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ColinUK said:
@eggyg Sometimes I get the odd burst blood vessel in the eye. Maybe one every four or five years or so at most.

I’d suggest popping in to an optician and letting them take a look at it. They’ll very soon know if it’s anything that warrants speedy action or not but you do only have two eyes so it’s worth flagging things like this up with the experts if it’s unusual for you. And a pharmacist is not an expert.
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@eggyg my mother used to get burst blood vessels in her eye - they always looked awful. If you do go to optician to check out, mention the sneezing, that might be enough to do it.
 
ColinUK said:
Morning all. 6.8

Went to the gym yesterday. Kept things very light.

Afterwards I went to see light differently and saw the Sienna exhibition at the National Gallery. I’d been putting off going because the advert is annoying but it’s remarkable.
Many of the alter pieces reconstructed here have been broken up with their various panels in museums dotted all over the world. It’s the first time that they’ve been in the seen complete (or nearly so) in hundreds of years.
Reliquaries have been reunited with panels of gold painted glass for the first time since the late 15thC and the most remarkable monumental plaster slabs showing the base outline of murals on church walls are shown here for the first time anywhere.

I’m not usually one for religious art, or medieval art either tbh but this collection is remarkable in the breadth and the skills it highlights.

This is the official main attraction. It’s tiny. It’s stunning.
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Carved ivory. The detail is amazing.
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I particularly liked the St on the far left who just looks bewildered and a little angry.

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This alter piece has never been seen whole anywhere since being broken up in the 15thC until now.
Again we have an angry Saint (bottom left) but we also have the first recorded example of the classic rugby shirt!
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This is a rare example of silk and gold cloth from the early 13thC. There were laws restricting what cloth could be worn by whom and things like this were only worn by high clergy or royalty
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Slabs of plaster from church wall. The Annunciation.
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Of all the intricate, beautiful, complete objects here it was these that stopped me in my tracks.

It was these that I sat on the floor in front of for a while just losing myself in them, in their history, in their simplicity. It was these that I backtracked to at the end and contemplated again and it was these that I’d have happily taken home.
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Thank you for posting this, Colin. Stunning icons.
 
Almost followed up yesterday's HS with another one - 5.3 on this bright & sunny Berkshire morning.

It's Home-Alone-Wednesday, my favourite day of the week, and I have a list of things I can be getting on with. Sainsbury's and the Garden Centre Shop ticked off the list already and a shoe rack installed in our under stairs cupboard (well, on the back of the door, actually). My wife doesn't want shoes cluttering up the hall anymore. There's one final bit of painting to be done, mainly the hallway ceiling (I hate painting Artex, but needs must), though nothing that's going to take up much time, and afterwards I'll get the grass cut front and back. Coffee, newspaper and then lunch first though.

Hope everyone has a great day and gets a chance to enjoy this lovely Spring sunshine.
 
14:15 BS 8.6 & I stuck in a cautious reduction of -2 basal, can always reduce further tomorrow, 58 & my pills. Maybe ate too much wraps earlier, had 4 mini wraps, &/or too little NR as I was in the 11’s for most of the time while I slept only started coming down about 12:00.

Will have breakfast now as I’m rising already 15:45 BS 9.6.
 
silentsquirrel said:
@eggyg my mother used to get burst blood vessels in her eye - they always looked awful. If you do go to optician to check out, mention the sneezing, that might be enough to do it.
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I mentioned that to pharmacist and he did say that could to it. Surprisingly enough it looks absolutely fine now.
 
Just going to post this now, while it’s fresh in my mind & given how out of whack my body clock is & the mad rush tomorrow to get the bus up to the hospital for my review! 🙄

I’m really loving this 5th series of RATW so far! Ok, I got the second checkpoint wrong as Hainan Island is a much bigger island further south than the teeny tiny “Speck of Rock” of Hong Kong: I forgot that on the scale of the race map it REALLY would be a “Speck of Rock”! o_O:rofl:

This time the sisters headed into the centre of China to the legendary Gulin that’s famous for two things. 1 the karst mountains in countless paintings, a side note we hung framed bamboo ink drawings of these mountains in our family restaurant from 1975-2010 & I grew up seeing these paintings of the “Kwailin” mountains being the old Cantonese pinyin that’s written on the paintings (it’s the difference between Peking which was the old Cantonese pinyin originating from Hong Kong into the English language being a British territory & Beijing which is the official Mandarin pinyin: pronounced close enough to Peking in cantonese as a lot of Cantonese pinyin misspelled the B sounds with P’s; pronounced Beijing in Mandarin!), of these amazing looking mountains that seem to defy gravity as the soft limestone rocks were craved by moving water over millions of years! I’ll bet you anything it was the inspiration behind The Floating Mountains of Pandora in the film Avatar: the real mountains are not ACTUALLY floating but, the bottoms have been severely eroded with very top heavy looking shapes that seem to defy gravity; also, in the frequent mists & fogs of the area the lower levels can be covered up creating the illusion of mountains in mid air! And 2 the terraced rice paddy fields craved into the hillsides with each terrace just wide enough for one man guiding a hand drawn plough pulled by a single ox! It’s looks SPECTACULAR in aerial photography! 😱<3 It’s all man made with simple tools & no machinery! o_O

And the brothers went to work & stay with a Hakka family in Chuxi. It was a shame really that not much of the round fortress type houses were shown on screen since they arrived during the night. As many of you may know I’m from a Hakka background. These round walled houses are huge & house very large extended families. They’re very similar, in ideals, to the larger ancient square walled villages of the Hakka clans in The New Territories of Hong Kong, other places in China as well, where there is only one entrance & an outer moat! There’s a well known one in Kam Tin near Yuen Long in the New Territories of Hong Kong that’s just down the road from my family clan’s Hakka village Wang Toi Shan: both Tang clans villages but, different branches: there are loads & loads of Tangs; it’s probably the most populous of Chinese surnames rather like Smith or Jones! My mum used to refer to our branch as the poor farmers & the Kam Tin branch as rich merchants; it’s pronounced in Hakka as “Ging Ten” meaning “gold field”; our village means “ten thousand table mountain”! o_O:rofl: The walled village in Kam Tin is called the Kat Hing Wai & is over 500 years old!! 😱
 
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