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

lindisfel said:
Has anyone had problems with posting ratings?
I select quite a few and go off site for a few hours only to find when I come back several hours later the selection of some of the ratings has disappeared?
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Yes I have.
Thank goodness you said that.
I thought I was going doolally...
Or else onset of Alzheimer's...

Hey hang on...maybe we both have onset of Alzheimer's...

I'll go with this site going bananas....
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.3

Wildlife video...
A calm night, just the badger mooching around, and some cats...



Creative is another'baa baa'
He is big...
Looks a bit mean...

Have your best kind of day...

Me? I am going to make a cuppa...

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Smashing sheep - looking very stern. What a hoot!
 
Good morning everyone on what looks to be another sunny start to the day - will it last though? Girl in the bubble stayed over last night, such a treat. Her and Mrs Miggins are still practicing their long sleep techniques. Which is good. Later, there will a list of demands which may begin with Cheerios or perhaps wheetabix - always a close call. Art bit, more filling in, that was quick. Have a relaxing Sunday. I shall make Koffy and ponder a walk through the woods.

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BG at 2.30 am - 12.4 - Cup of tea (no pills - less than 4 hours since the previous lot).
10.1 at 5.00 am. Pills, yoghurt to get them down. Slept, but another new pain was/is troublesome.
10.4 at 8.45 am. About to have another cup of tea.

Wet and the wind is getting up again, coming from a sort of southerly direction. We lost one of our 35 year old Sitkas in the last storm (couple of days ago). It's not right down, but leaning against its neighbour with its roots out of the ground. It will have to stay where it is for now. It's about 30 feet tall and Neil is hoping that, if he can cut it down to about 10 feet, he can get the roots back into the ground and hope it will survive. Never seen a pollarded spruce. Not sure that it would survive such drastic pruning, but probably worth a try.
 
Morning all on Quinquagesima so best have the kit for pancakes and begin to stock up on Easter Eggs. I think the 7 we need will be peak EE for this generation. Neither pancakes nor Easter Eggs are something I ever liked apart from mini caramel eggs. My absolute horror were creme eggs - why did teachers assume they would be an acceptable prize for the most stars although the thought was loving back then. In these times parents may see all that sugar as abuse. Today we are promised sunny intervals - the weather not Spurs performance later. @gennepher thanks for another in the sheep series. Don't tell it I/we will be eating lamb shoulder for our main meal. Both your sheep and the wildlife look well nourished. That badger needs to get to the gym pronto. @dunelm I hope the guest has been well catered for. One of ours required camomile tea around 5.00 am at one stage. Enjoy them all while you can, they are a special blessing. Thanks for sharing the renovation of that structure and enjoy the walk in the woods. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Sheringham which may be somewhat nippy today. Was Donna an autocorrect? @Annb hug for the new pain and optimistic was for the tree recovery plan. @lindisfel I often find ratings go missing but refresh solves the issue. MIL was fine when seen yesterday afternoon but at 12.21 am she managed to phone the house phone saying she didn't know where she was and could JKP collect her. No calls since so JKP will see later as only one visitor is allowed. This is very sad but he sounds exactly the kind of man one would want to raise. Peace be with you.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what looks to be another sunny start to the day - will it last though? Girl in the bubble stayed over last night, such a treat. Her and Mrs Miggins are still practicing their long sleep techniques. Which is good. Later, there will a list of demands which may begin with Cheerios or perhaps wheetabix - always a close call. Art bit, more filling in, that was quick. Have a relaxing Sunday. I shall make Koffy and ponder a walk through the woods.

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Enjoy your walk in the woods @dunelm
Maybe you will find an old ruin in the woods...
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on Quinquagesima so best have the kit for pancakes and begin to stock up on Easter Eggs. I think the 7 we need will be peak EE for this generation. Neither pancakes nor Easter Eggs are something I ever liked apart from mini caramel eggs. My absolute horror were creme eggs - why did teachers assume they would be an acceptable prize for the most stars although the thought was loving back then. In these times parents may see all that sugar as abuse. Today we are promised sunny intervals - the weather not Spurs performance later. @gennepher thanks for another in the sheep series. Don't tell it I/we will be eating lamb shoulder for our main meal. Both your sheep and the wildlife look well nourished. That badger needs to get to the gym pronto. @dunelm I hope the guest has been well catered for. One of ours required camomile tea around 5.00 am at one stage. Enjoy them all while you can, they are a special blessing. Thanks for sharing the renovation of that structure and enjoy the walk in the woods. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Sheringham which may be somewhat nippy today. Was Donna an autocorrect? @Annb hug for the new pain and optimistic was for the tree recovery plan. @lindisfel I often find ratings go missing but refresh solves the issue. MIL was fine when seen yesterday afternoon but at 12.21 am she managed to phone the house phone saying she didn't know where she was and could JKP collect her. No calls since so JKP will see later as only one visitor is allowed. This is very sad but he sounds exactly the kind of man one would want to raise. Peace be with you.
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That badger is a hefty lump...
Maybe that is why the sheep is looking stern, because you are eating his sister for lunch @ianpspurs
 
lindisfel said:
Moved a Norway a couple of times and it withstood the shock ok.
Perhaps the. environment it evolved in had different pressures. Is the Sitka bred for speed of growth over the Pond?
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I believe it is native to Alaska/West coast America and that it can grow to a very big tree. It is fairly fast growing in its first years, but can take many years to reach its full potential. It is thought to be an ideal tree for Scottish climate and soils. Our Island soil isn't very deep - only a couple of feet before you reach bedrock(except the peat land, out on the moor where you can go down 15 or 20 feet before you reach the rock) so, perhaps why, once the top becomes heavy, it doesn't hold so well into the ground. We have planted a mixture of Sitkas, Scots Pine and deciduous trees, plus a few slightly exotic specimens - some of which don't survive the climate, some of which go over in the wind, but continue to grow, some of which are stunted but surviving. The easiest tree to grow here is willow - all varieties, but they stay fairly small and, of course, are not evergreen.

We did have a New Zealand holly (more a big shrub than a tree) which grew too big and was in the wrong place. A friend said he wanted one and would be happy to move it. It was hard work, and I thought it would kill the plant, but he replanted it in his own garden and it flourished. Our remaining one is about something over 15 feet tall now. Maybe we should have gone for New Zealand trees rather than American ones.
 
Annb said:
I believe it is native to Alaska/West coast America and that it can grow to a very big tree. It is fairly fast growing in its first years, but can take many years to reach its full potential. It is thought to be an ideal tree for Scottish climate and soils. Our Island soil isn't very deep - only a couple of feet before you reach bedrock(except the peat land, out on the moor where you can go down 15 or 20 feet before you reach the rock) so, perhaps why, once the top becomes heavy, it doesn't hold so well into the ground. We have planted a mixture of Sitkas, Scots Pine and deciduous trees, plus a few slightly exotic specimens - some of which don't survive the climate, some of which go over in the wind, but continue to grow, some of which are stunted but surviving. The easiest tree to grow here is willow - all varieties, but they stay fairly small and, of course, are not evergreen.

We did have a New Zealand holly (more a big shrub than a tree) which grew too big and was in the wrong place. A friend said he wanted one and would be happy to move it. It was hard work, and I thought it would kill the plant, but he replanted it in his own garden and it flourished. Our remaining one is about something over 15 feet tall now. Maybe we should have gone for New Zealand trees rather than American ones.
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All our native trees grew alongside the Straight Tusked Elephant in the interglacials.
This is why hedges with native plants can be repeatedly cut and trees coppiced because they survived the Elephants predation on its foliage.
Sadly it was one of the megafauna that didn't survive the genus Homo.
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