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Krystyna23040 said:
the cafe will close for the winter at the end of October.
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Great idea. I've frequently thought that a good idea but I have no cardigans to dribble soup down. Anyhow, Elsie's soup (well, virtually all her cold weather food - these are casserole recipes, no, just pasta bakes without the filler) is a heinous offence against good taste.
 
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Those two birds flying above the scene have the shape of Harriers.
When we went to N.Z. thirty years ago the N.Z. Harrier seemed nearly as common as Crows in the UK and fulfilled its carrion eating role.
Derek
 
Salutary warning that being fully vaccinated means we are all still required to take care despite what BS BJ pumps out. Survived Vietnam but COVID got him Be careful folks.
 
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I know your type!
You have a solid bib turned up at the bottom to catch liquids with Ian in red capitals across the front!
 
lindisfel said:
I know your type!
You have a solid bib turned up at the bottom to catch liquids with Ian in red capitals across the front!
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Oops. Seems like I've either hit a raw nerve or someone has hacked my facebook portal.
 
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Colourful willow tree @dunelm
I prefer one you did before with longer twisted leaves.
 

Thank you @ianpspurs
You are kind with your compliments.
I still have loads to achieve yet...
 
18.10
8.20am FBG 5.5
Watched my sister talking about her peacocks (she has over 200) on Titchmarshs Sunday morning programme. I can confirm that people look much larger on Tv than in real life.
 
SlimLizzy said:
18.10
8.20am FBG 5.5
Watched my sister talking about her peacocks (she has over 200) on Titchmarshs Sunday morning programme. I can confirm that people look much larger on Tv than in real life.
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200 peacocks - are they just for fun or is there some business involving peacocks. Side question - are ear plugs required.
 
Good morning everyone on a very quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of “Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight. It must have been something you said” entered the twilight zone that is the recycling bin - I do hope that these things can indeed be recycled, if only for the metal and the teeny weeny battery.

Hooray! Oh frabjous day, son moved out yesterday - into his home which, although not completely refurbished, is now in a fit state to move into. The monthly fuel and shopping bills will heave a sigh of relief - what do the phrases ‘net contributor’ and ‘carbon neutral’ actually mean? I have read that there may be a shortage of some utterly pointless products leading up to the festive season so any plans to visit your local garage on Christmas eve may need pushing forward a bit although if you have finished with all that working stuff then you can still hit the bright lights of any local high street and gaze in wonder through the windows of a variety of charity shops. Durning book sorting, I found out my copy of “A Christmas Carol” - I don’t know when it was printed, probably in the 1920’s. It has a blue cover with gold lettering and the same illustrations as the first edition by some bloke called John Leech. I like the first sentence; “Marley was dead: to begin with” - we will need it come December for a bit of ‘reading out loud’.

So, art bit - just for fun, is painting city scapes as interesting as painting The Tianzi mountains of China? Answers on a postcard. Meantime have a most wonderful day, I shall now make some koffy.

 
Fbg 6.6



Yesterday was a bit of a rollercoaster of a day.

I had the opticians in the morning. I had the OCT test, paid a tenner for that. We still do not have diabetic retinopathy tests in Wales. They have not resumed doing them since they stopped them because of Covid. So, I thought having the OCT test would be better than nothing.

I do not appreciate this opticians sense of humour/the way he put information over. Right, here's the bad news he says. You have cataracts forming here, and you will need an operation. A long pause. But, the good news he says, is you won't need the operation for many many years (I am thinking I will probably be dead by then so this won't be a concern to me). Now here is more bad news. You have had a hemorrhage in your left eye. That's a stroke, he said. But the good news, he says, is that it happened a few weeks ago and it is healing. In a couple of weeks you wouldn't know it was even there. If this appointment had been a couple of weeks later, I wouldn't have been able to see it, he said.

He did all the other stuff they do, and pronounced my eyes were in very good condition, my eyesight was good, he was very pleased with it.

Apparently the haemorrhage in the eye can be caused by me lifting something heavy, or stress. And it can be accompanied with blurred vision. But I didn't have that.

I decided, most likely it was stress. AH neighbour, and also Popeye. Oh, and also Mr Insensitive neighbour (of the Xmas strobe flashing lights) who blocked our shared drains a couple of weeks ago.

The water board were waiting for me when I got back. They wanted permission to shove a camera up my drains. I said okay. After inspection the guy said there was no problem for me, and he had finished. But some time later I noticed their big van was still outside my house and their small van was blocking the neighbour's driveway on the side nearest me, so I went out. He came out of the big van. It's all okay for you, he said, the Waterboard's paperwork I have to do takes far longer than the job. You can go back in, don't worry if you see the van here for a bit, you have nothing to worry about for the drains on your property.

The Mr Insensitive (Xmas flashing Lights, drain blocker neighbour) was not in his bungalow. Neither car was there.

I went back inside and went to bed. I was tired after the optician's appointment. I woke up a couple of hours or so later. The Waterboard's vans were still outside. No sign of Mr Insensitive neighbour's cars yet.

I had some shopping still in my car (fortunately not fridge stuff), so, I wasn't going to get it until the waterboard had gone. I didn't want to walk into something developing if Mr Insensitive returned home.

So creative this morning is the eye and optician's, and the eye camera in drains...my take on it.

Have an interesting day. I intend to relax and chill out. It is pouring with rain. It was yesterday, and still the heavy machinery noises from AH neighbour's garage. It is not the sound of your normal household DIY machinery, but of heavy more industrial stuff, and it goes on almost non stop for a good few hours every day. I am now beginning to question who is using that machinery and for what purpose. A man in his mid 70's surely doesn't have the energy and stamina to operate this industrial sounding machinery for the long periods it is being used for.

Sorry, I seem to have written a long post (book) again. It was meant to be a short one!


 
I absolutely love cityscapes @dunelm

It is not something I normally do, but I have made some gel prints of cityscapes, and I throughly enjoyed doing them.

Looks suspiciously like the Gherkin in the middle of that...

Yes, cityscapes are as interesting and intriguing as paintings of The Tianzi Mountains of China!
 
5.0 this morning. It was lovely to have a 2 hour break yesterday. I bought a lovely Regatta fleece (30% off) in the garden centre shop. Mr K asked me if I really needed another fleece - but this one was really unusual so of course I had to buy and it was a good price.

Perhaps what I really need is another wardrobe.
 
Of course you had to buy that fleece @Krystyna23040

Another wardrobe would be good too...
 
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