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Smashing artwork. I love the colours and the effect. Reminds me of a B&W photo that has been developed on glass and then tinted.
 
Those badgers do look very powerful, Ian.
And they do worry me because of their size and with Midnight.
They have been cohabiting, if you call it that with the foxes and with the cats for over a year now, occupying the same space without any incident, apart from the clout Midnight administers....Jade has walked among the badgers, and so have the ginger cats including Merlin.

From my garden the badgers get grubs and worms, just as they would in the woods. And sometimes they eat the fatball droppings from the messy sparrows. Occasionally they get some cat biscuits which one of the stray cats has put/hidden a stash somewhere. And I still failed to understand why my garden holds such an attraction for the badgers and foxes. You know how many years I have been trying to keep those badgers and foxes out of my garden without a great deal of success.

I read the link and the article, and it is more or less what I thought that badgers don't go for cats. It would be a rare occurrence that would happen and would need an unusual set of circumstances.

A brilliant morning @ianpspurs wasn't it? Everything perfect for my breakfast.
 
There were quite a few teachers @Krystyna23040 in my experience that should never have been teachers...
 
I like the waterfalls too. In fact, I like the whole of the artwork. Great colour palette.
 
gennepher said:
There were quite a few teachers @Krystyna23040 in my experience that should never have been teachers...
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I had a few bad teachers when I was at the grammar school, but prior to that they were pretty well OK. My brother had one very good teacher - he had been off school a lot due to polio and was far behind the rest of his class so was not allowed to sit the 11+ and was sent directly to the secondary modern. There he met a great teacher. The man had served in the RAF during the war and was not only able to captivate the attention of his pupils but was great at seeing and developing their potential. From being quite unable to understand the concepts involved in maths, and having poor English, my brother came top of his class, prize winner, Head Boy and then at the tech college attained the highest marks they had ever awarded for maths and physics. One excellent teacher.

On the other hand, while apparently more successful at school, I had a run of teachers who knocked my confidence, pushed me down in their and my own esteem and led me to achieve very little. However, in the end we were the first 2 in any part of our family to gain degrees and then Masters. Him because of one teacher and me despite them all.

Neil and Alistair have had a series of bad teachers, through primary and secondary. Neil because of his Asperger's which wasn't understood and Alistair because of the halo effect - being the younger sibling of a boy they couldn't handle. Alistair got through it and gained his degree but Neil never really achieved much beyond his Highers - and even that was an effort to make him do it.
 
I'm amazed! It was the Counterweight class this afternoon and I was pretty sure, what with all the high BGs and checking of high carb baking, that I had put weight on again this time, but no. I am lighter by 11/2 kg than last time and 1 kg than the first time. Quite astonishing.

Alistair came this afternoon and took away most of the excess food I had made, still left the coffee cupcakes and the cashew crackers. I can actually eat the cashew crackers, as long as I limit it to one. The coffee cakes, I'll put in a box and in the freezer. Should be able to find an empty corner for that.

Em likes coffee cake but she's not likely to be in much this week, the school is closed now until Friday due to a support staff strike. She might have some another time though.
 
Weigh to go Ann
 
Good morning everyone on a bit of a dull and breezy start here in the dark and dangerous north. Well that’s Monday out of the way. Seven Zen paintings yesterday. Six went into the recycling bin. I will look at the remaining one later this morning. Just the way these things go. Good job I’m using liquid ink instead of grinding my own. Chinese and Japanese ink is made of soot. Ink sticks made by traditional Sumi-e ink makers can take four years to Make as shown in this video and can cost up to £1000 a stick. I have a couple that belonged to my mum as well as two ink stones but hardly ever grind my own ink. Anyhow, art bit, no idea what I was thinking about. Hope your day wraps you in warmth. I shall drink koffy and then have a look at that piece from yesterday.

 
BG at 3.20 am 7.4. Rising, of course and now somewhere in the 8's so no worries. When I can get to eat, I'll deal with that.

Odd start to the day here. Last night, last thing, we uncovered the kitchen table. It is an old (1970's), circular, extending, Danish teak table. We use it in the kitchen because it takes up less space than our other tables but it is always covered with a thick felt cover with a modern "oil cloth" cover. Being teak, it has to be oiled from time to time and last night was the time. We opened it out and between us, vacuumed the crevices between the 2 halves to get get rid of cobwebs and a couple of mini spiders and oiled the surface. It had to be left to dry overnight. We took out one of the extensions from its place in a corner of the kitchen and discovered that it was not only dusty but it was also sporting a thin coating of mould. OK - vacuum cleaner in operation again, wood shampoo out and gave it a wash but couldn't oil it because it was too damp. So it was just balanced across the, still opened out circular table to dry overnight. There was no space to do the second extension panel, so it is still to be tackled. And, of course, the table is still opened up, uncovered, can't be used and is in the way, preventing me from getting to the cookers to make breakfast!

I did manage to empty all the rubbish bins and leave the bags in the hallway to go out and Neil did drag himself up to put them in the bin and put the bin out for collection. Then he went back to bed leaving the table still in the way in the kitchen. I'll need to have some ham out of the fridge for breakfast but I don't think there is anything else in that fridge to go with it - not with low enough carbs anyway. Might just have to estimate how much extra insulin to use for one oatmeal pancake. I feel a plan coming on.

We saved a lot on oil over the winter and this damp, chilly summer we've had by refusing to turn on the heating but the result has been mildew and black mould over much of the house. Might just have to bite the bullet and use extra oil in the coming autumn and winter.
 
I have many ink sticks @dunelm from the years I attended classes with Cathy Wu. She would have us grind our black ink at the beginning of each class. But thankfully she didn't insist we had to grind the colour ink sticks, and we could use Marie's watercolour tubes.

I have 2 very very heavy ink stones, and I always carried them in a plastic carrier bag, for protection because the classes took place in a dodgy area of China town in Liverpool. I never had to use it...

Great Art bit!
 
Thank you @gennepher. My ink stones are not huge like yours sound but could probably be used as a cosh
 
Morning all from L.A. where we still cling desperately to the last vestiges (don't need them yet but do need pantsiges) of this year's sub-optimal summer. No test for the newly cleared and realigned gutters so lawns were cut and washing dried outside yesterday - except towels since I'm not into that kind of thing. @dunelm thank you for sharing the latest art and I guess no news of further symptoms is good news. Presumably this will delay your next booster? @Annb I hope you find the ham and can make your oatcake (s). A dilemma with the heating but biting the bullet seems the way forward - says he who isn't paying the bills. Word of the day for me is hevel. Sensor expired last evening as we watched Alone. Note to self, gratitude for the seemingly mundane costs nothing - that and hevel are inextricably linked. Enjoy as much of the day as possible - don't forget the attitude of gratitude.
 
Fbg 6.4

Last week my Amazon parcels were delivered in the evening when they had been promised in a window much earlier in the day. I don't like answering the door when it is dark. And it meant I was keeping an eye open on the flashing doorbell for many hours. Wasted my day. So I had my parcels sent to the local post office. I went this morning to collect them. Much much easier and less time wasting.

I mentioned to the post office lady that my parcels came in the evening last week as opposed to during the day, and well past the window when they were supposed to arrive. That's the new 20mph limit, she said. What they are doing now is delivering to businesses first, then the hubs and shops next, and then the homes last. So it is however long it takes to do everything else first before they deliver to homes which will often be in the evening now.

Buses are still doing 30mph in a 20mph. I try to steer clear of a bus route so I haven't got a bus right up the back side of my car trying to make me go faster, unnerving me. Other car drivers feel the same, harassed by this. A bus or a large wagon trying to force you to go faster, is a whole another ball game to a car behind you doing that same thing.,

If this carries on, and it is not policed or addressed, then I will become very set against the blanket 20mph. I agree with 20 mph for schools, fire stations and all the other things it was for previously, and even to extending some of those a bit. And also, I find that when all the traffic sticks to 20mph, it is easier for cars to turn into the main road and a few other things. But when we have a group of much larger vehicles who think the 20mph does not apply to them and they continue at 30mph bullying other drivers of smaller vehicles to break the speed limit, then something needs to be done about them, or else we all stick to 30mph.

I just checked where the mobile Go Safe speed cameras are this week, and they seem remarkably absent on bus routes. I think that tells a story.


Wildlife nighttime cameras.
Cat Midnight asks Pa Badger to stop rocking the Swing...
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Creative is an acrylic painting done in the garage on a canvas watercolour paper.
And then put in Procreate to try some different digital details with it. I had fun doing this one!

I am tired now. Time for a nap.

And a cuppa tea...

 
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