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

Annb said:
10.3 at 4.50 this morning. Usual (these days) pain killers and tea. 9.3 at 8.40 (before breakfast). Now 8.4.

The kitchen is a bit clearer now. The table has been put back together and re-covered. One extension section is on trestles in the hallway. It took quite a lot of cleaning and has had a first coat of oil, but needs more. The 2nd extension section is still in its corner waiting to be brought out and cleaned but we may have to get some more teak oil for that - there was very little left in the bottle when we started this little job. I'm thinking about getting a bigger, different shaped table out of the loft and putting this one away (suitably wrapped against the damp and cold). The one I am thinking about is an oak, refectory style about 1 metre by about 2 metres. Narrower than the teak one but longer. Not sure if it will fit in the space.

I did have a beautiful and beautifully designed, old oak table (about 1930's or so) which was a good size for this kitchen - about 1 metre square when not extended - but I gave it, and its chairs, to Alistair because the table in their house was too big and they got rid of it. Later, they bought a new, small circular table and, I discovered, used the wood from my lovely oak table to build two bedheads for the children. I was (secretly) quite annoyed at that and would have asked for it back and bought some bedheads for them had I known beforehand. But, fair enough, I had given it to them so I had no right to be annoyed. I could do with it now, though. Ah well. That's life. The milk is spilt so I'll keep my tears to myself.
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Sad about your 1930's table @Annb
 
lindisfel said:
Surely the political motivation is class privilege because money is the solution to their poor health service treatment, education and the good life they believe they have...they can pay for it.
They pay less tax than the poor and do not reflect the basic decency of a cohesive society.
They are forcing professions to turn on the working class when they seek better incomes and they couldn't care less, they are not affected.

Getting more oil out the North Sea will only help those who invest in the companies...it is sold at the world price it won't help fuel bills just increase climate change.
People in the Red Wall were duped by the right wing propaganda through their belief they would have better opportunities to prosper if free of Europe, the converse was true.
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The more one reads about those involved in Brexit, Johnson's rise. Truss' demise and the daily contradictions eminating from this government the more apparent the lack of any philosophy appears. Just a bunch of chancers sensing an opportunity for time in the sun or to make money. Roosterup no plan nor conspiracy.
 
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lindisfel said:
Surely the political motivation is class privilege because money is the solution to their poor health service treatment, education and the good life they believe they have...they can pay for it.
They pay less tax than the poor and do not reflect the basic decency of a cohesive society.
They are forcing professions to turn on the working class when they seek better incomes and they couldn't care less, they are not affected.

Getting more oil out the North Sea will only help those who invest in the companies...it is sold at the world price it won't help fuel bills just increase climate change.
People in the Red Wall were duped by the right wing propaganda through their belief they would have better opportunities to prosper if free of Europe, the converse was true.
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There is an explanation of their policies, destructive conservatism!
This is a way of taking a huge wedge of the money in the exchequer, because of the wholesale destruction of the market system, so loved by the right wingers.
The majority of money now earned, is destined to go to other countries, the main beneficiaries are the banks in the U.S. and the multinational corporations that hoover up the remnants of our industrial landscape.

It is quite remarkable how many MP's have links to big buisness and banks, oil giants, power corporations!

Apparently, the likes of offgem, offwat etc. The board members have links with donors and leaders of the tories.
 
gennepher said:
I am now practised at keeping at exactly 20 mph whether on the flat or a hill @ianpspurs

I still think it is too much to come off the bypass at 70mph, straight into a 20mph zone with no interim 30 mph speed. I know the sudden 20mph is there on a bend, and I am already slowing down and round the next bend is the mobile speed camera...a cash cow?
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ianpspurs said:
The more one reads about those involved in Brexit, Johnson's rise. Truss' demise and the daily contradictions eminating from this government the more apparent the lack of any philosophy appears. Just a bunch of chancers sensing an opportunity for time in the sun or to make money. Roosterup no plan nor conspiracy.
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I know it could be termed as as a conspiracy theory.

After WWII. The majority of the world was completely knackered financially. Only the U.S., were
able to come through with their financial structures still in place. The world was in debt to the Americans.
To get the rest of the world back in financial growth, there was a system of Americanisation exported to most of the world. Only a few places could withstand the growth of this. Mainly the communist countries.
Hence the wars in the far east, the cold war, South American and Africa.
The so called free world has imported capitalism on a grand scale.
So much of our lives, how we think, work, educate, and our political system is just an extension of this.

Great Britain is now because of the last few decades, democratic in name only. And a weak form of facism.
Institutional persecution of the lower classes and the oppressive racism and misogyny is a result of the right wing popularist Neo facist liberalism, that our government perputates.

Enough I think!

Don't get me going on the royals.
 
I need a rest at home tomorrow. I am absolutely knackered.
I have been sleeping on and off since I got back from England this afternoon..

I said to my friend today that this 20mph in Wales was murder. What 20mph in Wales she said? She had no idea that Wales had done a blanket 20 Mph or that I was in the middle of one...and she lives less than 20 miles from the border...she hadn't seen it on the news she said. Perhaps it is not reported on the news in England? Not newsworthy...

I gave her a tree full of apples today. I have more than enough, and I have a tree of beautiful cooking apples that are going to take another month before they are ready. That is normal with this tree. I hope this storm leaves them on.

I managed to get home, not before the deluge, but before my trees started bashing other. I don't think my recycle will go out until morning...I fail to see how next door's recycle bags are going to stay on the ground held down with just a house brick...

The wind has really picked up. I couldn't walk in this wind. My app tells me it is 40 kph for the next hour...some broken branches flying around...
 
gennepher said:
I need a rest at home tomorrow. I am absolutely knackered.
I have been sleeping on and off since I got back from England this afternoon..

I said to my friend today that this 20mph in Wales was murder. What 20mph in Wales she said? She had no idea that Wales had done a blanket 20 Mph or that I was in the middle of one...and she lives less than 20 miles from the border...she hadn't seen it on the news she said. Perhaps it is not reported on the news in England? Not newsworthy...

I gave her a tree full of apples today. I have more than enough, and I have a tree of beautiful cooking apples that are going to take another month before they are ready. That is normal with this tree. I hope this storm leaves them on.

I managed to get home, not before the deluge, but before my trees started bashing other. I don't think my recycle will go out until morning...I fail to see how next door's recycle bags are going to stay on the ground held down with just a house brick...

The wind has really picked up. I couldn't walk in this wind. My app tells me it is 40 kph for the next hour...some broken branches flying around...
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Hope them those apples blow this way.
Aggie was a damp squib on the peninsula
It threatened but no storm here, have had windier sunny days, and the rain wern't that much.
 
gennepher said:
Sad about your 1930's table @Annb
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It was a classic piece of Art Deco design. I have quite a lot of that kind of design - inherited from my parents who married in the late 30's but the table and chairs we bought in an auction in West Kilbride in the late 60's. But I shouldn't expect others to value things I value, so I try to let it go (but here I am talking about it - tut!). I only thought about it because Neil thought we could get that one down from the loft to replace the teak table. He had thought Alistair had brought it back when it was no longer needed and I had to tell him the tables fate. He didn't say anything, but he reacted as he always does when irritated - lips tighten, eyes roll and he turns away with a quiet sigh.
 
F.B.G. at 0545 was 5.6 it is very similar every day I check, it's food that makes it unstable.
It says a lot for my pancreas and liver with all the meds I take.
It is my heart and lungs that are less than optimum, thank God I never smoked. :)

My grandson is getting to be a character, he told Helen on her 60th birthday you don't look a day over 50. I laughed when she told me.
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It looks like we are going to have an expensive winter keeping warm. The heating oil is going up again, anyway we shall just have to pay.

I pity those who cannot keep warm or even eat in this increasingly unfair country we live in, where politicians have to work out how to stash cash in cronies pockets.
It seems that Labour is increasingly coming into line with the Conservative actions so that Climate change cannot be used as clear water in the next election after the surcharge was in the London bye election.
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Annb said:
It was a classic piece of Art Deco design. I have quite a lot of that kind of design - inherited from my parents who married in the late 30's but the table and chairs we bought in an auction in West Kilbride in the late 60's. But I shouldn't expect others to value things I value, so I try to let it go (but here I am talking about it - tut!). I only thought about it because Neil thought we could get that one down from the loft to replace the teak table. He had thought Alistair had brought it back when it was no longer needed and I had to tell him the tables fate. He didn't say anything, but he reacted as he always does when irritated - lips tighten, eyes roll and he turns away with a quiet sigh.
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Poor Neil. He thinks the same way as you do.
If I have borrowed or even been given something, if it was no longer needed by my, I always give the giver of that item first choice if they want it back.

It doesn't matter how much you dress it with words saying I really appreciated it, that course of action never goes down well either...
 
Good morning everyone on a wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. All clear has been sounded throughout the house and the bins are standing ready for the bin lorry cavalcade. Terrible occurrences yesterday evening, the heating burst into life - that will have to stop! Birthdays, they do tend to turn up every year. Not always and some folk get two. Eldest granddaughter today, n-n-n-n-nineteen. Art bit, something to play with. Hope your day is not as mystifying as mine may be. Thank goodness for koffy - and bacon of course. And roast lamb with mint sauce and still being able to taste things and even digest them. And teeth :bookworm:


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Fbg 6.7

That darn badger yanked everything off the swing in the night. Carnage. And this was despite me liberally covering the swing with citronella essential oil which badgers are not supposed to like...I have not looked at the trail cam footage yet. Midnight spent the entire night in my bedroom. I think in part to hear what was going on outside.

The trees were battering each other all night.

The wildlife camera from a few days ago...
Cat Midnight lazily watches the Fox and then has a good clean of himself...
No badgers that night.
Midnight's kind of night.
Midnight loves his swing when there are no badgers about.
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Creative - worked another hour on the horse in Procreate ...still not getting what I want...and just worked a further hour on the horse...cannot get the vision I wanted from this. But you get to see some of my idea how yesterday's developed..

Enough creativity for one day, practical things need to be done...

Need a nap now.
And a cuppa tea.

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Good morning all on Michaelmas Eve 2023. Time to crack nuts (no sniggers at the back), pluck your stubble fed goose for the morrow and make Sruthan Micheil, Saint Michael's bannock, or Michaelmas Bannock. In St Ives (Cambs, was Hunts) there is a fair along the main street but not on this scale. I guess the origins are similar. "Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, Want not for money all the year” - clearly things have changed since then (lower end of price range). We, JKP, MIL and myself, now have a goose for Martinmas Nov 11th.Lidl usually having frozen geese, possibly as Martinmas is a much bigger event in parts of Europe. @dunelm happy birthday to your granddaughter and thanks for sharing the art. Interesting list of items in your attitude of gratitude. Mint sauce would be on mine, lamb shoulder and shank also but leg of lamb clearly needs rethinking. Still no test for the gutters and no heating needed here; back door can still be open and no top layer needed until it is dark in there or up to 9.00 pm in the living room. Enjoy your day but don't pick blackberries after tomorrow.
 
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