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Thank you @ianpspurs and pleased for you that the NHS are looking after you well.
 
Good morning everyone from daan saaf - well, south of Watford so that’s almost in Normandy where the tropical sunshine produces golden glints through the palm trees, wafted by the zephyrs on balmy nights - stop it - take of those funny glasses. Anyhow, a pal is having a birthday and at our age we need to celebrate how privileged we are by being able to ripen in the twilight sunshine of marvelousness. Never mind the stiff joints, roll them a little looser. Art bit, some more detail but we have been busy looking a wine menus and falling about laughing at the prices. Have a marvelous day if you can. Wonder where he keeps the koffy?


 
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Raining this morning, after a week of mostly sunny days. MrSlim has returned to inside work, he is tidying up the utility area, so some rerouting of trailing wires, some plastering, a bit of tiling and coat of paint over all. Of course Kiki has managed to get a little paint on her paws.
We have been thinking about the Aunt situation and now consider it possible that the missing artworks were sold...So she needs to go through her paperwork. Ofc any sales would have been direct from previous exhibitions so pre covid. Long time ago. Easy to forget.
On Friday we had the weekly French lesson here. Our teacher brought us some medlars and a huge, freshly prepared prêt à cuire rabbit. MrSlim cooked it. Lapin Mme D'Aubery.
The medlars are a different thing. He is keen to blet and cook them into various preserves. He will probably try eating them too. But for me, a more squeamish person, anything that has to be rotten before you can eat it is probably off the menu.
We still have the quince she gave us last week to deal with...
 
Neil has greatly improved. Still gets very tired very easily,and his chest and throat are still very congested, but he is getting on with things, so is obviously feeling better. He went to his brother's house yesterday to get a bit further with the plumbing work. With any luck, they might have a heating system working before the real winter sets in. One more bit to buy (a valve of some sort) tomorrow and it will all be ready to, finally, put together. It's great that he can do all these kind of jobs - literally must have saved the family thousands over the last few years - but jobs always take longer because of his uncertain health.
 
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Fabulous - I am really enjoying this series of Autumnal scenes. Wonder if you can store all the video clips somewhere in the cloud. Google docs maybe or Dropbox?
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Thank you @dunelm

I don't think there is enough space in Google docs. It is not unlimited.
Even my Dropbox only has a TB of storage.
I thought of that and started moving some stuff over, but it takes too long especially when my connection is being iffy.
 
It is taking shape with the gradual addition of detail @dunelm

Looking very majestic...
 
That sounds very possible/plausible @SlimLizzy
That they were sold at previous exhibitions.
Especially as it was pre-Covid...

The rabbit sounds delicious...
 
Sounds like autumn has come to the south. We are fortunate enough to have had it for at least the last four weeks!
Looks like the morning may be dry.
Good to start tidying up the garden before the rain starts again after lunch. I still feel very impaired for heavy work.

Better half still awaiting results of a biopsy on her leg two weeks ago. Wound is healing now.
Apparently they are very short of pathologists locally.
D.
 
I wasn't originally aware, but a forum friend on bike site, advised me he uses Gmail for different groups.

He has for instance, Genn&Gmail / Gennepher@gmail / Genn5@gmail

All very normal and each one gives the 15gb of free storage.

Not used it myself but might be worth a look before paying out.

Upgrade IF, you feel you need it runs at £1.65 a month for 100gb....

Or i have a friend, quite a keen photographer who uses Flickr, very popular with such groups.
Free is limited to 1000 pics or videos, from what I read, tho I imagine the video is capped below the 1k marker, but somewhere else to maybe store a few videos for later retrieval?

While here, I agree with the "who needs all that storage" point.
And duly note "Dropbox only 1TB"...

Incredible how much music, video etc fills it up.

Much buried treasure amongst all the plethora of "ooh, let's keep that" items we store and forget as we graze the global world of knowledge online .

And another here worried when clearing out, have I deleted something I'm going to want in a few months time ..." A d'oh moment "...lol
 
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Morning all from a wet Brecks on Trinity + 20 or Advent -4. Looking out here it is very much like @gennepher's wonderful autumn creative today. Thank you and hugs for clock changing and storage issues. Some good ideas from @jjraak. No 3 son collected the Ancient Range Rover while his insurance company decide what to do about his car. A neighbour shared a CCTV of the incident clearly showing the van driver hitting his car and driving off. @dunelm thank you for revealing more of your splendid latest art and enjoy celebrating with your friend. With the back pain course tips you should be the star of the show in the veterans twerking and limbo competitions. @SlimLizzy good idea on the possible reasons for the missing art. Mr Slim is a legend with all that work but does he now take his breaks? @Annb good news that Neil is recovering and is so talented and helpful to the family. Also good that you are being offered move more courses. @lindisfel good news that Marjorie's leg is healing and I hope she soon hears good news from the biopsy. Is there any need for you to be pushing yourself with heavy work these days? I'm sure your daughter's and Marjorie have queried that even more strongly but blokes will be blokes. Have a song as an antidote to gloomy weather and everything the culture war embodies. Lyrics for you Genn. If Tofu gives one those sentiments munch away, munch away. With credit to Eddie Butler, RIP. (Link to shave away added later)
 
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Ah!
I remember now when I had my first iPad in 2010.
It was only 16 gb and most of that was taken in the software. And so to store stuff, I sent myself emails and put them in a folder...
But I am only talking mb here!

I will see what the maximum is my email addresses will store. I am pretty sure one has a lot of gb.

Thanks for reminding me about emails for storage.

My free Flickr account is already full from long ago...

And I am maxed out on some other free storage.

And believe it or not, I do look through this online storage periodically. And find nice surprises!

I have already accidentally deleted one video where Midnight was chasing the fox like a demented banshee

I was dog tired when I came home on last Wednesday, which carried over for a few days, and I fell behind with the videos and clips. I do need somewhere to park some of this video stuff when this happens. Just for a short while...

Thanks @jjraak for the great ideas.
 
Thanks @ianpspurs
And for the beautiful video.
And for the lyrics.
You have a good day.
 
Never had rabbit, I didn't like the thoughts they were very like cat when cooked according to my sister.
Marjorie lived on a farm and when her dad came back from the war and before the great killing they had her dad feeding their family with rabbit all the time. So she never had them again after we married
Some of you guys will not remember the merciful killing of rabbits when they came to the roads blind and the roads in Sherwood were plastered.
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I would have thought a boy originally from The Fens - granted not the proper fens - would have happily eaten rabbit. hare and wildfowl. You haven't become part of the wokeratti have you? Don't tell me tofu has become a gateway drug to the hard stuff like tempeh. I don't want to know how your sister knew what cooked cat was like thanks.
 
We used to have rabbit and I always enjoyed it the way my mother cooked it. It was a good, cheap meat, albeit usually peppered with lead shot but as long as you didn't mind retrieving the odd one from a mouthful, it was fine. But then came myxomatosis and there were no more rabbits. I gather that the disease was unknown on this island but still, most folk don't eat rabbit. An elderly neighbour once told me thast it was because rabbits burrow in the dunes, which is where most cemeteries are, so people have the image of rabbits digging through the graves of their loved ones. I have only once had rabbit since we came here - bought from a local butcher, but I imagine half its body weight must have been lead. Can't buy them these days. Pity. We have dozens of rabbits on the croft and no way of catching them humanely or it would be on my menu fairly often.
 
Take it steady, @lindisfel
No sense two of you being laid up at the same time, my friend

Hugs to missus, I remember my wait for test results....
What doesn't go through your mind.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery & great results.
 
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