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gennepher said:
Nice old ruin @dunelm

Ah!
New cars and their obtuse messages.
There's a whole pile of stuff with my new car.
Yesterday my car flashed at me "Leading driver pulling away" It kept flashing me and repeating the message. Very disconcerting. Of course the driver in front of me has pulled away...he was trying to enter the main road on a right turn, the car on right was letting him go, but not the oncoming traffic from the left. I cannot move because I am still waiting at the junction. But I am distracted by it, looking at whatever message the car is trying to tell me.
An inappropriate instruction.

The next instruction the car gave me was when I was driving home.
By the way I always have two hands on the steering wheel, I never drive one handed like many people do.
And the instruction on the screen in front of me. "Put both hands on the steering wheel!"
That distracted me, and confused me. I had both hands on the steering wheel, holding it properly. I was momentarily distracted from the busy road. Which is not a good thing.
So, what is the car going to do to me if it perceives I don't have my hands on the steering wheel?

And also if I am avoiding a pothole and I have to go near the left kerb edge my car flashes at me, and it does an automatic correction, steering me away from the curb edge...and into the pothole I go...I thought initially I was imagining this. But asked daughter when she was here, to check if that was happening. Yes it is mum, the car is doing a steering wheel correction. But what if I am avoiding a motorcyclist passing too close to me, or something else. Not good said daughter...

Too much clever stuff...
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I'm so glad our car is an old one. It has its problems but not with technology. We don't even have a Satnav on it, preferring to trust maps and road signs. When you look at a map of our Island on Google, it places us about 2 miles away along some narrow (one way) roads. Same with quite a lot of Google maps I have seen. My brother tells me he has a lot of trouble with his Satnav, although he has used one for years and keeps on using it. It can't cope with road closures for whatever reason and seems to come up with some pretty stupid ideas for alternatives.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. The 5.7 Swipey offered up doesn't fit any samples the labs analyse or 8 years of data from yesterday's food but it could obviously be accurate (ish). I've got 99 problems and that ain't one of them. Now, if'we had no tea or salad...... @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderful art and hugs for car issues. @Krystyna23040 hug for #emailgate. @SlimLizzy glad you are home safely and can preserve the bounty from your hard work. Happy birthday to granddaughter. I take it #3 girl arrived safely in UK. Have a good day..
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Thanks Ian
 
Annb said:
I'm so glad our car is an old one. It has its problems but not with technology. We don't even have a Satnav on it, preferring to trust maps and road signs. When you look at a map of our Island on Google, it places us about 2 miles away along some narrow (one way) roads. Same with quite a lot of Google maps I have seen. My brother tells me he has a lot of trouble with his Satnav, although he has used one for years and keeps on using it. It can't cope with road closures for whatever reason and seems to come up with some pretty stupid ideas for alternatives.
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Google maps are not the best...they do come up with inappropriate ideas for alternatives....
 
BG at 4.45 am was 8.9. Tea, painkillers, doze. BG at 7.00 was 7.9. More tea. Shower with bandages taken off (it's rebandaging day today, so I can unbind my legs and have a proper shower), weigh-in - ouch another pound gained! 9 am, more painkillers and more tea. Have to eat something soon - stomach making noises, objecting to being so empty and I have to go out in less than an hour for the rebandaging. Trying to empty the big freezer so I took out a couple of unidentifiable packets of 2 different kinds of soup (one green and one kind of orange) to have later but probably a mushroom omelette now.

This new counting calorie regime is already being a problem because I am trying to up the calorie count without upping the carb count. Hence the gain in weight, I think.

Now the Libre is bleeping at me, so I'd better see what it wants.

It's telling me that my BG is now 10.7 and I should do something about it. Insulin and breakfast, I think, is the order of the morning.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. The 5.7 Swipey offered up doesn't fit any samples the labs analyse or 8 years of data from yesterday's food but it could obviously be accurate (ish). I've got 99 problems and that ain't one of them. Now, if'we had no tea or salad...... @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderful art and hugs for car issues. @Krystyna23040 hug for #emailgate. @SlimLizzy glad you are home safely and can preserve the bounty from your hard work. Happy birthday to granddaughter. I take it #3 girl arrived safely in UK. Have a good day..
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Hi Ian. No3 girl (child4 to family) arrived safely but earlier than scheduled causing a bit of a kerfuffle, slightly shaky start, so in intensive care couple of days, now home and doing better.
 
6.9 this morning. I went on to Fasthosts, my email provider and they were brilliant. Initially they were puzzled by the issue but they then worked out that the reason I was blocked was because I used the word payment in my group emails. So I substituted class fees for the word payment and bt internet did not block the emails. All I have to do next month is to remember that I cannot use the P word in my group emails.
 
lindisfel said:
The RSPB have overstepped their brief by accusing government ministers of lying when its the policy that they should have addressed. As a member of the RSPB I do not agree with their approach.

The causes of river pollution is complex and the fact that privatised Water Companies approach is to dump untreated sewage and take the money in dividends they should have spent on sewage treatment.

In our area most of the pollution is caused by farming whereas in the Lakes the input to sewage systems is caused by million of visitors and human demand.

It is very complex, the RSPB knows we have lost Curlews and other birds through farming practice. Which ultimately is government decree and maximising farming profits.
D.
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The policy of dumping is an option which exacerbates any other cause!
my local area suffers from industrial pollution from further up towards Stockport Manchester area!
I remember the sewage system being diverted thirty or more years ago!
Which under EU ruling, cleaned up the river!
Since brexit, the sewage is back!

6.6 this am. Meter readings day, hmmmpmh! Gardening nearly done, a break in the weather, but missed the blue moon. Too cloudy! The heating came on automatically again. Summer is promised for the weekend, well, a possibility of maybe, could be, might get above a poor summers twenty degrees! We shall see!

Chores done, no shopping, gonna relax a bit after a busy morning, Gardening to do, food to prepare, life goes on!
My best wishes to you all as always!
 
Annb said:
I'm so glad our car is an old one. It has its problems but not with technology. We don't even have a Satnav on it, preferring to trust maps and road signs. When you look at a map of our Island on Google, it places us about 2 miles away along some narrow (one way) roads. Same with quite a lot of Google maps I have seen. My brother tells me he has a lot of trouble with his Satnav, although he has used one for years and keeps on using it. It can't cope with road closures for whatever reason and seems to come up with some pretty stupid ideas for alternatives.
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Do not plan your journeys on an older than a few years satnav! The horror of not finding roads is frustrating!
And it costs to upgrade, shocking!
I learned to use my iPhone, but we had a super duper sat nav installed in my last season before covid!
Until recently, we never had anything but new cars, and if in doubt, your dealer has to sort it! Modern vehicles are designed not to mess about with. Gone are the days when you could tinker with them!
 
Lamont D said:
The policy of dumping is an option which exacerbates any other cause!
my local area suffers from industrial pollution from further up towards Stockport Manchester area!
I remember the sewage system being diverted thirty or more years ago!
Which under EU ruling, cleaned up the river!
Since brexit, the sewage is back!
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There's something odd happening with the birdlife on this island and I don't think it has anything to do with local pollution. Our sewage goes through a large kind of septic tank down by the shore. From there, relatively clean water is pumped out to sea. The same system is used all over the Island. It's not an ideal system, but better than pumping raw sewage directly out to sea. Our rivers are not in the right positions for any waste to be discharged into them. The land is not, in general, adulterated with chemicals because we mostly only grow grass for a few sheep; there are no factories to speak of - just a few mills. Nevertheless, our bird population has been drastically reduced. We used to see all sorts of birds from our windows but now it is just a few crows, a few starlings, a few sparrows and a family of greylag geese (about 8 of them). The occasional heron visits from the nesting site in Stornoway and there is a blackbird skulking around occasionally. The swans have stopped coming, the lapwings have disappeared, no more shrikes, even the corncrakes seem to have given up, no waxwings eating the berries from our cotoneasters. No idea what has happened unless it is something to do with climate changing and causing their food sources to dry up.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

I came back yesterday from seeing my friend in England, and some large parcels that I had been waiting weeks for, had been delivered, finally. The idiot delivery driver had piled then up right by the door blocking the cat flap. There were 2 gingers and one black cats (strays) who couldn't understand why their entrance to my kitchen was blocked, and thus their access to food. I removed the boxes carefully, and on the other side of the cat flap was a very confused Midnight. He was too bewildered and scared to come out initially, bur then he shot off into the back garden to do his business...
He came back and gave me a lecture on how he'd had to cross his legs all day...

I was shattered because my friend has a new to her phone. It's daughter's husband's old iPhone. My friend does not do technology. So, our time was spent me trying to explain, then demonstrating, then making her do several exercises on it. I know from experience from when I taught oldies pre-Covid lockdowns about iPads/smartphones/computers that if this is their first time on these devices, it can take many many sessions for even the simple things to sink in. This is the second session I have had with her, and this is proceeding the same way...

I came back home cream-crackered, only to find new road signs up. These were telling me I couldn't turn left, from the High Street, where I usually turned left. I wasn't the only confused driver. Drivers in front of me were turning left, then realising it was now a one way road they could not go up, braking suddenly, backing out into the High Street, only to find the next left turn also had a new no left turn sign...

And I finally get home after also encountering a blocked road by workmen in the road, no warning before I got to it, so had to do a u-turn, drive back a long way (as did all the drivers behind me). No advance warning, yet for traffic in the other direction, there was a notice saying diversion and a diversion route...

Went to bed and went to sleep next few hours. But I haven't slept properly this night now...I am going to have to cancel my plans for today and stay at home...

Wildlife camera.
Badger plays with egg, breaks it (you can hear the sound of him breaking the egg with his front paw), then eats it...
25seconds

Creative - as before - from some soft pastel paintings I did a few years ago. I am reworking them. I also had some Aquarelle Neocolour pastels Caran D'Ache (pastels to add water to), and played with these. So, a sort of pastel mixed media painting.


Have your best day

A cuppa and a nap for me now...

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Hug for the driving hassle.

A marvelous for helping a friend.

& A winner for the sunset pic
 
Lamont D said:
Do not plan your journeys on an older than a few years satnav! The horror of not finding roads is frustrating!
And it costs to upgrade, shocking!
I learned to use my iPhone, but we had a super duper sat nav installed in my last season before covid!
Until recently, we never had anything but new cars, and if in doubt, your dealer has to sort it! Modern vehicles are designed not to mess about with. Gone are the days when you could tinker with them!
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My brother's Satnav is one that came with his new car just the week before the lockdown in 2020. He hardly drove it because of the lockdown and then he had his heart surgery and is only now feeling strong enough to drive any distance. So his car is as good as new, although it is 3 years old now. It manafged to take him all over the contryside when he was going from Swindon to Lancing (roadworks screwed everything up).
 
While on the subject of technology....

Informative, and an early heads up for any using Tele care services, maybe ..mmhh

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SlimLizzy said:
31.08
8.20am FBG 6.8
Happy birthday to eldest grandaughter.
Now one of three girls in the family.
I am happy to be home and trying to re-establish normal routine whigh has gone totally to pot over the last few weeks.
Plan for today very late harvest of garlic and onions once again scuppered by the rain which cunningly waited until I was ready to go out into the garden before starting. Kiki doesn't seem to mind it, she has been out all night and not yet returned.
Oh well there are cucumbers brined overnight ready to pickle and still a kg of tomatoes and peppers waiting to become chilli jam. Hoping for a dry afternoon.
Photo of the first variété traditinnelle tomatoes.
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Lovely veggies @SlimLizzy
 
jjraak said:
While on the subject of technology....

Informative, and an early heads up for any using Tele care services, maybe ..mmhh

news.sky.com

How will the landline phone switch work and what do you need to do?

The old copper phone network will be switched off in 2025 and phones will instead use the internet to make calls. That doesn't mean you have to only use a mobile phone - but there are some changes coming. Here's what you need to know.
news.sky.com news.sky.com
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Oh dear, I have a sinking feeling.
 
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