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My uncle fought in Vietnam, for the US Army.

I don't believe anyone was in WW2.

All of my great-grandfathers had kids when they fought WW1.

Any artists in your family?
My 3x great-granddad was an artist and a "Japanner", which is a skill I'd never heard of before.

I have a (now-deceased) third cousin who was a moderately successful modern artist and an art professor. His son, my third cousin once removed, still alive, is a somewhat less successful modern artist, and maybe more successful than his father as an art professor.

I, myself, have no visual art skills, whatsoever.

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Yes, there are many talented visual artists in my family. My daughter is very talented and attended art school from age 10 onward. My father and his sister were also very talented in a number of media.

Any criminals? I've found a rapist and quite a few men charged with larceny, from the 19th C.

Not that I know of.

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Not on my mother's side as even if they did they would of probably paid them off. My father's side is more likely due to autism from his father's side and poverty/immigration/orphans on his mother's. History doesn't interest me though so have no desire to find out.

Do you like to read? If so what are/was the book you are currently/last read?

I've read 18 books since New Year.

I'm currently reading Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales, a collection of macabre short stories first published in Charles Dickens' literary periodical, Household Words.

I mostly read 18-19 century fiction, literary history, and literary criticism.

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Gattefosse's Aromatherapy by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse and A Year of Forest School, by Jane Worroll and Peter Houghton. When I do fiction I like Nordic Noir but having a 12 and 2 year old is quite the time suck. Or a great use of my time, whichever. I'll have plenty of time for fiction here soon enough.

What event last left you awestruck with wonder, not horror?

I don't recall.

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There's a family across the road from me. A father, mother, 20 something daughter, and 7 year old boy. When the little boy was born his dad was diagnosed with MS and over time was confined to a wheelchair, and then a hospital bed in the front room of their home. For years he was in that front room. My hairdresser used to do housecalls for him just to trim his hair. The daughter moved away for college and I just found out that the dad passed away over a year ago. I didn't know because of Covid. It's just been the mother and her little boy. They just sold the house recently and they're moving away. I was outdoors putting out my bins, close to midnight, and I saw the mother and son sat outside their home in the darkness with a telescope looking at the moon in the freezing cold.

The little boy was saying "Goodnight Moon", to the house where his dad died. It was their last night there.

I nearly lost it. That mother is awe-inspiring, in my opinion.

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think, think, memory is worse on that? it's more the small things, ice on the trees, that's not a small thing
well, in the dung was a blue thread completely transformed by mice into tiny bits for a nest, quite well done & amazing

do you wear shoes indoors or not?

Outdoor shoes no. Slippers generally in the winter as I get cold feet. Not so much in the summer.

Are you colourblind?

No, but my parents insist that I am. I only have trouble mistaking very dark blue for black in poorly lit environments.

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My daughter and I see colours differently. Usually it's purple or green and I call it grey. Or maybe it's the other way around? I can't remember. Something with mauve, moss green, and grey.

I don't think I"m colourblind though.

My ex can't tell red and green apart.

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I am not colorblind.

Do you have problems with your hearing?

No, I have hyperacusis, misophonia, and tinnitus though.

I can hear a fly fart from a mile away.

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No I do not.

How often do you go outdoors when you are not busy?