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

johnpol said:
Morning all from a sunny and peaceful North East (unless you can ignore the Motocross bikes and off road vehicles in the farmers fields, don't ask) well my general unwellness is now getting a bit tiresome, numbers are now on an official rollercoaster and Doomy is loving it! 7 yesterday morning 27 before I tried to go to bed! 4.1 this morning and god knows what it will be later on! Ah the vagaries' of Type 1 eh, who'd want it, no really, someone take it just for a bit, then when it settles down I'll have it back. Anyhoo I've stopped watching the news, or as I call it "The internet rumour mill given voice on the TV" had enough of the inane questions like "Do you regret bringing the Nightingale Hospitals online and not using them" and don't get me started on the "relaxing of the Lockdown" questions, sorry I got carried away, I'm waiting on the delivery of a Bench to go with my weights delivery then I can get lost into training again. training is my escape from all this madness. And on to some good news for me, my greatest friend and Coach Alan Turner, is finally winning his fight with Covid 19 he's been in an induced coma, ventilated, for 4 weeks and has been brought around and then taken to a ward. Considering it's been touch and go, and he's had Kidney failure, to receive the news yesterday that he's facetimed his family and actually spoken to them, well I don't mind saying I was a bit emotional.
anyway enough of my ramblings as its International Hump day (Wednesday I think) have a good one and more importantly take care and stay safe. here's a picture of the Twits Sid and Trix to warm your hearts

Stay Safe everyone.
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great news about your friend johnpol hugs for the rollercoaster bgs ,love the pics of sid and trix :happy:
 
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and all who attempt cartwheels today, now there's a challenge.

A 6.8 this morning.

Well folks how is your day going? Enjoyable me and me's hope. Mrs J is speaking at me, but as usual I have no idea about what is being said and care even less, brave or stupid, let's err on the side of stupid. I shall try and attach a picture of where my day started earlier this morning.FB_IMG_1588751979252.jpg
 
johnpol said:
Stay Safe everyone
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john have I no idea what to say about your numbers apart from what a battle you are having with your diabetes...I'm woefully ignorant of type 1 diabetes hopefully someone else can offer useful support who some knowledge of what you're going through...fantastic to hear your friend is finally on the road to recovery four weeks on a ventilator unimaginable how that was for him & his family & friends...loving the Trixie & Sid photos proper bulldogs as I tell 'Plumpy' who doesn't have the typical bulldog appearance...just had a quick visit from him at the connecting gate the usual milky bones & dental chew tossed over for him...be good to have the gate open soon & let him in.
 
JohnEGreen said:
This is one of her first efforts. She is a bit iffy about it I think it's quite good.
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Another great contribution to our resident artists work John...I love the colours & the subject the colours remind me of a parrot a friend of mine had (not sure which bird it is) it was a brute with our fingers.
 
JohnEGreen said:
5.4 this morning inspired by all the art work on here Judith decided to have a go got herself an art set and trying to teach herself to draw.

This is one of her first efforts. She is a bit iffy about it I think it's quite good.

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Nice, so colourful, look forward to more.
 
FBG 5.9..a win in anyone's book.
well under the bar, for this T2..:D

Just peaked over the cliff top to Six Rivers Falls..EMPTY :wideyed:.

So, nice to see they are self isolating too

Temp was a sunny to dry day of 36.2

a busy little day today.

neighbours had a leak.
thinks it comes from us...(it does, sort of )
they keep getting it fixed..(they haven't, bodgers not bulders )

been ongoing over many years.

So can't say i'm too surprised that during a worldwide pandemic and government dictated lock down,

hunting down this leak was now become a national emergency,
over riding govt laid down guidelines for essential works only,
to protect LIFE and the NHS..

Seems only fair we trade a life or two for a leak that has been ongoing for 2 years.:rolleyes:
just saying.

I quite enjoyed the fact that all the above.. allowed both parties, to respond to each other in a most frank, open and honest way and let us both invoke that almost forgotten beautifully poetic language..Anglo Saxon .

So i learned , ....i may be illegitimate, :woot:

But he now been informed he was a horses back side, and chats cow pats
so that evened itself out, nicely.

We all calmed down... and then the plumbers arrived to LOOK for the leak.

Now i'm not really up on the terminology, but i guessed the LEAK was were the water was coming IN.
so that could easily be found.

what they wanted to to do was search for the source of the leak,,
which to them was within several hundred sq feet to a mile or two, apparently
or so it seemed to me...

they had no idea of where they thought it was coming from ..just wanted to look.:rolleyes:

which every builder who has ever attended the flat below, has been most welcome to do
...until meeting such new & interesting strangers became a little more perilous
as 40k dead and one dodgy govt's months long advice will attest

so in the interest of telling those whose job it it IS to know stuff like this and TO help them DO that job
(please assume i used heavy Anglo Saxon when describing these actions.. cos i did )

i worked to the idea MOST are stupid, so spoke S-l-o-w-l-y.
(honestly once we got past the horses back end, we were all fine, this is just artistic licence)

i suggested a simple dyed water test of the roof, to see if they could track where it came in..aka the source.

and wunderba :rolleyes:, the laymen teaches the pro's...:D

job is outside, they have now gone away..my guess on previous form & timelines, until some time next year
to work our how best to fix it,

The Day is saved.

Our impregnable fortress of Covid defiance is INTACT.
Outpost 65 London Division. West, has NOT, i repeat NOT fallen.

Long live the fightback.
Long live the HERD

We won't go quietly into the night.
We SHALL return, Stronger, fitter
& More aware of all the Lies
 
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good afternoon all :)

was 4.8 this morning

weekly shopping again today, masked, sanitised and stressed ;)
It's a weird feeling, you do 'kind of' want to go out, but you want to go out the way it used to be :sorry:

mr gee barely slept last night so he went for a nap once the shopping was wiped and sorted before we dropped mum's share off. I went looking online for a pattern to make those pleated style masks. The ones I made are shaped but have a seam down the nose which is causing mr gee some problems with the way his glasses sit ;)

We had our walk round the village when we got back and now I'm heading for the kitchen to cook meatballs topped with cheese for dinner and later I need to think about ordering some more paper to paint on :)

@JohnEGreen that's a striking entry to the art gallery from Judith :)

@gennepher a lovely and colourful pastel drawing again, I particularly like the frost on the grass :)

@Muddy Cyclist what a great evocation of light through the tree canopy :wideyed:

art catch up for today -
windy seascape (well I did warn you there would be seascapes :hilarious: ) painted with the White Nights.
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geefull said:
good afternoon all :)

I went looking online for a pattern to make those pleated style masks. The ones I made are shaped but have a seam down the nose which is causing mr gee some problems with the way his glasses sit ;)
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I keep saying to myself that I must make some masks. I have lots of "heals" cotton somewhere and I also wondered if waterproof material for hiking jackets would do - I was working on the theory that it will be a semi permeable membrane - lets you breathe out but stops moisture coming in. I have some central seam masks that I bought weeks ago - hubby pulls his face if I wear one but the Tesco click and collect man was very pleased to receive the one I gave him. It was still in the wrapper I might add. Anyway I find the main problem with my masks is that when I wear them my glasses steam up. I was going to make some pleated ones and then found my niece was already making some, people have asked to buy them - hardly seems worth it for me to get my sewing machine out if she will make me some. Mind you I understand there was a fight for the lion king ones.

Particularly like your latest picture @geefull. I can just imagine the waves washing up against the beach.



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geefull said:
good afternoon all :)

was 4.8 this morning

weekly shopping again today, masked, sanitised and stressed ;)
It's a weird feeling, you do 'kind of' want to go out, but you want to go out the way it used to be :sorry:

mr gee barely slept last night so he went for a nap once the shopping was wiped and sorted before we dropped mum's share off. I went looking online for a pattern to make those pleated style masks. The ones I made are shaped but have a seam down the nose which is causing mr gee some problems with the way his glasses sit ;)

We had our walk round the village when we got back and now I'm heading for the kitchen to cook meatballs topped with cheese for dinner and later I need to think about ordering some more paper to paint on :)

@JohnEGreen that's a striking entry to the art gallery from Judith :)

@gennepher a lovely and colourful pastel drawing again, I particularly like the frost on the grass :)

@Muddy Cyclist what a great evocation of light through the tree canopy :wideyed:

art catch up for today -
windy seascape (well I did warn you there would be seascapes :hilarious: ) painted with the White Nights.
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I understand wanting to go out, but equally not wanting to go out....

Thank you for the painting compliment @geefull
:)

I would love to be at that sea now, swimming in it. I love choppy seas...
 
Ryhia said:
I keep saying to myself that I must make some masks. I have lots of "heals" cotton somewhere and I also wondered if waterproof material for hiking jackets would do - I was working on the theory that it will be a semi permeable membrane - lets you breathe out but stops moisture coming in. I have some central seam masks that I bought weeks ago - hubby pulls his face if I wear one but the Tesco click and collect man was very pleased to receive the one I gave him. It was still in the wrapper I might add. Anyway I find the main problem with my masks is that when I wear them my glasses steam up. I was going to make some pleated ones and then found my niece was already making some, people have asked to buy them so she is charging a £1 at time, hardly seems worth it for me to get my sewing machine out. Mind you I understand there was a fight for the lion king ones.

Particularly like your latest picture @geefull. I can just imagine the waves washing up against the beach.

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That looks a brilliant selection @Ryhia
 
06-05-2020
Its dry today, but might not last, have been out using my new bag of compost for parsley, basil and thyme. All of which had outgrown their tiny pots. There are tomatoes which need larger pots too and cucumber plants. Peppers and Chilli peppers, was planning another pot of 18 day radish, the last lot were really good. There is not going to be enough compost to go round. Dont really fancy trying to fetch more. Unless I investigate the back way. Its a longer route, but quieter roads. Or they will be quieter once lockdown ends. Need a bag of compost for two, or three large tomato plants. Seems better to do a lot of smaller plants. There are already three tomato plants in the largest pots.

8.30pm where did the day go? Just had lovely long chat with MrSlim, really hungry so i ate the two chicken thighs that were to be dinner, while on the phone, Dont want to cook now - Had a huge chunk of cheese. Not really a meal. In the end did oven chips. Shock!! horror!! and two fried eggs. BG before the chips was 5.3. We shall see what we shall see, As my mother used to say.
Any one like to take on the task of reminding me to check at one hour and two . My phone timer is awful. Nearly always stops before time is up.

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One hour 5.4 am amazed, bet you are too . Do you need a photo ?
two hours,and a fewmins BG 5.0... might need to test again.finding it difficult to believe
 
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Three police cars with blue lights flashing and sirens wailing passed by my house earlier doing around about a hundred and twenty miles per hour good job the lights where on green, I think perhaps some one had been spotted walking in the park or fly tipping up the road a ways.
 
I was stood at the front door at 8 O'Clock waiting to start clapping and cheering for the NHS thinking where is everybody when the wife gently reminded me it is Wednesday not Thursday I mean how was I to know I through the calendar in the bin weeks ago.
 
geefull said:
windy seascape (well I did warn you there would be seascapes :hilarious: ) painted with the White Nights.
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And a very good seascape too. Good piece of work.

Thank you for your compliment on my avenue of trees.

@SlimLizzy thanks for asking about MIL and everyone else who have asked. Spoke to home today but no further news other than a lot of staff are now off with symptoms.

I made such a mess of my painting today I really can't post it so nothing today, will have to do two to make up.
 
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