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More fun with Microsoft Image Creator though admittedly some might just call it wasting time. Sometimes you have to play around with your instruction wording - refining it till the artificial intelligence gets closer to  a picture that you deem to be acceptable.

Here's Dave Northsider and JayCee from "Nobody's Diary", meeting up for the first time on The Sheep's Head Peninsula...

And here's hospice nurse John Gray taking a well earned break by the sea at Llandudno. He brought his faithful hound Dorothy in to work to cheer up the residents...
Below, it's a slightly spooky image of school librarian Steve Reed wondering where he has put his spectacles...
 

Dancing on a Florida beach, it's Mary Moon and Jennifer Barlow meeting up for the first time and clearly  having a ball. They may have been drinking wine. The instruction here was "acrylic"...

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BERT NEWS

Bert is back home. Well, he has been back for three weeks now and I have visited him three times bearing gifts, including ready meals, "London Pride" beer and dark chocolate digestive biscuits.

He cannot get upstairs so he has got a hospital bed in the front room and a commode too. He has an aluminium walking frame which he finds hard to use because he has painful hands owing to past surgery upon them. They both contain pins. This is part of the legacy of a lifetime of hard manual labour.

Each time I have been to see him his youngest son Philip (aged 53) has been there with Bert's estranged wife Pat (aged 82) who can talk for England but she is rather  sweet-natured and pretty intelligent too.

Bert has carers coming in every day to attend to basic physical needs and a physiotherapist has also come in to encourage mobility. Some of this extra care will have to be paid for and Bert has received official forms to fill in in that regard.

It's nice to see him at home. I think the hospital was driving him crazy. At least now he has some peace and he seems more like himself. Surely he will make it to his 87th birthday in late November. I hope so.


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Lord

 Lord, 

These notes are a weekly occurrence it seems. The fog comes and goes. Half the time I don’t know what day it is anymore. I have to be intentional about being in the here and now. Comparison really is my thief of joy these days. I question if I’m making you proud. Making you glad to call me Yours. I got a package the other day filled with cards, and one specifically got my attention. Let me say, it hit a nerve. It said something like the struggle builds strength. Well, four words have stuck in my crawl. It’s something I needed to hear, see and read. It’s been the season of struggle. The least I can hope for is strength. Strength for what I don’t know yet. I’m in a season of blissful ignorance. I don’t know how else to put it honestly. So as I strap weights on my ankles, Lord, lift the weight off my heart. It feels like I could make a book off my letters to you. 

Love yourself and one another



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