Well done you on the volunteering and spiffing art to bootGood afternoon everyone on a hot and humid afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of cauliflower cheese and spring greens came in at 5.2 this am
Up and out at 0730 this morning for vaccination duties at local GP surgery so have been in PPE for 5 hours today. We had a production line going on 10 minute appointment windows and 5 vaccination stations. 700 vaccinations took place between 0810 and 1300 - pretty good I think.
Anyhow, art today - another mountain scene - trying for dryer brushes. Hope everyone is enjoying the day - missed out on koffy this morning.
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Good afternoon everyone on a hot and humid afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of cauliflower cheese and spring greens came in at 5.2 this am
Up and out at 0730 this morning for vaccination duties at local GP surgery so have been in PPE for 5 hours today. We had a production line going on 10 minute appointment windows and 5 vaccination stations. 700 vaccinations took place between 0810 and 1300 - pretty good I think.
Anyhow, art today - another mountain scene - trying for dryer brushes. Hope everyone is enjoying the day - missed out on koffy this morning.
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A successful morning @dunelmGood afternoon everyone on a hot and humid afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of cauliflower cheese and spring greens came in at 5.2 this am
Up and out at 0730 this morning for vaccination duties at local GP surgery so have been in PPE for 5 hours today. We had a production line going on 10 minute appointment windows and 5 vaccination stations. 700 vaccinations took place between 0810 and 1300 - pretty good I think.
Anyhow, art today - another mountain scene - trying for dryer brushes. Hope everyone is enjoying the day - missed out on koffy this morning.
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I quite like the idea of isolation - as long as I warm, had internet and my husband - so not so isolated in reality.Love the idea of a lighthouse, but am realistic enough to know the reality would be much colder, damper and lonlier than my dream.
EXEC JET!what would you guys do?
Sounds like you added brilliant service to a well run operation. Big win!!Good afternoon everyone on a hot and humid afternoon here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of cauliflower cheese and spring greens came in at 5.2 this am
Up and out at 0730 this morning for vaccination duties at local GP surgery so have been in PPE for 5 hours today. We had a production line going on 10 minute appointment windows and 5 vaccination stations. 700 vaccinations took place between 0810 and 1300 - pretty good I think.
Anyhow, art today - another mountain scene - trying for dryer brushes. Hope everyone is enjoying the day - missed out on koffy this morning.
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Thanks for the excellent advice there @Muddy CyclistSounds like you added brilliant service to a well run operation. Big win!!
Good Mountains again and a hint for getting dryer brushes, use less water.
Brilliant, wonderful colours - I must look this place up as I go to the National Memorial Arboretum a couple of times a year - especially for an event called Ride To The Wall.Been a cool old day here, went for fish from sons and ended up planting 80 summer bulbs in his garden. Probably against the rules but played safe and had Wilfrid for convenience....
Managed to thaw out and finish the Willow tree painting of Places I have enjoyed.. This is an odd one because it's a flooded gravel pit near The National Arboretum Alrewas. I can't paint the reason it's special as it's the smell. When kids we used to play in a stream that ran through Willenhall, it's the start of the river Tame and it smelt if stagnant water crossed with metallic engineering smells, awful. This same river runs past theArboretum into the Trent and that same smell can be smelt there. As soon as I smell it childhood memories come back the water in the river Tame seems to have a unique smell....
A4 watercolour...
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Been a cool old day here, went for fish from sons and ended up planting 80 summer bulbs in his garden. Probably against the rules but played safe and had Wilfrid for convenience....
Managed to thaw out and finish the Willow tree painting of Places I have enjoyed.. This is an odd one because it's a flooded gravel pit near The National Arboretum Alrewas. I can't paint the reason it's special as it's the smell. When kids we used to play in a stream that ran through Willenhall, it's the start of the river Tame and it smelt if stagnant water crossed with metallic engineering smells, awful. This same river runs past theArboretum into the Trent and that same smell can be smelt there. As soon as I smell it childhood memories come back the water in the river Tame seems to have a unique smell....
A4 watercolour...
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Hugs for the wsy your feeling xYesterday 5.3
Today 5.1
But am feeling very stressed and miserable as it's still eight weeks at least before we can go home. Although MrSlim has informed me we might be able to use the motorhome and actually go somewhere, possibly even be able to meet outside with friends/family limited numbers of course.
Thanks for the excellent advice there @Muddy Cyclist
For the GP surgery I was in charge of squirting hands with a dollop of an unspecified substance and keeping numbers in the waiting room down to six.
Nicely described, @gennepherOkay, you have described it well enough, I can smell it @Muddy Cyclist
I used to wander along the Walsall Canal system when I was a teenager, and there were many derelict industries, and a lot of the canal sidings leading to each industry were disused and were silted up with reeds. There was metal things dumped, and stuff leaking into the canal. I can still remember the smell there.
It is a calming peaceful watercolour...
Yes, I remember 'brave beyond stupid' as you describe itNice described, @gennepher
Similar experiences here.
Little inlet off Thames.
Designed to feed power station
Ex railway yard,
Summer holidays climbing into places we shouldn't, wandering forbidden railway tracks. The inlet/ creek silted up at the back of disused factories, that 'Smell' lingering in the air.
Happy, glorious, carefree days.
The days of the endless summers.
Back there now, just 3 lads, brave beyond stupid.
Fences climbed, guards AND their dogs evaded.
sneaking on to the bow of a Thames barge moored up.alongside what seemed like a canyon of disused railway boxes.
Climbing down into the bulkhead, to chat, tell tall stories & sing.
Yeah, we sang, badly most likely,
but we sang whatever was popular.
Remember "Sound of silence" "the fighter" and "America" among a few others by Simon & Garfunkel being common choices.
Ahh. Happy days.
Yes, I remember 'brave beyond stupid' as you describe it
I also remember chain link fences which I undid, and then escaping guards and Alsatians, a good runner I was then...
But we survived and had life experiences didn't we @jjraak
Adventures are a necessary part of childhood and beyond...
I think we could all write more than a book full of childhood escapades.
I am remembering, and I wonder how I am still here sometimes...
Wonderful colours here @gennepher - Mondrian goes all Kandinsky in a stained glass masterpiece.Fbg 6.9
My digital painting for today...
I was doodling and it developed into an abstract painting.
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