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Yvonne G

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Sad news from home, it seems that baby B has lost his fight for survival. Son reports no sign of him today and he was nowhere near ready for fledging [emoji22]
So sorry to hear that. Ya gotta' feel for the poor mama bird who so faithfully incubated the eggs and tried to keep her babies alive.
 

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Well, I figured out the trick to getting the pictures to load. I have to go out of CDR then back in again. Two or three more pictures load from the last ones that loaded. TAkes quite a bit longer to read CDR, but DANG IT!!!!! I want to see the pictures! I'm at the end of Linda's now and waiting for Dan's.
 

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Well, I figured out the trick to getting the pictures to load. I have to go out of CDR then back in again. Two or three more pictures load from the last ones that loaded. TAkes quite a bit longer to read CDR, but DANG IT!!!!! I want to see the pictures! I'm at the end of Linda's now and waiting for Dan's.
Can you get use the refresh key? I think it's F5. It's been I while since I've really used a PC. I always just use my phone for everything.
 

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Thanks for the hint. I'll give it a try on one of those "can you I.D. my plant" threads that are up now. By the way. . . nice beach. Did you twinkle your toes in the 3 or 4" of water? ANd is the water warm?
I did. It's warm though not as warm as it would be because of all the rain. I think we got a total of 10-11" this past week.
 

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For some reason I did not see this post, saw it in my emails so have been looking for it this morning. Sjoe but we all talk alot. :D
Back to the post now: Thank you Ed, I have accepted it, it is a part of my life now, so I just deal with it. I had the cortisone shot right in the beginning, and it actually worked, but for a week. (at the time I was also drinking wheat grass juice, and did not know that it would work so well - as I think the wheat grass juice leached most of the cortisone out. Wheat grass juice is fantastic detox juice, tastes like crap but really good.) So if you can find a Doctor that can do it right, then it works well. I had to go into hospital for 1/2 a day, and they put me under then used a MRI machine to place the cortisone on the right spot. I wonder if I can get them to do it again for me. Hmm worth a shot. Good luck on your side, sciatica is not a walk in the park. But as long as I can manage the pain and lead a relatively normal life, then I am okay with it.
My shot was also under an xray type thing. It wasn't successful because the doctor couldn't decide what part of the back was generating that pain. He found quite a bit of damage from arthritis.
 

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There are always education options... schooling is free to age 18.

The business about forcing youngsters to get English and Maths seems a bit silly, but the experience in our school is that, where leaving and dropping out seemed a good idea to some teenage boys, they now know that it won’t just be forgotten about.

As a result, some try harder at GCSE at age 16 and others know that getting a job means they’ll be sent to college on (likely unpaid) day release to sit their exams instead. Passing isn’t optional so you may as well get it over and done with at school.

It’s a good thing overall.
It does sound good. Here school isn't free.
 

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Our time in sunny Oslo is coming to an end.

This morning we went to the Viking Ship Museum. The one at Roskilde, where Lena lives, has ships that were sunk in the sea.

These were part of ship burials. Wealthy vikings were buried in a ship with grave goods to help them on their journey to the afterlife. The ships are around 1200 years old - two of them are HUGE!
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Even more fascinating are the surviving grave goods like sledges, a cart and shoes
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Wow amazing that even the shoes survived. And I must say looking at pics in the night mode is awesome.
 

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Our time in sunny Oslo is coming to an end.

This morning we went to the Viking Ship Museum. The one at Roskilde, where Lena lives, has ships that were sunk in the sea.

These were part of ship burials. Wealthy vikings were buried in a ship with grave goods to help them on their journey to the afterlife. The ships are around 1200 years old - two of them are HUGE!
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Even more fascinating are the surviving grave goods like sledges, a cart and shoes
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This is what it looks like.Screenshot_20180528-202003.jpeg
 
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