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

[lindisfel]

Born to townlife and earned my street cred the hard way!
Have lived in the industrial estate that is this side of peninsula within sniffing the river all my life mate!
I would say that if the closeness to the Liver buildings would deem anyone a scouser, then where I was born, dragged up, and spent all my life. I would be more of a scouser than most scousers. The likes of the four graces, tate and lyles, the tobacco warehouses, the pier head, the wheel and arena, and now the new stadium on the banks of the Mersey have been always on view.
As you know, I travelled a lot in my job in footie. And the difference between everywhere else and South East is unbelievable. The infrastructure of the whole lot is in decline. I think it won't be long that Merseyside will follow greater Manchester with getting it's own metro owned transport system that is happening there. The number of buses has dropped by over fifty per cent since privatisation the ferries only run straight across from the pier heead an hour in morning and two hours later thanin afternoon. Trains are not bad but improvement has been really slow, and the rolling stock has been borrowed, though more modern. There is no new roads getting built, widened or upgraded.
If your accident happened here, our police would have thrown you in the nick. No questions.
Myself and Mrs L, when the kids were loud and noisy, we're on our way to the Yorkshire coast, making our way, coming off the M62, taking an A road north, when a tractor, held the traffic up, stop start, top speed around 15 mph, then the tractor had to turn right and stopped. A bump from behind, the wife got out and exchanged details!
We all got a check up, all ok after a couple of days, not that they would have admitted anyhow.
Garage said it was fine to drive.
After getting home after a really nice holiday, getting in touch with our insurance through the company, and the dealers fixing a new bumper. We were unaware of what was happening.
Apparently, our insurance informed us that the ford (boo) that bumped us was uninsured and was stolen in South London around the Fulham, Chelsea area.
A couple of months later the police confirmed that the driver had been identified and charged!
The insurance was sorted and we never even paid the excess due.
I couldn't imagine how bad the kerfuffle without the insurance cover from the company's scheme!
Take care mate!
Do you test your BG levels before you put your pedal to the metal!
And yes! The areas North of here are bereft of transport system!

You come from Birkenhead then Lamont, what team did you support and work for?

I don't drive if I feel unwell, I general eat eggs fried in olive oil at breakfast and cheese and egg omelettes at lunch time. I do eat very small baked potatoes at lunch time but I am not going out much now.
May main meal is at night where we eat loads of steamed veg and clean meat and fish but not salmon. Marjorie eats farmed salmon but I would not touch it with a barg pole.
Occasionally we push the boat out and have a meal or takeaway.
I eat Greek style full fat yoghurt and berries or perhaps half an apple. The Lidl strawberries have been particularly good this year

But I stopped having hypos when I changed my diet about eight years ago.
Its difficult, I also have to have a very low salt diet.

We don't go out in the evenings now, but I used to go to art classes run by local artist and former teacher Brian Campbell...he went to Liverpool Art School.
D

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.5

My Instagram account with the Wildlife videos in my back garden has really taken off. There can be a lot of 1k views for these videos I post. Instagram posts all videos on Facebook. And I am seeing more and more of 5k views for one each one of my videos.
I was shocked the first time I saw this.
I did think what problems is this going to bring...
Well, the problems have come in the form of trolls which are breeding faster than fruit flies. And can be quite nasty.
I told my LIverpool friend on Wednesday. Oh, you'll have to give up your account then, close it down, and not do any more videos. She always takes the easy option in everything in life. It is too much trouble to her to do anything else.
Like heck no.

The last few days I have been diving into Instagrams instructions and others ideas how to deal with this.

I found that all the trolls, I've encountered so far hide behind private accounts. And none of them has posted one picture nor video on ther accounts. Which suggests they have come on Instagram for only one purpose. And that is to be cowardly trolls.

Yes, the trolls upset me briefly initially and I knew I had to sort something, which I have been doing.

I had told myself initially that I was going to only do these wildlife videos for one year. That year is up. But in that time the relationships between cats, foxes, and badgers have changed and evolved. I find it interesting, and others do too.

And so I have given myself one more year of videoing the beasties in my back garden.

Up to a year ago Google closed down YouTube accounts where people had closed their gmail addresses or they were inactive. And all your videos were deleted. So, that was why I was going to stop videoing sooner than later. Sometime this year, those rules changed, and even if you pop your clogs and don't video any more and your gmail account becomes inactive, your videos stay up indefinitely. And so I thought I would give myself one more year. So, my current plan is possibly an end date of Xmas 2024. Plans always get revised.

Now I have to get ready to source some more food for the feline and feathered beasties.

Last night, Midnight spent the night indoors, but not asleep with me. He was in the kitchen with ginger cat Merlin who has taken up residence in the cat bed in there. They were guarding the cat flap, but did let Amy in for food, and another good looking ginger cat who I have not named yet.

Now I think I understand why over the years all my cats I came here with were always guarding the cat flap. These badgers and foxes have always been there and I had no idea, until last year when I installed the the cameras. My cats I came here with, always had at least 3 sleeping on the swing at night. The rest were guarding the cat flap at night. So, I think the badgers and foxes have been monitored and trained by my cats for a couple of decades...


Wildlife nighttime camera.
#ukwildlife Fox wonders where everyone is...
No badgers or cats around this night...
55secs

Creative. Acrylic painting done in garage, and then worked on in Procreate's painting tools in between me researching about trolls...

Got to get moving.
Medicines to see if they are ready. Still no text from the pharmacy.

You have a good day.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.5

My Instagram account with the Wildlife videos in my back garden has really taken off. There can be a lot of 1k views for these videos I post. Instagram posts all videos on Facebook. And I am seeing more and more of 5k views for one each one of my videos.
I was shocked the first time I saw this.
I did think what problems is this going to bring...
Well, the problems have come in the form of trolls which are breeding faster than fruit flies. And can be quite nasty.
I told my LIverpool friend on Wednesday. Oh, you'll have to give up your account then, close it down, and not do any more videos. She always takes the easy option in everything in life. It is too much trouble to her to do anything else.
Like heck no.

The last few days I have been diving into Instagrams instructions and others ideas how to deal with this.

I found that all the trolls, I've encountered so far hide behind private accounts. And none of them has posted one picture nor video on ther accounts. Which suggests they have come on Instagram for only one purpose. And that is to be cowardly trolls.

Yes, the trolls upset me briefly initially and I knew I had to sort something, which I have been doing.

I had told myself initially that I was going to only do these wildlife videos for one year. That year is up. But in that time the relationships between cats, foxes, and badgers have changed and evolved. I find it interesting, and others do too.

And so I have given myself one more year of videoing the beasties in my back garden.

Up to a year ago Google closed down YouTube accounts where people had closed their gmail addresses or they were inactive. And all your videos were deleted. So, that was why I was going to stop videoing sooner than later. Sometime this year, those rules changed, and even if you pop your clogs and don't video any more and your gmail account becomes inactive, your videos stay up indefinitely. And so I thought I would give myself one more year. So, my current plan is possibly an end date of Xmas 2024. Plans always get revised.

Now I have to get ready to source some more food for the feline and feathered beasties.

Last night, Midnight spent the night indoors, but not asleep with me. He was in the kitchen with ginger cat Merlin who has taken up residence in the cat bed in there. They were guarding the cat flap, but did let Amy in for food, and another good looking ginger cat who I have not named yet.

Now I think I understand why over the years all my cats I came here with were always guarding the cat flap. These badgers and foxes have always been there and I had no idea, until last year when I installed the the cameras. My cats I came here with, always had at least 3 sleeping on the swing at night. The rest were guarding the cat flap at night. So, I think the badgers and foxes have been monitored and trained by my cats for a couple of decades...


Wildlife nighttime camera.
#ukwildlife Fox wonders where everyone is...
No badgers or cats around this night...
55secs

Creative. Acrylic painting done in garage, and then worked on in Procreate's painting tools in between me researching about trolls...

Got to get moving.
Medicines to see if they are ready. Still no text from the pharmacy.

You have a good day.

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Lovely bouquet

 

[Krystyna23040]

7.0 this morning. I actually have a lunch break today. Also we are lucky we still have broadband as half of our village has had no broadband since yesterday morning. It looks like one of the cabinets (or whatever they are called) has been vandalised.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Morening all from a grandchild dominated Tilehurst Towers.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.3

Must go. Stay safe all.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on another splendid morning here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. Does Gemma Pell have problems introducing herself in France? Driving - leaned to do that in a 1 ton Humber and then issued an Austin Champ for a while. Then an array of Land Rovers and for a while an AFV (armoured fighting vehicle). Not many folk cut you up in one of those for some reason. What fun - and then discovered even more fun on two wheels. Two trips into town yesterday, one by car in the morning and the other by foot in the afternoon. Grass needs cutting. Well that can just wait. Today it’s a trip down the coast road and lunch in Whitby unless something else takes our fancy on the way. Then I will be making a bacon-cheddar-cauliflower chowder, enough for a couple of meals. Well, that’s the plan - and as we know, some things change and some things stay the same. Art bit, a splash of colour added. Hope you day is full of mirth or at least a tablespoon of joy. I shall finish my koffy and get ready to be driven, like Miss Daisy to wherever we will end up.

 

[lindisfel]

Some have been saying how hypocritical we are about the gap tree! There is always someone showing their ignorance.

Sheep are the biggest blight on fell landscapes and stop regeneration of trees as do deer in Scotland, we need wolves and bears back in ecosystems.

Scotland should have a thriving Caledonian forest but there are too many deer.

When they got wolves back in Yellowstone then the Park flourished in all its diversity of bird and plant life.

Oh and they need to know most trees will coppice because in previous interglacials before homo sapiens killed off the megafauna they learnt to survive the predations of the Straight Tusked Elephant in Europe.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a bright, dry and crystal clear start to St Jerome's day here in the Exotic East .The next fortnight may be mostly light polo/t-shirt, shorts, no socks or trousers weather (an extra top early on and after dark and some waterproof gear for an odd thunderstorm at school pick up time) @dunelm thanks for sharing the art with the added colour to elevate the piece even higher. Enjoy your potentially magical mystery tour dad jokes* and all. @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderfully bright and uplifting creative. As for insta and trolls, good for you being Churchillian and do KBO. @lindisfel this piece with the link to the more substantive one is interesting (ignore the froth at the start). Moscow* ( 1 each?), basic housework to do so that I may bank goodwill ahead of the cricket world cup and witness more Angeball on screen 1 later.

 

[Annb]

BG at 6.30 this morning was 6.0. Wonderful and amazing because I had a toasted crumpet instead of a meal yesterday evening. Still, just after breakfast (the salmon I should have had for dinner yesterday) it is still only 7.1. V odd!

I didn't bother eating much yesterday evening because we had wrapped the first of the table extension leaves for storing away and got out the second one. It was in a worse state than the first so it took a lot of vacuuming and washing with wood soap to get it clean (Neil says it needs to be done again - it doesn't meet his exacting standards, although I can't see anything wrong with it - maybe my eyesight). Anyway that left the corner they were kept in to clean - it was full of mouldy dust and cobwebs and spiders! It is a narrow, tall space in one corner of the kitchen so difficult to access. I did get it as clean as I could (vacuum cleaner, mop, bleach and elbow grease) but it rather knocked me out. No energy left to prep food so I grabbed one of the crumpets I buy in for Em and toasted it, added quite a large knob of butter and that was as much as I could manage.

I didn't even put the equipment away because I need to vacuum under a drawer unit which is the "hiding place" for big plastic boxes holding linen and some odds and ends of kitchen equipment. I pulled one out a couple of days ago and, seeing the state of the back of it, just pushed it back in again. Have to do it today.

Also have to take some time to start making a lemon drizzle cake for DIL to take to school - it's her turn this coming week to supply cake to the staff room. That's a job for later, or even tomorrow, if I can't manage it today. First, those plastic boxes.

 

[ianpspurs]

BG at 6.30 this morning was 6.0. Wonderful and amazing because I had a toasted crumpet instead of a meal yesterday evening. Still, just after breakfast (the salmon I should have had for dinner yesterday) it is still only 7.1. V odd!

I didn't bother eating much yesterday evening because we had wrapped the first of the table extension leaves for storing away and got out the second one. It was in a worse state than the first so it took a lot of vacuuming and washing with wood soap to get it clean (Neil says it needs to be done again - it doesn't meet his exacting standards, although I can't see anything wrong with it - maybe my eyesight). Anyway that left the corner they were kept in to clean - it was full of mouldy dust and cobwebs and spiders! It is a narrow, tall space in one corner of the kitchen so difficult to access. I did get it as clean as I could (vacuum cleaner, mop, bleach and elbow grease) but it rather knocked me out. No energy left to prep food so I grabbed one of the crumpets I buy in for Em and toasted it, added quite a large knob of butter and that was as much as I could manage.

I didn't even put the equipment away because I need to vacuum under a drawer unit which is the "hiding place" for big plastic boxes holding linen and some odds and ends of kitchen equipment. I pulled one out a couple of days ago and, seeing the state of the back of it, just pushed it back in again. Have to do it today.

Also have to take some time to start making a lemon drizzle cake for DIL to take to school - it's her turn this coming week to supply cake to the staff room. That's a job for later, or even tomorrow, if I can't manage it today. First, those plastic boxes.

Take it steady today @Annb. The winner is for your Curchillian KBO attitude, being so loving to others (DIL and the cake in that post) and reminding me (and others?) of Harrison, Alien Aspie, The Threadfather and his discovery of his beloved crumpets lowering fbg. Actually that's the second echo of Harrison what with @dunelm's driving Miss Daisy quip. Go well Harrison wherever you are - sorely missed but never forgotten.

 

[gennepher]

Lovely bouquet

Thanks @dunelm

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on another splendid morning here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. Does Gemma Pell have problems introducing herself in France? Driving - leaned to do that in a 1 ton Humber and then issued an Austin Champ for a while. Then an array of Land Rovers and for a while an AFV (armoured fighting vehicle). Not many folk cut you up in one of those for some reason. What fun - and then discovered even more fun on two wheels. Two trips into town yesterday, one by car in the morning and the other by foot in the afternoon. Grass needs cutting. Well that can just wait. Today it’s a trip down the coast road and lunch in Whitby unless something else takes our fancy on the way. Then I will be making a bacon-cheddar-cauliflower chowder, enough for a couple of meals. Well, that’s the plan - and as we know, some things change and some things stay the same. Art bit, a splash of colour added. Hope you day is full of mirth or at least a tablespoon of joy. I shall finish my koffy and get ready to be driven, like Miss Daisy to wherever we will end up.


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Great splash of colour @dunelm

Enjoy the day...

 

[gennepher]

Morning all from a bright, dry and crystal clear start to St Jerome's day here in the Exotic East .The next fortnight may be mostly light polo/t-shirt, shorts, no socks or trousers weather (an extra top early on and after dark and some waterproof gear for an odd thunderstorm at school pick up time) @dunelm thanks for sharing the art with the added colour to elevate the piece even higher. Enjoy your potentially magical mystery tour dad jokes* and all. @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderfully bright and uplifting creative. As for insta and trolls, good for you being Churchillian and do KBO. @lindisfel this piece with the link to the more substantive one is interesting (ignore the froth at the start). Moscow* ( 1 each?), basic housework to do so that I may bank goodwill ahead of the cricket world cup and witness more Angeball on screen 1 later.

Thank you @ianpspurs

 

[gennepher]

Just got back from driving 20mph solidly for nearly 20 miles this morning. Apart from 1/4 mile at 70mph (never reached the 70mph), and 1/2 mile in 40mph before it suddenly dropped to 20mph again. It's taken me more than 1/2 as long to do my business this morning.
At 7:30 am, the police were all out in their cars pacing the non existent traffic (this area has no traffic on a Saturday morning). I'm doing 20, the car behind me was flashing and honking me and about to pass me, when a guy in a van coming towards us flashed him. He pulled back when he realised the police car was a little way in front of me.(Pity, I wished he had passed me and got caught...)

Coming back on same stretch of road, there is a little more traffic but no sign of the earlier police cars. I am getting flashed and honked again, and cars are overtaking me. This is stressful. I got a bad tummy ache from this.
I turned off and drove through a built up housing estate for safety...

I will be high tailing it to England for my stuff next week...

 

[ianpspurs]

Thank you @ianpspurs

You are most welcome. I am concerned that some others here (especially in the D-N-D Norf ) may not be aware of just how urgent it is to CHOOSE YOUR DECORATION THEME. I wasn't until I was kindly reminded. Seems to be lacking the Post-Truss omishambles theme though. Boomers will probably just order it all in, as per, from the continuum of aspirational retailers - except Wilko and whoever else doesn't last the course. Don't worry about 20 mph as RishGPT is on the case. A few dead and maimed kids who can't vote anyhow are worth the votes of The Base. Base is such a good choice of word - not sure they get the irony.

 

[lindisfel]

Morning all from a bright, dry and crystal clear start to St Jerome's day here in the Exotic East .The next fortnight may be mostly light polo/t-shirt, shorts, no socks or trousers weather (an extra top early on and after dark and some waterproof gear for an odd thunderstorm at school pick up time) @dunelm thanks for sharing the art with the added colour to elevate the piece even higher. Enjoy your potentially magical mystery tour dad jokes* and all. @gennepher thanks for sharing the wonderfully bright and uplifting creative. As for insta and trolls, good for you being Churchillian and do KBO. @lindisfel this piece with the link to the more substantive one is interesting (ignore the froth at the start). Moscow* ( 1 each?), basic housework to do so that I may bank goodwill ahead of the cricket world cup and witness more Angeball on screen 1 later.

Thanks Ian, clocked that one.
Are you feeling ok after your Therapy?
Atb
D.
Derek

 

[Annb]

You are most welcome. I am concerned that some others here (especially in the D-N-D Norf ) may not be aware of just how urgent it is to CHOOSE YOUR DECORATION THEME. I wasn't until I was kindly reminded. Seems to be lacking the Post-Truss omishambles theme though. Boomers will probably just order it all in, as per, from the continuum of aspirational retailers - except Wilko and whoever else doesn't last the course. Don't worry about 20 mph as RishGPT is on the case. A few dead and maimed kids who can't vote anyhow are worth the votes of The Base. Base is such a good choice of word - not sure they get the irony.

The children in this family are given gifts at Christmas and the festival is celebrated by the younger members of this family. Neil and I stay clear, once the gifts have been handed over. I do enjoy seeing the children having pleasure, as does Neil but I'm afraid, in terms of games and feasting, we are damp squibs. Christmas is not really about decorating the house or giving gifts, using commercially produced, fairly useless or short term items. Anyhow, it's still September and I refuse to look at adverts for all the overpriced things I could buy in honour of the not-very-sacred event. We may, or may not, celebrate in our own way. Food is always an issue in this house with all the things neither of us can eat, so it can't be a feasting day. It's not that we are Scrooges, just we prefer to think about what the celebration is really about.

 

[lindisfel]

The children in this family are given gifts at Christmas and the festival is celebrated by the younger members of this family. Neil and I stay clear, once the gifts have been handed over. I do enjoy seeing the children having pleasure, as does Neil but I'm afraid, in terms of games and feasting, we are damp squibs. Christmas is not really about decorating the house or giving gifts, using commercially produced, fairly useless or short term items. Anyhow, it's still September and I refuse to look at adverts for all the overpriced things I could buy in honour of the not-very-sacred event. We may, or may not, celebrate in our own way. Food is always an issue in this house with all the things neither of us can eat, so it can't be a feasting day. It's not that we are Scrooges, just we prefer to think about what the celebration is really about.

Who dear, you must not tell your sister in law she might class you as easy convert!
D

 

[ianpspurs]

@lindisfel I'm fine but thanks for asking. Not tired afterwards yesterday - I am maybe 1 in 3 times - so managed 8k steps. Travelling and sitting for infusion takes out almost 3 hrs - longer if there are delays.. Interestingly when I have worn a sensor bg has fallen even with eating. Tea, coffee, biscuits and various celebratory cakes and confectionary are always available but I take my own lc food*. I take my own coffee with cream and Ceylon cinnamon (Sri Lankan origin obs) which always lowers my bg anyhow. @Annb I agree it is early to be planning Christmas but this is a point of view I hadn't considered. I was looking to see how close the Jewish exemptions for fasting are to Muslim. In my experience weddings take much more planning so maybe not too soon. Of course it obviously falls into the confirmation bias category. * I may need to revisit always eschewing joining the celebration after the linked piece.

 

[lindisfel]

Alan Fearon came and cut most of my grass this morning, he had been on holiday on a Greek Island for two weeks in September. He was telling me a young woman turned up at the local food bank last week and she had six children and desperate because she didn't know how she was going to feed them.

I am sure there is more need now than there was when I was young. Young children should not suffer because of their parents poverty in what purports to be one of the World's rich democracies.
D.