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dunelm said:
Good afternoon everyone.
5.6 this a.m.
Mrs Miggins had a fall yesterday in town. Compacted fracture to right wrist with three breaks. Local walk in was fabulous - X-ray, manipulation on some sexy drugs, temp pot, 2nd X-ray and all done within 2 hours. Follow up on Monday. I have been promoted to designated driver.
Even more tragic, I have a cold. A box of tissues an hour sort of cold with loads of extras thrown in for good measure.
We became great grandparents today - now there’s a thing.
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Congratulations on becoming great grandparents @dunelm
I am sorry to hear about Mrs. Miggins... I hope she's not in too much pain or in any pain....
Oh dear about the cold... e-hugs for all...
 
Lamont D said:
Hugs back @gennepher.

First of all, congratulations on your recent new arrival. It is one of my greatest wishes to be a great grandad at some point.
Second, how is Mrs Higgins now? Hoping the pain meds do the trick.
Third, hope the cold doesn't turn nasty. Some of grandma's (Beverly Hillbillies) cold elixir, wouldn't go amiss.
Be well my friend.
Best wishes.
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Thank you @Lamont D.
Mrs Miggins reports painful but manageable but the itching is not pleasant so an antihistamine has been deployed.
Cold has kicked off my emphysema but with the help of several distilleries is being managed tolerably well.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Fell asleep a few hours ago.....so used the laboscope app to make a kaleidoscope. I did not have time to find a painting in my sketchbook,I have used Laboscope on my new grey velvety blanket, which is lovely and comfortable....

The place is still a mess with all the reorganising and tidying up,,, would've been easy as I left everything as it was...

The wooden floor is drying out. The plumber was right that this has been leaking for a very long time.. so the flooring that is affected is underneath the kitchen counter... the rest of the flooring looks okay and feels okay but still needs drying out... the man who laid the flooring originally, 20 odd years ago, was given the instruction to do the flooring right up to the wall edge and finish it off in case I ever needed taking the washing machine out.... but he did not do that and I did not see that he had not done that because he had pushed the washing machine back in... by the time I came back in the kitchen.

And so because he did not finish off the flooring properly and left it unfinished, and there was still the concrete underneath exposed, it means that the water leak has gone through the ends of the flooring because they were not glued and those are the vulnerable bits...

I think some wood hardener along those bits, would probably work... and keep the flooring going at least as long as I'm alive!!!

It is now just before midnight, and I only just woke up in time to do this kaleidoscope for today...

Midnight is cross with me because I would not let him go out to play with his cat friend who is sitting outside now... just earlier there was a young male badger wandering round outside my glass door to the garden. He did look quite a handsome badger and he didn't look at me....

I have started scattering small pieces of cloth soaked in white vinegar, try and deter the badger or badgers from playing and destroying the items in my garden... I have been doing this for a few weeks now and so far it's stopped them trying to empty the bins because I put these white vinegar cloths, over pretty much everything out there. Someone gave me the idea. I did not find it on the Internet and I don't know if it is a thing that is recommended, but I was told by this person the strong smell of white vinegar keeps the badger/s off things. So far which has worked, but it does need all the cloths needing re-soaking nightly...

My eyes are closing. I better post this before I go to sleep....

Good night

Sweet dreams

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Interesting architectural kaleidoscope. All the best with drying that floor and the vinegar treatment.
 
gennepher said:
Congratulations on becoming great grandparents @dunelm
I am sorry to hear about Mrs. Miggins... I hope she's not in too much pain or in any pain....
Oh dear about the cold... e-hugs for all...
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Thank you @gennepher. Mrs Miggins reports pain is tolerable but the itching is quite annoying.
As to having a cold - well, that’s just an annoyance.
 
Good morning everyone on what I hope will be a nice sunny day for collecting some vitamin D even though it’s not a vitamin but more like a steroid hormone.
6.2 this a.m. oh dear!
I must dust off my drivers uniform and shine the peak on my drivers cap to be ready in a frisson for the lady of the house.
I hope that your Sunday is a good one. I shall start by making koffy and then a batch of soup into which I can add a variety of ‘extras’ over the next few day.
 
Soup! Good idea. I have lots of soup in the freezer and need to get it used up so it will make the basis of a few meals in the days to come.

6.2 at 05.50 today. For me that is pretty good, so no complaints at all.

My complaints today are about technology, which I have said before, I do not get on well with. My little Amazon Fire Tablet is somewhat restricted when using Zoom so I thought |I would make an improvement by putting it onto my old laptop. To do that I had to buy the Zoom app (£13+ a month). It didn't work because, apparently, there was insufficient bandwidth. I had thought that the bandwidth was to do with the wifi, not the pc, but apparently not. So, OK, I'll put it onto my desktop pc which is much more modern and powerful. Unfortunately, that pc didn't have a camera or a microphone. So I bought one (online, of course) which was "plug and play" and suitable for a Linux system.

Plug and play to me means you plug it in and it sorts itself out and works. Not so. I struggled with it for well over an hour before calling on Neil to do it for me. It took him another hour but he finally got it going. The camera was a fairly high resolution one and gave a very clear image - couldn't check the sound because there was none incoming.

Time came for the Zoom meeting yesterday evening. I joined the meeting but couldn't get a picture. I did get sound, but it was as though everyone was talking underwater. I gave up and went back to the Fire Tablet.

A lot has to do with our rubbish BT internet connection but if the tablet works, so should the pc. Neil thinks the resolution on the camera may be too high and so overloading the system. I don't know whether to send the camera back and give up on the Zoom account altogether or not.

I hate technology!!!!
 
Morning all from a sunny L.A. where summer lingers, well between the hours of 10.00 am and, if we are blessed, 6.00 pm. I have an unknown fbg to share for now but there are some hugs, congratulations and thanks to award/share. Hug for Mrs Miggins on what sounds to be a painful fall. Hug for @debs248 for an expensive autumn and to @Annb for tech issues. Fortunately, since February I have been involved in video meetings on Zoom, WhatsApp and MS Teams on this Chromebook which all worked smoothly so hugs for you. @Lamont D congratulations on finishing painting the fence which sounds as though both the process and the result were good for your mindset. @gennepher thank you for sharing the Kaleidoscope which looks like some Celtic (not the football team) Christian symbol. @dunelm a winner for and congratulations on becoming a great grandparent. You may need to restrict the medicinal use of those skilled distillers with your new post following the unfortunate reshuffle in your household cabinet. If you read all this you've all done very well, have a gold star.
 
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Lamont D said:
I do tell her and steal a kiss and a hug, when I can. A cuddle and a loving word.
A stupid how are you?
Anything you want? Etc.
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It all mounts up, mate.

and I Imagine it's good for both of you.

I'm struck by how the simplest of touches or acts can make me feel seen & loved now.

A pretty basic feeling I'm sure most of us could do with more of, probably.

So anything & everything you are doing now counts .

I have thought since losing mum , the time was both a blessing & a curse .

With dad, we spoke of many things, and yes tenderness of thoughts and love were shared, in a manly fashion .

But his death was sudden, and left more I would say as unfinished business

However with mum, the realisation of how we would lose her, bit by bit, day by day, released any barrier to stalling or waiting to tell her how special she was.

Even when she wasn't really in the room, I still treated her as if she was.

Did she hear me ?..no idea .

But rather selfishly it didn't matter.
I got to say how I felt and unburdened my own self in doing so.

The only consolation I take from her diagnosis was the warning of that large time frame.

Of course being her son, that may give you less comfort than as you a husband & life partner may desire or need.

But I do hope, the time serves you in a similar fashion, to slowly make your own peace with the enemy within. stealing bits of Mrs L's days so stealthily.

I think what you're doing is all anyone can do.
Defend & protect those more lucid moments and flood them with carefree thoughts & love.

Kindest regards to you both .
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a sunny L.A. where summer lingers, well between the hours of 10.00 am and, if we are blessed, 6.00 pm. I have an unknown fbg to share for now but there are some hugs, congratulations and thanks to award/share. Hug for Mrs Miggins on what sounds to be a painful fall. Hug for @debs248 for an expensive autumn and to @Annb for tech issues. Fortunately, since February I have been involved in video meetings on Zoom, WhatsApp and MS Teams on this Chromebook which all worked smoothly so hugs for you. @Lamont D congratulations on finishing painting the fence which sounds as though both the process and the result were good for your mindset. @gennepher thank you for sharing the Kaleidoscope which looks like some Celtic (not the football team) Christian symbol. @dunelm a winner for and congratulations on becoming a great grandparent. You may need to restrict the medicinal use of those skilled distillers with your new post following the unfortunate reshuffle in your household cabinet. If you read all this you've all done very well, have a gold star.
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Thank you, Ian...
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a sunny L.A. where summer lingers, well between the hours of 10.00 am and, if we are blessed, 6.00 pm. I have an unknown fbg to share for now but there are some hugs, congratulations and thanks to award/share. Hug for Mrs Miggins on what sounds to be a painful fall. Hug for @debs248 for an expensive autumn and to @Annb for tech issues. Fortunately, since February I have been involved in video meetings on Zoom, WhatsApp and MS Teams on this Chromebook which all worked smoothly so hugs for you. @Lamont D congratulations on finishing painting the fence which sounds as though both the process and the result were good for your mindset. @gennepher thank you for sharing the Kaleidoscope which looks like some Celtic (not the football team) Christian symbol. @dunelm a winner for and congratulations on becoming a great grandparent. You may need to restrict the medicinal use of those skilled distillers with your new post following the unfortunate reshuffle in your household cabinet. If you read all this you've all done very well, have a gold star.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. The new regime is well within budget and will not effect the pound in my pocket.
 
jjraak said:
It all mounts up, mate.

and I Imagine it's good for both of you.

I'm struck by how the simplest of touches or acts can make me feel seen & loved now.

A pretty basic feeling I'm sure most of us could do with more of, probably.

So anything & everything you are doing now counts .

I have thought since losing mum , the time was both a blessing & a curse .

With dad, we spoke of many things, and yes tenderness of thoughts and love were shared, in a manly fashion .

But his death was sudden, and left more I would say as unfinished business

However with mum, the realisation of how we would lose her, bit by bit, day by day, released any barrier to stalling or waiting to tell her how special she was.

Even when she wasn't really in the room, I still treated her as if she was.

Did she hear me ?..no idea .

But rather selfishly it didn't matter.
I got to say how I felt and unburdened my own self in doing so.

The only consolation I take from her diagnosis was the warning of that large time frame.

Of course being her son, that may give you less comfort than as you a husband & life partner may desire or need.

But I do hope, the time serves you in a similar fashion, to slowly make your own peace with the enemy within. stealing bits of Mrs L's days so stealthily.

I think what you're doing is all anyone can do.
Defend & protect those more lucid moments and flood them with carefree thoughts & love.

Kindest regards to you both .
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I treasure these wonderful thoughts and so kind and friendly words.
Expressing your feelings with candour and mindfulness.
Your experience of your parents, actually are very similar to mine.
My mum passed away in hospital near twenty years ago. After a second fatal stroke which left her in a coma. As her son. I was responsible for being there for ten days, making the decisions to stop the feeding drip and the medication, the final decision to end the care except for basic washing etc. I was there at the end. I would not wish those ten days for anyone to experience.
My father was forty years ago, died suddenly at home, my mum came home from babysitting and found him, as if asleep. I was on the night shift, I didn't make it home to well after midnight.
This was not a shock due to his time During and after Burma. But it was sudden.
I was the baby of four boys. It was very tough growing up, in our circumstances. But it did put me on my path of making the best I could be.
Thanks again for those sentiments mate.
 
7.2 and another 5000 steps before evening today
Supposed to be a day off but who am I kidding?

Mrs L is a little bit better but has instances of confusion.
Thought our youngest was having lunch, when clearly not. Not even at home here!

We have had a drenching today and the central heating came on automatically.
I was gonna tidy up the garden, found the roses and hydrangeas. Possibly tomorrow?
My best wishes to you lot as always.
 
Lamont D said:
I treasure these wonderful thoughts and so kind and friendly words.
Expressing your feelings with candour and mindfulness.
Your experience of your parents, actually are very similar to mine.
My mum passed away in hospital near twenty years ago. After a second fatal stroke which left her in a coma. As her son. I was responsible for being there for ten days, making the decisions to stop the feeding drip and the medication, the final decision to end the care except for basic washing etc. I was there at the end. I would not wish those ten days for anyone to experience.
My father was forty years ago, died suddenly at home, my mum came home from babysitting and found him, as if asleep. I was on the night shift, I didn't make it home to well after midnight.
This was not a shock due to his time During and after Burma. But it was sudden.
I was the baby of four boys. It was very tough growing up, in our circumstances. But it did put me on my path of making the best I could be.
Thanks again for those sentiments mate.
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What an awful time at mums last days.
How well you honoured her, when she needed you most

But sadly you are right, such adversity does make us better & tougher.

The past prepares us for the future, I once read without really understanding how personal, those lessons would be later on.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a sunny L.A. where summer lingers, well between the hours of 10.00 am and, if we are blessed, 6.00 pm. I have an unknown fbg to share for now but there are some hugs, congratulations and thanks to award/share. Hug for Mrs Miggins on what sounds to be a painful fall. Hug for @debs248 for an expensive autumn and to @Annb for tech issues. Fortunately, since February I have been involved in video meetings on Zoom, WhatsApp and MS Teams on this Chromebook which all worked smoothly so hugs for you. @Lamont D congratulations on finishing painting the fence which sounds as though both the process and the result were good for your mindset. @gennepher thank you for sharing the Kaleidoscope which looks like some Celtic (not the football team) Christian symbol. @dunelm a winner for and congratulations on becoming a great grandparent. You may need to restrict the medicinal use of those skilled distillers with your new post following the unfortunate reshuffle in your household cabinet. If you read all this you've all done very well, have a gold star.
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Thank you very much, Ian ...
 
Fbg 6.8

Painted with felt tip pens....my creative for today...a page from my sketch book...

Still drying out that water with the dehumidifiers....

Nearly the time of midnight here....
The cat Midnight is asleep on my printer in the wardrobe...

Goodnight...
Sleep tight...


Oh dear...photos are not posting again...

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Painted with felt tip pens... | gennepher

Painted with felt tip pens....my creative for today...a page from my sketch book... Still drying out that water with the dehumidifiers.......
www.blipfoto.com
 
6.2 sitting on the edge of my bed at 04.30 today. 5.6 by the time I got to the kitchen.

Coffee x 2.

Had breakfast and it has just gone up to 9.0 but it will probably drop fairly soon.

Just cancelled my Zoom subscription having decided that the problem is our internet connection - not enough bandwidth for the camera which is probably too high resolution. I'll just continue with the little tablet which does work after a fashion - probably because it doesn't require as much bandwidth and it does have a free version of Zoom on it. I must try to find another Service Provider - we've had nothing but trouble ever since we switched to BT and I'm paying for what was supposed to be a much faster connection, plus the fact that our phone doesn't work as well with BT as it did before. I thought the new technology was supposed to make things easier/better. I think, though, that new technology and old brain don't actually work as a combination. At least, my 1945 model brain doesn't seem to work with 2025 tech.
 
5.5 this morning.

Plenty of breaks today which makes it an easy day - I am at.last (after 25 years of teaching pilates) being much more sensible on how I fill up my diary.

Our builder friend did some repairs this morning on my shed which I store equipment at the Norwich venue. He has also re-stained it and it looks just like new.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.5 this morning.

Plenty of breaks today which makes it an easy day - I am at.last (after 25 years of teaching pilates) being much more sensible on how I fill up my diary.

Our builder friend did some repairs this morning on my shed which I store equipment at the Norwich venue. He has also re-stained it and it looks just like new.
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Does your builder offer the same service for people? :playful:
 
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