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

BRSBRI said:
So, here we go again. MrsBRS has suggested - another Fiat 595 Abarth, a Mini Cooper S, a Hyundai i30N or an Audi A1.

She was told the Abarth is one of the most stealable cars in the UK which is interesting as I think it looks like a pram.

Told her, I'll be back in 12-15 days and could it wait? Apparently no...Sigh.

Anyone out there got a view? I had enough with Sid the Stinger...
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Oh dear - all a bit boy racer - or girl racer - Hyundai probably the better buy with a sensible head on and 5 year warranty - but all very popular with TWOCers.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
That's about my limit on Mountain Walking these days, can get up em but struggle getting down again. I Look with longing at the rock views from the safety of the approach hills and their wild flower meadows. Good perspective, well fiddled with mountains.
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - I don’t know how I will cope with mountains after all this lock down - will just have to take it easy - Cat Bells perhaps.
 
dunelm said:
Oh dear - all a bit boy racer - or girl racer - Hyundai probably the better buy with a sensible head on and 5 year warranty - but all very popular with TWOCers.
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Pleased to report @dunelm common sense has prevailed 6000 odd miles away and a Mazda 3 of some description is now fave. I would have had to have had a face tattoo, a Nike baseballcap and even worse attitude to climb aboard her first foray into Fifi replacement ...please standby as this may change on a very regular basis...
 
gennepher said:
My two penny worth @BRSBRI
When I lived in Liverpool, in the 1990's, I had a friend whose stepson wasn't exactly an angel...
I went to hers with car brochures. I needed a new car. My favourite one was on the top.
You won't have that one two minutes, stepson said, it will be stolen before you get home...
Not much help am I?
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Plenty help @gennepher. Fifi the Fiat looked like a high powered pram. MrsBRS liked it, so that's all that mattered. Now, she can pretend to be grown up...maybe
Hope all well...
 
Domestic bliss. Grandmother and granddaughter making a cake in one room, me drinking tea and watching cricket in another with football later so OMAD/24 hr fast box nicely ticked. Not liking cake helps. Swipey all over the place - averaging 5.4 today. Not quite a sick day but very low power. Picked the wrong week to restart 2 x 24 hr fasts as it seems I have hay fever in Breckland.
 
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And another night draws to an end...

Healthy dinner ruined by one ice cold beer but heading to slumber on a pea souper of a humid sticky night with a 5.3mmol 2 hours after chowing down...

Hope everyone has had a brill Thursday so far and will have a superfab evening too!

Nighty night

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dunelm said:
Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - I don’t know how I will cope with mountains after all this lock down - will just have to take it easy - Cat Bells perhaps.
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I guess if you got the slim volume on the Ice Age in the Lake District you could have many a happy hour studying the geomorphology looking at the various land forms.
I hoped to do that with my Grandson but he is not one for what he would call extra work.

An easy walk for you would be up to Bowscale tarn, a magical place with a tarn from Lord of the Rings and a way up to the Bannerdale Crags from round one side of the cirque.

There going to be difficulties parking in the Lakes this year, one needs to find quiet places and a good way to get onto the fells. On the West side of Bass lake is such a place to go up from the village of Wythop and you can go as far as your legs will take you, with Cuckoos, flycatchers and warblers in the woods in Spring.
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lindisfel said:
I guess if you got the slim volume on the Ice Age in the Lake District you could have many a happy hour studying the geomorphology looking at the various land forms.
I hoped to do that with my Grandson but he is not one for what he would call extra work.

An easy walk for you would be up to Bowscale tarn, a magical place with a tarn from Lord of the Rings and a way up to the Bannerdale Crags from round one side of the cirque.

There going to be difficulties parking in the Lakes this year, one needs to find quiet places and a good way to get onto the fells. On the West side of Bass lake is such a place to go up from the village of Wythop and you can go as far as your legs will take you, with Cuckoos, flycatchers and warblers in the woods in Spring.
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Thank you for the tips. I don’t think that we will be heading that way until perhaps after school summer holidays are over and then it would be mid week - the great advantage of being retired is wonderful Wednesdays without the crowds.
 
Just filled the census form.

I omitted the ethnicity, I am not white. I am a slightly pink male of Anglo Saxon origin and even pinker after filling in this intrusive form! D. :)
 
Here is an old picture with a juvenile of the Eboraci, who is now nearly 9 years older and can run fast as did all the locals surviving the Romans and Vikings.
But however, note the very mature male of the Lindum Coloni with the evolved feet for bog trotting on the northern fen.
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All fences and shed painted, yippee!

After all the talk of Mountains and @dunelm fab paintings of them I succumbed to painting one of my favourite peaks. It's been about 8 years since I used to camp out on mountain tops to see sunsets and sunrises, Cader Idris was a firm favourite and so I thought I would try and capture the view from memory. This is looking West at sunset over Barmouth and the Mawdach Estuary. I need to work on the sea as I seem to have messed up the horizon. I also have over dramatised the view in Victorian Artist fashion, having said that it is a very dramatic vista.

I have also returned to my Willow Trees for the painting of Marsh land and flood planes started yesterday.

I will try and finish them Friday.
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lindisfel said:
Here is an old picture with a juvenile of the Eboraci, who is now nearly 9 years older and can run fast as did all the locals surviving the Romans and Vikings.
But however, note the very mature male of the Lindum Coloni with the evolved feet for bog trotting on the northern fen.
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Smashing photo - grandchildren are what it’s all about
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
All fences and shed painted, yippee!

After all the talk of Mountains and @dunelm fab paintings of them I succumbed to painting one of my favourite peaks. It's been about 8 years since I used to camp out on mountain tops to see sunsets and sunrises, Cader Idris was a firm favourite and so I thought I would try and capture the view from memory. This is looking West at sunset over Barmouth and the Mawdach Estuary. I need to work on the sea as I seem to have messed up the horizon. I also have over dramatised the view in Victorian Artist fashion, having said that it is a very dramatic vista.

I have also returned to my Willow Trees for the painting of Marsh land and flood planes started yesterday.

I will try and finish them Friday.
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Brilliant and very personal to me also - I did my Summer Mountain Leadership at Tywyn and Cader Idris is where we did our final practical (winter one was in The Cairngorms) - smashing - vibrant yet understated. I do like the colours that you chose for the Willows and marsh lands.
 
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