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

Afternoon everyone. :) Hope all's well...

FBG this morning taken at 0830 was not as bad as I had feared and was 6.0. Breakfast this morning was a Japanese style of miso soup, sashimi, salads and a nice piece of steamed fish. I left the rice.

Exercise in my room followed and it's warm, c. 22°c and sunny-ish, sat outside on the balcony and read some John LeCarre. Did some work.

Lunch came at 1300 and was healthy - a huge salad with chicken.

Afternoon dosed on the chairs outside, just videoed home, Glasgow and Brize Norton to catch up and have had Mrs BRS in a good mood as she received flowers and a wee gift for Mother's Day upcoming.

Covid Test this afternoon in about 30 mins. They will text when they're ready...my third in four days...

Have a great Saturday.
 
Welcome to UK Saturday and whatever day it is where thou art. No Swipey (new one dispatched) so to avoid more confusion no fbg by alternative means. Sometimes one just has to accept one's role in the team. Often this means digging in, defending well, no rash shots while waiting and hoping for lesser bowlers. I gave a hug for the aches and pains with more to come @Muddy Cyclist. @Krystyna23040 and @SlimLizzy your winners were for fbg but some tlc was also in there. @gennepher winner for the art but perhaps not the inner journey that produced the work. Hopefully the process and product proved cathartic. @geefull thank you for another great piece of art. Celebrate, dig in or weep as you see fit. See you here tomorrow for another go.
 
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SlimLizzy said:
13.03.2021
Not fasting BG, only four hours after last food. Was up very late, and finished that jar of peanut butter.
7 00am BG 4.8
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I am addicted to Marks and Spencer Peanut butter - mixed in with yoghurt and berries. Yum. Good BG!
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

My digital painting for today.
No thoughts.
Just playing with different paint effects in Procreate...

This painting became 'Memories'.
But there was no such thought when I began painting.
It was simply, initially, playing with, and investigating how to alter the different painting tools in Procreate...

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That's fab. It reminds me of an old song from the Alan Parsons Project...Don't Let It Show...no idea why...but I just played it and stared at your great painting and got lost...
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a very we and dreary start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Caldo-Verde and some home made bread came in at a banging 5.0 this am

Lovely bright day yesterday so out of the door by 0830 - round the park with the girl in the bubble and then down onto the prom and and then a walk back along the sea wall. Not very many people about but did not stray into the High Street.
New batch of turmeric tea make, cooled and now residing in the fridge. My latest purchase of turmeric roots are extremely good - sometimes they can be a bit small and not fully orange inside. Work continues faffing on with the bay windows - Mrs Miggins in now replacing the second of the curtain rails - my job being removal and salvage operative with the old ones and duty rawl plug remover and hole filler - there is probably a trade union or even a guild for these very delicate skills. When we were in Army quarters and it came to move - accommodation had to be handed over in pristine condition - toothpaste was the go to hole filler once picture hangings were removed - I imagine over the years that whole strips of wall would be entirely made of toothpaste (not that pink powered stuff that you got in a tin though -, nor the stripey stuff).

Art thing. I had fiddled about with the grape vines, adding some colour, but the outcome was not too good - never mind. I had a go at a misty morning instead. A4 on unsized rice paper. Hope everyone has a pleasant Saturday (other day’s available on request as long as social distancing rules are applied). Time for koffy.


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A packed day. Enjoy!
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Good Morning and 5.9 for me today. I did not expect such a high score as last night's meal of stuffed aubergine had no rice, pasta, cuscus or anything carbs other than a few chopped almonds.

Tree root removal day, I hope. I am still tired and aching from cutting it down two days ago and moving all the wood yesterday so how digging down to clear roots for sons chainsaw massacre is going to effect me I have no idea. The joys of age, I need a painting in the loft as @lindisfel friend has.:)

Wet and very windy here, although we have just had the most wonderful light and deep blues in the sky. So digging root either in sou'wester or birthday suit.

Keep safe enjoy the wonders of the world.
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Birthday suit is the right way to enjoy gardening...back to nature!

Edited to add - not recommended beside thorns nor nettles. I once cooked sausages wearing only my socks. Never again. Mind you, I could move a lot faster back then.
 
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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.6 yesterday and 4.8 today

serves me right for doing very little yesterday except finish knitting my sweater sleeves :sorry: to be fair it would have been an exercise in trying to stay upright to venture outside up here in the windy North :hilarious:

We went over to Mum's today and we levelled, tamped and topdressed the bit of garden the plumber had been working in ;) and I trimmed some of the frost burned hedge down her drive, it may be a lost cause, it looks worse now than it did a week ago :(

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - love the grape vine though the helicopter gave me a fright, I thought it was a big spider :D
and your picture today, looks like the young grapes just starting to swell :)

bigger than A3 paper, woah! it takes me all my time to psych myself up to A4 :hilarious:

@gennepher - furry godfather :hilarious: like the sky, very calm, we had one like it here today, for all of 5 minutes between the showers ;) and I like today's painting, the scintillating 'bokeh' effect works well and it has an optimistic and relaxed feel :)

@RFSMarch - nice to see you :) and glad that you feel there is some progress even if it's not exactly what you want. I second @jjraak 's suggestion of Subway, they will do you a big customised salad based around the range of fillings you can get on a sub.

@Muddy Cyclist - Hugs for the sore muscles, you're a brave man going after tree roots ;) When we first moved here there was a whopping old and very wild rose 'bush' just outside the back door, we chopped through as many roots as we could get to with a spade and still nearly dragged the backside out of our car trying to get the root out :D
Nice' shot' of the Loire and there do seem to be a lot of chateaux in that area ;)
I like both the starts you have made today, impressive sky in the first and I already love the way you have handled the water in the second :joyful:

@lindisfel - we're lucky to get a varied palette of birdlife and watchers in our area too what with Loch Eye and the Nigg Bay nature reserve :)

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Love the artwork!
 
Text came. On their way to do the Covid test...stuck my head out the door masked up, and it's just like the night before Christmas - not a soul stirring - but out in the city from the windows it's buzzing but in a covid secure way...

If it's positive (shriek) I believe it's goodbye nice big comfy room and "terrace" aka balcony albeit very big ... hello a hospital...

After test, glass of white to welcome in Saturday Eve!
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@RFSMarch I feel for you not liking salad. The only way I am clinging to LC for now is by eating fish and avo salad about 6 days a week and forgetting what I'm doing on the seventh - still vlc. Peanut or any other nut butter would be on my food hell list. Just goes to show how we are all different and suggesting how to eat LC from your own experience is fraught with issues. Hope you find your way through this.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen on this blustery Saturday.

A perplexing 4.5 on that meter of mystery and whatever.
Steam powered electric sliderule, log tables, wet finger in the air, tea bag reading and good old guessing to calculate my insulin dosage this morning.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers today is another day of wonder and to be enjoyed. I wonder if me and me's will be allowed to enjoy myself, possibly hiding in my shed / workshop listening to the radio.

Now I must depart to the kitchen to make a life preserving mug of tea for Mrs J and hence preserve my life.

As usual all the stay's.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
The skill of hole filling, too much filler and you have a the Alps, too little and you have a Meteorite Crater. :)

Good misty start to the art today. Like the colour and streaks in the sky, also the Chinese version of Lowry fishermen creeping into the picture. :)
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indeed, maybe there is a market in 'Lowry matchstick fishermen, cats & dogs'..:D



btw gave a funny for the roots post

the idea of you all captain Ahab in the sou'wester, in a ditch bailing furiously
V
you all homer Simpson, buff naked in a hole.....

Not enough eye bleach to erase those thoughts...:hilarious:

But have a hug for tomorrows aches.:)
 
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ianpspurs said:
Welcome to UK Saturday and whatever day it is where thou art. No Swipey (new one dispatched) so to avoid more confusion no fbg by alternative means. Sometimes one just has to accept one's role in the team. Often this means digging in, defending well, no rash shots while waiting and hoping for lesser bowlers. I gave a hug for the aches and pains with more to come @Muddy Cyclist. @Krystyna23040 and @SlimLizzy your winners were for fbg but some tlc was also in there. @gennepher winner for the art but perhaps not the inner journey that produced the work. Hopefully the process and product proved cathartic. @geefull thank you for another great piece of art. Celebrate, dig in or weep as you see fit. See you here tomorrow for another go.
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Went with a WIn, for the calm acceptance we all must face from time to time, when the World just don't make any sense anymore.

Some storms last longer then others, but they all pass.
and when they are here, it's less about avoiding the rain and more about learning to dance in it.
 
jjraak said:
Went with a WIn, for the calm acceptance we all must face from time to time, when the World just don't make any sense anymore.

Some storms last longer then others, but they all pass.
and when they are here, it's less about avoiding the rain and more about learning to dance in it.
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Thank you. Managing D is, as they say, a marathon not a sprint. I guess most of us may "hit the wall" at some point. Then it is just one foot in front of the other until the second wind or Jim Peters. It is worth remembering that it is not a given that this works for us all. TINA isn't a healthy mantra.
 
RFSMarch said:
Sorry @jjraak & @geefull - I actually hate salad... but might check it out or maybe opt for a wrap of some kind which *might* be less carbs than a roll? No idea but at this rate I might have to make lunch my more carbs meal and just be good and low-carb in the evenings.
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Ah @RFSMarch , spot on with the insight, it's all about making it work for us.
perfect, naw, but what else do we have.?

i am partial to a good salad, throw in some cut steak/chicken/etc...yum

but OMG i hate fish, more so the oily fishee fish...:woot::hungover::hungover:

In the spirit of not saying you dislike it without trying it
i have tried harder since DX

but in all, I've tried herring/gravelax/salmon/sushi..and many other presumed fruits of the sea..and most are YUK.

i will say i like tiger prawns BUT not the smaller prawns /shrimps, and have eaten crab lobster occasionally without being violently ill..so not all fish is bad, but for me, i can truly say if no more fish, i doubt i'd miss it.

So i deffo hear you on the salad front.
makes it a littler harder, but your plan seems like the best worst option.
(made a few of those myself.)

Good luck
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a very we and dreary start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Caldo-Verde and some home made bread came in at a banging 5.0 this am

Lovely bright day yesterday so out of the door by 0830 - round the park with the girl in the bubble and then down onto the prom and and then a walk back along the sea wall. Not very many people about but did not stray into the High Street.
New batch of turmeric tea make, cooled and now residing in the fridge. My latest purchase of turmeric roots are extremely good - sometimes they can be a bit small and not fully orange inside. Work continues faffing on with the bay windows - Mrs Miggins in now replacing the second of the curtain rails - my job being removal and salvage operative with the old ones and duty rawl plug remover and hole filler - there is probably a trade union or even a guild for these very delicate skills. When we were in Army quarters and it came to move - accommodation had to be handed over in pristine condition - toothpaste was the go to hole filler once picture hangings were removed - I imagine over the years that whole strips of wall would be entirely made of toothpaste (not that pink powered stuff that you got in a tin though -, nor the stripey stuff).

Art thing. I had fiddled about with the grape vines, adding some colour, but the outcome was not too good - never mind. I had a go at a misty morning instead. A4 on unsized rice paper. Hope everyone has a pleasant Saturday (other day’s available on request as long as social distancing rules are applied). Time for koffy.


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Yes, toothpaste is brilliant for holes in walls, I have used it to great success...

A great misty morning @dunelm

No mist here, it looks like a day of all seasons....
 
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