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

[jjraak]

I thought yesterday was a good day but Fitbit suggests some post Paxlovid rebound

Aw, let's hope it's mild or a glitch

 

[jjraak]

Doctor phoned yesterday. Kidney and liver function blah blah, “you have a big heart”

Another wish , (can never have too many ) that Mondays visit is just a formality & needs very little to rectify.

 

[jjraak]

The plus today was my car passed it's MOT with flying colours

A win.

Let's hope the keys/battery prognosis is spot on

 

[gennepher]

05.11
835am FBG 5.2 ??? had expected a high because of snacking on bread last night. However I was noticeably bloated today, had to let my belt out.
@gennepher if you can get some Feliway spray it's marvellous for calming nervous cats. The spray contains an artificial version of the pheromones in a cats cheek glands. The ones they use to mark all their favourite things and places. Usually available in pet shops or from vets. I used it for visits to the vet and travelling. We don't have fireworks night here.

Thanks @SlimLizzy I'll get some of that for next time.
Ah, it is on Amazon. I've ordered some, coming tomorrow. Fireworks goes on pretty much all week here...at least.
I just remembered I bought a box of pet homeopathic remedies for cats, for Popeye. There is one I can use to calm a cat....

 

[gennepher]

A win.

Let's hope the keys/battery prognosis is spot on

Thanks @jjraak
I hope so too, but you know car garages...

 

[gennepher]

Smashing - you are on a roll here. I hope that tonight is not too noisy for you all.

Thank you very much @dunelm
I hope so too.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone and welcome to another au jour de hui here in the cosmopolitan dark and dangerous north. Some folk will be burning effigies of those start struck lovers Liz and Lettuce tonight, let’s hope they do it quietly so as not to disturb her phone which now resides in a safe within a safe inside the Kremlin. Christmas gifts. We use to congregate at the parents at Christmas and mum would write letters to us all (for that was before the 5th coming) and make declarations like, “no present to cost more than £5” (cost adjustments can be made if you are still on triple locked Maundy Money). Doctor phoned yesterday. Kidney and liver function blah blah, “you have a big heart”. - “Why thank you kind sir”. - “NO, not that. Come and see me on Monday, I need to warm my very expensive stethoscope upon thy chest but worry not, people can die of mere imagination”. - very Chaucer!
Art bit - moving along. Have a good day if you can. My koffy is now ready.


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Drawing you in even further @dunelm

Hope Monday's visit goes well.

 

[gennepher]

Penny for the guy day here is grey and wet so far. They may need some accelerant in Edenbridge to ignite the lettuce. I've never been to their bonfire but I liked Edenbridge and have played rugby and cricket against their teams - we won both. I thought yesterday was a good day but Fitbit suggests some post Paxlovid rebound. Memo to self, be like Mr Asquith and wait and see. @dunelm that phone call was a bit of a curate's egg. Thank you for sharing your developing art and I hope Monday goes well @gennepher hug for Midnight. Presumably more fireworks tonight but he seems a very sensible cat. Thanks for the splendid leaves in today's creative. @Krystyna23040 good news on minimal side effects but make sure to take any breaks you can. @Annb I hope Alistair and yourself can have a day celebrating his birthday. @lindisfel sad story of the cat but you must have plenty of residual strength if you can still haul 25kgs peanuts about. The old Fen Boys and Girls would have collapsed with laughter at those limits. Plenty of sport to watch today but some conflict in my mind about how the need to win, the profit motive, dubious ownership/sponsorship, broadcast rights and concussion damage to the athletes in modern sport squares with Philippians 4:8. Have a spiffing day but be careful. Genn, I hope you can get a transcript.

Oh my goodness @ianpspurs
That is hilarious.
Yup I got captions for it!

 

[lindisfel]

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.many thanks jjraak

 

[gennepher]

We have just had the first loud firework at 17:52
Midnight was startled.
He is on my tummy, and purring his head off.
He can stay here all night if the bangs go on.
I need music streamed to my head now so I cannot hear the firework explosions. Vibrations of explosions bring back bad feelings and emotions and memories of a traumatic time for me. As they must do so for many others.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Here is Kiki on MrSlims lap, exhausted after being rescued four times in an hour from the same tree. She didn't learn how to get down, but knowing how to be rescued without scratching and biting is an improvement. Was it yesterday I left her to find her own way down from a different tree. One with a prop so she should have been ok, but instead she elected for the long drop - of several metres. Now am not happy to leave her when she is crying to get down.

 

[gennepher]

Here is Kiki on MrSlims lap, exhausted after being rescued four times in an hour from the same tree. She didn't learn how to get down, but knowing how to be rescued without scratching and biting is an improvement. Was it yesterday I left her to find her own way down from a different tree. One with a prop so she should have been ok, but instead she elected for the long drop - of several metres. Now am not happy to leave her when she is crying to get down.
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I had one cat who could climb up but never learnt how to climb down @SlimLizzy
But I think Kiki will learn how to get down. She will find her own technique...

 

[jjraak]

Here is Kiki on MrSlims lap, exhausted after being rescued four times in an hour from the same tree. She didn't learn how to get down, but knowing how to be rescued without scratching and biting is an improvement. Was it yesterday I left her to find her own way down from a different tree. One with a prop so she should have been ok, but instead she elected for the long drop - of several metres. Now am not happy to leave her when she is crying to get down.
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Such a gorgeous picture.

Loving the contented look, safe in Mr slims arm...<heart>

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.6

YouTube
Cat, Midnight, snarls at the badger I call Kissy Kissy.
But she comes back again for almost nose to nose contact...
At the far end of the swing on the ground near the end, you will see a pair of eyes. These belong to cat Jade, who is wandering around the same time as the badger.

Creative is autumn.
Well, the painting in Procreate is not yet finished, but I ran out of time (because YouTube was playing up with me as I was uploading the above video.). I need to get on with the day.
And so I tried a photo of my bedroom door and did a double exposure, with the painting on top.
I quite like this.
I will finish the painting for tomorrow!

Have a good day.
A large black cat needs feeding and I need a cuppa.

Large black cat kept me warm all night. He was hugging my chest. The firework noise was relentless, but I think he was calmed by my heartbeat.

Have a good day.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from what may be cunningly disguised as a “nice day” here in the dark and dangerous north. A smattering of sunshine is just the ticket to lure one out before it all clouds over and you wish that you had put on your string or liberty vest. Or both! - there is no such thing as bad weather though, just the wrong clothes. Probably proven by fashionably wearing Ugg Boots when it’s chucking it down with freezing winter rain. Still, it’s a stroll along the promenade this morning and perhaps watch the RNLI Sunday lifeboat drills. Please let’s have a tourist who can’t read the signs parking on the slipway - always a bit of fun as the submersible tractor pushes the odd 4WD down the ramp. Art bit - best start colouring in now. Have a smashing Sunday if you can. My koffy is now consumed.

 

[Krystyna23040]

good news on minimal side effects but make sure to take any breaks you can.

Of course you can guess that I didn't and also did too much demonstrating of deep slow squats. So today, although the tiredness has gone I now have some sore leg muscles. I don't usually get sore muscles so maybe this is a vaccine side effect.
Although maybe it is because this week was extra busy. I had several 18K+ days and demonstrated probably nearly 200 really slow squats.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Our friends daughter lives on a farm and loving cats, she has many. One an old white cat is deaf and decided to go to sleep under her car in the garage.
Sadly she took the car out and the cat didn't wake up and was run over and killed. She was very upset.

That is so sad. No wonder she was so upset.

This happened at my venue in Norwich. The class member didn't see the cat asleep under her car. I rang the RSPCA to ask if I could take it in for them to scan for a chip and inform the owner. They said no and advised me to throw it in the dustbin.

I couldn't do that so rang one of the church elders to ask for his vet's telephone number. He very kindly rushed over and took the cat to his vet. The lady who owned the cat was so grateful that she was able to bury her cat. She said that the cat was deaf and wouldn't have heard the car start up.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone from what may be cunningly disguised as a “nice day” here in the dark and dangerous north. A smattering of sunshine is just the ticket to lure one out before it all clouds over and you wish that you had put on your string or liberty vest. Or both! - there is no such thing as bad weather though, just the wrong clothes. Probably proven by fashionably wearing Ugg Boots when it’s chucking it down with freezing winter rain. Still, it’s a stroll along the promenade this morning and perhaps watch the RNLI Sunday lifeboat drills. Please let’s have a tourist who can’t read the signs parking on the slipway - always a bit of fun as the submersible tractor pushes the odd 4WD down the ramp. Art bit - best start colouring in now. Have a smashing Sunday if you can. My koffy is now consumed.


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A lot of depth now to this long walkway...

Enjoy your walk @dunelm

 

[gennepher]

That is so sad. No wonder she was so upset.

This happened at my venue in Norwich. The class member didn't see the cat asleep under her car. I rang the RSPCA to ask if I could take it in for them to scan for a chip and inform the owner. They said no and advised me to throw it in the dustbin.

I couldn't do that so rang one of the church elders to ask for his vet's telephone number. He very kindly rushed over and took the cat to his vet. The lady who owned the cat was so grateful that she was able to bury her cat. She said that the cat was deaf and wouldn't have heard the car start up.

It is important to know what happened to your cat. To give we some closure as well.
@lindisfel Yes, it was sad about that white cat

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.0 this morning. We are having a relaxing day as the weather is truly awful here in mid Norfolk. So lots and lots of coffee will be consumed and lots of reading done. I think Mr K is watchIng rugby this afternoon on Amazon prime