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Good morning all from no socks/cookout L.A. which is heading for 24c today. Fine by me and good for week 2 of October. At least it was once but my grandchildren may come to see this as distinctly chilly. @Krystyna23040 good news on the fbg and dog walk. @lindisfel the meal sounds as though it went well: the actual one not the possible insect one. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and the obviously wonderful time with TGIB. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative which gives me the impression of sunnier times. @Annb good news on managing to complete the blue badge application. @RosemaryJackson good to see you in the full fat thread. Batch two of the blueberry cookies actually had blueberries but the precise sweetening is still a WIP. So far the bagels have come out of the blocks best. Keto Panettone is at the planning process but may go the way of net zero, HS2, levelling up, millions for the NHS etc - depends what alternative truth is expedient at the time. Have a great day - mine will feature the doughnut experiment and lamb shoulder but not together. Far too Heston for Monday in Breckland.
 
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RosemaryJackson said:
I love this! I have just started going to Art classes and the first lesson was painting a picture to show distance in one colour. There is a word for it but it escapes me. So for me, your art is very interesting and maybe I can learn from it. Thank you
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Hello Rosemary!
Thank you for your compliments @RosemaryJackson

Thanks for looking in!
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on another non-Indian-summer day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this am. A walk into town yesterday with The Girl In The Bubble and playing two of her favourite games; ‘watch out for the [insert name of obstacle] grandad’ and ‘spot the green car’. You have to be in an adult controlled trike thing to play the first game - it’s about swerving at the last possible second. Lamp posts, overhanging shrubbery, cars parked on pavements, BT cabinets - that sort of thing. A walk back again after a visit to the cafe and that was the morning done. Art bit, some more added, should finish it off today, for tomorrow. Hope you day is kind to you. I shall drink more koffy.


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A splendid Art bit @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning all from no socks/cookout L.A. which is heading for 24c today. Fine by me and good for week 2 of October. At least it was once but my grandchildren may come to see this as distinctly chilly. @Krystyna23040 good news on the fbg and dog walk. @lindisfel the meal sounds as though it went well: the actual one not the possible insect one. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and the obviously wonderful time with TGIB. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative which gives me the impression of sunnier times. @Annb good news on managing to complete the blue badge application. @RosemaryJackson good to see you in the full fat thread. Batch two of the blueberry cookies actually had blueberries but the precise sweetening is still a WIP. So far the bagels have come out of the blocks best. Keto Panettone is at the planning process but may go the way of net zero, HS2, levelling up, millions for the NHS etc - depends what alternative truth is expedient at the time. Have a great day - mine will feature the doughnut experiment and lamb shoulder but not together. Far too Heston for Monday in Breckland.
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Blue badge renewal application has gone in. Not too sure about the photo - Neil took one outside the front door but there was lots of foliage in the background and I only realised that they wouldn't accept that when I went to upload it, so he had to take another one with a paler background, but it still may be too dark - we don't have any bare, light spaces to stand against. Well - it's gone. They can only ask for another one to be sent in, if they don't like what I've sent.
 
5.7. And about time too!
Have skipped to last page cos busy and missed yesterday.
Helped next doors with DIY, and now finished except for deep clean around concrete paving cos of all the dust.
I'm knackered!
on this nice afternoon, I have had to go and cut my grass, just in case the rain in the North comes down as it tends to do. A lovely 25degrees in the garden yesterday and not far off today but a lot cloudier!
still have some other chores to do and cooking!
Mrs L has a fall yesterday as well, bruise on her thigh, but ok other than that okay. But her misrememberitis was a lot better until she had a nap, then I spent time helping and trying to ease her questions! It is not easy.
Gotta go, will look at thread later! Sorry haven't answered posts.
Seems our beloved village idiot running policy of the powers that be, has issued planning to build infrastructure projects, that have already been built or have been in abeyance, with no future funding to build????
Apparently, the train wrecking is now part of the dogma of the far right idiots controlling the puppets in number 10!!!
 
Lamont D said:
5.7. And about time too!
Have skipped to last page cos busy and missed yesterday.
Helped next doors with DIY, and now finished except for deep clean around concrete paving cos of all the dust.
I'm knackered!
on this nice afternoon, I have had to go and cut my grass, just in case the rain in the North comes down as it tends to do. A lovely 25degrees in the garden yesterday and not far off today but a lot cloudier!
still have some other chores to do and cooking!
Mrs L has a fall yesterday as well, bruise on her thigh, but ok other than that okay. But her misrememberitis was a lot better until she had a nap, then I spent time helping and trying to ease her questions! It is not easy.
Gotta go, will look at thread later! Sorry haven't answered posts.
Seems our beloved village idiot running policy of the powers that be, has issued planning to build infrastructure projects, that have already been built or have been in abeyance, with no future funding to build????
Apparently, the train wrecking is now part of the dogma of the far right idiots controlling the puppets in number 10!!!
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Sorry to hear Mrs L had a fall. That can be pretty alarming for both of you. Glad to read she wasn't badly hurt. Do you know why she fell? A trip, a dizzy spell or maybe her legs just didn't work as well as they should, for a brief moment. It will bear watching. I have a tendency to fall - legs just give up the task of holding me up - so I started using one stick, then two and now I use a zimmer style frame. Haven't fallen in ages although I did buy a little alarm that rings out in Neil's room, but haven't had to use it. All fine, just as long as my arms don't give out too.
 
Annb said:
Sorry to hear Mrs L had a fall. That can be pretty alarming for both of you. Glad to read she wasn't badly hurt. Do you know why she fell? A trip, a dizzy spell or maybe her legs just didn't work as well as they should, for a brief moment. It will bear watching. I have a tendency to fall - legs just give up the task of holding me up - so I started using one stick, then two and now I use a zimmer style frame. Haven't fallen in ages although I did buy a little alarm that rings out in Neil's room, but haven't had to use it. All fine, just as long as my arms don't give out too.
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It was getting up off the couch, Mrs L needed to get up, and her feet didn't want to sort themselves out to help her, a bit dizzy and missed her walker frame, she has two, one in house and the other for outside. Her alarm wasn't needed as some idiot was in the back room and heard her fall. I helped her to go to be been, as Nelly Pickle would say.
Thanks for the consideration, I cannot imagine what it's like to be without the full use of my legs, my best friend, fell off a ladder and shattered his ankles and tib and fib, right leg, tib left leg. Never walked again, died over twenty years now, aged 42. Bloody ladder!
I'm learning how to be careful with her disability, I think I could do with some training, especially with my spondylitis in how to approach to help her doing things that she can.

Gone really misty, foggy, pea soup out there, can't see further than about 100 metres, except if I look up, there are stars out! So inputting my thick hoodie on and stare at the night sky!

Best wishes to you all as always.
 
Annb said:
Blue badge renewal application has gone in. Not too sure about the photo - Neil took one outside the front door but there was lots of foliage in the background and I only realised that they wouldn't accept that when I went to upload it, so he had to take another one with a paler background, but it still may be too dark - we don't have any bare, light spaces to stand against. Well - it's gone. They can only ask for another one to be sent in, if they don't like what I've sent.
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It is a nightmare those photos @Annb
I had to go to a special photo place in the end earlier this year, because my instructions said only a digital photo was suitable and it wasn't easily accessible for me.
I hope it goes through smoothly.
 
Lamont D said:
It was getting up off the couch, Mrs L needed to get up, and her feet didn't want to sort themselves out to help her, a bit dizzy and missed her walker frame, she has two, one in house and the other for outside. Her alarm wasn't needed as some idiot was in the back room and heard her fall. I helped her to go to be been, as Nelly Pickle would say.
Thanks for the consideration, I cannot imagine what it's like to be without the full use of my legs, my best friend, fell off a ladder and shattered his ankles and tib and fib, right leg, tib left leg. Never walked again, died over twenty years now, aged 42. Bloody ladder!
I'm learning how to be careful with her disability, I think I could do with some training, especially with my spondylitis in how to approach to help her doing things that she can.

Gone really misty, foggy, pea soup out there, can't see further than about 100 metres, except if I look up, there are stars out! So inputting my thick hoodie on and stare at the night sky!

Best wishes to you all as always.
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Glad Mrs L wasn't too badly hurt with her fall @Lamont D
It was a good job you were only in the back room and heard her.

My friend is forever having to rescue her husband who falls, usually when he is transferring from bed to wheelchair and misjudges. She now has permanent backache and says she has bum ache from doing that so often. I am not sure what she is damaging. You need to be careful x

Once her 90 year old neighbour had to come in and help because she couldn't get him up, and the pair of them rolled him on to a rug, pulled him along the floor to the bed where somehow they got him upright...
 
You are so right gennepher when my mother and great aunt lived with us I had told my mother under no circumstances should she try and manage my great aunt in the night but to wake me up she ignored this one night because she did not want to wake me ended up taking a fall some time later we found that she had fractured her hip this had disastrous results when taking care of others it is so important to take care yourself.
 
Hi all,
There is very interesting discussion on John Campbell's site with a professor who is one of the leading guys in the country on vaccines.
He says the new MRNA vaccines are knocking out Tee cells and causing cancers to come out of remission which had been stopped in their tracks years ago. It particularly applies to melanoma and bowel cancer.

Off to Freeman this am for final check up of my recent reimplanted pacemaker in March, before having my checks at Carlisle in future.
D.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
You are so right gennepher when my mother and great aunt lived with us I had told my mother under no circumstances should she try and manage my great aunt in the night but to wake me up she ignored this one night because she did not want to wake me ended up taking a fall some time later we found that she had fractured her hip this had disastrous results when taking care of others it is so important to take care yourself.
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I fully agree with you. People just don't realise @JohnEGreen
But it takes just that one time...
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning all from no socks/cookout L.A. which is heading for 24c today. Fine by me and good for week 2 of October. At least it was once but my grandchildren may come to see this as distinctly chilly. @Krystyna23040 good news on the fbg and dog walk. @lindisfel the meal sounds as though it went well: the actual one not the possible insect one. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and the obviously wonderful time with TGIB. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative which gives me the impression of sunnier times. @Annb good news on managing to complete the blue badge application. @RosemaryJackson good to see you in the full fat thread. Batch two of the blueberry cookies actually had blueberries but the precise sweetening is still a WIP. So far the bagels have come out of the blocks best. Keto Panettone is at the planning process but may go the way of net zero, HS2, levelling up, millions for the NHS etc - depends what alternative truth is expedient at the time. Have a great day - mine will feature the doughnut experiment and lamb shoulder but not together. Far too Heston for Monday in Breckland.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
lindisfel said:
Hi all,
There is very interesting discussion on John Campbell's site with a professor who is one of the leading guys in the country on vaccines.
He says the new MRNA vaccines are knocking out Tee cells and causing cancers to come out of remission which had been stopped in their tracks years ago. It particularly applies to melanoma and bowel cancer.

Off to Freeman this am for final check up of my recent reimplanted pacemaker in March, before having my checks at Carlisle in future.
D.
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All the best with the trip to Freeman, a return stop for refreshments is surely on the cards.
 
Fbg 6.9

I got a shock yesterday when I went to open the kitchen door.

All day there had been screeching machinery like a dentist drill, and hammering. I went to the front but I couldn't see the cause of the noise except it sounded as from my Mr Xmas Lights neighbour, but they were all out, and I could see his garage door was open and someone seemed to be working in there.

It went on all to about 5.30 pm. Then about 6pm I went to open the kitchen door. It was if I had been hit in the face with a heavy plank of wood.

In front of me was The Berlin Wall.

Mr Xmas Lights neighbour had taken delivery of a load of fencing panels a few days earlier. I wondered where they were going to go. Now I knew. They backed on to the breeze block wall that divides our two driveways up the two bungalows to the garages in the back gardens. (When these bungalows were built in the 70's there was no dividing wall in the driveways, but the first person who brought my bungalow, and the bungalow next the other way for his mother, did not get on with my current Mr Xmas Lights neighbour, who has been there all that time. , and so he built the breeze block wall.
Well, as I said, it was like being hit in the face with a heavy wooden plank immediately I opened my kitchen door.

i retreated in immediately and sat on the couch for a few minutes to gather my wits.

Mr Xmas Lights nor his wife had given me any warning.

Then I went into the back garden, and I could see that the wooden fencing was edged up right to his garage.

Brilliant, I thought, now I have no need of those summer parasols I got to get my privacy when I want to sit on the swing in the back garden etc. At that moment I wanted to do a hop and skip dance in the back garden yelling at the top of my voice "Thank you for this amazing fence protecting me from your perverted prying eyes"

He has always been watching me ever since I moved in, and it was the reason my friend from Liverpool stopped coming, because she said he made her shiver because he was always standing somewhere, looking through a window, or peeping over the wall whenever she was there with me.

J bought me fast growing bamboo to plant where Mr Xmas Lights was always watching through a particular window. J got tired of Mr Xmas Lights always spying on us or watching us over the wall when we were painting in the garden etc and J wanted to go round to sort him. I said no because I live here, and J goes back home to his own property. So, in the end I put some sheets on the line so Mr Xmas Lights couldn't play peeping tom. J would say hello etc initially but Mr Xmas Lights always sneered and walked away.



I was hoping when I came back that he was going be outside and I was going to say a bright and cheery good morning, isn't it a lovely day (blue skies already), but he wasn't. He just sneers and turns away, but no need for me to descend to his level is there?

I cannot see why he has done this Berlin Wall. The only thing over it is the side of my bungalow which is a normal brick wall, like his is. And the very top part by the garages he could see into my back garden but since J died, I have managed to grow some forsythia bushes, mimosa and other bushes in containers so he cannot see me So easily on the swing. All yellow flowers I have just realised.

Going to open some doors now, welcome in this bright new day.

And then some breakfast.
I am going outside now to enjoy my absolute privacy now. This is a beautiful day.

Creative is some scribbles, for no reason, on an old app, you can't get hold of any more, so app will stay on my tablet until it breaks down!!!

Have an absolutely amazing brilliant day!

Nearly forgot, I posted a few videos yesterday. Here is one...
A short one 22secs
Cat Merlin listens to the night...

And an inset of the Berlin Wall.
The top flat slabs of the breeze block wall are about my eye level/forehead level, and the Berlin Wall is above that.

I cannot see his bungalow or roof from the Berlin Wall.
Oh Joyful Happy Days!

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