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Gutted.
Boxing day is for going the footie.
The weather forecast said a nice pleasant day.
Awoken to a pea souper. And it hasn't lifted.
And it's cold!
Game off!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.....
7.0 this post Christmas feeling after another carnivore fuelled day.
Mrs L has been taken to her pit and staying there.
Mrs L has ordered, to be, not disturbed.
Unless.......kettle is heard.

Must admit, despite everything that has occurred this last couple of years, it was a pleasing day yesterday.
it's been busy, but everyone has been generous and kind.
long may it continue.
And I'm not counting my chickens!!!!!

Have a lovely day.
Mine has been spoiled, as usual by the weather.

Best Boxing day bonanza wishes.
Meanwhile, back to the ranch
Hi.............chap...erall.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a quiet, damp and dull - outside - L.A. on a day to catch one's breath and reflect on one's blessings. @JohnEGreen so sorry to hear about the accident but glad you are able to be home, here and looking forward to Adrian spending time with you. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art: personally I was always delighted with the week or ten days post Christmas with the new underwear and socks, whatever else I was gifted. Sales from the sofa are the way forward, especially the early access (all areas) winter Riders of Rohan, then a surfeit of sport watching. Have a peaceful Thursday, Boxing day, Feast of Stephen. Lyrics
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Thank you @ianpspurs and yes little things do mean a lot - but this year instead of the usual socks and ironing board covers - some quite different small surprises.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

Badger Willow foraging around. The Christmas tree lights are on, but they do not come out in colour on my camera videos :( they are too small I think!

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEBLsCeIz0e/?igsh=MTh0MWF0bmgxbzgyYg==


Same vid on TikTok.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdkJ3JtT/

Creative... the Sun is shining on the tops of my trees. Each day towards the spring the Sun will get lower and lower in my garden and finally it will touch the ground! And I will be able to sit in the sunshine again.... this is about 2 to 3 months away.... and so I have taken a kaleidoscope with Laboscope of the scene outside my bedroom window.

Now to go in the garden and get the SD cards out and see who visited last night ....

Have your best kind of day....

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A beautiful and delicate kaleidoscope
 
Lamont D said:
Gutted.
Boxing day is for going the footie.
The weather forecast said a nice pleasant day.
Awoken to a pea souper. And it hasn't lifted.
And it's cold!
Game off!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.....
7.0 this post Christmas feeling after another carnivore fuelled day.
Mrs L has been taken to her pit and staying there.
Mrs L has ordered, to be, not disturbed.
Unless.......kettle is heard.

Must admit, despite everything that has occurred this last couple of years, it was a pleasing day yesterday.
it's been busy, but everyone has been generous and kind.
long may it continue.
And I'm not counting my chickens!!!!!

Have a lovely day.
Mine has been spoiled, as usual by the weather.

Best Boxing day bonanza wishes.
Meanwhile, back to the ranch
Hi.............chap...erall.
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Monster humbug for a ruinous peas souper. Please feel free to borrow this from lunch time to wave at Tempestas whilst sacrificing a slice of gammon :bigtears:
 

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5.5 this morning.

Yesterday was so perfect. Spending time with the family in a perfect location with lots of lovely and rather naughty food.

Today we went on a boat trip to see the seals. Although very misty we saw so many seals. They are surprisingly large.

We were all very pleased that we were well wrapped up as it was so cold out on the water.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.5 this morning.

Yesterday was so perfect. Spending time with the family in a perfect location with lots of lovely and rather naughty food.

Today we went on a boat trip to see the seals. Although very misty we saw so many seals. They are surprisingly large.

We were all very pleased that we were well wrapped up as it was so cold out on the water.
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Sounds as though the last two days have been very much like this on loop. So richly deserved, enjoy but relax because you're worth it. Lyrics
 
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dunelm said:
Monster humbug for a ruinous peas souper. Please feel free to borrow this from lunch time to wave at Tempestas whilst sacrificing a slice of gammon :bigtears:
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a bit of a good thought for this day of beautiful pictures and artwork from our resident contributors that light up our lives.
a wave....
you will see a wave.
it rolls along behind others.
it has been part of the motion of the ocean.
it crashes onto the beach.
our lives becomes a part of our community.
it lives within the heart of others.
It becomes a memory of those who remember our loves.
The wave may crash but the water returns to the ocean
The life remains a part of our existence, and never ends.
The wave of the ocean never ends.

We may at some time not be here in person
But remain within others who we love and we loved.
As is remembered in such times
Gone but not forgotten.

Enjoy the festivities.
Best wishes.
 
Last night I had a fall.

My fault.

I should not have gone out after dark in my back garden.

I had been out earlier when it was light to put something in the potting shed. And I knew the path was clear to the potting shed.

By 9:00 p.m. I changed my mind and I thought I'll go and get it back indoors again. Only, unknown to me, the badgers I presume, had undergone a reorganization all the way along that path in the early hours of evening, moving branches from where I have put them to across the path. It seems they thought they were beavers and were trying to block the path with wood.

I am flying forwards, going into my Aikido roll. Let my crutches go flying. And I execute a perfect roll, except that the badgers have created another obstacle in the path so I fall before I could finish the complete roll, but my head is protected, my hands and wrists are protected, my chest and ribs are protected - all the really important things are protected.

I had promised after my last fall to have always had my phone on me. But I didn't, it was in the bungalow. The other thing I had done was to put garden chairs all the way around the path so if I fail I had something I could pull myself up with. Only problem was I had moved a couple of the chairs to store something on.

I didn't have a light on me (because my hands are on my crutches, and because well it's simple walking from the bungalows to the potting shed on a path to the potting shed which was clear a few hours earlier).

And I fell on the patch of earthstar fungi, so I think I have destroyed quite a few of those.

I spent the next few minutes trying to negotiate with my body the best way to get up from the ground. First attempt failed, gave myself a few more minutes tried again and only just made it.

Got inside. Change of clothes first because I was muddy, and I'm probably covered in fungi spores...

I lathered the painful areas with witch hazel...that helped

Then I realize the main thing which probably saved me from scrapes and injuries, were those holey rubber mats which I have on the entire path which circles my garden, and I also have them in front of my swing. They are covered in autumn leaves, and they all need sweeping, clearing, and tidying up, but the mats still protected me, and they are pretty thick...

The badgers have rearranged some of them, so that is my next project to sort out those mats, when I feel up to it....

So, I am still here to mither you for another day....


EDIT: @Krystyna23040
Your exercises you posted helped strengthen my legs, particularly my left leg,which was pivotal in getting me back up again, because I had nothing near me to hold my hands on to pull myself up.... when I realized it had the potential to support me to get up, I put every ounce of my belief into that leg, as a standalone thing to actually mentally pull myself up. I have not been able to do that for years and years.

So, thank you Krystyna x
By the way I can do 6 seconds plus on my right leg (standing at the counter on one leg, with my hands hovering above counter), but my left leg the stronger leg I still cannot do more than one second with that exercise....
 
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gennepher said:
Last night I had a fall.

My fault.

I should not have gone out after dark in my back garden.

I had been out earlier when it was light to put something in the potting shed. And I knew the path was clear to the potting shed.

By 9:00 p.m. I changed my mind and I thought I'll go and get it back indoors again. Only, unknown to me, the badgers I presume, had undergone a reorganization all the way along that path in the early hours of evening, moving branches from where I have put them to across the path. It seems they thought they were beavers and were trying to block the path with wood.

I am flying forwards, going into my Aikido roll. Let my crutches go flying. And I execute a perfect roll, except that the badgers have created another obstacle in the path so I fall before I could finish the complete roll, but my head is protected, my hands and wrists are protected, my chest and ribs are protected - all the really important things are protected.

I had promised after my last fall to have always had my phone on me. But I didn't, it was in the bungalow. The other thing I had done was to put garden chairs all the way around the path so if I fail I had something I could pull myself up with. Only problem was I had moved a couple of the chairs to store something on.

I didn't have a light on me (because my hands are on my crutches, and because well it's simple walking from the bungalows to the potting shed on a path to the potting shed which was clear a few hours earlier).

And I fell on the patch of earthstar fungi, so I think I have destroyed quite a few of those.

I spent the next few minutes trying to negotiate with my body the best way to get up from the ground. First attempt failed, gave myself a few more minutes tried again and only just made it.

Got inside. Change of clothes first because I was muddy, and I'm probably covered in fungi spores...

I lathered the painful areas with witch hazel...that helped

Then I realize the main thing which probably saved me from scrapes and injuries, were those holey rubber mats which I have on the entire path which circles my garden, and I also have them in front of my swing. They are covered in autumn leaves, and they all need sweeping, clearing, and tidying up, but the mats still protected me, and they are pretty thick...

The badgers have rearranged some of them, so that is my next project to sort out those mats, when I feel up to it....

So, I am still here to mither you for another day....


EDIT: @Krystyna23040
Your exercises you posted helped strengthen my legs, particularly my left leg,which was pivotal in getting me back up again, because I had nothing near me to hold my hands on to pull myself up.... when I realized it had the potential to support me to get up, I put every ounce of my belief into that leg, as a standalone thing to actually mentally pull myself up. I have not been able to do that for years and years.

So, thank you Krystyna x
By the way I can do 6 seconds plus on my right leg (standing at the counter on one leg, with my hands hovering above counter), but my left leg the stronger leg I still cannot do more than one second with that exercise....
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Ouch but saved by knowledge of how to roll and those mats. Hope nothing more than a couple of bruises. I asked my mum earlier this year to knit or crochet a little pouch on a loop - once finished, I hung it round her neck and popped her phone in it - hopes she remembers to keep it charged. How easily we forget. Take care. I wonder if you have a head torch.
 
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Good morning everyone on the day after the not today bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Lots of folk in the sea yesterday for the Boxing Day Dip. Not my photo. We got into town a bit late so had to console ourselves in The Ship. Long walk down the prom and up through the woods on the way home. 6 miles and my hips were begining to complain. Big day today I have a hunk of beef to tend to; sear, sizzle, spit, burn a bit then into the slow cooker for eight hours so that will take up all my time and concentration ;).
Art bit - back to a bit of red and black. Can you do a bird in a bird in a bird over these twelve days of strange gifts? Koffy, where is that Monsoon Malabar?
 

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dunelm said:
Ouch but saved by knowledge of how to roll and those mats. Hope nothing more than a couple of bruises. I asked my mum earlier this year to knit or crochet a little pouch on a loop - once finished, I hung it round her neck and popped her phone in it - hopes she remembers to keep it charged. How easily we forget. Take care. I wonder if you have a head torch.
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Thank you @dunelm
Oh yes, this idiot has a head torch...on a beanie hat. Did she put it on? No she did not ..

I have well learnt my lesson there. I do regularly recharge those beanie head torches, and had just recharged one. I have 2. I think I need one more and pin or attach one to each of my 3 doors to the outside world with a note saying "DARK? Wear this!!!"
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on the day after the not today bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Lots of folk in the sea yesterday for the Boxing Day Dip. Not my photo. We got into town a bit late so had to console ourselves in The Ship. Long walk down the prom and up through the woods on the way home. 6 miles and my hips were begining to complain. Big day today I have a hunk of beef to tend to; sear, sizzle, spit, burn a bit then into the slow cooker for eight hours so that will take up all my time and concentration ;).
Art bit - back to a bit of red and black. Can you do a bird in a bird in a bird over these twelve days of strange gifts? Koffy, where is that Monsoon Malabar?
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Sounds a good day yesterday @dunelm

I do love a swim in the cold sea ...better not add anything else to my bucket list... I don't know how many lives I have but I have definitely used more than the nine lives of a cat. Someone (the Creator ?) gave me a bumper set of lives (bottomless pot of lives) when I was born....

Art bit is really great, I must set up my art table again...
 
gennepher said:
Sounds a good day yesterday @dunelm

I do love a swim in the cold sea ...better not add anything else to my bucket list... I don't know how many lives I have but I have definitely used more than the nine lives of a cat. Someone (the Creator ?) gave me a bumper set of lives (bottomless pot of lives) when I was born....

Art bit is really great, I must set up my art table again...
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Thank you @gennepher. I have not been into the sea for a while as I don’t trust the water quality despite the reassurances. I do though turn the shower to cold for the last minute and count to sixty - brrrh!
 
Still just about within the time frame to wish you all good morning. Hug for @gennepher following the tumble and for @JohnEGreen for the post car incident impact. Misty, murky and generally dreary outside here and not likely to improve as it is nearly midday. @dunelm thank you for sharing the photograph and your splendid art. I read a piece on the modern condition overwhelm which has a root cause of too many shoulds. I then come on here, read your mileage, yesterday being a prime example, @gennepher's ongoing heroics, @Krystyna23040's Duracell Bunny lifestyle, @Lamont D's kenosis, the humour of @alf_Josiah, the baking and care of @Annb and the determination of @jjraak and suddenly feel all the symptoms of overwhelm and then some. Gee thanks guys how can I ever thank y'all? There's a concept known as particularity so I'm taking that four times a day, with tea obviously, as the only known antidote, Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.
 
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Fbg 6.8

Nighttime Wildlife video
I took the Christmas lights down because I thought they might be affecting the wildlife
Badger Willow foraging around...
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEDhsuyIS-P/?igsh=MjR3d2xkdmRycWFx

Same video on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdkL6XGH/

Creative....a Laboscope kaleidoscope of my thermos which is now empty and I need to get up to make more...and lunch, which will have to be in the microwave because the thing I actually fry & cook lunch in has just gone west... so I ordered another one which will come in tomorrow, today is microwave! The green is my water flask.

I stayed in bed this morning because I do hurt when I move around, although there are no external bruises, usually I am black and blue and yellow after a fall... knowing how to roll, and those thick rubber mats on the path, and the Witchhazel helped a lot. It actually began as an absolutely perfect roll, it was just I encountered something else on the path that had been moved and left by the badgers which interrupted my roll.

So I will continue to move today when I can and then rest in between and hopefully no bruising will develop, it has usually started by now so maybe I'm extremely lucky.

You have a good day, take care of yourselves.


Last night I had a fall. (Some of this next bit is from an earlier post this morning).

My fault.

I should not have gone out after dark in my back garden.

I had been out earlier when it was light to put something in the potting shed. And I knew the path was clear to the potting shed.

By 9:00 p.m. I changed my mind and I thought I'll go and get it back indoors again. Only, unknown to me, the badgers I presume, had undergone a reorganization all the way along that path in the early hours of evening, moving branches from where I have put them to across the path. It seems they thought they were beavers and were trying to block the path with wood.

I am flying forwards, going into my Aikido roll. Let my crutches go flying. And I execute a perfect roll, except that the badgers have created another obstacle in the path so I fall before I could finish the complete roll, but my head is protected, my hands and wrists are protected, my chest and ribs are protected - all the really important things are protected.

I had promised after my last fall to have always had my phone on me. But I didn't, it was in the bungalow. The other thing I had done was to put garden chairs all the way around the path so if I fail I had something I could pull myself up with. Only problem was I had moved a couple of the chairs to store something on.

I didn't have a light on me (because my hands are on my crutches, and because well it's simple walking from the bungalows to the potting shed on a path to the potting shed which was clear a few hours earlier).

And I fell on the patch of earthstar fungi, so I think I have destroyed quite a few of those.

I spent the next few minutes trying to negotiate with my body the best way to get up from the ground. First attempt failed, gave myself a few more minutes tried again and only just made it.

Got inside. Change of clothes first because I was muddy, and I'm probably covered in fungi spores...

I lathered the painful areas with witch hazel...that helped

Then I realize the main thing which probably saved me from scrapes and injuries, were those holey rubber mats which I have on the entire path which circles my garden, and I also have them in front of my swing. They are covered in autumn leaves, and they all need sweeping, clearing, and tidying up, but the mats still protected me, and they are pretty thick...

The badgers have rearranged some of them, so that is my next project to sort out those mats, when I feel up to it....

So, I am still here to mither you for another day....

....By the way, this idiot has a head torch...on a beanie hat. Did she put it on? No she did not ..

I have well learnt my lesson there. I do regularly recharge those beanie head torches, and had just recharged one. I have 2. I think I need one more and pin or attach one to each of my 3 doors to the outside world with a note saying "DARK? Wear this!!!"

I don't know how many lives I have but I have definitely used more than the nine lives of a cat. Someone (the Creator ?) gave me a bumper set of lives (bottomless pot of lives) since before I was born....

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