Fleur
@Fleura (33947)
United Kingdom
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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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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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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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8 people
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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