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Fbg 8.9

Is this because I was awake all night?
Not going to worry about it...


Cats & Fox & Badger

The cats all got in first for their share of the nighttime cat biscuits

Then the badger KissyKissy came along while Midnight was still on the swing.

Midnight left, and so the badger took a few cat biscuits off the other end of swing and then proceeded to pull off the blankets Midnight had been sitting on. The badger sniffed and sniffed them, and pulled off a lot more blankets that Midnight had been sitting on, rolled in them, and then he peed on them all. And then he had a very good effort of trying to jump on the swing but he fell down.

Foxy Loxy came along next and wondered what all the blankets were doing on the floor. He did jump on the swing, but he was looking very tentatively around for Midnight who has bopped him on the nose quite a few times. Foxy Loxy got off without eating any biscuits, he has been too well trained by Midnight.

Then the badger, KissyKissy, comes back, and proceeds to eat as many as cat biscuits as he can for the rest of the night...


This video is recorded a few days ago.


But I am glad to report that putting peppermint oil on the very front of the cushions, the first bit the badger sniffs, is still working to stop him pulling the cat bedding off. But I won't see those sd cards for a few days yet, I watch them in order...

However, that badger, KissyKissy, I am assuming it is, has made merry in the rest of my garden with his "blankies". He has dragged them off the badger washing line and tossed them all over the garden, including some of my protective orange netting off my container vegetable garden.


My next project will have to be rigging up something to really protect my vegetable garden...
However, I ordered something online yesterday (coming today) which had been intended to protect the swing from this darned badger. But, as my peppermint oil is working at the moment to keep that badger from pulling stuff off the swing, this new contraption, I think could work to section off an important area of my container vegetable garden...

Creative is #15 Lighthouse...
I think it is 15...
My lighthouse is wonky, and he looks worse each time I try to straighten him. He looks like he is dancing in the wind. I give up...I need sleep...


I need a nap, I was researching vit B12 all night...and that badger was watching me through my all glass bedroom door. I am finding this a bit spooky. And Midnight was on my bed lashing his tail...

Still another hot cuppa left in my flask...

Have your best kind of day.

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alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and my safety koffy is brewing, soon to be consumed.

Blood sugars this morning were a 5.7 .

My covid test this morning was a nice -ve, I shall now stop testing.

Here in Tilehurst Towers, this morning will be dedicated to researching new idiot boxes ( televisions) Mrs J will be happy, I shall just get confused and wander off in disgust.

Now koffy is calling loudly, have a great day, look for the +ve unless it’s a covid test.

Stay safe.
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Great news about the -ve. You will need to book a series of tutorials from your grandchildren about how to use the new idiot boxes. will you be colour coding the remotes?
 
BG 7.5 again at 3.30 am. I'd changed the timing of my basal insulin from the early hours to 11.30 last night and was hoping to make a difference with that. But it's only day one of the change, so we'll see how that goes. Still 7.5 by 6.30 am and 6.1 at 10.30. No breakfast yet because I've been struggling with my laptop which wouldn't connect to the internet. Eventually Neil made an appearance so I asked him and he fixed it in a few minutes - it was something to do with the router. Despite the frustration, my hair is still intact and now I can have my morning fix of internet activity. I must do something about breakfast soon, though.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 8.9

Is this because I was awake all night?
Not going to worry about it...


Cats & Fox & Badger

The cats all got in first for their share of the nighttime cat biscuits

Then the badger KissyKissy came along while Midnight was still on the swing.

Midnight left, and so the badger took a few cat biscuits off the other end of swing and then proceeded to pull off the blankets Midnight had been sitting on. The badger sniffed and sniffed them, and pulled off a lot more blankets that Midnight had been sitting on, rolled in them, and then he peed on them all. And then he had a very good effort of trying to jump on the swing but he fell down.

Foxy Loxy came along next and wondered what all the blankets were doing on the floor. He did jump on the swing, but he was looking very tentatively around for Midnight who has bopped him on the nose quite a few times. Foxy Loxy got off without eating any biscuits, he has been too well trained by Midnight.

Then the badger, KissyKissy, comes back, and proceeds to eat as many as cat biscuits as he can for the rest of the night...


This video is recorded a few days ago.


But I am glad to report that putting peppermint oil on the very front of the cushions, the first bit the badger sniffs, is still working to stop him pulling the cat bedding off. But I won't see those sd cards for a few days yet, I watch them in order...

However, that badger, KissyKissy, I am assuming it is, has made merry in the rest of my garden with his "blankies". He has dragged them off the badger washing line and tossed them all over the garden, including some of my protective orange netting off my container vegetable garden.


My next project will have to be rigging up something to really protect my vegetable garden...
However, I ordered something online yesterday (coming today) which had been intended to protect the swing from this darned badger. But, as my peppermint oil is working at the moment to keep that badger from pulling stuff off the swing, this new contraption, I think could work to section off an important area of my container vegetable garden...

Creative is #15 Lighthouse...
I think it is 15...
My lighthouse is wonky, and he looks worse each time I try to straighten him. He looks like he is dancing in the wind. I give up...I need sleep...


I need a nap, I was researching vit B12 all night...and that badger was watching me through my all glass bedroom door. I am finding this a bit spooky. And Midnight was on my bed lashing his tail...

Still another hot cuppa left in my flask...

Have your best kind of day.

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Still splendid. Was it built in Tuscany quite near that there Pizza outlet?
 
lindisfel said:
It alway struck me, if it came to it, that's how the end of life should be,
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Fully agree on that
Sadly that moment isn't always possible for many reasons.

On a personal note, it felt like my time had come, a while back.

She'd been there before but I was otherwise engaged or unconscious.

But the first time I was awake & she popped through the bedside curtains at the hospital felt like that
And will stay with me forever.

A tune I heard not long after always brings that moment rushing back.

"If the world was ending
And the sky was falling.
I'd hold you tight "...sums it up perfectly ...( Heart )

 
gennepher said:
Fbg 8.9

Is this because I was awake all night?
Not going to worry about it...


Cats & Fox & Badger

The cats all got in first for their share of the nighttime cat biscuits

Then the badger KissyKissy came along while Midnight was still on the swing.

Midnight left, and so the badger took a few cat biscuits off the other end of swing and then proceeded to pull off the blankets Midnight had been sitting on. The badger sniffed and sniffed them, and pulled off a lot more blankets that Midnight had been sitting on, rolled in them, and then he peed on them all. And then he had a very good effort of trying to jump on the swing but he fell down.

Foxy Loxy came along next and wondered what all the blankets were doing on the floor. He did jump on the swing, but he was looking very tentatively around for Midnight who has bopped him on the nose quite a few times. Foxy Loxy got off without eating any biscuits, he has been too well trained by Midnight.

Then the badger, KissyKissy, comes back, and proceeds to eat as many as cat biscuits as he can for the rest of the night...


This video is recorded a few days ago.


But I am glad to report that putting peppermint oil on the very front of the cushions, the first bit the badger sniffs, is still working to stop him pulling the cat bedding off. But I won't see those sd cards for a few days yet, I watch them in order...

However, that badger, KissyKissy, I am assuming it is, has made merry in the rest of my garden with his "blankies". He has dragged them off the badger washing line and tossed them all over the garden, including some of my protective orange netting off my container vegetable garden.


My next project will have to be rigging up something to really protect my vegetable garden...
However, I ordered something online yesterday (coming today) which had been intended to protect the swing from this darned badger. But, as my peppermint oil is working at the moment to keep that badger from pulling stuff off the swing, this new contraption, I think could work to section off an important area of my container vegetable garden...

Creative is #15 Lighthouse...
I think it is 15...
My lighthouse is wonky, and he looks worse each time I try to straighten him. He looks like he is dancing in the wind. I give up...I need sleep...


I need a nap, I was researching vit B12 all night...and that badger was watching me through my all glass bedroom door. I am finding this a bit spooky. And Midnight was on my bed lashing his tail...

Still another hot cuppa left in my flask...

Have your best kind of day.

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Best wishes for crop protection. Thanks for sharing yet another creative. It is undeniably a lighthouse which despite being somewhat on the squint is still able to be a light in the world, guiding and protecting those in need. I'm sure there is a moral in there somewhere if only I knew where to look.
 
Vitamin B12, dementia, iffy Yorkshire tea, peeping Tom badgers and wonky light houses, just what is the world coming too?

It’s enough to drive one or all six of me to look on the bright side of life,

Hand and footnote don’t mention idiot boxes and also a post office courier has just dropped off a box of testing strips.
 
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ianpspurs said:
It is undeniably a lighthouse which despite being somewhat on the squint is still able to be a light in the world, guiding and protecting those in need. I'm sure there is a moral in there somewhere if only I knew where to look.
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However imperfect the lamp holder, the light is still there to guide those in need. Even the best of us humans isn't perfect but there are some pretty impressive lampholders out there.
 
jjraak said:
"..good morning on a glorious day at Golden Fields Park for the McGarrett stakes , a Group 1 race over 1 mile

Runners are all in the stalls...
And there off...

And it's bigvaan away first, followed by oohmeleg, Perseverance, bullheaded & scootersdeed.
JJraak last .

3 furlongs out & JJraak switches to the outside, muscles his way past the fading bigvaan & oohmeleg, neck & neck with bulldheaded & perseverance, scootersdeed is a long way back.

those 3 clear of the others, & it's JJraak kicking on, perseverance is holding on grimly , bullheaded slipped back to 3rd ..

but at the line it's ....JJraak who wins the McGarrett stakes.

He was heavily backed down to 5.6 on the track at the off, so someone knew something

his owners will be well pleased with that performance today ..."
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Definitely a Seer.
 
Good morning. Bed early last night @9pm with nasty headache. Tested at 1am: ----7.7. Awake for the rest of the night. Re-rested at 8am before breakfast:---- 10.9. Nothing to eat or drink in between and no supper, in fact nothing after my ham/ cheese omelette at 6.30pm the evening before accompanied by Gliclizide and Metformin. It's a mystery. It's a sunny day so enjoy it the best way you can. :)
 
dunelm said:
@lindisfel - Lakeland Festival Of Light on Catbells. Image taken yesterday from a drone. (Not by me by the way).

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Thanks Dunelm I have not seen that one, will what's app it to my two.
The snow went very quickly and now it's Spring.
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gennepher said:
Fbg 8.9

Is this because I was awake all night?
Not going to worry about it...


Cats & Fox & Badger

The cats all got in first for their share of the nighttime cat biscuits

Then the badger KissyKissy came along while Midnight was still on the swing.

Midnight left, and so the badger took a few cat biscuits off the other end of swing and then proceeded to pull off the blankets Midnight had been sitting on. The badger sniffed and sniffed them, and pulled off a lot more blankets that Midnight had been sitting on, rolled in them, and then he peed on them all. And then he had a very good effort of trying to jump on the swing but he fell down.

Foxy Loxy came along next and wondered what all the blankets were doing on the floor. He did jump on the swing, but he was looking very tentatively around for Midnight who has bopped him on the nose quite a few times. Foxy Loxy got off without eating any biscuits, he has been too well trained by Midnight.

Then the badger, KissyKissy, comes back, and proceeds to eat as many as cat biscuits as he can for the rest of the night...


This video is recorded a few days ago.


But I am glad to report that putting peppermint oil on the very front of the cushions, the first bit the badger sniffs, is still working to stop him pulling the cat bedding off. But I won't see those sd cards for a few days yet, I watch them in order...

However, that badger, KissyKissy, I am assuming it is, has made merry in the rest of my garden with his "blankies". He has dragged them off the badger washing line and tossed them all over the garden, including some of my protective orange netting off my container vegetable garden.


My next project will have to be rigging up something to really protect my vegetable garden...
However, I ordered something online yesterday (coming today) which had been intended to protect the swing from this darned badger. But, as my peppermint oil is working at the moment to keep that badger from pulling stuff off the swing, this new contraption, I think could work to section off an important area of my container vegetable garden...

Creative is #15 Lighthouse...
I think it is 15...
My lighthouse is wonky, and he looks worse each time I try to straighten him. He looks like he is dancing in the wind. I give up...I need sleep...


I need a nap, I was researching vit B12 all night...and that badger was watching me through my all glass bedroom door. I am finding this a bit spooky. And Midnight was on my bed lashing his tail...

Still another hot cuppa left in my flask...

Have your best kind of day.

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Badgers are very fussy about having clean dry bedding, perhaps one of those ginger Toms has been spraying it with potent pee?
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone and welcome to another pleasant day on the ball of mixed messages here in the dark and dangerous north. Hugs for all that suffer the agony of childhood memories. The grandchildren are now plotting to come and stay on Wednesday - I blame school holidays which should be kept to a minimum. It will all be better when the government finally get internal combustion cars off the road and we are all in a sorry state when we find that hydrogen powered vehicles leak like sieves and the battery powdered ones are only for the mega rich as the planet runs out of resources and batteries become more valuable than Banksy art installations or signed copies of that book called Spare as most of the copies ended up being pulped. Still, I have the parody book, ‘Spare Us! A Harrody’ on order when it is released on the 6th. Art bit - anothe set of squiggly lines. Hope that everyone has a decent day of it. I shall drink koffy and then wander into town.


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Those squiggly lines of yours @dunelm have me guessing....
 
Krystyna23040 said:
6.7 this morning. We are both tired so have made no plans for today. Just gentle dog walks and reading and relaxing.

Mr K would like to continue driving me to my Norwich classes. It has been lovely seeing more of Mr K than I do usually but I don't want to lose my driving skills and so we have found a good compromise.

Mr K will drive me on Mondays and Tuesdays which are my two really long days and I will drive on Thursdays and Saturdays which are the two shorter Norwich days. He will continue driving the other two days to my local classes.
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That sounds a very good compromise @Krystyna23040
You are doing a lot in one day driving and doing your lessons, but on the other hand you must never lose your driving skills through obvious reasons.
Yup, good compromise.
 
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