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alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and shock horror at @gennepher ’s tale of her shopping expedition.
A 5.3 this morning on the lucky dip of blood sugar readings.
On my rather enjoyable motorcycle ride yesterday I spotted this tee shirt which I though was rather good, if I manage to post it correctly enjoy it if you can.
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A funny for the t-shirt @alf_Josiah

I am fast coming to the conclusion that I live on the wrong side of the tracks...
 
Hello everyone on what seems to be a largely underwhelming Tuesday for the assembled multitude. @gennepher hug for the hideous shopping experiences. 0/10 for those but 15/10 for the kaleidoscope. Thanks for helping me define @dunelm's background colour. I would never have picked yellow. Your tomatoes are absolutely yellow to me, that colour never (sludge?). @dunelm thanks for the art and hug for the too early waking but at least it isn't deepest, darkest, coldest winter. @Krystyna23040 hug for the higher fbg and tiredness. You may feel your age but a fiver says you don't look anywhere near and have more energy than someone 25 years younger. Somehow fitbit feels I was 349 active minutes down last week but my resting heart rate dropped a beat. I hope you had a wonderful time on the motorbike yesterday @alf_Josiah. Just remember we are living the dream. Anyone saying otherwise is just remoaning. All the big calls were made correctly and the world is our Lobster. Nonetheless it may just be prudent to take care and weigh the evidence carefully as history may be more felicitous to the facts.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Hello everyone on what seems to be a largely underwhelming Tuesday for the assembled multitude. @gennepher hug for the hideous shopping experiences. 0/10 for those but 15/10 for the kaleidoscope. Thanks for helping me define @dunelm's background colour. I would never have picked yellow. Your tomatoes are absolutely yellow to me, that colour never (sludge?). @dunelm thanks for the art and hug for the too early waking but at least it isn't deepest, darkest, coldest winter. @Krystyna23040 hug for the higher fbg and tiredness. You may feel your age but a fiver says you don't look anywhere near and have more energy than someone 25 years younger. Somehow fitbit feels I was 349 active minutes down last week but my resting heart rate dropped a beat. I hope you had a wonderful time on the motorbike yesterday @alf_Josiah. Just remember we are living the dream. Anyone saying otherwise is just remoaning. All the big calls were made correctly and the world is our Lobster. Nonetheless it may just be prudent to take care and weigh the evidence carefully as history may be more felicitous to the facts.
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Thanks @ianpspurs for the kaleidoscope compliment.

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

I went on adventure yesterday, or at least I thought it would be an adventure. I googled Farm Shops near me.
There came up quite a few. I knew where some of them where, but they are a bit of a distance away. But times open and dates open have all changed since Covid and Lockdowns and stuff. One, an organic shop which was almost on my doorstep, I haven't been able to find as I drove down the leafy lane, the sign had gone. I now find it has relocated 20 miles away to an industrial estate. It has a website to say it is there but no more details than that. You can use the telephone to enquire and order, but I cannot hear on the telephone. Presumably you ask over the phone if they have this that and the other (which is what I saw happening in their old premises) and after 15 mins of talking to the person at the other end, the shop person had written down an order list for the customer, and it was all in because it was an immediate conversation.

This I cannot do, use the phone for this because I am deaf. Another of my favourite farm shops before Covid struck, is a distance away also, now with more restricted opening times and days of the week (only 3 days, it was everyday before Covid). They also have a website to say they exist, but no actual details of any of their products. So, obviously there is no email ordering system, but the telephone again. You can telephone with this one, at any time almost, order your stuff (because you can hear on the phone), and pick it up any day of the week, even if the shop isn't open. Sounds a good system, but I cannot use it.

Anyway, I chose two which were possibles.
The first had a cafe, and a garden centre if you could call it that, and a farm shop. I went for the breakfast first. I was looking forward to it. A disappointment. Half of it was not edible. You know that large beef tomato they show to the grill to get a bit of warmth but is cold inside and hard as rock, and the large mushroom that takes up half the plate and has had a similar treatment...I would say 4/10 for this breakfast. I go in the garden centre which is very small and virtually empty of plants. There was an old guy taking the dead bits off plants and repotting them. I asked where the plants were. It is end of season he said, so we are just selling off what we have...2/10 for the garden centre. Next was the farm shop. I went to the chiller cabinets, and put my hand inside, and I realised the chiller cabinet was dripping all over my hand and arm, and the goods inside were beginning to peel off their labels because of the dripping water.and it is in a pool of water. And to top that, the shop assistant was putting new stock on those shelves. I award 0/10 for that.

I left.

I went to my new destination which I wished I had researched before I went.
A SHOCK.
I had read of these springing up during Covid lockdowns. There were a few farm shops who did this.
They had gone over totally to vending machines. You had to take your own container for the milk, and put it under this vending machine, press a button and out comes your milk. Loose, so to speak. Then the meat is prepackaged and in the vending machines. And a woman prospective customer said to me. They're out of date at the front. I looked and they were. You didn't even have the pleasure of foraging at the back of the shelf to find a more in date product as you would in a shop. Eggs from the vending machines also. So, you put your money in (credit card actually), and the eggs come to the front and drop down...presumably ready scrambled for you...Could I give this 1/10 for enterprise?

I left.

I went home disillusioned, went to bed, went to sleep.
Can I wake up in a different world?

And I checked my local Tesco Express on the way home for some sausages. Alas no, the chiller and freezer cabinets are still dripping and broken with the heat, and the engineer was still trying to repair them. 0/10 for my local Tesco Express...

Creative this morning, a kaleidoscope in Laboscope. My tomatoes. I had some with my morning cuppa.

Noah's Ark is definitely needed here.

Tell yourself it is a beautiful day. I am going to have another nap...


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Oh such a disappointing search for a decent farm shop but some lovely tomatoes
 
gennepher said:
I only have one iron, the Art iron, wax and goodness knows what on it. I could iron a piece of paper and it would paint its own painting @dunelm

I love the finished treatment of this painting.
The yellow for background is perfect to me....
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Thank you @gennepher - wonder if you should dig out that iron and see what it comes up with.
 
ianpspurs said:
Hello everyone on what seems to be a largely underwhelming Tuesday for the assembled multitude. @gennepher hug for the hideous shopping experiences. 0/10 for those but 15/10 for the kaleidoscope. Thanks for helping me define @dunelm's background colour. I would never have picked yellow. Your tomatoes are absolutely yellow to me, that colour never (sludge?). @dunelm thanks for the art and hug for the too early waking but at least it isn't deepest, darkest, coldest winter. @Krystyna23040 hug for the higher fbg and tiredness. You may feel your age but a fiver says you don't look anywhere near and have more energy than someone 25 years younger. Somehow fitbit feels I was 349 active minutes down last week but my resting heart rate dropped a beat. I hope you had a wonderful time on the motorbike yesterday @alf_Josiah. Just remember we are living the dream. Anyone saying otherwise is just remoaning. All the big calls were made correctly and the world is our Lobster. Nonetheless it may just be prudent to take care and weigh the evidence carefully as history may be more felicitous to the facts.
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Thanks @ianpspurs and I shall keep that in mind when it is deepest, darkest, coldest winter and I have to light the fire at 5am and then hold a sheet from some posh newspaper against the fireplace to get it going.
 
Good morning all. What interesting lives we all lead. My HbA1c result came back as 77mm/l. I think that equates to 9.2 in old money but am not sure. Anyway I had a message from the GP surgery asking me to make an appointment with a doctor to discuss my results. I rang to do so and was given the first available routine telephone appointment in 2 weeks time but it was suggested that if I logged into Patient Access at 8.30am each morning I could book one earlier subject to availability. I did so this morning but there was no equivalent telephone options just face to face ones which I had presumed were emergency ones for people who are ill. I booked one for 3pm this afternoon. For some reason I feel quite nervous as my journey has been complicated, including the addition of several new medications for other conditions, and the 10 minute appointment seems very short to ensure he takes it all into account when prescribing me new medication. My cholesterol level has also increased but I have proved intolerant to all statins and equivalents so prefer to concentrate on reducing my blood sugar levels as they can cause more damage than cholesterol imo. Sorry to drone on but I really hate feeling out of control and am becoming unusually anxious. :nailbiting:

On a lighter note we were expecting the delivery of some patio furniture at 12 o'clock. Just after breakfast Mr. D decided to nip out to get some basic food shopping whilst I had my shower so we would be ready for when it arrived. I was just about to go for my shower when the doorbell rang and outside was a delivery van. In my dressing gown I opened the door to find 2 men unloading several huge boxes onto our drive. They had to carry everything through the house as the passageway at the side of the house was too narrow for the largest box. When they unpacked the set one of the chairs and one footstool were twisted out of shape so had to be taken back. Mr. D arrived back in time to help set things out but then it decided to pour down with rain . We then discovered that the base to the parasol would not fit in the space below the table. when the chairs were in place. It will be useful to use with other furniture and we can still put the parasol in the centre hole of the table when it is not windy. You just have to smile! :D Best wishes to all.:)
 
dogslife said:
Good morning all. What interesting lives we all lead. My HbA1c result came back as 77mm/l. I think that equates to 9.2 in old money but am not sure. Anyway I had a message from the GP surgery asking me to make an appointment with a doctor to discuss my results. I rang to do so and was given the first available routine telephone appointment in 2 weeks time but it was suggested that if I logged into Patient Access at 8.30am each morning I could book one earlier subject to availability. I did so this morning but there was no equivalent telephone options just face to face ones which I had presumed were emergency ones for people who are ill. I booked one for 3pm this afternoon. For some reason I feel quite nervous as my journey has been complicated, including the addition of several new medications for other conditions, and the 10 minute appointment seems very short to ensure he takes it all into account when prescribing me new medication. My cholesterol level has also increased but I have proved intolerant to all statins and equivalents so prefer to concentrate on reducing my blood sugar levels as they can cause more damage than cholesterol imo. Sorry to drone on but I really hate feeling out of control and am becoming unusually anxious. :nailbiting:

On a lighter note we were expecting the delivery of some patio furniture at 12 o'clock. Just after breakfast Mr. D decided to nip out to get some basic food shopping whilst I had my shower so we would be ready for when it arrived. I was just about to go for my shower when the doorbell rang and outside was a delivery van. In my dressing gown I opened the door to find 2 men unloading several huge boxes onto our drive. They had to carry everything through the house as the passageway at the side of the house was too narrow for the largest box. When they unpacked the set one of the chairs and one footstool were twisted out of shape so had to be taken back. Mr. D arrived back in time to help set things out but then it decided to pour down with rain . We then discovered that the base to the parasol would not fit in the space below the table. when the chairs were in place. It will be useful to use with other furniture and we can still put the parasol in the centre hole of the table when it is not windy. You just have to smile! :D Best wishes to all.:)
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A very busy morning!
You need a rest now @dogslife
 
dogslife said:
Good morning all. What interesting lives we all lead. My HbA1c result came back as 77mm/l. I think that equates to 9.2 in old money but am not sure. Anyway I had a message from the GP surgery asking me to make an appointment with a doctor to discuss my results. I rang to do so and was given the first available routine telephone appointment in 2 weeks time but it was suggested that if I logged into Patient Access at 8.30am each morning I could book one earlier subject to availability. I did so this morning but there was no equivalent telephone options just face to face ones which I had presumed were emergency ones for people who are ill. I booked one for 3pm this afternoon. For some reason I feel quite nervous as my journey has been complicated, including the addition of several new medications for other conditions, and the 10 minute appointment seems very short to ensure he takes it all into account when prescribing me new medication. My cholesterol level has also increased but I have proved intolerant to all statins and equivalents so prefer to concentrate on reducing my blood sugar levels as they can cause more damage than cholesterol imo. Sorry to drone on but I really hate feeling out of control and am becoming unusually anxious. :nailbiting:

On a lighter note we were expecting the delivery of some patio furniture at 12 o'clock. Just after breakfast Mr. D decided to nip out to get some basic food shopping whilst I had my shower so we would be ready for when it arrived. I was just about to go for my shower when the doorbell rang and outside was a delivery van. In my dressing gown I opened the door to find 2 men unloading several huge boxes onto our drive. They had to carry everything through the house as the passageway at the side of the house was too narrow for the largest box. When they unpacked the set one of the chairs and one footstool were twisted out of shape so had to be taken back. Mr. D arrived back in time to help set things out but then it decided to pour down with rain . We then discovered that the base to the parasol would not fit in the space below the table. when the chairs were in place. It will be useful to use with other furniture and we can still put the parasol in the centre hole of the table when it is not windy. You just have to smile! :D Best wishes to all.:)
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The pleasure of hearing from you is offset by reading that you are anxious and the issues with the patio furniture. I hope the face to face appointment proves useful.
 
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dogslife said:
Good morning all. What interesting lives we all lead. My HbA1c result came back as 77mm/l. I think that equates to 9.2 in old money but am not sure. Anyway I had a message from the GP surgery asking me to make an appointment with a doctor to discuss my results. I rang to do so and was given the first available routine telephone appointment in 2 weeks time but it was suggested that if I logged into Patient Access at 8.30am each morning I could book one earlier subject to availability. I did so this morning but there was no equivalent telephone options just face to face ones which I had presumed were emergency ones for people who are ill. I booked one for 3pm this afternoon. For some reason I feel quite nervous as my journey has been complicated, including the addition of several new medications for other conditions, and the 10 minute appointment seems very short to ensure he takes it all into account when prescribing me new medication. My cholesterol level has also increased but I have proved intolerant to all statins and equivalents so prefer to concentrate on reducing my blood sugar levels as they can cause more damage than cholesterol imo. Sorry to drone on but I really hate feeling out of control and am becoming unusually anxious. :nailbiting:

On a lighter note we were expecting the delivery of some patio furniture at 12 o'clock. Just after breakfast Mr. D decided to nip out to get some basic food shopping whilst I had my shower so we would be ready for when it arrived. I was just about to go for my shower when the doorbell rang and outside was a delivery van. In my dressing gown I opened the door to find 2 men unloading several huge boxes onto our drive. They had to carry everything through the house as the passageway at the side of the house was too narrow for the largest box. When they unpacked the set one of the chairs and one footstool were twisted out of shape so had to be taken back. Mr. D arrived back in time to help set things out but then it decided to pour down with rain . We then discovered that the base to the parasol would not fit in the space below the table. when the chairs were in place. It will be useful to use with other furniture and we can still put the parasol in the centre hole of the table when it is not windy. You just have to smile! :D Best wishes to all.:)
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Busy, busy and such a shame that the patio furniture had issues. All the best with the telephone conversation with your GP.
 
dunelm said:
Busy, busy and such a shame that the patio furniture had issues. All the best with the telephone conversation with your GP.
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Thank you @dunelm. The appointment was face to face with a doctor. He has increased my Gliclizide from 2/day to 3/day alongside my 2x metformin then will retest my HbA1c and liver function in 3 months. The reassuring news was that if I can get my blood sugars down to normal it is possible to reverse my non-alcoholic fatty liver which was one of my main concerns. I now feel more positive that I have something to work towards. Thanks again for bothering to reply.
 
ianpspurs said:
The pleasure of hearing from you is offset by reading that you are anxious and the issues with the patio furniture. I hope the face to face appointment proves useful.
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Thank you@ianpspurs. I feel less anxious now that I have something to work towards as detailed in my reply to dunelm. The patio furniture is just one of life's minor blips. Best wishes. :)
 
gennepher said:
A very busy morning!
You need a rest now @dogslife
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Thank you @gennepher. Just as we were setting off to the doctors I got a message from friends to ask if they could visit. They were waiting outside the house when we got home and stayed for quite a while having a lovely catch up whilst drinking tea. So we got to use the new patio furniture earlier than we thought. Just had our evening meal so now for that rest you mentioned. Best wishes to you. :)
 
dogslife said:
Thank you @gennepher. Just as we were setting off to the doctors I got a message from friends to ask if they could visit. They were waiting outside the house when we got home and stayed for quite a while having a lovely catch up whilst drinking tea. So we got to use the new patio furniture earlier than we thought. Just had our evening meal so now for that rest you mentioned. Best wishes to you. :)
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That was fantastic you got to test out the new garden furniture so quickly @dogslife
Enjoy your rest...
 
dogslife said:
Thank you @dunelm. The appointment was face to face with a doctor. He has increased my Gliclizide from 2/day to 3/day alongside my 2x metformin then will retest my HbA1c and liver function in 3 months. The reassuring news was that if I can get my blood sugars down to normal it is possible to reverse my non-alcoholic fatty liver which was one of my main concerns. I now feel more positive that I have something to work towards. Thanks again for bothering to reply.
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Really good news that your non-alcoholic fatty liver will reverse when blood sugars lower.
 
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