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Muddy Cyclist said:
With all them chairs it's Impossible to walk in a strait line, still it will disguise the effect of all that booze.
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It did. And helped when I threw myself into that bed too.
 
Have a pleasant evening back home, sleep well.

Thanks for joining me on my travels today!

Wheels have gone down and we're nearly there passing over the city. A journey to remember. Going back to a regular airliner will be awfully difficult I imagine...

G'Night and G'Morning all!

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BRSBRI said:
Have a pleasant evening back home, sleep well.

Thanks for joining me on my travels today!

Wheels have gone down and we're nearly there passing over the city. A journey to remember. Going back to a regular airliner will be awfully difficult I imagine...

G'Night and G'Morning all!

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Sounds a pretty good trip so far!
Hope the rest of it goes just as you want\need it to @BRSBRI
 
Good Morning and a 5.2 for me today. Bacon Hotpot with the thinnest cut layer of potatoes on top of my side, I am surprised by result as onions and carrots were involved.

Wet but not so windy here. Lots of trips to the community waste site to get rid of the tree I fell yesterday, so more aches predicted.

Then the the rest of the day is unplanned other than the involvement of Bach recordings.

Keep safe dodge the bugs.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Defeated by nature. The 50 year old tree had and has more roots than branches. I have spent most of the day trying to get them out and failed. :banghead: Still, son coming to rescue on Saturday with big axe and Chainsaw and prepared to sacrifice the chain.

Although a slow growing very attractive Coniffer It sadly had to go as it's roots had cracked our retaining wall and paths.

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So I am now totally exhausted and ache like crazy, everywhere.

A quick watercolour sketch of Loire Valley France but it looks just like Tuscany and Shropshire so the proper watercolour will need a Chateau. A5 long and thin.
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Now I have to record me singing Bass to Thomas Morley's Now in the month of Maying. Also 3 Bach pieces for Recorder Quartet and all before weekend.
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Trials of Heracles day - you must surely deserve a day of lounging about, feasting and a bit of wine tasting before trials resume on Saturday. Tuscany, Shropshire and now the Loire Valley - will the Chateau be all fancy like The Chateau of Chambord? Whatever, it’s a fine vista.
 
First - thanks for kind words and my apologies again to those I offended by lashing out at the stress of being unemployed for a year. At the age of 51, having worked all my life, it has been a shock to the system to have so much out of my control. I am most thankful for one of my oldest schoolfriend lending me money to cover costs of brattish temporary tenant who caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage. That happened in the summer and I have effectively been living hand to mouth since then. Some of you understand that, and for that I am grateful for your insight.

Update: Cave-dwelling lodger has got me some part time work at his company (payroll for film & tv productions) and I started yesterday. Stayed late to help big(ger) boss and talking to lodger last night - possibly at lest 2-3 days a week.

It was a full year to the day since I had my last shift at Sky Sports News, and yesterday I was once more getting ready to do a day's work in an office. As long as frustrating a first day as it was (hours of sitting around because only lodger and I were in and he was swamped with work som couldn't show me what to do). I thought it was going to be monotonous data entry - but in fact it was straight in to payroll functions. Lodger is not the most patient of people and I need to make notes as I go, so hopefully I will pick things up better today. He suggested I come on today too as it was not likely to be as busy and he could spend more time getting me up to speed and I am simply not in any position to turn down days of work to catch up with Britwatch and company admin etc.

Challenges: Kitchen facilities are... a smelly and unappealing microwave, and a kettle. No water-machine so will take my own filtered water in. Not much staff in - most work remotely from home but will play things by ear as to whether I can eat home made soup at my desk without annoying people. If so, I can batch cook a couple of soup varieties and nip into town on Monday to get a soup-flask. Twickenham is just over the bridge (office is on Eel Pie Island) but choices are limited and not that healthy. Greggs, KFC, Wimpy and Subway. So I might have to try the famous Greggs Vegan sausage roll today.

Another challenge - getting a workout done and showered and changed, knees iced before work. Thankfully lodger seems happy enough with me getting the Ferry from Ham to the Twickenham side of the Thames and walking to get there for 10:30 so from next week will *try* and get into my home-gym for 7am sharp for bike, boxing, etc to give myself time to do the session and have breakfast, ice, shower in time. I spoke to the big boss last night and he seemed happy enough for part time work whenever there was work to be done. If I can get the treadmill done on a Monday, then I can fit in the others in the morning if I can, or will have to maybe do the evening, but if the first day was anything to go by, I will be lucky to get out by 6:30 in the evenings - an hour to get back by bus (ferry stops at 6) so will need to put articles live, have dinner etc.

It is one worry ticked off the list but it is not a sports journalism job and I think I now have to accept that the gamble I put all my resources and funds into to develop Britwatch Sports and to be at tournaments etc will have to be a victim of the pandemic. It has cost me well over £100k of my own money that I now have to somehow earn back into the business. By some miracle... they have accepted my company details for payment (for now... IR35 will be a headache in a few weeks time).

Then again, beggars can't be choosers. It is the prospect of enough money to cover my bills. Lodger's rent should cover my cash and treat accounts and I have long since given up hope of rent from late mother's bungalow being at full strength for any period of time as that whole place needs modernising and every month something needs fixing so whatever comes from that is a bonus. Thinking of hoofing that money into a separate account and suggesting to the managing agents that we modernise the property from within (with the tenants' approval). Managing agent feels they might appreciate the effort to redecorate the rooms bit by bit (mum had the main bathroom totally redone when she moved in so that is one expense done) and it is a couple with no kids and a two-bedroom property so if they are amenable I might plough that rent into renovating bit by bit so it isn't one giant expense later.

I am not sure I am ready to immerse myself back in here... I need to get my head around how I manage my time, BG, Britwatch Sports, company admin, yada yada.

Anyway....
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.9

Went out to check with a torch at midnight.
Could feel the wind vibrations. And I didn't have my processor on as I was trying to sleep...
Went out. No recycle bags. All gone including contents. My black wheelie was just about to travel down the steep hill minus its contents. Rescued black wheele which was determined to take off for sky travel.
Got up this morning. Most bungalows were bereft of their recycling bags, and it looked like the wheelies had partied hard in the night.
Where did all the wheelie rubbish go?
Bin men came along. Must have been the easiest rubbish collection ever, most wheelies had discharged their cargo to the care of the wind.
I went back to bed, and electric blanket and the furry godfather.
Couldn't care less today about painting.
Sat by front window.
Sky was blue and big dramatic white clouds. I don't have a creative bone in my body today. So I did the scene out of my front window.
Then the seagulls got frantic and began circling...
And black clouds descended with a horrendous rain storm.

So, I just managed the blue skies and clouds...in Procreate...


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A night of party animals and the great wheelie bin escape - blue skies and seagulls - very pleasing
 
5.3 this morning.

Had a good day yesterday. February bank reconciliation went well - no hitches. Might start collating March invoices today. Might is the operative word as I would much prefer to be working on new exercises and going through training videos. Much more interesting.
 
Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, no time or inclination today.
A straight 6 on that meter.

Inclination: one meaning is slope, so me and me's are sloping off to do other stuff.

Remember the stay's, stay well, stay safe and if at all possible stay in bed.
 
Welcome to salmon and avo salad day. Cold but dry with a gentle breeze hereabouts. Glad your flight went well despite all the privations @BRSBRI. Hug for the aches and pains @Muddy Cyclist but hopefully you also find tree felling and root removal fulfilling and great for keeping bg under control. It also lets in light, I find, and all sorts of growth flourishes as a result. Good to hear from you again @RFSMarch and despite obvious logistical issues things sound less bleak for which we are all delighted on your behalf. Nothing to report on my bg until Mk 2 Swipey arrives, possibly with free upgrade reader. The world is your lobster Terrence.
 
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Good morning everyone from a lull in the storm here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of a fine breast of lamb and heaps of mint sauce came in at 4.8 this am

@RFSMarch - glad that you have managed to raise your head above the parapet.

Bread making yesterday and then a caldo-verde for today - just needs finishing off - cauliflower instead of potato. Parcel arrived from China with 100 large sheets of semi-sized rice paper - bigger than A3 - I can cut them in half.

Art today - this must be the last of the grape vines, for a while. This just takes up half the width of the paper so may add to it. Hope everyone has a fabulous Friday. Koffy time.

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ianpspurs said:
Welcome to salmon and avo salad day. Cold but dry with a gentle breeze hereabouts. Glad your flight went well despite all the privations @BRSBRI. Hug for the aches and pains @Muddy Cyclist but hopefully you also find tree felling and root removal fulfilling and great for keeping bg under control. It also lets in light, I find, and all sorts of growth flourishes as a result. Good to hear from you again @RFSMarch and despite obvious logistical issues things sound less bleak for which we are all delighted on your behalf. Nothing to report on my bg until Mk 2 Swipey arrives possibly with free upgrade reader. The world is your lobster Terrence.
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I saw something from Abbotts in my inbox but was too tired to read it... you gonna try the new one then?
 
RFSMarch said:
I saw something from Abbotts in my inbox but was too tired to read it... you gonna try the new one then?
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My last two were the Libre 2 but there was a mix up with the latest order so I need to return the wrong 'uns and get a refund. I have ordered more Mk 2 meantime. The Mk2 can be activated with the reader and read with both reader and phone which I like as an added bonus.
 
RFSMarch said:
I am not sure I am ready to immerse myself back in here... I need to get my head around how I manage my time, BG, Britwatch Sports, company admin, yada yada.

Anyway....
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Great news. Don't worry about immersing yourself back in here - just drop in with your news when you have a spare moment. We love to hear from.you.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Good Morning and a 5.2 for me today. Bacon Hotpot with the thinnest cut layer of potatoes on top of my side, I am surprised by result as onions and carrots were involved.

Wet but not so windy here. Lots of trips to the community waste site to get rid of the tree I fell yesterday, so more aches predicted.

Then the the rest of the day is unplanned other than the involvement of Bach recordings.

Keep safe dodge the bugs.
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Hotpot sounds GREAT..yum

Hug for the hurts,
Aching here too :arghh:

Bending /stooping /stretching, unused muscles not happy after decorating :rolleyes:

I feel your pain, buddy :bag::D
 
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dunelm said:
Trials of Heracles day - you must surely deserve a day of lounging about, feasting and a bit of wine tasting before trials resume on Saturday. Tuscany, Shropshire and now the Loire Valley - will the Chateau be all fancy like The Chateau of Chambord? Whatever, it’s a fine vista.
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Thank you, can you have a word with Mrs MC regarding a day of lounging about?
 
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