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@geefull Thank you for your compliment regarding my Bonsai painting.

Like those sand dunes you have painted and the footsteps in the foreground they are so difficult to paint and make look like footsteps, I think the scene is very well painted.
 
jjraak said:
WE are intolerant of carbs in the same way, the govt
are intolerant of sensible, balanced decision making,

Decisions that are GOOD to the health of the Nation,
SHOULD be a Govts PRIORITY, right
or is that being to naive ?

SO Why must EVERY decision THIS Govt make, seem to start with...
"How many millions will THIS make US "
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I absolutely agree with your post - especially this part of your post.
 
Went to sons for an evening meal, daughter was also there so got to spend time with all three of my granddaughters, magical. My sons cottage faces west and the sunset tonight was dark and foreboding, there is a mighty Oak with huge limbs that were silhouetted. I had my paints in Wilfrid my VW camper so did a quick Plein Air watercolour sketch, I may decide to do a painting from it. A4 sketch about 10 minutes as Grandchildren wanted bed time stories.....
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Muddy Cyclist said:
Went to sons for an evening meal, daughter was also there so got to spend time with all three of my granddaughters, magical. My sons cottage faces west and the sunset tonight was dark and foreboding, there is a mighty Oak with huge limbs that were silhouetted. I had my paints in Wilfrid my VW camper so did a quick Plein Air watercolour sketch, I may decide to do a painting from it. A4 sketch about 10 minutes as Grandchildren wanted bed time stories.....
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A great fantastic dramatic painting @Muddy Cyclist
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Went to sons for an evening meal, daughter was also there so got to spend time with all three of my granddaughters, magical. My sons cottage faces west and the sunset tonight was dark and foreboding, there is a mighty Oak with huge limbs that were silhouetted. I had my paints in Wilfrid my VW camper so did a quick Plein Air watercolour sketch, I may decide to do a painting from it. A4 sketch about 10 minutes as Grandchildren wanted bed time stories.....
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You had me at
"son, daughter & 3 grandauggters"

Magical, indeed.

Especially given how much we have all sacrificed and missed out on, these last months.

Quite brought a tear to my eye.

Love it ❤️
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I absolutely agree with your post - especially this part of your post.
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Thank you @Krystyna23040.

A simple premise

Do no Harm......

Yet daily, they do.

Isn't now the time and chance to make BIG changes to what and how we eat ?

Oh well, back to "Cereals are the bestest for your kids". :rolleyes:
 
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jjraak said:
Especially given how much we have all sacrificed and missed out on, these last months.
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Yet probably to no avail. COVID is still amongst us and time and time again it's shown to thrive when humans spend time together.
Although we were all mostly outside this evening we all ate indoors, care was taken but not in the same way as a month ago when we all did our own BBQ and took our own plates to sons garden. Daughter, SIL and granddaughters back at school, son a Farrier seeing upto 20 different clients a day and a partner with boys also back at school. Wednesday we are seeing friends for coffee at ours, in garden but indoors if cool, they child mind three times a week for daughter who is a district nurse.Thursday another two friends and Mrs MC at hairdressers, Saturday two relatives for lunch and possibly evening meal a walk is planned, lunch probably in garden but guess evening meal will be indoors, they will have seen their family and their friends.

Now I think I am risk assessing, try to social distance, put out separate soap and towels, sprays and wipes in bathroom, wash hands before touching anything that may be shared or handed out, keep outside as much as possible, wipe down everything when visitors have left. But I know COVID lurks, waiting its chance, searching out those chinks in our armour and it scares me. I look at my weeks activity and can see how easy things can go very wrong even with our effort to try and keep it safe. In my mind there is always that nagging doubt and I shudder as I ask myself the question should we be doing this?

Hard times, difficult decisions.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Yet probably to no avail. COVID is still amongst us and time and time again it's shown to thrive when humans spend time together.
Although we were all mostly outside this evening we all ate indoors, care was taken but not in the same way as a month ago when we all did our own BBQ and took our own plates to sons garden. Daughter, SIL and granddaughters back at school, son a Farrier seeing upto 20 different clients a day and a partner with boys also back at school. Wednesday we are seeing friends for coffee at ours, in garden but indoors if cool, they child mind three times a week for daughter who is a district nurse.Thursday another two friends and Mrs MC at hairdressers, Saturday two relatives for lunch and possibly evening meal a walk is planned, lunch probably in garden but guess evening meal will be indoors, they will have seen their family and their friends.

Now I think I am risk assessing, try to social distance, put out separate soap and towels, sprays and wipes in bathroom, wash hands before touching anything that may be shared or handed out, keep outside as much as possible, wipe down everything when visitors have left. But I know COVID lurks, waiting its chance, searching out those chinks in our armour and it scares me. I look at my weeks activity and can see how easy things can go very wrong even with our effort to try and keep it safe. In my mind there is always that nagging doubt and I shudder as I ask myself the question should we be doing this?

Hard times, difficult decisions.
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Hugs @Muddy Cyclist
I don't have any of this as my family are not nearby, and my friends are still too scared to come out. So I don't know how you cope mentally with all this.

The family next door have defied covid lockdown rules from the start, and had their grandchildren and family and extended family over on an almost daily basis. And in close proximity in their bungalow. There has been no social distancing from the very start of lockdown. None of them has caught Covid-19..
 
gennepher said:
There has been no social distancing from the very start of lockdown. None of them has caught Covid-19..
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This is where understanding covid at large becomes grey.

What you are actually seeing is no deaths from covid rather than no-one has caught it. The virus is primarily asymptomatic and so is not easily recognisable, also the death rate (42k) is small in comparison to the known infection rate (337k although the actual figure is probably much higher).

For most of the country that 42k death rate is acceptable in terms of 'business as usual', whereas we personally know (from being in the high-risk/at-risk category) that 42k is worrying indeed.

As people yearn for normality in social contact we should be aware that for those at risk it will be a game of Russian Roulette that only time will answer.

edit to add fbg at 9.0 Don't you just love steroids
 
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Good Morning and 6.4 for me today.

This decorating lark don't half make you ache.:bored:

Sunny start here so hopefully coffee outside with friends in garden.

The day beckons make the most of your day. Try and keep safe.
 
Alien Aspie said:
As people yearn for normality in social contact we should be aware that for those at risk it will be a game of Russian Roulette that only time will answer
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I agree, understand the science, Mrs MC did a masters degree in biochemistry and I have a close niece who works with bugs and such with her Doctorate in Oxford (not Covid though), yet with all this knowledge and understanding my humanity and need for social contact drives me to play what I think is a controlled game of Russian Roulette, knowing deep down that there is no such animal, it makes me afraid but the need for social contact can be likened to a drug addiction, just one more, doing it safely, taking precautions and then BOOM it all goes wrong.
So I have to choose the worst of two evils, the guilt of not being socially active or Covid, catching or spreading which equally amounts to being antisocial. You are right only time will tell.
 
gennepher said:
The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.
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Not pleasant. A very good job that you kept your head and that she did follow your sensible instructions. Hope that your day today is a better one
 
Fbg 7.2

It was 12.9 last night before I went to bed. Why? Stress?

An uncomfortable night, but it's easing off with painkillers and heat pads are helping. But definitely bed rest for a couple of days I think, or I will ending up lopping down trees in my garden which had been my plan, but definitely inadvisable at the moment.

I haven't got time to do my my painting yet, because I am awaiting a lady this morning. Over the bank holiday weekend the wall socket switch tripped, turning all wall sockets off. Switching everything off, turning off all wall sockets didn't solve the problem. I only realised the problem when there was a puddle of water outside my fridge.

I had already lost the contents of my fridge, and my freezer was doing a few drips. So no point in paying for an exhorbitant bank holiday electrician.

I found the electric in the garage was fine, so I ran an extension cable from garage into the bungalow. And have been charging up my devices on that, which is why I have still been able to communicate!

I emailed an organisation that helped me last year, they helped me with plumbing and tap problems last year. So she knows the electric problem, but has to come and ask questions and fill in paperwork and then go back to her office and then decide if they can help me, and assign an electrician for this job. This should go smoothly.

So, I have had more than a stressful weekend anyway.

Then today, an online friend is going to draft a letter for me to send to my MP over that nurse/surgery debacle, and some other letters. And I will be going on a couple of local online sites asking questions to see if anyone realises what is going on as regards my doctor's surgery, and asking for any recommendations for a good doctor.

Catch you later. Have a good day.

Popeye says hi >^..^<
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

edited to add - 4.7 this morning :)

it turned into a really hot day here after a cool start to September 1st. ;)

Over to mum's at lunchtime to collect her shopping list and bearing fresh soup, we had a bit of a job to do outside her drive gate too.
Someone mr gee knows is working on and off with his digger along the road where they are building a new house and we've arranged for him to bring his little digger along and take the level down on a 6 foot stretch of the verge to the side of the gate and to add some gravel so that there is a longer area outside the gate to park on. With the postie and other delivery drivers parking up outside it tends to get very muddy in the Autumn and Winter and then the rain carries the soil down and blocks the drain resulting in a big pool of water at the end of the drive.

We needed to remove a couple of gorse bushes and what flippin' great roots they had! :sorry:

anyway, then we chilled out in the garden playing 'fetch' with Katy ;)

home again and we did a bit of strimming before dinner to take advantage of the good weather :) so now we're a touch 'forswonk' :D

Hope your day ends well :)


@Muddy Cyclist - lovely bonsai, very effective, so well balanced :)

@dunelm - I really like your trees and there is just enough in the foreground to fix them in the landscape and give scale :joyful:

@gennepher - amazing (and very quick), piece of art.
and many hugs for your horrible experience, I hope things are calming down for you now.

@HarryBeau - so glad you're home and things are settling down for you. You have my sympathy, I ended up in A+E with an extended nose bleed about 5 years ago, it's horrible and so stressful :sorry:

@Alien Aspie - hugs and fingers crossed for a good outcome.

Art bit -
thank you all for your compliments on my roses :)

here is another pic inspired by a photograph
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Thank you, these are from a book of painting exercises for learning techniques.
Love your beach scene and seascape, great colour pallet and perspective.
 
dunelm said:
Not pleasant. A very good job that you kept your head and that she did follow your sensible instructions. Hope that your day today is a better one
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Thanks @dunelm
One thing I am good at is having a calm logical head in a crisis. She'd lost it, and I needed her.
 
5.4, dodgy knee and still autumn. Moana, lots of tea, Noah's Ark and Old MacDonald's tractor for me today - maybe let granddaughter play as well. Hugs for @gennepher @Alien Aspie and anyone else needing them. I agree that the Health Service and much else is a shambles but we were presented with the choice of the two most inept political parties and leaders in history after a decade of slash and burn. I'm constantly amazed how people are making this work as well as it does.
 
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