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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what is looking to be a promising day weather wise in the dark and dangerous north. A ramp needs to be constructed in a wee while to aid the transportation of wheelbarrow loads of sand to the end of the back garden. Mrs Miggins is on a roll with the landscaping bug. I poured it down yesterday so she was out applying an undercoat to the underside of the covered driveway thing that she had prepped a few days ago. This is a by product of restless leg syndrome - always has to be zooming about doing stuff. It’s like living with a version of that DC character, The Flash. Art bit - some additions. Best get a move on as I have a ramp to make and at 3.58pm I will be wanting to experience the solstice. Enjoy your day as much as you can. I am always very chuffed just to wake up each morning. Koffy first.


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Enjoy that solstice @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning each from a very sunny L.A. Black armbands for Bazball or just learn to catch and control the urge to smack everything into row z? Early review this morning A1c 5.5 (37) so 1 point up from 2 years ago - thanks be to God. Offered the chance to come off the diabetic register. Still don't think Elsie works. It woz the tea and salmon salad wot dun it. :D @gennepher thank you so much for the video and simply stunning kaleidoscope. @dunelm hug for Mrs Miggins restless legs. Thank you for sharing the latest development of that arch. Vacuum cleaners being serviced, some lawning, school pickup then Squirrels investiture for granddaughter here - learn the words young lady. Enjoy your day.
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Thanks @ianpspurs
 
SlimLizzy said:
21.06
8.20am FBG 5.9
Was feeling quite rough this morning. No obvious reason, apart from a touch of sunburn on my back. Seem to be feeling this way quite often in the mornings but no idea why.
Little Miss Sparrow (@gennepher you were right) was out on the grass this morning, but fluttered along the ground back into the stable when she saw me. Amazing that she has survived a week.
Kiki was out all night and is now sleeping indoors. She has more or less lost interest in birds having discovered voles. Voles are easier prey, for one thing they don't fly, for another can be found regularly in the same area. She is learning patience. While I have some sympathy for the vole colony presently under attack, to me it's acceptable prey, whereas birds should be left well alone. A single female vole might have as many as fifty young in a year... we have at least three colonies in the garden area of our land, am sure there will be more in the semi-wild area where the hares, hedgehogs and deer hang out.
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Hugs @SlimLizzy for not feeling so goog
I am glad Little Miss Sparrow is doing well.
 
Annb said:
I gather that radio doesn't pass through water, so a cable link would be needed and it is too deep for that. But sonar passes through water so I don't see why some sort of communication couldn't be designed. The need for a communication link didn't require hindsight. A little foresight would have come in handy though. Some ventures are brave and some are foolhardy. Praying for a miracle for them but can only hope, really, for them not to suffer too much. And I can hope to be wrong!
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Whales have been communicating over hundreds of miles across oceans with personal songs in the case of the Humpbacked Whale. Although whales are relatively recent in the tree of life it will be for tens of millions of years they have been passing 'intelligence' this way.

To pass communication through water under the sea the military transmitters use XLF...RF transmitter of c.20 khz and below. They have very big aerials and very powerful transmitters that radiate a morse carrier wave around the planet. The one at Anthorn and Skelton Cumbria are examples of these.
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A glorious sunny morning in Cumbria and temperature in low twenties today. So I shall be helping my dear wife with the shopping this am.

I have been looking at the way people live on estates and face that eventuality with horror.
I find the thought of moving very difficult but Marjorie and I now need a life we can manage in old age. For the garden alone for me is impossible.
According to the forecast it is suppose to rain every day now until the end of the month.
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
A glorious sunny morning in Cumbria and temperature in low twenties today. So I shall be helping my dear wife with the shopping this am.

I have been looking at the way people live on estates and face that eventuality with horror.
I find the thought of moving very difficult but Marjorie and I now need a life we can manage in old age. For the garden alone for me is impossible.
According to the forecast it is suppose to rain every day now until the end of the month.
Derek
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After a couple of years of soul searching, we made the move 2 years ago. The deciding factor was that we needed to do it while we were both still in reasonable health. So. Searching took many months but eventually we found the place we now live in. It’s the last street on our side of town, then there is a golf course and then open fields. We can easily manage the very pleasant walk into town and if I am not feeling like walking back, then 3 stops on a bus and we are deposited at the end of the street. Small town, reasonable shops, good GP. My thoughts would be to make a plan and begin an initial search on something like Right Move. All the best.
 
Good morning everyone on a very pleasant 17 degree start here in the dark and dangerous north. Days are now beginning to close in, not that you will notice for a while. You know the saying, “look after the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” - could be pennies and pounds - well, something like that. Repaired a leak in the water butt yesterday (I hope) - will see this morning. Water drains into it from the garage roof and drains out into the domestic waste water as it reaches full capacity. Art bit, onwards and upwards. Hope you all have a pleasant day. I shall finish my koffy and then hang the overnight washing out.

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lindisfel said:
I have been looking at the way people live on estates and face that eventuality with horror.
I find the thought of moving very difficult

MrSlim and I have similar views. He absolutely detestes town living. I would like to be somewhere a little more convenient than here, which is way out in the sticks. But not on one of the estates. Edge of a small town or village is our best compromise.
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gennepher said:
Hugs @SlimLizzy for not feeling so goog
I am glad Little Miss Sparrow is doing well.
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Thanks @gennepher better this morning despite adding another layer of sunburn to my back- this time through my clothes. Got the first good look at little miss sparrow yesterday afternoon. Sadly it's not good, she has an obvious damaged leg and is hopping around on the elbow joint. May have happened when she fell from the nest, or Kiki? Will never know. However Pa sparrow is still attentive, bringing food and if her wings are undamaged she may yet fly. She is still within the normal timescale for father's care. So there is hope for her.
 
Later this morning I have an appointment to see a nurse about my legs and see if she has any other ideas about treating them. The only thing that has worked so far is bandaging them toe to knee. I don't suppose that is a long term solution though. Not great in the summer because 2 layers of bandage can be pretty warm. Also means wearing huge shoes to go around all the bandages. It's not a good look. Not that I look wonderful without the huge shoes.

I always told myself that I was not vain and would age without worrying about the honourable marks of life on my face (particularly my face). I have scars on my face, and tend to forget them - not my problem because I can't see my face. However, the rest of me is too much for me to ignore and I do think about the image I am projecting. That's vanity and I know it!

FBG at 5.30 am was 10.7. Still rising now on 2 cups of tea. I'll make some breakfast soon and take insulin - that'll bring it down a bit, I hope.
 
lindisfel said:
A glorious sunny morning in Cumbria and temperature in low twenties today. So I shall be helping my dear wife with the shopping this am.

I have been looking at the way people live on estates and face that eventuality with horror.
I find the thought of moving very difficult but Marjorie and I now need a life we can manage in old age. For the garden alone for me is impossible.
According to the forecast it is suppose to rain every day now until the end of the month.
Derek
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I once knew an older man in his 70's. He had moved into a care home/nursing home (it wasn't older people accommodation).His wife had died some years previously. And he had an allotment with a magnificent shed. Everything was in that shed, from a day bed, facilities to make drinks (he wasn't bothered about meals, he got breakfast and dinner in the care home. He only used that for a bed to sleep at night). He did craft fairs and attic sales, which was how I met him. I did attic sales as well. The attic sales were more for the company of talking with people and interacting. He had a large estate car, so all his stock stayed in there. He was living his ideal life.

So, @lindisfel, think outside the box.

I may live on a housing estate, but I live on the actual very edge adjoining ancient woodland. Like you I would hate being bang in the middle of a housing estate.

Think outside the box. There may even be a way of staying where you are, but you will have to find a solution that you have not thought of.

So, stop feeling full of dread over this...you have an adventure awaiting you...you have to find it...
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a very pleasant 17 degree start here in the dark and dangerous north. Days are now beginning to close in, not that you will notice for a while. You know the saying, “look after the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” - could be pennies and pounds - well, something like that. Repaired a leak in the water butt yesterday (I hope) - will see this morning. Water drains into it from the garage roof and drains out into the domestic waste water as it reaches full capacity. Art bit, onwards and upwards. Hope you all have a pleasant day. I shall finish my koffy and then hang the overnight washing out.

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Great solid structure @dunelm
Your washing should dry nicely today!
 
SlimLizzy said:
Thanks @gennepher better this morning despite adding another layer of sunburn to my back- this time through my clothes. Got the first good look at little miss sparrow yesterday afternoon. Sadly it's not good, she has an obvious damaged leg and is hopping around on the elbow joint. May have happened when she fell from the nest, or Kiki? Will never know. However Pa sparrow is still attentive, bringing food and if her wings are undamaged she may yet fly. She is still within the normal timescale for father's care. So there is hope for her.
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So, it is looking like she has survived this far with a damaged leg. She doesn't know any different. She is a survivor, done brilliantly so far with her Pa's help. She still has the possibility of a good sparrow adult life @SlimLizzy

I think you need some special clothes, at least for your top half, that resist those burning sun rays...
 
SlimLizzy said:
Thanks @gennepher better this morning despite adding another layer of sunburn to my back- this time through my clothes. Got the first good look at little miss sparrow yesterday afternoon. Sadly it's not good, she has an obvious damaged leg and is hopping around on the elbow joint. May have happened when she fell from the nest, or Kiki? Will never know. However Pa sparrow is still attentive, bringing food and if her wings are undamaged she may yet fly. She is still within the normal timescale for father's care. So there is hope for her.
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Have just been out to the stable.
LITTLE MISS SPARROW FLIES. So pleased she has a chance at life now.
She didn't fly strongly, or far, perhaps five metres to a different hiding place, still well within cat reach, but it's the first day. Surely she will improve.
 
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