gennepher
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Take care @alf_Josiah
Take care @alf_JosiahGood afternoon fellow posters and painters.
My blood sugars have been all over the scale just recently, this mornings were 7.0 and the other day 5.9 the day before 8.0
I’ve been away for the past couple of days without Mrs J, a nice break for her I think.
The staff at this establishment where I have been staying are very keen wearing uniforms in various shades of blue. The accommodation comfortable, with the staff being very attentive to my every need, including a steady supply of tea, koffy and drugs, whether I wanted them or not.
Unfortunately the catering left a little, sorry a lot, to be desired all meals had to be eaten either in your bed or at your bedside, no such thing as booking a table for 3 or 4. The menu is very restricted, portion size is very cordon blue and quality leaves a massive room for improvement. Car parking facilities are almost non existent.
The staff at this establishment are very keen on blood letting, and I must say very skill full.
If you fancy a stay at this establishment it trades under the name The Royal Berkshire Hospital and is located in Reading Berkshire. It is in the phone book and has lots of stars, depending on what you walk into.
So keen am I on this establishment I have another booking for tomorrow.
Stay safe all, stay away from me…….
It seems he is only interested in the big house that is under offer. I can't find anything else to compare.Where I lived before @SlimLizzy there was this guy older than Mr Slim. He was in his early 90's. He had this huge semi detached house, bigger than my 13 roomed house (which I still wish I had for the space, but not the neighbours) and he still was up the ladder doing house repairs and pointing. He still was going up this very tall ladder (no scaffolding, no one holding his ladder) repointing the whole gable wall right up to the apex. The house was 3 main floors (rooms were very high ceilinged, had chandeliers when it was built), and then in addition two more attic floors. So you can imagine the height.
I imagine that will be Mr Slim. It is what he does. It is what he loves.Try and pick a house no more than 2 floors!!!!
You are doing the searching Lizzy for the house, as Mr Slim is in the UK. Therefore you have some control in choosing the 'safest' house for him to renovate.
Good luck.
Yes, I am exactly the as - even if the sheer drop is only 5 foot deep.Sudden sheer drops are my Achilles heel. If there is a fence etc I'm fine, If not I freeze
Not a good day @SlimLizzy . I do hope that you find your Carte de Sejour or if not you can get a replacement quickly.Storm Darragh gas been here.
Greenhouse is a complete write off.
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Two trees down, one on the lane down the side of our garden. Had started to cut the smaller branches off to clear a way through when an acquaintance stopped and offered to return with a chain saw. We cleared the road then I drove to a friend's house for lunch.
After lunch, more futile looking at houses on the internet. Then went to make drink, noticed something that shouldn't be there on the floor. Important piece of plastic that lives in my phone case.
Carte Vitale. My access to health services here.
Then discovered my Carte de Sejour is also missing from the phone case.
This is even more serious. It's my proof of right to live here. Without it i can leave the country, but might not get back in.
Remember fumbling to answer a phone call. It was probably dropped then, however I can't remember what I did next. There is a good chance I was on my way outside, but now it's dark, the wind has been howling all day. A tiny piece of plastic could have blown away. And I have been out in the lane, over in the field, around the garden checking on things. In the woodshed and the stable.
It seems most likely I lost it at the same time as the carte Vitale, but that was inside and I have searched. Extensively.
I got my DNA result back fro Ancestry a couple of days ago. Quite disappointing really. Nothing I didn't already know from family history research and some things I know should be there - aren't. The bulk of the record is only shown as North West European when I know my grandmother's family came from Wales but that seems to be just lumped in with all the rest. The smaller amounts (2-5%'s) only showed that some folk in Norway, France, Iceland and Ireland share some ancestry with me, but not that my ancestors came from those places, just somewhere along the line we have a common ancestor (Normans I expect). Too general to be of much use. Looked at what they suggested my "traits" were. I appreciate that these are only possibilities but they are so wrong both about me and about my parents, in most of the "traits" they have picked up. Then they show where my more recent ancestors came from (in the last 200 or so years) and even that is not including my great grandparents homes in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire. Yes, quite disappointed.Youngest daughter sent me a screenshot of her DNA results.
50% of her DNA was unsurprisingly from Ireland as Mr K 's parents were from Ireland but the other 50% was absolutely fascinating.
It was a mixture of England and Northwestern Europe, central and eastern Europe, Germanic Europe and Sweden. What a mixture.
Thank you @Lamont DHow whatever you had done was successful. My couple of stays in these establishments. Opened my eyes, to why the NHS is struggling. To many chiefs, not enough indians colloquially.
@gennepher so glad you got sorted.
@ianpspurs happy birthday to son #2
I got my DNA result back fro Ancestry a couple of days ago. Quite disappointing really. Nothing I didn't already know from family history research and some things I know should be there - aren't. The bulk of the record is only shown as North West European when I know my grandmother's family came from Wales but that seems to be just lumped in with all the rest. The smaller amounts (2-5%'s) only showed that some folk in Norway, France, Iceland and Ireland share some ancestry with me, but not that my ancestors came from those places, just somewhere along the line we have a common ancestor (Normans I expect). Too general to be of much use. Looked at what they suggested my "traits" were. I appreciate that these are only possibilities but they are so wrong both about me and about my parents, in most of the "traits" they have picked up. Then they show where my more recent ancestors came from (in the last 200 or so years) and even that is not including my great grandparents homes in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire. Yes, quite disappointed.
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I am under strict instructions leave some pieces for turning into cold frames.Not a good day @SlimLizzy . I do hope that you find your Carte de Sejour or if not you can get a replacement quickly.
Such a shame that your poor greenhouse is definitely a write off
Do they automatically update the record or do you have to ask them to look at it again? I see that they are recording your Welsh origins but not mine. I think I'm just not understanding what I'm looking at. You must have 1% of something that is found in Wales over and above the general North European background. Is that what it means?
A great red sky @dunelmGood morning everyone from a tree falling over into the street start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. No idea when it fell over but there it is. We have had a wonderful time in Birmingham with our son and his family and despite the rain managed to go out and enjoy the city curtesy of waterproof clothing - not so much the so called German market - very disappointing and not a German person in sight. Treated to a smashing lunch at a place called Fazenda - the grandchildren like going there as there are lots of things to try. Journey home was interesting yesterday. Mrs Miggins kept the speed mainly in the 50’s - lots of rain, surface water and gusts of wind but traffic was light and not many high sided vehicles about. Veterans Christmas lunch with entertainment in Durham City today curtesy of The Not Forgotten organisation. DNA tests - never quite sure about them. My sister had her’s done a couple of years ago and had a sample of mine taken as part of the testing. We know that a percentage of our DNA is from India curtesy of our maternal grandmother’s parents and Irish from our maternal grandfather but the (probably) paternal side was a mish mash of English, scandiwegian and for some reason a soupçon of Eastern European. No fascination in following anything up as we are all related if we go back through the generations although I suppose our three grandchildren in Birmingham might find some interest as half their DNA will be centered around Thailand - what fun! Art bit - red sky. Hope your day is a good one. I shall make koffy and contemplate for a few minutes upon Shakespeare’s Prospero; “every third thought shall be my grave”.
Thanks @ianpspursMorning all from a damp but calm L.A. where my fbg is a known unknown. Thank you all for the birthday wishes for my son, he had a very good day including Chelsea winning and his wife making a family birthday tradition - a rice crispy cake. All three of his girls now want one each birthday. @SlimLizzy a mixed day for you. The joy of finding the Carte de Sejour, Mr Slim and son coming but the house search conundrum lingering. @dunelm it sounds as though Birmingham was really good. I hope you.enjoy the Veterans Christmas lunch and entertainment. Those kind of events, for the elderly in the community in that case, were/are the best of modern schooling imho Thank you for sharing the art: is it bad of me that I instantly thought of the Red Wedding?. @gennepher even when tired - lacking spoons - you still share videos and that wonderful Kaleidoscope - take it easy for a day or two if at all possible. @Annb hug for Neil and for you with the concern over him, his journey and the procedure. @alf_Josiah I hope the care and any treatment mean you are soon returned to Tilehurst Towers in as rude health as possible. An Interesting mixed bag of feedback from people's DNA. Not a subject that interests me but I gather it has become a popular Christmas present. I have photos and some information going back to my Paternal great, great grandparents which is enough for me if I'm honest. I'm slightly? Miss Marple in that I can relate to people from the two small villages that side of my family were centred upon from the mid C19th but the rest of the world, whilst there, makes little sense to me except through the types found there. A question asked at my cancer DX suddenly made me realise I'm also composed of genes from the Maternal side. How I lived 67 years without that registering is an indictment of me. Enjoy a storm free Monday everyone.
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