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

ianpspurs said:
For all it matters, my money is on the exercise and mood as a key component in bg management once a sensible carb intake has been achieved. Necessary but not sufficient and just because lc may help it doesn't follow that ultra lc is even better.
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Yes, I do agree with you. Exercise is key. My blood sugars are always so much better when I don't spend hours sitting in front of the computer.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good happy national bin day Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

Sorry to start my post on a negative note or notes. Absolute disaster darlings, disaster, overslept again then a 4.8 on that grrrrrr meter, a very busy Morening climbing step ladders, chain saw, hedge trimmers and loping shears. My steam driven sliderule came out, teabag reading mug, finger held up into the wind all to calculate my insulin dose. In the end nothing could agree so I just guessed a dose.

This afternoon I shall be continuing with the afore mentioned task but with the addition of a shredder, why Mrs J can't just vapourise the debris with her kill at a glance chip me and me's will never know.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers good luck with all your endeavours, but garden tasks await, I wonder if my neighbour will mind me butchering the hedge between us, I'm only decreasing it's height by 2 to 3 feet.
Now I must go and .......
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I will try to teleport my AH neighbour to you @alf_Josiah and maybe he will wield his chainsaw on your hedge....I need to teleport that that AH neighbour anywhere but here...
 
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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.2 today

shopping day today so off out early then dropped off mum's share of the goodies and did a bit of mowing since it was dry and sunny :)

Back home it was 'smelly' bin day today and although it was a bank holiday on Monday today was still the day :)

But lo a mystery has occured today, When we got back from mum's the 'scavvy wagon' was just heading our way down the main street of the village so we came inside brewed tea put shopping away...
about half an hour later there was a knock on the door and it was one of our neighbours from up the small road behind us searching for her bin which has gone missing. Ours was standing where they always leave it, the other neighbours bins were standing where they always leave them but hers is gone completely :arghh:

Perhaps the bin men damaged it accidentally and took it away, can't imagine where it can have gone otherwise, there are only 4 houses up there :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@lindisfel - hope you manage to get things fixed :(

@dunelm - interesting texture in your zoom sketch, it's turned out well and the texture in that tree bark is lovely, I think the pink you've added has really made it 'pop' too :)

@gennepher - today's snapseed is an interesting experiment, the colour is pleasing and the texture of the glass is very fluid like reflected light on water :)

art bit - limited palette painted on Bockingford paper.

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Thank you.
It took me nearly 3 months @geefull to get a replacement rubbish wheelie for mine that went missing. You would think they would bring out a replacement, or don't they want to admit to the wheelie wagon gobbling it up. I ordered a replacement one. Two weeks later, no replacement. So emailed again and was told I had received it. These shenanigans went on for nearly 3 months, Then I began a bombardment of emails and said I was going to get my MP on the case. Next day a nice new shiny black wheelie arrived, and it was bigger than my neighbours :)

I absolutely love this painting. I find a limited colour palette very satisfying. This is brilliant!
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.2 today

shopping day today so off out early then dropped off mum's share of the goodies and did a bit of mowing since it was dry and sunny :)

Back home it was 'smelly' bin day today and although it was a bank holiday on Monday today was still the day :)

But lo a mystery has occured today, When we got back from mum's the 'scavvy wagon' was just heading our way down the main street of the village so we came inside brewed tea put shopping away...
about half an hour later there was a knock on the door and it was one of our neighbours from up the small road behind us searching for her bin which has gone missing. Ours was standing where they always leave it, the other neighbours bins were standing where they always leave them but hers is gone completely :arghh:

Perhaps the bin men damaged it accidentally and took it away, can't imagine where it can have gone otherwise, there are only 4 houses up there :sorry:

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@lindisfel - hope you manage to get things fixed :(

@dunelm - interesting texture in your zoom sketch, it's turned out well and the texture in that tree bark is lovely, I think the pink you've added has really made it 'pop' too :)

@gennepher - today's snapseed is an interesting experiment, the colour is pleasing and the texture of the glass is very fluid like reflected light on water :)

art bit - limited palette painted on Bockingford paper.

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Thank you @geefull and hope that the mystery of the missing bin gets solved - sounds like an episode from Tintin but perhaps give John Nettles a call. I am looking at all the wonderful detail in this splendid limited palette painting of yours. Smashing, did you do some wet on dry?
 
Fbg 6.7

This is what a full trug of red apples looked like when I extracted it from Snapseed....
Now I am about to do my morning War Dance that is supposed to get rid of troublesome neighbours, especially AH neighbour.
With what horrendous noise came from his garden yesterday, I am apprehensively awaiting a battle of neighbours....it's going to happen soon...it has not stopped being daily for months now, even Sundays...
I told a friend and she was shocked the thing what I related to her.
I only put my sound processor on twice later during the day to see if the noise etc had stopped, then I can wear it for a couple hours and listen to the birds...

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

This is what a full trug of red apples looked like when I extracted it from Snapseed....
Now I am about to do my morning War Dance that is supposed to get rid of troublesome neighbours, especially AH neighbour.
With what horrendous noise came from his garden yesterday, I am apprehensively awaiting a battle of neighbours....it's going to happen soon...
I told a friend and she was shocked what I related to her.
I only put my sound processor on twice later during the day to see if the noise had stopped, then I can wear it for a couple hours and listen to the birds...

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Your picture is really spooky today. It looks like an alien from outer space. Perhaps the alien could scare away your AH neighbour.
 
Good morning everyone from a reasonable waking time of 0645 here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of what the Heck sausages with eggs and mushrooms came in at 5.2 this am

Mrs Miggins’ car back from service with tales of woe regarding breaks and tyres - oh dear, sounds like a bill as big as a pelican. We have a wedding to attend in a couple of weeks - a niece. I thought that I might do a painting, probably A3 size. So, out with The Chinese Calligraphy Bible to see what characters will go down the side - not very practiced with these sort of things so a challenge for me over the coming days. Why did that idea pop into my head? What’s wrong with a teapot or something useful like napkin rings or knife rests.

Art bit - a minimalist representation of a tree with rocks finished with a few Ax Cut strokes in the tree. Hope you all have a good day and may your dentures always be fixed and bright. Time for a koffy.


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Good morning all. Sombre weather for a sombre day here. 91 MIL rushed to hospital yesterday pm. Late night call from Dr - pneumonia, DNR talk has taken place. She was to travel to Wales for her 90th birthday present - COVID delayed- of a helicopter ride over the area her husband came from and where she and her two girls always spent summer. Seems slightly irrelevant that my fbg was 5.8 and no lc tips and tricks can fix either problem. A couple of other biggies bubbling away in family P just now so just like your average soap opera. Get out my pub, you're barred.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
What about Montezuma 100% chocolate? Oh no - I have just remembered you don't like Montezuma chocolate. Actually, Mr K doesn't either. He says it is tasteless.
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Excellent taste Mr K just look at his taste in gels. These are all good, we have (most of) the ingredients* but precise quantities are difficult to calculate. I can deal with Waitrose 1 darkest choc and some imported Keto choc from Dr Almond (loved their Advent calendar) but they are more keto than protein or fibre dominant. Maybe compromise for the greater good? Oh, just seen the new bars from the Fatt guys - is it light at the end of this tunnel or the 8.15 express? Enjoy your return to work.
*citrus powder??
 
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Just got back.
The problem/incident I mentioned with AH neighbour in my earlier post but didn't elaborate or specify, I talked over with another friend. 1st friend thinks I should report to police. This 2nd friend is very concerned but says tread very warily in this.
But I have a problem when reporting to police. I am deaf. As soon as I tell the police, it then becomes 'if you're deaf you couldn't have heard this. You misheard.'

Some things I can hear clearly, some things I can't. Simple very short sentences I can often hear unseen, but a conversation is not possible for me to hear unseen with my cochlear hearing processor.

So in that way I can be discredited.

Same with lipreading, even lipreading in conversation face to face (this was before I had the cochlear implant), and police there took what I said with a pinch of salt, even though J came with me to the police station many times. But when the tragedy happened, and the police had egg on their faces, blame was shifted to me for not reporting it. But I did. They badly needed a scapegoat. It was a nightmare time for me. Especially when I found out that I was to have joined the tragedy...I won't ever totally get rid of that nightmare.

Now, this next door with AH neighbour.

I am talking with two different friends over this at the moment. See what we come up with.

I need to meditate...
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a reasonable waking time of 0645 here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of what the Heck sausages with eggs and mushrooms came in at 5.2 this am

Mrs Miggins’ car back from service with tales of woe regarding breaks and tyres - oh dear, sounds like a bill as big as a pelican. We have a wedding to attend in a couple of weeks - a niece. I thought that I might do a painting, probably A3 size. So, out with The Chinese Calligraphy Bible to see what characters will go down the side - not very practiced with these sort of things so a challenge for me over the coming days. Why did that idea pop into my head? What’s wrong with a teapot or something useful like napkin rings or knife rests.

Art bit - a minimalist representation of a tree with rocks finished with a few Ax Cut strokes in the tree. Hope you all have a good day and may your dentures always be fixed and bright. Time for a koffy.


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A3 sized painting!
Phew, you do like to challenge yourself!
However, I do find a large Chinese painting easier to do than a small one, but I too am out of practice.
Maybe you could find a Chinese poem to go down the side?
Cathy Wu would give us poems to write out with our paintings, but she said if the word was repeated, in my case I recall plum blossom being repeated a few times, and I was arguing I don't know Chinese and I could be altering it to a rude word. But Cathy Wu was insistent. The others in the painting class were all whinging about this exercise, and they were Chinese! So, I thought in for a penny, in for a pound, and I went for it. Mine was the best because I didn't hesitate. It is only copying the characters. But when you have a painting (you have spent time on), attached to where you are also writing the characters, you can get very precious about it.
I don't know if this is any help, or I am just talking nonsense...

I like your landscape very much.
The tree looks a lot lighter with just a few Ax Cut strokes @dunelm
 
MIL may pull through. Consultant says no more driving Mrs O but she still thinks she could have gone to Wales this weekend:banghead: Greek vibe today after reading this. We liked Crete, they like Brits. Naturally, I danced like this. Now I need to clear up the kitchen floor and buy some plates - very odd day.
 
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Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.

6.5 this under the thumb morning.

First you it was you must do the shopping, then you must continue with the hedge.......no you don't have choice. That's my day sorted. I must go someone is watching.
 
ianpspurs said:
MIL may pull through. Consultant says no more driving Mrs O but she still thinks she could have gone to Wales this weekend:banghead: Greek vibe today after reading this. We liked Crete, they like Brits. Naturally, I danced like this. Now I need to clear up the kitchen floor and buy some plates - very odd day.
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Take care @ianpspurs
Hugs for MIL
 
Hi all,
Got my dentures repaired at Silloth this am, the guy was operating from a converted kitchen room as a repair shop. A professional job I guess its pocket money and he has another source of income. Just charged £25 and did them whilst we spent a hour on the front car park looking at the sea.

There was a continuous flow of Sand Martins and Swallows...oh dear the migrant year will soon be over and Pinkfooted Geese will be coming south over the house from Iceland heading for Lancashire and Norfolk.
D.
 
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