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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Flooding all round my bungalow yesterday. Poor Midnight could not go out, he won't wade through 4 inches water, but once the water reaches higher than that, and it's underneath my bedroom doorsill, then it just goes down the hill to flood someone else...

I am glad I live on the top of a hill with no higher ground around me...

I had stray cat in my bungalow all night, it had sneaked in earlier before the paddling pool round my bungalow. No way could I chuck it out in that deluge. But it thinks it has a foothold now, and I am saying NO... it went to shred me when I went to pick it up to put it back outside this morning. But otherwise I can pick it up if I don't have that thought in my head to put it outside. If I haven't got it outside by tonight, then it will find itself having a shower, a cat shampoo, the dematter (for its tangled fur) will come out, and it will have worming tablets shoved down its throat...it'll discover there is no escape once I shut that bathroom door...

I don't really want another cat in the house...Midnight is enough. He took up mountaineering yesterday up my shelves and boxes. He has an inability to jump, either up or down, but climbs up paw over paw, and to get down he scrabbles as if he is coming down the scree of a mountain side, hence the total disaster zone when he has reached his destinations...

I do have glassware...they are now in a cabinet...

Creative...just a random photo without even looking in the camera, of my bedroom, and put in Kaleider, and played with various effects for half an hour! I find it therapeutic because it will come up with moving pictures.

Have your best day...

Maybe the sun will shine today...

Take care...

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Flooding all round my bungalow yesterday. Poor Midnight could not go out, he won't wade through 4 inches water, but once the water reaches higher than that, and it's underneath my bedroom doorsill, then it just goes down the hill to flood someone else...

I am glad I live on the top of a hill with no higher ground around me...

I had stray cat in my bungalow all night, it had sneaked in earlier before the paddling pool round my bungalow. No way could I chuck it out in that deluge. But it thinks it has a foothold now, and I am saying NO... it went to shred me when I went to pick it up to put it back outside this morning. But otherwise I can pick it up if I don't have that thought in my head to put it outside. If I haven't got it outside by tonight, then it will find itself having a shower, a cat shampoo, the dematter (for its tangled fur) will come out, and it will have worming tablets shoved down its throat...it'll discover there is no escape once I shut that bathroom door...

I don't really want another cat in the house...Midnight is enough. He took up mountaineering yesterday up my shelves and boxes. He has an inability to jump, either up or down, but climbs up paw over paw, and to get down he scrabbles as if he is coming down the scree of a mountain side, hence the total disaster zone when he has reached his destinations...

I do have glassware...they are now in a cabinet...

Creative...just a random photo without even looking in the camera, of my bedroom, and put in Kaleider, and played with various effects for half an hour! I find it therapeutic because it will come up with moving pictures.

Have your best day...

Maybe the sun will shine today...

Take care...

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We're on relatively high ground also @gennepher, which is certainly a blessing.
Thank you for sharing another dramatic kaleidoscope.


Monday's FBG 4.3 mmol/L on waking at 6.00 am.
 
jjraak said:
Hope I'm wrong, but we appear to be missing @dunelm for the last few days ?

I know he was off to France as senior Dunelm was poorly

I do hope all is well.
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Yes, indeed @jjraak. We've not heard from @dunelm for nearly a week.
Let's hope there's a mundane explanation.

Monday's FBG 4.3 mmol/L on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Fbg 6.7

Still raining heavily...
It's suddenly gone from heatwave to icy winter.

I put a cat tray in the bathroom (don't read further if you are having breakfast...) for Midnight. He's always preferred my garden.
Midnight was excited. He does zoomies when he is excited....
Next time I went to the toilet, Midnight came flying in. Looked at me, looked at the cat tray, (he's a large cat, it's a small cat tray), he was mentally working out the logistics. Straddling the cat tray, gave a perfect aim.
And whatever I do, he does the same.
And he gives me a beautific smile, and appears to be saying, "Now we can toilet in unison".....
I need a peg on my nose when he does the same as me...

That took me back to my childhood on the farms I lived on. One had a wooden plank across the stream (it had a little wooden house around the wooden plank for privacy) at the end of the apple orchard, where the pigs lived (the pigs would be snortling under that gap at the bottom while you were in there; it was a bit of a balancing act for a child). You had to walk through the pigs to get to the toilet. In that plank was two holes, one for a child and a bigger one for an adult. It had been professionally made. There was a man in those days whose lifetime occupation was making these planks with holes in....

Memories of a batty old lady...I need a life....

Back to the present...

Creative is a photo of a cushion in my bed, put into Kaleider Kaleidoscopes. It had a very coarse weave. It made for interesting patterns...
This is the first bendy tube/tunnel that has been created. I can't repeat it yet!!!

Have a good day...
Have fun...

The Robin is back...feeding outside my window!!!!

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Good morning everyone from a very dreich start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this a.m. and I am watching a monsoon like downpour out to the window and smiling as the cars get a good wash down. I arrived home last night from my parents house in France. Dad is experiencing the last part of life’s journey. He was in hospital last week but was returned home yesterday where he will receive palliative care. One of my brothers is now there and we will see how this week goes. Art bit - I have been sketching trees. Today’s task is to source a new cafetière - I forgot to get a replacement for the one that took to testing gravity a couple of weeks ago - so, jug and tea strainer it is. Hope your day is a good one.
 

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6.6 at 0520 today. Cold morning and very wet so far. Back to wearing a fleece jacket indoors. I could, of course, turn the heating up, but, despite the new system being cheaper than the old one to run, I'm not for turning it up yet.

Eye test today - my diabetic eye test a few days ago was fine - no diabetic changes but I can't see as well as I used to and I want to find out what the consultant reported about my eyes.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a very dreich start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this a.m. and I am watching a monsoon like downpour out to the window and smiling as the cars get a good wash down. I arrived home last night from my parents house in France. Dad is experiencing the last part of life’s journey. He was in hospital last week but was returned home yesterday where he will receive palliative care. One of my brothers is now there and we will see how this week goes. Art bit - I have been sketching trees. Today’s task is to source a new cafetière - I forgot to get a replacement for the one that took to testing gravity a couple of weeks ago - so, jug and tea strainer it is. Hope your day is a good one.
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I am sorry to learn that your Father is coming to the end of this part of his journey but hope you can take consolation in that this is a transition not an end when we came together with the family for the funeral of Judith’s sister ten days ago we as she would have wished viewed it as a celebration of her life not mourning her passing I hope that you can treat it as such.
 
Fbg this morning was 5.1
Yesterday my newish mobility scooter arrived and I was able to go to the local woodland park during a nice sunny break in the weather and sit by the lake for the first time in two years unfortunately I was in such a rush I forgot my camera and phone but as Mel accompanied me on her bike all was well.
 
Lamont D said:
In the early sixties, football socks, we're known as stockings, for some reason.
Our teacher coach in junior school, always referred to as such.
The hand me down school kit, was even then awful.
which reminds me of the equipment, boots, shin pads, balls. Eek!
The stockings were full of holes, and really uncomfortable.
They must have been woolen.
yellow and black stripes they were.
yellow and black quarters, shirt.
black shorts.
I remember my first game.
I scored,
I'm the wrong end.
In my career as a footballer, my oggies, outdid my goals.
Strangely, weirdly. My first goal in junior football, was on a pitch, which is now my local clubs training ground.
And where my last job for my club was based.
decent footwear was so important as a kid.
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The woolen football stockings full of holes sound as uncomfortable as the woolen swimming costume I had as a child.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and to those of you that are travelling with me, me’s and myself on this the third rock from our local fusion reactor.

Blood sugars this morning were 5. something or other.

@dunelm
I’ve given you a sympathy or hug, I think you deserve two of those, one over the tragic demise of your cafetière and another over your dad going into palliative care.
Remember we old creaky greasers ( motorcyclists ) must support each other, pm me if you want.

Well it’s another day and unfortunately not another dollar as the song goes, but another session at the hospital, this is number 16 out of 20. Also another opportunity to have a few laughs with the other patients and staff, some would call it black humour.

It’s now time for me to depart, wishing you all a jolly spiffing day.
 
5.8 this morning.
Yesterday was lovely. So nice to have longer breaks to relax and read.

Will just need to check emails in case anyone needs to swap classes or book holidays, and revise a couple of exercise sheets and email them to a 1:1 from yesterday then lunch/dinner and off to Norwich classes
 
JohnEGreen said:
I am sorry to learn that your Father is coming to the end of this part of his journey but hope you can take consolation in that this is a transition not an end when we came together with the family for the funeral of Judith’s sister ten days ago we as she would have wished viewed it as a celebration of her life not mourning her passing I hope that you can treat it as such.
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@JohnEGreen, thank you for your kind words and thoughts. Our own belief is that after death is the same as before conception - nothing more. There will eventually be a cremation and later we will have a celebration of life.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Fbg this morning was 5.1
Yesterday my newish mobility scooter arrived and I was able to go to the local woodland park during a nice sunny break in the weather and sit by the lake for the first time in two years unfortunately I was in such a rush I forgot my camera and phone but as Mel accompanied me on her bike all was well.
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What a smashing day.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and to those of you that are travelling with me, me’s and myself on this the third rock from our local fusion reactor.

Blood sugars this morning were 5. something or other.

@dunelm
I’ve given you a sympathy or hug, I think you deserve two of those, one over the tragic demise of your cafetière and another over your dad going into palliative care.
Remember we old creaky greasers ( motorcyclists ) must support each other, pm me if you want.

Well it’s another day and unfortunately not another dollar as the song goes, but another session at the hospital, this is number 16 out of 20. Also another opportunity to have a few laughs with the other patients and staff, some would call it black humour.

It’s now time for me to depart, wishing you all a jolly spiffing day.
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Thank you kindly @alf_Josiah and all the best for number 16 out of 20.
 
Morning all from L.A. where my reaction to the obvious change in weather is that whilst we are not here yet we are too much on the glide path for my liking. I forgot to take the sensor out of the box yesterday and usually apply a new one at bed time. Due to a medical appointment I won't do this now until Wednesday night. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and posting during what is obviously a difficult time. @alf_Josiah my best wishes for this and the rest of your extended medical interventions and the impact. Even in such times you took the time to offer sympathy and a "listening ear" to a fellow poster. @Annb I hope you can find answers to the eye issues. @gennepher thank you for sharing another amazing creative. @JohnEGreen yesterday sounds as though it was "just the ticket" especially as Mel solved #cameragate. @gennepher and @LivingLightly what are these things called hills of which you speak? Overnight in Philadelphia (not the cheese) someone bearing an uncanny resemblance to Psalm 52 vv 1-8 will once again be hiding in plain sight. I’m not arrogant enough to claim I’m like verses 9-10 but I do sense some here are worthy. There are days and longer periods when it just isn't possible to be joyful, one just has to "suck it up." I sincerely wish none here would ever find themselves in that situation but bad things happen even to good people. The best I can offer to any in that situation is to say it is very definitely ok not to be ok but pretending otherwise leads to problems.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Fbg this morning was 5.1
Yesterday my newish mobility scooter arrived and I was able to go to the local woodland park during a nice sunny break in the weather and sit by the lake for the first time in two years unfortunately I was in such a rush I forgot my camera and phone but as Mel accompanied me on her bike all was well.
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That sounds brilliant @JohnEGreen
 
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