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

SlimLizzy said:
11.11.2020
8.20am FBG 6.3

12.11.2020
8.05am FBG 6.2

After one day back into fives, am back in the sixes again. It is possible that DP has something to do with these results as both days had been up over half an hour before testing.
We are supposed to get the car back from its MOT today and plan to travel to Norfolk, most likely tomorrow. MrSlim has video calls booked for work mid morning, so we can't go until after those are done.
Am hoping Cat ( who has now been named Errant - the French word for stray pronounced Erraunt, and is begining to respond to voice calls) will not find the journey too difficult. We will be taking the car, so he will have to be in his hated transporter. I have got the Feliway pheromone spray, which should help. Once again he will be in an entirely strange environment. Forced to adapt. The only constant being us and his blanket. Sometimes i wonder if we have actually been kind in adopting him.
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If he is now a knight errant - just inform him that he is on the quest par excellence and poems will soon be written in his honor.
 
ianpspurs said:
Girls seem to approve of starting Advent per St Martin .
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Tours is a grand city and I have visited the basilica built in neo-Byzantine style, St Martins Tomb is housed inside. I have to say the basilica is a very depressing place in my opinion, not a fitting resting place for such a prominent saint, so unlike the rest of the city.

Enjoy those grandchildren they are indeed a blessing and precious.
 
Good morning everyone from a bit of alate start here in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of Cyrus Todiwala’s spiced Brussels sprouts with bacon and mushrooms came in at 4.8 this am.

A goodly and socially distanced turnout at our local cenotaph yesterday. We usually walk but this year I had to be chauffeured there and back as my right shoes are all complaining about being stretched around a still swollen foot.

A good zoom call last night to one of my sisters and nieces who lives in Arkansas. One of my nieces was dressed in her dads old US Navy uniform for Veterans day. Still quite dire in their neck of the woods and lots of folk being laid off work with not much of a safety net.

Figured out yesterday that faces, even just a hint of a face, is quite a challenge for me, oh well, I better practice or it will remain a bridge too far. Hope everyone has recovered from the spectacle that was International Bin Day. We had the added bonus of the jetwash team but had to watch from indoors due to extensive aerosol spray. Koffy time.


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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a bit of alate start here in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of Cyrus Todiwala’s spiced Brussels sprouts with bacon and mushrooms came in at 4.8 this am.

A goodly and socially distanced turnout at our local cenotaph yesterday. We usually walk but this year I had to be chauffeured there and back as my right shoes are all complaining about being stretched around a still swollen foot.

A good zoom call last night to one of my sisters and nieces who lives in Arkansas. One of my nieces was dressed in her dads old US Navy uniform for Veterans day. Still quite dire in their neck of the woods and lots of folk being laid off work with not much of a safety net.

Figured out yesterday that faces, even just a hint of a face, is quite a challenge for me, oh well, I better practice or it will remain a bridge too far. Hope everyone has recovered from the spectacle that was International Bin Day. We had the added bonus of the jetwash team but had to watch from indoors due to extensive aerosol spray. Koffy time.


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Mixed bag of emotional experiences from you today but you remain your faithful upbeat self, winner.

Like the grandeur of the landscape. Face not bad, looks like they re having a bad day though, a little grumpy. :)
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Could be. I find if I test before 6am I get lower numbers than at 7am. I have given up worrying about this as even if I take the earlier reading BG is still going to be higher at later time, just not seen. Can only do our best.
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Usual routine is test, then eat. Otherwise DP causes a rise. Normally BG falls after breakfast.
 
SilverK said:
Any one here got any experience of amitriptyline? Took it for the first time last night. Only a very low dose. It think it’s s’posed to take a little while to have any effect coz I can’t say it’s helping much yet. Sooooo tired today though. Is that normal? Sugars are up as the dietician is having me “experiment” with a very different insulin regime. I shouldn’t think that would be making me this tired, would it??
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Don't want to frighten you. But..
Was prescribed amitriptyline as part of a cocktail of drugs for severe clinical depression some years ago, found myself so sleepy I had to give up driving. Stopped the other drugs gradually over a period of time, without too much trouble, but it took a very long time to get off the amitriptyline, without reccurance of symptoms.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.2 this morning. Having new lock fitted to front door as Mr K lost a front door kay. We think it is in the house but can't take the risk. I bet it will turn up now.
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You hid it didn't ya? You have daughters as well dontcha?. The poor man is a saint.:angelic:
 
Alien Aspie said:
I thought that my combinations and volume of food were too high yesterday and expected it to show this morning. It does, but not in the way I expected.

5.3 FBG and 4.5 ketones, the latter being totally unexpected. I did do my 2-mile walk so maybe that contributed. Time for that was virtually back to normal :)

Enjoy the day
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Great news about the walk times
The ALIEN is BACK :D
 
SlimLizzy said:
11.11.2020
8.20am FBG 6.3

12.11.2020
8.05am FBG 6.2

After one day back into fives, am back in the sixes again. It is possible that DP has something to do with these results as both days had been up over half an hour before testing.
We are supposed to get the car back from its MOT today and plan to travel to Norfolk, most likely tomorrow. MrSlim has video calls booked for work mid morning, so we can't go until after those are done.
Am hoping Cat ( who has now been named Errant - the French word for stray pronounced Erraunt, and is begining to respond to voice calls) will not find the journey too difficult. We will be taking the car, so he will have to be in his hated transporter. I have got the Feliway pheromone spray, which should help. Once again he will be in an entirely strange environment. Forced to adapt. The only constant being us and his blanket. Sometimes i wonder if we have actually been kind in adopting him.
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I'd have to argue, that THEY adopt US.

And from the love & care you give, he has a much better life with then without you.

Erraunt....nice,

going to get anglicised to Errol at some point ?..

Hope trip goes well for all :)
 
Fbg 6.4


Muddy Cyclist said:
It's good when creativity is enjoyed and uplifts, a successful tool for meditation and wellbeing, resulting in what looks to be a well fed and contented cat. :)
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist. He was contentedly asleep.


Muddy Cyclist said:
Another long day, I need peace so Thursday is mine, hopefully.

I have started another watercolour this is Womere pool high on the heathland of Cannock Chase a mysterious place with cotton grass growing earlier in the year, this is the place in Autumn. Will finish Thursday....

A4 watercolour...
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An intriguing start @Muddy Cyclist


geefull said:
good evening all :)

@gennepher - I like your Popeye silhouette very much it has such descriptive simplicity, and your narration of the process reminds me how zen the company of cats can be..... sometimes ;)
art bit - this painting is my version inspired by a work from an artist called Miriam Smith whose colour work I like :)

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Thank you for the compliment @geefull

I love your painting. The addition of flowers gave it a different quality of colourful beauty. I do love all your paintings...


dunelm said:
@gennepher - cool cat - reminds me of Craven A and Black Cat cigarettes.

Spent some time yesterday with some of the many brushes that I received from my mother - unfortunately they are all labeled in Chinese so unsure what bristles are made of and have to go by feel - some are very soft, some quite hard.
Anyhow, a few sketches on lining paper.

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Thanks for the cat compliment @dunelm

Hope you worked out the Chinese 1990's, but I have mostly forgotten now. Except that I like/prefer wolf hair (weasel) and goat hair, and a lot of my brushes are those. My absolute favourite are those with goat hair on the outside and wolf (weasel hair) hair in the centre of these. These work well for Western type painting as well. I still have some new ones of these from when my favourite Chinese art supplies shop closed down late 1990's in Liverpool. They were also my neighbours in Liverpool, and they gave me a good deal for the Chinese brushes they had left!!! They will last me a lifetime!!!

I like your paintings on lining paper.
My favourite issue bamboo, the third one.

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a bit of alate start here in the dark and dangerous north.

Figured out yesterday that faces, even just a hint of a face, is quite a challenge for me, oh well, I better practice or it will remain a bridge too far. Hope everyone has recovered from the spectacle that was International Bin Day. We had the added bonus of the jetwash team but had to watch from indoors due to extensive aerosol spray. Koffy time.


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I absolutely love the second one you have done this morning, with the green colouring...
You have done really well with that face, when you said yesterday it it was a possible bridge too far.


Me, well I have been up ages, awake since 2:30am, but I stayed in bed meditating. Cat approves of me meditating, and chills out so much (he is under my chin) that I have this floppy soft fur blanket under my chin...
Got up. Sun came out. It is only in front garden this time of year, it doesn't reach the ground in the back garden, only the top of the potting shed. So I went out with a coffee, and did some chopping down in the sun, and watched the misty magical sun through the ancient old oak tree...

No I haven't done today's painting yet. I wonder what it will be...
 
jjraak said:
I'd have to argue, that THEY adopt US.

And from the love & care you give, he has a much better life with then without you.

Erraunt....nice,

going to get anglicised to Errol at some point ?..

Hope trip goes well for all :)
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Will no be anglicising his name, as he has started to respond to it. Also he responds to Assez, which is Enough, when he is pestering for a share of our dinner.
 
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SlimLizzy said:
11.11.2020
8.20am FBG 6.3

12.11.2020
8.05am FBG 6.2

After one day back into fives, am back in the sixes again. It is possible that DP has something to do with these results as both days had been up over half an hour before testing.
We are supposed to get the car back from its MOT today and plan to travel to Norfolk, most likely tomorrow. MrSlim has video calls booked for work mid morning, so we can't go until after those are done.
Am hoping Cat ( who has now been named Errant - the French word for stray pronounced Erraunt, and is begining to respond to voice calls) will not find the journey too difficult. We will be taking the car, so he will have to be in his hated transporter. I have got the Feliway pheromone spray, which should help. Once again he will be in an entirely strange environment. Forced to adapt. The only constant being us and his blanket. Sometimes i wonder if we have actually been kind in adopting him.
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Yes you have been kind in adopting him @SlimLizzy
He has a good life and is being cared for beautifully. He adopted you by coming into your house initially.
I used to hitch hike with the original Popeye (the Popeye I had in the late 60's, 70's and early 80's, he lived to 14) and his mum (a black cat), in a wicker cat basket (I still have that basket, it has memories, but the basket is a little fragile now, 50 years later). They both adapted to my hitch hiking and staying in strange places. They knew the moment I was ready to move on the road again. Mum would be in the basket first, the original Popeye would leave it to the last possible moment, before he returned to the wicker cat basket....phew...
 
Life becomes stranger by the minute. I can't stand musicals and for 65.5 years I have happily avoided watching The Wizard of Oz. Today my granddaughter is happily watching it sitting on my lap. There is no way back to Kansas for me now :arghh::arghh: unless master Mahomes makes a magical throw.
 
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SlimLizzy said:
Sometimes i wonder if we have actually been kind in adopting him.
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No question he is so lucky you have once he's settled & has a little continuity he'll have a life in clover...cats are adaptable he's a lucky boy to have found you.
 
Morning (oops afternoon) ...another mad busy week ranging from plumbing problems to work & getting stuck in the lift at our local hospital...so many posts to catch up on this thread moves at a vast pace...gathering all my paperwork together hoping I can muster up the enthusiasm to finish it today...woke to a 6.3...more later...keep safe everyone.
 
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