What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[ianpspurs]

I second that emotion.

Very clever - almost miraculous. Have a classic, IMHO Memories? @Lamont D

 

[dunelm]

Very clever - almost miraculous. Have a classic, IMHO must. Memories? @Lamont D

It’ll be Frank Wilson next. Pal of mine, her husband is a musician and tells great stories about backing the Ronettes amongst others and Phil Spector pointing a gun at him. Still playing.

 

[Lamont D]

I second that emotion.

Love it!
Not one of his best but still top ten in the states.
Smokey Robinson is still performing, which is now over sixty. He released his umpteenth album earlier this year. Amazing talent!

 

[Lamont D]

Very clever - almost miraculous. Have a classic, IMHO Memories? @Lamont D

What a band!. What a tune! I forgot Atlantic records.
A other similar band is Harold Melvin and the blue notes.
And then there's..... EW&F.....!

 

[Lamont D]

It’ll be Frank Wilson next. Pal of mine, her husband is a musician and tells great stories about backing the Ronettes amongst others and Phil Spector pointing a gun at him. Still playing.

You do ron, ron?
Spector, complete nutter, but could turn a tune!
Frank Wilson (you asked?) Was a songwriter first and foremost, after writing and producing the hit, he left Motown to write and produce for other artists.....on another well known label. Just as my namesake did around the same time.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Fbg 6.8

Wildlife nighttime cameras
A medley of animals, Pa Badger left the badger cubs at home with mum while he enjoyed foraging...

Creative is an ink painting I did, which I finished off with the black ink drawing in Procreate.

Sparrows - there are 30 plus baby sparrows in my garden and no parents. There are three females I particularly recognise because they were the first in this latest batch of baby sparrows. I called them the 3 Musketeers. They squawked loudly, fluffing up their baby feathers, but no one came. They could all feed themselves from the feeders but they were skinny. Eventually more baby sparrows got 'dumped' in my garden. And no one was feeding any of them, but they squawked loudly to no avail. Then they got on with feeding themselves from the feeders. Some doing better than others. So I felt an obligation, as the adult, to make sure the feeders were always full. 20 plus fatballs a day was needed for this hungry lot. And if they ran out, I have a whole pile of baby sparrows looking at me to refill... that happened yesterday afternoon. They seem to regard me as 'she who fills the fatball feeders'.

They play all day long, fly up to my bedroom (door is open outwards into the garden).

A couple of days ago, two adult male sparrows flew into the garden and began feeding all the baby sparrows. It was bedlam when the baby sparrows realised someone was feeding them. Fights broke out between the baby sparrows to be first to be fed by the adult male sparrows. These same two adult males are now coming daily, a couple of hours after daylight and are leaving around 4pm.

As far as I can tell, all the 30 plus baby sparrows are females. They live and play and sleep and eat in my garden. They are a flock of sparrows in themselves. Is this how flocks of sparrows are formed?

They are used to this human, and don't mind me wandering among them doing my stuff.

I can happily watch them all day...

Have a great day.

Time for a cuppa.

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Lovely painting @gennepher

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife camera...Pa Badger fossicking around, then joined by badger son

Creative is ink painting, but the black line drawing has been done digitally, because these individual ink paintings are going to be used for postcards for my hobby of Postcrossing, and only then will I do an actual black ink brush pen drawing based on the interests of the recipients.

Time for a nap

Despite the strong winds outside, the temperature has already reached 20C...

Have your best day

Those baby/young sparrows are getting very cheeky, they keep flying in and out of my bedroom door (which opens outwards into the garden). Each time they do that, I freeze! And watch! Yesterday, the fatball feeder nearest my bedroom door (just over a metre away) ran out of fatballs twice. And the baby/young birds just sat on the branch and looked at me....I had no choice but to refill...

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone and welcome to a dull and blustery start here in the dark and dangerous north. Just out the washing on the line and fed some sugar water to a bee which took a few sips before gathering itself up and flying off. Rain stopped play yesterday with a tap full on and then off action to fool the optimistic into venturing out. Have coat sales fallen into decline? Must be a fashion shift, a bit like tall hats in the 19th C. Watched the first episode of the TV production of Becoming Elizabeth last night - not sure. Better watch another episode. Art bit, slowly slowly. Hope you have a smashing day, I am living this one as if it’s Tuesday. Better make some koffy.

 

[gennepher]

Lovely painting @gennepher gennepher.

Thank you @Krystyna23040

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife camera...Pa Badger fossicking around, then joined by badger son

Creative is ink painting, but the black line drawing has been done digitally, because these individual ink paintings are going to be used for postcards for my hobby of Postcrossing, and only then will I do an actual black ink brush pen drawing based on the interests of the recipients.

Time for a nap

Despite the strong winds outside, the temperature has already reached 20C...

Have your best day

Those baby/young sparrows are getting very cheeky, they keep flying in and out of my bedroom door (which opens outwards into the garden). Each time they do that, I freeze! And watch! Yesterday, the fatball feeder nearest my bedroom door (just over a metre away) ran out of fatballs twice. And the baby/young birds just sat on the branch and looked at me....I had no choice but to refill...

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Really enjoying this series @gennepher

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone and welcome to a dull and blustery start here in the dark and dangerous north. Just out the washing on the line and fed some sugar water to a bee which took a few sips before gathering itself up and flying off. Rain stopped play yesterday with a tap full on and then off action to fool the optimistic into venturing out. Have coat sales fallen into decline? Must be a fashion shift, a bit like tall hats in the 19th C. Watched the first episode of the TV production of Becoming Elizabeth last night - not sure. Better watch another episode. Art bit, slowly slowly. Hope you have a smashing day, I am living this one as if it’s Tuesday. Better make some koffy.

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Glad I don't have a tv. I don't have to wonder if it is worth losing another hour of my life watching the second episode of a series to see if it has picked up its pace @dunelm

Art bit solidly progressing. You are skilled at these solid stone walls...

 

[gennepher]

Really enjoying this series @gennepher

Thanks @dunelm

 

[lindisfel]

Temperature peaking at 17deg C a.t.m.and much cooler at night. Our downstairs bedrooms on the North side of the house don't get warm even in the last heat wave. We would have to fell a lot of trees to make much change in heat gain.

I can see why the little boxes in town with open plan postage stamp sized gardens get cooked. The country is not designed for climate change without air con so in future more people are going to be discomforted.
D.

 

[Krystyna23040]

It would be an idea, as you say, for there to be some kind of one system where all these kinds of apps for controlling medical devices could (have to) register on. And in theory you go to this one central site especially when you have a problem or for advice. In this way, all this information from the different apps devices/updates etc could be collated and in theory be sorted more easily. But that is probably all too difficult to set up @Annb

Currently I get told by the hospital to bring up my issues with cochlear. Cochlear direct you to the FAQ's. That in turn can direct you to the your phone provider who in turn direct you to...
No real person actually answers your problem/question/etc because no one knows the answer.

@gennepher having one system would be so efficient and work really well and would be so much better than the chaotic system at the moment.

 

[Krystyna23040]

7.3 this morning. We are off to PACT animal sanctuary later as they have an open day. Hopefully it won't rain.

 

[jjraak]

@gennepher having one system would be so efficient and work really well and would be so much better than the chaotic system at the moment.

I fear that's a dream, if local councils & the car kings of travel can't get one to suit all .

I have to have 3 separate apps to park the car.

One for home area, one for around work & one for around the main hospital I needed after accident

Suppose if I go outside to other councils I'll need yet another app.

So to have the havoc inflicted on you gen by those updates, your absolutely entitled to rant.

Not dissimilar, but bus lane rules & motorcycle parking...mmh.

One big city, so one same system ...not a chance. lol

A dozen variants on bus lane usage, and a myriad of motor cycle parking rules, that enormously hinder anyone trying to motorcycle into London unaware of each council's arbitrary rules

I fear no one gives up their tiny bit of power for the good of the public & a unified system, sadly

 

[Annb]

I fear that's a dream, if local councils & the car kings of travel can't get one to suit all .

I have to have 3 separate apps to park the car.

One for home area, one for around work & one for around the main hospital I needed after accident

Suppose if I go outside to other councils I'll need yet another app.

So to have the havoc inflicted on you gen by those updates, your absolutely entitled to rant.

Not dissimilar, but bus lane rules & motorcycle parking...mmh.

One big city, so one same system ...not a chance. lol

A dozen variants on bus lane usage, and a myriad of motor cycle parking rules, that enormously hinder anyone trying to motorcycle into London unaware of each council's arbitrary rules

I fear no one gives up their tiny bit of power for the good of the public & a unified system, sadly

I have to agree with you - it's all about empire building and power but there is something very wrong in a society that allows such a situation to exist. The parking fee problem could be sorted easily though, by not insisting that everyone uses an app. There may be other situations where using an app makes life difficult for the citizens of this land and could be legislated for fairly easily by banning the exclusive use of apps to access the service. It is not beyond the wit of man (or woman) to work it out. It seems to be beyond the wit, or desire, of government though.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a sub-optimal production of a verisimilitude of a summer's day in L.A. @gennepher thanks for sharing the video, creative and fossicking. I do miss this although I remember Robert Robinson as the host. Today's creative is breathtaking - they are always good but this is different gwavy. @dunelm thanks for sharing the latest update of your splendid art. I googled that programme and found series 2 was pulled - which often means it is pretty good. Considering I ate red meat (steak) and drank red wine last evening, the morning data was wonderful. That combo is usually more challenging for some aspects of this tent in which I live. @Krystyna23040 I hope the weather stays fine for you. @lindisfel the issue of keeping houses cool may be behind the trend for open plan living and one wall of bi-fold doors. Side effects must be big areas to heat for up to 10 months of the year. Shame imho the other gel won Wimbledon but I'm pleased Somerset won the T20 - nice tribute to Barnaby Webber in my mind. Enjoy your day and GOAT or not Novak, man like Ian wants Alcaraz to win.

 

[dunelm]

Glad I don't have a tv. I don't have to wonder if it is worth losing another hour of my life watching the second episode of a series to see if it has picked up its pace @dunelm

Art bit solidly progressing. You are skilled at these solid stone walls...

Thank you @gennepher

 

[ianpspurs]

I have to agree with you - it's all about empire building and power but there is something very wrong in a society that allows such a situation to exist. The parking fee problem could be sorted easily though, by not insisting that everyone uses an app. There may be other situations where using an app makes life difficult for the citizens of this land and could be legislated for fairly easily by banning the exclusive use of apps to access the service. It is not beyond the wit of man (or woman) to work it out. It seems to be beyond the wit, or desire, of government though.

cui bono/sequere pecuniam - not the person on the Clapham - so sorry, Clayfam - omnibus for sure. Would it surprise anyone if I blamed The Grocer's daughter?