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

alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who have received the lockup message.

Two readings this morning 4.2 followed by a 3.8 and no hypo symptoms, oh whoops. Now the calculations start, but firstly me and me's must get the blood sugars up.

Now below is the long email I received yesterday as to how I should proceed during lockup 2. Be grateful if you don't receive this communication. I'm just wondering why they don't shoot us?

MR Alfred JOSIAH
Tilehurst Towers
TILEHURST
READING
BERKSHIRE

Date: 04-11-2020

Your NHS number: +×÷=%_€£¥

Dear MR Alfred JOSIAH

The new national restrictions are rules that apply to everyone and which everyone must follow. The full details of these rules can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus.


Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people

This guidance is for everyone in England who has been identified as clinically extremely vulnerable. The full guidance can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus. This is additional guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people, to help you protect yourself from the virus by following these shielding measures.

This guidance applies to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals only. Others living in a household with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable are not advised to follow this guidance.

Socialising

The new National Restrictions from 5 November, which apply to everyone, mean that you must not leave or be outside of your home, except for limited purposes which are set out in that guidance.

We are advising clinically extremely vulnerable people to stay at home as much as possible, except to go outdoors for exercise or to attend essential health appointments. You may wish to meet up with one other person from outside your household or support bubble to exercise outdoors, for example in an outdoor public place, but we suggest that you always try to do so as safely as possible.

Try to keep all contact with others to a minimum and avoid busy areas. Whenever you go out continue to maintain strict social distancing, wash your hands regularly and avoid touching your face.

You should also try to stay 2 metres away from other people within your household, especially if they display symptoms of the virus or have been advised to self-isolate.

Work

You are strongly advised to work from home. If you cannot work from home, then you should not attend work for this period of restrictions. If you cannot attend work for this reason, you may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or Universal Credit. Other eligibility criteria will apply.

You will be able to use this letter as evidence for your employer to show that you should not work outside your home until 2 December, including for statutory sick pay purposes. You can also use this letter for the Department for Work and Pensions to show that you are advised to follow shielding guidance for ESA or Universal Credit purposes.

If you were on payroll before 30 October 2020 you may also be eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough), which is being extended until 2 December. Please speak to your employer if you think you are eligible.

Other people you live with who are not clinically extremely vulnerable themselves can still attend work if they cannot work from home, in line with the wider rules set out in the new National Restrictions from 5 November.

Education settings

More evidence has emerged that shows there is a very low risk of children becoming very unwell from COVID-19, even for children with existing health conditions. Most children originally identified as clinically extremely vulnerable no longer need to follow this advice. Speak to your GP or specialist clinician if you have not already done so, to understand whether your child should still be classed as clinically extremely vulnerable.

Those children whose doctors have confirmed they are still clinically extremely vulnerable are advised not to attend school whilst this advice is in place. Your school will make appropriate arrangements for you to be able to continue your education at home. Children who live with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable, but who are not clinically extremely vulnerable themselves, should still attend school.

Travel

You should avoid all non-essential travel by private or public transport, this includes not travelling to work, school or the shops. You should still travel to hospital and GP appointments unless told otherwise by your doctor. If you need help to travel to an appointment, you can speak to your health care professional to arrange transport support. They can arrange this with NHS Volunteer Responders.

Shopping

You are advised not to go to the shops. Use online shopping if you can, or ask others to collect and deliver shopping for you (friends, family, or a volunteer, including NHS Volunteer Responders). If you already have a priority delivery slot with a supermarket that will continue, you do not need to do anything frther.

If you cannot access food, your local council can offer support. This may include helping you to request a priority supermarket delivery slot (if you do not already have one) or help with shopping. See below for details on how to register for support.

Medicines

You are advised not to go to a pharmacy.

You are encouraged in the first instance to ask a friend, family member, carer or a volunteer (for example one of the NHS Volunteer Responders) to collect your medicines for you. If none of these are available, then you will be eligible for free medicines delivery. Please contact your pharmacy to inform them that you are clinically extremely vulnerable and need your medicines delivered, and they will arrange this free of charge.

Accessing care and support

It is important that you continue to receive the care and support you need to help you stay safe and well.

We urge you to continue to seek support from the NHS and other health providers for your existing health conditions and any new health concerns.

You can access a range of NHS services from home, including ordering repeat prescriptions or contacting your health professional through an online consultation. To find out more visit https://www.nhs.uk/health-at-home, or download the NHS App at
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/the-nhs-app/.

Please make sure your GP has your most up to date contact details, including your home address and, if possible, a personal email address, so that we know how to contact you.

If you have an urgent medical need, call NHS 111 or, for a medical emergency, dial 999.

If you need to have a test for COVID-19 then you are able to attend a test site. You may want to think about attending at a quieter time or asking for a home test to be sent to you, in order to reduce your contacts with other people. It is important that you have your test. More information about getting a COVID-19 test can be found at https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test.

If you do need to receive care in person, you can. Your local NHS services are well prepared and will put in measures to keep you safe.

It is also really important to look after your mental health. Go to the Every Mind Matters website for advice and practical steps that you can take to support your wellbeing and manage your mental health during this pandemic. If you or someone you care for are experiencing a mental health crisis, we urge you to make contact with a local health professional immediately.

Any carers or visitors who support you with your everyday needs or those of a child or young person in your care can continue to visit. They should follow social distancing guidance where close or personal contact is not required.

If you need any additional support to help you to follow this guidance, your local council may be able to help. You can contact your council and register for support at the Shielding Support website mentioned below.

You should also continue to access support from local charities and organisations, as well as NHS Volunteer Responders. As well as helping with shopping and medicines delivery, NHS Volunteer Responders can help with a regular, friendly phone call, and transport to and from medical appointments.

Call 0808 196 3646 between 8am and 8pm to arrange support or visit NHS Volunteer Responders website.

Registering for Support

You will be able to use a new online service to register yourself, or on behalf of someone else, to:

· request access to a priority supermarket delivery slot (if you have already got priority supermarket deliveries, you will keep them).

· tell your council if you need support in order to follow this guidance that you are unable to arrange yourself and cannot be provided by friends, family or other support networks

· make sure your details such as your address are up to date

This new online service can be found at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-shielding-support and is now live for you register for support. You’ll be asked for your NHS number, which you can find at the top of this letter. It is helpful if you register even if you do not have any support needs at this time so we know to focus on caring for others who need it. You can log in and update your needs if circumstances change at any time.

If you need to register your needs by phone, or have an urgent need, contact your local council directly.

Find out what help you might be able to get from your local council at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-local-help.
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It is all blinking impossible @alf_Josiah
 
Lockdown 2 finally seems to have convinced staff and most collectors to wear masks and have a little discipline at school pickup time. By lockdown 4 we may have this sorted - provided people stop reading The Telegraph.
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who have received the lockup message.

Two readings this morning 4.2 followed by a 3.8 and no hypo symptoms, oh whoops. Now the calculations start, but firstly me and me's must get the blood sugars up.

Now below is the long email I received yesterday as to how I should proceed during lockup 2. Be grateful if you don't receive this communication. I'm just wondering why they don't shoot us?

MR Alfred JOSIAH
Tilehurst Towers
TILEHURST
READING
BERKSHIRE

Date: 04-11-2020

Your NHS number: +×÷=%_€£¥

Dear MR Alfred JOSIAH

The new national restrictions are rules that apply to everyone and which everyone must follow. The full details of these rules can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus.


Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people

This guidance is for everyone in England who has been identified as clinically extremely vulnerable. The full guidance can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus. This is additional guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people, to help you protect yourself from the virus by following these shielding measures.

This guidance applies to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals only. Others living in a household with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable are not advised to follow this guidance.

Socialising

The new National Restrictions from 5 November, which apply to everyone, mean that you must not leave or be outside of your home, except for limited purposes which are set out in that guidance.

We are advising clinically extremely vulnerable people to stay at home as much as possible, except to go outdoors for exercise or to attend essential health appointments. You may wish to meet up with one other person from outside your household or support bubble to exercise outdoors, for example in an outdoor public place, but we suggest that you always try to do so as safely as possible.

Try to keep all contact with others to a minimum and avoid busy areas. Whenever you go out continue to maintain strict social distancing, wash your hands regularly and avoid touching your face.

You should also try to stay 2 metres away from other people within your household, especially if they display symptoms of the virus or have been advised to self-isolate.

Work

You are strongly advised to work from home. If you cannot work from home, then you should not attend work for this period of restrictions. If you cannot attend work for this reason, you may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or Universal Credit. Other eligibility criteria will apply.

You will be able to use this letter as evidence for your employer to show that you should not work outside your home until 2 December, including for statutory sick pay purposes. You can also use this letter for the Department for Work and Pensions to show that you are advised to follow shielding guidance for ESA or Universal Credit purposes.

If you were on payroll before 30 October 2020 you may also be eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough), which is being extended until 2 December. Please speak to your employer if you think you are eligible.

Other people you live with who are not clinically extremely vulnerable themselves can still attend work if they cannot work from home, in line with the wider rules set out in the new National Restrictions from 5 November.

Education settings

More evidence has emerged that shows there is a very low risk of children becoming very unwell from COVID-19, even for children with existing health conditions. Most children originally identified as clinically extremely vulnerable no longer need to follow this advice. Speak to your GP or specialist clinician if you have not already done so, to understand whether your child should still be classed as clinically extremely vulnerable.

Those children whose doctors have confirmed they are still clinically extremely vulnerable are advised not to attend school whilst this advice is in place. Your school will make appropriate arrangements for you to be able to continue your education at home. Children who live with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable, but who are not clinically extremely vulnerable themselves, should still attend school.

Travel

You should avoid all non-essential travel by private or public transport, this includes not travelling to work, school or the shops. You should still travel to hospital and GP appointments unless told otherwise by your doctor. If you need help to travel to an appointment, you can speak to your health care professional to arrange transport support. They can arrange this with NHS Volunteer Responders.

Shopping

You are advised not to go to the shops. Use online shopping if you can, or ask others to collect and deliver shopping for you (friends, family, or a volunteer, including NHS Volunteer Responders). If you already have a priority delivery slot with a supermarket that will continue, you do not need to do anything frther.

If you cannot access food, your local council can offer support. This may include helping you to request a priority supermarket delivery slot (if you do not already have one) or help with shopping. See below for details on how to register for support.

Medicines

You are advised not to go to a pharmacy.

You are encouraged in the first instance to ask a friend, family member, carer or a volunteer (for example one of the NHS Volunteer Responders) to collect your medicines for you. If none of these are available, then you will be eligible for free medicines delivery. Please contact your pharmacy to inform them that you are clinically extremely vulnerable and need your medicines delivered, and they will arrange this free of charge.

Accessing care and support

It is important that you continue to receive the care and support you need to help you stay safe and well.

We urge you to continue to seek support from the NHS and other health providers for your existing health conditions and any new health concerns.

You can access a range of NHS services from home, including ordering repeat prescriptions or contacting your health professional through an online consultation. To find out more visit https://www.nhs.uk/health-at-home, or download the NHS App at
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/the-nhs-app/.

Please make sure your GP has your most up to date contact details, including your home address and, if possible, a personal email address, so that we know how to contact you.

If you have an urgent medical need, call NHS 111 or, for a medical emergency, dial 999.

If you need to have a test for COVID-19 then you are able to attend a test site. You may want to think about attending at a quieter time or asking for a home test to be sent to you, in order to reduce your contacts with other people. It is important that you have your test. More information about getting a COVID-19 test can be found at https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test.

If you do need to receive care in person, you can. Your local NHS services are well prepared and will put in measures to keep you safe.

It is also really important to look after your mental health. Go to the Every Mind Matters website for advice and practical steps that you can take to support your wellbeing and manage your mental health during this pandemic. If you or someone you care for are experiencing a mental health crisis, we urge you to make contact with a local health professional immediately.

Any carers or visitors who support you with your everyday needs or those of a child or young person in your care can continue to visit. They should follow social distancing guidance where close or personal contact is not required.

If you need any additional support to help you to follow this guidance, your local council may be able to help. You can contact your council and register for support at the Shielding Support website mentioned below.

You should also continue to access support from local charities and organisations, as well as NHS Volunteer Responders. As well as helping with shopping and medicines delivery, NHS Volunteer Responders can help with a regular, friendly phone call, and transport to and from medical appointments.

Call 0808 196 3646 between 8am and 8pm to arrange support or visit NHS Volunteer Responders website.

Registering for Support

You will be able to use a new online service to register yourself, or on behalf of someone else, to:

· request access to a priority supermarket delivery slot (if you have already got priority supermarket deliveries, you will keep them).

· tell your council if you need support in order to follow this guidance that you are unable to arrange yourself and cannot be provided by friends, family or other support networks

· make sure your details such as your address are up to date

This new online service can be found at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-shielding-support and is now live for you register for support. You’ll be asked for your NHS number, which you can find at the top of this letter. It is helpful if you register even if you do not have any support needs at this time so we know to focus on caring for others who need it. You can log in and update your needs if circumstances change at any time.

If you need to register your needs by phone, or have an urgent need, contact your local council directly.

Find out what help you might be able to get from your local council at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-local-help.
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Yes got that yesterday too now taking up memory in my phone long winded way of saying nothing much.
 
good evening all :)

4.6 today

volunteering for a couple of hours today (whilst we are still allowed to ) and tomorrow we'll take mum to get her hair done and pick up her pension.

Going to be cold tonight I think, time to get the woodburner going :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@Muddy Cyclist - love the birthday card you painted for your son. especially the foreground dunes and foliage are striking. Many Happy returns to your son :)

@gennepher - that's lovely texture and light in today's painting :joyful: and I particularly like the glints of autumn colours against the dark :)

@JohnEGreen - another lovely photo from Melody :)

@dunelm - adding the colour has made a lovely autumn scene, the subtle blue really plays off and heightens the autumn leaves :) and your calligraphy is strong, it is a bit daunting to commit to that flow of line I find.

art bit -

more cloud practice from an internet photo :) around A5 size and done with the White Nights watercolour.

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Did two classes on Zoom this evening. They went really well and I really enjoyed thrm. No hitches.

I can't believe l did so much stressing out over them. I could see class members really clearly and was able to easily correct them. I can hardly believe it went so well - especially as I was so sure it would be a complete disaster.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on day one of the latest fad in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of chicken and avocado salad with sumac (no - not the chancellor) came in at 5.3 this am

I have had to change me food schedule to breakfast and evening meal in order to account for this weeks drug fuelled regime: antibiotics - 1 hour before food, Lansoprazole - 30 min before food, Naproxen - with food. So - two boiled eggs for breakfast with the first dose of Naproxen and dinner in the evening with the second dose. Only for a week so I can get back to my 16 hour fast after that.
Youngest granddaughter today - will be here shortly so best grab a koffy before the fun begins.
Painting today is one that I have done previously - I thought to add some autumnal colour to it and do a blue wash to the back of the landscape. The other one is the character for chrysanthemum using a fairly dry brush.

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A man for all seasons, on the art front, inventive. :)

The dreaded antibiotics food schedule, hugs.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.6 today

volunteering for a couple of hours today (whilst we are still allowed to ) and tomorrow we'll take mum to get her hair done and pick up her pension.

Going to be cold tonight I think, time to get the woodburner going :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@Muddy Cyclist - love the birthday card you painted for your son. especially the foreground dunes and foliage are striking. Many Happy returns to your son :)

@gennepher - that's lovely texture and light in today's painting :joyful: and I particularly like the glints of autumn colours against the dark :)

@JohnEGreen - another lovely photo from Melody :)

@dunelm - adding the colour has made a lovely autumn scene, the subtle blue really plays off and heightens the autumn leaves :) and your calligraphy is strong, it is a bit daunting to commit to that flow of line I find.

art bit -

more cloud practice from an internet photo :) around A5 size and done with the White Nights watercolour.

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A good storm cloud watercolour on a huge landscape, worked well.

Thanks for your appreciation of my sunset birthday card and sons birthday wishes.
 
A lot of work finding room in our shed for the capstan tobaco tins we bought back from MILs shed, shelves erected, shed rearranged, rubbish sorted.

Finished the heathland Autumn scene, may add some more grass in foreground once it's dry. A4 watercolour about 2 hours in total..
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Got up to loo and found I've nearly let fire go out so I have to sit here and look how Joe's doing while I get it going again.

He seems a calm guy Biden his time! :)

Sorry its too late for all that funny stuff.

Well I have resurrected the fire so now I am off back to bed. Hope we know by the end of tomorrow if Joe's won and Boris will then see sense in a result in his deal with the EU.
D.
 
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Good Morning and 5.9 for me today.

A Muddy Cycle ride once its light.

Yesterday the spring on my Grandfathers Wall Clock went Ping or rather Clang and as that well known song declares 'and it stopped,short, never to go again' :( well actually it will I found a clock repairer who works from home, he says deliver it and he will repair it and he's Covid Safe. Of course not sure if this is allowed under Gov Rules, another, do I, should I, can I, situation.

Time for me today has stopped ticking but still moves on silently, make the best of yours. Keep Safe.
 
When in the world did the Royal Mail postie deliver mail somewhere between 12 midnight (that's when I got up to make a cuppa when I woke up in the night and I passed the empty letterbox table underneath the letter box), and 4:30 am in the morning (that's when I got up this morning to make a coffee), and there was a A4 sized brown package (which has the signed for label on it) and a Postcrossing postcard from abroad, and a lifeboat charity letter (which I get regularly) sitting on my letter table under the letterbox.

I did a double take. It is dark outside, it is not daylight yet at 4:30 in the morning. My brain for a few moments could not compute. I checked the time 4:30. I checked the date, yes it is Friday 6th November. No, I am not dead, at least I don't think so, after all I can look in on my iPad and phone. The package is worth £120, and it has been sent signed for. The order was split for some reason and the first part of this order came on Tuesday this week, and I had an email and invoice saying the tracking number of Tuesday's delivery. But nothing for the rest of my order, the most expensive bit.

But I never got an another email with tracking for the expensive part of this order, £120, (and I was about to chase it up today). So, I am unable to check what time this package was signed for, by postie which is what happens in these coronavirus times.

So what the heck happened here????

Or did the postie actually come in the middle of the night to do his round, and to deliver yesterday's letters (I got no mail yesterday, Thursday), because he doesn't want to bump into people these coronavirus times???????

I am still waiting for daylight to break across the sky, it is pitch black outside....
 
@gennepher maybe it was dropped at a different house and the owner dropped it to you?

This morning is a 4.7 and back to a safer 2.2 on the ketones. Happy with that, maybe it was the small amount of porridge that helped or the lake I drank ;)

I do have to do a bit more garden clearing so it may go back up, we'll see. Meanwhile, the fiasco over the pond continues and even if Joe wins it looks like his powers will be throttled back. I find it unbelievable that this race has been so close. I mean, stupid is as stupid does so you can't blame the reps really as they are dumb as rocks. But Joe's campaigning was just pants, it should have been a tidal wave. Given that democracy as a whole seems to be under threat worldwide by the right maybe it's not about politics so much as the people encouraged to support it.

Do your best, enjoy the day ;)

edit and then I saw this...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ask-March-protestors-clash-police-London.html :banghead::banghead:
 
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Have a good Friday everyone.
May all your restricted lives go as well as they possibly can.

Poor Dishy Rishy is no longer flavour of the month ...there were rumours he was weightless and was supported by surface tension...but he is like us all, not always the flavour of the month.


Trump has broken a record apparently!

He has broken his own record of the most lies in one speech according to BBC News.
The guy is sick and lashing out like a dying animal....It is not a pretty site.
 
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