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

[ianpspurs]

Hello everyone on a cold and frosty morning where hunter gathering needs a through risk assessment. Health and Safety gone mad Wallahs need cancelling - would Ess Tee Ethel Yew Yew be more acceptable?. @Krystyna23040 good news all round

So for once I am being wise.

It'll never last Here there will be roast lamb shoulder for lunch - "home produced by Chris on the Euston Estate near Bury St Edmunds. This way, only the highest quality, full-flavoured and tender meat is available" claims the Farm Shop. Can't vouch for everything else but little things mean a lot. Food Fairy has a cut finger (no, I didn't have here felling trees. No 1 son has done the chain saw courses) so no studding with anchovies, garlic and rosemary but used in the spiffing trivet . I will watch the football later, especially if No 3 son makes it. There has been some wonderful football despite being held in the wrong place (probably?) chosen for all the wrong reasons. I would prefer France to win, captain is a Spurs player, but their superstar has won one WC, is younger than Messi plus my instinct is Argentina needs a lift more than France. Here, in what seems like the dystopian Narnia for now, how about Psalm 144 vv 12-14 for a manifesto? . I’m in, now how we gonna get this done? Thanks to t'internet for that explanation of why the BVM's response meant she wasn’t struck dumb and Zeccariah was. Have a simply wonderful 4th Sunday in Advent - no candles here fire risk. Gentlemen, roasting your chestnuts on an open fire , even with vaccination and masking, could seriously damage your health and put the NHS under undue pressure. Have as wonderful a day as circumstances allow.

 

[jjraak]

6.1 this morning. Feel a little better today, so does Mr K. Archie's tummy is still improving.

Yesterday I did 4.9K steps. My normal days steps are usually between 12K and 19K but it is just too icy underfoot at the moment and of course it is wise to stay in the warm when you are ill. So for once I am being wise.

Channeling your inner Mr K.
Mrs K ?....I like it ...

There's always tomorrow...

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.7

You Tube video from wildlife trail cameras...
Cats passing in the night...

Bitter cold here and windy and snowing

Creative is a snowy day...

Too bitter to even look out of the window...

Going back to sleep..

Someone in the district near me has a generator going, and it stinks. Making my stomach feel sick...

Talking with the assistant in the charity shop yesterday where I bought two great all wool crocheted blankets. She was saying many people in this area had turned off their electricity and gas, and one person had even turned off their water (really???) and was utilising rainwater (enough of it), and that same person was in the public library in the day to keep warm (there's a loo there) and charging all their devices and phone at the library...


Going to sleep for a bit...

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone, only a slight dusting of snow here rather than the 12” up in Swaledale and now they have no electricity for the next few hours. Our morning wandering round the ice sculptures was very pleasant yesterday and I managed 4 miles of walking thanks to having the foresight to gobble down a couple of mind expanding drugs. This coming week we will need to focus on sprouts - will two each be sufficient? It used to be so easy - just another fancy Sunday lunch but these days people can get so picky - easiest solution - don’t invite anyone. Just copy images of over the top feasts from Hare and Hounds or The Bunty, post onto your facebook page and have a bacon butty. Art bit - more detail added to the steps. I hope you all have a wonderful day. I shall now make koffy and riddle the fire.


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Time worn steps @dunelm
Great detail...

You had a successful walk yesterday!

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 6.7

You Tube video from wildlife trail cameras...
Cats passing in the night...

Bitter cold here and windy and snowing

Creative is a snowy day...

Too bitter to even look out of the window...

Going back to sleep..

Someone in the district near me has a generator going, and it stinks. Making my stomach feel sick...

Talking with the assistant in the charity shop yesterday where I bought two great all wool crocheted blankets. She was saying many people in this area had turned off their electricity and gas, and one person had even turned off their water (really???) and was utilising rainwater (enough of it), and that same person was in the public library in the day to keep warm (there's a loo there, they're going to stink the library out, I mean who normally does number twos out of their home, except in emergency...) and charging all their devices and phone at the library...


Going to sleep for a bit...

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Hug for the smell from the generator and the cold. Good news on the warm blankets. Thank you for the ambivalent creative - bleak or the promise of light and new life to come? Tragedy for those reduced to turning everything off. Some libraries are in multi use complexes and do have showers and offer hot food as well as food banks so that poor person could keep clean, warm and have food as well. Two links seem to twin well with your creative, for me anyhow. Why is UK in such a mess? Where is this hope of things improving? As I posted earlier, I'm in. How do we get this done between us? Not by more of the attached.which is not resolute Olly, just insane according to a misquoted Einstein.

 

[gennepher]

Thanks for the latest development of the art and good news on the 4 miles walking - all in one go or with rests? Pace kills not distance? Bacon butty is easy eh? High welfare pigs? What breed? Nitrites - may as well smoke while breaking up asbestos. Was a disgraced MP lobbying for the producer? That's before the provenace and carb count of the bread or roll. If used was the butter grass fed? Source of sauce and is the container fully recyclable? Grumpy Old Men passed its sell by date and became a political project called Nigel years ago . Carly Swoon says hi. Lyrics

Interesting words for those lyrics @ianpspurs

I had no idea until recently with you posting lyrics, that there were so many meaningful words and phrases within songs...

 

[gennepher]

Hug for the smell from the generator and the cold. Good news on the warm blankets. Thank you for the ambivalent creative - bleak or the promise of light and new life to come? Tragedy for those reduced to turning everything off. Some libraries are in multi use complexes and do have showers and offer hot food as well as food banks so that poor person could keep clean, warm and have food as well. Two links seem to twin well with your creative for me anyhow. Why is UK in such a mess? Where is this hope of things improving? As I posted earlier, I'm in. How do we get this done between us? Not by more of the attached.which is not resolute Olly, just insane according to a misquoted Einstein.

Our library, is just a small library building on its own, no showers, nor food available there, no cuppas either...
The food bank is now at the Sally Army on a Friday morning. There used to be one in the docks, but that one's shut down...
And so has the Trussell Trust shut down the shop they originally used in the HighStreet.
But you can still make donations of food for the Trussell Trust (I do), at the funeral parlour...

 

[jjraak]

links seem to twin well with your creative for me anyhow. Why is UK in such a mess?

What a marvelous piece, speaking honestly of the nature of our current leadership.

While many might see it as anti Tory, I see it as anti THESE tories.

Both (all parties) two sides of the same coin previously, just one shinier then the other in certain departments.

But under Johnson, it's become a mafia based soap.
And the risk the brigand of honesty, pillager of truth, would even be given the feintest of thoughts, let alone considered a saviour....AAAGGHH.

Cheers for posting.

 

[ianpspurs]

What a marvelous piece, speaking honestly of the nature of our current leadership.

While many might see it as anti Tory, I see it as anti THESE tories.

Both (all parties) two sides of the same coin previously, just one shinier then the other in certain departments.

But under Johnson, it's become a mafia based soap.
And the risk the brigand of honesty, pillager of truth, would even be given the feintest of thoughts, let alone considered a saviour....AAAGGHH.

Cheers for posting.

You're welcome. As for all being the same or Starmer just being a more compassionate version, any marginal gain has to grabbed with both hands. @gennepher at least Hancock lobbied hard for this which is supposed to be a blueprint for the future. As for song lyrics. I'm glad they are useful. I think God uses family, sport and song lyrics to speak to me most clearly. He seems to use family ,creativity, friendships and wildlife for you. Whichever way He uses it is personal and just right for that person which is obvious.

 

[Annb]

Hello everyone on a cold and frosty morning where hunter gathering needs a through risk assessment. Health and Safety gone mad Wallahs need cancelling - would Ess Tee Ethel Yew Yew be more acceptable?. @Krystyna23040 good news all round

It'll never last Here there will be roast lamb shoulder for lunch - "home produced by Chris on the Euston Estate near Bury St Edmunds. This way, only the highest quality, full-flavoured and tender meat is available" claims the Farm Shop. Can't vouch for everything else but little things mean a lot. Food Fairy has a cut finger (no, I didn't have here felling trees. No 1 son has done the chain saw courses) so no studding with anchovies, garlic and rosemary but used in the spiffing trivet . I will watch the football later, especially if No 3 son makes it. There has been some wonderful football despite being held in the wrong place (probably?) chosen for all the wrong reasons. I would prefer France to win, captain is a Spurs player, but their superstar has won one WC, is younger than Messi plus my instinct is Argentina needs a lift more than France. Here, in what seems like the dystopian Narnia for now, how about Psalm 144 vv 12-14 for a manifesto? . I’m in, now how we gonna get this done? Thanks to t'internet for that explanation of why the BVM's response meant she wasn’t struck dumb and Zeccariah was. Have a simply wonderful 4th Sunday in Advent - no candles here fire risk. Gentlemen, roasting your chestnuts on an open fire , even with vaccination and masking, could seriously damage your health and put the NHS under undue pressure. Have as wonderful a day as circumstances allow.

12 Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
14 our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

A great aim, Iain, apart from the thousands of sheep and the poor hard-worked oxen. A bit heavy on the environment and a bit heavy on the oxen. But, for the time it was composed, it was well worth aiming for.

FBG today 8.4 - climbed before breakfast to 11.9 but now down to 7.9. Pretty reasonable for me.

 

[Krystyna23040]

It'll never last

Yes, you were right @ianpspurs. Archie was so fed up with the no walk today rule that we gave in and took the dogs out for a walk along the icy pavements.

 

[dunelm]

Thanks for the latest development of the art and good news on the 4 miles walking - all in one go or with rests? Pace kills not distance? Bacon butty is easy eh? High welfare pigs? What breed? Nitrites - may as well smoke while breaking up asbestos. Was a disgraced MP lobbying for the producer? That's before the provenace and carb count of the bread or roll. If used was the butter grass fed? Source of sauce and is the container fully recyclable? Grumpy Old Men passed its sell by date and became a political project called Nigel years ago . Carly Swoon says hi. Lyrics

Thanks @ianpspurs and the 4 miles was in two slices interspersed with a stop in a cafe for refreshments. Don’t worry about the bacon butties up here. We know it’s called a bacon butty but that is just a generic term for anything grass fed shoved between 2 slices of locally baked bread, packed with low carb sawdust. We always buy in the local shop, for local people, where milk is turned to butter by the butcher’s wife by just frowning at it. Sauce? What sauce.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

You Tube video from wildlife trail cameras...
Cats passing in the night...

Bitter cold here and windy and snowing

Creative is a snowy day...

Too bitter to even look out of the window...

Going back to sleep..

Someone in the district near me has a generator going, and it stinks. Making my stomach feel sick...

Talking with the assistant in the charity shop yesterday where I bought two great all wool crocheted blankets. She was saying many people in this area had turned off their electricity and gas, and one person had even turned off their water (really???) and was utilising rainwater (enough of it), and that same person was in the public library in the day to keep warm (there's a loo there) and charging all their devices and phone at the library...


Going to sleep for a bit...

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Some people are finding it very difficult with all these price rises. A lovely winter scene you have made.

 

[dunelm]

Time worn steps @dunelm
Great detail...

You had a successful walk yesterday!

Thank you @gennepher

 

[gennepher]

Some people are finding it very difficult with all these price rises. A lovely winter scene you have made.

Thank you @dunelm for the painting compliment.

Yes they are.
To actually turn off the gas, water, and electric means you cannot get/get further into debt.

 

[jjraak]

Evening all.

An acceptable 6.2 this AM , given my transgressions yesterday.


A delightful day out.

Lauren , myself & Frankie hit the Xmas market at Chiswick house.

A good spell as Frankie enjoyed the social aspect of running, chasing , being chased & generally putting his nose where polite society doesn't , and was amenable to others, so interested

Then onto the market stalls themselves .
A nice way to reduce the weight of anyone's wallet with of all things doggie Christmas pudding ...

Various livers, chicken, etc crafted into what I could only describe as miniature 'Cakes', the kind of which you'd find in patisserie Valerie & like minded top end Cake shops .

Sure to barely touch the sides, but it makes the girls happy.

Doeswoershttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dro%C3%ABwors

Purchased in chilli flavour, again.

Pricey but I think worth it for the treat.

The biltong was also nice, but I couldn't really tell the difference from the ones I can buy more locally, more my taste buds fault then the quality of the product, so I skipped that & doubled up on the Droëwors..nom nom.

A squint at nature under ice rules, poor ducks & co, muddling around the small portion of lake not iced up.

A very naughty hot chocolate & a nibble of Laurens fabulous chocolate brownie, finished of a lovely outing.

A few pics of the day.
(Frankie's the one in blue jacket 1st pic)

 

[Krystyna23040]

Evening all.

An acceptable 6.2 this AM , given my transgressions yesterday.


A delightful day out.

Lauren , myself & Frankie hit the Xmas market at Chiswick house.

A good spell as Frankie enjoyed the social aspect of running, chasing , being chased & generally putting his nose where polite society doesn't , and was amenable to others, so interested

Then onto the market stalls themselves .
A nice way to reduce the weight of anyone's wallet with of all things doggie Christmas pudding ...

Various livers, chicken, etc crafted into what I could only describe as miniature 'Cakes', the kind of which you'd find in patisserie Valerie & like minded top end Cake shops .

Sure to barely touch the sides, but it makes the girls happy.

Doeswoershttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dro%C3%ABwors

Purchased in chilli flavour, again.

Pricey but I think worth it for the treat.

The biltong was also nice, but I couldn't really tell the difference from the ones I can buy more locally, more my taste buds fault then the quality of the product, so I skipped that & doubled up on the Droëwors..nom nom.

A squint at nature under ice rules, poor ducks & co, muddling around the small portion of lake not iced up.

A very naughty hot chocolate & a nibble of Laurens fabulous chocolate brownie, finished of a lovely outing.

A few pics of the day.

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Definitely a delightful day out @jjraak

 

[jjraak]

Seems only fair to show a pic of the cake.

Link to the makers

 

[gennepher]

Evening all.

An acceptable 6.2 this AM , given my transgressions yesterday.


A delightful day out.

Lauren , myself & Frankie hit the Xmas market at Chiswick house.

A good spell as Frankie enjoyed the social aspect of running, chasing , being chased & generally putting his nose where polite society doesn't , and was amenable to others, so interested

Then onto the market stalls themselves .
A nice way to reduce the weight of anyone's wallet with of all things doggie Christmas pudding ...

Various livers, chicken, etc crafted into what I could only describe as miniature 'Cakes', the kind of which you'd find in patisserie Valerie & like minded top end Cake shops .

Sure to barely touch the sides, but it makes the girls happy.

Doeswoershttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dro%C3%ABwors

Purchased in chilli flavour, again.

Pricey but I think worth it for the treat.

The biltong was also nice, but I couldn't really tell the difference from the ones I can buy more locally, more my taste buds fault then the quality of the product, so I skipped that & doubled up on the Droëwors..nom nom.

A squint at nature under ice rules, poor ducks & co, muddling around the small portion of lake not iced up.

A very naughty hot chocolate & a nibble of Laurens fabulous chocolate brownie, finished of a lovely outing.

A few pics of the day.
(Frankie's the one in blue jacket 1st pic)

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Looks an absolutely amazing day @jjraak

 

[gennepher]

Seems only fair to show a pic of the cake.

Link to the makers

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Looks yummy @jjraak