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Brilliant idea.
 
Made the decision at last. Will not order any test strips on prescription until Mr K has to order his Asthma Inhalers again. Will buy them instead and get them delivered. One less visit to a shop a month.
 
My local shop has run out of salted butter so am attempting to make my own. Does anyone have an easier recipe than this?

 
@geefull thank you for the paintings, I never tire of seascapes. I have a few of Watwrgate Bay on my walls here painted by Cornish artists and brought back after some lovely holidays.
I have two too! But mine are still in ‘the house that hasn’t been sold yet’ and we can’t get back there to retrieve them. I wonder if they’re by the same artist?
I like your calming watercolours very much @geefull
 
 
If anyone has a minute a day and wants to do something positive and useful in these worrying times - this is a survey by the biomedical researchers at Guys and St Thomas’ hospital which will really help our understanding of the disease, even if you don’t have symptoms.
https://covid.joinzoe.com
 
Yes I found quite a few! I’d no idea it was such a thing. Completely bonkers.
I got sidetracked then into watching actual dressage, quite incredible, did you ever do it when you were riding?

I'm glad you were able to watch some of both.
The very low-level dressage I did was probably nothing like what you saw on the videos. Just the very basic walk-trot moves. Coming back to riding in my 50s after 25 years away wasn't as easy as I'd thought it would be!
Now you have got me enjoying some of the dressage-meets-reining, dressage v western, dressage-meets-cowboy videos.
Thank you.
 

I see that Whole Foods needs a grammar lesson.
 
My local shop has run out of salted butter so am attempting to make my own. Does anyone have an easier recipe than this?

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That looks like Jersey? Can you not add some good salt crystals (Malden if you have it) to softened butter. I would do half a block at a time. Good salted butte is VERY important in my world.
 

Beautiful. Thank you for posting these.
I want to walk into the seaside scene, and find a garden of those flowers, whose fragrance, I feel, would cleanse the air of the plague in the rest of the world.
 
I’ll have a look when the travel restrictions are lifted and we can eventually get back to clear the house. We have signed contracts ready for exchange I’m just hoping against hope it goes through.
Good luck, fingers crossed for you. Ours will start marketing again next year which will be the third consecutive year to have a go. Must say we are appreciating the space atm and are just happy son and GF got into their cottage at the end of Feb. That would have been horrible for them, we can take it on the chin.
 
2nd photo today...
Made a start on the kitchen window shelves for the salad seedling growing...
These shoe shelves had been dismantled to make some thing else...unlike the ones I posted this morning which were intact and stable. And I had no desire to get hammer and nails out today...so duct tape it was to re instruct them...

I think they will pass muster...It should hold the light weight that will be on them...
 
I’ll have a look when the travel restrictions are lifted and we can eventually get back to clear the house. We have signed contracts ready for exchange I’m just hoping against hope it goes through.
Congratulations. Hope it all goes through without a hitch - might it take a while in the current situation?
 
That looks like Jersey? Can you not add some good salt crystals (Malden if you have it) to softened butter. I would do half a block at a time. Good salted butte is VERY important in my world.

The cow looks like a Holstein-Friesian -- if she is, I wonder if she has clearance to be on a Jersey shore?
 
@geefull more good art, I like the way you get your watercolour so light, whenever I try I always end up getting bolder and bolder colour, could be using oils, I must try harder. Yep Sea Scapes are good but living in the centre of the UK I have to rely on holiday photos, how I miss the sea.

@gennepher great windows idea. Now I started life working from 1968 to 1976 as a window dresser so if you need any help prettying it up I'm your man.
 
Today's watercolour in amuch more abstracted style which I think I am enjoying I intend doing two more in this freer manner. This is A4 took about 40 minutes and will be counted as the first in my Fence Line series....
 
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