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Fbg 7.5
I had 2 shortbread biscuits last night...

I was up early because I wasn't sure when the recycle was this week. They never collected the recycle or waste last Saturday, so I needed to get the day they're going to collect. I checked on their site last night and it said Thursday, but I was pretty sure I had seen someone on the neighbourhood watch site saying don't forget it's Friday this week. I checked on two calendars within the council site and they both said today for recycle. Then I found a downloadable PDF. Open that up, and it said Friday. But there was nothing on the site even when I looked before Christmas to say Christmas/New Year collections or anything.

So I put on my purple beanie with the headlight, and went out. The ground is like a skating rink, my car is frozen solid, and I can see the main road has not been gritted. I won't be going to the shops for fresh food this morning. Looked up and down the road no recycle out so I now assume it's Friday for recycle.

That took an hour of my time!!!!

I am safely back in now.

Although when you slip on ice, you generally go backwards, onto your bottom or flat on your back... and I have never done an Akido backward roll. I just had a quick look on YouTube and most people who are teaching the Aikido forward roll (or it's the ones I have just looked at) advocate putting your hands on the ground on the beginning of the road. I was never taught like that. That is definitely a sure way to damage your wrists and hands. So that is my job for today to find someone on YouTube who teaches Aikido the way I learned it all those years ago.... there are a couple of other moves that I would like to be refreshed on because they would help me if I was in difficulty..... although I have never had the need to use them yet, it is just the forward roll....

Nighttime wildlife
Badger Willow searching for food...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DETIE-LoK_v/?igsh=MTIxYmE3ZnczZXpmOA==

Same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdk7HcAt/

Creative...a watercolour I had done many years ago... I put it in procreate and did some detail on it.....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a nap, I need more sleep.


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gennepher said:
Fbg 7.5
I had 2 shortbread biscuits last night...

I was up early because I wasn't sure when the recycle was this week. They never collected the recycle or waste last Saturday, so I needed to get your they're going to collect. I checked on their site last night and it said Thursday, but I was pretty sure I had seen someone on the neighbourhood watch site saying don't forget it's Friday this week. I checked on two calendars within the council site and they both said today for recycle. Then I found a downloadable PDF. Open that up, and it said Friday. But there was nothing on the site even when I looked before Christmas to say Christmas/New Year collections or anything.

So I put on my purple beanie with the headlight, and went out. The ground is like a skating rink, my car is frozen solid, and I can see the main road has not been gritted. I won't be going to the shops for fresh food this morning. Looked up and down the road no recycle out so I now assume it's Friday for recycle.

That took an hour of my time!!!!

I am safely back in now.

Although when you slip on ice, you generally go backwards, onto your bottom or flat on your back... and I have never done an Akido backward roll. I just had a quick look on YouTube and most people who are teaching the Aikido forward roll (or it's the ones I have just looked at) advocate putting your hands on the ground on the beginning of the road. I was never taught like that. That is definitely a sure way to damage your wrists and hands. So that is my job for today to find someone on YouTube who teaches Aikido the way I learned it all those years ago.... there are a couple of other moves that I would like to be refreshed on because they would help me if I was in difficulty..... although I have never had the need to use them yet, it is just the forward roll....

Nighttime wildlife
Badger Willow searching for food...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DETIE-LoK_v/?igsh=MTIxYmE3ZnczZXpmOA==

Same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdk7HcAt/

Creative...a watercolour I had done many years ago... I put it in procreate and did some detail on it.....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a nap, I need more sleep.


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Beautiful art work love the colours .
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.5
I had 2 shortbread biscuits last night...

I was up early because I wasn't sure when the recycle was this week. They never collected the recycle or waste last Saturday, so I needed to get your they're going to collect. I checked on their site last night and it said Thursday, but I was pretty sure I had seen someone on the neighbourhood watch site saying don't forget it's Friday this week. I checked on two calendars within the council site and they both said today for recycle. Then I found a downloadable PDF. Open that up, and it said Friday. But there was nothing on the site even when I looked before Christmas to say Christmas/New Year collections or anything.

So I put on my purple beanie with the headlight, and went out. The ground is like a skating rink, my car is frozen solid, and I can see the main road has not been gritted. I won't be going to the shops for fresh food this morning. Looked up and down the road no recycle out so I now assume it's Friday for recycle.

That took an hour of my time!!!!

I am safely back in now.

Although when you slip on ice, you generally go backwards, onto your bottom or flat on your back... and I have never done an Akido backward roll. I just had a quick look on YouTube and most people who are teaching the Aikido forward roll (or it's the ones I have just looked at) advocate putting your hands on the ground on the beginning of the road. I was never taught like that. That is definitely a sure way to damage your wrists and hands. So that is my job for today to find someone on YouTube who teaches Aikido the way I learned it all those years ago.... there are a couple of other moves that I would like to be refreshed on because they would help me if I was in difficulty..... although I have never had the need to use them yet, it is just the forward roll....

Nighttime wildlife
Badger Willow searching for food...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DETIE-LoK_v/?igsh=MTIxYmE3ZnczZXpmOA==

Same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdk7HcAt/

Creative...a watercolour I had done many years ago... I put it in procreate and did some detail on it.....

Have your best kind of day.

Time for a nap, I need more sleep.


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Smashing effects on that watercolour. You might look at a parachute landing Fall (PLF) which goes sideways and then back. Paragliders do the same. This clip has Subtitles. Of course, on ice, control will be very minimal.
 
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Good morning everyone on a wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. There will be a bin collection today. First of the year so I hope they do well. Went over to our daughters yesterday for a leftover lunch. We wanted to then go for a walk but rain stopped play. A weak excuse perhaps but we are still getting used to this years spin round the nuclear reactor. Our little Smart car needs a run out today. It has a Brabus conversion and can’t sit for too long without getting mardy and if it’s going to snow later this week it needs cheering up. Art bit, sailing home. May your day be shrouded in warmth. Mine will move along a lot better after some koffy.
 

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dunelm said:
Smashing effects on that watercolour. You might look at a parachute landing Fall (PLF) which goes sideways and then back. Paragliders do the same. This clip has Subtitles. Of course, on ice, control will be very minimal.
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WOW!
That looks very doable @dunelm
Yes, there is not much control on ice, but at least I can still tuck myself in however I fall, and not use my hands however I fall, and protect my head.
I'll watch those two videos on repeat for a bit.... so it becomes a memory...
Thank you very much for this...
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. There will be a bin collection today. First of the year so I hope they do well. Went over to our daughters yesterday for a leftover lunch. We wanted to then go for a walk but rain stopped play. A weak excuse perhaps but we are still getting used to this years spin round the nuclear reactor. Our little Smart car needs a run out today. It has a Brabus conversion and can’t sit for too long without getting mardy and if it’s going to snow later this week it needs cheering up. Art bit, sailing home. May your day be shrouded in warmth. Mine will move along a lot better after some koffy.
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Art bit is beautiful @dunelm
Especially with that title....comforting....
 
5.7 this morning. We are so lucky that our village is a maze of paths which are great to walk when the park is waterlogged. We chose the paths this damp and chilly morning.

Mr K has taken my car to the garage for it's annual service. He has got his morning newspaper and they have comfortable chairs and a coffee machine there so he will relax and read.

A post came up on Facebook from a lady who makes gift tags from old Christmas cards for a local charity. I messaged her and she lives in our village - so I will walk this years cards over later.

What was good was that I actually got Messenger working on my tablet for the first time ever. I don't actually know how I did it. Good that it did work as the lady sent me her address via messenger as of course she couldn't post it on a public Facebook page.
 
This morning’s Fbg was six point zero.
A couple of days ago I finally worked up the courage to contact one of my DNA matches on ancestry she was given as a 1st cousin or half niece she messaged me back the next day saying she was glad I had messaged her saying she had some family photos she was willing to share with me.
Judith contacted a cousin shown in her dna matches they have exchanged addresses and phone numbers and Judith through her new found cousin has found out that a cousin of hers who passed mothers who it was assumed had passed away is to the contrary still alive and kicking at the age of 93 and that he would like to have regular contact also.
Ancestry keeps adding new matches every day and notifies me of them on the home page.
I believe ancestry DNA Severn the area s connected with your origins by comparing your dna with a data base they have of people with known long term association with certain geographical areas when they find more refined or new areas they update everybody’s dna origins automatically.
I thought I was doing well with over 17 thousand matches but Judith has 24 thousand most of mine are in the USA but a lot more of Judith’s are in the UK.
 
JohnEGreen said:
This morning’s Fbg was six point zero.
A couple of days ago I finally worked up the courage to contact one of my DNA matches on ancestry she was given as a 1st cousin or half niece she messaged me back the next day saying she was glad I had messaged her saying she had some family photos she was willing to share with me.
Judith contacted a cousin shown in her dna matches they have exchanged addresses and phone numbers and Judith through her new found cousin has found out that a cousin of hers who passed mothers who it was assumed had passed away is to the contrary still alive and kicking at the age of 93 and that he would like to have regular contact also.
Ancestry keeps adding new matches every day and notifies me of them on the home page.
I believe ancestry DNA Severn the area s connected with your origins by comparing your dna with a data base they have of people with known long term association with certain geographical areas when they find more refined or new areas they update everybody’s dna origins automatically.
I thought I was doing well with over 17 thousand matches but Judith has 24 thousand most of mine are in the USA but a lot more of Judith’s are in the UK.
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I'm still digging back into my family past and have discovered one new ancestor that I didn't know about and information on one that I did know about. The new one was Jethro Tull - not the modern one but the one who invented the seed drill. the one I knew a bit about already (Capt Tomos Prys) turns out to have been on one of Drake's expeditions, then became a privateer even after the war with Spain ended. He was also a poet and his works are in the British Library. Must see if I can access anything he wrote.

BG at 05.20 was 7.5. Libre alarm told me it was over 8 a short time ago. Insulin and breakfast should sort that out.
 
Apart from a Stevie Wonder classic from 1984, I have nothing to declare except my genus (stet). Two exceptional but different pieces of art today so I wanted to say thank you so much for sharing @dunelm and @gennepher. @alf_Josiah it may well be national bin day but it darn sure ain't international bin day pardner - that's Saturday, yeehaw. @Krystyna23040 good news on the car passing the MOT so easily. @Annb @JohnEGreen and any others interested in tracing and contacting relatives, enjoy. Two grandchildren slept over last night and most likely again tonight:. Fen back roads at 6.00 am aren't for the fainthearted. Meanwhile, Ange is still hanging on by a thread: unbelievable Jeff. Leftover Thursday collides with Elsie Keto: disaster daahling, hope your day is spiffing in whole or even in part.
 
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