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A zoom day today.
Zoom church this am...but its gone pear shaped the last twice.

And later our eldest is zooming us in the evening.
And hopefully a long call from our other daughter at York

Our minister cant get the hang of an open church with distancing and Zoom as well for the aging and sick!

It was worse at an ironing out practice tuesday evening when the gremlins in the machine threw everything at him! :)
We all were exercising much empathy.

When one's brain is in one's job as a 30 year old and body is in one's 80's, one is between the desire to help fix the problem and the desire not to die of Covid.
I am afraid reality won.

Another wet grass day here in Cumbria.
Have a great day everyone
D.
 
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Good morning everyone from a day of unknowns in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of cold chicken and avocado with an over zealous splatter of sumac came in at 4.7 this am

Baking and shopping yesterday - but non necessarily in that order. Managed to fit in a couple of turns round the park at early o’clock. Video call with my pal who is in hospital in LA after falling from a ladder - broken ribs, bashed head and a mule kick to his spine - he is in a private hospital so I hope his insurance is OK. Anyhow, he seems to be in good spirits but his application for the position of circus acrobat has been refused.

Hope your Sunday is a good one, very quick sketch this morning as late up and off out after I have finished my koffy.
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HarryBeau said:
Morning...another exciting weekend I was determined to catch up on paperwork yesterday...made my coffee wandered into the living room noticed dripping water coming from the ceiling coving...steady at first then more vigorous called an emergency plumber who wanted either £150 for the job or a £100 per hour agreed he would arrive in 2/3 hours...turned off the water drained the tank & waited...in the meantime remembered my 'old' neighbour Sam called him and he could come straight away so cancelled the emergency plumber ...an hour later the leak was fixed for less than half the price of Mr Emergency so some positives...woke to a 6.9...keep safe everyone.
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My nightmares include water pouring through the ceiling...
Glad you sorted that pretty quick, hopefully with minimal damage @HarryBeau
Have a more restful day!
 
lindisfel said:
A zoom day today.
Zoom church this am...but its gone pear shaped the last twice.

And later our eldest is zooming us in the evening.
And hopefully a long call from our other daughter at York

Our minister cant get the hang of an open church with distancing and Zoom as well for the aging and sick!

It was worse at an ironing out practice tuesday evening when the gremlins in the machine threw everything at him! :)
We all were exercising much empathy.

When one's brain is in one's job as a 30 year old and body is in one's 80's, one is between the desire to help fix the problem and the desire not to die of Covid.
I am afraid reality won.

Another wet grass here in Cumbria.
Have a great day everyone
D.
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E-Hugs for your poor minister. He is trying hard.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a day of unknowns in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of cold chicken and avocado with an over zealous splatter of sumac came in at 4.7 this am

Baking and shopping yesterday - but non necessarily in that order. Managed to fit in a couple of turns round the park at early o’clock. Video call with my pal who is in hospital in LA after falling from a ladder - broken ribs, bashed head and a mule kick to his spine - he is in a private hospital so I hope his insurance is OK. Anyhow, he seems to be in good spirits but his application for the position of circus acrobat has been refused.

Hope your Sunday is a good one, very quick sketch this morning as late up and off out after I have finished my koffy.
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Your sketch is vibrant and full of energy @dunelm
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a day of unknowns in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of cold chicken and avocado with an over zealous splatter of sumac came in at 4.7 this am

Baking and shopping yesterday - but non necessarily in that order. Managed to fit in a couple of turns round the park at early o’clock. Video call with my pal who is in hospital in LA after falling from a ladder - broken ribs, bashed head and a mule kick to his spine - he is in a private hospital so I hope his insurance is OK. Anyhow, he seems to be in good spirits but his application for the position of circus acrobat has been refused.

Hope your Sunday is a good one, very quick sketch this morning as late up and off out after I have finished my koffy.
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Winner for you but hug for your chum in LA.
 
One cool morning a few days ago a Southern Hawker dragonfly tried to catch the sun in the garden at breakfast 1599390299651_DSCN3416_compress57.jpg so I took a quick pict.

I find it amazing amongst all that chaos of the second law, coherent engineering design arises with a TV transmitter mast like lattice in the wings.
 
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My fbg this AM was 5.0.

When we were discussing motor bikes some days ago I failed to mention

My grandsons bike is in the yard now a wreck Since he came off it and broke his neck.

Two fractured vertebra and a broken arm sustained so he is not sure now as to whether he wan'ts to rebuild it or not.
 
JohnEGreen said:
My fbg this AM was 5.0.

When we were discussing motor bikes some days ago I failed to mention

My grandsons bike is in the yard now a wreck Since he came off it and broke his neck.

Two fractured vertebra and a broken arm sustained so he is not sure now as to whether he wan'ts to rebuild it or not.
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Ouch. Must have worried you and Mrs JEG - Judith?. Talking of which, how is her burn?
 
JohnEGreen said:
My fbg this AM was 5.0.

When we were discussing motor bikes some days ago I failed to mention

My grandsons bike is in the yard now a wreck Since he came off it and broke his neck.

Two fractured vertebra and a broken arm sustained so he is not sure now as to whether he wan'ts to rebuild it or not.
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Very sorry to read your post. I hope he has a swift recovery.

I hope you don't mind me mentioning this, but if he does return to riding perhaps he might want to consider doing his advanced motorcycle test through either the IAM or RoSPA. They don't prevent accidents, but they teach awareness.
 
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Ouch. Must have worried you and Mrs JEG - Judith?. Talking of which, how is her burn?
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It did at the time I must add this was not that recent it was about a year or so back now but at the time an air lift to queens spinal unit was was considered but in the end was not necessary powerful Honda dirt bike youthful energy and a local field proved a very dangerous combination although thankfully I had insisted on protective clothing helmet and such so he was lucky could have been doing his degree in a wheelchair. The bike is in bits in the yard and as far as I'm concerned can stay that way though it was a lovely bike.

He no longer has his road bike.

Judith's burn is improving huge blisters on hand and fingers she will have to have a new dressing on Tuesday. She was worried about taking showers with the bandage on so I managed to get a water proof bandage protector you put it on like a long glove and it seals around the arm for her, worked pretty well.
 
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lindisfel said:
One cool morning a few days ago a Southern Hawker dragonfly tried to catch the sun in the garden at breakfast View attachment 43786 so I took a quick pict.

I find it amazing amongst all that chaos of the second law, coherent engineering design arises with a TV transmitter mast like lattice in the wings.
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Out on our walk today down to one of the other ponds and this little creature settled down on one of the benches a few feet away so I took a snap.

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JohnEGreen said:
Out on our walk today down to one of the other ponds and this little creature settled down on one of the benches a few feet away so I took a snap.

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Looks like a Ruddy Darter to me, John, but not my area of expertise.
The picture is showing well the darker small areas in the upper outer wings called the pterostigma, which are heavier than the other sections of wing and enable dragonflies to glide better.

regards
D.
 
good evening all :)

4.3 this morning

over to mum's with sunday meal and then an hour cleaning windows and worktops before the visitors descend on her :)

Quite a pleasant looking evening now but it was chilly this morning :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@HarryBeau - ooer! not good. Glad it's (mostly) sorted now :)

@JohnEGreen - glad your son is ok and I think the shower glove sounds like a useful piece of kit ;) it makes you feel better to be able to have a shower and feel clean and warm.

@lindisfel - lovely dragonfly pic, there has been the very occasional one in mum's garden but not often :)

@gennepher - sounds like the quick sketch strategy is an interesting way of working, strong sketch :)

@dunelm - nice branches, you always manage to give your sketches a good strong graphic flow :)

art bit -

inspired by an image I saw on the net, original was quite a linear abstract tidescape I think (lost track of the reference :sorry:), not really my style but I thought I would give it a go. didn't notice the slight damage in the paper surface until I'd started painting, tried to turn it into part of the picture then tried to get rid of it - all in all not one of my most successful endeavours :hilarious:
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lindisfel said:
Looks like a Ruddy Darter to me, John, but not my area of expertise.
The picture is showing well the darker small areas in the upper outer wings called the pterostigma, which are heavier than the other sections of wing and enable dragonflies to glide better.

regards
D.
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Yes definitely a Ruddy Darter very common dragonfly lots of them about.
 
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