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ianpspurs said:
@dunelm thank you for sharing the start of something magical. Not the early morning dairy and inulin treat, those strange vertical things we don't have hereabouts.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. Many early morning treats are out there, choose one that you like. They can also be consumed at various times of the day to suit all pockets. Always Read The Label :)
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a damp but mild and calm start here in L.A. Hugs required for shingles @Annb and sudden awakening for @dunelm plus those affected or likely to be affected by Antoni. We are forecast merely light rain showers and a moderate breeze. @gennepher thank you for those superb creatives - such wonderful colours and patterns. @dunelm thank you for sharing the start of something magical. Not the early morning dairy and inulin treat, those strange vertical things we don't have hereabouts. @Krystyna23040 just reading your schedule is tiring enough so I hope tomorrow is as relaxing as you wish for. Enjoy the day in your own way. Mine will certainly involve watching plenty of sport as there are football, cricket and rugby coaches needing my (unsolicited) advice - even though they may not realise their need. I may very well take a refresher course in tea drinking just to brush up on my technique.
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Thanks Ian
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @ianpspurs. Many early morning treats are out there, choose one that you like. They can also be consumed at various times of the day to suit all pockets. Always Read The Label :)
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Thank you for sharing the Stormin Norman. Never mind the label, due diligence is also required. Kefir, well Arla organic, requires spikes and starting blocks for me. It is far speedier than normal Transits - other vans are available but not fit for the purpose of this post.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Wigton is where Judith's father was born and her grandfather and great grandfather we used to visit her family there often.

My fbg this morning was 5.4 much improved.
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Has a good comprehensive school our two went to.
Was the home of Melvyn Bragg's parents who had the Throstles Nest and later mother had a sweet shop I believe.
Some of his novels are locally based.
D.
 
Turned into a half decent day, certainly not the rain and wind promised and even some sun but cold.
Afraid I have some aches and pains today so not good company. Paracetamol does not really crack it and I can't take other pain killers due to conflicts with other drugs and danger of constipation issues. Gabapentin does not seem to work on non nerve pain.
D.
 
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lindisfel said:
Turned into a half decent day, certainly not the rain and wind promised and even some sun but cold.
Afraid I have some aches and pains today so not good company. Paracetamol does not really crack it and I can't take other pain killers due to conflicts with other drugs and danger of constipation issues. Gabapentin does not seem to work on non nerve pain.
D.
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Shocking here! It must have stopped for at the most five minutes so far, flooding around my front garden!
And no more than the degrees of warmth. Had to wrap up like it was a wet Wednesday in February to go the match. Got beat. Got wet. Got frustrated. Got depressed. Got my feet up on the radiator. My heating came on automatically this morning, set at 18 degrees!!!!! It is so disappointing!
 
Lamont D said:
Shocking here! It must have stopped for at the most five minutes so far, flooding around my front garden!
And no more than the degrees of warmth. Had to wrap up like it was a wet Wednesday in February to go the match. Got beat. Got wet. Got frustrated. Got depressed. Got my feet up on the radiator. My heating came on automatically this morning, set at 18 degrees!!!!! It is so disappointing!
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Does your wife enjoy music from her youth Lamont?
It can really help some with memory loss reach areas stored away in the past.
Hope Sunday is a much better day for you.
Best wishes
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
Does your wife enjoy music from her youth Lamont?
It can really help some with memory loss reach areas stored away in the past.
Hope Sunday is a much better day for you.
Best wishes
Derek
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Sadly, her taste in music is rather limited. I do believe her brain was scrambled by the repition of music greats like Jim Reeves. I mean it must be scrambled with the misrememberitis because her biggest mistake was getting married to me!
Forty odd years of my presence is enough to put anyone into the asylum.
She does love a military band!
P.omp and circumstance.
It can't get any worse tomorrow, can it?
Only rain, cloudy, cool and miserable forecast!
Promised one good warm day (ish) next week if we are lucky!!!!!
Best wishes Derek.
 
Good morning everyone on a morning of quiet anticipation here in the dark and dangerous north. Not raining yet, but will it? Sometimes life is reduced to just a long list of maybes…Plan A or Plan B with Plan C lurking behind a curtain, stage right. Lots of flooding yesterday and it looked strategically planned to keep A, locals at home and B, Tourists on holiday in frustration. Some folk dither about driving through water on roads and cause the queue of the frozen rabbits. On her way here yesterday morning, Daughter got out of her car, walked into the water under the railway bridge (“if it wasne for yer Welles…”), walked back to car and drove slowly through followed by the lost and startled. The human race is breeding itself into stupidity - just look at Westminster, and the dolphins are laughing like drains. I’m going to errect a large totem in the garden and we can dance round it blowing whistles and banging drums. The garden though is looking splendid and my mum had another smashing birthday. Grandchildren will be here next Sunday for a week of fun exhausting the unsuspecting. Art bit - slowly, slowly. A bit like those early Polaroids. Hope your day has a warm chink of light somewhere in it. I shall drink koffy and monitor the weather.


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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a morning of quiet anticipation here in the dark and dangerous north. Not raining yet, but will it? Sometimes life is reduced to just a long list of maybes…Plan A or Plan B with Plan C lurking behind a curtain, stage right. Lots of flooding yesterday and it looked strategically planned to keep A, locals at home and B, Tourists on holiday in frustration. Some folk dither about driving through water on roads and cause the queue of the frozen rabbits. On her way here yesterday morning, Daughter got out of her car, walked into the water under the railway bridge (“if it wasne for yer Welles…”), walked back to car and drove slowly through followed by the lost and startled. The human race is breeding itself into stupidity - just look at Westminster, and the dolphins are laughing like drains. I’m going to errect a large totem in the garden and we can dance round it blowing whistles and banging drums. The garden though is looking splendid and my mum had another smashing birthday. Grandchildren will be here next Sunday for a week of fun exhausting the unsuspecting. Art bit - slowly, slowly. A bit like those early Polaroids. Hope your day has a warm chink of light somewhere in it. I shall drink koffy and monitor the weather.


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Love the drama of this sketch @dunelm

Ah, driving through water....
I was taught how to do that in a manual car even though exhaust was covered with water. I came to a flooded road under a bridge, many years ago, my children were little. And so I slowly, carefully drove through the water. There was a queue of cars behind me. The car behind me watched me go through, then he charged into the water....my kids were screaming with laughter as his/her car stalled and their car was floating aimlessly...
 
Fbg 6.7

Relentless rain yesterday and all through the night. Midnight slept on my bed with me nearly all night. He went outside a couple of times because he heard something going on. But he came charging back in like a bullet each time. The coverings on the swing looked muddy as heck and something had tried very hard to pull them off, but they are all tied on with rope! I haven't checked last night's SD card yet....

Wildlife Cameras from a few days ago...
Badger gets snarled at and smacked by cat - Badger only came to say Hello...
I felt sorry for the badger.

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Creative is acrylic inks and Hake brush with water
I like this one just as it is. So, just one painting today!

Time for a cuppa.

Have your best kind of day.


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6.3 this morning. Happy to be back in the 6s again.

Also happy that my sister has at last had her appointment with the consultant. He said that the growths were seborrheic keratosis not melanomas and would never become cancerous. She has been waiting for weeks for this urgent referral to the hospital and was understandably getting really stressed - especially as her GP had been very concerned by the growths.

No trip out today as Archie is a bit under the weather.
 
gennepher said:
Love the drama of this sketch @dunelm

Ah, driving through water....
I was taught how to do that in a manual car even though exhaust was covered with water. I came to a flooded road under a bridge, many years ago, my children were little. And so I slowly, carefully drove through the water. There was a queue of cars behind me. The car behind me watched me go through, then he charged into the water....my kids were screaming with laughter as his/her car stalled and their car was floating aimlessly...
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My Dad, who learned to drive as a postman in the mid 30's, in a very early post van which had no windscreen and just a leather cover for the driver to keep the rain off, and then became an instructor teaching soldiers to drive and maintain their vehicles during WW2, taught my brother and myself how to drive through floods. One flood we went through was, as you said, Gennepher, under a bridge and must have been about 31/2 feet deep. We had a big, old Jowett Javelin and the water came up to just below the window level. No problems. Others were stalling and blocking the way for those behind. It's just technique. Or it was in those old cars, not sure about modern ones or electric ones.

A few years ago I was driving a Land Rover and came across an area on a country track where water was gushing down a hillside and across the track. It was only about 6 inches deep, but moving rapidly. Another driver waved me down and warned me against trying to go through it. It was no obstacle at all for the Land Rover and shouldn't have been a problem for an ordinary saloon car, with a little care. But that driver didn't have the confidence to try it.

17 year-old grandson failed part 2 of his driving theory test by a couple of marks yesterday. No problem with first part. Also last week he had a little bump with the car and didn't want to drive again, but DIL insisted that he would drive the next day. She took him out yesterday driving on her laundry delivery - all over the Island and he is feeling more confident now. She was having to take it fairly easy because of her slipped disc so Em carried the bags in and out and her brother did the driving. Seems to have worked well.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentleman and aquanauts.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.9

Today we should must remember Sir Cuthbert Ponsonby White, a man to whom no challenge was to great, may he rest in peace and be confined to the annuals of obscurity.

Are you patiently waiting for the imminent hose pipe ban? Asked Zebedee.

Stay safe all.
 
gennepher said:
Love the drama of this sketch @dunelm

Ah, driving through water....
I was taught how to do that in a manual car even though exhaust was covered with water. I came to a flooded road under a bridge, many years ago, my children were little. And so I slowly, carefully drove through the water. There was a queue of cars behind me. The car behind me watched me go through, then he charged into the water....my kids were screaming with laughter as his/her car stalled and their car was floating aimlessly...
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Thank you @gennepher. Yes, nothing like setting up a bow wave by driving too fast. I once drove a land rover off a landing craft at Scapa Flow (after waterproofing the engine and sticking a one way valve on the exhaust) - think salt water swimming but with a big surprise. Most interesting was driving my armored personnel carrier across the River Weser in Germany - get across before the ferry comes round the bend :oldman:.
 
Morning all on a verisimilitude of a low budget summer's day here in L.A.. where we seem to have escaped lightly from Antoni yesterday. @alf_Josiah by coincidence it is also the feast of The Transfiguration so a double treat for you. @Krystyna23040 wonderful news on your sister I know from personal experience. Enjoy a relaxing Sunday. @gennepher thanks for sharing the gorgeous creative and good news that it was very Billy Joel. @dunelm thanks for sharing the art and thoughts on modern humankind - have you thought any more about that job share as thinker in residence? I'll leave it with you. The venerable Range Rover seems to cope with water even in its advanced years. Don't know if the latest ones have a water driving button to press or just ask the AI? Enjoy your Sunday possibly not as much as Mr D Levy Esq who has allegedly procured about £110 Mill for Mr H Kane Esq from some Germans.
 
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