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

[lindisfel]

There is going to be some proper Atlantic rain today and believe it or not some will breathe a sigh of relief if all the habitat gets saturated.
The fells, woods and mosses were getting tinder dry and it would be only a matter of time before someone at an inconsiderate moment caused a blue touch paper event.

Have good day and if your having a meal outside a pub, I hope you have a cover and some warm clothes.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

Welcome to Bank Holiday Monday. Since many of you are, like me, no longer working I'm not sure weekends and Bank Holidays are especially different in one way. This morning Julie and I plus Bill and Ben will ramble around some woods with Nos 1 and 3 sons and 3.6 grandchildren. It would be much to my liking if that could end with a family meal but so be it. Great art again @Muddy Cyclist @dunelm @gennepher and @geefull. @geefull, Julie developed a cheesecake recipe way back based on my then food tastes. Maybe I should revive that as the whole family liked the taste. The base was flaxseed, inulin and butter. As for gout and protein, the main trigger seems to be lack of hydration largely triggered by illness. At one stage I avoided coffee and salmon for several years but these no longer appear to be the culprits. Take good care of yourselves, those you love and strangers in your land.

 

[gennepher]

There is going to be some proper Atlantic rain today and believe it or not some will breathe a sigh of relief if all the habitat gets saturated.
The fells, woods and mosses were getting tinder dry and it would be only a matter of time before someone at an inconsiderate moment caused a blue touch paper event.

Have good day and if your having a meal outside a pub, I hope you have a cover and some warm clothes.
D.

I need that rain @lindisfel
It was breaking my back to try and water my pots and containers.....

 

[Krystyna23040]

4.7 this morning. Feeling lazy. Today will be relaxing, reading, dog walking, admin and lesson planning. All at a leisurely pace.

 

[dunelm]

Dry different birds today and interesting media change, worked well even though a very different style. I think I prefer the ink, rice paper and brush wash paintings in your hungry bird series. These however still are masterfully drawn.

Thank you @Muddy Cyclist. I prefer the ink, rice paper and brush wash too, still, an interesting diversion

 

[Krystyna23040]

Julie developed a cheesecake recipe way back based on my then food tastes. Maybe I should revive that as the whole family liked the taste. The base was flaxseed, inulin and butter. As for gout and protein, the main trigger seems to be lack of hydration largely triggered by illness. At one stage I avoided coffee and salmon for several years but these no longer appear to be the culprits.

Julie's cheesecake recipe sounds delicious.

Very interesting that dehydration is the main trigger and that coffee and salmon were not a problem.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Good Morningand 6.5 for me today. A meal of Tuna Steak coated with ground Fennel Seeds, Corriander Seed and Black Pepper Corns then Griddled and served with salad so I expected lower. Before the meal I was 5.8 after 5 and before bed 4.8, so what happened in the night? Whatever it is I have to sort out so taking stock and drawing up a new eating plan.

Wet weather promised although so far the day seems calm and dry. No idea what we will be doing today, although Mrs MC is threatening to get into my art room to tidy so I think I may have to make an effort, butlers pinafore and feather duster at the ready.

Keep safe and boldly attack the day.

 

[dunelm]

Finished the first of my Spring Trees in sunlight watercolours. Since the first image I posted I have added some hint of forest in the background and darkened the blue, also added some leaf detail and roots to the Beech Tree, finished.

A4 Watercolour.
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I like this one. The leaf detail works very well especially against that dark background

 

[Krystyna23040]

I need that rain @lindisfel
It was breaking my back to try and water my pots and containers.....

I think you will get your wish - in bucket loads.

 

[gennepher]

I never know nowadays whether it is a bank holiday weekend or a holiday or a whatever day. Retirement more or less means these things mean nothing. Even a weekend doesn't really mean a break in my schedule..l


Fbg 6.8

Painting for today digitally in Procreate.
I was trying to get that deflating moon I saw the other day out of the kitchen window. I think I might have a fairly adequate painting of that moon, although it would probably be a half moon by now.

 

[dunelm]

Great birds @dunelm
The marker paper makes a change, very vibrant.

Thank you @gennepher

 

[dunelm]

I might have caught up with myself today...

Fbg 6.8

Long day...but never enough hours in the day.

Painting for today in Procreate...

Watched the pre dawn sky and moon again this morning...

Popeye's girlfriend visited along with her entourage, all 3 of them seated on the bench while Popeye took me for a walk around the garden.

This is the first year, since forever, that the cherry blossom has actually stayed on my cherry trees front and back and not been prematurely blown off by the strong winds.

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Fabulous sunrise - full of colour bursting into the day

 

[dunelm]

good evening all

4.4 today

Sunday again and yet another sunday lunch, in honour of the bank holiday weekend it was roast beef with most of the trimmings (well for mum and mr gee ), just a tiny amount of roasted parsnip and lots of veg to go with the beef for me, moistened with meat 'jus'

Pudding was a sort of crustless cheesecake the mousse was made with cream cheese, yoghurt and double cream whisked together, flavoured with toffee and vanilla and set with a little gelatine, topping was rhubarb and some blueberries stewed together, all sweetened with a mix of erythritol and truvia

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@dunelm - interesting change of materials, bold and colourful your foragers look a bit severe I like them but I think I prefer the delicacy of the brush and ink

@lindisfel - interesting is this the point to confess I get a bit confused between what's cosmology and what cohomology?

@ianpspurs - here is hoping no gout I mostly tend towards the adequate protein rather than the fat myself.

@Muddy Cyclist - practical and decorative art today, that fire pit looks decidedly useful
I'm liking the finished painting very much, the cool of the undergrowth vs the warmth you have infused higher up, and the light spring foliage, just lovely

@gennepher - lovely vibrant painting today with subtle hints of the landscape and that watery reflection
Procreate seems to be a very versatile app. I wish they had a version for android

art bit -

a quickish picture, trying out a new pan of paint, Prussian Blue instead of Ultramarine, it's a bit of a cooler blue I think

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Thank you for your kind comments about my picture @geefull - the crustless cheesecake sounds a winner. Your Prussian Blue is certainly a bit cooler - looks quite cold and bleak on that water.

 

[gennepher]

I think you will get your wish - in bucket loads.

Great !!!!!!

 

[dunelm]

I never know nowadays whether it is a bank holiday weekend or a holiday or a whatever day. Retirement more or less means these things mean nothing. Even a weekend doesn't really mean a break in my schedule..l


Fbg 6.8

Painting for today digitally in Procreate.
I was trying to get that deflating moon I saw the other day out of the kitchen window. I think I might have a fairly adequate painting of that moon, although it would probably be a half moon by now.

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Smashing deflating moon - I like that hint, more of an enticement, of detail in the foreground

 

[gennepher]

Fabulous sunrise - full of colour bursting into the day

Thank you very much @dunelm

 

[dunelm]

Welcome to Bank Holiday Monday. Since many of you are, like me, no longer working I'm not sure weekends and Bank Holidays are especially different in one way. This morning Julie and I plus Bill and Ben will ramble around some woods with Nos 1 and 3 sons and 3.6 grandchildren. It would be much to my liking if that could end with a family meal but so be it. Great art again @Muddy Cyclist @dunelm @gennepher and @geefull. @geefull, Julie developed a cheesecake recipe way back based on my then food tastes. Maybe I should revive that as the whole family liked the taste. The base was flaxseed, inulin and butter. As for gout and protein, the main trigger seems to be lack of hydration largely triggered by illness. At one stage I avoided coffee and salmon for several years but these no longer appear to be the culprits. Take good care of yourselves, those you love and strangers in your land.

Thank you @ianpspurs - and I have noted the cheesecake base

 

[gennepher]

Smashing deflating moon - I like that hint, more of an enticement, of detail in the foreground

Thank you @dunelm
I am enjoying doing this series...

 

[ianpspurs]

Julie's cheesecake recipe sounds delicious.

Very interesting that dehydration is the main trigger and that coffee and salmon were not a problem.

As for the gout, smoked salmon is definitely worse than "normal" I now mainly drink "coffee flavoured almond milk or water and cream" - except when abroad which oddly doesn't affect me. The flaxseed and inulin base for cheesecake is remarkably like digestive biscuit provided you smash flaxseed in the nutribullet* and mix about 1 tbls of inulin per 4 of flxseed, mix well and leave for a day of two. We made a batch at a time - good with yogurt and stewed rhubarb IMHO - and also made some infamous high fibre choc coated caramel bars. Inulin makes a caramel - Tom Kerridge tip- with care, attention and lots of stirring. Several recipes on hold while I'm basically idle and very semi detached from lc.
NB: *Flat blade

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who remember today is a bank holiday.

A 7.5 this morning, fuelled by peanuts watching hopefully the last ever episode of Line of Duty with Mrs J..........yes I know.......peanuts are a weakness.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers, how will you be celebrating this bank holiday? Watering your newly planted cuttings? No me neither. Years ago bank holidays were important, but to the retiree not so.

Mrs J has decreed that we shall doing another home covid test, best not argue, stick my tongue out and for once not get my legs slapped for being naughty, but I will find another way to get free pain inflicted hehehehe . Now I must go, drink koffy and scheme.

Have a great day all and remember the stays, yep I've forgotten them also :-( , on my walks I just avoid everybody.