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

[dunelm]

Yes, I also used to be a really accurate and fast typist but not anymore. Perhaps it isn't us but the modern keyboards.

Took me ages to get to grips with a modern keyboard as index fingers now (not me) go on the F and the J key instead of the electro mechanical positions of F and H. I learned to type on a four bank Imperial with a shield over the keyboard - a blooming nuisance when trying for a carriage return, trying to keep up with the music/metronome as well as avoiding medical help. It was the the Siemens T100 teleprinter after that and then the Siemens T1000 as well as the electrical nightmare that is the modern equivalent of an Enigma machine. Fine when sitting in an office. Not so clever in the back of an armoured vehicle or a ships communications room especially during the Cod War. It was a useful skill when I transitioned (so modern a word) from Regular to Veteran - not so much the morse although I can still drive Mrs Miggins mad by tapping out on a spoon when bored at the dining room table or better still in Fortnum’s cafe or The Orangery at Kensington Palace.

 

[gennepher]

Online forums round here, about the 20mph are complaining bitterly about people keeping to 18 mph in the new 20mph limit. Saying they shouldn't be driving etc, and should be keeping exactly to 20. For goodness sake it takes awhile to mentally adjust from 30 to 20 without constantly looking at the speedometer, when it has been 30 since forever. It has only been 7 days.

This guy was harassing a woman in the thread about this obnoxiously telling her she should get a speed limiter fixed to her car.

So I googled my car, and my car has a speed limiter (I didn't know that was the name for it), which I had been automatically using, but it is useless now in the 20mph down from 30 in Wales, because it needs two things to make it work. The first is you need the metal speed limit road signs on the posts for my car to recognise, and second is the SatNav needs to have the correct speed on the screen. The metal road signs for 20 so far have been pulled off or defaced. The SatNav still displays 30mph for all roads that are now supposed to be 20, and so I will not get any warnings for going over 20.

So, I jumped into the thread, explaining this with the speed limiter as regards my car. The way everything is set up needing valid road signs and the appropriate speed limit on your SatNav, it won't work. Of course the obnoxious guy rounds on me...I NOW HAVE A TROLL!!!!!

By the way, going over to manual (in my automatic), it has 3 gears in manual, and in 3rd gear it is easy to keep to 20 on the flat because of the feel of the revs (or whatever) through the foot pedal and you don't need to keep looking at the speedometer. But it is hard work on my arthritic hand, which is why I got an automatic in the first place. It is not easy in automatic keeping to 20 in this current new car, whereas in my last car it was easy keeping at exactly 20 in automatic.

 

[dunelm]

Mr K was suitably rewarded with a Sausage Roll at Gooderstone @ianpspurs.

And well deserved

 

[dunelm]

Online forums round here, about the 20mph are complaining bitterly about people keeping to 18 mph in the new 20mph limit. Saying they shouldn't be driving etc, and should be keeping exactly to 20. For goodness sake it takes awhile to mentally adjust from 30 to 20 without constantly looking at the speedometer, when it has been 30 since forever. It has only been 7 days.

This guy was harassing a woman in the thread about this obnoxiously telling her she should get a speed limiter fixed to her car.

So I googled my car, and my car has a speed limiter (I didn't know that was the name for it), which I had been automatically using, but it is useless now in the 20mph down from 30 in Wales, because it needs two things to make it work. The first is you need the metal speed limit road signs on the posts for my car to recognise, and second is the SatNav needs to have the correct speed on the screen. The metal road signs for 20 so far have been pulled off or defaced. The SatNav still displays 30mph for all roads that are now supposed to be 20, and so I will not get any warnings for going over 20.

So, I jumped into the thread, explaining this with the speed limiter as regards my car. The way everything is set up needing valid road signs and the appropriate speed limit on your SatNav, it won't work. Of course the obnoxious guy rounds on me...I NOW HAVE A TROLL!!!!!

By the way, going over to manual (in my automatic), it has 3 gears in manual, and in 3rd gear it is easy to keep to 20 on the flat because of the feel of the revs (or whatever) through the foot pedal and you don't need to keep looking at the speedometer. But it is hard work on my arthritic hand, which is why I got an automatic in the first place. It is not easy in automatic keeping to 20 in this current new car, whereas in my last car it was easy keeping at exactly 20 in automatic.

I can set the speed limiter on mine and also Mrs Miggins’ car by activating it, driving to the required max speed and then pressing a button. Why can’t they all work the same??? An alternative is to use the cruise control and set to 20 and then just toggle on and off as needed. Takes some practice. I had cruise control on my BMW R1200 motorcycle - not for the feint hearted

 

[gennepher]

I can set the speed limiter on mine and also Mrs Miggins’ car by activating it, driving to the required max speed and then pressing a button. Why can’t they all work the same??? An alternative is to use the cruise control and set to 20 and then just toggle on and off as needed. Takes some practice. I had cruise control on my BMW R1200 motorcycle - not for the feint hearted

Ah, cruise control @dunelm for the first time I have cruise control on my car.
Never used it yet. I thought it was just for motorway driving.

Okay, I am going to have to do some research on that.
There is a button which says cruise control...
Going to investigate....

 

[alf_Josiah]

Thank you @gennepher and @dunelm for the kind words on never ending woodworking project.

 

[Annb]

Good just past Morening ( 12:15 pm ) Ladies and gentlemen and those who slept late.
Blood sugars this morning were 5.3 drop the decimal point and 53 is a prime number.

Later today the never ending woodworking project is due to be collected and reassembled in its home, it started life as a football boot and wellie boot store and has now morphed in a log store. Most of the wood is reclaimed, but some gravel boards and a few lengths of feather edged board had to be purchased. Hopefully a few pictures will be attached.

On a different note do you think lamp posts deserve a better deal, people walk into them, cars drive into them, they get covered in graffiti and they are made to work nights. Support rights for lamp posts.

Stay safe all.

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Attractive piece of garden furniture there. You've made a good job of that. Seeing that, I'm sure there will be more commissions coming your way - whether you want them or not. Much more attractive than the metal and plastic storage we have outside.

 

[Annb]

So, I jumped into the thread, explaining this with the speed limiter as regards my car. The way everything is set up needing valid road signs and the appropriate speed limit on your SatNav, it won't work. Of course the obnoxious guy rounds on me...I NOW HAVE A TROLL!!!!!

That's one example of the disgraceful behaviour we see these days. Nobody has the right, either online (cowardly) or face to face, to berate anyone else in that way. How dare they?

Then there is the issue of speed limits. 20 mph is, presumably, the upper limit, not the required speed. A driver has every right to be driving at 18 mph when the limit is 20. People who sound their horns or display aggressive behaviour to people keeping to the speed limit, or even 2 mph under it, or even 10 mph under it, is just plain bullying and dangerous driving. I don't suppose the police will do anything to stop it, but it should be some sort of driving offence.

A story comes to mind - not the same thing, but it is about driving. Years ago Neil lived on the other side of the Island from us and the way from there to here was across moorland. The road was only actually paved a few years ago but it was single track all the way with passing places. If you saw a car coming the other way and you were past your nearest passing space while the other drive had a passing space available, courtesy and practice indicated that you could keep driving and the other driver would pull into the available passing space.

One day Neil was in just that position. He had passed a passing place and there was another a couple of hundred years ahead when another car appeared over the hill, kept driving and went past the passing place meeting Neil in a narrow part of the track with no space to manoevre. So Neil stopped where he was. The other driver clearly thought that Neil should back off to the passing place behind him a good number of yards back along the track. A difficult manoevre although Neil is a good driver and could have done it. But he didn't. He sat, quite at ease, perfectly patiently, waiting for the other driver to do something about the situation. Neither of them got out of their car but just sat looking at each other through their windscreens. Thus they sat for coming up on half an hour (Neil at least was in no hurry to get anywhere) when, finally the other driver backed off and into the passing place a few yards behind where she should have gone in the first place. You don't win competitions of patience with Neil.

Last year DIL came in to tell us that she had met a woman who was telling the story from the other viewpoint - obviously not to be forgotten and still rankling even after so many years. DIL recognised the event the woman was talking about and could hardly keep her composure! She was still laughing when she arrived here to tell us.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Just looked up Cowboy Candy - interesting. You could of course use some of them for pickling spice and even dehydrate and stick in jars. I have some of these (below). Bought last week - only had one of each so far. Not for the feint hearted

Considering that it takes at least 24 hours to dehydrate cherry tomatoes am not even considering trying that with the chilli? Peppers? They are significantly larger than regular chillies. Probably take three days!

 

[SlimLizzy]

My mother was furious when my cat stole the fresh fish ready to prepare for us all to eat off the kitchen table and started to eat it on the floor.
D.

I was furious too, but not with the cat who is only obeying instinct, but with MrSlim who didn't close the kitchen door. This is the second time. Last week she got a small pork belly joint, again because "someone" left the door open.

 

[Lamont D]

I was furious too, but not with the cat who is only obeying instinct, but with MrSlim who didn't close the kitchen door. This is the second time. Last week she got a small pork belly joint, again because "someone" left the door open.

Hope you are charging the cat extra for the availability of extra food?
Or you could put the rent up?

 

[alf_Josiah]

Attractive piece of garden furniture there. You've made a good job of that. Seeing that, I'm sure there will be more commissions coming your way - whether you want them or not. Much more attractive than the metal and plastic storage we have outside.

Thank you.
Please let me explain how me, me’s and myself handle requests for woodworking projects.

Woodworking is a hobby for me and I never charge for my time, I only ever make things for people I want to, I usually ask for the recipient to purchase the materials and on a few occasions accepted a bottle of wine. Any materials left over usually get passed on to the next project.
I have lost count of the number planters I have made also childs seats and tables for indoor use, childs garden bench seats. I also make child’s garden toys, some of these toys adults seem to monopolise!
Any commissions I don’t want to make I pass them onto a woodworking pal, whom I have given the nickname “ Dave the Fence “ a smashing retired fella and quite a few of his commissions we have made here in Tilehurst Towers, but since covid we haven’t worked together. A couple were a school outdoor play kitchen and ladder planters, huge things.
Yes I turned down a request to make something yesterday.

I hope that explains things.

 

[Lamont D]

I'm knackered now, the perceived rain didn't amount to a few spots. So I managed a bit of lawn care while Mrs L snored quietly not watching the box.
Apparently unbeknownst to myself, the populist media ignored what was happening outside west.instead yesterday for some reason.
Apparently, thousands upon thousands were disobeying the new law against public walking for a political and reasonable request!
Apparently, there was other marches through the seat of government, and, apparently according to some, it does need kicking!
Apparently, our grandchildren will not be allowed to travel South cos the new transport .method is not going to link up!
Apparently, we will require seventy receptacles if a new government is voted in!
Apparently, the pm is considering banning suicide by inhilation. That doesn't include CO2!I
Apparently the home Secretary is advising holiday makers to only fly to recognised country's that are not sending migrants to us! Asking foreign visitors to go somewhere else because all our hotels are full and there is no staff because they have not been allowed visas because they are not welcome to stay here.
Apparently, I should stop watching the news as I am becoming anti government!
Wish someone could help me feel proud to be English!
My best wishes to you all as always!

 

[gennepher]

So, I jumped into the thread, explaining this with the speed limiter as regards my car. The way everything is set up needing valid road signs and the appropriate speed limit on your SatNav, it won't work. Of course the obnoxious guy rounds on me...I NOW HAVE A TROLL!!!!!

That's one example of the disgraceful behaviour we see these days. Nobody has the right, either online (cowardly) or face to face, to berate anyone else in that way. How dare they?

Then there is the issue of speed limits. 20 mph is, presumably, the upper limit, not the required speed. A driver has every right to be driving at 18 mph when the limit is 20. People who sound their horns or display aggressive behaviour to people keeping to the speed limit, or even 2 mph under it, or even 10 mph under it, is just plain bullying and dangerous driving. I don't suppose the police will do anything to stop it, but it should be some sort of driving offence.

A story comes to mind - not the same thing, but it is about driving. Years ago Neil lived on the other side of the Island from us and the way from there to here was across moorland. The road was only actually paved a few years ago but it was single track all the way with passing places. If you saw a car coming the other way and you were past your nearest passing space while the other drive had a passing space available, courtesy and practice indicated that you could keep driving and the other driver would pull into the available passing space.

One day Neil was in just that position. He had passed a passing place and there was another a couple of hundred years ahead when another car appeared over the hill, kept driving and went past the passing place meeting Neil in a narrow part of the track with no space to manoevre. So Neil stopped where he was. The other driver clearly thought that Neil should back off to the passing place behind him a good number of yards back along the track. A difficult manoevre although Neil is a good driver and could have done it. But he didn't. He sat, quite at ease, perfectly patiently, waiting for the other driver to do something about the situation. Neither of them got out of their car but just sat looking at each other through their windscreens. Thus they sat for coming up on half an hour (Neil at least was in no hurry to get anywhere) when, finally the other driver backed off and into the passing place a few yards behind where she should have gone in the first place. You don't win competitions of patience with Neil.

Last year DIL came in to tell us that she had met a woman who was telling the story from the other viewpoint - obviously not to be forgotten and still rankling even after so many years. DIL recognised the event the woman was talking about and could hardly keep her composure! She was still laughing when she arrived here to tell us.

I agree @Annb
And it should be a driving offence if someone tries to force you to drive faster. But who is going to enforce that?
Yes there should be common courtesy at passing places. But it doesn't occur to people..
That was a funny story about Neil and the other lady and she was still telling the story from 'her" viewpoint!.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Took me ages to get to grips with a modern keyboard as index fingers now (not me) go on the F and the J key instead of the electro mechanical positions of F and H. I learned to type on a four bank Imperial with a shield over the keyboard - a blooming nuisance when trying for a carriage return, trying to keep up with the music/metronome as well as avoiding medical help. It was the the Siemens T100 teleprinter after that and then the Siemens T1000 as well as the electrical nightmare that is the modern equivalent of an Enigma machine. Fine when sitting in an office. Not so clever in the back of an armoured vehicle or a ships communications room especially during the Cod War. It was a useful skill when I transitioned (so modern a word) from Regular to Veteran - not so much the morse although I can still drive Mrs Miggins mad by tapping out on a spoon when bored at the dining room table or better still in Fortnum’s cafe or The Orangery at Kensington Palace

I also learnt to type on an imperial. Luckily it didn't have a shield.
We had to keep in time with the William Tell Overture - which was great fun.

 

[dunelm]

I also learnt to type on an imperial. Luckily it didn't have a shield.
We had to keep in time with the William Tell Overture - which was great fun.

Yes, I remember the William Tell Overture to the clicking of the keyboard.

 

[Annb]

I also learnt to type on an imperial. Luckily it didn't have a shield.
We had to keep in time with the William Tell Overture - which was great fun.

Those old typewriters were much easier for me to use because our fingers were above the keys rather than sideways on as they are on a modern keyboard. It took a lot of force to tap the keys down. Our keyboards were covered as well, while we learned where the keys were to be found, but we didn't have music. The pressure required on the keys made it a bit difficult for me to transfer onto an electric typewriter because I kept ending up with duplicated letters due to the sensitivity of the electric keyboard. Unfortunately, I was working in a legal office at the time, keying in wills and so on, which had to be perfect and unaltered to fix mistakes. Made for fast learning.

 

[Annb]

BG at 3.45 am was 8.8. Very quickly rose to 9.4 and still going up. Not as bad as yesterday at least.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from a pre-sunrise start here in the dark and dangerous north. Still positive - blast. Ordered more test kits, thankfully I am not required to pay for them. The whole atmosphere of the house changed yesterday as Mrs Miggins decided that we need to prepare for winter. So, all the light bedding off and replaced with a quilt - ooh! It was like sleeping under the gravitational influence of Jupiter. The fire was also lit last night. After an hour it was like we had been having a lunchtime nap on Shipwreck Beach. Still, the heating has not come on yet so I have only charged her for the briquettes and a couple of logs. Art bit, another Zen brush stroke using red sumi-e ink. I hope the unfolding day is a good one for you. I need to make some koffy.

 

[dunelm]

Those old typewriters were much easier for me to use because our fingers were above the keys rather than sideways on as they are on a modern keyboard. It took a lot of force to tap the keys down. Our keyboards were covered as well, while we learned where the keys were to be found, but we didn't have music. The pressure required on the keys made it a bit difficult for me to transfer onto an electric typewriter because I kept ending up with duplicated letters due to the sensitivity of the electric keyboard. Unfortunately, I was working in a legal office at the time, keying in wills and so on, which had to be perfect and unaltered to fix mistakes. Made for fast learning.

I found that also with modern keyboards. With a mechanical keyboard or even the old teleprinters, resting your fingers on the keys caused no action until you pressed with some force. Now - it’s fingers in hover mode.