Thats right, I did. I did a little practice doodle using a brush pen on a sheet of A4 writing paper whilst chatting to our grandchildren on Zoom last night.I may be remembering wrong @dunelm but about a year ago you used the Ax Cut stroke for rocks/mountains? I imagine it would work well for bark and leaves.
Good morning everyone from a “why am I up so early” start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of chicken stew followed by the weeniest slice of tea brack with cheese came in at 5.8 this am.
Why in the world did I decide to get up at 4am this morning? I use the words ‘I’ and ‘decide’ but it wasn’t under my control, they were just in there as easy fillers to a short sentence. What I should have said is that a dodgy suprachiasmatic nucleus triggered the release of cortisol and other hormones with scant regard to a certain circadian biological clock mechanism and my own very personal sleep/wake homeostasis plan. Anyhow, I can take advantage of the time to drag the bins out and surprise the neighbours.
Art bit - a tree - I know, and with surround sound if you have the not yet invented app. Hope your Mittwoch is served with a delicious gravy. I shall have an early koffy.
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Great brush pen sketch @dunelmThats right, I did. I did a little practice doodle using a brush pen on a sheet of A4 writing paper whilst chatting to our grandchildren on Zoom last night.
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Good morning everyone from a “why am I up so early” start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of chicken stew followed by the weeniest slice of tea brack with cheese came in at 5.8 this am.
Why in the world did I decide to get up at 4am this morning? I use the words ‘I’ and ‘decide’ but it wasn’t under my control, they were just in there as easy fillers to a short sentence. What I should have said is that a dodgy suprachiasmatic nucleus triggered the release of cortisol and other hormones with scant regard to a certain circadian biological clock mechanism and my own very personal sleep/wake homeostasis plan. Anyhow, I can take advantage of the time to drag the bins out and surprise the neighbours.
Art bit - a tree - I know, and with surround sound if you have the not yet invented app. Hope your Mittwoch is served with a delicious gravy. I shall have an early koffy.
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Oh dear. Hug for the low fbg. Good fences make good neighbours, Mr Frost told me. Good ole Bobby F. Just don't buy his sat navs. Mind you don't damage yer hollyhocks fella.Good happy national bin day Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
Sorry to start my post on a negative note or notes. Absolute disaster darlings, disaster, overslept again then a 4.8 on that grrrrrr meter, a very busy Morening climbing step ladders, chain saw, hedge trimmers and loping shears. My steam driven sliderule came out, teabag reading mug, finger held up into the wind all to calculate my insulin dose. In the end nothing could agree so I just guessed a dose.
This afternoon I shall be continuing with the afore mentioned task but with the addition of a shredder, why Mrs J can't just vapourise the debris with her kill at a glance chip me and me's will never know.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers good luck with all your endeavours, but garden tasks await, I wonder if my neighbour will mind me butchering the hedge between us, I'm only decreasing it's height by 2 to 3 feet.
Now I must go and .......
Thank you @gennepherGreat brush pen sketch @dunelm
Thank you @gennepherOh dear, so the neighbours got their early morning wake up call @dunelm
The tree has worked out very well...
Wow, looks like you have been blowing glassFbg 6.5
I had a cat get me up at 3.30 am because he couldn't sleep (and neither could I because he kept moving), so I fed cat and I went and made myself a cuppa, and come back to an asleep cat sprawled all over the bed. So it was blanket and the couch for me...
My attempt in Snapseed not so successful methinks. I took a photo of a light shining through my kitchen door window in the dark. Placed it on top of each other a few times. Absolute rubbish. Took a photo of my apples, put that in yet another double exposure on the first photo. Played in curves. Gave up. This is a bad job. My brain needs sleep.
I did however learn how to get further into Snapseed’s tool settings...
Now for a very long nap, if only that cat stays asleep...
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Can’t beat a bit of Yorkshire Brack topped with cheese https://www.botham.co.uk/yorkshire-brackWelcome one and all to St Giles day and meteorological autumn. The latter makes my heart sink anyhow but much moreso following a poor summer and not being in such a fecund environment. To business. 5.6 on Swipey - simply too high. If carbs are the key yesterday's 11 is too high, If it is weight, <73 kgs for a bmi of around 22/22.2 is too hefty. C'mon, really? Blame it on the boogie I reckon. Hug for early waking @dunelm and @mojo37. @lindisfel I pray the gnasher wizard performs wonders or as @dunelm says, soup, cardigans and cats for thee old chum. @gennepher all I see is a highly creative piece of art, several degrees of talent above an unmade bed. Great tree dunelm and @geefull another magnificent seascape. A couple of regulars here could probably manage a gull wing or two. That would buy half a 2nd hand tractor. @Krystyna23040 great fbg and system for working through new exercises. For all it matters, my money is on the exercise and mood as a key component in bg management once a sensible carb intake has been achieved. Necessary but not sufficient and just because lc may help it doesn't follow that ultra lc is even better. I even had a bacon sandwich for breakfast - skinny bread and reduced salt and sugar tommy k. Was lc and some extra cals but I'm more comfortable missing breakfast and bacon. Oh, I googled Tea Brack - oh my, how tastes vary but I'd be delighted to find 4 or 5 things lc I view as treats just now,
Can you come and trim our fig tree?Good happy national bin day Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
Sorry to start my post on a negative note or notes. Absolute disaster darlings, disaster, overslept again then a 4.8 on that grrrrrr meter, a very busy Morening climbing step ladders, chain saw, hedge trimmers and loping shears. My steam driven sliderule came out, teabag reading mug, finger held up into the wind all to calculate my insulin dose. In the end nothing could agree so I just guessed a dose.
This afternoon I shall be continuing with the afore mentioned task but with the addition of a shredder, why Mrs J can't just vapourise the debris with her kill at a glance chip me and me's will never know.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers good luck with all your endeavours, but garden tasks await, I wonder if my neighbour will mind me butchering the hedge between us, I'm only decreasing it's height by 2 to 3 feet.
Now I must go and .......
Can you come and trim our fig tree?
Pruning time is December https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=858 otherwise you get trapped into shopping. Cut and stack the legwood for seasoning - 18 months at least- in cords before using on the fire. Rake up the smaller branches, put on the burn pile and have a huge bonfire about mid May. After Christmas make sure to winter wash (too busy for sales, that and ditching) - not that stupid sprayer, proper napsack. Figs? Put a chain around the trunk, hook up the RR and off you go.Ahh an invite to the dark and dangerous norf, I love sneaking up norf to the moors and dales, but not sure when me and me's will be allowed a pass out, also my destinations are kept strictly private.
But can I respectfully suggest @ianpspurs as he must have acres of experience pruning his old small holding and now at his new abode more free time.
Good luck with your quest and we'll done on your art work.
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