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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: Roobarb on Wednesday 28 April 21 00:20 BST (UK)
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Usual walk this morning, there's a lady I've often seen walking her terrier and we say hello, today I saw her on the field then not long after in the woods, we laughed about coming across each other so soon and had a short chat. The bluebells were in flower at the edge of the woods. Walked down the narrow path, on my way back I ended up having quite a long conversation with a man who was walking his dog, I didn't know him but it was nice to chat to him.
It was a bit chilly and there were a few spots of rain. After lunch (M&S hummus, mmmm!) I set about trying to sort out the problem with my laptop and after gaining some reassurance from some Rootschatters I went for the HP system repair option which would not affect my files. I was a bit nervous about it but my worries were unfounded, it worked really well, I was so relieved.
Set to with the work on my portrait painting, doing the tonal drawing in charcoal. At first I'd put ten years on my friend, remedied that but it still wasn't right. Turned the picture and the reference photo upside down, it's a useful trick if you can't spot what's wrong as you see the shapes rather than the subject of the picture. I kept tweaking it but although it looks like a picture of a nice looking woman it doesn't look like the right nice looking woman. I'll keep having a go, I'm sure my art teacher will be able to help. I comfort myself with the thought that some of the artists on the Portrait Artist programme don't get a good likeness to the sitter.
At five I went to meet the subject herself, we'd been waiting to see what the weather situation was as there was rain forecast and there'd been a little bit earlier on. In the end we went for it and were lucky that it stayed dry while we were out.
Took a portion of curry out of the freezer when I got home, was hungry and didn't want to wait to eat. Watched a couple of programmes I'd recorded.
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Great to hear you’ve managed to sort your computer out! When we had a problem with ours we had a Microsoft fixer... it was very odd to see someone else manipulating your computer whilst you sat and watched and talked to them on the phone at the same time!
I’m sure by the time you’ve finished your portrait it will look like your friend J! Intriguing to hear you turn them upside down...
Glad to hear the weather held off for your walk too.
It was a dull grey looking day when I got up which wasn’t looking promising for our Tuesday coffee get together!
After breakfast I had a shower and put on several layers of warm clothing, thick jeans, a body warmer and I took a coat as it looked like it could rain!
We braved it out and S had given us all nice rugs just in case! It did start to spot as she brought out the coffee and lovely carrot cake but it soon went. Was good to catch up for a chat...almost lunchtime when we dispersed!
After lunch I had my article to write for our village newsletter.....
Our delivery from Donald Russell had arrived so stashed it in the freezer but kept out some Cod Loins for dinner...
Had a phone call from our mutual friends with an update re our friend whose in hospital with leukaemia.... waiting for bone marrow test results, still on meds to get his count right.. once that’s done he’ll have four weeks of chemo and will stay in hospital for all that time... H his wife can visit him daily, at the moment, for just 1 hour... we decided to send her some flowers between us so I phoned the florist in the town where they live nearby... the florist knows her so is delivering them on Thursday... you feel so helpless, can’t visit either of them really but she’s lots of support from neighbours offering to drive her daily to the hospital..... not the way he’d intended to spend his 70th birthday 😢..
On a happier note my daughter and husband have booked their jabs for 4 & 6th May then 20 & 22 nd July.... great news!
My second Tesco delivery arrived and there were just a couple of items not available and I’d not asked for substitutes... all put away as normal..
Baked the cod in the oven for just 13 mins after drizzling it with olive oil... made a kind of mash with spring onions, cannellini beans, stock, lemon juice once slightly mashed I added some mushrooms...lots green vegs ...
watched usual tv... not much very inspiring...
Caroline
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A bit of housework and some more source logging. I may eventually get through all the piles. It's amazing how much you accumulate in over 20 years of research.
A few phone calls to deal with legal stuff followed by a bit of a cry to alleviate the stress.
A house I pass on the school run has put up a sign saying "Covid is a hoax". They then added another sign saying "Come chat about covid" and references to explaining about the NHS liars etc. It both upsets me and makes me feel very unsafe. It is saying the deaths I saw (and still see when I close my eyes) and phonecalls I had to make weren't real, when I very much wish it wasn't real. Also casting aspersions on my integrity and saying I would lie about something so awful. Much as I wish the last year and a bit wasn't real i just can't put into words how I feel about people claiming it wasn't real
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I can understand your anxt Pharma, and I must say I was quietly incensed by an anti vaccination rally I passed over the weekend. >:(
The shocking stressors endured by our NHS, and other key workers , (globally,) during the last year + should not be minimised or denied by anyone.
Why ever would e.g. India, be lying about the desperate situation they are facing?
But, the bottom line is that last century 2 wars were fought to allow the people of Britain the right to free speech, and for that I am grateful, after all, I don't have to listen to, or vindicate, tossers!
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I can understand your anxt Pharma, and I must say I was quietly incensed by an anti vaccination rally I passed over the weekend. >:(
The shocking stressors endured by our NHS, and other key workers , (globally,) during the last year + should not be minimised or denied by anyone.
Why ever would e.g. India, be lying about the desperate situation they are facing?
But, the bottom line is that last century 2 wars were fought to allow the people of Britain the right to free speech, and for that I am grateful, after all, I don't have to listen to, or vindicate, tossers!
That is true but the problem is that the freedom of speech only works one way. In my experience if i said to them "well i disagree because...." I would be told I had no right to say anything and in the past year have had actual death threats for disagreeing with a covid denier politely I may add. All I said was "I don't believe because I've blindly followed the government but because of what I have seen with my own eyes"
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PharmaT, I know it's not easy to ignore idiots like these, particularly when you have had to deal with the terrible effects of the virus firsthand. Unfortunately there is no other way, they won't be convinced no matter what anyone says to them in their invitation to chat or by any evidence provided. Try to remember that the vast majority of us have the greatest respect and admiration for you and all the other people who have done all they can for us.
A very difficult time for your friend Caroline, I'm sure his wife will really appreciate the flowers and knowing that you are thinking of them both. Great news about the jabs for your daughter and her husband.
Was very pleased to read in the news today that a single dose of the Pfizer or AZ vaccine reduces the transmission rate by a half. Vaccinated people are between 39% and 48% less likely to pass on the virus than those who have not been vaccinated.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/27/one-covid-vaccine-cuts-transmission-virus-half/
(Can't find the BBC news article)
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Oh Pharma, just be thankful you have the intelligence to see the truth, both by personal experience and your intelligence.
I could not believe the massed marches seen on T V !
Lots of rain in the night, so good for the gardens.
My second dwarf apple tree broke two thirds of the way up a year or so back ,- side shoots are growing stronger and this year have blossom . :D
Clever devil Roobarb, sorting your computer out!Well done.
That is kind to send flowers to the patient’s wife Caroline, in such situations there is never just one person affected is there?
My neighbour seems settled back home so will phone her i a little while also must phone my son who is working from home ,computer connected to several countries so time zones etc mean there is not much time when all are working simultaneously ,I must not interrupt those relatively small windows.
Waiting for exact details re the puppies ,I did leave a phone message with my daughter ,however, FH’s Mummy is so nauseous and it seems dehydration can
be causal in miscarriages, she has lost two at ten weeks, my daughter one and I a non identical twin at three months.We were all troubled by acute
hyperemesis,that excessive vomiting morning moon and night!
She was kept in hospital until her bloods showed salts etc were alright and she was fully rehydrated.
So fingers crossed .
No plans for today really .It is fine but overcast so washing can wait ,what there is, for a sunny day.
Tesco delivery on Friday evening .
Must get plants for neighbour’s pots so they will be blooming for her
birthday ..
No idea what for tea- a freezer full so no problem really .
Fresh veges too ,new potatoes ,rice .pasta etc .
Well folks ,count our blessings and battle on !
Two thirds through Spring !
Almost Summer.I hope the new Summer outfits I got the year before last eventually get an airing!
I am not ruled by fashion so that is not a problem .
I am not being dictated to by some airhead in London!
So out comes the Crimpline ,orange and lime green ,bell bottomed pants, stacked sole shoes ,beehive hair ,miniskirts etc etc etc. ;D ;D ;Dim
Ye Gods, however were we persuaded to wear that stuff ?
I must say I did not fully subscribe to it ,!
No seriously ,classic clothes do date well .
Unlike their wearers sometimes!
Well must get on with I know not what!I will find something .
Cheerio ,look after yourselves.
Viktoria.
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Enjoy reading everyone’s posts and feel sad for things that are not going well for some and good news for others. As a dog lover, Viktoria, really hope you get that puppy!
Weather has been up and down, typical April, warmish yesterday and today, they keep saying a thunder storm is coming, has not materialized. It will be cooler, mid teens, upper teens for the next while. In this area, though, you are better to bet they will get the forecast wrong!
Have been doing some online work lately, left me a bit frazzled. Some of it is tedious, never easy to get through.
A couple of weeks ago I recounted here how we lost a set of keys (but recovered them thanks to a kind person) in the park, well today we went to a different section and walked by a picnic table, there was a set of about 8 keys sitting there! No one in sight. No car fob, so couldn’t match them to any cars in the sparsely populated parking lot (but the whole park has at least 6 lots) so we left them there. I returned sooner than OH as he does a longer walk, they were still there. I sat and guarded them for a while but in the end just left them. You’d think there were would be a central lost and found but there isn’t as far as I know. I hope the owner did return and get them. In warmer months and non Covid times, that area of the park would be busy, as there is a mini children’s amusement park and a train they can ride around on.
Am reading a biography about Alice, Prince Philip’s mother, by Hugo Vickers. Very interesting, but my, those royal families of Europe are confusing. The Queen and Prince Philip were related through the Danes as well as Queen V., which I did not recognize. Do you know we celebrate her, Victoria, on Victoria Day in May. Considered the first day of summer. Of course in Quebec they call it something else. That’s okay, I can criticize my home province.
Been watching David Attenborough’s show, World Of Colour, I believe it’s called. Love it. Started watching Belonging with Brenda Blethyn and Kevin Whateley, big fan of both, but KW character is just an awful human being.
Not a lot going on, did have a nice chat with my son, he is a real joker and always gets me laughing. Was reminding me of some of his childhood nonsense. Then he went off to walk in the woods with his partner and scared her with bear stories...am sure she has him figured out by now, though! I always told him he cried wolf too often : ).
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Just picturing you in your lime green bell bottoms Viktoria. ;D ;D ;
Pleased to hear that your apple tree is doing well, hope the rosebush is too. 🌹
Hope the owner of the keys returned to find them Diana, it makes you start picturing them getting home or to their workplace and not being able to get in.
You're not alone in being confused by the European royals, I'm the same. The fact that Queen Victoria's children were scattered around is bad enough on its own. I don't even try to work it all out!
Nice to have a laugh with your son. :)
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My niece posted this early in the day - how lovely is that? I visited in the afternoon - had lots of cuddles and got Macy off to sleep.
After I left J's I drove on the The Range to get a few more plants. On Monday I cleared out some pots and put plants in 4 of them. Still lots to do but hopefully on Thursday morning and then I'm off to a visit at my nephews to see his 4 girls (plus his wife of course).
After all the mundane of earlier in the year so nice to be able to see my family again.
Annette
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What little beauties the girls are Annette... so pleased you’re able to give them cuddles... they look so happy.
Viktoria- you do bring a smile to my face... imagining you wearing those bright colours made me laugh 😂😂.
Hope you know soon if you’ll get a little puppy or not... lots of planning to do if you are to have one!
Diana - always a worry seeing a set of keys left as you wonder when they get back to a car realising no keys and panic... walk home can’t get in.. panic... hope they got found by the right person!
Lovely to enjoy a laugh with ones children... brightens up the day!
Your book sounds interesting... have to look it out...
PharmaT- I know it must be hard given all you’ve been doing over this past year in your job... but really these people aren’t even worth you giving a second thought to... if that’s what they want to believe then don’t waste your energy on them as MN says they’re just tossers!
Caroline
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Well May 24 th was always known here in England as Empire Day as it was Queen Victoria’s Birthday and mine too!Only mine was a bit later than hers( ;D)Her’s 1819 mine 1937.
There were parades etc ,and there were still many horses in use when I was a child and back from being an evacuee 1945.
They were dressed in their brasses and red white and blue ribbons and rosettes .
The Gas Works, Co-op ,milk carts and bread carts were all in a parade .
I used to think it was so kind of them to do that for my birthday!
Until Mum enlightened me-
That is not why I am called Viktoria really but the little girl after whom I was named ,with the German spelling , was born about the same time as I was and her father sought out other children born that day .It is actually my second name .Mum had chosen mine but agreed to Viktoria as my second name ,as the family of my namesake were GermanJewish people with a business in Manchester .( ,the name of one of Kaiser Wilhelm’s daughters ) I do not know what became of them ,in 1937 I would not think they would go to Germany even to try to wind up a business assuming it had not already been commandeered by Hitler’s lot!
There is record of an emigration of the only person with the name spelled with the k to Australia.
So we never met.
As we do not have an Empire anymore it is Commonwealth day but not sure what date or if and how it is celebrated .
Glorious sunshine but very chilly.
Still not heard from daughter about exact details of the puppy shortage.
She is very busy at the moment in a battle with their dealership principal ,I use lowercase letters on purpose !
She won’t relax standards yet so business is very slow.BUT,is as safe as she can possibly make it for customers and her team which is very close knit and loyal to her .Her Dad would have been so proud of her standards .
I would love to see your paintings Roobarb ,
Back and leg bothering me at the moment so will give a few more days
to see if it is from my deep step down from the ladders.
Was hoping to go to daughter’s for all the May birthdays WA s etc but no news yet of being able to mix like that.
Well if Boris has been naughty re flat decor etc it is nothing that will go away and could keep until things are better.
Who remembers The Blairs,Cherie!Do I remember something similar?
Only with no Pandemic to deal with .
I am open to correction.
Not heard re the results from the “Rapid Response Chest Pain Clinic!” ;D ;D ;D
However as things are not too bad mustn’t grumble.
What lovely lively babies !Thanks .
Some keys were put in my fence but had they slipped down into my border would not have been seen, so I put a notice in my window ,they were belonging to my neighbour’s daughter but I had asked her husband(daughter’s ) and he said not their’s.
Well must get on.
Cheerio folks, look after yourselves.
Viktoria.
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Roobarb,
Queen Victoria ‘s third child Alice married Louis 1V of Hesse,a German state .
Their two daughters were Victoria who married Prince Louis of Battenberg and
Alexandra who was the last Tsarina of Russia.
Victoria and Louis of Battenberg were the parents of Prince Philip’s mother
Alice.
She had married Andrew of Greece ,Philip’s father.
So Prince Philip did have German blood .
His Danish and Russian connections were mentioned ,but they were not so strong as the German ones given that Prince Albert was German and
Victoria’s mother, Victoria of SaxeCoburg.
Victoria’s father Edward Duke of Kent was fourth son of George lll and they were third generation German with German spouses.
I don’t know the line of Andrew of Greece, except he was brother of the King of Denmark but he too was from a German State.
Viktoria.
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Dear me, I'm even more confused.com! ;D
Lovely photo of the babies Annette. :)
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We don’t really do anything connected to Victoria on Victoria Day, sometimes someone in the media will talk about her. It’s really just a day off for everyone and considered the start of summer and of planting safely.
Good news here today, vaccinations will be opened up to all adults in Ontario within four weeks, my son might get in earlier than his older sisters as he can’t work from home. Am very happy about this!
Annette, the photo of the babies is beautiful!
Caroline, the book about Alice is very interesting. I realized that I’ve had it since 2013 and it was time to read it. Prince Philip turned out very well, considering his unsettled childhood
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Great news about the vaccinations Diana, sounds like things are moving on more quickly now.