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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

There is a female blackbird that comes every morning, and then stays on the same branch pretty much all day. She has done this the last few weeks. Sometimes I can see her beak moving, so I assume she is calling...calling for her mate from last year? I don't know quite how that works in the blackbird world.

I feel sorry for her. She will let me come out and stand besides the branch, and she doesn't fly away. I assume she was one of the blackbirds in or born in my garden last year. They do get used to me. I hope what she wants comes soon...

Digital painting for today in Procreate.

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Love your painting today.

we have two collar doves that started living in our garden this year. They are ok with the dogs but are a bit wary of us still.
 
ianpspurs said:
Two pieces of good news there @Krystyna23040. Slight snow flurry just now - 10.00 am ish - on my latest circuit of Slabhatch. Almost identical timing when one of old dogs escaped on Superbowl night. One of the worst storms for years had me walking and driving around 3 villages with facebook spotters claiming to have seen him all over. Eventaully, after Supoerbowl ended and I went to bed, he woke Julie and came in all wet and bedraggled. Cue more and higher fences - hence the fence post rammer @Muddy Cyclist
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It is horrible when a dog escapes , especially in a storm. At least your dog had the good sense to make its way back home.

Luckily our Labradors are not fence jumpers. My sister's dog is a collie cross and they have to have high fences.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Good Morning all and a high 6.3 for me today.

Disturbed night as Oxford Covid Jab knocked Mrs MC for six. Pain, she could hardly move, high temp 39.8, clammy, shivering uncontrollably, cold and sickness, so up and down all night, still she says she is not feeling too bad this Morning so we hope the reaction to the vaccine is now over, fingers crossed. Of course she is now worrying about when she gets the second one,poor thing.

So a quiet day for us today, more music came yesterday so now we have 6 pieces to get through, today's the day.

Keep safe and make the best of your day you are able.
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I did read on this forum that a reaction to the vaccine is a sign it is working. Hopefully Mrs MC won't get such a severe reaction next time. I have noticed that friends are reporting more side effects with the Oxford vaccine than the Pfizer.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
@Muddy Cyclist , @gennepher , @dunelm Good news - the little dog was found half an hour ago. He is now safe and warm back home. It was so lovely that so many people went searching for him last night (some still searching at 12.30pm) and then early this morning. I must admit that I wasn't very hopeful that he would be found alive in this horrible weather.

Mr K is having his vaccine this morning. No snow yet.

5.6 this morning.
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I am so pleased the wee little dog was found @Krystyna23040
Good luck for Mr K this morning
Glad there is no snow.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Unfortunately the little dog hadn't been found yet. A very cold and wet Mr K is back home. There is a team of much younger searchers still searching the village so hopefully they will find Lenko this evening.
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Have they used other dogs scent trained to look. Sometimes they get stuck down rabbit holes but no doubt they have exhausted such avenues.
D.
 
gennepher said:
I am so pleased the wee little dog was found @Krystyna23040
Good luck for Mr K this morning
Glad there is no snow.
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Mr K had the Astra Zeneca vaccine this morning. It looks like we have moved to amber warning for snow later today - so was pleased that his appointment was early.

The little dogs owners spoke to us this morning on their way to resume the search. They looked absolutely awful - as though they hadn't slept at all. I know that Janet was convinced the little dog wouldn't survive the night out in the open in the pouring rain and freezing temperature as he is so small. He is definitely one tough little dog.
 
lindisfel said:
Have they used other dogs scent trained to look. Sometimes they get stuck down rabbit holes but no doubt they have exhausted such avenues.
D.
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Thankfully he was found this morning. It looked like he was on his way back home. The huge worry was that his lead was still attached to his collar and he could have got caught up and trapped somewhere in the surrounding farmland. A good idea to use trained sniffer dogs - I don't think they tried that.
 
Our friends here in the hamlet have had two bad nights after the Oxford jab.
Some have had bad affects after second Pfizer when given the second jab as directed.
Friend and his wife at Lincoln has had first Pfizer with minimal effect and so my first dose on 23rd December was fine.
Wife's first Oxford was fine.

I is so variable, but I think the Oxford perhaps is more problematic.
D.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Love your painting today.

we have two collar doves that started living in our garden this year. They are ok with the dogs but are a bit wary of us still.
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I saw the first Collard Doves when they started to colonise the UK in 1957.

They were in the vicarage garden at Overstrand in Norfolk.
I met the guy who found them.
I am a mine of useless information.
Within ten years they were all over the country.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
I saw the first Collard Doves when they started to colonise the UK in 1957.

They were in the vicarage garden at Overstrand in Norfolk.
I met the guy who found them.
I am a mine of useless information.
Within ten years they were all over the country.
D.
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I hadn't realised that they are relative newcomers to the UK. I do like them so am pleased that they have made their home in our garden.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I hadn't realised that they are relative newcomers to the UK. I do like them so am pleased that they have made their home in our garden.
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Collared Doves were down in the N.E. part of the Med in the 1920/1930s and made their NW through Europe due to some mutant desire to colonise in the N.W. direction.
We know so little about the ways of nature.

At the same time the Southern Europeans have hunted our native migrant Turtle Doves close to extinction.And I guess loss of habitat in Africa doesn't help.
D.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I did read on this forum that a reaction to the vaccine is a sign it is working. Hopefully Mrs MC won't get such a severe reaction next time. I have noticed that friends are reporting more side effects with the Oxford vaccine than the Pfizer.
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Thank you I will pass this on to Kath she may then feel less stressed a out next one"
 
lindisfel said:
Collared Doves were down in the N.E. part of the Med in the 1920/1930s and made their NW through Europe due to some mutant desire to colonise in the N.W. direction.
We know so little about the ways of nature.

At the same time the Southern Europeans have hunted our native migrant Turtle Doves close to extinction.And I guess loss of habitat in Africa doesn't help.
D.
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It is really sad that human actions have decimated the population of migrant Turtle Doves. Interesting that Collared Doves took advantage of this.
 
lindisfel said:
I saw the first Collard Doves when they started to colonise the UK in 1957.

They were in the vicarage garden at Overstrand in Norfolk.
I met the guy who found them.
I am a mine of useless information.
Within ten years they were all over the country.
D.
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May seen useless info to you Derek but all interesting to us.
 
Argh! I'm on a sun rise production line. Farmer loved his sun rise watercolour, he showed it a neighbour and they want one and so does some of his family. So another start of a sunrise....bloomin commercial art!!!! :(

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Krystyna23040 said:
It is really sad that human actions have decimated the population of migrant Turtle Doves. Interesting that Collared Doves took advantage of this.
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No competition Krystyna, they mainly use different habitats.
The last Turtle Doves I heard and saw was on a Norfolk heath.
Norfolk and Suffolk are very good places for birds.
D.
 
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