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

Muddy Cyclist said:
Smashing Muddy Cycle ride, very quiet, windy but Spring like.

Spent the afternoon painting fences, a long way still to go. :(

So a quick start on a painting of Alderburgh which we like to visit out of season when all the holiday makers ah e vanished, not sure that will ever be possible again. Not a fan of the East Coast,too flat but magnificent skies, reed beds and pebble beaches. So this is looking South down the beach, will finish Tuesday....

A4 watercolour about 20 minutes so far.....

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A great dramatic beginning. I look forward to you finishing this @Muddy Cyclist
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
A world of magic all in your back garden. A well painted secret place, Dragons next.? :)
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Thank you very much @Muddy Cyclist
Oh yes magic in my back garden.
Dragons? I have two red dragons in my back garden....
I think they've gone to sleep for the night. I wouldn't like to disturb them now...I think they are taking care of a blue dragon's egg at the moment. But I will see what I can do for morning.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Have actually done an hour's admin. Listening to Carly Simon really helped the time to fly by. My favourite Carly Simon album is very up beat.
Now I shall read the weekend copy of 'i' while I drink Nespresso. Then classes tonight.
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I never have been able to multi-task!
A friends young grandaughter was on the toilet cleaning her teeth with a toothbrush and without any selfconsciousness said, "look daddy I am multi-tasking!"
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Does that mean you will be helping Marjorie eat some?:)
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I might nick a piece out of the fridge in the middle of the night and plead innocence if she notices but its true I have been known to help her with her Christmas chocolates in the past. Purely out of altruism and the desire to be helpful you know! ;)

I am actually off chocolate atm Muddy to see if it stops the migraines.
D.
 
good evening all :)

4.5 today

change of pattern this week, our car has to go to the garage in the morning because it flagged up a steering problem so we'll shop early tomorrow instead of Wednesday ;)

It was nice and mild and, for once, not windy today so mr gee did car cleaning and then we had a walk. I should walk more, I've put on a bit of weight in the last couple of weeks what with lock down and all :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - good scultural work in your painting today, very effective sense of scale in your hilltops and I like the gentle colour you've enhanced them with :)

and an echo in my head says, 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy' :D

@gennepher - I'm glad you are more comfortable and I can understand your dilemma with regard to the vaccine, everything seems to be a balancing act at the moment

Lovely magical painting with some nice contrasts, I like the foliage especially and I see your dragon protecting the house ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Lovely strong sky to begin your painting and I look forward to it's progression :)
My gran used to live in Selby also near the East coast, it's pretty flat there too ;)

art bit - inspired by an image by an artist called Phil Greenwood, I like the way he uses areas of pattern
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lindisfel said:
I never have been able to multi-task!
A friends young grandaughter was on the toilet cleaning her teeth with a toothbrush and without any selfconsciousness said, "look daddy I am multi-tasking!"
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That is really funny. Multi-tasking at such a young age.

I was truly Multi-tasking today as I was not only listening to Carly Simon but also singing along to the songs as I did the admin.

Apparently if we mult-task we don't do any of the tasks well. Much better to do one task at a time. Although nothing could improve my singing. My daughters, when they were young, begged me never to sing when their friends were in the car.
 
Afternoon everyone! FBG at 0730 this morning was 6.0 ...settling down...

A breakfast of omelette and spinach with ginger tea and a lunch of a chilled soup and sashimi at noon. BG just about 2 hours after finishing is 5.8...

Glorious day locked up. Been working on the terrace - 30°C and beautiful blue skies.
Had yet another Covid test early this morning, this time taken by a nice lady who was encased in a space suit like contraption and have already been told by text it's negative... Followed by my daily health questionnaire text. So, it's all on track.

Lots of local video calls this morning, team call with Europe in a few when the continent is alive; spoken with Singapore and dealing withe US after dinner which will be local specialities....

Quick checkin with family too...

Happy Tuesday all!
 
Krystyna23040 said:
That is really funny. Multi-tasking at such a young age.

I was truly Multi-tasking today as I was not only listening to Carly Simon but also singing along to the songs as I did the admin.

Apparently if we mult-task we don't do any of the tasks well. Much better to do one task at a time. Although nothing could improve my singing. My daughters, when they were young, begged me never to sing when their friends were in the car.
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I bet your singing is fab...as Carly might say "Nobody Does It Better"...
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

change of pattern this week, our car has to go to the garage in the morning because it flagged up a steering problem so we'll shop early tomorrow instead of Wednesday ;)

It was nice and mild and, for once, not windy today so mr gee did car cleaning and then we had a walk. I should walk more, I've put on a bit of weight in the last couple of weeks what with lock down and all :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - good scultural work in your painting today, very effective sense of scale in your hilltops and I like the gentle colour you've enhanced them with :)

and an echo in my head says, 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy' :D

@gennepher - I'm glad you are more comfortable and I can understand your dilemma with regard to the vaccine, everything seems to be a balancing act at the moment

Lovely magical painting with some nice contrasts, I like the foliage especially and I see your dragon protecting the house ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Lovely strong sky to begin your painting and I look forward to it's progression :)
My gran used to live in Selby also near the East coast, it's pretty flat there too ;)

art bit - inspired by an image by an artist called Phil Greenwood, I like the way he uses areas of pattern
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Brilliant stuff. Painting took me back to my homeland sitting on a Loch shore when the skies never really darken.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

change of pattern this week, our car has to go to the garage in the morning because it flagged up a steering problem so we'll shop early tomorrow instead of Wednesday ;)

It was nice and mild and, for once, not windy today so mr gee did car cleaning and then we had a walk. I should walk more, I've put on a bit of weight in the last couple of weeks what with lock down and all :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - good scultural work in your painting today, very effective sense of scale in your hilltops and I like the gentle colour you've enhanced them with :)

and an echo in my head says, 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy' :D

@gennepher - I'm glad you are more comfortable and I can understand your dilemma with regard to the vaccine, everything seems to be a balancing act at the moment

Lovely magical painting with some nice contrasts, I like the foliage especially and I see your dragon protecting the house ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Lovely strong sky to begin your painting and I look forward to it's progression :)
My gran used to live in Selby also near the East coast, it's pretty flat there too ;)

art bit - inspired by an image by an artist called Phil Greenwood, I like the way he uses areas of pattern
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Hope the car is easily fixed @geefull

Thank you for your comments...

I will have to look up that artist. Your painting is wonderful, and light, and airy....
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

change of pattern this week, our car has to go to the garage in the morning because it flagged up a steering problem so we'll shop early tomorrow instead of Wednesday ;)

It was nice and mild and, for once, not windy today so mr gee did car cleaning and then we had a walk. I should walk more, I've put on a bit of weight in the last couple of weeks what with lock down and all :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - good scultural work in your painting today, very effective sense of scale in your hilltops and I like the gentle colour you've enhanced them with :)

and an echo in my head says, 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy' :D

@gennepher - I'm glad you are more comfortable and I can understand your dilemma with regard to the vaccine, everything seems to be a balancing act at the moment

Lovely magical painting with some nice contrasts, I like the foliage especially and I see your dragon protecting the house ;)

@Muddy Cyclist - Lovely strong sky to begin your painting and I look forward to it's progression :)
My gran used to live in Selby also near the East coast, it's pretty flat there too ;)

art bit - inspired by an image by an artist called Phil Greenwood, I like the way he uses areas of pattern
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Thank you.

That's a great effect the style of painting gives to the water. I like the lack of paint to give the strong light and enhances the refection of ripples. The foreground in the shallows also works extremely well. Of course you distant hills are as magnificent as usual.
 
4.8 this morning. Mr K 's car due for a service at 8.30pm. Plan A is to drive to the garage with the dogs and we all get really wet on the walk back. Plan B.is that Mr K takes the car and only he gets soaking wet on the walk back.

Discussions are taking place at the moment to decide on which plan to follow.
 
Good Morning and 5.8 for me today. Salmon for a meal last night but there was some Noodles involved, not many so I conclude it wasn't the noodles or glass of red but the afternoons fence Painting that resulted in the higher than expected BG. Not sure that excuse will get me out of finishing the many other panels.:)

Rain, so no fence painting, yippee!

More Recorder Quartet music to record and art.

Keep safe and amaze the world.
 
Fbg 6.5

This was painted for @Muddy Cyclist
He asked if there were dragons...
Of course there are.
Where would a garden be without dragons?
Here are my two Welsh dragons...
They are incubating an egg at the moment. It is blue, but it could be a boy or a girl.
They have 3 eggs most years. A blue one, A white one. And a black one.
They have kept the blue one this year. I don't know where the other two eggs go to, but it is my understanding they go to dragons who, for whatever reasons cannot have their own baby dragons. My mother dragon lets them choose the colour egg they want, and she brings up the remaining egg.

A few years ago on Twitter, someone from China, a guy named Paul, asked me if the baby dragon stayed in my garden. I told him no, the baby dragon, as soon as it was old enough and could take care of itself, flew to wherever it flew to. So he asked if the baby dragon could fly over his house on his travels. A short while later I got a tweet on my Twitter timeline, to say the baby dragon had visited his garden...

This is actually a true story...

So, here are my two red dragons, painted in Procreate. He looks a bit fierce, and she is protecting the blue egg. She let me peek at it. But he was looking at me a wee bit fierce....

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