Not suffered myself @Annb ,I can't blame my work for my hands, although the carpel tunnel syndrome was diagnosed while I was still working but I've been retired for 15 years now so they should have recovered from that strain. Maybe that just left them vulnerable to whatever the problem is now. Glad to hear that your hands are feeling a bit better though.
Thank you very much for the beautiful compliments @jjraakAgain @gennepher , a nice bit of work.
Very effective & pleasing, to my eye at least .
Look forward to more of the same .
(Ps, rather envious how you can turn such seemingly simple idea into such pleasurable item for the more knuckle fingered types (me ) to enjoy .
Most kind.
Thank you .
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Thank you for the most lovely compliment @AnnbYou have a good enough eye to know what works without reference to any rule book, and you come up with spectacular images just by your artistic instinct.
I am envious of you and THAT pool @jjraakBack end of our north Aegean tour .
Rocked up for a few days at what we now see as our diamond find.
Hotel offers a spa pool, all the water jet types gadgets etc.
Lauren chose it as it might offer me benefits and it's close to an excellent proper thermal baths.
Upside was the pool in pic is gorgeous, and the hotel is excellent....but never busy when we book it....?
Most times it's just us two in the pool.
And the folks who run it makes sure we get a ground floor room by the pool to boot.
Not to everyones tastes maybe, but just relaxing under the 'waterfall' or in the spa, and resting injured muscles etc in the 'jet stream' mode, feels like a tiny bit of heaven .
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I do admittedly feel a little blessed, @gennepher .I am envious of you and THAT pool @jjraak
I believe that carpal tunnel won't get better without some form of intervention.I can't blame my work for my hands, although the carpel tunnel syndrome was diagnosed while I was still working but I've been retired for 15 years now so they should have recovered from that strain. Maybe that just left them vulnerable to whatever the problem is now. Glad to hear that your hands are feeling a bit better though.
I love the magical waterworks at your hotel.I do admittedly feel a little blessed, @gennepher .
Sure we all envy parts of each others lives, your garden for instance, pure heaven with it's cats & wildlife.
Wouldn't it be magical if we all could have just a piece of the joy others have in moments of their lives, and share it physically ?
Not practical of course, but I like to think this little wedge of the forums offers us a virtual world where we can share & enjoy each others experiences.
This forum is important @jjraak in many ways. In some ways we realise things when we see into others' lives, and we get an understanding of them. And maybe an understanding of our own past, when we had not understood the viewpoint of another.I do admittedly feel a little blessed, @gennepher .
Sure we all envy parts of each others lives, your garden for instance, pure heaven with it's cats & wildlife.
Wouldn't it be magical if we all could have just a piece of the joy others have in moments of their lives, and share it physically ?
Not practical of course, but I like to think this little wedge of the forums offers us a virtual world where we can share & enjoy each others experiences.
You are right @Lamont DI love the magical waterworks at your hotel.
I love the idea of sharing our good fortune.
a wish to be somewhere else, is something we all could do with, but dreaming of pastures new or the grass is always greener scenario. Some magical places are not as perfect as advertised.
imagine @gennepher in Greece in 45-50 degrees.
imagine myself in -10 degrees Russia?
My holiday in Berlin was brilliant as a teenager.
However, having Russian security at checkpoint charlie, being frisked, fear as you saw the soldiers, Brandenburg gate, the tanks, the furherbunker, the wall, the bleakness in East Berlin, not my ideal of a holiday, just a bit of an adventure, as was the American MPs, as I was being nosey around a certain area around the air base, when we visited the PX.
Or in a caravan and it has all the hallmarks of your worst nightmare!
I couldn't share my dream, wishes as it would put me in a truly awful light.
I'm a good guy, who loves his family, and wants the best for most (but not all).
I try to do my best, and it is awful.
I am so fortunate in so many ways, blessed in many more, but life can be so cruel and hard.
Wishing it away, is not how to deal with it all.
Enjoy your breaks, as I do mine.
Best wishes to you lot as w.
I think that you can get it in iPlayer @Annb. It is well worth watching.Meant to watch it but I missed it- doing something else. Darn!
It looks just perfect @jjraakBack end of our north Aegean tour .
Rocked up for a few days at what we now see as our diamond find.
Hotel offers a spa pool, all the water jet types gadgets etc.
Lauren chose it as it might offer me benefits and it's close to an excellent proper thermal baths.
Upside was the pool in pic is gorgeous, and the hotel is excellent....but never busy when we book it....?
Most times it's just us two in the pool.
And the folks who run it makes sure we get a ground floor room by the pool to boot.
Not to everyones tastes maybe, but just relaxing under the 'waterfall' or in the spa, and resting injured muscles etc in the 'jet stream' mode, feels like a tiny bit of heaven .
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I'm still trying to work out how to access iPlayer and the rest. My old TV can't do it and my PC might if I could figure out the jargon around Firesticks and such, never mind how to use it once I get one. No point asking Neil - he despises TV and modern drama. The most recent theatrical thing he did was to appear in The Gondoliers at school.I think that you can get it in iPlayer @Annb. It is well worth watching.
It's the way to travel! @JohnEGreen. Smashing trousers if I may say so.
Thank you @gennepher for sharing this action-packed nighttime video and your eye catching artworkFbg 7.1
I was nibbling food late evening because I was painting until after midnight.
I could not remember whether to spray water first on the paper or after I had put the pigment on the paper. I tried both ways... hence far too much water on the paper, so I had to find a hairdryer. I have only just bought a hair dryer because of washing the stray cats. They are not allowed indoors until they have had their 'spa treatment' (which is not a very popular feature of the services I provide for the stray cats). I cannot let them go outside this weather until they are bone dry. A cat and a hairdryer does not go well together, but it is a necessity....
Just like it was a necessity last night to find the hairdryer to dry my painting...
Here is my first painting with the Brusho pigments. I did read after I had done it, that I should've used hot water in the spray bottle or very warm water.
It should be noted that I could not find any of my postcard sized pieces of plain white card and I have hundreds of them.... but I did manage to lay my hands on a package of 6 x 4 photographic paper.
So best get started while I was in the mood...
I found out that if you use water on photographic paper, you end up with the gooey mess. You cannot use a brush on it because the brush ends up in a gooey mess. However, you can use any implement at your disposal - credit card, ends of a pair of scissors, a pin, a Biro (but bear in mind it can never be used again as a Biro because it will mess it up completely but it is useful implement to draw with to get the white coming through the colour on the photographic paper)... and other ideas of your choice...
So this creative is my first attempt with the Brusho pigments... more attempts will come in the next few days...
I did have fun playing with this. You can see it is still wet...
Nighttime wildlife video...
Badgers A Cat & A Fox
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That is it for today, so make the most of your day, and it is time for food for me...
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That spa pool looks so inviting.Back end of our north Aegean tour .
Rocked up for a few days at what we now see as our diamond find.
Hotel offers a spa pool, all the water jet types gadgets etc.
Lauren chose it as it might offer me benefits and it's close to an excellent proper thermal baths.
Upside was the pool in pic is gorgeous, and the hotel is excellent....but never busy when we book it....?
Most times it's just us two in the pool.
And the folks who run it makes sure we get a ground floor room by the pool to boot.
Not to everyones tastes maybe, but just relaxing under the 'waterfall' or in the spa, and resting injured muscles etc in the 'jet stream' mode, feels like a tiny bit of heaven .
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I'd Keep a close eye on that JohnFbg at 6 AM according to Libre sensor 3.0 now at 7.10 AM 4.7
I asked Alexa if it’s ever going to stop raining the answer I got was “right now it doesn’t feel like it ever will” I think I have a depressed AI on my hands.
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