So, who wants to help ... to frivol in the cellar? (Part 1)

You can get harnesses for parrots too

I pity anyone trying to put a harness on Titi

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HBCs available

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FFS - the chicken at BL is a rosecomb bantam. E.g. the late and much lamented Tysie. Even assuming they make a harness small enough for them not to escape, they will not suffer such an indignity.

The goose’s expression says it all…

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\______/ <---- Me Plate

Carinthia. xx

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Today we have light mist.Which reminds me, how’s the Coole Swan doing…?

yardarm

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Morning sparrer

Bacon butties?

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I am watching a volcano

It’s wonderful to see

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Geological acne.

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There will be chicken fried rice later, if anyone would like some.

Carinthia. xx

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What a good idea!

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Snork Gusly one

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Did someone say something about HBCs?

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May I have some before the elbows appear?

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You can try…

There’s an alternative on offer over on the bread makers’ thread, incidentally

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I have been honing me elbows all afternoon…

Carinthia. xx

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Been playing with Ken’s pasta roller attachment

We now have the recipe and the technique sort of mastered

I am enjoying playing with my pasta attachments

Just the fusili die to master now

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Okaaay…

Had my eyes tested today - I’d left it far too long, what with covid and then moving twice, and with being lazy about such things - and I knew I was having a bit of trouble seeing and all that, but not much trouble, so I was not expecting to be told that the cataract I was told I had the teeny weeny beginnings of 6 years ago now needs to be dealt with. I have been referred, and been told it could well be done before the end of next month.

I don’t know whether to be delighted or terrified - I’m not squeamish in general but I’m horribly squeamish about eyes.

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Cataract surgery is miraculous. It doesn’t hurt, or at least it didn’t hurt me in the least, and after it you suddenly get your vision back. Mostly you haven’t noticed the world was gradually fading to being like an old sepia photograph until suddenly it isn’t any more.

While my cataracts were developing I had bought a gorse bush for outside my study window, which I thought had dark golden-brown flowers. After the op I discovered that the flowers are a bright sunshine yellow. That sort of vision recovery.

I’d say good luck, but honestly, the only luck involved is how soon it can happen!

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Oh, poor you if it is one of your squeam things. They are really very good indeed at it and do a great many of them. Everyone I know who has had it done has been delighted with the results. Keep taking the Gin in the interim: one thinks one sees such interesting things that way.

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Thanks, Fishy, I didn’t know you’d had it done. Both eyes? It’s just my right one at the moment and I’ve been told I’m still OK to drive and so on, because my left eye’s doing a great job of compensating and I still pass ā€˜the test’, but I’m struggling when reading, and keep having to close the right eye to stop it interfering too much, which is a nuisance.

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