2024-07-01 Monday
Summary:
- LDN Jun 20th- 1.5mg
for Energy ’30%’ , partly usable = 13% (
), energy profile ‚very slow’ to ‚slow‘ , TT n/a, jackknives (), walking / cycling 15’ (). Standing more, but it does hurt, and pushing thru pain decreases power. - Triggers: Doc appts. May 29th: 9 days , Jun 7th ?d , Jun 10th , Jun 26th - went well , but all too much, not recovered. 1 bite pretty big now ().
- Last focal seizure: Jun 29th (2) (+9d ).
- Sleep: Screen curfew fairly early, then only a bit later (), late bed cos of: '‘. QCS at 10:00 . Airing: 7h .
- Fresh air: Getting used to opening the window in almost every room I’m in, or going on the balcony. For that it’s best to do the guinea pigs early on hot days. Aired a lot today.
- Environment: Didn’t watch out enough now weather’s got colder again, but I counter-acted by overheating after freezing a bit.
- Thoughts: -
- Feelings: -
- Cheer: Appreciating the many little things… and unravelling mysteries I’m curious about, the camera will help me… like if it’s really the squirrel ‘scratching’ in the cornel cherry all morning most mornings. Robin near, young blackbird less shy. Lakes nice, if short: 3-4 song thrushes! Heron near! further details below. Guinea pig interplay getting more and more sophisticated. And gained 80-90g today!
- Self-care Standing more for feeding and typing hurts, but better than it used to be. Drinking more in between, see if sleep is still OK. Guinea pig feeding is 3x 1 - 1.5h. Nighmare-ish dream.
- Various Simplfications for wi-fi, guinea pig and pic collages here.
- Foggy: Forgot to get the washing out of the rain altho standing next to it with an umbrella.
Pic(k)s of the Day
= expanding happiness
and making things spectacular:
Total pic numbers I have to identify and choose from have gone down to 120 pics today, yesterday only 47, not 200 like when the sun was shining. So I can try to catch up better.
Couldn’t manage to get the table on this platform work for pics, but adobe express is good for the time being (edit Thursday whilst writing down: after uploading pics here, I’ve now found a grid function, but I’m not sure how good for my purposes).
Annual honesty is actually biannual and this year was its prime, with nice blossoms, and now at last the seed capsules that give it the German name ‘silver leaf’ - non-native, but quite good for bees, considering. I was thinking if it’s better to cut off the leaves the slugs had decimated, but for these seeds every bit of green helps, I also think if I leave the rests they can just finish them off anyway:
This was/is all on the balcony…
My beloved cornflowers increasing to 6 blossoms whilst hiding in an ugly part of the balcony, need to remove that bucket:
The ‘gold lacquer’ (wallflower) on the balcony has nice fresh seeds now, hope it can make more of itself next year, like those on the ground:
Hmm, yellow woodsorrel this is identified as, and last year none of the oxalis went yellow, so the name is fitting, even tho the first 2 pics of leaves turned yellow couldn’t be identified, I thought those leaves are now wilted, now I’m not sure:*
Hmm, why is this cricket called/identified as Southern (oak) bush-cricket? Cos it’s a new one emigrating from the Mediterranean - using cars on motorways! But has my laptop identified right, or is it just the normal (oak) bush cricket? Its wings would be short stumps, so it can’t fly (but it can ride cars, how useful…). It is slowly taking over from the normal bush cricket. And it protects chestnuts by feeding on the larvae of the horse-chestnut leaf miner (moth). We do have quite a few chestnuts around. The name “oak” is misleading, many trees will do:
And back down in the garden:
We planted blueberries in our garden 2 years ago, last year there was nothing, but this is the first blueberry (bilberry, huckleberry):
And above the blueberries the honeysuckle is budding, last year I overlooked its leaves being infested, this time I put coffee dregs and guinea pig poo on it to strengthen it and watched out to take off all leaves in time:
On our short cycle-walk, my wife pointed out this sea of white bush roses at our street corner:
and at our nearest sea, OK pond, the crisped/curled thistles have grown beautifully, I hope I get some in the garden too:
One of the problem of these invasive and very proliferous slugs is that they look so pretty (I read that too, it’s not just me), like this one with its black antennae offsetting the brown, a bit darker on this one. Despite all the rain there aren’t as many around as a month or two ago, and most plants have survived them. Most important thing I’ve read is not to bring them anywhere else alive: either kill 'em or leave 'em be in our own space, I’ve decided for the latter:
LDN: 3mg/3.5mg since Feb was no help, so: Jun 20th- 1.5mg: Brilliant sleep, subjectively lighter body, easier movements, but can't use the felt energy, radius same. click for effects/dosage (not under 4 Supps)
Walnuts, all apple sorts, larger portions of baked beans, I think that’s all LDN.
Forgetting Dec 23rd caused big energy dip immediately, so there’s no drug level, it works day to day. (It’s constantly and reliably improved mainly energy (from 10%), heaviness, walking (from 5’), fine motor skills, stiffness (from 70% down to 10%), recovery time, Ache, pains, sleep , possibly from Dec on drinking only 2L/d which is helping sleep, and possibly reducing histamine and/or tannin from walnuts , but not my paleness (yellow/white face, black eye rims and white lips) or listening ability/sense . Last side effect was wobbliness, listening problems and Ache on day (1 and) 2 of 2mg (Dec 12th), before that ‚hangover’ on Oct 20th .) .)
Dosage: (Slowly up from Oct 1st ~0.07mg). Oct 1st ~0.07mg evenings, 8th 14:20 0.125mg, 9th-15th 10:00 0.125mg. 16th -19th 10:00 0.25mg. 20th-31st 0.5mg, 1st- 2x0.5mg, 10th (2+1)x0.5. 16th (1+1), 17th 2x0.5, 19th 1x1.5, Dec 11th 1x2, Dec 27th 1x2.25mg, Jan 10th 1x2.5mg, 16th 1x3mg. Feb 5th 1x1.5mg, Feb 8th-Mar 5th 1.5+0.75=2.25mg - ‚better than 3mg‘. Mar 6th-7th 2.625mg, Mar 8th 2mg I think (2.75mg intended), Mar 9th 3mg, Mar 10th 2.75mg, Mar 21st-May 19th 3mg. May 20th-Jun 18th 3.5mg. Jun 19th 3mg. Jun 20th- 1.5mg.
Additives: white capsules with TiO2 (HPMC with SiO2).
1) MAIN ISSUES: talking 10' (e.g. neighbour) ➔ 80%/4 (❌), music 5-20', depending (slow and emotional OK) ➔ 80%/3-4 (no nausea, strain less) (❌), white lips 70-80% (❌), TT n/a (moving 15%, talking 15%, counting 20%) (✅), moving ➔ 80%/4-5 - the lakes were hardly worth it, hurting from the cold, and we started out too late, at 19:40 (❌), balance (✅), body fog (❌), jackknives (✅), SO post exertional malaise (❌), 'post postural ache‘, 'PPA‘ (✅) standing more for feeding and typing hurts (30' ➔ 80%/4-5), but better than it used to be (✅), stiffness (✅), exhaustibility theoretically ’70%‘ ✅ / actually 87% ❌ and sleep h ✅ (Airing: 8h? ✅. QCS: : ✅, 'PPA‘: 2 ✅). Energy profile: since decreasing LDN from 'very slow‘ to 'very slow'/'slow', with ‚8h rest‘, 4h very slow, 4h slow, 0h medium, 0h quick. Click for past months...
EXHAUSTIBILITY: Theoretically stably better from circadian rhythm, then LDN since Oct 1st - but moderate triggers bring it down to 10% for days to weeks.
SLEEP (click for tonight's details): 8h34, all except 15' deep ✅, QCS at :00 QCS = very quick very cold shower (22 issues under control).
Sleep 23:00-7:55 3+3+5+7+3=21’, of that 15’ deep doze. Sum: 1h+7h55-(x5’=)21’ = 8h55-21’ = 8h34
23:00-
23:48 1st
0:35 2nd, bite playing up, bit of unrest, try again.
2:52 very sore throat, so calendula and umckaloabo.
4:29 3rd GABA, sleeping quite well, throat a bit better, but another treatment.
6:30 7’ 4th so a blackbird was singing, a new one I think, but didn’t tape (by mistake). A common motif was di-djü-diii, not totally new. Longer phrases.
Great Tits with an octave jump call, a bit like the alarm call, but not alarmed.
Didn’t scare or disturb me much while sleeping, but nightmare-type I was lying on my back on top of an enormous 100m high pillar, not able to move, a kid was blackmailing me to play a game which was bad for them, and I was saying no, but to do so I had to keep lying on my back up there. No idea what it’s referring to, what I feel blackmailed my, praps my wife has an idea.
7:41 Don’t forget Cardio results, pulse down to 40 and palpitations
-7:55 Deep dozed another 15’ minutes, but better get up now.
2) Watching TRIGGERS, esp. of exhaustibility. 1 bite has got pretty big, 10cm wide, 0.5cm high, quite a lump, altho the red inflammation is only 1cm diameter (❌). Strain: (May 29th) doc appt. (9d) ❌, (Jun 7th) Bad 20-25' sleep lab psychiatrist appt, from Jun 8th on ❌. (Jun 10th) Too long 55' public health officer appt., immediately: ❌❌❌. Dentist's local anaesthesia on Feb 15th flared till Apr 28th ❌, next I'll need 3 tiny fillings, definitely without anaesthetic. Histamine foods: 20g goat/cow cheese (✅). Jun 29th- 1 of 5 bites playing up (❌). Click for list Nov 7th 2022 to Feb 20th...."
(Nov) 7th 2022 caused MCAS / histamine problems like the first 2 till around July. Esp. ENERGY DOWN further to (10-)15-20% (max.), but more slow energy. Each jab -5%.
Made me stop cryotherapy/acupressure and acupuncture from Dec on!
2023:
(Jan) TCM recommendations for a few weeks took my appetite.
(Feb) ~3% of levothyroxine (T4) pill Feb 24th till Mar 23rd: more energy, but lost appetite and weight and sleep, antihistamine back up to 10mg to curb T4-insomnia & histaminey symptoms (stopped cos causing nauseous sinus headaches & painfully dry mouth).
(Mar) inkling of Covid, negative, but cough, appetite, night sweats…
(Apr) cancer checking ending with weird onco,
(May) 20th… 17 stress triggers, till end of May: 8-12%, seizures May-June every 10d.
(June) 21st: circadian rhythm Better to 18(-24)% a few days, but mostly back down to ~10%:
(July) 19th-24th: 3 garden bird deaths
(Aug) July 31st-7th uro exam and methylene blue trial. 9th… severe vertigo, check in clinic no result, so trying blood meds again. Hindsight: Painful uro exam on 7th, stiff neck from bird deaths, twist-stretching too much.
(Résumé) These triggers are “monthly” and kept bringing energy down from 20% to 10%.
(Sept) Histamine/MCAS symptoms (headaches 0%, tongue burning 10-20%, down. Further painful bladder exam injured (‘screaming’ 3d) & scarred me, caused UTI (2x3d). CoV-type infection (12th 10 days) (hantavirus??), work stress, abdomen pains, 24th-: listening to music painful, guinea pig, wife, CVD meds bad.
(Oct) (V)LDN helping a “lot”, Complex filling OK, CVD meds bad, BP low and slow OK.
(Nov) Atorvastatin difficult.
(Dec) Guinea pigs, atorvastatin, boss, often post postural Ache, DAO: baked beans tough, better with less sauce and more DAO, but walnuts OK without now. 28th: car trip to kids and and only 2x20’ bad for several days. NYE stress.
2024:
(Jan): (1st) DAO: 0x: 100g baked beans with reduced tomato sauce for 2nd meal caused tongue to burn a bit for half an hour, 3x: 150g for 3rd meal caused no burnt tongue or histamine reaction at all, despite the addition : Makes a difference! (2nd) Clearly severely woozy brain from talking during TT. (3rd) Are the seizures on Monday, pee and TT issues praps all caused by histamine from the baked beans, despite DAO preventing direct reactions, and that’s decreasing serotonin? 6th: Phone alarm music causing hurt from listening? (8th) Onco appt. better in evening, worse at night and next morning, OK by 10th. (11th) Contrast orally plus injected (doc thinks the excipients) caused a week of overall Ache, but energy and stiffness OK-ish, then (15th) fairly severe vertigo with walking problems and then 3h of vomiting, diarrhea the following day, but firm before and after, nausea and pain continuing till 18th, 7 days, then suddenly OK. Praps the oral one for gut, rather than the intravenous one (seemed not too bad in August), or praps cos too frequent/soon after the last. (25th) professional tooth cleaning.
(Feb) (3rd) stomach praps from apples & naltrexone, insomnia praps from naltrexone 3mg, pain praps from ezetimibe 3mg. Strain and sadness from guinea pig eating losing appetite and weight again, 7th better. (8th) LDN down to 2.25mg improved 4 issues, so increasing to 2.5, then 3mg was too much (cos next to GABA?). (15th) Dentist (cap-preparation) went well, but flare 17th-… from local anaesthetic (16th) temp cap fell of, (20th) got it put back on. (29th) Cap on.
(Apr 28th) Recovering from the anaesthetic after 10.5 weeks. Unsuccessfully re- trialling DAO (Apr 20th-) for vanilla and raspberry in yogurt (April 16th-24th) and marmite (e.g. 25th): only worked for sinuses, NOT for pee / dryness, sleep and possibly seizures (2 on Apr 22nd).
(May 29th) Good 20-25’ allergist appt., fairly recovered Jun 7th (9d) ,
(Jun 7th) Bad 20-25’ sleep lab psychiatrist appt, first , from Jun 8th on .
(Jun 10th) Too long 55’ public health officer appt., immediately: .
(3) DOCS: 7:41 Don't forget cardio results, and if possible add/mention that pulse had been down to 40 with palpitations. Trying for higher disability from Apr 25th on, cardio (Jun 26th) has helped immediately, let's see when allergist comes and when I'll be able to manage a GP appt. Click for latest (Jun 22nd) details.)
DISABILITY: (May 29th) Allergist helpful (Jun 7th) sleep lab psychiatrist not helpful, trying follow-up per mail. Jun 10th appt. with public health officer for retirement too long, so postponing GP & dentist. (Jun 26th) Cardio went well, short, short report adding: fatigue syndrome for more than a year.
GP (Apr 25th): Just update (cancer and bp OK), and asking about possible help with sick notes and disability.
GP (Apr 25th): Just update (cancer and bp OK), and asking about possible help with sick notes and disability.
CARDIO (Apr 26th): Heart OK, (Feb 2nd) Belly plaque still “25” OK, next with bloods. (Dec 11th) Rosuvastatin?
DERM (Mar 19th): wart (but tea trea oil helped) on genetic enlargement under toenail.
ONCO: #2 (Jan 8th/11th/18th 2024): nothing in bloods or contrast CT, believes it’ll be nothing docs can find, the week of reactions likely from some excipient(s). That finishes the cancer exclusion Odyssey since April 2023.
URO (Nov 8th) IPP/PD shockwave therapy? (Bladder exam July 31st and bloods Aug 7th followed the vertigo/BP attack on the 9th - so maybe contributing, altho Aug 8th I could play TT 5:1.
(CVD, incl. med effects: Jun 22nd: Palpitations down, HR back to 65. Jun 7th: Watching palpitations (regularly lately) / HR 40 (new discovery Jun 7th). Click for latest (Jun 7th) & next changes, and details...)
(Jun 7th) Watching palpitations / HR 40 = bradycardia.
Mar 21st: Horse stance 70’’ ➔ 164/107-90 ➔ 139/94-69 ➔ 136/87-70, each inside of 1’. Confirms stopping candesartan.
Mar 17th BP getting too low, so stopped candesartan.
Thought Mar 17th: If BP spikes were from MCAS flare after bladder exam (in the summer), why is it now not spiking after local anaesthetic flare (in the winter)?
Atorvastatin Dec 16th- 0mg and ezetimibe Feb 4th- 0mg - trying 1mg again once LDN is sorted. BP , despite only ~1mg.
CANDESARTAN (BLOOD PRESSURE): Even alone starting Oct 24th was dreadful, but spreading over the day in ~0.5mg specks from 31st on worked, up to 4mg (5) since Nov 6th, but checking RR 24th/25th too low, so down to 2mg from Dec 10th. Dec 17th: BP at night sitting down (SBP ~100), so 2mg is a good compromise . (Jan 28th) been taking <1mg lately. Mar 17th: 0 since a few days now, cos BP low now.
ATORVASTATIN (LIPIDS): Nov 13th 1mg/d, + caused severe fatigue/Ache, stopped 24th, re-started 27th with specks of the middle without the mantle excipients good, but 28th 1+1 and then 2mg too late caused insomnia, so earlier in the day, increasing quickly from 29th to Dec 2nd: 10mg+, un-mantled, with first only slight problems, but increasing week of 4th, so Dec 10th-13th 0mg, 14th 5mg later likely caused pain 20:00-23:00… Summary without coating: Dec 2nd-9th: 10mg+, 10th-13th 0mg, 14th-15th 5mg, 16th- 0mg). Further trials.
EZETIMIBE (LIPIDS): Feb 3rd: muscle pain praps from 3mg, so 4th- 0mg.
4) UNDER CONTROL ✅ (attention necessary (✅)): Drinking more in between, see if sleep is still OK. Re-ordering silymarin Jun 24th: praps anti-infl., anti-ox., praps praps detox (cf. Iberogast) & lipids). Jun ~10th creatine down to 1x2mg (see tub). Creatine monohydrate Apr 9th-Jun 9th 2x5g gave slightly more (slow) energy, but less than LDN - malate form next? Last seizure Last seizure Jun 29th (2) (+9d ✅). Last esophagus block May 7th ✅: 7 months without ✅. Carnitine Apr 14th-, EGCg Apr 13th-. LDN: see separately (Jun 21st). Click for latest (Jun 22nd) & next changes...
Reduced vit. C to 3x400mg, like Masterjohn recommends. Nux vomica D12 helping for nausea from music/talk, sleep and bladder not much. Also for sleep: Cocculus and acidum nitricum later. Supp costs ~400€.)
1) GI, pee, local pains (incl. jaw & bladder), weather, dry mouth and drinking well under control: So no details at the moment.
(2) Seizures and esp. esophagus blocks fairly under control - click for details.
Last focal SEIZURES: 11 / 5 / 12 / 18 / 8 / 5 / 6 / 14 / 10 / 11 / 8 / 6 / 9 / 15 / 9 (Jun 29th 2024). Stress, histamine & less GABA. JUN 29th (+9d) 20th (+15d) (23:19 rabbit hole) Jun
20th (+15d) (23:19 rabbit hole) Jun 5th (2x, +9d) (9:54 rabbit hole, 17:52 TT, < GABA). MAY (4x): 27th (+6d) 21st (+8d, after TT, < GABA) & 13th (+11d: < sleep) 2nd (+10d: TT), APR (3x): 22nd (2x: after TT), 8th (4x: errands, eating, TT, kids on 7th) 2nd (TT) MAR (3x): 28th (TT) 20th (TT) 2nd. FEB (3x): 19th, 14th, 3rd. JAN24 (1x): 1st (3x) DEC23 (2-3x): ~22nd (2x, slight) 2nd & 3rd (15’ of concert & GABA; TT & GABA) NOV (3x): 20th (food fell off spoon) 13th (wind noise) 5th (slight, after TT & GABA) OCT (2x): 27th (ex-flat mate, but 2x seizure-ish 26th), 18th/19th (3x, busy street, emotional music). SEP (1x): 19th? AUG (2x): 9th, vertigo day: (2x, 13:42 & 15:40). 1st: 4-5x seizure-ish. JULY (2x): 25th seizure-ish 3-4x. 17th (2x, thunderstorm). 9th TT. July 7th seizure-ish 4x. JUN (3x): 23rd (4): 11:30 12:15 14:00 15:06, 2 before, 2 after antihistamine, confused night, sleep meds too late etc. & 16th 20:05, 6th 2x. MAY (3x): 25th 2x, histamine & GABA, 14th. 13th (stress? GABA). APR (2x): Apr 16th 15th (GABA late, cold type symptoms = histamine), MAR (1x): 31st 19:00 (GABA, meeting), FEB 0x. JAN (3x): 15th pee urge 14th ?GABA 5th (scolded). DEC22 11th. NOV22 21st 2x.
Last esophagus BLOCKS: Jun 25th & May 7th 2024. Oct 21st 2023. Sep 30th, (25th,) 16th, 11th. Aug 31st, 26th & 8th, July 23rd & 16th, May 31st, Apr 4th. Deleted further details on/from Dec 30th 2023, cos last block worth counting on Oct 21st. Mindfulness, care, stop eating if slightest pressure, 0224-06-22: better acid / gut.
SELF-TREATMENT & SUPPS optimal, stable, but necessary, re-ordering silymarin Jun 24th. Carnitine Apr 14th-, Apr 13th EGCg, Apr 9th- creatine 2x5g (Mar 19th- 2g in the morning). Jan 16th: Less magnolia bark and pine bark cos of possible vertigo side effect. No ellagic acid (not convinced of use) or feverfew (serotonin and dizziness as possible side effect). LDN see separately. Jan 10th: ~29 supps + LDN (was 40) costs ~400€/m (was 350€/m) +20€/m cps. Last changes see before Aug 22nd 2023.)
SELF-PHYSIO: Always OK, see before Aug 22nd what I now always do when needed. Jaw-joint end of Sept. Nov: salivating technique(s) for dry mouth:
Supps: Re-order silymarin Jun 24th: praps anti-infl., anti-ox., praps praps detox (cf. Iberogast) & lipids), see research Jun 22nd. Carnitine Apr 14th-, EGCg Apr 13th-. LDN see separately. Mar 19th- creatine monohydrate 2g, then 5g before morning meal, next praps as malate. Jan 18th: Reduced vit. C to 3x400mg like Masterjohn suggests. Jan 10th 2024: 29 supps + LDN cost ?400€/m (was 395€/m) +20€/m cps. 16th: no feverfew (reduces serotonin, possible dizziness), less magnolia bark and pine bark (cos of possible dizziness/vertigo). 10th: no ellagic acid (not convinced of use). Dec 22nd/23rd: stopping ginkgo caused hearing, tinnitus & balance problems for 15h. Dec 19th/20th: DAO working for walnuts, but only 10% (on 13th) for baked beans, retried, but hardly useful. No/hardly B2 lately. Nattokinase Nov 4th- : 1x0.1g, from 15th 2x0.1g. Oct 16th: Silymarin 2x.5g now (till when?), LDN see separately. Deleted details Dec 30th: Stopped eleuthero, cos of BP. NADH. Theanine 2x0.1g since about Sept. Last changes see before Aug 22nd. For details on the lists, with dosing batches by times and tubs see before Aug 22nd:
No ‘research’ today
Quality of life: 90%
Lessons in self-care:
- Cos everything got late from the late cycle-walk to the lakes I made sure I did the guinea pigs as soon as we got back home.
- Guinea pig feeding is 3x 1 - 1.5h. My wife says I should only do 0.5h, but if he’s still hungry, I can’t stop.
- Often annoyed when I want to go to the bathroom before bed and my wife’s in there, but that’s my fault, I need to just brush my teeth etc. beforehand.
- 6:30 It didn’t scare or disturb me while sleeping, but nightmare-type I dreamt I was lying on my back on top of an enormous 100m high pillar, not able to move, a kid was blackmailing me to play a game which was bad for them, and I was saying no, but to do so I had to keep lying on my back up there. No idea what it’s referring to, what I feel blackmailed by, praps my wife has an idea.
Reasons to be cheerful:
a)-d) Plant, bird & animal life:
a) Plants: (Newest blossoms) -
b) Birds:
It’s got very quiet now!
(Every day cheer, song/calls/seen: Woodpigeons - the littl’un squeak-begging, still haven’t seen yet Blackbirds subsong, only short bursts of full song, first time I hear at 11:36 2x5 notes, the juveniles are tolerating my presence and looking at them better, sometimes flutter by, not quite as nervously Robins shorter bursts, or subsinging, visited me several times Sparrows () Blackcap more nearby than here . Swifts much less cos of rain (), Magpies Jacks , bathing 6x/d ), Crow , Great Tits (nesting box) & BlueTits , Collared dove .
Latest / earliest robin song: …22:40/ <4:00…
(Regular cheer, song/calls/seen - Chaffinch sometimes and nearby , Chiffchaff sometimes and nearby , Wren song and family , Dunnocks 0, Nuthatches 0, Great Woodpeckers left mid-June, back today at/after 18:10, song thrushes 0)
- Blackcap at TT, to make up for my mate not being there.
- Call a bit like a great woodpecker, taped but inaudible, but later I confirmed it was one.
- Nearer lake: Song thrush, moorhen still on nest, but moving a lot, so praps with chicks under her, mother duck with 4+ ducklings around. May have seemed bad that everything was cut down, but now some parts look better, cos lots of smaller bushes have developed. Blackbird singing 20:05. Saw male + female chaffinch, sang later, like chiffchaff. Great woodpecker visible. Ducks different: from the hybrids cos of white bits, but also moving slower. Nice thistle. 3-4 song thrushes on the way to the farther lake! Goslings almost full size, but still squeaking around like babies. New small ducklings here too. A heron flew up when we came close to where the goslings usually are.
- 6:30 A blackbird was singing, a new one I think, but didn’t tape (by mistake). A common motif was di-djü-diii, not totally new. Longer phrases than usual at the moment.
- 6:30 Great Tit with an octave jump call, a bit like the alarm call, but not alarmed.
c) Animals: (guinea pig antics . Redbrown squirrel eating the sunflower seeds via the Boston ivy )
Bats Bank vole(s) . Insects: bees, flies, spiders, butterflies & bugs . Snails & slugs .
- Interplay between guinea pig and me is getting more and more sophisticated. I’m learning to give him slack in between, and we’re learning how he can best get my attention for the next tidbit when I’m distracted like with laptop: if I’m sitting on the floor in my room, he has to climb on my leg; if I’m feeding into the cage, he has to come out of a hut and if that’s not enough squeak a little bit.
- When I prepared and slowly closed him in instead of running away he rumbled, as if he were happy I was going to take him slowly!
- Gained 80-90g!
e) Human life: (TT n/a Skip-Bo Wife Art: my paintings Music listening () Nice talks ())
f) Environment: (outdoors/fresh air .) No need for more rain, buckets are always full, thank ye ;o).
g) Body: (“Theoretical” energy 30% ().)
Foggies: (Body (). Brain ().)
Big foggy: My wife had put washing out next to me and asked me to keep my eyes on it in case it rains, but I was too engrossed and put an umbrella over me, but completely forgot the clothes.
Simplified:
My new place outdoors for better wi-fi, the rubbish bins (cleaned tops), is OK for watching birds bathing too, cos I’m more hidden from view by wall, post and the small beech I’m letting grow there (with the side effect of it hiding the rubbish bins). For rain I can put an umbrella (if not enough, a sunshade) over me, cos it’s next to a wall that it can rest on. Main problems are that I have to stand: good for my back, but not for Ache. And the neighbours sit fairly close. But both is better than having to go indoors for better wi-fi. For standing I need to switch as soon as I don’t use the wi-fi.
I’m also standing more whilst feeding the guinea pig in the cage for 1st and 2nd meal, but for short laptop times once I’ve finished eating myself I can alternate with kneeling on a cushion with straight back.
Adobe express for collages for the photos does consume even more time, but it’s slicker and better to compare photos when birds & insects are flying.
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