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

[Krystyna23040]

Appointment went as well as possible thanks. We actually had a hot tub party and barbeque today.

Good that the appointment went as well as possible. The hot tub party and barbeque sounds like it was a lovely way to spend a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Hello friends

Fbg this morning around 8am was 5.0

Had a busy week, but tomorrow might hop on the train and head to Sydney harbour for the day. Why not on a sunny Sunday

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend
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I have lovely memories of our trips to Sydney Harbour with daughter and family when they lived in Sydney. One year we were there for the fireworks on new years eve. It was a wonderful New Years Eve.

 

[jjraak]

Appointment went as well as possible thanks. We actually had a hot tub party and barbeque today.

Throw in the start of the season win.

I'd say that's very much an 'Elbow day '...


Many more to come, fella

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

Yesterday morning Midnight was hungrier than usual. But it was bucketing down, so I assume there was no nighttime hunting of mice. Jade was also waiting on the other end of the swing, so I realise now she must hunt in the night, and she was hungry yesterday. Last night it didn't rain, and so I assume a successful night's mice hunting, because Midnight was not interested in breakfast at all. He was just interested in following me around the bungalow as I did my little morning jobs. He was obviously still in hunting mode because he checked out my kitchen, and found the spot where the mice come in when it is colder weather. Midnight looked at me with wide eyes. And I said, "That's why you will be Kitchen Cat, in the colder weather."

Jade came in to check the Cat Diner, just had a bite, talked to Midnight, presumably about her successful night's hunting, and left.

Ammy was next. The little black cat. Yesterday she had a heck of a hissy fit with Midnight who was sitting on the swing. She was spitting and hissing and arching her back and slashing with her claws (as she usually does). But Midnight just watched her impassively. Ammy just did not stop venting her anger yesterday at Midnight. So, Midnight jumped off the swing. Ammy retreated, still spitting and hissing. But Midnight slowly followed her, then sat down in front of her in his calm manner, and Ammy sort of lost her fire and retreated.

This morning, Ammy came in, rushing in, in her usual manner. She appears not to be a naturally calm cat, but constantly agitated. But she didn't hiss and spit at Midnight this morning, but wandered around the cat food dishes, not sure whether it was safe to eat or not. She didn't dare take a bite. Midnight is watching from above on the swing seat (the cat dishes are all below the swing seat protected from the elements). Ammy looks at me, and I talk calmly to her (my bedroom door is open to the garden as usual, and I am sitting on the bed drinking my cuppa watching). I tell her softly she is the most beautiful cat in the world, and other sweet nothings. She thinks about the food, but leaves in a more calm manner. She hasn't quite learnt the morning routine with Midnight yet.

Next is one of the Gingers. He knows the routine. He walked in calmly, and up to the swing, looks over the seat (inches in front of Midnight's face), acknowledges Midnight, gets the approval to eat, and the Ginger polishes off the rest of the cat food.

Jade knows this routine. Ammy has yet to learn it. And once she does, she will find she can eat at her leisure and in complete safety. She will learn to chill out.

A refill needed in the Cat Diner now, of everything.

And refills needed for the birds as well. I was going to talk something really interesting (at least to me) about them this morning. If nothing else crops up before tomorrow then that might be tomorrow's post...

Oh, and yesterday, Midnight came up to my bed. I'd made my morning cuppas, and got back on the bed with my iPad, when suddenly Midnight jumped. He settled himself comfortably on the very edge of the bed (for the very first time ever), alongside my leg, put his head on my foot, and went to sleep. But he didn't do that this morning. I think he is training me slowly...

Creative is a kaleidoscope in Laboscope of another photo I took of the yesterday's postbox.

Another cuppa, then feed the wild beasts...

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It’s all go at the most popular cafe in town. Smashing kaleidoscopic cooperation with Laboscope.

 

[dunelm]

Wow!
That tree is a whole landscape in itself @dunelm
Enjoy the deep dark woods, and the ever changing sea...

Thank you @gennepher

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on another ‘all things bright and beautiful’ start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. The girl in the bubble is still snoozing upstairs but I dare say that it will be down to the cafe for toast and butter later - and after breakfast of course! Planning. Plans are afoot. A trip down to Bristol next weekend to see my brother via a stop over in Brum to see the ninky nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse. Their school has, for reasons unknown to the sensible, changed the school uniform colour from blue to bottle green so new cardigans are needed for the girls - how crazy is that? It’s an inner city primary school for goodness sake not Queen Ethelburga’s School for young ladies. Anyhow. Art bit - yesterdays beginnings now finished and we even managed a walk into town and back. Have a pleasant valley Sunday and listen to music of the 60’s. I will of course need koffy for that.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.6

I said I was going to talk about birds today.
I've written a few times before about Mrs Bluetit and her entourage.
She comes in the garden with Little Miss (sparrow), Mr Greatit, Mr Robin, the little dunnock, and sometimes Mrs Wren joins them.

The last two weeks I have been observing a new grouping which is out there now on the bird feeders as I am writing this.
It is the new Mr Blackbird who is Mrs Blackbird's second husband, after the rogue first husband got driven away because he was so horrible to everyone.. The new Mr Blackird is a nice soul. He has taken under his wing (almost literally), a new group of sparrows which includes some late baby sparrows still being fed by their parents. i have been watching them along the edge of my garage roof. Mr Blackbird flies up first, and calls from there. Suddenly rising as if in a cloud, about 30 or more sparrows come in, and line up on the edge of the garage roof, either side of Mr Blackbird. He must give a signal of some sort, because in unison all the sparrows descend on the feeders, and there is playful fighting and squabbling and feeding. It looks like they are enjoying life. I have put a couple of extra feeders up to help out.
This new Mr Blackbird keeps an eye open for them. I haven't seen any predators. He even comes up to Midnight sitting on the swing and has a few words with him, presumably about leaving his sparrow flock alone. Midnight just sits impassively. Then Mr Blackbird feeds off the ground from all the bits his sparrow flock drops with their untidy eating.
It is extraordinarily noisy out there, and I have my cochlear sound processor tuned down to the lowest in every setting I have on it.

I have mentioned before about an uplighter I had, that went on fire in my bungalow. And I converted it into a bird table. I did have seeds and stuff in it, but Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) and Mr Magpie used to come in, and it was too small for them and their weight, and it kept tilting over. So now, when I sweep up the concrete path, I put all that dry soil into the uplighter bowl. At first the sparrows used it as a dust bath, but I don't know what was in the last lot of dry soil I put in, because there are about 15 sparrows in there now in the uplighter bowl, all pecking/feeding at something. I am presuming there might be a lot of seeds in it, or grit, or insects. Whatever it is, it is immensely popular with this lot of sparrows. They are literally landing on top of each other to get at it.

Creative is a kaleidoscope in Laboscope. This was the first photo I took this morning. I accidentally took it as I was holding the iPad. I like the way Laboscope interacts with fabrics and patterns on the bed. Those fluid shapes are rather comforting...

Fresh coffee and tea now...going on the hunt for them.

Have a good day.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Good morning everyone on another ‘all things bright and beautiful’ start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. The girl in the bubble is still snoozing upstairs but I dare say that it will be down to the cafe for toast and butter later - and after breakfast of course! Planning. Plans are afoot. A trip down to Bristol next weekend to see my brother via a stop over in Brum to see the ninky nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse. Their school has, for reasons unknown to the sensible, changed the school uniform colour from blue to bottle green so new cardigans are needed for the girls - how crazy is that? It’s an inner city primary school for goodness sake not Queen Ethelburga’s School for young ladies. Anyhow. Art bit - yesterdays beginnings now finished and we even managed a walk into town and back. Have a pleasant valley Sunday and listen to music of the 60’s. I will of course need koffy for that.


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I do especially love your art work today.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Fbg 6.6

I said I was going to talk about birds today.
I've written a few times before about Mrs Bluetit and her entourage.
She comes in the garden with Little Miss (sparrow), Mr Greatit, Mr Robin, the little dunnock, and sometimes Mrs Wren joins them.

The last two weeks I have been observing a new grouping which is out there now on the bird feeders as I am writing this.
It is the new Mr Blackbird who is Mrs Blackbird's second husband, after the rogue first husband got driven away because he was so horrible to everyone.. The new Mr Blackird is a nice soul. He has taken under his wing (almost literally), a new group of sparrows which includes some late baby sparrows still being fed by their parents. i have been watching them along the edge of my garage roof. Mr Blackbird flies up first, and calls from there. Suddenly rising as if in a cloud, about 30 or more sparrows come in, and line up on the edge of the garage roof, either side of Mr Blackbird. He must give a signal of some sort, because in unison all the sparrows descend on the feeders, and there is playful fighting and squabbling and feeding. It looks like they are enjoying life. I have put a couple of extra feeders up to help out.
This new Mr Blackbird keeps an eye open for them. I haven't seen any predators. He even comes up to Midnight sitting on the swing and has a few words with him, presumably about leaving his sparrow flock alone. Midnight just sits impassively. Then Mr Blackbird feeds off the ground from all the bits his sparrow flock drops with their untidy eating.
It is extraordinarily noisy out there, and I have my cochlear sound processor tuned down to the lowest in every setting I have on it.

I have mentioned before about an uplighter I had, that went on fire in my bungalow. And I converted it into a bird table. I did have seeds and stuff in it, but Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) and Mr Magpie used to come in, and it was too small for them and their weight, and it kept tilting over. So now, when I sweep up the concrete path, I put all that dry soil into the uplighter bowl. At first the sparrows used it as a dust bath, but I don't know what was in the last lot of dry soil I put in, because there are about 15 sparrows in there now in the uplighter bowl, all pecking/feeding at something. I am presuming there might be a lot of seeds in it, or grit, or insects. Whatever it is, it is immensely popular with this lot of sparrows. They are literally landing on top of each other to get at it.

Creative is a kaleidoscope in Laboscope. This was the first photo I took this morning. I accidentally took it as I was holding the iPad. I like the way Laboscope interacts with fabrics and patterns on the bed. Those fluid shapes are rather comforting...

Fresh coffee and tea now...going on the hunt for them.

Have a good day.


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Lovely kaleidoscope @gennepher. I do love reading your posts about your cats and birds. We used to feed the birds until we got Archie. He thinks that bird food is a gourmet meal and destroyed our bird tables trying to get to the bird food. Luckily we still get lots of sparrows visiting us. We have a pergola thickly covered with honeysuckle and they feed on the insects there. Then have a bath in the stone bird bath. They sound so happy and really noisy. We also do have a blackbird who visits.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.5 this morning. We are off to Gooderstone Water Gardens today for a gentle amble and of course a sausage roll for Mr K, frozen yoghurt for the dogs and a coffee for me.

 

[SlimLizzy]

07.08
8.50am FBG 5.9
I don't feed the birds, much as I would like too. We have two cats, expert hunters living very close by. As we are in the country there us an abundance of natural food available despite my war on the ants. Yes ants are in the kitchen again. However these are different in that they are so tiny it's difficult to see them.
I do put water out and there is constant activity round the water bowls. Many insects come to drink as well as the birds and cats. This morning a robin was bathing in one off the water stations when i had breakfast. It has just occured to me that this could be a problem, for I refill sometimes several times a day. A ten day absence will leave creatures thirsty...I have already accepted that most of the vegetable garden will die, but thirsty creatures, hmmm will have to think of something.

 

[Krystyna23040]

07.08
8.50am FBG 5.9
I don't feed the birds, much as I would like too. We have two cats, expert hunters living very close by. As we are in the country there us an abundance of natural food available despite my war on the ants. Yes ants are in the kitchen again. However these are different in that they are so tiny it's difficult to see them.
I do put water out and there is constant activity round the water bowls. Many insects come to drink as well as the birds and cats. This morning a robin was bathing in one off the water stations when i had breakfast. It has just occured to me that this could be a problem, for I refill sometimes several times a day. A ten day absence will leave creatures thirsty...I have already accepted that most of the vegetable garden will die, but thirsty creatures, hmmm will have to think of something.

We had an invasion of some really tiny ants at the beginning of July. It was the first time I had ever seen such tiny ants. We got rid of them very quickly with some stuff they take back to their nest. It was very effective.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Morening all, Mrs J has just finished talking at me, my plans for today are in tatters, Mrs J has spoken.
Bloods this morning were 8.2 then 8.6 hmmm, not sure why, but as long as it’s below 10 it’s ok for me.
Now I must go and appease Mrs J before she hides my motorcycle keys to stop me riding into the distance.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hello on another sunny, warm and dry day in the Long Hot Summer of '22 here in The Exotic East. So yesterday was, as you say @jjraak, quite the Elbow day. Made the more so by 4 graves back in The Old Country being in immaculate order plus a long cherished visit. The church I attended had been having pews and the floor removed and a new, level, floor laid when we moved. For security it is locked so I was unable to see the finished project. Yesterday was one of their new monthly coffee mornings so not only did I see inside the church but had a long chat with someone. JKP also had a scone (butter, jam, cream and all) which she told me was divine darling, simply divine. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Gooderstone Water Gardens, the sausage roll for Mr K, frozen yoghurt for the dogs and a coffee for yourself. @gennepher thanks for sharing your observations of the birds and today's kaleidoscope. @dunelm thanks for the now blossoming art. Enjoy today with TGIB and the upcoming trip plus time with the Ninky Nonks, LMP, son and then your brother. @Jojo85 I hope your Sydney Harbour trip is as magical as it sounds. Today we host MIL for Sunday lunch plus any sons or grandchildren not yet bored of Nanny's Paddling Pool. We have four grandchildren tomorrow so they may be patient enough to wait. Maybe not a good idea to hold my breath for that. Prayers for the family of Archie Battersbee and so many others in the same desperately tragic situation. Meanwhile, do stay safe and share the love but with careful thought. If that person really doesn’t need you to haul them about, gurn at them, briskly bundle them across a road (or have unwanted goods plonked in their supermarket trolley ) don’t do it, eh?

 

[Krystyna23040]

A change of plan. Mr K's Jaguar needs a new tyre as he must of run over a screw yesterday that has embedded itself in the tyre. As my car doesn't have the dog safety stuff installed there will be no trip to Gooderstone today.

 

[ianpspurs]

A change of plan. Mr K's Jaguar needs a new tyre as he must of run over a screw yesterday that has embedded itself in the tyre. As my car doesn't have the dog safety stuff installed there will be no trip to Gooderstone today.

Do Kwik Fit do coffee and sausage rolls? Asking for concerned of North Norfolk.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.6

I said I was going to talk about birds today.
I've written a few times before about Mrs Bluetit and her entourage.
She comes in the garden with Little Miss (sparrow), Mr Greatit, Mr Robin, the little dunnock, and sometimes Mrs Wren joins them.

The last two weeks I have been observing a new grouping which is out there now on the bird feeders as I am writing this.
It is the new Mr Blackbird who is Mrs Blackbird's second husband, after the rogue first husband got driven away because he was so horrible to everyone.. The new Mr Blackird is a nice soul. He has taken under his wing (almost literally), a new group of sparrows which includes some late baby sparrows still being fed by their parents. i have been watching them along the edge of my garage roof. Mr Blackbird flies up first, and calls from there. Suddenly rising as if in a cloud, about 30 or more sparrows come in, and line up on the edge of the garage roof, either side of Mr Blackbird. He must give a signal of some sort, because in unison all the sparrows descend on the feeders, and there is playful fighting and squabbling and feeding. It looks like they are enjoying life. I have put a couple of extra feeders up to help out.
This new Mr Blackbird keeps an eye open for them. I haven't seen any predators. He even comes up to Midnight sitting on the swing and has a few words with him, presumably about leaving his sparrow flock alone. Midnight just sits impassively. Then Mr Blackbird feeds off the ground from all the bits his sparrow flock drops with their untidy eating.
It is extraordinarily noisy out there, and I have my cochlear sound processor tuned down to the lowest in every setting I have on it.

I have mentioned before about an uplighter I had, that went on fire in my bungalow. And I converted it into a bird table. I did have seeds and stuff in it, but Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) and Mr Magpie used to come in, and it was too small for them and their weight, and it kept tilting over. So now, when I sweep up the concrete path, I put all that dry soil into the uplighter bowl. At first the sparrows used it as a dust bath, but I don't know what was in the last lot of dry soil I put in, because there are about 15 sparrows in there now in the uplighter bowl, all pecking/feeding at something. I am presuming there might be a lot of seeds in it, or grit, or insects. Whatever it is, it is immensely popular with this lot of sparrows. They are literally landing on top of each other to get at it.

Creative is a kaleidoscope in Laboscope. This was the first photo I took this morning. I accidentally took it as I was holding the iPad. I like the way Laboscope interacts with fabrics and patterns on the bed. Those fluid shapes are rather comforting...

Fresh coffee and tea now...going on the hunt for them.

Have a good day.


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The word is spreading amongst the bird population - cats and birds all behaving themselves. Worthy uplighter edition and another splendid kaleidoscope/Laboscope fusion.

 

[dunelm]

I do especially love your art work today.

Why thank you @Krystyna23040 - glad that you liked it

 

[dunelm]

5.5 this morning. We are off to Gooderstone Water Gardens today for a gentle amble and of course a sausage roll for Mr K, frozen yoghurt for the dogs and a coffee for me.

Hope that the sausage roll for Mr K, the frozen yoghurt for the dogs and your coffee are all on par.

 

[dunelm]

Hello on another sunny, warm and dry day in the Long Hot Summer of '22 here in The Exotic East. So yesterday was, as you say @jjraak, quite the Elbow day. Made the more so by 4 graves back in The Old Country being in immaculate order plus a long cherished visit. The church I attended had been having pews and the floor removed and a new, level, floor laid when we moved. For security it is locked so I was unable to see the finished project. Yesterday was one of their new monthly coffee mornings so not only did I see inside the church but had a long chat with someone. JKP also had a scone (butter, jam, cream and all) which she told me was divine darling, simply divine. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Gooderstone Water Gardens, the sausage roll for Mr K, frozen yoghurt for the dogs and a coffee for yourself. @gennepher thanks for sharing your observations of the birds and today's kaleidoscope. @dunelm thanks for the now blossoming art. Enjoy today with TGIB and the upcoming trip plus time with the Ninky Nonks, LMP, son and then your brother. @Jojo85 I hope your Sydney Harbour trip is as magical as it sounds. Today we host MIL for Sunday lunch plus any sons or grandchildren not yet bored of Nanny's Paddling Pool. We have four grandchildren tomorrow so they may be patient enough to wait. Maybe not a good idea to hold my breath for that. Prayers for the family of Archie Battersbee and so many others in the same desperately tragic situation. Meanwhile, do stay safe and share the love but with careful thought. If that person really doesn’t need you to haul them about, gurn at them, briskly bundle them across a road (or have unwanted goods plonked in their supermarket trolley ) don’t do it, eh?

Ah the call of the paddling pool is strong. Enjoy and cherish your time with MIL and the rest of your family.