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28.10
8.25am FBG 4.2
Have been dashing about since 7am, time for coffee, oops and breakfast if that FBG is anything to go on.
Handful of mixed berries, frozen, from the garden. First year there have been enough for this, some (almost entirely) grain free granola andsplash of milk with my coffee.
 
@SlimLizzy

So pleased you found the pictures of Errant.

I loved the carefree joy in this one.


Sure You know, but Google Amazon etc all offer a level of free storage, rather useful for pictures.

I let my phone back up to Google (tho I do have Amazon nagging me too )

Makes for a nice catalogue of what I consider important pictures.

( And makes the retrieval should my phone get lost or smashed a doddle.

Never had that , thank goodness, but it also makes the transferring of my data onto any new phone the proverbial piece of u no wot, too.)

Admittedly pics are all around 800 or 640 pixels, which is more than good enough for most uses
(Reviewing or post online )

And for a small cost (I pay £1.99pm)
One can upgrade the 15 GB I think to 100 GB of storage.

I do hear some, for reasons of separating their email intray, have several email addresses on Gmail.

One for responses that may produce spam, for instance.
One for family close friends etc
One for business or official messaging.

But each offers the same free (15 GB) of storage.

Could be of use to someone.

Again love that pic.
So pleased you found it and posted it.

Gorgeous little cat.
 
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Here is another song regarding clocks

 
Thank you @JohnEGreen .

I did try to cope with a push bike, but the effort & knee severely restrict the range or distance I can go, rather deterring me from wanting to use it sadly.

The Ebike I had & hopefully this one, were the polar opposite.

It was almost like having the motorcycles back.
I was looking for excuses to go ride them.


Need milk love ?
I'll go .

There's a big new supermarket a few miles away I'll get some from there ...type thing

Work can be a short car ride then overground to the office.
(Too far for me to walk)

But on wet rainy days I can cycle there, around a mile and on less inclement days I can cycle the ebike to work, just under 4 miles, and last bit up out of the Thames valley.

One home trip back & I was cycling 8-10 miles 3 days a week even if I'm officially a 65³/⁴ yr old cripple...lol

On a more sensible note, I found the Ebike actually safer.

My route in to work & back would if I had just a pedal bike mean taking the most direct route.

In my case some rather busy little roads...eek.

But with the Ebike, I happily detoured to a slightly longer journey by opting for the less busy roads either side of the more traffic congested main routes.

Meaning a safer, less stressful journey on the Ebike.

Have to say unless it's for a particular need, (aka racing clubs, etc)
I can't see how pedal bikes will even be an option in a few years time (unless for children )

Obv posted from my ptz of 2030...(Love that thought of yours )

Beam me up Scottie ....
 
The first electronic digital watch was the Pulsar P-1, also known as the Pulsar Time Computer, developed by the Hamilton Watch Company (USA) and released on 4 April 1972. It combined a quartz-crystal timekeeping chip with a simple red LED digital display.
 
Smashing. more castles in your garden than Edward I built in all of Wales.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Fbg 7.0 this morning at 06.30 mptz ( my personal time zone ) don’t see why I should conform to anyone else’s version of what the time is.
After all we all experience the passage of time differently.
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No, time is not a constant. I suppose it depends on where we are standing and what the world that we are observing is doing. Always walk back down the length of trains as it pulls into stations to confound the inocent.
 
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I think you spelled CASIO wrong, John ...

Interesting post

And a good example that innovators aren't always the ones to make the most of their discoveries, sadly.

As one who can't resist slipping down rabbit holes like this.....

Pulsar

 
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Good morning everyone on a bright and sunny start to International Stoic Week here in the dark and dangerous north. We were transported back to the 1970’s late last night by experiencing all the elastic trickery disappearing from the town. We shrugged and went to bed - it was all working fine this morning. Maybe someone turned it off and then turned it back on again to re boot a smart fridge that had forgotten to order more milk. Half term - how quaint. We have The Girl In The Bubble for the whole of today at least - the week will inform us as it unfolds. Art bit, wading through the shallows. Hope your day is a good one. I’m onto my second koffy already.
 

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The first day Keiran had his E-bike he took is out for a spin and ended up traveling about 20 miles round trip he loves it he did have a dirt bike a while ago well he still has except it’s in bits in the shed since he came off it and fractured two vertebrae in his neck and breaking his wrist the E-bike is I think much safer and he is now more mature and dare I say it does not ride around at breakneck speed any more.
Edit to add well I hope he doesn’t as he is driving up to Aberdeen this morning in my car to get some more work done on his tattoo.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Fbg 7.0 this morning at 06.30 mptz ( my personal time zone ) don’t see why I should conform to anyone else’s version of what the time is.
After all we all experience the passage of time differently.
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Actually, that is so true @JohnEGreen . It so weird how time sometimes flies by at supersonic speed but other times it goes by so so slowly.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Actually, that is so true @JohnEGreen . It so weird how time sometimes flies by at supersonic speed but other times it goes by so so slowly.
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Fastest is that happy as Larry time zone (haltz)

Slowest by far is htz

Hospital time zone is a whole new other dimension, where sufferers can almost see time being dragged slowly backwards.
 
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When next summer comes I think I might buy some air conditioned shoes to keep my feet cool.

Japanese Invent Air-conditioned Shoes

Japanese are known world over for their innovation in the technical sector. Well this time, they have done it again, in a more innovative way. They are producing air conditioned shoes. Quite a necessity for the blazing and humid summer that Tokyo faces.
www.ibtimes.com
 
5.2 this morning.
Took my car in early for its service and then walked back home with Poppy. The walk was about the same number of steps as our normal walk in the park.

Car will be ready after lunch.

I was a bit disappointed with the training video I went through yesterday but I have changed my mind.

There is one exercise on it that is brilliant. It really challenges balance and strengthen foot, leg and core strength. I couldn't do it at all to start with. It was so funny - I couldn't stop laughing as I attempted it. Covid has affected my balance so it is a good one to do.

Have now devised a way for clients who are as rubbish at it as me to build up their strength and balance in stages.
 
Is there a name for this exercises that we can find - sounds very useful
 
Good afternoon regulars, one must keep regular as that famous Senator Senokota said. Talking of movements, so long Eric the ex-red, who's next? will Jim and Dave get fooled again for absolutely no marginal gain? No fbg to share but after a lovely day yesterday, including a video call with one of the bridesmaids who can still wear her dress forty years on - she was 18 at the time - three sons, a nursing career and helping run a farm and two other businesses in very Welsh Wales later. The discussion of human experience of time passing at seemingly different rates is a tad philosophical but in International Stoic Week (may be needed very much more after Nov 5) entirely appropriate - fits a theme. Two grandchildren slept over to save JKP driving into Cambs at stupid O'clock for collection. Reading bedtime stories, telling my own stories, then later four people in a bed - two of whom wriggle and flail constantly is a memory - I'd nearly forgotten and a pursuit I will happily embrace as long as God in his mercy grants me length of days. Nothing in Elsie Keto, healthy living, mindfulness or any of the other "helpful" lifestyle ideas comes remotely close to being told at 4.30 a.m. by a confused - where am I, where's mum and dad? - grandson or granddaughter, I love you grangrad, you are warm, cuddly and make me feel safe. May not help control your bg but in the big scheme of things it is infinitely more important. @dunelm enjoy your time with TGIB and thanks for sharing the art, another piece I like. Tomorrow is pumpkin selecting day for four of our grandchildren - can I do a DJT weave and is three too young to explain the difference between All Saints and All Souls day? You've all done very well reading thus far, now trot along and enjoy Monday.
 
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