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

[Lamont D]

Since it is inevitable that much of the information about what, when and how any new vaccination programme will be run this is worrying. I've never used Ryanair so can't say if they are serial offenders as the author implies.

It was in the news about this certain airline, that an elderly printed the wrong part of the tickets they required, boarding pass, they were charged over £100, to get them printer by staff at the airport!!!!!

 

[Lamont D]

Those rails sound just the ticket. I would be tempted to go up and down those steps a few times a day to keep my legs going - my whole house is a gym but Mrs Miggins thinks that using a wall to do standing press ups makes the walls greasy - I am not wearing gloves before you start.

When Mrs L, has a day in bed or just stays there, I tend to do a lot of ascending and descending as her ladyship requires a professional service of liquid refreshment as advertised in many hotels and tea rooms. Or as seen on Downtown Abbey! I don't need to do further exercising!

 

[Annb]

Guests been and gone. Good time with 2 very dear friends and 2 teenage boys that one has taken under her wing. It's so good to see a couple of boys with really hearty appetites, albeit very little in the way of manners. If they come often, maybe they'll notice what others are doing and think about how they behave. The 2 boys did ask if they could come back so, of course, they can.

I was, in fact, able to get around a bit, so I made the tea (offered the boys coffee, orange juice or fizzy water but they wanted tea). One of the ladies (the one with the boys) brought some hard boiled eggs, some pitta breads, salad and some odd looking chocolate biscuit things that I've never seen before. I provided fruit cake, KitKat biscuits (other biscuits which nobody touched) and dug out some very nice Cheddar that Neil had bought for me. They demolished the lot. Good fun watching them.

 

[Lamont D]

I have just read, this afternoon, the chapter on fish in Tim Spector’s book Food For Life and not sure if I can bring myself to eat fish now. Certainly not salmon. Mrs Miggins says that the best salmon she ever had was when she was serving with US Forces. They caught salmon up near the Great Lakes and they were on the BBQ within half an hour. She has never eaten salmon again. Bit like me with steaks in UK restaurants after visiting The Entrecôte in Bordeaux

The tastiest plaice I've eaten was from the river close by!
That was before the sewage system was upgraded about forty years ago!
A piece of cod in Scarborough was just unforgettable, it was on one good size plate and the chips and mushy peas were on another! It was disguised as a whale!

 

[Lamont D]

Guests been and gone. Good time with 2 very dear friends and 2 teenage boys that one has taken under her wing. It's so good to see a couple of boys with really hearty appetites, albeit very little in the way of manners. If they come often, maybe they'll notice what others are doing and think about how they behave. The 2 boys did ask if they could come back so, of course, they can.

I was, in fact, able to get around a bit, so I made the tea (offered the boys coffee, orange juice or fizzy water but they wanted tea). One of the ladies (the one with the boys) brought some hard boiled eggs, some pitta breads, salad and some odd looking chocolate biscuit things that I've never seen before. I provided fruit cake, KitKat biscuits (other biscuits which nobody touched) and dug out some very nice Cheddar that Neil had bought for me. They demolished the lot. Good fun watching them.

And I had an egg salad!

 

[Annb]

The tastiest plaice I've eaten was from the river close by!
That was before the sewage system was upgraded about forty years ago!
A piece of cod in Scarborough was just unforgettable, it was on one good size plate and the chips and mushy peas were on another! It was disguised as a whale!

Was the child particularly tasty?

 

[Lamont D]

Was the child particularly tasty?

It was a tiddler!

 

[lindisfel]

Marjorie when she went to town last Tues found M&S much changed but particularly after several years of not going the self check out put her out.
I don't think she will make a habit of going there again.
D.

 

[Annb]

I've heard of those self check-out things, but never seen one. Pretty sure I wouldn't manage one very well. I used to be fairly techno-savvy but I got left behind when I retired and am very much the techno-phobe now.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I do eccentric squats and press ups, quite slowly both down and up. Three lots of 10 most days, seven sets of squats if I feel dangerous and not all at once . My press ups are knee press ups returning to elbows touching knees in a back stretch.

That's brilliant @dunelm. It's the slowness that really builds the muscles. Adding a pause for a really slow count to 3 before you slowly start to come back to the start position also enhances the muscle building in both the squats and press ups.

 

[dunelm]

That's brilliant @dunelm. It's the slowness that really builds the muscles. Adding a pause for a really slow count to 3 before you slowly start to come back to the start position also enhances the muscle building in both the squats and press ups.

Thank you @Krystyna23040 - I shall include the slow count.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on what appears to be a smasher of a start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.2 at 0530. The grandchildren are now back home so a day of rest is well in order although we have the girl in the bubble today. At three years old she is not quite the challenge of two 5 year olds and a 7 year old all working in unison. Best take some pain relief at about 8am if I am going to take advantage of this sunshine. I could of course just potter about in the garden. Art bit, not much more really. Have a pleasant day if you can. My koffy is ready to plunge and pour.

 

[gennepher]

Guests been and gone. Good time with 2 very dear friends and 2 teenage boys that one has taken under her wing. It's so good to see a couple of boys with really hearty appetites, albeit very little in the way of manners. If they come often, maybe they'll notice what others are doing and think about how they behave. The 2 boys did ask if they could come back so, of course, they can.

I was, in fact, able to get around a bit, so I made the tea (offered the boys coffee, orange juice or fizzy water but they wanted tea). One of the ladies (the one with the boys) brought some hard boiled eggs, some pitta breads, salad and some odd looking chocolate biscuit things that I've never seen before. I provided fruit cake, KitKat biscuits (other biscuits which nobody touched) and dug out some very nice Cheddar that Neil had bought for me. They demolished the lot. Good fun watching them.

Fruit cake for me! I haven't had any for a few years @Annb I do have a miniature brandy soaked fruit cake which I have never opened. It's for emergencies. The emergency hasn't arisen yet...do you think it is still edible? I look at the container every time I go in the kitchen...not weakened yet...

The boys sounded boisterous. They must have enjoyed themselves at yours to ask to come back...

 

[lindisfel]

It is sometimes hard to believe that backbone of small hills makes so much difference in the weather between the West and East Coasts.
I could perhaps drive just two hours to get wall to wall sunshine whereas the western weather system can give wet, cool and humid cloudy weather. Of course it can work the other way round as it did in Spring.
I remember feeling that dry feeling when I lived in Great Ayton in a furnished house on my own for six months, the same dry feeling one got in Lincoln.
D.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on what appears to be a smasher of a start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.2 at 0530. The grandchildren are now back home so a day of rest is well in order although we have the girl in the bubble today. At three years old she is not quite the challenge of two 5 year olds and a 7 year old all working in unison. Best take some pain relief at about 8am if I am going to take advantage of this sunshine. I could of course just potter about in the garden. Art bit, not much more really. Have a pleasant day if you can. My koffy is ready to plunge and pour.


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I am liking this bit by bit series, showing the development of the initial sketch @dunelm

Unexpected fine day here. Clear blue skies. So cancelled going out, and I am going to enjoy my garden today!

Enjoy whatever it is you decide to do.

Oh by the way my pipettes were delivered yesterday, a couple of days early by kind Amazon. Tested a few with water. Brilliant! And to think I paid a few pounds last time to Hobbycraft for just 3 pipettes and 2 of them were split and useless!

And I ordered some Marie's Chinese watercolours. The Chinese shop in Liverpool where I used to buy them has closed down, so will be trying these new watercolours in the next few days...

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.8

The male blackbirds were fighting a locked battle viciously mid air yesterday and kept crashing into my glass door which I had not yet opened. Thud, thud, thud. I ended up in my front room where I opened a window for fresh air. If I had opened my bedroom door as I usually do, the fighting blackbirds would have landed on me and Midnight...

My bedroom door is open this morning. No fighting birds. The blackbirds must have sorted the dispute.

Wildlife camera.
Fox - where's my boiled egg? Badger - I'm getting it for you! Just let me have a play with it first...
This particular fox and badger do have a reciprocal relationship...
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Creative - still using those cheaper inks. I like what they do.

Now to make a coffee...

 

[dunelm]

Fruit cake for me! I haven't had any for a few years @Annb I do have a miniature brandy soaked fruit cake which I have never opened. It's for emergencies. The emergency hasn't arisen yet...do you think it is still edible? I look at the container every time I go in the kitchen...not weakened yet...

The boys sounded boisterous. They must have enjoyed themselves at yours to ask to come back...

That brandy soaked fruit cake will probably last for years - I would probably open it on Christmas Day and smother with double or even a thick soured cream. What an indulgance!

 

[dunelm]

It is sometimes hard to believe that backbone of small hills makes so much difference in the weather between the West and East Coasts.
I could perhaps drive just two hours to get wall to wall sunshine whereas the western weather system can give wet, cool and humid cloudy weather. Of course it can work the other way round as it did in Spring.
I remember feeling that dry feeling when I lived in Great Ayton in a furnished house on my own for six months, the same dry feeling one got in Lincoln.
D.

I have been up Blencathra on a warm, sunny day and seeing it all overcast or raining to the W and NW - similar views west towards the coast from the top of Scafell Pike. Mind you there could be a miserable surprise down into Wasdale which may tempt one to turn back towards the Dungeon Gill rather than the pub in Wasdale.

 

[dunelm]

I am liking this bit by bit series, showing the development of the initial sketch @dunelm

Unexpected fine day here. Clear blue skies. So cancelled going out, and I am going to enjoy my garden today!

Enjoy whatever it is you decide to do.

Oh by the way my pipettes were delivered yesterday, a couple of days early by kind Amazon. Tested a few with water. Brilliant! And to think I paid a few pounds last time to Hobbycraft for just 3 pipettes and 2 of them were split and useless!

And I ordered some Marie's Chinese watercolours. The Chinese shop in Liverpool where I used to buy them has closed down, so will be trying these new watercolours in the next few days...

Thank you @gennepher. Glad the pipettes are OK - I am expecting mine today! I have Marie’s Chinese watercolours and they OK for me. I still have some of my mothers old solid chinese inks but can’t find any replacements. They are in little Petri dish affairs which are useful for mixing ink.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.8

The male blackbirds were fighting a locked battle viciously mid air yesterday and kept crashing into my glass door which I had not yet opened. Thud, thud, thud. I ended up in my front room where I opened a window for fresh air. If I had opened my bedroom door as I usually do, the fighting blackbirds would have landed on me and Midnight...

My bedroom door is open this morning. No fighting birds. The blackbirds must have sorted the dispute.

Wildlife camera.
Fox - where's my boiled egg? Badger - I'm getting it for you! Just let me have a play with it first...
This particular fox and badger do have a reciprocal relationship...
27secs

Creative - still using those cheaper inks. I like what they do.

Now to make a coffee...

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Smashing art, these inks are working so well.