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The kaleidoscope makes a fabulous image of poppies.
 
My step father stepped on a mine and lost his right leg below the knee his death in his 50s was in part attributed to the stress his system sustained due to his severe injuries so my mother after his death was counted as a war widow as had been her mother before her.
 
I actually can't remember how long ago we stopped giving presents for the older grandkids.
it was probably when the close family of ours on both sides started to multiply very quickly.
I lost count of how many extended family we have. But a tribe would explain it.
And at that time, it was agreed that the adults, would miss out to give the kids a bit more.
of course there is always the exception, which of course is not a burden in that they do get something.

Chrimbo morning in our house has always been electric and full of excitement. And we both get spoilt.

With having quite a few festive season birthdays, #2, #4, #5 and two adults. The visit to the card shop with the Christmas card list, is one of the chores I'm not to keen on.

Mrs L chooses her gift earlier every year, it was in March/April when she announced her need of a nice pair of earrings.
For your birthday, I asked.
No, next week for chrimbo, and is the turkey crown ready to be defrosted, with the gammon?
Yes dear. What are you thinking of getting me? I presumed.
Get yourself a book.......
Ok!

I do love Chrimbo, cos of the grandkids now. And did I mention I get spoilt?
Being generous with what you have. Is the idea behind d it all.
It's not the religion for us. It is family.
And of course, we will be attending our place of worship on boxing day, as my team are at home.
And it is five years now since I stopped working the Christmas period. Christmas was so busy in pro sport.
Christmas day training and matches galore for few weeks in late December and early January.
I think we were quite lucky with our fixtures at that time, the furthest on actual boxing day was Burton Albion.
But if I remember rightly we did have an facup tie some distance away the first Saturday in very early january.
And we were away on New year's day.

Merry Christmas you lot.
 
My dad was in training, and got leave to visit family of course.
He said to my mum, I will see you in a couple of weeks, when I finish training.
Over four years later, they saw each other again.
The first letter home to tell my mum, he was on active duty, was a few months arriving.
I'm not sure how long it took to be shipped to Burma, but it was a few weeks???

Fancy not knowing, in this age, with the want to know now, technical obsessions of life?
 
Good Remembrance Sunday afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. I sit here watching the remembrance parade, we recorded it this morning. This morning was a busy morning with the respectful stop at 11:00am for 2 minutes.

I always write on this day, I wear my poppy to remember those who gave their lives that I may choose to wear a poppy.

And now for something completely normal. My blood sugars this morning were 6.7

Today is not the day to write of yesterdays trials and tribulations. Today is a day to ponder on the words of Professor Issac Asimov “Violence is the last resort of the incompetent “ Also a song written by the pop group Pink Floyd “ Keep Talking “

Stay safe, stay warm and remember.
 
I tried that, but for some reason can't get this newish PC to take a screenshot. It will at other times but it won't give me screenshot on my menus on this jpg. The jpg itself is too big for the site to accept. There's probably a way, but I just don't know what it is.

My grandfather came back from WWI but he was a broken man. He went to war even though he wasn't all that fit, was gassed and survived but then developed TB from which he suffered for the next 29 years before his death in 1945. Not sure what the link was between being gassed and TB, unless he picked it up in a military hospital. Oddly, although he had no symptoms, a chest X-ray showed that my father had had TB and a blood test showed that I had been exposed to it, but I never had any symptoms either. My grandfather was the only person we knew who actually showed symptoms of the disease. Could it have come from him and down the generations? No way of knowing, and no real harm anyway but I wonder how much the health of those returning heros' families suffered as a result of their loved ones damaged health and injuries. Certainly my grandmother had to work hard to support both her family (13 of them) and her husband for those years after 1917 when he was discharged as unfit.
 
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Almost got to the end of Chapter one. Ran out of steam at that point because I couldn't come up with a suitable transition to Chapter two. It'll come to me if I take a break.
 
Annb said:
8.3 at 04.50 today.

I have a really lovely image of a wreath of poppies that I wanted to put in here, but can't get it to work.
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If you have a windows PC then you could try compression on Picture Manager. I use an app called Image Size on my IPad - there are a lot of apps but I am just used to that one (image below)
 

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Mrs L 's great uncle was gassed but didn't survive the first world war.

part two,
my dad, had double malaria and was sent home in 1946.
of course medically unfit for the army and most of the jobs he applied for.
he did a year at SMM, but he became ill and during the next few years in and out of hospital.
my mum meanwhile worked full time in a sweet factory.
My dad then in the fifties, started working with the civil defence as a driving instructor at first.
I remember a Christmas party, vaguely in the town hall.
Eventually, early sixties he applied for an office job with the local borough council.
Where he stayed until his early death in 1985.
Did the war contribute to his health and mental issues?
Without doubt.
Into his fifties, he became a bowls referee, because he had to stop playing.
He was on serious meds for all his life.
We were lucky he lived so long. Lucky he came through the war at all.
He was so proud to be a chindit.
But he paid the price for it.
 
Yes, as a race. English robins readily come to people on their territory @gennepher, especially where food is offered. Starlings quickly snaffle up mealworms and other insect larvae on the bird table, so I feed our resident male and female robins by hand.

Interestingly, beyond the UK, robins behave quite differently. An extremely shy woodland bird, their exposure to hunting has perhaps resulted in a more retiring species.

We all love robins, but they're viciously territorial. Disputes typically begin with males singing at each other, trying to get a higher perch in order to display their red breast more prominently and warn off rivals. If escalation should occur, injury or death seems inevitable, but IME one adversary usually withdraws.

Unfortunately for other bird species, robins don't necessarily stop at attacking their own kind. Dunnocks, for example, are frequently the recipient of this aggression.

Thank you for sharing another action-packed video and a beautiful kaleidoscope for Remembrance Sunday


Sunday's FBG 4.7 mmol/l on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Thanks @LivingLightly

I only have one resident dunnock in the garden. If it is the same one, each year, then she has been living in my garden for three years. Last year she found a mate (that is how I identified her as a she), and left my garden but came back. This year she did not find a mate and carried on living in my garden. She is in the garden now.
Unless there is some kind of criteria that says only one dunnock may live in my garden at a time....
So far, the last few years she has always got on with the male robin...
 
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Good morning everyone on a smasher of a sun shiney day here in the dark and dangerous north. Will it last? 5.6 this am in the micro world of blood sugars. According to the documentary, Fantastic Voyage, too much sugar in your blood interferes with the engines of micro submarines. We have a bunch of poppies to take to the Commonwealth War Graves in our local cemetery on this Armistice Day and then some breakfast I think. Art bit, another boat. Hope you have a good day, mine is a Monday. Koffy, must make koffy.
 

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Fbg 6.5

Good morning.

The sun has finally got out of bed, it made a few streaks at dawn. I have not seen it for more than a week.

It makes a heck of a difference to my mood, and I feel so much lighter and freer and probably happier because I can see the sun.

Wildlife night time video
Pa Badger & Boy Badger
Pa Badger appears rather cross with Boy Badger.
In the opening scene Pa Badger is the one with his front paws on the swing. A moment later Boy Badger comes in and attempts to put his paws on the swing. From my observation of this (and I have seen Pa Badger get cross with Boy Badger for showing interest in the swing before now), is that Pa Badger considers that the swing is his own domain, and does not like Boy Badger showing an interest in it. This is the biggest noisiest kerfuffle between Boy Badger and Pa Badger I have ever seen yet.
In the next scene you see Boy Badger coming in and he's looking up at the swing very tentatively/carefully because he appears to know that it is something out of bound to him by Pa Badger...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCM4y2NIym2/?igsh=MXE2YTV3Y2MxeW5xeg==.

TikTok same video


Creative... I am leaving this one as it is. It is rag paper, wet with a water spray, and different paints and inks put on and they've spread. I painted it in landscape mode, but when I turned it round I very much like the portrait mode, so I put them both on here for you.

Still cloudy out there, the weather that tells me I have full bright sun. Well I don't!!!

If the sun does not get up then I'm not getting up, I'm going back to sleep...

Have your best kind of day...


 
Morning all from the sunshine without warmth - obviously Milton inspired me more than I thought - of L.A.. No known fbg but as detailed an analysis of my food intake yesterday as Cronometer can muster. Thank you to @JohnEGreen , @karen8967 and @gennepher for sharing the poppy themed artwork yesterday. Dunelm thank you for sharing your art yesterday and today. I'm having to revisit the skill of pushing down the foil top on a glass milk bottle since JKP has decided that back to the future is the way forward. Seems she has caught the zeitgeist virus. Do enjoy your Monday.
 
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