Some interesting info here especially if you like graphs: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/country-overviews
From the latest info it looks as though England should be closing the borders with Scotland - not the other way round as wee Kranky suggests.
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I keep dipping into this Zen app, I think that my mother will be downloading it also. She did mention that it would save all that work grinding ink each morning. Oh well!.
Have the very best day that you can have. I am going for koffy.
We are beyond ourselves today the new hoover is arriving gennepher ..tired of gadgety vacuums cordless ones going back to the mighty Miele plug in we had for years...never looked forward to vacuuming the house so much before a little sad really.
I need to borrow that please gennepher it will be about the only form of transport exempt from the newly inflated Congestion ChargeI do have a witches broomstick in case you were wondering...
Am not erriblykeen on pickles. Could end up with a glut of pickled courgettes clogging up the fridge.Looks great.
Any thought on pickling?
I use this recipe but swap the sugar for stevia. No idea what they are waffling on about with the salt - I just use the stuff that my brother in law gives me from Noirmoutier.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/crunchy-courgette-pickle
I need to borrow that please gennepher it will be about the only form of transport exempt from the newly inflated Congestion Charge
Thank you @gennepher.I have about 7 heavy slate inkstones @dunelm that may be needing a new home...and black ink sticks, as well as coloured ink sticks...
But it is a meditation grinding your own ink, and it goes lovely and creamy.
The heavy slate ink stones were useful in the bag when I was going on my own to the Chinese Pagoda in Chinatown on a dark winter's night for the Chinese Painting Class...
I love your painting...a beautiful horse, and path up the mountain and a red sun.
Thank you @gennepher.
I can imagine that being zonked with a bag containing heavy slate ink stones may well lead to some enlightenment,
I am dog tired shattered today.
It was a good day. Initially I had decided just to do something else at the local shops this morning. But then suddenly I realised I felt psyched up enough to drive over into England (it's within the 5 mile limit) for my weekly shop. It was good last time, much better than shopping in Wales which has draconian one way systems, making the aisles too narrow for my mobility scooter, and the one I cannot understand in Wales is making you all queue down one aisle and only one till open so there are ten or much more people in the queue waiting absolutely ages which I do not have the energy to do.
I had 3 shops next to each other in England.this morning at 8am. A much much wider range of food than I get here in Wales. I didn't have a specific shopping list because I hadn't planned on doing it this morning. There was no one way system. There was just a notice asking you to be considerate of others, but nothing in the first shop saying keep 6feet apart (or has that changed for England now).. Maybe about 10% were wearing face masks. In Wales where I live, there are virtually no face masks worn, except at the pharmacy.
Because there was no one way system, it was easy to go up and down all the aisles, and I didn't need to go back to an aisle for anything. What was nice about shopping at Lidl was they have stuff other than food. And there were things I needed, like the plastic croc style shoes (mine have worn smooth), so I got a couple of pairs at £3.99 a pair. There was other stuff I had been going to order off Amazon, but there was a lot of the stuff I needed at a fraction of the price on Amazon. So, I did very well there, and as bonus the cashier said she pack the stuff in my bags for me (this used to happen in Wales but is not happening at the moment, and leaves me very tired.
Then I went to HomeBargains next door. Again very few people in the shop. Again, no one way system, nor one of the aisle assistants insisting you have to stick to 6feet apart. And lots more stuff, that I had been going order off Amazon. Again at a fraction of the price. And I got plenty of elderly cat, cat food. And I got loads of chilled food, and really nice ready meals. When I got to the till, there were no queues, several tills open, the till assistant was so completely enclosed in plastic. He apologised he couldn't pack for me (I did have a lot of stuff), because there wasn't the room for him to do it. I said that was fine, but it completely exhausted me. As I came out of the store I saw a woman approach another woman (I don't know if they knew each other), and say to her something on the lines of HomeBargains was very much cheaper than the shopping she had done elsewhere. And to go in. This HomeBargains in England is absolutely massive, and you can buy anything from toys, to toiletries, to electrical goods, bedding, home wares, garden stuff, a large food selection, large vegetable selection, a large frozen food section, a large chilled section, clothes, pet foods and stuff, and much more.
Both these stores in England (within my designated 5 mile limit), has made life so much easier and cheaper for me today. And I can drive my mobility scooter round without any one way obstructions, and the aisles are wide enough for my mobility scooter, and so is going round corners, they are not blocked with display baskets in the aisles.
But I was wiped out. I still had to wipe everything down when I got home, and put it away. Finally I collapsed in the potting shed with Popeye, and haven't done much. But on the plus side I have enough nice food for 3 weeks, although trying to ram it into my tiny tabletop fridge and tiny table top freezer was a task, and the doors are now taped up with duck tape.
My arms have no strength left in them, and my fingers are clumsy, so I couldn't do the painting I wanted in the ZenBrush2 app. That will have to wait until tomorrow.
So I did this very simple drawing in the ZenBrush2 app. This is my painting for today. I cannot control my fingers to draw today.
Agh, just realised I never saved it! I hope it is still in the app when I open it up...
Thank goodness, it was still in the app! I took the idea of the red sun/moon from @dunelm 's pic this morning. And made it large! And did a few tiny trees...
This is the limit of my capabilities for today. It was a good day, even though I am super overtired. I can stay in for the next few weeks if I want! That is a plus!
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Thank you @dunelmGlad that the foraging trip went well.
Lovely understated painting. I am still practicing holding my ‘brush’ correctly, sitting straight and learning the brush strokes. I do about 10 bamboos each morning as fast as I can, Zen style, and delete each one. Not yet ventured into the paper choices.
My computer has been misbehaving.
I emailed out my guidelines for starting back to classes.
I sent the email and attachment to two classes, then forwarded it on to the next two classes until I had forwarded it on to all the classes. I didn’t have to add the attachment as I was forwarding it each time and the attachment stayed attached.
All went well except that my accounts for 2018/19 got attached to just one of the emails. How could that happen as I had not opened or looked at last years accounts since last year. It doesn't seem possible that it could have happened. Also, I don't think it was there when I pressed send.
Luckily it was only attached to one of the emails.
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