The Virtual Lounge

[blissgirl]

Anyone here ?

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[RunrigForever]

Thank you for the video of Marc Martel @Cleoriff Brilliant, as you say. 

My favourite Freddie song is 'It's a Kind of Magic'.

[RunrigForever]

The Tigers of Scotland (2017) Scottish Wildcat Country - Directors Cut.

Well worth watching.

The Scottish Wildcat is a very endangered species, due to Man including International Big Business = can't Sweden cut down its own trees for space for  its own wind farms ?!

I support the Scottish Wildcat Charity / Sanctuary (No animal is in cages)

[Cleoriff]

Thanks for that info @RunrigForever 

The Scottish Wildcat Sanctuary is the charity which is slowly re-introducing the Lynx, back into the wild in Scotland. 

If you remember the horror story in January (this year) where some despicable people dumped 4 lynx into the snowy, cold wilderness of Scotland. The Charity managed to save 3 but one poor lynx died of shock. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge40jv4gjo 

[RunrigForever]

I do remember @Cleoriff 

we were shocked.

The SWS are monitoring very discreetly with concealed cameras the magnificent animals. There are kittens. I do donate and they have produced a lovely Scottish lambswool scarf in the colours of the animals =have bought one for my son for Christmas. There is a case of law at the highest court in the land against Scotland for Land and Vattenfall a Swedish wind farm company. Some cameras have been stolen. Big business are desperately trying to prove no wildcat / lynx exist in the Scottish forests.

Sorry for poor quality of typing - hands are shaking badly today.

[RunrigForever]

Some good news to share :

finally the GP's surgery I go to are to text me an early morning appointment for a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease = then I see about a stairlife = would improve my quality of life immensely - need various other aids. A bungalow would be great = 1 level living ....... can't put my own shoes on mow need maybe a typists foot rest, get dizzy when get up ....... BUT long story short I sleep a lot and when GP's place ring I can be fast asleep.

Did some Christmas shopping yesterday - just bits & bobs

My son and daughter have come home from a lovely week in Crete. They liked it before. They go exploring.

I go see the Springsteen film Deliver Me from Nowhere teatime today. His darkest album Nebraska composed when depressed on 1 audio cassette, 4 track recording system. Later electronic used much later. Bruce himself has decades in the future this is the album he will be remembered for. Newly refurbished local town cinema. Feel all excited, like a little kid.

[Cleoriff]

@RunrigForever 

Good news re your GP appt.

I wish we had bought a bungalow about 20 years ago. We've been in this 3 bed house since it was built in 1969. When we retired, we paid off the mortgage.

We did have the idea of converting the garage into a 1 bed flat but again, never got round to it. Now it would be far too expensive to contemplate. Loads of people on the estate have converted their garages. and I know it adds value to the property (as long as you have your own drive to park your car on.)

Oh well Coulda, shoulda, woulda 😂

[RunrigForever]

My mobility is becoming increasingly poor ..... breathless when at top of stairs ..... have 2-4 weeks for GP's place to text me as considered non-urgent ..... shaking bad these days say 2 hands on mouse ..... legs ankles and feet swelling up badly ..... it seems these conglomerate medical places don't want patients = I kid you not ..... when a GP had said to me you have a tremor in your upper right arm which I couldn't feel and he advised I get it checked out.This was February when clogged up with stuff = a virus and so just weather is as chest clear. Just don't get it ..... I sooo wanted to move when my lad flew the nest when he was 16 to study A levels with his dad in Leeds. Now far too late ..... I am looking forward to being with them over Christmastime. they've just come back from Crete. they work hard and enjoy their time away together. My d-i-l is very high up NHS area pharmacist in Gateshead. My lad works from for a construction company in their land and minerals resources section. They enjoy their bungalow with their cat Juno. Cats don't like closed doors do they ?

[Cleoriff]

@RunrigForever 

You seem to be getting up earlier and earlier 😴 Just gone 5.00am this morning?! 

I won't say 'up with the lark' as we never hear larks round this area nowadays. 

By the way, if I felt as unwell as you, I would be insisting on a much earlier appt than 2-4 weeks.

Ridiculous amount of time to wait!

I agree with cats not liking closed doors but our only cat Lily hasn't got much choice here. My bedroom door is always closed as I can't bear cat hairs on the bed. 

We leave the conservatory door ajar for her to get out into garden but as soon as she's been outside, the door is shut, (particularly at this time of year!!

Annoyingly, with all the cats we've had, we never tried a cat flap ,as the  conservatory is mainly glass. (Easy to do now but 30 years ago no-one could do it. They could only be cut into non glass doors. 

Pleased your son  and D.I.L. enjoyed Greece. I've never been.