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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

Wildlife nighttime cameras
Fox & Badger looking for food together
Foxes & Cats & Badgers all within a metre/yard of each other!!!
It seems amazing to me that they were all there together...
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Creative ... a fairy chair in my garden under the fuschia bush...

Time for a rest and a cuppa tea

Was working in the garage this afternoon. Repaired an old radio, just so I can have some background noise while painting...
Still a wee bit more tidying and sorting to do, and then I can start some painting ideas...

The rest of the garage still needs sorting and tidying, but that will be a later date, or I will never start painting....

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Cracking chair
 
dunelm said:
Never saw anyone having a problem after being taught that you always step off on the left foot, the one banged with a pace stick on day one. So, “by the left, quick march” - or slow march. Light Infantry 140 paces per minute rather than the standard army 116 and marked by the drill sergeant’s pace stick opened for a 30 inch stride. Drill for recruiters is carried out evey day and perhaps twice a day with the pace called out by the drill sergeant. Well, it was when I was in the military - who knows nowadays.
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I think I was influenced by the movies, especially, 'Glory'. Where some of the rd third didn't even know there was a right of left! Decent movie though!
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you for sharing that wonderful chair and part of your garden. Enjoy making art in the garage. Here's an idea that may help a few people although my instinct is you are more visual/shape oriented.
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Yes @ianpspurs
I am more visual/shape/colour orientated.
I do write poetry, not so much recently...
Art, but more so playing with colour takes me somewhere.
Words trying to explain the visual, which is often more abstract (for me at least) are somewhat lacking.
Thanks for the compliment of the Creative.
 
gennepher said:
@dunelm
@Krystyna23040
I always have a compass with me. Don't people carry compasses nowadays? I have one on my handbag strap...
I have a collection of compasses...
The only place it was no good was when I went over to Hilbre Island on the sands at low tide (decades ago when I could walk), and the thick dense mists suddenly dropped. No problem I thought, look at my compass....
But it was going bananas. Later I was told that I was on the stretch of sand that had some magnetic disturbance or something below.
Obviously I survived the experience 'cos I am still here...
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I think a compass would have been a great help yesterday @gennepher
 
dunelm said:
Never saw anyone having a problem after being taught that you always step off on the left foot, the one banged with a pace stick on day one. So, “by the left, quick march” - or slow march. Light Infantry 140 paces per minute rather than the standard army 116 and marked by the drill sergeant’s pace stick opened for a 30 inch stride. Drill for recruiters is carried out evey day and perhaps twice a day with the pace called out by the drill sergeant. Well, it was when I was in the military - who knows nowadays.
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The senior school I went to was strict, each class had to get in straight lines and distance themselves and walk in step from the playground into class or morning assembly. A senior teacher called out the step and the pace. Slight infractions of rules lead to the cane. We soon knew our left from our right.
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Fbg 6.7

This site is driving me a bit bananas at the mo.
As well as not being able to access anything including emojis from the 3 dots in the writing post header, it has been logging me out the last few days and treating me as a guest, and so I have to try and sign in again and again. Grrrrrr....

Wildlife nighttime video
Two hungry badgers on a wet & stormy night
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Creative...an ornament in my garden J bought me about 15 years ago. One the badger has not broken yet (badger has broken other of my ornaments). I isolated it from its messy background, and I had intentions of putting a silhouette in it, but my silhouette app has not been playing ball since the last update. I have no intention of problem solving this morning. I know what to do, not with this device (except complain to the developers) but to email my photo to my very old iPad (the very first iPad which is iOS 5 and my silhouette app still works almost perfectly on it, and still has the silhouettes I made many years ago, but for how long it, or that first iPad will work is anyone's guess).
So you get this...

I have plans for today, so bye for now...

Have your best kind of day...

Have a nice cup of coffee, and no spilling (silly spellcheck changed that to 'spiking' it! Well, maybe with a brandy or a drop of whisky)....

This site is broke, I cannot attach my Creative...

I need whisky in my coffee...
 
Morning all from the first misty morning here in L.A. Fbg of 4.9 here and 5.4 by 8.00 after morning basics and 700 mls tea (leaf tea made in a white china pot, white mug and almond milk natch) so steady as she goes. @gennepher hug for the frustration - bothers - but thanks for persisting (as if you wouldn't) and sharing. I don't know about left and right but offside and leg side (especially cow corner) work for me. Have a good day but maybe not Sheffield Utd or Wigan football - sorry soccer - teams.
 
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Managed to put creative in a separate post, but I got logged out again...

Might I suggest this site needs an engineer to look at it...

No more problem solving for me today...bye...catch you later...
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Smashing creative. I was asked by “The Management” to log out, log in, turn off, turn on - that sort of stuff but it wasn’t until I deleted my browsing history as well that things came back. Just checked and the emoji smiley face is not back on the top row - yesteday it was grouped with the three little dots crowd. Has the website suddenly become sentient and with the mind of a 5 year old child? And yes -a splash of scotch.

Edit: I can copy and paste again - Yoo! Halo!
 
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The weather was horrid here yesterday very cold and pouring down. We had to keep putting the heating on. Any holiday makers in the Lakes had a bad day. This morning it is a drab day, cool and damp, the next week and the rest of the month looks wet.
I well remember what the weather was like in the East Midlands where mother used to say ...rain before 7 fine before 11...it was generally correct.
No wonder the Romans made it a colony for their veterans. Lindum Colonia..hence the modern name.
D.
 
Good morning everyone on yet another gloomy start to what may well turn into a frabjous day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am - pat on back, have some bacon. Girl In The Bubble back from holidays and stayed over last night - not yet up. It’s Little Miss Pamplemouse’s 9th birthday today and the grandchildren are gathering for a birthday tea and cake fest this afternoon after an explore in the woods (weather dependent) - best take some drugs late morning then. I would get a ReWalk exoskeleton but I’m ten bob short of a whippet towards the humongous cost even with green shield stamps and a fistful of old Luncheon Vouchers. Art bit - some minor additions but best leave it alone I think. Onie-hoo, I hope your day is a good one, I shall face mine with the enthusiasm of a 4 year old in a Batman t-shirt. Best load up with koffy.

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lindisfel said:
The weather was horrid here yesterday very cold and pouring down. We had to keep putting the heating on. Any holiday makers in the Lakes had a bad day. This morning it is a drab day, cool and damp, the next week and the rest of the month looks wet.
I well remember what the weather was like in the East Midlands where mother used to say ...rain before 7 fine before 11...it was generally correct.
No wonder the Romans made it a colony for their veterans. Lindum Colonia..hence the modern name.
D.
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Any holiday makers in the Lakes this weekend should be informed that the weather is like that throughout the year and not to believe the lying images in brochures or taken by Tic-Toc “Infuenzers” (correct spelling for this species). Never mind all this “stop the boats” stuff - “cull the tourists”.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on yet another gloomy start to what may well turn into a frabjous day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am - pat on back, have some bacon. Girl In The Bubble back from holidays and stayed over last night - not yet up. It’s Little Miss Pamplemouse’s 9th birthday today and the grandchildren are gathering for a birthday tea and cake fest this afternoon after an explore in the woods (weather dependent) - best take some drugs late morning then. I would get a ReWalk exoskeleton but I’m ten bob short of a whippet towards the humongous cost even with green shield stamps and a fistful of old Luncheon Vouchers. Art bit - some minor additions but best leave it alone I think. Onie-hoo, I hope your day is a good one, I shall face mine with the enthusiasm of a 4 year old in a Batman t-shirt. Best load up with koffy.

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Thank you for the chortles, the information on the ReWalk exoskeleton, the image of you in a Batman T-shirt and sharing the art. Happy birthday Little Miss Pamplemouse - A A Milne stopped at 6. All this talk about rain and cooler conditions is foreign here. Ipswich (county town of Suffolk) - I've never been and have no wish to - is supposedly UK's 3rd driest place but this part of The Brecks must be drier. Enjoy your coffee, your grandchildren, your day and many more.
 
dunelm said:
Never saw anyone having a problem after being taught that you always step off on the left foot, the one banged with a pace stick on day one. So, “by the left, quick march” - or slow march. Light Infantry 140 paces per minute rather than the standard army 116 and marked by the drill sergeant’s pace stick opened for a 30 inch stride. Drill for recruits is carried out evey day and perhaps twice a day with the pace called out by the drill sergeant. Well, it was when I was in the military - who knows nowadays.
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Taught my children Left and Right by writing capital L & R inside their shoes. Letters on the inside. Place letters together and shoes are always on the correct feet. Win win.
 
I don't think it is as simple as finding ways of making people learn which is left and which is right (or port and starboard, or other system). As with other areas of life, physical or mental "quirks", health, it is an individual matter. Not sure where my inability to know automatically which is which, or my inability to easily handle numbers, or my inability to remember where notes are on a musical instrument, all come from but it is a definite attribute of my personality. Em also seems to have a problem and until last year would put her shoes on the wrong feet, or her jumper on back to front and not be aware, or come to that, even care. I think it is something in the mind and it may be genetic. It is not something that cannot be overcome and there are strategies to cope with it which each person develops but that doesn't mean it goes away. Just as diabetes is managed but doesn't actually go away.
 
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