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The book was Ian Rankin's Rather Be The Devil. It got more and more complex and I couldn't put it down. Have just finished it but am not quite sure I have really grasped exactly what happened.
 
What a lovely spot for the dogs - and so nice that they leave room for their humans.
 
johnpol said:
It's down to 10 now, am at a loss as to why. But I'll just keep plugging away to get it into single figures. Thanks about the furniture, the dogs seem to like it, can't keep them off
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So pleased to hear your numbers have dropped.
 
My painting for my daily painting challenge today.
I didn't want to do a pastel painting today...
I have been missing creating on the digital SketchClubApp...

This has taken me a few hours. I can disappear into another world with doing this...disappear into the imagination in my head where another dimension takes place...

My head has been working towards this all day...how do I explain...not easy in words - there is a smoothness that's leads into inner dimensions which are always there as a construct of alternate parallel dimensions which can bleed into other dimensions...I see this all the time, always have done, and I assume it began because I was a profoundly deaf child with no hearing or understanding of people or the world that the majority are part of...

When I had the cochlear implant, I was an experiment because this hospital had not done an older person who had been profoundly deaf from birth, and they were not sure if my neural pathways for speech had atrophied. Although there was talk of neural plasticity. So this was a gamble...

It is not like you are operated on and you flick a switch to turn you on and you can hear words and everything. That might be a possibility if you were hearing all your life before you became deaf.

So yes the operation worked in that sound now comes through, but even 12 years later I am still learning what sound is and what speech is...

It was quite some time later before I realised why I was having severe problems with my creativity, that is my writing, my poetry, my artwork.

All these years from birth, my creativity had hijacked those unused neural pathways that been assigned for the purpose of hearing. There was obviously no sound input during the act of creativity all these years.

So, just before I am 60 years old I get 'hearing' via the cochlear implant. It has been like since there has been a constant internal battle with those neural pathways. Because the hearing now wants those neural pathways back. I have been battling with this creative aspect of me, which felt completely destroyed initially with the cochlear implant, and I had no idea this was going to happen. It is impossible to describe my up and down journey in this the last few years on here.

Today has been a day where I can get back into fully what I was, when I had no hearing input. Yet I have been wearing my speech processor today, so I have had hearing input today. It is like I can enter it all. I might not have this tomorrow, but I am enjoying today while it is here...that disappearing into another world is important to me and brings me calm and peace...

Here is the painting done in the SketchClubApp
It might not look so clear on a small phone screen...

 
Well late on parade ..

Fbg 6.2
Temp 36.6

All good otherwise.

As we are talking deliveries.

Had purchased a few things Thursday.
One game for the PS3.. Can't seem to get into the more movie liked ones . So went back to FIFA.. Sure Steph will like when I return the PS3 after all this passes..

My fitness tracker..cheapie, gives BP and SPO2
But it no longer holds a battery charge.
So looked up a honor 5 band.
Down in price since Google banned it under pressure from the US..
so going to see if I can get that up and running
To give the oxygen levels..
If not it does as a second tracker for the missus....
She's Been mad about her steps of late, so will give her better figs then get phone.

And ran out of my usual vit b .. Have others but ordered a new batch and that all arrived late afternoon today... So a little something to look forward to that might just while away a few hours and may even be of use health-wise.

So a big old win for amazon, from me.
 
good evening all

was 4.3 this morning

cloudy start to the day but it brightened up nicely later in the day

I had great 'To Do' plans for the day but didn't get much done

mr gee and I had a nice walk though, it was incredibly quiet in the village here for a Saturday, some people walking dogs, riding their bikes and pottering in their gardens

I did make some tiramisu for mr gee and his mum ready for Sunday lunch tomorrow (and my LC version for me )

Hope your day is treating you well

@gennepher I'm impressed by the ingenious solution to keep Popeye safe and I love your latest piece of art.
@Muddy Cyclist looks like an interesting idea for the next series of paintings, I love Tuscany and we've spend a couple of holidays pottering about there on the Italian train system

Today's art catch up -
my attempt at a landscape from a photograph I saw on the net. the white blobs on the hillside are supposed to be sheep

 

I don't think the to do list matters @geefull ..I have a few buried under other lists...

Thank you

Your painting is brilliant, I love it, and your sheep are very effective!
 
dunelm said:
awaiting the arrival of a Mervyn Peake monstrosity to appear in the chilled air.
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Another blast from the past, I remember when I was so engrossed with the Gormenghast Trilogy, went back to reread it a couple of years back and really struggled, Howe our tastes change with the years.
 
I knew they were sheep. Nice landscape.

I changed my mind about the Tuscany Landscape and decided on English in respect for unesential travel...

Because it was a dull start I decided to clean inside of our conservatory glass roof. Emptied conservatory, a lot of stuff, got tall steps and wam out came the sun, still did it and the outside although it did get very hot indeed.
 
So having given up on Tuscany here is my daily watercolour A4 size 1 hour. It's looking at the Long Mynd and Clee Hills across the Shropshire Plains, looking East at Sundrise from the Welsh Boarders. I did a Mountain Bike Trip on some Green Lanes took camera and sketch pad back in 2018, had a lot of early starts as I covered about 70 miles per day. So this is number 1 in the English Vista Series from a Mountain Bike.

 
I do like this abstract, I like the way the purple turns the gold to metallic colour and the dreaminess of it. Reminded me of some of the images sent back by the Hubble Telescope. Can't begin to appreciate the problems you have had to overcome with your hearing but admire your achievements and creativity.
 

Thank you @Muddy Cyclist for your words.

What I enjoy creating might not be to everybody's taste. But I find it satisfying doing it. I was trying to explain my creativity is tied into my hearing/nonhearing, and that is a bit hard to explain.
 
This vista is absolutely stunning @Muddy Cyclist
Reminds me of when we drove around there, brings back memories...
 



can only 2nd @gennepher posts.

and i really like this one.

i do not have a real talent for art, but i do appreciate those who have and are so willing to share.

if i am honest, not everyone's is great...soz

Now i mean compared to mine.. they ARE fantastic.
but i am sure many post up a little unhappy that the painting isn't how they really wanted it to be.

But that doesn't matter..

i don't ever look and go i could of done better..cos i can't

and i don't ever look and go so n so could do better, cos they can't and didn't.

But YOU beautiful, one eared, eccentric, mad, crazy atriste.. YOU..
spent time creating and painted YOUR pic, YOUR view, how YOU see it

and posted it for ME..
now that ME.. is all of us, who view your work or posts.

and i AM so appreciative, of your time effort and willingness to share,

whether its pics, paintings, a glimpse into your day, or just a thought in your head.

Anything really that isn't MY normal view of the world..
for ME to appreciate , dissect & enjoy, at my leisure.

For me the simple pic my customer from work, painted for me takes pride of place in our hallway
BECAUSE it's personal..sweat, thought and effort for ..all for me..blessed by that.

and for all the pics i see on here.

i like to imagine IF you painted that for me...
would i hang it in the hallway alongside my friends pic..in a heartbeat for many.

and for those that i maybe wouldn't..thats ok too.

Because your next pic is the one i would..
because you kept at it until you were happy, or just maybe you weren't

but that doesn't matter, because your imperfect was MY perfect.

i doubt any artist is EVER satisfied that the last painting was their best work, ever

So as a grateful recipient of the love and sharing we all do, in whatever form
word, art or just a moment to reflect on your day, and that life while after all, fleeting
is still full of wonder and things we didn't know
or
skills WE don't possess that others magically CAN perform.

and for those who bravely, selflessly, are willing to put themselves on the line,
and share their views and art in all its
'imperfect,' 'not quite what i wanted' 'not really happy with it, but here it is', form

Thank you all
from a most grateful viewer.
 
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That is one beautifully worded post @jjraak
Thank you for writing it
 
Good Morning and 5.6 for me today.

Thank you @gennepher and @jjraak for your comments on my daily painting, I'm pleased ir bought back memories and also some pleasure. Yes @jjraak us artists are seldom satisfied and certainly don't expect everything we create to be to everyone's taste, 'Art is in the eye of the beholder' hard to explain what drives us, the need to make an image or create a sound with music it's from within, I guess that same passion is in writers, composers, scientists, engineers, health professionals anyone who's hobby or profession is what I call a calling, it's as though there is no choice, it has to be set free.

Looks like this Morning may be the last of this good run of weather so hope you can all find your waterproofs and umbrellas for the rest of the week.

Take care do what you do with passion, achieve something from your day.
 
Fbg 7.1
This has to come down back to the 6's

Temp 36.1

At precisely 1:23 am the animal intruder came into the garden. Popeye woke me up when he heard it and spent the next hour on window guard between the bedroom and the study, keeping me awake racing over me (lying in bed) from room to room.

So intermittent sleep last night, my tinnitus is screaming full blast at me this morning, my nerves are jangling, my body out of sorts. There is distortion when I put my sound processor on this morning. If I am not feeling good for whatever reason, then my neural pathways mess up incoming sound. Which is a blinking nuisance this morning because I have an incoming Skype video call later, which I needed to be tip top for. I lipread the call, but my lipreading ability declines when I am like this, and if the screen is pixelated then I stand no chance.

And the sky is grey this morning.

But at least all cat puddles last night were done in his cat litter tray, although I did check the floor before I swung my feet out of bed.

I need another cuppa....

Take care...
 
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