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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Morning All. 5.5 again cheers @trick60. I am out to lunch today and tomorrow. Today at friendly usual pub where chef makes me an omelette even though its not on the menu. Tomorrow’s meet at the Cosy Club where there is a good varied menu. Mr PM gone to Dublin to spend weekend with No 1 son. No 2 son coming to me this evening so will be making Lamb Keema and opening some wine.
Have a great Friday everyone. Stay well, stay safe.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Tonight's play list will be full of sad blues and Ballards about departing on this historic day, so not as raucous as I had first thought.
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Have a great day with your grandaughter and a good evening with family MC. I will be asleep at 11pm and avoiding news channels for the evening.
 
Morning all. 5.4 fbg (2/3 hrs later today). Pleased by sensible sleep, grateful bg not higher but too high for a sense of control. I am still a long way from making this WOE work well for me but I guess the little visitor and associated chemical cocktail won't have helped. @Muddy Cyclist have a great night blues or not; @PenguinMum enjoy the omelette, curry and son time; @trick60 cheese on toast, steely resolve and love of nearest and dearest will see you through. Lamentations 3.22–23
 
jjraak said:
tried SO many over the years..A working Lad at heart
Guess the heart wants what the heart wants..:D

Got spare boxes of Yorkshire, and M&S teas and ONE unsuspecting purchase of decaf tea...:***:
if any one wants...;).
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Yorkshire tea please - pop it on the next stage coach north.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
My grandad put me off tea for life when I was a lad of 10. He made it with boiled Steralised Milk ( I think that's what it was called) no water, loads of sugar, I still feel sick at the thought of it. So strictly a coffee drinker, but if it helps only quality made coffee non of this instant stuff.

So having found the fence behind my corner seat and a Holly Tree trunk I thought I best paint it, water colour, about A4 25 mins.


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I wonder if your grandad had been to India or maybe Africa and got used to Chai making. When I worked in East Aftrica, tea was made by adding leaves to milk, chucking in loads of sugar and then boiling the bejesus out of it.
Grand fence painting, can you come up and do ours?
 
dunelm said:
I wonder if your grandad had been to India or maybe Africa and got used to Chai making. When I worked in East Aftrica, tea was made by adding leaves to milk, chucking in loads of sugar and then boiling the bejesus out of it.
Grand fence painting, can you come up and do ours?
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That needs an informative and funny rating.
 
Good morning everyone from the wacky world of shifting winds in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of OMAD and presented with a big bowl of chicken wings in the pub, went along with the whole deal after a quick internal conversation with chimp, scoffed the lot and ran out a 4.7 this a.m.

It’s Mrs Miggins’ birthday on Monday and, coincidentally, her twin sisters also. It’s going to be Sunday lunch for 12 so we had to check out the menu in pub of choice yesterday, hence the pile of chicken wings. Can’t be too careful and those added sauces need to be kept in the kitchen and not on my plate. Mind you I detest BBQ sauce of all descriptions, preferring to make my own low carb, or even no carb, hot sauces. Always found that a good steak simply delights in getting a bit of home made sauce brushed on it while sun bathing on the griddle pan.

@Muddy Cyclist, yes, must get out on my bike, it’s been bolted onto a rear wheel thingy over the chilly period but may soon be moving to the outside.

Have a great day if you can on this, the last great opportunity to enjoy cheap EU imports. Koffy calls.

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Morning… very snotty this morning with sticky eyes feel like there is a stinker of a cold coming...definitely comfort food today putting a large pot of homemade chicken soup on the stove...wanted to stay in bed but have someone arriving at 9am hopefully to give me a quote for cutting the hedge...its a monster hedge running the length of the garden some of it must be eight foot...wait until the poor man sees it...it's got to the point where we cant deal with it...want it cut right back then I can trim it myself...must make some effort to tidy C & L's mess before the gardener arrives...woke to a 6.2 excuse me there is the tiniest 'squeak' behind me Lola is demanding attention must attend to her before I get the claw in the back.
 
Fbg 7.6 this morning

It was 7.9 in the night

And 13.9 when I got home from art group yesterday afternoon.

Why? I had been eating right to keep my blood glucose in the 7's

So I washed hands and took another and another reading...it wouldn't leave the 13's.

So opened a new pot of strips....still 13's...

But we had been talking about the China Coronavirus in my art group, and one of our number was coughing and sneezing badly. We do have cold this time of year...But the others in our group started drawing away from her a bit. And I am thinking, this didn't take long for fear to start.

I then found out the British people in Wuhan and a couple of Irish people who will be on the flight to the UK landing at Brize Norton. However they will then be transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital for their fortnight quarentine for the coronavirus. Arrowe Park is only 8 miles as the crow flies from here...

So was this high 13.9 blood sugar reading, yesterday, my fight or flight mechanism kicking in when I got back from art group?

I have been watching You Tube, last few days, on this particular guy Ben, who was in Wuhan. This will be his final broadcast from China as he is now on the evacuation plane to Brize Norton. I am glad he has made it to the plane.


Here is a painting of my cat Popeye that I did this morning for my daily painting challenge to myself. A4 size. Mixed media. Took about an hour.

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Take care
Hugs for all
Have fun...
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 7.6

It was 7.9 in the night

And 13.9 when I got home from art group yesterday afternoon.

Why? I had been eating right to keep my blood glucose in the 7's

So I washed hands and took another and another reading...it wouldn't leave the 13's.

So opened a new pot of strips....still 13's...

But we had been talking about the China Coronavirus in my art group, and one of our number was coughing and sneezing badly. We do have cold this time of year...But the others in our group started drawing away from her a bit. And I am thinking, this didn't take long for fear to start.

I then found out the British people in Wuhan and a couple of Irish people who will be on the flight to the UK landing at Brize Norton. However they will then be transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital for their fortnight quarentine for the coronavirus. Arrowe Park is only 8 miles as the crow flies from here...

So was this high 13.9 blood sugar reading, yesterday, my fight or flight mechanism kicking in when I got back from art group?

I have been watching You Tube, last few days, on this particular guy Ben, who was in Wuhan. This will be his final broadcast from China as he is now on the evacuation plane to Brize Norton. I am glad he has made it to the plane.


Here is a painting of my cat Popeye that I did this morning for my daily painting challenge to myself. A4 size. Mixed media. Took about an hour.

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Take care
Hugs for all
Have fun...
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Winner for daily painting and thinking of Ben amidst everything else. One tough, inspirational lady. Take care.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
My grandad put me off tea for life when I was a lad of 10. He made it with boiled Steralised Milk ( I think that's what it was called) no water, loads of sugar, I still feel sick at the thought of it. So strictly a coffee drinker, but if it helps only quality made coffee non of this instant stuff.

So having found the fence behind my corner seat and a Holly Tree trunk I thought I best paint it, water colour, about A4 25 mins.


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My mother always had sterilised milk when I was a child...
But we did live in Scotland for awhile in a remote cottage and it was my job to walk up the lane and get the milk in a milk can direct from the farm cows. The farmer let me have a drink of that warm milk. However when I got back to the cottage my mother boiled that milk to death...
When I was sent away to my Grandma's farm, in Nottinghamshire, then she always had proper milk with the cream on top.
I can get unpasteurised milk from a farm up the road from here! It is delicious and so is their cream which is amazing....

@Muddy Cyclist Your painting is amazing as well. I love those colours. They evoke a good emotion within me...
 
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