Watercolour Painting

A thunderstorm in the night and I've got a paddling pool around my bungalow again. 

Busy here trying with this iPad mini again. I think I've downloaded all the apps again. Quite a lot cannot be downloaded but they don't exist anymore in the Apple store. That's a pain in the neck. Then there is the signing into everything again, but the security is more rigorous than before in many ways. And it is taking an inordinate amount of time sending all these codes and signing and codes to my phone and then responding to those, and one thing to sign in it made me do it three times before it would accept it was me, we'll just do it again giving me a new 4 number code to my phone, it said,  we'll just do it again...3rd attempt it decided I was me and let me in...

And and the bank still won't accept my legitimate password and my  legitimate code from my secret password... I have this correctly written down and I used this  before, to get online in the first place... It goes on to a bot telephoning me, but there is no provision for a deaf person. Except it did say, if you are deaf, then after 30 seconds type in this code number. I did that and I think it said you haven't typed in the code number, goodbye. A horrible voice not clear, and I was using a speech to text app on another device to try to cope. I tried twice, same thing happened each time, and the bot that phoned me cut me off again. I didn't try a third time in case my bank account got locked down.

The chat facility is within the app, and I cannot get into the app to use it...

Pre COVID and lockdowns I would ask someone where I attended most days either teaching, or learning, or someone on the cafe there, for obstinate phone calls. But that never started up again when lockdowns finished. So that was my support network which I assumed would be there pretty much forever,  gone. And because my friends ( they were all single, other half had died), went back to stay with their family whether their family was older than them or younger than them, left the area to go back to stay with them during Covid lockdowns and never came back, or died of old age....

One of these days I'll be locked out of everything, as maybe we all might be...be very afraid...

My current plan is to go to a country town a little distance from here and the bank is still there, and I can park outside directly outside, if I get there early enough, which I need. So I'll go there one day next week, but it needs to be a fine day where I can use my mobility scooter to go around the town afterwards... but if I didn't drive, and if I didn't have a car I would not be able to do this... I will be asking that bank if there is some kind of text contact text number or a method of communicating with them if a similar situation should arise again. I have a folder of individual ways of contacting specific people or specific organizations, but they all need to be set up one specific situations arise, I cannot prepare for these in advance, because I don't know what they are. 

Creative is a painting I did some years ago. I scrunched up some layout paper stuck it to a postcard and used watercolor paint on this. I remember I quite enjoyed doing this, and I had prepared a whole pile of A4 size paper in this way meaning to do some paintings in the same way. The background color was done on all of them because that was a feature of them being scrunched up and how it dried in the folds. But I never did them, I got waylaid by another idea, but the box of these prepared surfaces are in the garage waiting for me to open them and finish creating the paintings. It's usually during a period of stress where I paint  surfaces, or canvases, or paper with different techniques ready to paint on another day. There are about half a dozen, or maybe more plastic boxes in the garage that have all been prepared in different ways, for a later date, but the periods of stress never stops...

Blimey, I didn't means to write this much... The deluge outside is not stopping so I might put my wellies on and go and sit on the swing, in the paddling pool, for a bit...it's okay, the swing is covered....

Have a good day, do something different...