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

lindisfel said:
I see difficulties in getting teenagers up early enough and getting young children to bed early enough when it's really light in summer.
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In Shetland they have what is known as the "Simmer Dim", when the sun never goes right down - even here in the Western Isles, during the middle of summer it is not dark enough to turn on the lights. Especially during the school holidays children can be seen out playing at all hours. Teenagers, on the other hand, resist the suggestion to put down their electronic game and come out of their bedroom, even for food. Crofters work outside for most of the daylight time - making hay while the sun shines, as they say.

Last night must have been pretty clear. I sleep with my curtains open because I never remember to take a stick into my room to reach the curtains - can't manage it with the walking frame, it's too cumbersome to lift high enough. Anyway, the sky was light so there must have been a very clear moon lighting it and casting shadows across the room. Still needed the light when I woke up, even though the sky was still lit by the moon. I couldn't see the moon, but that was because my window faces the wrong way. Today, however, I have needed the light on all day in the kitchen because it is so grey and dark outside.
 
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What a beautiful day it's been on the peninsula l the sun was quite warm and no rain, clear skies, with a bit of high cloud.
It's darkening now at 4.30!
I always thought that clocks are going back to GMT? And that BST, was brought in to help with the farmers during WWI? Am I wrong? And ships chronometers are vital. The story of navigation and shipping is a good watch, museum close by is full of beautiful timepieces and other pieces needed for shipping to use.
I'm a good bloke! I try to be good and abide by the laws. I behave myself, and teach that to my kids and grandkids. Why do I need faith, belief, religious teaching to be the same!
According to our religious teachings, our sacred laws in every religion were passed down from the messengers of said dietys. So why are those who have that influence and power, to go the residence of their gods and then go and break the laws, in its name? I do believe I know the answer, and it's rhetorical.

On shifts, on days, go to work in darkness, come home in darkness! On nights you expect it. Never see the sun!

Hopefully final trimming of garden done till spring, you never know, Christmas is usually tropical.
Mrs L is having a quiet Tuesday afternoon on the couch, and lost her purse, that I found beneath the cushion.

Pork loin chops with a bit of salad, after the footie has finished.

Shalom to all.
 
dunelm said:
Tuesday night - dress up and take a bucket door to door. My grandchildren tell me it works a treat.
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some houses around here are joining the OTT brigade of Christmas decorations, by decking the halls with Halloween decorations. One house has a twenty foot web with a humungous spider in the middle, another has a skeleton just lying in the garden with lights around! What is next?

Huge bunnies for easter? Dragons for St David's or St George?

am I getting old?
 
Spent quite a lot of the afternoon sorting out birthday and Christmas cards and gifts on Amazon. These are not the major presents but the things to go into the Lucky Dip that I put together every year for Alistair's family. Some sweet treats, some toys that look like fun, some useful things, plus some things for my cleaner and her 2 children. More costly than last year, but I guess that's just the way it is. It's a bit earky, but, as long as I don't forget where I've put them, I'm organised in good time. I may not join the fun and games at Christmas, but I don't expect others to do what I do.

Alistair will reach 54 next week so I needed a decent card for him - also from Amazon since I can't get to the shops here. So that date is sorted, but Christmas gifts for all the children is very vague at the moment.

My brother reaches 82 later in the month, but we came to an agreement many years ago to restrict ourselves to birthday cards since otherwise we would be buying things we possibly couldn't afford that he probably didn't want. Works fine. We can send gifts during the year, if the idea occurs, but we avoid the big dates other than cards.
 
Lamont D said:
some houses around here are joining the OTT brigade of Christmas decorations, by decking the halls with Halloween decorations. One house has a twenty foot web with a humungous spider in the middle, another has a skeleton just lying in the garden with lights around! What is next?
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Thoughtless. I'm not the only person in the world with a phobia about spiders.

Come to that, some people have a fear of skeletons. Neil, just for fun, bough a toilet brush housed in a (fibre glass) skull and the youngest (3 year old) great granddaughter refused to come into the house! One of the times Tom tried to leave seafaring behind, he became a physio student and as part of his studies, he bought a skeleton. Our landlady insisted on us getting rid of it - it terrified her for some reason. Hallowe'en is a stressful time for dopes like us.
 

Annb said:
Thoughtless. I'm not the only person in the world with a phobia about spiders.

Come to that, some people have a fear of skeletons. Neil, just for fun, bough a toilet brush housed in a (fibre glass) skull and the youngest (3 year old) great granddaughter refused to come into the house! One of the times Tom tried to leave seafaring behind, he became a physio student and as part of his studies, he bought a skeleton. Our landlady insisted on us getting rid of it - it terrified her for some reason. Hallowe'en is a stressful time for dopes like us.
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At my club we had a physio who had a skeleton on hand to give his talks.
When he left, it was stashed away in one of the many small store rooms dotted around, I was asked to find something important, and I happened upon the dead guy under a lot of paperwork and old kit and equipment, in darkness.
Never mind the spiders webs! That was scary, until it was funny!
 
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Today MrSlim assured me the building work will be finished this month. Thats a big improvement on the " nearly finished " I have been living with for - well it feels like a year.
Kiki checked out the progress on the veranda today, as she does every day, she didn't approve of the new woodstain, shaking her feet every few steps, even though it had been applied hours before she went up there. She also managed to get herself up on the woodshed roof for the first time.20231029_160821.jpg
Using the scaffold tower which had been moved away from the veranda. She may never get another opportunity.
Mum says she is getting better, but judging by the number of relatives and friends visiting, she has a way to go yet.
Perhaps she will be completely recovered by Christmas.
For us a busy day outside apples and leaves for me , while MrSlim continues with the veranda, or covered walkway to the rear of the house.
I should make some apple chutney. Everyone seemed to like it, but can't be sure which recipe I used last time. Also this year far fewer apples than usual so better get on with it as trees are nearly empty already.
 
Annb said:
In Shetland they have what is known as the "Simmer Dim", when the sun never goes right down - even here in the Western Isles, during the middle of summer it is not dark enough to turn on the lights. Especially during the school holidays children can be seen out playing at all hours. Teenagers, on the other hand, resist the suggestion to put down their electronic game and come out of their bedroom, even for food. Crofters work outside for most of the daylight time - making hay while the sun shines, as they say.

Last night must have been pretty clear. I sleep with my curtains open because I never remember to take a stick into my room to reach the curtains - can't manage it with the walking frame, it's too cumbersome to lift high enough. Anyway, the sky was light so there must have been a very clear moon lighting it and casting shadows across the room. Still needed the light when I woke up, even though the sky was still lit by the moon. I couldn't see the moon, but that was because my window faces the wrong way. Today, however, I have needed the light on all day in the kitchen because it is so grey and dark outside.
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Mind you up there you always can compensate by burning a Viking longship.

But then again a local farmer up here set his own new Manitou tractor on fire one summer! :)
 
Sorry fellow posters, but a brief posting today, lots will be happening when Mrs J surfaces and stuff has to be completed before that happens.

Blood sugars this Morening were 5.3

Please have the best day you can, avoid doom mongers, smile at a stranger, there that should scare them, therefore bringing a smile to your face and as Dave Allen used to say “ May your god go with you “.

Stay safe all.
 
Fbg 6.6

Wildlife nighttime camera
Badger climbs on garden swing & investigates camera...
1 min


Creative...an owl in Procreate.

Yesterday, intense alarm calls from the sparrows on and off all day. I had something to do, so stayed outside well wrapped. The sparrowhawk did at least one fly through, but got nothing. The kestrel was hovering. Then suddenly the little birds went silent and melted into the bushes. I couldn't see anything, then I looked directly upwards. A buzzard was circling above my garden. What was he hoping for? He carried on circling so I checked potting shed and garage roof but nothing there. So, a search of the undergrowth for maybe a dead animal. But nothing.

It was half four later before the buzzard stopped circling immediately above and moved away but still circling...

The little Robin, who is now resident in my garden, comes to my window as soon as daylight comes. And looks at me. So, I have to get out of bed, go outside and put some cat biscuits down. I put Jade's food down as well. I come back in, nearly trip over a small black cat, stray Amy, who appears to have slept in the bungalow last night and wants wet cat food, not the dried stuff. Then she disappears outside for the day. I stumble into the kitchen, and stray ginger cat Merlin leaps off Midnight's chair (which Merlin has claimed for his own). He also requests wet cat food. Amy and Merlin are learning to ask nicely for food, instead of snarling and hissing and clawing at me. Infinite patience is required...

I finally get back in bed with my coffee with cream, and the little Robin is waiting for me by the glass door (outside) and once he sees me he goes and takes another cat biscuit, and flies off. Moments later he is back, looking through the glass door at me again, and once I acknowledge him/or see him there he will go and take another cat biscuit...and so this goes on most of the morning...

I am just pouring a cuppa tea, and Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) is availing himself of cat biscuits. Was he who the buzzard was after yesterday? Surely it wouldn't have been the tiny sparrows? I wouldn't like that buzzard to catch 'my' wood pigeon. He has been around the last 2 or 3 years. I have grumbled about him often enough, but he is almost like a friend now!

All the sparrows, bluetits, and pied wagtails are happily feeding...

Some starlings just flew over, and the ravens have landed in the cherry trees...

Enjoy your day.

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

Wildlife nighttime camera
Badger climbs on garden swing & investigates camera...
1 min


Creative...an owl in Procreate.

Yesterday, intense alarm calls from the sparrows on and off all day. I had something to do, so stayed outside well wrapped. The sparrowhawk did at least one fly through, but got nothing. The kestrel was hovering. Then suddenly the little birds went silent and melted into the bushes. I couldn't see anything, then I looked directly upwards. A buzzard was circling above my garden. What was he hoping for? He carried on circling so I checked potting shed and garage roof but nothing there. So, a search of the undergrowth for maybe a dead animal. But nothing.

It was half four later before the buzzard stopped circling immediately above and moved away but still circling...

The little Robin, who is now resident in my garden, comes to my window as soon as daylight comes. And looks at me. So, I have to get out of bed, go outside and put some cat biscuits down. I put Jade's food down as well. I come back in, nearly trip over a small black cat, stray Amy, who appears to have slept in the bungalow last night and wants wet cat food, not the dried stuff. Then she disappears outside for the day. I stumble into the kitchen, and stray ginger cat Merlin leaps off Midnight's chair (which Merlin has claimed for his own). He also requests wet cat food. Amy and Merlin are learning to ask nicely for food, instead of snarling and hissing and clawing at me. Infinite patience is required...

I finally get back in bed with my coffee with cream, and the little Robin is waiting for me by the glass door (outside) and once he sees me he goes and takes another cat biscuit, and flies off. Moments later he is back, looking through the glass door at me again, and once I acknowledge him/or see him there he will go and take another cat biscuit...and so this goes on most of the morning...

I am just pouring a cuppa tea, and Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) is availing himself of cat biscuits. Was he who the buzzard was after yesterday? Surely it wouldn't have been the tiny sparrows? I wouldn't like that buzzard to catch 'my' wood pigeon. He has been around the last 2 or 3 years. I have grumbled about him often enough, but he is almost like a friend now!

All the sparrows, bluetits, and pied wagtails are happily feeding...

Some starlings just flew over, and the ravens have landed in the cherry trees...

Enjoy your day.

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Reminds me of the one where a horse goes into a bar and the barman says, "Why the long face?"
 
Lamont D said:
At my club we had a physio who had a skeleton on hand to give his talks.
When he left, it was stashed away in one of the many small store rooms dotted around, I was asked to find something important, and I happened upon the dead guy under a lot of paperwork and old kit and equipment, in darkness.
Never mind the spiders webs! That was scary, until it was funny!
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When Helen went to Medical school some 42 years ago she had to have a skeleton. It was an actual human from the third world which I doubt is permitted today. She had her own name for him and kept the little bones from the ear in a box in cotton wool. Knowing I was a bit squemish then she would leave him in places where I would find him.
D.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

Wildlife nighttime camera
Badger climbs on garden swing & investigates camera...
1 min


Creative...an owl in Procreate.

Yesterday, intense alarm calls from the sparrows on and off all day. I had something to do, so stayed outside well wrapped. The sparrowhawk did at least one fly through, but got nothing. The kestrel was hovering. Then suddenly the little birds went silent and melted into the bushes. I couldn't see anything, then I looked directly upwards. A buzzard was circling above my garden. What was he hoping for? He carried on circling so I checked potting shed and garage roof but nothing there. So, a search of the undergrowth for maybe a dead animal. But nothing.

It was half four later before the buzzard stopped circling immediately above and moved away but still circling...

The little Robin, who is now resident in my garden, comes to my window as soon as daylight comes. And looks at me. So, I have to get out of bed, go outside and put some cat biscuits down. I put Jade's food down as well. I come back in, nearly trip over a small black cat, stray Amy, who appears to have slept in the bungalow last night and wants wet cat food, not the dried stuff. Then she disappears outside for the day. I stumble into the kitchen, and stray ginger cat Merlin leaps off Midnight's chair (which Merlin has claimed for his own). He also requests wet cat food. Amy and Merlin are learning to ask nicely for food, instead of snarling and hissing and clawing at me. Infinite patience is required...

I finally get back in bed with my coffee with cream, and the little Robin is waiting for me by the glass door (outside) and once he sees me he goes and takes another cat biscuit, and flies off. Moments later he is back, looking through the glass door at me again, and once I acknowledge him/or see him there he will go and take another cat biscuit...and so this goes on most of the morning...

I am just pouring a cuppa tea, and Mr Heffalump (wood pigeon) is availing himself of cat biscuits. Was he who the buzzard was after yesterday? Surely it wouldn't have been the tiny sparrows? I wouldn't like that buzzard to catch 'my' wood pigeon. He has been around the last 2 or 3 years. I have grumbled about him often enough, but he is almost like a friend now!

All the sparrows, bluetits, and pied wagtails are happily feeding...

Some starlings just flew over, and the ravens have landed in the cherry trees...

Enjoy your day.

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Such a lot going on in that garden, I would be exhausted. Another smashing owl.
 
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