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

[jjraak]

@Muddy Cyclist I have found I get phases of higher or lower bg. The stress of previous days that caused the rise will reset itself but maybe not today. Dont know if that helps but enjoy your bike ride and try not to worry. Best wishes.

Think you are bang on the money, @PenguinMum
.. It must be a little skittish,. When it gets a jolt to the system, kind of like just after an earthquake I imagine, where it stays outside and takes precautions rather then risk not being prepared.

I too think it takes a little time to be confident it's not going to happen again so soon.

I'd say give it a day or two @Muddy Cyclist

 

[jjraak]

Just dropped in to say FBG 5.2 this morning. A meatier supper seems to work better for me. Regards everyone.

Cracking little score @Ryhia
Liking the thinking, found a meatier meal seems to work best for me, too

 

[HarryBeau]

Good luck at the clinic!

One of those Mondays PM...traffic was heavy but got there in relatively good time...nowhere to park...drove round three times absolutely no space available...they have reduced the number of parking spaces & doubled the fees...after thirty fruitless minutes rang the clinic & said I was giving up & going home...an appointment next week...frustrating I'm having coffee with a large splodge of double cream & will take out my frustration on the housework...lord knows it needs it!

 

[HarryBeau]

he stress of previous days that caused the rise will reset itself but maybe not today.

Interesting I woke on a 6.4...set off for clinic as you know that was a disaster...no breakfast but plenty of aggravation...got home to a 7.1

 

[gennepher]

One of those Mondays PM...traffic was heavy but got there in relatively good time...nowhere to park...drove round three times absolutely no space available...they have reduced the number of parking spaces & doubled the fees...after thirty fruitless minutes rang the clinic & said I was giving up & going home...an appointment next week...frustrating I'm having coffee with a large splodge of double cream & will take out my frustration on the housework...lord knows it needs it!

Hugs @HarryBeau
Hospital/clinic parking is worse than a nightmare.
I hope you get your parking space next week.

 

[HarryBeau]

Hugs @HarryBeau
Hospital/clinic parking is worse than a nightmare.
I hope you get your parking space next week.

Thanks gennepher its difficult managing my INR levels as it is...added frustrations like this don't help and it's not the first time it has happened!

 

[jjraak]

Ahh i feel that frustration..

Thanks gennepher its difficult managing my INR levels as it is...added frustrations like this don't help and it's not the first time it has happened!

a few times eaely on when i got bike, it was whizz off to the city to work*

and then find NO spaces, so in frustration ride back home and get the tube in.
...stopped taking it to lots of places.

( we really are so un-joined up with out thinking in Govt re all this.)

On a sensible note is it possible top scope out areas, slightly further away, as in schools i guess the spaces nearby are 'needed' so always busier. ..might find a block or two one way or another MIGHT offer better chances.

i usually find a supermarket, if nearby usually has spaces, always happy to go buy a pack of gum or something, to 'Pay' for the time

*Liverpool street for me, spaces FILLED by 6 am it seemed...one borough over..
( and just a few blocks away, PLENTY of parking)..
guess everyone wants to park outside the door and keep an eye on their bike.

 

[jjraak]

Fbg 7.6

My full diary for this coming week is now very depleted...friends have cancelled coffee mornings and meals...they don't want to come out especially as the quarantine quarters are at Arrowe Park for the first batch of Wuhan British evacuees, and they have been joined by another lot of Wuhan British evacuees for quarantine.

Arrowe Park is about 6 miles from where I live as the crow flies.

It seems as though I will be doing more painting and art stuff for the foreseeable future. And cat Popeye will be delighted I will be sitting with him every day!

However, I still have to go out every day. Because I was going to be out every day this week meeting friends, I arranged for my Amazon parcels to be delivered to a pick up point. And Amazon has 'kindly' split up the parcels so they will be arriving to the pick up point in dribs and drabs. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, I would just collect them on the way home. I did try once to redirect an Amazon parcel and the blinking thing got lost! So I think I will just do a bit of shopping each day I collect a parcel from the pick up point.

Here is my painting challenge for myself of a daily painting.

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LIKING That.

 

[jjraak]

up and at em early......who am i kidding.

a late morning, and it's a gorgeous looking day
and greeting by a nice 5.3..so begins another week here on McGarrett Plains...

Scooter won, picking up tonight..quite excited,..i love a new (to me) toy
hadn't mentioned to lauren, but when i did tell her, after the event, she was sad, as she knows i love the bike
(but obviously not enough anymore ) but quite pleased it's a scooter i replaced it with.

Even talking of going on the back as i become her two wheeled Uber ...so, happiness, tinged with a little sadness
( might still keep both, we'll see )

A piaggio BV 125cc, if anyone knows much about them?
called a Beverly over here, so it's even got a name, but that doesn't sound 'right' to me

Suzi, now retiring (Maybe)..So as it's Piaggio, it's got to be Peggy, right
Harriet is the Honda..obvs..

solid , dependable....lauren wanted henrietta...
highly strung AND Noisy.....NO Chance..(apologies to all henrietteas..)

 

[PenguinMum]

@HarryBeau sending hugs your way for the lack of parking, missed appointment and the rising bg. No wonder! I dont suppose there’s a bus. Its a real problem at hospitals everywhere. Take it out a little with housework if you must and then get down on the floor and play with the minxes.

 

[jjraak]

Sorry @gennepher

Had meant to ask how the cat flap was going..?

sorry to hear your friends have baled on you..though
it's perhaps not surprising people are naturally worried.

Reading in the news about Turkish soldiers being killed in Syria, so that might ramp up again
God only knows how this could play out in places like that where the infrastructure is shot to pieces.
a most fertile breeding ground, IF that happened.

And now the Chinese are pointing fingers at the US...
please god we find a way to contain and stop this.

best wishes for the day, amazon..mmh i use a lot.
MOST times it's fine, but i think you were best keeping to the original plan

spent a few weeks waiting for a watch that Hermes (i think ) SAID was delivered..But wasn't,
that took ages to come to me, as i missed a few deliveries for one reason or another,
Delivered, returned to warehouse no one in..(really ?) and finally returned to warehouse as BROKEN in transit..Phew
all due to the change in plan, so i was told..

 

[gennepher]

LIKING That.

Thank you very much @jjraak
It was a different direction in painting with acrylics. I laid down a series of thin washes, instead of using acrylic paint more thickly.

 

[SaskiaKC]

And ... we're back.
FBG 7.something at 10:45 this morning -- I knew what it was an hour ago but the site was down for maintenance at that time ...
Post Office sent me an e-mail showing me mail to expect today -- first item is the letter from the little-town apartment manager with, presumably, the list of all the paperwork I need to collect ... YAY!
So, with that coming later today, plus the very late lie-in, I have canceled my plans to go furniture-shopping today and will go out for a walk to the grocery store instead ... as soon as the KittenCat wakes up and clears my lap ...

 

[SaskiaKC]

Leviticus 19 is a sharp contrast with the confected culture wars of today but 1 Timothy 1 1-17 shows just how much God's grace can make the most savage Leopard change its spots.

Wow. I have just turned to Leviticus 19 and read it. Not for the first time, but for the first time in too long.
I have just been reading a series of novels by Mercedes Lackey, set in a fictional medieval-agricultural society, and one of the King's men and his trainee are making the round of outlying villages, each established on the lands of a local lord and governed by a headman. So while I was reading the chapter you posted I was picturing this lord being present while the statutes were read out to the villagers. I have thought about this before and it really brings it home.
I also thought about how James Oglethorpe, general and MP, laid out Savannah, Georgia, with squares that were provided partly for neighborhood assemblies to hear the news read.
Thank you, @ianpspurs.
Now off to read Paul's letter to Timothy ...

 

[PenguinMum]

Hi Saskia I am glad you are here. When the site went down for so long I was hoping you were ok. Dont worry about the furniture shop as they say tomorrow is another day. I didnt get my list of stuff all done today either. I have another problem tomo first thing as my tyre loss of pressure light has come on and last time it was a slow puncture though they were able to fix it at the tyre centre. My problem is I live so far from everywhere. Still not as bad a morning as @HarryBeau who I hope is now resting with a couple of fur babies. When could your move actually happen?

 

[SaskiaKC]

Beautiful spring daffodils from both you @Muddy Cyclist and @SaskiaKC

I live a bit high up, and mine don't come out yet in bud or flower...

I am going to cheat...when I go to collect my Amazon parcel today from the pick up point, I am going to sneak into the garden centre and buy a pot of blooming daffodils and take a photo in my garden and say spring is here in my garden...

... and so it shall be!

... or, by this time of day, I imagine, is ...

 

[SaskiaKC]

Was 4.4 this morning rather miraculous as had a full roast for lunch yesterday a once in a blue moon occurrence.

Just realised that my birthday this year falls on pancake day might be a slight problem there mind you it does mean that the day after marks the beginning of lent so I think I know what I'll be giving up for lent this year.

You could give up birthdays ...
just for Lent ...
just until next year ...

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Bike ride did wonders for my spirits, not so much for my BG at 6.2 but that's normal after Aerobic exercise for me, so maybe no worries.
Met some other Muddy Cyclists who persuaded me to do the 9 mile technical trail with them, good fun but all head down and crack on, I usually like to enjoy the views, pic below (not me I was taking pic) on the rocky start of Follow the Dog trail.


The owner of the bike shop on Cannock Chase is retiring this week and so today's painting is the card I did for him this afternoon, similar to one I painted for Mrs MC but with one of the red route trail markers, as he's a Mountain Biker. watercolour, A5 about 45 minutes...

 

[SaskiaKC]

Morning...on the 'run' up later than I'd planned anti-coagulant clinic this morning...just time for a coffee & a shower (just) … woke to a 6.4

I hope it went well.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Fbg 7.6

My full diary for this coming week is now very depleted...friends have cancelled coffee mornings and meals...they don't want to come out especially as the quarantine quarters are at Arrowe Park for the first batch of Wuhan British evacuees, and they have been joined by another lot of Wuhan British evacuees for quarantine.

Arrowe Park is about 6 miles from where I live as the crow flies.

It seems as though I will be doing more painting and art stuff for the foreseeable future. And cat Popeye will be delighted I will be sitting with him every day!

However, I still have to go out every day. Because I was going to be out every day this week meeting friends, I arranged for my Amazon parcels to be delivered to a pick up point. And Amazon has 'kindly' split up the parcels so they will be arriving to the pick up point in dribs and drabs. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, I would just collect them on the way home. I did try once to redirect an Amazon parcel and the blinking thing got lost! So I think I will just do a bit of shopping each day I collect a parcel from the pick up point.

Here is my painting challenge for myself of a daily painting.

View attachment 38322

I would love to go walking there among those trees.

I am sorry your friends have canceled, but, as you say, Popeye will be very pleased.
^. .^