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gennepher

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5.9 for me today - I must pop to the bank today and pay some bills before 2pm as it is only open 9-2pm at the moment and I should learn myself to pay my bills online before local bank permanently closes in June. I will fit my walk in around this today:)
I have the same problem. I prefer to go physically to the bank to do this stuff. @Mrs T 123 The teller helps me work out my figures. I am not good at sums, and I get in a mess doing online stuff with money.
Your bank is closing in June?
That is not good. That would scare me.
Take care.
 

Mrs T 123

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I have the same problem. I prefer to go physically to the bank to do this stuff. @Mrs T 123 The teller helps me work out my figures. I am not good at sums, and I get in a mess doing online stuff with money.
Your bank is closing in June?
That is not good. That would scare me.
Take care.
Yes my bank is closing in June - I have only been at this bank a couple of years since my last bank closed so looks like I will have no choice but to do everything online
 

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I do agree with you Krystyna, the head plume neck and front end of body look like an Egret but back end looks like a Red crowned Crane of China and eastern USSR.

I must stop trying to identify other peoples birds.
Most Egrets look concolourous at rest.
Nb. Any dark outer wing feathers on a pale bird are folded under whiter secondaries and coverts etc at rest.

I once had a argument with a guy in the local library who reckoned what he saw as a shag was really a cormorant. I wish I had kept quiet.:)
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Oh they could well be cranes, I’m not that hot after robins and blackbirds and even then the foreign ones look very similar to home spun ones - is it the beaks? I once threw a coin in a wishing well, wishing for a tall, leggy bird and dated an ostrich for several months.
 

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Thank you @dunelm

My head is in a strange place at the moment. It looks normal from the outside...but inside, instead of seeing the usual pictures or videos that run continuously, parading inside my head, like a 24 hour cinema, all pictures in my head are now made of triangular pieces, like broken pieces of a mirror. I have never seen that before in my head, ever in my life.

I think my brain is overloaded with all this Covid 19 stuff. It cannot make coherent sense of it...
Oh, the spool has jammed - I can recommend a some concentrated deep breathing, going through old photos and then seeing what comes out of the end of a paintbrush - or procreate. I meant to ask you how the light repelling barrier to next door is doing?
 
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I gather would you rather? is "a thing" so in that vein maybe a little vox pop based on some of my data and a hunch I have held for a while. My fbg and daily peaks seem lower when my weight is higher e.g 11 st 11-13 (74.8 - 75.7 kgs) than 11 st <6-8. (72-73 kgs) Previous pb A1c, lipids and full bloods came at 12st (76.2kgs). Would you rather have the lower A1c/fbg etc or the lower weight? At 182 cms I'm fine at 12 st but not "happy" - 11-10 is plenty high enough for me IMHO. The vox pop is about weight vs fbg not my weight. My hunch is that if my weight is too low the stress raises bg (body makes up for lack of food?) - certainly plays merry hell (goes above 4 and .6 trigs) with lipids which is a very, very red line for me.
Oh my goodness - your tightrope walking skills must be magnificent - I would probably go for lower A1c - but then I am a greedy boy and could justify it to my inner chimp.
 

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Oh my goodness - your tightrope walking skills must be magnificent - I would probably go for lower A1c - but then I am a greedy boy and could justify it to my inner chimp.
Thanks. Interestingly, the Ipsos MORI COVID research questionnaire I took wasn't interested in my A1c but asked my weight and height - in a couple of ways to ensure I didn't lie. I was also sent a shield letter early on but my Dr phoned and said this is wrong I've looked at your weight and you're as good to go as anyone - (I had finished chemo in Nov 19 and all clear on follow ups) He wasn't interested in my A1c.
 

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Its like the Q score I did, it stopped me early and said I should consult my doctor.
I think it had worked out I had been dead for ten years. :)
 

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Me and me's wanted to give you a hug thingy, but gave a winner for blood sugar and persevance. As for hitting sharp things it's a shame you don't use firstly a engineers hammer and then a file to further smooth the note . Good luck.
Ps f# for me is black thingy on my keyboard , but you already know that.
Thanks for the wishes of good luck. There were 4 verses to record all had to be done as separate recordings and every time the f# approached I quaked with fear, still 4 verses and only went wrong twice so you good luck wish worked. :)
 
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gennepher

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Oh, the spool has jammed - I can recommend a some concentrated deep breathing, going through old photos and then seeing what comes out of the end of a paintbrush - or procreate. I meant to ask you how the light repelling barrier to next door is doing?
Thanks @dunelm
Already started the Procreate digital painting for tomorrow, on the broken mirror pictures...
The Xmas lights have gone. So the bathroom is safe until next Xmas.
But his security lights into my bedroom remain. However, the temporary barrier idea of bamboo canes have stayed because they were very effective at blocking his two security lights, shining into my bedroom.
They may need rearranging at some time, due to the high winds here having its own agenda. But it was a very easy cheap effortless solution....
 

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Negative thoughts yesterday stuck like glue.

And I needed a good night's sleep. But I was so tensed up I couldn't sleep. Tried doing my daily painting which led to about 2 pm, then Popeye began head butting the iPad with alll his strength. That cat knows I need sleep. He will leave me alone with it for a reasonable length of time, like he has crawled under the covers just now long enough for me to write this, I hope.

Yesterday on one of the food shops, the one next door to Iceland, I was reaching for something on those shelves above the freezer cabinets. It was easily reachable, but there was only one jar in the cardboard tray, and so it moved a bit when I took the jar out. The next thing I knew was a cascade of glass jars of sticky stuff (jam?) next to it, falling on the curved top of the freezer cabinet and rolling on to the floor where they smashed. The shop assistant came round the corner, and I am apologising and apologising......

I had been in Iceland first, and it wasn't until last night I realised why Iceland disturbed me so much, or part of it. Those guys doing the food shopping for online orders were dressed in black with their hoodies over their heads, and the thick black snoods right up to under their eyes. You could barely see their eyes, the only bit of human flesh showing. They even came in my dreams last night, and I realised why it was scary. You wouldn't have even allowed someone a year ago to come in a shop dressed like that. It was incongruous they were pushing these huge bright orange carts of individual shopping bags and looking at their screens and picking the next item.

Everywhere was empty, devoid of shoppers. Except me and an elderly gentleman who struggled walking. This is the High Street that was open much more a couple of weeks ago, despite level 4 lockdown. And lots of people. Now, nothing.

I found this more oppressive emptiness far more scary than all those people previously with many not wearing masks. The sky was dark and oppressive yesterday, and it was about 11 am. And all I can think of is I am in an Apocalypse movie film set. The director will jump out in a minute with that board that says scene 1, take 5....

This is my digital painting for today. I struggled with it, badly. Two hours to get this far. It is me sitting on the day couch, feet up, the peppermint green blanket over me, the orange painted walls, the flowers in my windowsill (I have just realised, I never finished that blue vase). And the cat sitting on my arm, as he does saying 'No iPads allowed when I have your arm'.). I was going to do my overgrown garden in the windows, but left it blurred. I initially had my shortish hair, but I struggled with my arms. My left one was under my chin, but it wasn't right. So I am moving the arm down to where Popeye can sit on it. But by this time it has exposed my right shoulder and arm as being very awkward looking. Only answer by this time is to do long hair to cover all my awkward painting sins. Then Popeye got out from under the covers and is butting me and iPad and threatening to attack the iPad if I don't go back to sleep.

So I do...

Take care
>^..^<

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Yes I know I have made my face younger looking...it might be me in my early 20's...
Art capturing life with some artistic license, all good in my book, well done for perceiving after such a bad day and night.
 

Krystyna23040

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I do agree with you Krystyna, the head plume neck and front end of body look like an Egret but back end looks like a Red crowned Crane of China and eastern USSR.

I must stop trying to identify other peoples birds.
Most Egrets look concolourous at rest.
Nb. Any dark outer wing feathers on a pale bird are folded under whiter secondaries and coverts etc at rest.

I once had a argument with a guy in the local library who reckoned what he saw as a shag was really a cormorant. I wish I had kept quiet.:)
D.
It must be really interesting to be able to identify the more exotic birds in the UK. I did try learning to identify UK birds by their birdsong. I am really hopeless at it even though I often listened to the CD on my way to work (before everything moved to Zoom).
 

Krystyna23040

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Thank you @dunelm

My head is in a strange place at the moment. It looks normal from the outside...but inside, instead of seeing the usual pictures or videos that run continuously, parading inside my head, like a 24 hour cinema, all pictures in my head are now made of triangular pieces, like broken pieces of a mirror. I have never seen that before in my head, ever in my life.

I think my brain is overloaded with all this Covid 19 stuff. It cannot make coherent sense of it...
I am also finding the overload from the Covid 19 stuff has overloaded my brain. I went to the fridge this morning to get some Redbush tea - which has never ever been stored in the fridge.
 

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It must be really interesting to be able to identify the more exotic birds in the UK. I did try learning to identify UK birds by their birdsong. I am really hopeless at it even though I often listened to the CD on my way to work (before everything moved to Zoom).

True Krystyna, that is how a lot of birders find their birds. It takes time and field experience learning the songs first and then the calls.
I have been at it since my early teenage years so I hate to think how long.....perhaps coming up to 70 years.
It really helps in the Spring when the woods are full of newly arrived migrants.

I am fortunate, a lot of birders say how they can't hear warblers any more when they get in their mid 70's and a target specie for quantifying hearing loss is the Goldcrest. I can still hear them, but the sound is attunuated from when I was younger.

The duchess couldn't hear a middle distance Cuckoo last Spring because I think she has lost that section of her frequency response which her hearing aid does not supply the correction for.
My right ear has lost gain but my left is fine and I don't have an aid yet.
D.
 

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True Krystyna, that is how a lot of birders find their birds. It takes time and field experience learning the songs first and then the calls.
I have been at it since my early teenage years so I hate to think how long.....perhaps coming up to 70 years.
It really helps in the Spring when the woods are full of newly arrived migrants.

I am fortunate, a lot of birders say how they can't hear warblers any more when they get in their mid 70's and a target specie for quantifying hearing loss is the Goldcrest. I can still hear them, but the sound is attunuated from when I was younger.

The duchess couldn't hear a middle distance Cuckoo last Spring because I think she has lost that section of her frequency response which her hearing aid does not supply the correction for.
My right ear has lost gain but my left is fine and I don't have an aid yet.
D.
I would love to be able to identify the birds by there birdsong, perhaps all I need to do is to keep listening to the recording of birdsong and perhaps I will eventually remember the different birdsongs.
 

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Got my Covid 19 antibody test from the Imperial College London and NHS. Did the test today and I have no antibodies - which is as I expected. Filled in the huge survey and attached my photo of the negative test.
Actually, it would have been quite nice to have had asymptomatic Covid and lots of antibodies, but with the care I have taken that would have been highly unlikely.
 
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More trees, I said I was not going to do any more but I emailed the two last tree paintings to friend who asked me to do them and I felt a polite not sure I like them in her response. I took a look at the picture I did her for Christmas and I can see why, lots of detail. So back to the drawing board, more detail is required and so I have started a Beech tree in misty wood so that I can concentrate on the detail. A4 about 1 hour so far, lots to do but hope to have it finished by Thursday evening.

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good afternoon all :)

4.8 today

shopping day today and it was pretty quiet hereabouts and thankfully not frosty ;)

Bin day for our blue bin so I did a big tidy up of some old paperwork stripping out anything identifiable before it went in the bin :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@dunelm - I love the bird pair (egrets?) so graceful and once again your stroke work is great :joyful: and I like the light you have infused through the picture.

@Muddy Cyclist - When I used to sing in choral groups I had a conductor who gave us all a good tip to help with our 'interval' confidence. Pick yourself a group of strongly remembered songs, ones with each interval in it. From memory my own most useful song was 'somewhere' (there's a place for us). then you practice those bits :D worked for me. Mind you, it was for Benjamin Britten, we needed all the help we could get :hilarious:

Lovely start to the next painting, that bark is just fantastic :joyful:

@alf_Josiah - yay for bin day ;)

@gennepher - a hug for your unsettling day and a winner for putting a figure in your painting today, you're braver than me! :) It's working pretty well :happy:

art bit -

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