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

Muddy Cyclist said:
Late, missed Friday's post as we have been busy sorting stuff from MILs bungalow and there's are still bags in the camper van untouched, never ending.

On this morning's Mountain Bike Ride we passed along a track where Cannock Chase and the boundary of Shugbourgh Hall meet. Two gates caught my eye one just a gap the other old and broken. So just did two sketches from memory in soft graphite pencil then a very quick watercolour wash, both A5. I will probably do matching paintings at some stage....
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I like both of these very much @Muddy Cyclist

They both draw me in to go on a walk in my mind. I cannot do these walks anymore because of my arthritis and other problems. But I can enjoy these walks through your paintings and sketches. I sort of like the derelict gate one on the right better, it makes me think I can climb over the gate to explore what's on the other side.
 
25.07.2020
6.50am FBG 6.7 !
Disturbed night? Excitement? Late night,low carb snack?
MrSlim will be home today, not until evening though. Sadly the weather forecast for tonight is rain. It would have been perfect to sit outside and watch the sunset together.
Maybe I will light a fire instead, for ambience.
 
Good Morning and 6.3 for me today.

Rain promised. A day of delivering items to son and daughters, that won't take long then I think Mrs Mc and I need to take time out, relax, music, art and the important things in life.

Let time take you where it will today. Keep safe.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and. ....... insert species here.

A 6.1 on the meter of mystery and misbehaving this morning.

At the moment all is quiet here and I plan a relaxing start to a day of chaos and mayhem after being driven my Mrs J to collect 30 farm fresh eggs, up until today our eldest son was collecting them for us, but alas he has gone Devon, Cornwall way with his family for a well deserved holiday.

The end of my shielding is approaching fast, I don't think so, Mrs J and myself will still continue to be very cautious, but I will start having day trips out on my motorbike and drive my car.
Mrs J has been doing jigsaw puzzles during the lockdown, I think it keeps her sane, but being a mere insignificant male, who am I to judge on female sanity, a mystery, never to be solved. Before any of you take offence at the above sentence it is an observation from a male aspect.
Now I need a koffy, so I shall bid you all well and depart.

Remember try to bring a smile to a strangers face, whoops sorry I forgot everybody is wearing masks.
 
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geefull said:
good afternoon all :)

4.8 again today

a sunny day here with just a nice amount of breeze, managed to do some weeding, planted a couple of shrubs and had a walk so I count it a nice, quiet and productive day :)

the bruising on my forehead has settled down a bit too so at least I don't look like I've been in a fight :D

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@Muddy Cyclist - glad your ride went well, I find the combination of exercise and outdoors quite therapeutic myself :joyful: that's a very fine pencil sketch, I like your treatment of the different trees :)

@dunelm - I like your sunlit, serried bamboo very much :)

@gennepher - interesting to see how you achieve different stroke effects and the sparrows add a touch of happy insouciance ;) glad you won your auction :joyful:

art bit -
I must admit @gennepher whilst I find it interesting to try out different things, I don't think that level of foreground busyness is natural to my style. Hope this is more soothing ;)
Quite pleased with how it turned out.

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Excellent painting today, really liked this compsition.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Late, missed Friday's post as we have been busy sorting stuff from MILs bungalow and there's are still bags in the camper van untouched, never ending.

On this morning's Mountain Bike Ride we passed along a track where Cannock Chase and the boundary of Shugbourgh Hall meet. Two gates caught my eye one just a gap the other old and broken. So just did two sketches from memory in soft graphite pencil then a very quick watercolour wash, both A5. I will probably do matching paintings at some stage....
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Great pair of sketches and looking forward to seeing the paintings
 
gennepher said:
My daily painting in ZenBrush2 app

This was not meant to be my finished painting, I was simply practising bamboo leaves. And how to get the shape with my different fingers. Because my little finger will give a certain shape with an upward flick, but my first finger when I do the flick it is a downward flick. And so I was experimenting how the shape and flick looked with my different fingers.
(As an aside, I dictated the above to my iPad, it was exactly what I said. But then before my eyes the iPad software changed what I had said, and so then it went and changed the previous previous sentence...and so on. And what emerged was a piece of sexual innuendo. Nothing to do with what I wrote originally. It did not used to do this. It is only relatively recently after an update it's gone bananas. I won't say what I would like to do to the programmer...)

And so, I decided to leave the play with the leaves as it stood, and added some sparrows.

Now I need to lie down with my smelling salts...no, not because of the above, but I made a bid against others on eBay, and there is less than half hour left, and I am the winning bid so far. I had just bought something else from the same seller this morning, which is a straight purchase, and I emailed and asked if I won the bid, would he consider posting the two items in one postage. He sent me a message back saying yes, if I won the bid, and so that gives me nearly another £6 to play with if there is a last minute bidding war.

I have never bid against anyone else on eBay before. This is more tense than the auction rooms in real life. A real life auction bid is easier (as long as you realise the increments it is going up by) and over in a matter of a couple of minutes...(I did tend to prolong an auction a bit with being deaf, checking with the auctioneer I was bidding the amount I thought I was, well with being deaf I cannot hear exactly what is going on...)

Oh, here is my painting...

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I do like the layering on the bamboo it really flies - congratulations on your Ebay win
 
Well good morning to everyone from the little house in the prairie in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of Thai green curry with zero rice came in at 5.1 this am

Zoo yesterday with the ninky nonks; tigers were out stalking - so were the rhino’s (I didn’t know that they are also called hippopotamuses but there you go), other animals also played their parts. “Can we have ice cream grandad”.

Today we have been promised thunder storms - at the moment that looks like fake news but you never know with these things.
Tried using a background ‘wallpaper’ for this picture.

Have a great Saturday, hope everyone is as well as they can possibly be. Koffy time.

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