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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone of a very late start here on a quite bright morning in the dark and dangerous north
So much going on yesterday - actually found a bus stop with people waiting and after a chat about routes and timetables, flashed my bus pass and enjoyed the ride on the nearly empty bus. All manner of delights for offer at the farmers market but shortened my arms and only purchased what I had in mind. Apart from a rather nice looking Polish sweet bread bun studded with slices of sausage for my BIL who was busy in the garden constructing a path. A biking pal that I had not seen for over a year called round and we had a good old natter, like in a scene involving Cissie Braithwaite and Ada Shufflebotham leaning over the wall. Girl in the bubble is upstairs - still sleeping, as is Mrs Miggins - a disturbed night.
Art bit - something I did last week - A3 on rice paper. Hope your Sunday is a very peaceful one and involves some time for yourself. Koffy for me.

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ianpspurs said:

Lionel Blue was fond of saying Chicken Soup for the soul but maybe we can re-purpose (so very woke, dontcha know) that as sausage roll and coffee for the soul? I hope the weather is more friendly there than it is here.

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Krystyna23040 said:

Yes, for Mr K a sausage roll is definitely for the soul. For me it is coffee.
The weather here is not very friendly either. No rain (yet) but really windy. I don't think our walk around the water gardens will be a very long walk.

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ianpspurs said:

The wind and buffeting reminded me of this poem I have just read. Heaney was troubled by the news as he lived during The Troubles but this poem reminds us that, in his words used in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (thanks Malcolm Guite) we can "make space for the marvellous as well as the murderous." Your walk and the cafe will bring the marvellous from outside of you to deep inside you - at least for a while. Grab hold of that feeling and "treasure it in your heart." Now I need a not cross bun because it is Sunday - a mini Easter and even the Elsie prison has her moments.

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ianpspurs said:

Thank you for the good wishes for my day and the gift of your gift of art. Top job on them there shortened arms and bus pass. JKP has one but I don't - dogs kennel fees and hotel bills until one could make a return journey wouldn't be cost effective. I hope TGIB and the inestimable Mrs Miggins enjoy a sleep for the ages. As for the news it seems to attract me like a moth to a flame as does Swipey. Yeats seems to be on the money for that.

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dunelm said:

I enjoyed the reading of this poem by the author - not cross bun but shudder to think about the carbs in this recipe; https://patient.info/news-and-features/recipe-diabetes-friendly-hot-cross-buns

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ianpspurs said:

Greetings from a dull old man on a dull second Sunday in Lent in Forest Heath and probably everywhere else. Swipey wanted my fbg to be 5.3 at 4.27 but it doesn't want me to trust what it shows, Elsie/Ketowetowoos or any lifestyle that might last even a whole 24 hrs. Quantum Physics interests me not one iota but I get the vibe dudes. I honestly don't set out to be a contrarian but I do have a very deep feeling that "this isn't right" - there is definitely "something better out there." I want delicious, nutritious, satiaticious and Swipey friendlyicous - heavy on the fish and salad please. Instead today is roast chicken day because promising to love JKP in front of God and a big audience means for life T2 or not. Moving on. @gennepher good news on the garden and wildlife front. Thanks for another splendid kaleidoscope (I'm becoming fluent in typing that ) World news is heartbreaking, sport yesterday didn't "do it for me," COVID rates are rising (who could possibly have foreseen that?) but Amazon delivered more Assam leaves - what's not to like?

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dunelm said:

Nothing better than the ‘all is well’ cry in the garden and the order of the universe returning. Another lovely kaleidoscope. I searched for Popeye in the maze but then there he was, peering out of a vortex.

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ianpspurs said:

Here is a poem with some relevance to a few: @Krystyna23040 geographically; @Granny_grump_ for the getting out and about after COVID sheltering and the positive impact on your mental health; @jjraak on your slow but steady recovery; for @dunelm and your walks into town despite back issues; for @gennepher with your mobility issues but deep, deep love of the mysterious link between the external world and internal life. It works well even if you ignore any Christian message, IMHO. I like that part of N Norfolk much more than Breckland or Suffolk generally.

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone of a very late start here on a quite bright morning in the dark and dangerous north
So much going on yesterday - actually found a bus stop with people waiting and after a chat about routes and timetables, flashed my bus pass and enjoyed the ride on the nearly empty bus. All manner of delights for offer at the farmers market but shortened my arms and only purchased what I had in mind. Apart from a rather nice looking Polish sweet bread bun studded with slices of sausage for my BIL who was busy in the garden constructing a path. A biking pal that I had not seen for over a year called round and we had a good old natter, like in a scene involving Cissie Braithwaite and Ada Shufflebotham leaning over the wall. Girl in the bubble is upstairs - still sleeping, as is Mrs Miggins - a disturbed night.
Art bit - something I did last week - A3 on rice paper. Hope your Sunday is a very peaceful one and involves some time for yourself. Koffy for me.

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gennepher said:

Sounded like a nice companionable day @dunelm
Your art bit...peacefulness and tranquility...

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gennepher said:

Thanks @dunelm

He thought he would be a bit different today....

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jjraak said:

I almost though he was the inner ring in the kaleidoscope, but then I spotted him..

Nice

Ps garden scene sounded idyllic.

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jjraak said:

A late entry on the thread from me, again.

Always much more of a night owl then the early bird
But sleep is all over the place at the moment.

A hard refrain but I do remind myself how far I have come, but frustration still nags me at the glacial pace,,
And seems more a release from these mundane 4 walls that is so my normal now.

Beginning to understand why cats scratch to get out ..then scratch to get back in so soon.

Lauren, after what's been a tough year or two for.her, has with lots of encouragement from me, that I'd be fine... Now departed the early hours for a week's yoga retreat/course in the canaries.

So up until silly o'clock with her, BGs seemed s pointless task.


I Understand the news avoidance, but I too am drawn to it like a moth .
Hoping each day brings more good news then bad.
But still find myself mining deep for the smallest of morsels to cheer, yet still I return each day

Hoping for a good afternoon for you all

Unfettered by comprising, I shall channel my inner cat, and peruse the houses & sleep where and when I desire (windowsill excluded )

Stay safe, all

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gennepher said:

You have come a long way. It is not easy to see that of oneself @jjraak
That will be good for both of you, Lauren going on that week's yoga retreat in the Canaries.

Try and have at least one day news avoidance. Just for the rest of today would be good. Then back to looking again at the news tomorrow. I am normally searching it too much. But today is my rest day from any news.

Windowsills are nice actually if you are channeling your inner cat searching for a sunny spot

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jjraak said:

Windowsills..

Laurens bff ..had a big ginger cat that used to bask belly up in her first floor window box. Lol.

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