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RishGPT seems a tad grouchy that people have seen through his latest cunning plan. Whatever you think of what some call the green cr*p this is a fair summary of the knots in which he has tied himself. Also very funny imho.
 
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RishGPT seems a tad grouchy that people have seen through his latest cunning plan. Whatever you think of what some call the green cr*p this is a fair summary of the in which knots he has tied himself. Also very funny imho.
The meat tax got me.!!!!!
Tory t.......s!
James O'Brien on LBC, did a great job on the unbelievable prospects of not doing something when the government didn't have plans to do it!
I kid you not!
Wholesale lies to give to the client media!
 
Lovely artwork and sorry to read about your day. You could look up Respro - DACC masks for pollutants.
 
Thank you @ianpspurs. Sleep seems to be the ticket.
 
Thank you @SlimLizzy. French bureaucracy is quite a nightmare, my parents still get tripped up with it after living there for nearly 30 years.
 
Beans on buttered toast - smashing - well, it used to be before I ended up with diabetes. Like peanut intolerances, most can be sorted by the pregnant woman eating the stuff when pregnant, giving it in small doses to the teeny child and most of all, not sanitising their skin and environment all the time - imune system needs stuff to work with, same as gut microbiome. My mother never used wet wipes or bleach - utter madness.
 
As you are well aware, I grew up in a very industrial environment, very close to all kinds of muck, which also included bomb sites, dips in the river, any amount of cuts, grazes, broken bones, the usual kids stuff! Besides the dairy, which I still baulk at and come out in sweat, I was never Ill past a few sniffles!
I never spent a day in hospital for my health until I was getting diagnosed for RH!
Why this carb intolerance came about, I have no idea except for my eating habits?
But since the turn of the century, I was on the supposed healthy intake but unbeknownst to all and sundry, that is what was killing me!
No carbs, healthy! Carbs ill!
The basic foods are not healthy for me!
It is weird, it is hard, it is so rare!
I have sympathy and empathy for the boy in the bubble!
But I do feel like him sometimes.
There is a bakers across the road. There is nowt, I can eat in there, nothing at all!
Sorry! The fruit in small pieces!

It is what it is! And that is what I have to do, to be healthy, as I can be!

Keep safe.
 
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Not worth testing at present until the covid infection is over. Hospital called yesterday to talk about giving me some anti-viral drugs. They come with a host of possibly nasty side effects but I declined - my symptoms are not that bad. In fact, if this sunshine dries our overly long grass a bit, I will get out there hunting tigers to the music of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Art bit, a bit of fiddling about with the tree from yesterday. Hope your day is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and perhaps later, a big plate of bacon - the great cure all.


 
5.6 this morning. All admin virtually up to date so am looking forward to continuing with my training videos later this morning - after relaxing with a coffee and reading.

Yesterday Google calendar had a glitch. That is the only calendar I use so I was quite concerned I couldn't access it. Luckily they fixed it quickly.
 
Got the duchess to Carlisle good and early and was back home soon after 8 am doing my eggs for breakfast. Now I feel tired but will be picking up Helen at 1030 in local town.
The return trip to Carlisle was 30 miles and the traffic was light. I did it in just under the hour.
D.
 
Really good that your symptoms are not that bad. @dunelm .
I really like your painting.
 
In the picture very obviously the vulgar boat men from the Yintong Didle I Pooh band.
 
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Glad you feel you are not too bad @dunelm
I hope you improve quickly.
The painting is great...
 
Fbg 6.5

I couldn't sleep last night. No idea why. Did all my usual stuff for sleep to no avail.

So I got up at 3 am.

Then I had a bright idea. I have never driven my new car in the dark yet. I might as well drive to the the postbox (I had some letters and postcards to post) and get a little practice in. There was something else I wanted to try as well. My new car is automatic, as was my last car. My last car was easy to keep at the 30 speed limit down the steep hill, but this new car was not. I was driving down the steep hill on my brakes to keep to the 30. But now we are 20mph my new car being on automatic I am driving the entire way down the steep hill on my brakes. I have only done it twice so far. So, I thought time to figure out the plus and minus sign on the D setting. My last car had a dedicated first and a dedicated second gear for steep hills and stuff, it was easy to use. This one you have to knock the drive setting to the right, and then knock it up (+) and knock it down (-) to get your gear. I found out it has 3 gears (useful), and a green light comes on when the car thinks you need to knock it up or down a gear. Green light was easy to see at night, not sure what it would be like in daytime.

I am driving up and down my steep hill in the dark before the rat run starts. And just in case I get stopped by police (which does happen) for loitering in the night (which happens, has happened), I have a bunch of letters and postcards on the passenger seat.

This shifting to manual is brilliant for going down the steep hill in 20 mph. I am now driving on my gears and do not need to use the brake once. So job well done, and I feel confident to do this when other cars are around now. I didn't have the courage to try something new in the daytime with other cars around speeding down the hill, all of them just using brakes, aall the way down. Presumably that is why some of them skid and end up in hedges or garden walls on the way down.


Yesterday I was sitting in my garden, looking at my sparrows feeding from the fatball feeders, when with no warning, and the sparrows did not have time to sound their alarm calls, through the tops of my trees and bushes at the speed of light, came a sparrowhawk who thought he was going to pluck a sparrow off the feeder while in flight. My sparrows slid up the heavily leaved branches, that I have surrounding the feeders, like greased lightning, and the sparrowhawk carried on his speedy flight, and left with nothing. It literally took a nano second. And if I hadn't been actually watching my sparrows I would not have known what happened right in front of me. It was so swift.

I was almost 100% certain the sparrowhawk had left with nothing. I waited for the sparrows to return, and they were all present and correct. Phew.

What I have done is cut some Buddleia down and temporarily made a canopy of branches and crisscrossing them so the sparrowhawk, I would assume could not plunge through. This canopy is over the bird feeders. I shall have to see.

I know it is a fact that larger birds have to prey on smaller birds/creatures to survive, but they are not doing it my garden. My garden my rules. This came about because we have buzzards (there is a lot of industry here and they hover for ages in the thermals, I think created by the steelworks and stuff), and they used to swoop on my cats. One buzzard took away one of my small cats from the potting shed roof. I saw it, and nothing I can do. I thought she had ended up being the buzzard's lunch. But a few days later she returned in a heck of a state, but still alive. The buzzard must have dropped her when it flew into the woods. And she was very neurotic after that experience. I was traumatised watching it happen in an instant from my window. None of my cats slept on open roof spaces after that.

Wild life camera.
Cat Midnight, watches Fox & Badger
60secs


Creative is that black ink shapes in the white china cup again. I put it through an app called Tiny Planets and then some photo effects!

I think I have done a full day's work by now!

Going to make a fresh cuppa.

Have your best kind of day whatever life is throwing at you!

 
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