Good morning all. Awoke to a fbs of 9.2-no idea why! Surprise call from mum's nursing home yesterday to say at 3.30pm today we can visit mum in their garden at a safe distance. We have to sign paperwork to say we do not have Covid symptoms and haven't been in contact with anyone who has. We then have to go through a side gate into their garden where mum will be waiting. Apparently we are the first to do this. Strictly no physical contact allowed. It will be first time we will have seen mum since March 18th. Having mixed feelings about it and hoping all will go well. Have a happy Friday and enjoy your week-end.
I am really liking the new normal - especially as I no longer have to try and work out why my blood sugar are not behaving themselves. Hopefully the new normal of blood sugars behaving themselves day after day continues. I do know that it won't because at this very moment I am sure my liver and pancreas are in secret discussions on how to sabotage my world leading blood sugars.
Went into surgery yesterday and saw doctor in full ppe and also nurse for bloods.
Doctor gave me lots of time and investigated my condition as fully as she could.
Thats the first time I have been inside another building, apart from home, since mid March.
I have a complex metabolic condition which stops my pancreas working properly, which is the least of the problems.
I suppose we all will have metabolic issues when we get old!
Derek
Went into surgery yesterday and saw doctor in full ppe and also nurse for bloods.
Doctor gave me lots of time and investigated my condition as fully as she could.
Thats the first time I have been inside another building, apart from home, since mid March.
I have a complex metabolic condition which stops my pancreas working properly, which is the least of the problems.
I suppose we all will have metabolic issues when we get old!
Derek
We have done this 4 times now with Mrs MCs mom, all went well and she was much better outside more alert. Hope your visit goes well.Good morning all. Awoke to a fbs of 9.2-no idea why! Surprise call from mum's nursing home yesterday to say at 3.30pm today we can visit mum in their garden at a safe distance. We have to sign paperwork to say we do not have Covid symptoms and haven't been in contact with anyone who has. We then have to go through a side gate into their garden where mum will be waiting. Apparently we are the first to do this. Strictly no physical contact allowed. It will be first time we will have seen mum since March 18th. Having mixed feelings about it and hoping all will go well. Have a happy Friday and enjoy your week-end.
@gennepher and @dunelm more excellent Zen work, like the experiment with backgrounds and that's a fine chrysanthemum.
My ear problem is set to continue. Phone triaged by nurse, can't see me, takes my word for it no wax, won't give me antibiotics and put me on referral to ENT but says it could be next year before I get to see anyone.
Anyway here is today's effort, Pastel drawing of daughters dog. family creative challenge is Dog, I'm also going to sing and play a rocking version of Hound Dog a song I have never performed before, might even try the hip girations.
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when we got there it was to discover that they had been so busy the week before that they are back to normal opening hours this week. I particularly like the way you've silhouetted them against the sky and the textures in the path in the foreground Your dog is very characterful and the eyes have worked really well
good evening all
was 4.5 yesterday and 4.5 today
out to the charity shed yesterday all masked up and sanitised to within an inch ... you know the drill
Not mr gee and I though, I'm out of practice, we arrived a bit later than we used to and I was still tired by mid afternoon. We went for a walk after we got home and halfway round the village I started getting shaky, think I overdid it, perhaps a touch of electrolyte depletion too. It was very hot and humid here yesterday. So I just ate dinner and read for an hour then went to bed early
I'm another one who's feeling a bit anxious and 'melancholy' just at the moment @Muddy Cyclist but even though I sang in a madrigal group in my 'youff' ( 8 of us as a split from the full choir), I can't take them when I feel that way. I try to listen to some 20's /30's dance band music.
Anyway, today we were requested to take Mum for her pension but we weren't out long and then came home and have been strimming in the sunshine, boosting our vitamin D
@jjraak - hope the glasses are on the road to recovery
@dunelm - lovely little bird, very fluid and your chrysanthemum is very stylish
@gennepher - very finely balanced and evocative artwork of your masked lady, and it's interesting to see how the paper choice influences the aspects of your landscape
I'm finding the law mandating mask wearing here has helped enormously. But I do wonder how stressed we'll all feel when they start to come off again
@Muddy Cyclist - wonderful stand of silver birches MC, there are many of these lovely trees in our area
art bit -
I'm just starting to try out the 'inktense' pencils a bit, either alone or in conjunction with a bit of watercolour. They'll be in the next batch to be scanned.
this is just a quick watercolour inspired by the calm misty view of the Firth as we passed by.
I think the striped bit of the tower is too big in comparison to the rest of the platform now I look at it, perhaps because the colour was bright even on a misty morning it made more of an impression
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What a lovely pastel drawing of your daughters dog. So sorry you cannot get your eat sorted until next year. Surely it must be urgent if there is a possible infection.@gennepher and @dunelm more excellent Zen work, like the experiment with backgrounds and that's a fine chrysanthemum.
My ear problem is set to continue. Phone triaged by nurse, can't see me, takes my word for it no wax, won't give me antibiotics and put me on referral to ENT but says it could be next year before I get to see anyone.
Anyway here is today's effort, Pastel drawing of daughters dog. family creative challenge is Dog, I'm also going to sing and play a rocking version of Hound Dog a song I have never performed before, might even try the hip girations.
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Beautiful artwork. The hug is for the melancholiagood evening all
was 4.5 yesterday and 4.5 today
out to the charity shed yesterday all masked up and sanitised to within an inch ... you know the drill
Not mr gee and I though, I'm out of practice, we arrived a bit later than we used to and I was still tired by mid afternoon. We went for a walk after we got home and halfway round the village I started getting shaky, think I overdid it, perhaps a touch of electrolyte depletion too. It was very hot and humid here yesterday. So I just ate dinner and read for an hour then went to bed early
I'm another one who's feeling a bit anxious and 'melancholy' just at the moment @Muddy Cyclist but even though I sang in a madrigal group in my 'youff' ( 8 of us as a split from the full choir), I can't take them when I feel that way. I try to listen to some 20's /30's dance band music.
Anyway, today we were requested to take Mum for her pension but we weren't out long and then came home and have been strimming in the sunshine, boosting our vitamin D
@jjraak - hope the glasses are on the road to recovery
@dunelm - lovely little bird, very fluid and your chrysanthemum is very stylish
@gennepher - very finely balanced and evocative artwork of your masked lady, and it's interesting to see how the paper choice influences the aspects of your landscape
I'm finding the law mandating mask wearing here has helped enormously. But I do wonder how stressed we'll all feel when they start to come off again
@Muddy Cyclist - wonderful stand of silver birches MC, there are many of these lovely trees in our area
art bit -
I'm just starting to try out the 'inktense' pencils a bit, either alone or in conjunction with a bit of watercolour. They'll be in the next batch to be scanned.
this is just a quick watercolour inspired by the calm misty view of the Firth as we passed by.
I think the striped bit of the tower is too big in comparison to the rest of the platform now I look at it, perhaps because the colour was bright even on a misty morning it made more of an impression
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