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Absolutely fantastic @Krystyna23040
 
A busy end of week here
No fbg.....

But did.
Manage to swap one of our double beds over to a friends house.

Bed mattress whole caboodle in the back of the Honda civic.
Rebuilt and put up for her.



One very happy friend, but one achey non 30 year old, it seems..lol

Furry nephew been good for me
Walking him most days and what began as half hour has morphed into 2-3 hours exploring the local area, Riverside & local parklands..

Revelation has been Chiswick house.
Drove past if for close on 40 years, never once considered going in....

Blooming oasis...fav park for us both at moment.

Lauren's Family still the same, no change..( a good thing we hope)
Praying that each day means they inch past that dodgy 9 days period without mishap

And came across this BBC article.
Thought it worth a wider read.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55057440
 
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Lots of positives in your post, aches and pains well worth the helping sort friend with double bed.

Good link, good care a wonderful thing but not easy.

Hugs and winner for family fighting Covid.

Enjoy the exploring. Take care.
 
Excuse the blatant abuse of pic sharing
But I've grown rather fond of the little chap

Here's a short pic link of le grande exploration.


Albert bridge


Peace pagoda. Battersea park



Inspecting the water at Putney



An unusual headstone


Fascinated by the ducks geese swans and assorted wildlife at Chiswick house



And what better way to rest from that Long walk to Chiswick then to share lunch with a friend.


A part of the Thames I never visited before



And a view of it i'd I never seen before
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, please feel free to add yourself into either category or possibly both categories.

A 5.5 this morning on that meter of misbehaving and mystery.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have you put your Christmas decorations up yet? Lots of people have, in me and me's opinion they should concentrate on obtaining sprouts, around here and there, sprouts are rarer than unicorns eggs.

Have a great day and remember the month still has a November in it, December is the time for decorations and Christmas carols. Mrs J is listening to Christmas carols and this afternoon will start festooning the house with #@%&#€¥ decorations grrrrrr.
 
Some fantastic exploring, who's walking who?
 
alf_Josiah said:
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have you put your Christmas decorations up yet?
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No! Christmas tree was mentioned this morning but as I'm the one who will get it out of the loft mid December sounds adventurous enough for me. And anyway we still have no floors.
 

Thank you @jjraak for the absolutely wonderful tour.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
More please?????
 
There are absolutely no Christmas decorations in my house at Christmas @alf_Josiah The beauty of living on one's own. I have done enough Christmases in the past. I will however send Christmas cards, if I ever get round to making them this year...
Enjoy yourself...

However I am making an exception this year, a Christmas grotto, outside the bathroom window, for Mr Insenstive to see when he opens his curtains in the morning.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Some fantastic exploring, who's walking who?
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Indeed.

I like to think it's HIS walk.
I just help remind him to observe the highway code and social distancing protocols .

@gennepher .
I take so many pics fur his mum to show the walk itself and points i find interesting or unusual.

Have video of Chiswick house.
It has a tiny waterfall.

Frankie approached quite happily, but then suddenly spotted it, stopped in horror, then turned tail el pronto and with much rapido..

Funny as a funny thing .
 
It has been raining. The very fine rain that penetrates everything.
So not much work done on the Christmas grotto outside the bathroom window.
However, I have been out there once I realised next door was out, just to see if there is anything else I can do about placement of stuff before I work out the actual Christmas grotto display.

I had thought what I had done outside should have worked a little better. I had used some reed screening some days ago to see how well that would work, and then I placed recently cut bamboo in it, hoping the leaves would more or less stay on them for just over a month. But the flashing lights still came over them and into the bathroom window, which is why I did the shower curtain on the bathroom window yesterday.

I had thought the bamboo, with leaves on was higher than his gutter where the flashing lights are. But when I woke up this morning my brain said 'angle of incidence'...so I researched, downloaded some apps. And with the angle of incidence lines and diagrams and Google photographic maps of his house, I realised his gutters where the flashing lights were on was much higher than mine. Hence I was fighting a losing battle.

So, I went in the garage, brought out some reed screening I was going to use for something else next year, doubled it over and balanced it on the bathroom window ledge, leaned it over to the top of the other reed screening and cable tied it together. It is now a few feet higher than my bathroom window. And the angle of incidence should be such that even less flashing lights get through. Just at that moment my neighbour came back in his car, so I came in.

I was expecting the bathroom to now look too dark. But it wasn't any darker in the bathroom.

The test will be tonight at dark when his lights come on. I took a photo last night in the dark bathroom, so I know what it looked like yesterday.
 
I wonder what startled/fazed Frankie about the water?
You have a great walking ground @jjraak
 
good afternoon all

4.5 today

Lots of birds about here just now on the way home from Mum's yesterday we noticed a flock of gulls following a ploughing tractor, a big flock of grey geese in a field where there had been potatoes harvested and a flock of about 100 swans browsing amongst the stubble a couple of fields further over. Loch Eye is nearby and it's an SSI.
Fortunately we haven't had as many bird strike power cuts so far this year

The local Hydro board (power company ) started putting wind spinners on some of the power lines across noted bird flight paths last year, they look like small, flat sheets of plastic with a fluorescent patch on one side and a bit of that shiny hologram pattern on the other, they are on a sort of swivel and spin in the wind, seems to work

a quiet day sorting out kitchen stuff, I think plastic storage boxes breed when we're not looking

do a bit of knitting, a bit of painting, a bit of cooking and there you have my day

Hope your day is treating you well

@gennepher - cute hedgehog, all curled up and an interesting one for today, a watchful observer over a serene Santa
and I see the cunning Xmas fence is coming on by leaps and bounds

@dunelm - very good fluid foliage and I like your fisherman, is he of the ilk that uses a cormorant too? we had a visiting cormorant down by the harbour last year

@Muddy Cyclist - sounds like you have a full creative program for today

@Krystyna23040 - glad Archie is progressing so well

@jjraak - enjoyed the pictures, good travel in good company

art bits -
no 1 - one of my quick(ish) tree pencil sketches



no 2 -

memory of an uphill walk on a sunny day a couple of years ago

 
@gennepher so show missed your painting today, just seen it. You say no Christmas decorations but I notice Santa creeping across the bottom of your art, love the look of contempt on the Covid.
 
O ther than working on the Brass Buttle I think my oil painting of sons dog is finished. Lost him with a few brush strokes, got him back with a few more so I dare not do any more in case he vanishes again. A3 oil about 2 hours painting and a lot of time waiting for dry enough oil paint....
 


VERY Nice
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
@gennepher so show missed your painting today, just seen it. You say no Christmas decorations but I notice Santa creeping across the bottom of your art, love the look of contempt on the Covid.
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No Christmas decorations inside my house @Muddy Cyclist but I am more than willing to do a Xmas grotto, outside my bathroom window, for my neighbour, Mr Insensitive, for him to gaze upon daily...
This painting was a hint of what will be out there, but rain all day delayed the grotto for today. So this painting was a taste of what might be awaiting him...
 
Aww...a cute little soul @Muddy Cyclist
You have done him proud.
 
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