Mine is taking it easy for the rest of the day...

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I rather like it also @gennepher.
Hope you did take it easy for the rest of the day.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg was 7.1...I think...

I had a couple of messages to do this morning,and a parcel I was expecting late this week came yesterday, and so I decided to go and pick that up.
But I was late in leaving as I didn't have a good night. So, by the time I got back, I needed lunch and an afternoon siesta...

So no time now to experiment with my new brushes and stuff...and so Creative is a side shoot of teasel against the blue sky shot with Laboscope...I rather like it...

Nighttime wild life video
A Badger & then a Fox jumps up on the swing
24secs

Time for an afternoon coffee...
Have your best kind of day...
Mine is taking it easy for the rest of the day...

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Smashing - I like it also
 
I'm flummoxed.

I picked up my parcel today. It was a wheelie bin crusher...for the contents not the actual wheelie bin.we've been told it's definitely every 3 weeks for the rubbish wheelie bin, but apparently they were trying to pass it being every 4 weeks only they hadn't filled in some forms or whatever so could only pass it for every 3 weeks for the moment. I picked it up from Argos pick up point. Came home and left it on the floor to put it together tomorrow. I am not sure it will work well enough...I bought the self assembly model...cheaper.

But then I got a message this afternoon saying that Evri had been unable to deliver my parcel. Well they had...to Argos, and I had picked it up. Then another message from Evri saying they had tried to deliver it this morning but I was not in. But it is on the same tracking number as this wheelie crusher. Anyway I opened up the Evri app to see if there was a photo of the delivery to Argos. Well there was, my wheelie crusher in a brown box, and a large thing wrapped in grey plastic on top of my wheelie crusher. So that was the photo that had been taken by Evri on Monday morning. So I checked the bits in my brown box and it was all present and correct. No mention of a second parcel.

Evri, all this automated, (no way of contacting or emailing anyone at this point on the app), insists they need further instructions to deliver this item. So I fill in for it to go to Argos, but it was there on Monday in the photograph (I have checked, I am not owing any packages from eBay, the only thing I use for Argos click and collect), and there is no one I know that would or could send me anything via Argos. And the app refused to let me send it back to Argos. But I am curious, what is this parcel. So, finally I managed to get this parcel (is it mythical, is it real?) sent to my home address. I said I wouldn't be in and to leave it at my safe place. That way I don't get frustrated listening out, or watching out rather, for a parcel.

So, is this parcel real, is it imaginary, is it a mistake?
Who knows...will I find out tomorrow, or will it forever remain a mystery and not arrive...
 
JohnEGreen said:
5.3 this morning at 5:30 am.
I have an appointment with a Tissue Viability Nurse later today at the GP’s surgery as the wound on my back remains stubbornly unwilling to heal and the nurse who has been sorting out the dressings feels she needs someone with more experience of wound management to have a look at it.
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Are you getting sufficient Vitamin C and zinc from food? @JohnEGreen.

Do you like raspberries or blackberries? If so, I'd incorporate some into your meals, every day. They are low in fructose so won't raise your blood glucose much, yet provide plenty of vitamin C, manganese and some zinc, all of which you need to help heal your wound. Avocados are also a good source,

Even a slight deficiency of any of these nutrients can delay wound healing and of course your diabetes doesn't help.

Btw, this Summer, there's a bumper crop of wild blackberries to be foraged for free!


Tuesday's FBG, 4.5 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Thank you @gennepher for sharing another fascinating nighttime video and a teasel kaleidoscope which I rather like too.

Our next door neighbours are having work done this week. From 8.30 am onwards there was a heck of a racket going on and I feared the noise would scare off any wildlife in the vicinity, but I need not have worried.

Two fox cubs paid us a visit first thing this morning, birds have continued to feed at the bird station as per normal, a very well-nourished frog was observed this afternoon (the largest individual I've encountered since the spread of red-leg syndrome) and this evening, just before 9.00 pm, a couple of wood mice darted out from under the hedge in search of dinner. Not long afterwards, as the light faded, a hedgehog could be seen busy foraging in the undergrowth. It could be heard grunting long after nightfall, as could sporadic yelps from the fox cubs!

Tuesday's FBG, 4.5 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
gennepher said:
I'm flummoxed.

I picked up my parcel today. It was a wheelie bin crusher...for the contents not the actual wheelie bin.we've been told it's definitely every 3 weeks for the rubbish wheelie bin, but apparently they were trying to pass it being every 4 weeks only they hadn't filled in some forms or whatever so could only pass it for every 3 weeks for the moment. I picked it up from Argos pick up point. Came home and left it on the floor to put it together tomorrow. I am not sure it will work well enough...I bought the self assembly model...cheaper.

But then I got a message this afternoon saying that Evri had been unable to deliver my parcel. Well they had...to Argos, and I had picked it up. Then another message from Evri saying they had tried to deliver it this morning but I was not in. But it is on the same tracking number as this wheelie crusher. Anyway I opened up the Evri app to see if there was a photo of the delivery to Argos. Well there was, my wheelie crusher in a brown box, and a large thing wrapped in grey plastic on top of my wheelie crusher. So that was the photo that had been taken by Evri on Monday morning. So I checked the bits in my brown box and it was all present and correct. No mention of a second parcel.

Evri, all this automated, (no way of contacting or emailing anyone at this point on the app), insists they need further instructions to deliver this item. So I fill in for it to go to Argos, but it was there on Monday in the photograph (I have checked, I am not owing any packages from eBay, the only thing I use for Argos click and collect), and there is no one I know that would or could send me anything via Argos. And the app refused to let me send it back to Argos. But I am curious, what is this parcel. So, finally I managed to get this parcel (is it mythical, is it real?) sent to my home address. I said I wouldn't be in and to leave it at my safe place. That way I don't get frustrated listening out, or watching out rather, for a parcel.

So, is this parcel real, is it imaginary, is it a mistake?
Who knows...will I find out tomorrow, or will it forever remain a mystery and not arrive...
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All the best with parcelgate - sounds like the ghost of Tommy Cooper is working for Evri.
 
Good morning everyone on a bright and sunny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.2 this a.m. Bought a chicken at the butchers yesterday, looked like a capon, or an ostritch. Had the butcher cut it in half and when I got it home I decided to cut the breasts out. Made chicken soup out of one breastless half and chucked the rest in the freezer. Enough soup for last night and to use as stock for whatever the chimp inside my head decides upon once it wakes up. Art bit, how many trees in a bunch? Does my car need cleaning today? Probably. Will I clean it? Probably not. Hope your day contains a period of peace. I shall make koffy and sit in the garden.
 

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Morning all from L.A. where the day has self identified as a recognisably conventional, though somewhat depleted in the sunshine element, August day: normal for Breckland I guess. A day to honestly acknowledge and give thanks to God for what is, whilst accepting these aren't the conditions in which I flourish or feel God's love most easily: takes work rather than being spontaneous. There is an important distinction between what actually is and one's feelings/emotions. @gennepher thank you for sharing the wonderful creative yesterday. Odd story of that bin crusher - we have one which is well used, a real blessing, for the recycling bin due to all the packaging with deliveries since we don't really do shops these days. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and well done having a proper butcher these days, especially one that would butcher a chicken. Quite the blessing they are more purveyors of pre-packaged "stuff" in many parts unless one goes to boutique "farm shops." More childcare here today, just one granddaughter who helped JKP bake me some keto blueberry muffins yesterday then wanted me to eat some asap. Later she will be joined by her brother who has three taster cum orientation days at Secondary school this week then a week's scout camp. #2 son and family called in yesterday en route home to Winchester - he'd forgotten to make his wife a coffee for the journey. Hugs and prayers for those in need thereof and my best wishes for you all.
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a bright and sunny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.2 this a.m. Bought a chicken at the butchers yesterday, looked like a capon, or an ostritch. Had the butcher cut it in half and when I got it home I decided to cut the breasts out. Made chicken soup out of one breastless half and chucked the rest in the freezer. Enough soup for last night and to use as stock for whatever the chimp inside my head decides upon once it wakes up. Art bit, how many trees in a bunch? Does my car need cleaning today? Probably. Will I clean it? Probably not. Hope your day contains a period of peace. I shall make koffy and sit in the garden.
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A bunch of trees conferring... @dunelm I like them
Enjoy that coffee.
A little too chilly at the mo here to do that...
 
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