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

jjraak said:
Very kind thought @lindisfel .

No problems, just felt I needed to take a break.
Had been a tough year, and the testing wasn't giving the best of results.

Pretty much a creature of habit, so hadn't meant to be away so long.

However know thyself, makes good sense.
I do have form.

Remember playing golf, became a golf bore for 3 years...then one day just stopped.

I hope all are well, will be back to posting
Once life settles back down for me :)
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Good to hear from you @jjraak
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

A 7.0 this morning and one very happy meter this morning due to the amount of confusion it’s causing me and me’s.

No sure about today now, due to staying up till 2am binge watching that television series Vigil, spoiler alert “ the butler didn’t do it “ .
How it’s koffy time.
Have a great weekend and stay safe etc, etc.
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Dear, dear, me, that one had us on the edge of our seats.
D.
 
jjraak said:
Very kind thought @lindisfel .

No problems, just felt I needed to take a break.
Had been a tough year, and the testing wasn't giving the best of results.

Pretty much a creature of habit, so hadn't meant to be away so long.

However know thyself, makes good sense.
I do have form.

Remember playing golf, became a golf bore for 3 years...then one day just stopped.

I hope all are well, will be back to posting
Once life settles back down for me :)
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Great to see you jjraak, we all need your wisdom when life settles down for you.

Hope all your family thrives in this post Brexit-COVID world!
Derek
 
SlimLizzy said:
02.10
8.10am BG taken after tea with milk 6.2
Most likely high due to social event last night, food all unsuitable for LC.
The good news is that the opinionated neighbour has sold her house and will be departing forever within a couple of months.
This is a great relief as I will no longer have to walk the tightrope between her and another neighbour who she has also offended and who now refuses to even speak to her. This is the sad end of a fifteen year friendship.
It's such a small community, only five houses, I felt it was neccessary to remain on polite, apparently friendly terms with her, but now maybe I no longer need to be polite either... No
probably best to continue as we are. It's not as if we have a lot of contact anyway.
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Good, she may consider you a gem!
Which of course is your true worth!;)
D.
 
Awkward:banghead: Engineer solved the heating problem BUT our system needs to be run even in the summer. Something about a thermal store and pump seizing up without. Julie is ecstatic. Me?:bigtears:
 
ianpspurs said:
Short blast once a week but still needs to run - or expensive refit or calling out B Gas on our Homecare each autumn/early winter.:bigtears:
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How do you heat your water for washing in summer, Ian? Are they just point source gas heater driven rising main fed?

Once a week manual switch on of the heating boiler for 5mins should be enough to stop pumps and fans seizing up?
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
How do you heat your water for washing in summer, Ian? Are they just point source gas heater driven rising main fed?

Once a week manual switch on of the heating boiler for 5mins should be enough to stop pumps and fans seizing up?
Derek
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Would that apply to any gas central heating boiler @lindisfel
Mine is 17 years old and I have only ever had the central heating on from November to mid March. In consequence it is off for nearly 8 months of the year. And I have never (yet) had any problems with it.
I don't like heat because of my dry eyes and dry mouth (Sjögren's Syndrome).
Thank you.
 
Fbg 6.9

I wanted to try some colourful stamps I receive from abroad and make them into a kaleidoscope.
So here it is. The square of blue is an Andy Warhol stamp. The other portrait stamps were Gwen Ifill, Marian Anderson, Hitchcock. There was a Purple Heart, and the rest were from a Spring Flowers series.
A lot of kaleidoscopes I do can appear heavy (to me), and I wanted something much lighter and freeing in appearance. Also discovered a couple of new things in Snapseed doing this.

It was really cold last night. I could see loads of stars in the night sky from my bed despite looking through double glazing!


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gennepher said:
Would that apply to any gas central heating boiler @lindisfel
Mine is 17 years old and I have only ever had the central heating on from November to mid March. In consequence it is off for nearly 8 months of the year. And I have never (yet) had any problems with it.
I don't like heat because of my dry eyes and dry mouth (Sjögren's Syndrome).
Thank you.
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Hi gennepher,
My impression after over 40 years of electrical maintenance is that the equipment is nowhere as robust like it used to be.
So don't buy something more efficient just if you have old but reliable kit.

The day will come when we are forced to changed our boilers.
No doubt their sensitive little souls with cheapo foreign parts will need delicate nursing at great expense.

Reliable stuff is just a design issue.
But simple checks can avert problems if you have an honest man/woman doing your maintenance work.
D.
 
5.0 this morning. We are walking to our local market town instead of driving to one of our favourite National Trust places as we need to save petrol so I can continue to teaching Norwich.

Sunday lunch is booked at a pub with good reviews (it is the pub that Archie our chocolate Labrador tried to drag me into last time we walked past it). I will also nip into Boots and the Grape Tree while I am there to get some shopping.
 
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