What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.8

I have a wee little problem I went in the kitchen early hours Saturday morning, to make a cup of tea. I discovered I do not have a catflap anymore. It's not outside, it is not inside so maybe something else has a bigger problem than I have.

No idea what it was.
I have 5 trail cameras. The two in the back garden didn't have sd cards in because it wasn't safe for me to go out in that deep snow. The one in the front room window which is inside, only picks up front garden and front door, but there was nothing on that. The kitchen one which is inside facing the street, picks up driveway and delivery vans parking and there was nothing on that one. The other kitchen one which is inside the window, but faces a completely different direction catches what the delivery man does to my parcel, and there was nothing on that one.

So I don't have one trained on the actual cat flap....

I thought, I am going to have to go out and get a new catflap. So as soon as daylight came along, I got ready to go out. But I still have the problem of all the slippery snow outside my kitchen door all the way to the car. And my road still looks as if a tanker had dumped a tanker load of icy slush puppie drinks. I knew I had some crampons somewhere so I had to look for them. I found them, but have you ever tried getting those things on your shoes?

There was no parking available near the shop, so I was going to a coffee shop, then try again, but then parked outside The Original Factory Shop. Thought I would have a peek. I am so glad I did.

I have some rubber honeycomb mats in front of the swing, because the sun never reaches there, and it is slippery any way. These were ones for a horse's stable. But something wrecked most of them about 10 years ago. I presume now that it was a badger. I went back to the country store, but I couldn't afford to replace them. Anyway, guess what? There was a pile of rubber honeycomb mats in the shop I had parked outside of! And they were reasonably priced (exactly the same on Amazon was 3 times as much).

I bought the lot! They are now outside in strategic places where I have slipped before (but not fallen over), and also on the kitchen step where I did slip on the snow. And I would like some more, possibly to go around my container vegetable garden. I'll have a look online, to see if they deliver!

Cat flap? I have cobbled something up in the meantime. I taped something on the sides, and it had a curtain flapping away over it last night. But I didn't have the heart to block the cat flap, because the weather was so foul all night, alternately heavy snow, raining, sleeting, snowing...and I have refilled those cat biscuits twice so far in the night. I think that flapping cloth might deter some of the wild nighttime beasts..

When I came back from the shops with the rubber mats, I was getting them in the kitchen but as I turned round I saw a bushy fox's tail disappearing out of view. In daytime?!? I was blaming the badger for the broken cat flap, but maybe it was the fox trying to get in the kitchen?

I was tired when I got back, so snuggled in bed with the electric throw, a flask of tea, and Midnight. But, I did put the sd cards in the back garden cameras first, and the dry cat biscuits on the swing, filled the sparrows fatball feeders, and threw some cat biscuits for the foxes, but before I had got in, Mr Blackbird brought in all his mates, and they were having a party polishing off the cat biscuits I had thrown down for the foxes....

Wildlife nighttime cameras - these showed a lot of activity last night, cats and the fox.
First of all was the fox, and he quickly takes away an egg carefully in his mouth.
Then the fox is mooching around.
He is startled and hides in the bushes for a bit.
If my editing looks a bit abrupt at times, it's because it is at the end of that two minute clip that the trail camera records.
Along comes Jade to feed off the biscuits on the swing seat. But she is challenged by the bully cat Marmalade...
If both cameras, on either end of the swing record the same scene, I will sometimes put them both in the video and this enables me to see the same incident from another view point.
Jade defends her position on the dry cat biscuits, but Marmalade forces her off the swing.
Then Merlin appears, but he looks nervous, unsure of what to do.
Finally, he takes his position in the middle of the swing and stays there for the rest of the night. You cannot see him very well if the swing is to the left of the video, he is tucked right back, but he is there for the rest of the night, about six hours. There are falling lumps of snow from the swing roof.
The fox appears, and Merlin has words with him.
There are two foxes there at one point.
And then a surprise. Midnight had been on my bed inside until this point, but he suddenly chose to go outside and you can see him here, looking almost tenderly at Merlin. Midnight puts his front paws on the swing and looks at Merlin as if to reassure him and that he's doing a good job. That's my interpretation of what I see. And then you can see the same scene from the camera on the other side of the swing, and to me reinforces what I feel. (Midnight comes back inside to bed with me, and I have a soggy wet cat with snow falling on me in bed...)
Then along comes a new cat, that I have never seen before. It is a black tomcat. And Merlin has some words to say to him and the black tomcat, who looks a little bit worse for wear slowly backs down. And Merlin goes over to check the scent on the bedding on the swing of this new tom cat.
Then there is a weird effect on the screen in the middle of the top, looks like spirit of some sort, but I think it is a water drop running down the lens of a trail camera.
Jade returns for some food.
Merlin finally leaves, and Marmalade comes back for some of the dry cat biscuits on the swing.

Creative is a digital painting of a spring lamb in Procreate...I think he looks a bit confused...

Have your best day for you today.

Time for one of my countless cuppas...

Edit : And you will be delighted to know, I found the remains of the missing cat flap in the back garden as the snow is melting...
I have taped some of it to the cat flap hole, simply to make the hole smaller, but the curtain is still flapping, but it is not fazing Midnight, nor Jade, nor Merlin...

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 6.8

I have a wee little problem I went in the kitchen early hours Saturday morning, to make a cup of tea. I discovered I do not have a catflap anymore. It's not outside, it is not inside so maybe something else has a bigger problem than I have.

No idea what it was.
I have 5 trail cameras. The two in the back garden didn't have sd cards in because it wasn't safe for me to go out in that deep snow. The one in the front room window which is inside, only picks up front garden and front door, but there was nothing on that. The kitchen one which is inside facing the street, picks up driveway and delivery vans parking and there was nothing on that one. The other kitchen one which is inside the window, but faces a completely different direction catches what the delivery man does to my parcel, and there was nothing on that one.

So I don't have one trained on the actual cat flap....

I thought, I am going to have to go out and get a new catflap. So as soon as daylight came in along, I got ready to go out. But I still have the problem of all the slippery snow outside my kitchen door all the way to the car. And my road still looks as if a tanker had dumped a tanker load of icy slush puppie drinks. I knew I had some crampons somewhere so I had to look for them. I found them, but have you ever tried getting those things on your shoes?

There was no parking available near the shop, so I was going to a coffee shop, then try again, but then parked outside The Original Factory Shop. Thought I would have a peek. I am so glad I did.

I have some rubber honeycomb mats in front of the swing, because the sun never reaches there, and it is slippery any way. These were ones for a horse's stable. But something wrecked most of them about 10 years ago. I presume now that it was a badger. I went back to the country store, but I couldn't afford to replace them. Anyway, guess what? There was a pile of rubber honeycomb mats in the shop I had parked outside of! And they were reasonably priced (exactly the same on Amazon was 3 times as much).

I bought the lot! They are now outside in strategic places where I have slipped before (but not fallen over), and also on the kitchen step where I did slip on the snow. And I would like some more, possibly to go around my container vegetable garden. I'll have a look online, to see if they deliver!

Cat flap? I have cobbled something up in the meantime. I taped something on the sides, and it had a curtain flapping away over it last night. But I didn't have the heart to block the cat flap, because the weather was so foul all night, alternately heavy snow, raining, sleeting, snowing...and I have refilled those cat biscuits twice so far in the night. I think that flapping cloth might deter some of the wild nighttime beasts..

When I came back from the shops with the rubber mats, I was getting them in the kitchen but as I turned round I saw a bushy fox's tail disappearing out of view. In daytime?!? I was blaming the badger for the broken cat flap, but maybe it was the fox trying to get in the kitchen?

I was tired when I got back, so snuggled in bed with the electric throw, a flask of tea, and Midnight. But, I did put the sd cards in the back garden cameras first, and the dry cat biscuits on the swing, filled the sparrows fatball feeders, and threw some cat biscuits for the foxes, but before I had got in, Mr Blackbird brought in all his mates, and they were having a party polishing off the cat biscuits I had thrown down for the foxes....

Wildlife nighttime cameras - these showed a lot of activity last night, cats and the fox.
First of all was the fox, and he quickly takes away an egg carefully in his mouth.
Then the fox is mooching around.
He is startled and hides in the bushes for a bit.
If my editing looks a bit abrupt at times, it's because it is at the end of that two minute clip that the trail camera records.
Along comes Jade to feed off the biscuits on the swing seat. But she is challenged by the bully cat Marmalade...
If both cameras, on either end of the swing record the same scene, I will sometimes put them both in the video and this enables me to see the same incident from another view point.
Jade defends her position on the dry cat biscuits, but Marmalade forces her off the swing.
Then Merlin appears, but he looks nervous, unsure of what to do.
Finally, he takes his position in the middle of the swing and stays there for the rest of the night. You cannot see him very well if the swing is to the left of the video, he is tucked right back, but he is there for the rest of the night, about six hours. There are falling lumps of snow from the swing roof.
The fox appears, and Merlin has words with him.
There are two foxes there at one point.
And then a surprise. Midnight had been on my bed inside until this point, but he suddenly chose to go outside and you can see him here, looking almost tenderly at Merlin. Midnight puts his front paws on the swing and looks at Merlin as if to reassure him and that he's doing a good job. That's my interpretation of what I see. And then you can see the same scene from the camera on the other side of the swing, and to me reinforces what I feel. (Midnight comes back inside to bed with me, and I have a soggy wet cat with snow falling on me in bed...)
Then along comes a new cat, that I have never seen before. It is a black tomcat. And Merlin has some words to say to him and the black tomcat, who looks a little bit worse for wear slowly backs down. And Merlin goes over to check the scent on the bedding on the swing of this new tom cat.
Then there is a weird effect on the screen in the middle of the top, looks like spirit of some sort, but I think it is a water drop running down the lens of a trail camera.
Jade returns for some food.
Merlin finally leaves, and Marmalade comes back for some of the dry cat biscuits on the swing.

Creative is a digital painting of a spring lamb in Procreate...I think he looks a bit confused...

Have your best day for you today.

Time for one of my countless cuppas...

Edit : And you will be delighted to know, I found the remains of the missing cat flap in the back garden as the snow is melting...
I have taped some of it to the cat flap hole, simply to make the hole smaller, but the curtain is still flapping, but it is not fazing Midnight, nor Jade, nor Merlin...


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Thanks for sharing the creative, the wildlife adventures and yet more evidence of your indomitable will to triumph over all adversity. I shall surely raise a cuppa (mahoosive mugga actually) to you later.

 

[Annb]

Fbg 6.8

I have a wee little problem I went in the kitchen early hours Saturday morning, to make a cup of tea. I discovered I do not have a catflap anymore. It's not outside, it is not inside so maybe something else has a bigger problem than I have.

No idea what it was.
I have 5 trail cameras. The two in the back garden didn't have sd cards in because it wasn't safe for me to go out in that deep snow. The one in the front room window which is inside, only picks up front garden and front door, but there was nothing on that. The kitchen one which is inside facing the street, picks up driveway and delivery vans parking and there was nothing on that one. The other kitchen one which is inside the window, but faces a completely different direction catches what the delivery man does to my parcel, and there was nothing on that one.

So I don't have one trained on the actual cat flap....

I thought, I am going to have to go out and get a new catflap. So as soon as daylight came in along, I got ready to go out. But I still have the problem of all the slippery snow outside my kitchen door all the way to the car. And my road still looks as if a tanker had dumped a tanker load of icy slush puppie drinks. I knew I had some crampons somewhere so I had to look for them. I found them, but have you ever tried getting those things on your shoes?

There was no parking available near the shop, so I was going to a coffee shop, then try again, but then parked outside The Original Factory Shop. Thought I would have a peek. I am so glad I did.

I have some rubber honeycomb mats in front of the swing, because the sun never reaches there, and it is slippery any way. These were ones for a horse's stable. But something wrecked most of them about 10 years ago. I presume now that it was a badger. I went back to the country store, but I couldn't afford to replace them. Anyway, guess what? There was a pile of rubber honeycomb mats in the shop I had parked outside of! And they were reasonably priced (exactly the same on Amazon was 3 times as much).

I bought the lot! They are now outside in strategic places where I have slipped before (but not fallen over), and also on the kitchen step where I did slip on the snow. And I would like some more, possibly to go around my container vegetable garden. I'll have a look online, to see if they deliver!

Cat flap? I have cobbled something up in the meantime. I taped something on the sides, and it had a curtain flapping away over it last night. But I didn't have the heart to block the cat flap, because the weather was so foul all night, alternately heavy snow, raining, sleeting, snowing...and I have refilled those cat biscuits twice so far in the night. I think that flapping cloth might deter some of the wild nighttime beasts..

When I came back from the shops with the rubber mats, I was getting them in the kitchen but as I turned round I saw a bushy fox's tail disappearing out of view. In daytime?!? I was blaming the badger for the broken cat flap, but maybe it was the fox trying to get in the kitchen?

I was tired when I got back, so snuggled in bed with the electric throw, a flask of tea, and Midnight. But, I did put the sd cards in the back garden cameras first, and the dry cat biscuits on the swing, filled the sparrows fatball feeders, and threw some cat biscuits for the foxes, but before I had got in, Mr Blackbird brought in all his mates, and they were having a party polishing off the cat biscuits I had thrown down for the foxes....

Wildlife nighttime cameras - these showed a lot of activity last night, cats and the fox.
First of all was the fox, and he quickly takes away an egg carefully in his mouth.
Then the fox is mooching around.
He is startled and hides in the bushes for a bit.
If my editing looks a bit abrupt at times, it's because it is at the end of that two minute clip that the trail camera records.
Along comes Jade to feed off the biscuits on the swing seat. But she is challenged by the bully cat Marmalade...
If both cameras, on either end of the swing record the same scene, I will sometimes put them both in the video and this enables me to see the same incident from another view point.
Jade defends her position on the dry cat biscuits, but Marmalade forces her off the swing.
Then Merlin appears, but he looks nervous, unsure of what to do.
Finally, he takes his position in the middle of the swing and stays there for the rest of the night. You cannot see him very well if the swing is to the left of the video, he is tucked right back, but he is there for the rest of the night, about six hours. There are falling lumps of snow from the swing roof.
The fox appears, and Merlin has words with him.
There are two foxes there at one point.
And then a surprise. Midnight had been on my bed inside until this point, but he suddenly chose to go outside and you can see him here, looking almost tenderly at Merlin. Midnight puts his front paws on the swing and looks at Merlin as if to reassure him and that he's doing a good job. That's my interpretation of what I see. And then you can see the same scene from the camera on the other side of the swing, and to me reinforces what I feel. (Midnight comes back inside to bed with me, and I have a soggy wet cat with snow falling on me in bed...)
Then along comes a new cat, that I have never seen before. It is a black tomcat. And Merlin has some words to say to him and the black tomcat, who looks a little bit worse for wear slowly backs down. And Merlin goes over to check the scent on the bedding on the swing of this new tom cat.
Then there is a weird effect on the screen in the middle of the top, looks like spirit of some sort, but I think it is a water drop running down the lens of a trail camera.
Jade returns for some food.
Merlin finally leaves, and Marmalade comes back for some of the dry cat biscuits on the swing.

Creative is a digital painting of a spring lamb in Procreate...I think he looks a bit confused...

Have your best day for you today.

Time for one of my countless cuppas...

Edit : And you will be delighted to know, I found the remains of the missing cat flap in the back garden as the snow is melting...
I have taped some of it to the cat flap hole, simply to make the hole smaller, but the curtain is still flapping, but it is not fazing Midnight, nor Jade, nor Merlin...


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Ma, what's all this white stuff?

Intrepid - that's the word for you Gennepher.

We are currently in the middle of a power cut. I can never understand how we can have a power cut in goodish weather on a Sunday here. These cuts are often caused by people working with excavators on some construction project, but not on a Sunday. They might do other work but not with heavy machinery. When we came here in 1974, it was unheard of to do anything, other than read your Bible, on a Sunday. Going for a walk was forbidden, washing left out from Saturday was an absolute crime. The only thing to be done outside was to walk to Church. Even if anyone was not an observer of the Lord's Day, they would keep quiet rather than upset neighbours who would be observing it. This is no longer the case. But even so, no heavy machinery would be acceptable on Sunday, even now.

I was already wearing my big fleece, even with the central heating on (oil fired but electric pump), but now it has gone off and the house is already chilling down - it's cold outside.

Edit: Actually, when the power went off, I was sitting in my recliner chair, with my feet up. No power, no way of putting the leg rest down. I knew very well that it would be a struggle to get out of the chair so I had to wait until Neil came along to check the meter cupboard. He popped his head in the kitchen door to see if all was well, so I got him to help me get out of the chair. His first thought was to tip the chair forward so I could get my feet onto the floor, however, the rest of me was too close to the floor then. The main reason I couldn't get out of it was that when I put my weight onto the leg rest, to try to climb out, the whole chair tipped forward, threatening to dump me on the floor. Solution - Neil counter-balanced my weight by putting his weight on the back of the chair while I struggled out. Wish we'd been able to video it, it must have looked hilarious. Certainly not one of my most elegant moments.

Have to turn the laptop off now - the battery is running down fast.

 

[gennepher]

Thanks for sharing the creative, the wildlife adventures and yet more evidence of your indomitable will to triumph over all adversity. I shall surely raise a cuppa (mahoosive mugga actually) to you later.

Thank you Ian.
I am having a well earned rest in bed this morning with my flask of tea...one hour 15 minutes to go...1 pm I get up!!!

 

[gennepher]

Ma, what's all this white stuff?

Intrepid - that's the word for you Gennepher.

We are currently in the middle of a power cut. I can never understand how we can have a power cut in goodish weather on a Sunday here. These cuts are often caused by people working with excavators on some construction project, but not on a Sunday. They might do other work but not with heavy machinery. When we came here in 1974, it was unheard of to do anything, other than read your Bible, on a Sunday. Going for a walk was forbidden, washing left out from Saturday was an absolute crime. The only thing to be done outside was to walk to Church. Even if anyone was not an observer of the Lord's Day, they would keep quiet rather than upset neighbours who would be observing it. This is no longer the case. But even so, no heavy machinery would be acceptable on Sunday, even now.

I was already wearing my big fleece, even with the central heating on (oil fired but electric pump), but now it has gone off and the house is already chilling down - it's cold outside.

Thanks Ann


Sorry about your power cut causing you problems.
It is a nuisance when you need something big to work, it still needs that tiny bit of electric. And so the whole thing fails.

Hugs for you x

 

[Annb]

Thanks Ann


Sorry about your power cut causing you problems.
It is a nuisance when you need something big to work, it still needs that tiny bit of electric. And so the whole thing fails.

Hugs for you x

It wasn't such a long power cut. Went off about 10.15 and came back on at 1.30. Time now for a hot cuppa - keeping out of the way just now so that Neil can make some breakfast. At least I managed to have mine before the power went off.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.8

I have a wee little problem I went in the kitchen early hours Saturday morning, to make a cup of tea. I discovered I do not have a catflap anymore. It's not outside, it is not inside so maybe something else has a bigger problem than I have.

No idea what it was.
I have 5 trail cameras. The two in the back garden didn't have sd cards in because it wasn't safe for me to go out in that deep snow. The one in the front room window which is inside, only picks up front garden and front door, but there was nothing on that. The kitchen one which is inside facing the street, picks up driveway and delivery vans parking and there was nothing on that one. The other kitchen one which is inside the window, but faces a completely different direction catches what the delivery man does to my parcel, and there was nothing on that one.

So I don't have one trained on the actual cat flap....

I thought, I am going to have to go out and get a new catflap. So as soon as daylight came along, I got ready to go out. But I still have the problem of all the slippery snow outside my kitchen door all the way to the car. And my road still looks as if a tanker had dumped a tanker load of icy slush puppie drinks. I knew I had some crampons somewhere so I had to look for them. I found them, but have you ever tried getting those things on your shoes?

There was no parking available near the shop, so I was going to a coffee shop, then try again, but then parked outside The Original Factory Shop. Thought I would have a peek. I am so glad I did.

I have some rubber honeycomb mats in front of the swing, because the sun never reaches there, and it is slippery any way. These were ones for a horse's stable. But something wrecked most of them about 10 years ago. I presume now that it was a badger. I went back to the country store, but I couldn't afford to replace them. Anyway, guess what? There was a pile of rubber honeycomb mats in the shop I had parked outside of! And they were reasonably priced (exactly the same on Amazon was 3 times as much).

I bought the lot! They are now outside in strategic places where I have slipped before (but not fallen over), and also on the kitchen step where I did slip on the snow. And I would like some more, possibly to go around my container vegetable garden. I'll have a look online, to see if they deliver!

Cat flap? I have cobbled something up in the meantime. I taped something on the sides, and it had a curtain flapping away over it last night. But I didn't have the heart to block the cat flap, because the weather was so foul all night, alternately heavy snow, raining, sleeting, snowing...and I have refilled those cat biscuits twice so far in the night. I think that flapping cloth might deter some of the wild nighttime beasts..

When I came back from the shops with the rubber mats, I was getting them in the kitchen but as I turned round I saw a bushy fox's tail disappearing out of view. In daytime?!? I was blaming the badger for the broken cat flap, but maybe it was the fox trying to get in the kitchen?

I was tired when I got back, so snuggled in bed with the electric throw, a flask of tea, and Midnight. But, I did put the sd cards in the back garden cameras first, and the dry cat biscuits on the swing, filled the sparrows fatball feeders, and threw some cat biscuits for the foxes, but before I had got in, Mr Blackbird brought in all his mates, and they were having a party polishing off the cat biscuits I had thrown down for the foxes....

Wildlife nighttime cameras - these showed a lot of activity last night, cats and the fox.
First of all was the fox, and he quickly takes away an egg carefully in his mouth.
Then the fox is mooching around.
He is startled and hides in the bushes for a bit.
If my editing looks a bit abrupt at times, it's because it is at the end of that two minute clip that the trail camera records.
Along comes Jade to feed off the biscuits on the swing seat. But she is challenged by the bully cat Marmalade...
If both cameras, on either end of the swing record the same scene, I will sometimes put them both in the video and this enables me to see the same incident from another view point.
Jade defends her position on the dry cat biscuits, but Marmalade forces her off the swing.
Then Merlin appears, but he looks nervous, unsure of what to do.
Finally, he takes his position in the middle of the swing and stays there for the rest of the night. You cannot see him very well if the swing is to the left of the video, he is tucked right back, but he is there for the rest of the night, about six hours. There are falling lumps of snow from the swing roof.
The fox appears, and Merlin has words with him.
There are two foxes there at one point.
And then a surprise. Midnight had been on my bed inside until this point, but he suddenly chose to go outside and you can see him here, looking almost tenderly at Merlin. Midnight puts his front paws on the swing and looks at Merlin as if to reassure him and that he's doing a good job. That's my interpretation of what I see. And then you can see the same scene from the camera on the other side of the swing, and to me reinforces what I feel. (Midnight comes back inside to bed with me, and I have a soggy wet cat with snow falling on me in bed...)
Then along comes a new cat, that I have never seen before. It is a black tomcat. And Merlin has some words to say to him and the black tomcat, who looks a little bit worse for wear slowly backs down. And Merlin goes over to check the scent on the bedding on the swing of this new tom cat.
Then there is a weird effect on the screen in the middle of the top, looks like spirit of some sort, but I think it is a water drop running down the lens of a trail camera.
Jade returns for some food.
Merlin finally leaves, and Marmalade comes back for some of the dry cat biscuits on the swing.

Creative is a digital painting of a spring lamb in Procreate...I think he looks a bit confused...

Have your best day for you today.

Time for one of my countless cuppas...

Edit : And you will be delighted to know, I found the remains of the missing cat flap in the back garden as the snow is melting...
I have taped some of it to the cat flap hole, simply to make the hole smaller, but the curtain is still flapping, but it is not fazing Midnight, nor Jade, nor Merlin...


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Well that’s all go at the menagerie and hope that you get that cat flap sorted. Crampons - such a fuss to put on unless you are under 30 years old.

 

[lindisfel]

Well that’s all go at the menagerie and hope that you get that cat flap sorted. Crampons - such a fuss to put on unless you are under 30 years old.

Postmen wear these additions to footwear that secure springs under the soles of shoes.
One wouldn't be able to drive very well in them!

I could see gennepher in crampons with an ice axe over her shoulder putting cat biscuits on her swing.

 

[Annb]

Postmen wear these additions to footwear that secure springs under the soles of shoes.
One wouldn't be able to drive very well in them!

I could see gennepher in crampons with an ice axe over her shoulder putting cat biscuits on her swing.

Posties here were issued with crampons some years ago, but as far as I know, they never used them. Certainly the van drivers didn't. They were also issued to some NHS patients - including me - s few years ago, but mine are still in the packet in the cupboard.

 

[lindisfel]

#standwithgary. Here are the headlines. Thanks for the lighthouse @dunelm. @Krystyna23040 perhaps "they" - (the blob ) were right and the brain needs some carbs? Some poems for this week. Today's is wonderful , written by a man who lived in Nazi occupied and Communist Poland.and could still see From where we come there is no division into Yes and No. - hammer, nail and head. @jjraak we all need to be aware that even God only bids one to deal with what is assigned to my brush - not the social media perfect do it all 24/7 nonsense. (Guite's essay in the book is awesome) Lamb today - it is Sunday in Lent and toddler grandson is here - easiest Only Connect ever. Go well everyone.

Our Minister today on YouTube from local church clearly pointed out that the Christian and Jewish stand in scripture was to always remember the refugee and look after the one seeking help.

And I was minded that Jesus was a refugee with his parents in Egypt as a small child during the time Herod was wanting to kill him.
Where are we going?
D.

 

[lindisfel]

Posties here were issued with crampons some years ago, but as far as I know, they never used them. Certainly the van drivers didn't. They were also issued to some NHS patients - including me - s few years ago, but mine are still in the packet in the cupboard.

York had quite a lot of snow and frost after our grandson was born 17 years ago and we all got similar ones s.i.l. got from Royal Mail.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

Our Minister today on YouTube from local church clearly pointed out that the Christian and Jewish stand in scripture was to always remember the refugee and look after the one seeking help.

And I was minded that Jesus was a refugee with his parents in Egypt as a small child during the time Herod was wanting to kill him.
Where are we going?
D.

Status Quo will direct us.

 

[gennepher]

Well that’s all go at the menagerie and hope that you get that cat flap sorted. Crampons - such a fuss to put on unless you are under 30 years old.

You need more agile fingers to get them on...

It's been all go all day with the animals wild, and feral, and tame....

 

[gennepher]

Postmen wear these additions to footwear that secure springs under the soles of shoes.
One wouldn't be able to drive very well in them!

I could see gennepher in crampons with an ice axe over her shoulder putting cat biscuits on her swing.

I needed the ice axe for breaking the ice in the water buckets....

 

[lindisfel]

Status Quo will direct us.

Some of us would like to look as good as that guy at 96!

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone, it’s a windy start to the week here in the dark and dangerous north. Visitors yesterday. Two lots. Friends came for koffy and then I spied a group of people wandering in pairs up each side of the street. Oh dear! When they eventually decided to knock on our door they asked the usual questions and offered me a pamphlet. I declined on the grounds of being a Pastafarian and then asked them if they had ever read a book called Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Evidently not. Oh well. Managed to watch the first episode of “Becoming Frida Kahlo” on catch up so looking forward to watching the next instalment on Friday. Blooming eck! A sparrow hawk has just flown past the window. Don’t see that every day. Anyhow, art work - colouration concluded - must think of something else to do. Hope your Monday is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and doing a bit of doodling.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone, it’s a windy start to the week here in the dark and dangerous north. Visitors yesterday. Two lots. Friends came for koffy and then I spied a group of people wandering in pairs up each side of the street. Oh dear! When they eventually decided to knock on our door they asked the usual questions and offered me a pamphlet. I declined on the grounds of being a Pastafarian and then asked them if they had ever read a book called Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Evidently not. Oh well. Managed to watch the first episode of “Becoming Frida Kahlo” on catch up so looking forward to watching the next instalment on Friday. Blooming eck! A sparrow hawk has just flown past the window. Don’t see that every day. Anyhow, art work - colouration concluded - must think of something else to do. Hope your Monday is kind to you. I must drink koffy now and doing a bit of doodling.


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Oh, that is really impressive, such a solid structure. Imposing like doom over the landscape.

At least those pairs do not carry the obligatory little girl dressed in frilly bonnet and frilly lace any more @dunelm

When J was alive he would invite them in, make them a cuppa with biscuits. J knew the bible inside out, and different versions of the bible. He knew esoteric matters inside out. And when they had been there in the living room for about three hours, he would finally release them. They never said we have to go now...

Enjoy your doodling...

 

[Krystyna23040]

7.8 this morning. Another hectic Monday. Off shortly to classes in Norwich. So windy here - Met office say 50 mph - BBC weather say 56 mph.

 

[ianpspurs]

@Krystyna23040 hug for having to drive about in these windy conditions. @dunelm a majestic, imposing lighthouse built on solid rock - like the wise man's house. The light as a guide to those in danger of foundering. There does appear to me to be a crown of thorns You may have guessed I see that piece as very biblical but I'm as mad as several boxes of frogs. Could be your allusion to the JWs - who, for the avoidance of doubt, are not Christian. Swipey should be here later this week so some, admittedly iffy, data on the potentially unintended consequences on bg of my primary nutritional focus. Cognitive dissonance since I can't help thinking most of this stuff is absolute hollyhocks. Enjoy your day but not at the expense of others or the greater good. #standwithgary.

 

[lindisfel]

@Krystyna23040 hug for having to drive about in these windy conditions. @dunelm a majestic, imposing lighthouse built on solid rock - like the wise man's house. The light as a guide to those in danger of foundering. There does appear to me to be a crown of thorns You may ave guessed I see that piece as very biblical but I'm as mad as several boxes of frogs. Could be your allusion to the JWs - who, for the avoidance of doubt, are not Christian. Swipey should be here later this week so some, admittedly iffy, data on the potentially unintended consequences on bg of my primary nutritional focus. Cognitive dissonance since I can't help thinking most of this stuff is absolute hollyhocks. Enjoy your day but not at the expanse of others or the greater good. #standwithgary.

No they are run by nine men in upstate NY and are organisation centred and not Christ centred. Their shunning doctrine is breaking up families and causing a lot of mental problems that I think possibly led to the shooting in Hamburg.
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