Fleur

@Fleura (33947)

United Kingdom

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Using AI is more difficult than you might expect

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 13 Feb

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my first attempt at using AI to generate an image for a birthday card. That was surprisingly successful so I thought I would have another go. This time though is proving much more difficult. I...

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Another Olympic headline

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 13 Feb

@AmbiePam just posted about unusual Olympics headlines. One she didn’t mention was the controversy over the men’s attire in the ski-jump competition. Wearing a suit that’s a bit baggy in the right places can give a jumper a bit...

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Never assume...

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 13 Feb

A recent news story highlighted the dangers of making assumptions. A nine-month-old baby was taken to the doctors with various rather non-specific symptoms. After a few visits over a period of weeks, the baby’s condition...

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I'm too old!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 12 Feb

A few months ago a friend – who had retired early and was enjoying sailing around Europe with his wife – suffered a bad bout of pneumonia while in Kalamata, Greece. He was treated in hospital there and recovered and blamed it on...

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Quite the drama outside!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 11 Feb

As I’ve written about before, I spend a lot of time watching the birds, and also monitoring them for the British Trust for Ornithology’s garden birds project. So basically I’m constantly listening, and glancing out of the window,...

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You can be too helpful!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 10 Feb

I have been doing quite a lot of pruning of shrubs in the garden, and had collected up a heap of branches. They were all piled up in front of our garage waiting for my partner to run them all through the shredder. I use all the...

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I'm easily confused!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 10 Feb

Now toad patrol is back in full swing and we have dug out all the buckets, hi-viz jackets, recording sheets etc. from last year. We also have two movable road signs, which we put out every evening, one at each end of the mile or...

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Delving inside the piano

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 9 Feb

I have inherited the family piano. I learned to play on it, my mother and aunt learned to play on it. More than likely my grandmother also learned to play on it, she certainly played it. It dates from 1898 (you can look up the...

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Not quite a dream - but still uncanny

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 7 Feb

This morning I woke up from a sort of dream; basically all it was, was a vision of a digital clock with green numbers against a black background, showing the time of 7:52. I woke up, thought ‘that was a bit odd’, looked at the...

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They agree with us!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 5 Feb

Modern cars are being made with more and more gadgets and electronic gizmos to allegedly ‘help’ the driver. Well yes inbuilt SatNav could be handy, if you were going to a strange place and it was easy to use, but otherwise I don’t...

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So many sunken boats!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 5 Feb

Recently I’ve been sad to see so many sunken boats along the rivers around here. I passed six just on my way home down the river, which is only a couple of miles’ stretch. Some have probably had a mishap when the river levels...

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Lost one – but found two!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 4 Feb

Our eldest daughter, known here as ‘Big One’, is learning to drive a car. So yesterday when she needed to go to the railway station I suggested she could drive herself there. We have magnetic ‘L’ plates (a requirement for learner...

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Talk about stating the obvious!

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 3 Feb

We’re having a lot of wet weather, and the soil around here is heavy clay, and there has been a lot of forestry work going on involving heavy machinery. Put those things all together and the outcome is fairly predictable. So...

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How did we end up with these?

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 3 Feb

Eldest daughter ‘Big One’ is having a blitz of her bedroom. Basically it is full of three categories of items – clothes, books, and random papers. The random paper (in drawers, in piles under the bed etc.) includes things like...

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Why didn’t I think of it before?

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 2 Feb

Ever since we moved to this house, getting on for ten years ago, the front door has not closed properly. If we push the door shut, it stays in position but it doesn’t go quite close enough for the latch to actually click into the...

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It’s panto time! (again)

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 1 Feb

I’ve posted a few times on here about our preparations for this year’s pantomime, which is The Little Mermaid. Well performance time finally rolled around and everything has come together. Here’s the ‘Atlantis’ scenery in situ,...

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What do you say?

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 1 Feb

Following on from my last post… What do you say when someone shares their bad news with you? Yesterday a friend (my co-conspirator in the props department!) told me she has breast cancer. What would you say under these...

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More bad news

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 1 Feb

On January 1st we were told that a friend – who had recently retired and was enjoying a new phase of life sailing around Europe with his wife – had been diagnosed with leukaemia. Thankfully his treatment seems to be going well so...

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One thing leads to another

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 31 Jan

Yesterday I posted about our scheduled power outage. I looked for a picture to go with it and I chose an old picture of our garden (because there is a power line running along the boundary). And then when I looked at that picture...

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I’ll be incommunicado today

Fleur @Fleura (33947) • United Kingdom 30 Jan

Our electricity is set to go off shortly, because the network company have scheduled work trimming trees around the power lines in our area. So I’ll be lighting the fire to keep us going with hot drinks, and wrapping the fish tank...

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