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Don't get me started on Sat navs!
The bane of so many journeys going to footie.

It is the person who sets it!
If you are going to have a satnav then a motorcycle satnav (Garmin or Tom Tom) is far superior. Coupled with something like the Tyre planning software you can travel the exact roads you choose by laying down waypoints and uploading to your satnav. I use my Garmin in the car if we want to go on interesting roads - it just sticks to the windscreen with one of those suction mounts.
 
Feeling a bit perturbed this morning, two instances of horror, to me anyway, but I did control my anger issues.
First of all it seems that the sock eater in either my washing machine or my drier has magically made one of my Saturday socks disappear. To help you understand as a chrimbo pressie, I have socks that have the day on jt. Seven pairs. So the dilemma is of course which day do I wear instead? Or wear a plain set? Stupid socks!!!
Second was I was wearing my fleece lined hoodie to the shops well, you have to in the hood, don't you?
My mobile phone is in the pocket, I bend to get shovel in the back garden, .y dropped and bounced straight into a puddle of snow, rain and ice. It is only in the puddle for a few seconds. And I had a little panic! Did not know that it was so important to me!
What you need is a mesh laundry bag to put all your socks in. Alternatively just wear a different day sock on each foot and confuse your walking style.
 

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I've run out of superlatives about your art. Great painting, whatever you used to produce it. Looks like a storm is coming.
Thank you @Annb. Sometimes I just use old plastic cards like the ones below. I have snipped the bottom of one to make a nice point for scraping.
 

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If you are going to have a satnav then a motorcycle satnav (Garmin or Tom Tom) is far superior. Coupled with something like the Tyre planning software you can travel the exact roads you choose by laying down waypoints and uploading to your satnav. I use my Garmin in the car if we want to go on interesting roads - it just sticks to the windscreen with one of those suction mounts.
The trouble with the one we first used was programmed by someone who was cheapskate, so no tolls, avoid roadworks, never did. And was never updated. At least a decade old, when the motorways were all roadworks. Wouldn't pay for upbrade, he wouldn't ask the club to replace and so muchmore. So no wonder we ended up in going the wrong way. I give you, he once programmed in a postcode to Maidstone instead of Maidenhead!!!!!!
When I was given the job, I did the homework, got a new garmin and still messed up, but not as bad! Ha!
Worst was Newport.
Input Newport county FC. Should have been Rodney parade!
We live and learn. ha!
 
What you need is a mesh laundry bag to put all your socks in. Alternatively just wear a different day sock on each foot and confuse your walking style.
Part of my functions at my club was of course washing kit.
Socks cos of material, whether match or training socks, were washed and dried separately. Different settings and washing solutions were different than the rest. I found I was always a sock down.
Good job I had plenty.

There is no way on earth I could wear a different day sock on different days on each foot. Besides days, they are different colours, that would look stupid! Saturday is red. Sunday green, Monday blue.
It's only since chrimbo, I have always wore black cotton socks. And one pair of footie socks when going footie.

Machines eat socks. It is common knowledge!
 
A lot to pick out of that, @Lamont D

A winner for the FBG.

A hug for that faulty calendar.

But loving how you roll with it..good man

Hope the aches ease.

Liking all the positives kids, play, diet

Weather is what is, we'll survive.

Haha, for the cat...nothing like leaving a gift for the gods, when stealing the soul of others.

And always a good reminder that while dogs have owners...
Cats have servants .
I do believe you have an analytical brain @jjraak.
able to pick points and list them.
I'm a great believer of lists.
A great believer of being organised and knowing what the hell is going on.
I think with my health issues, and having to research so much, using lists and being forensic, has been so important to me.
I understand so much more, and of course, don't know as much as I want to. It is so complicated.

I am currently researching mental health. And I don't know nothing about it. After reading a lot and counselling.
I'm trying to understand but I'm totally in the dark.
There are no schools for carers to learn.

I do appreciate your insights.
Hope you get sorted mate.
 
The trouble with the one we first used was programmed by someone who was cheapskate, so no tolls, avoid roadworks, never did. And was never updated. At least a decade old, when the motorways were all roadworks. Wouldn't pay for upbrade, he wouldn't ask the club to replace and so muchmore. So no wonder we ended up in going the wrong way. I give you, he once programmed in a postcode to Maidstone instead of Maidenhead!!!!!!
When I was given the job, I did the homework, got a new garmin and still messed up, but not as bad! Ha!
Worst was Newport.
Input Newport county FC. Should have been Rodney parade!
We live and learn. ha!
Never use anybody’s satnav programming - same as never separate yourself from your gear.
 
Part of my functions at my club was of course washing kit.
Socks cos of material, whether match or training socks, were washed and dried separately. Different settings and washing solutions were different than the rest. I found I was always a sock down.
Good job I had plenty.

There is no way on earth I could wear a different day sock on different days on each foot. Besides days, they are different colours, that would look stupid! Saturday is red. Sunday green, Monday blue.
It's only since chrimbo, I have always wore black cotton socks. And one pair of footie socks when going footie.

Machines eat socks. It is common knowledge!
My granddaughters always wear odd socks and the twins share two pair but differ with order of wearing - it always looks marvelous. You could of course have all your socks just one colour. I prefer to wear matching, then random and then whatever comes out of the dryer first and second - socks and dogma - no!
 
My granddaughters always wear odd socks and the twins share two pair but differ with order of wearing - it always looks marvelous. You could of course have all your socks just one colour. I prefer to wear matching, then random and then whatever comes out of the dryer first and second - socks and dogma - no!
That way leads to madness, to blow my mind. Odd socks. Aaaaaghhh!and
I only ever wore black cotton socks. Until chrimbo.
I wish it was summer, so I didn't have to wear them!
That is one of my hates of winter, having to wear the layers and coats, hats, heavy boots.
Give me sandals, shorts and vests any time.
 
Actually I have been below par for years and was like this because my body was aging fast. Its been doing everything poorly why?

I had a permanent condition which was painful and could be serious in most people.
Pain aleviated by a Nitro spray under one's tongue. If the arteries became so restricted it required special surgery to get fresh blood to the heart muscle. I never had any pain and this had gone on for years.
Eventually after years of getting worse I had a heart attack.
No big deal on the scale of pain I have experienced and I guess a lady who had kids would not know anything had happened.

I try to think things out as an engineer.
Since I dont take statins or long term warfarin, I dont have calcified plaque.
What else can we expect from vitamin k antagonists. If your on these drugs eat
have twice a much brocolli!
SORRY it will stop your warfarin working. It has to turn our arteries to bone to work. My arteries are not like pipes of bone when they are asked to expand.
Fragments of bone should not boat their merry way to the brain to give me a
cause, a legacy of vascular dementure.
I have plaque but its my plaque.

So from the change I need to thank Dr Eide a muslim gentleman for giving me some different drugs. I find muslim doctors very clever and kind in my experience.

I have stopped Doxazosin an alpha blocker that makes old peoples blood pressure go down when they stand. Hence they fall down and may break an hip and die
.It also makes me leak which I should do as anģold man (;

I now take a low release nitrate tablet and it stops all effects of angina, vastly improving breathing and blood prssure for 24hours. Not sure I need the losartan I take at night, but its early days yet.
I need the eplerenone I take 12hrs apart to keep my adosterone receptors blocked.
I have a 30 mm adenoma that was my l left adrenal.
The Conn's tumour last time it was measured produced 20x the normal aldosterone

Derek
 
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Ps. I am not at all concerned by all this, it is part of my road to Damscus experience experience these last 8 weeks.

Eg. A few days ago I wrote my entire funeral from the Spirit, it appeared in my mind whilst at our evening meal together, in less than five minutes, fully complete. I have never been able to think it out myself ever.
I knew it would be unkind to tell the dutchess

A postscipt: I found nitrate spray when I took it stopped migraine aura immediately and stopped a pain in a back muscle that was bad when when I had a melonoma removed.
They were both angina.
 
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Ps. I am not at all concerned by all this, it is part of my road to Damscus experience experience these last 8 weeks.

Eg. A few days ago I wrote my entire funeral from the Spirit, it appeared in my mind whilst at our evening meal together, in less than five minutes, fully complete. I have never been able to think it out myself ever.
I knew it would be unkind to tell the dutchess

A postscipt: I found nitrate spray when I took it stopped migraine aura immediately and stopped a pain in a back muscle that was bad when when I had a melonoma removed
Sounds morbid, but why leave someone else 2nd guessing our wishes & all the pressure that entails, when we leave the stage?

I think that's our final act of love.

Here's to a longer road ahead for all of us in the meantime.
 
5.3 this morning. Yesterday was a very very busy day teaching so it is lovely having a more relaxing day and to catch up with posts.

We are walking to our local market town for Sunday lunch at a really good pub. It is a 1½ mile walk along some nice pathways away from the traffic.
 
Sounds morbid, but why leave someone else 2nd guessing our wishes & all the pressure that entails, when we leave the stage?

I think that's our final act of love.

Here's to a longer road ahead for all of us in the meantime.
One of my daughters @jjraak wanted to know precise details what to do with my ashes. Up to you I said. I am dead. So do what makes you happiest. Oh no she said, I want precise details. Long discussion ensued. She wanted something special.

Ended up she is going to go down to Dartmouth Castle (she is going to have to come over from Australia first!), there is a cove there where me and her have swum in the sea. It was a special day when we last went there. Just her and me. I had driven all night for us to have a dawn swim...

So, instructions are for her to scatter my ashes at dawn in the sea there....
 
Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. I don’t think that it will last. 5.4 this am, climbing steadily, W to SW, gales imminent. The future is unknown. But, that will all change just as soon as Mrs Miggins decides to compartmentalise the day into easily digested time chunks - tranches of wonderness interspersed with small dips in order to take breath. It’s like being on the rollercoaster of blood sugar readings. Number one son and family round last night and enough food left for today. I made pea and ham soup yesterday so we can have that for lunch. Art bit - some wet paper, two colours, and a tiny tinge of red. Hope your day is not too windy later on. I ought to now make some late koffy.


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One of my daughters @jjraak wanted to know precise details what to do with my ashes. Up to you I said. I am dead. So do what makes you happiest. Oh no she said, I want precise details. Long discussion ensued. She wanted something special.

Ended up she is going to go down to Dartmouth Castle (she is going to have to come over from Australia first!), there is a cove there where me and her have swum in the sea. It was a special day when we last went there. Just her and me. I had driven all night for us to have a dawn swim...

So, instructions are for her to scatter my ashes at dawn in the sea there....
When our nephew died (he had CF and died at age 21), his mother (Mrs Miggins’ twin) split his ashes and her and us carry small containers of them wherever we go. We sprinke some in a nice place, take a photo and note the location. The photos go into an album. That was what he asked for, to be placed all over the globe. Not much of his ashes left now be he certainly has got around.
 
Fbg 6.5

Wildlife nighttime camera
This snowy night - Cats & Badgers & Fox & whose are those eyes...
1 min 16 secs

Had problems with some horrible trolls last few days on YouTube.
Finally as it got worse, I hid them all from my account...and I have now altered my moderator status to 'severe moderation'. So, people can still comment, but it won't appear until I approve the comment...

Creative...started in ZenBrush2, then in a few apps, then in Procreate...

Have your best day...

Time for a cuppa.


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Good morning everyone on an all things bright and beautiful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. I don’t think that it will last. 5.4 this am, climbing steadily, W to SW, gales imminent. The future is unknown. But, that will all change just as soon as Mrs Miggins decides to compartmentalise the day into easily digested time chunks - tranches of wonderness interspersed with small dips in order to take breath. It’s like being on the rollercoaster of blood sugar readings. Number one son and family round last night and enough food left for today. I made pea and ham soup yesterday so we can have that for lunch. Art bit - some wet paper, two colours, and a tiny tinge of red. Hope your day is not too windy later on. I ought to now make some late koffy.


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Like this very much...
Enjoy that late coffee @dunelm
 
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