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Phew, lots to keep you busy. A weight of some description on that plate.
Phew, lots to keep you busy. A weight of some description on that plate.Went to the birthday lunch. Good distraction, trying to keep up with politics being discussed in french. I even managed to laugh at a couple of amusing comments before they were translated. So in a much better mood when Son2 phoned. We had quite a long chat and I was able to explain why I had been so upset. All good between us now.
Otherwise been very busy in the garden and house. MrSlim has decided well we have agreed to get a valuation sometime soon. Around the end of the month.
So preparation neccessary.
Social life kicked off again with garden visit ( plus lunch) two individual lunches and a cheese and wine tasting evening on Friday. Next week similar, but not quite as hectic ( or expensive)
We enjoyed several beautiful sunny days, planted out some vegetables and then persuaded MrSlim to help me with renovating our cheese bed which was collapsing into the centre. So called because of its shape - its actually supposed to be a keyhole, but due to a translation error the round place for the key was missed out.
This involved removing all the herbs, taking down several layers of the stones, (granite - far too heavy for me) rebuilding, filling with a vast amount of extra soil and replanting with the herbs in a different configuration. Very hot and heavy work.
As a side project, collecting all the snails and slugs discovered in a pot with a plate on top to keep the pests in. Planned to dispose of them by donating to friend with chickens. However during the overnight rain the little beggars managed to push the lid off and because it was still on top of the newly rebuilt walls around the cheese bed, to return to their hiding places. So much for pest control. After this irritating discovery went around peering into the crevices and recaptured about a quarter of them... and a lot more slugs than had been previously captured. For some reason we had caught about a hundred snails and only three large slugs. Since then with the weather turning wet again there are slugs everywhere. But very few snails. Do they only come out once it's dark?
TBC.
Catching up on other posts now.
Seen this, called Map Tongue though. One of our Indian friends daughter had it and was showing it to everyone at an event. Assume the same thing. Very odd looking but apparently not painful.Good news on the dentist, especially the catch up with ex-students. Not so good about Move More class. I had never heard of geographic tongue before.
Really good news that all is good between you and your son now @SlimLizzyWent to the birthday lunch. Good distraction, trying to keep up with politics being discussed in french. I even managed to laugh at a couple of amusing comments before they were translated. So in a much better mood when Son2 phoned. We had quite a long chat and I was able to explain why I had been so upset. All good between us now.
Otherwise been very busy in the garden and house. MrSlim has decided well we have agreed to get a valuation sometime soon. Around the end of the month.
So preparation neccessary.
Social life kicked off again with garden visit ( plus lunch) two individual lunches and a cheese and wine tasting evening on Friday. Next week similar, but not quite as hectic ( or expensive)
We enjoyed several beautiful sunny days, planted out some vegetables and then persuaded MrSlim to help me with renovating our cheese bed which was collapsing into the centre. So called because of its shape - its actually supposed to be a keyhole, but due to a translation error the round place for the key was missed out.
This involved removing all the herbs, taking down several layers of the stones, (granite - far too heavy for me) rebuilding, filling with a vast amount of extra soil and replanting with the herbs in a different configuration. Very hot and heavy work.
As a side project, collecting all the snails and slugs discovered in a pot with a plate on top to keep the pests in. Planned to dispose of them by donating to friend with chickens. However during the overnight rain the little beggars managed to push the lid off and because it was still on top of the newly rebuilt walls around the cheese bed, to return to their hiding places. So much for pest control. After this irritating discovery went around peering into the crevices and recaptured about a quarter of them... and a lot more slugs than had been previously captured. For some reason we had caught about a hundred snails and only three large slugs. Since then with the weather turning wet again there are slugs everywhere. But very few snails. Do they only come out once it's dark?
TBC.
Catching up on other posts now.
The way this garage treated you and their other customers is appalling. I wonder if a strongly worded letter or email to Head Office would have any effect?Fbg 6.9
Had car service today.
This is the first car manufacturer garage, that has not collected the car as a courtesy for disabled people. I was told when I booked the car service, that they did not employ drivers for this any more. I had explained I was not up to the wait while my car was being serviced, and there were a few other problems the receptionist was not helpful over. The receptionist had told me that was my problem and she said I'm sure you'll find a way.
If I could have handed my car back there and then and got a refund for it, and gone for another car, I would've done.
I was dreading this morning. There was a disabled couple there who should not have had to bring their car in either, and they were suffering waiting...I left at 10:45am, and that disabled couple who had come very soon after me, their car had not even entered the service area yet. She was suffering badly...
I got to the garage forecourt, it is massive, at 7:30 am (I left home at just before 7 am to make darn sure I was there first. I was second...but at 7:30 am there was not a single car space left for a customer. And the workers had also parked their cars all on the pavements of the roads around this garage, and all on the central reservations, and even on the roundabouts. I created a space, in front of the main doors...
When I got back home I was exhausted, went to bed, and slept. Just woke up, 3 pm, my head needs more sleep. Trying to do this post now. Then it's goodnight from me. I am going to bed early...
Wildlife nighttime video
Fox & Badger & Cat Jade
48 secs
Creative...one half of the disabled couple sitting in the service area's uncomfortable chairs. It is a woman on her phone. I found her difficult to draw. Tried several times, but had to stop. She looked at me suspiciously...I had drawn several other people before I did her.
I need more sleep now...
Have your best day...
I had tried to photo the northern lights last night, but nothing ...
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A good idea to talk to the local press @jjraak .Hmm! I wonder who funds it? Local govt or a charity? Perhaps some mass action, talk to local presss, find alternative funding. If it’s all done by zoom then perhaps it just needs to pay for Kirsty and cover her insurance - and use the free zoom - 40 min sessions for up to 100 participants - our family used it during lockdown and at the end of the 40 min you can just close it down and then open it up again.
@jjraak Thank you for the tip on posting photos . Good luck with the rescheduling of eye op.Had another cross town trip on the Ebike @Lamont D ...
So took a pic of the serpentine for you .
Home to st Mary's & back.
(Circa a leisurely 25 mins)
Eye for Feb cancelled, some issue with an echo cardiogram not done within time limit.
So got that done yesterday (gent doing reported no visible issues, but I obv still have to that officially)
Hopefully op goes ahead on my new late June date.
Anyway, the serpentine... looking east
(previous pic site would have been far right side of pic)
* Small tip for those wanting to post pics, but finding it's too big for forum.
I used to use a resizer, but now I just screenshot THAT pic, and post that screenshot.
Every time it's just worked.
Downside is it lacks some quality, but hardly noticeable for such purposes )
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Brilliant result @gennepher . I think, perhaps, that you should be running this country.I have had a lovely few hours in my back garden, actually in what was my original vegetable container garden. There is wild stuff growing in the pots, a lot of it edible. And my tree kale and tree broccoli is still growing. Main job was to repot a 15' to 20' Eucalyptus tree.
Well that was impossible. It needed 2 or 3 people. But I don't do impossible. Had a nap, then inspiration struck. I pulled the tree over sideways to the ground. Rolled it over and over until it came out of its root bound pot. Got new bigger pot, got the root bound solid earth and slid the bigger light weight pot over it. And put it upright. But then I had difficulty and couldn't let the tree go, because there was no earth in the pot.
I nearly came unstuck here. The Eucalyptus tree decided it wanted to have a battle with my electric overhead cable to the garage. And then it wanted to grab some tiles off my bungalow roof. I thought it had, but my phone on a stick showed me the roof tiles were intact...phew.
Eucalyptus tree and pot is now wedged in place. Tied to a metal pole so it can't do the waving in the wind thing.
And I have had a lovely relaxing healing day.
And no Anglo Saxon words were spoken by me today, not even when the Eucalyptus tree was misbehaving....
Time to clear up for the nighttime beasties. New batteries and SD cards in the trail cameras. And lock up. And my eyes are a little tired...
Yes, I am afraid I am guilty of using the lazy word and actually feel guilty when I do relax and recharge and accuse myself of being lazy.Lazy is a derogatory way of describing resting and recharging.
Am wondering how long before you will be trading this car in for one that suits you better....Thank you for the compliment @jjraak
There's always new 'surprises'... it is never the same the next time so you can prepare but it will be different. Preparation is never waste of time but you just have to be aware it might appear like a completely different situation, with different parameters...
The car service people had changed all my settings on the dashboard and on the information screen. And worst of all they had changed all my mirrors. And, believe it or not they had changed the settings on the reverse camera so that when I'm reversing, it's in a different place either to the left or to the right or more up it's not the same at all. And I can't drive by that now to reverse easily into a tight space, or into my driveway which is a very tight space, especially with all the cars parked in the road outside my driveway.
The first thing I did when I left that blooming garage was drive to a deserted industrial park. I let out an enormous frustrated scream and a pile of Anglo-Saxon words....
I've got out my phone to Google how to restore my settings, and of course there is no reception... another frustrated scream. No one came out of the buildings, fortunately....
So it's pressing every button on the dashboard and steering wheel to try and get a couple of essential settings I needed to be able to see that I'm used to driving with. One of them was the digital speedometer, they had taken that off completely. The analog speedometer, or whatever that is called, is right underneath my hand on the driving wheel and I need to move my body over to the right side and look under the steering wheel which is certainly not a safe option when I'm driving. I can gauge speed without even looking at speedometer but where I live it is 20, 30, 40, 20, 70, 20, 40, 20, 50, and so on. And that was just some of the first part of the journey. Changing by the minute.
Finally, I got the digital speedometer up. Then I had one more thing to do on the display, just to get me home. I completely forgot when I'm backing into my driveway (it is a very tight fit) that the mirrors had been altered by the service people (and the backing camera and alerts and alarms also had been altered), and I was too near a wall. Another almighty scream from me... but no one came out of the bungalows...I had altered the mirrors for driving home and for the rest of the traffic, but it still wasn't the same as what I had before.
I cannot turn like I used to do because of my Arthritis making me stiff, and so I am dependent on those mirrors.
Today the car's ears can have a rest.
Tomorrow, I will be driving in and out of my driveway, doing what adjustments I can, and then going to some deserted car park somewhere to get the hang of these new adjustments to the backing camera and also to spend time getting my mirrors right, backing in and out until I am 100% perfect...
I did spend this kind of time when I first got this car doing all this....
Auto correct frequently replaces "good" with "goid". I have to check very carefully. As you said it makes it's own rules.Yes @gennepher - spellcheck is definitely a law unto itself.
Well done you for managing that impossible eucalyptus repot. And to think I struggle for half a hour recently to get a small, extremely potbound shrub out of its pot. It was at a plant exchange, about a month ago, looking so sad I felt sorry for it and had to bring it home.I have had a lovely few hours in my back garden, actually in what was my original vegetable container garden. There is wild stuff growing in the pots, a lot of it edible. And my tree kale and tree broccoli is still growing. Main job was to repot a 15' to 20' Eucalyptus tree.
Well that was impossible. It needed 2 or 3 people. But I don't do impossible. Had a nap, then inspiration struck. I pulled the tree over sideways to the ground. Rolled it over and over until it came out of its root bound pot. Got new bigger pot, got the root bound solid earth and slid the bigger light weight pot over it. And put it upright. But then I had difficulty and couldn't let the tree go, because there was no earth in the pot.
I nearly came unstuck here. The Eucalyptus tree decided it wanted to have a battle with my electric overhead cable to the garage. And then it wanted to grab some tiles off my bungalow roof. I thought it had, but my phone on a stick showed me the roof tiles were intact...phew.
Eucalyptus tree and pot is now wedged in place. Tied to a metal pole so it can't do the waving in the wind thing.
And I have had a lovely relaxing healing day.
And no Anglo Saxon words were spoken by me today, not even when the Eucalyptus tree was misbehaving....
Time to clear up for the nighttime beasties. New batteries and SD cards in the trail cameras. And lock up. And my eyes are a little tired...
I was, in my defence being a bit slothful and idle about it.Lazy is a derogatory way of describing neccessary resting and recharging.
Edited to add one word - neccessary.
That's the odd thing - this was, on occasions desperately painful, but now, I'm happy to say is only a bit sore. Dentist did say to avoid spicy food but I went ahead and had a spicy tagine last night anyway. Sore, but worth it.Seen this, called Map Tongue though. One of our Indian friends daughter had it and was showing it to everyone at an event. Assume the same thing. Very odd looking but apparently not painful.
We no longer have a local press. It was bought out by one of those big newspaper groups a few years ago, and then the local office closed down. It is now based somewhere on the mainland. There is a site online called "I love Stornoway" but I don't know how to access it, being not very tech-able these days. Waiting for a reply from Kirsty to see if she would be willing to carry on, if it is possible.
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