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

ianpspurs said:
First part I understand. 2nd part probably funny Derek but who they?
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I think you are refering to @dunelm who is using irony.
They, are those who have prostates who claim to be of female gender!

Hence the height of heels not making a difference to a putative prostate cancer.
Sorry, Ian, I was trying to be succinct.
Atb
Derek
 
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lindisfel said:
I can't believe you never watched Star Trek and the Vulcan with the funny ears on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise analyzing a new planet for life for Captain Kirk?
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If it was sci-fi there is zero chance I would ever watch it or agree to be in the same room as anyone watching. The Star is enough to tell me it is not for me. JKP may have watched it while I played cricket/did marking or lesson prep somewhere far, far away.
 
I thought I grew out of Westerns with the Lone Ranger but I did quite enjoy the Magnificent Seven. I grew out of Scifi with the early Star Trek but did enjoy the earlier Star Wars. Now, I don't enjoy any of them, or most other drama either. Stage versions of Shakespeare are fine, but not the more modern movie versions. Well stuck in the mud, me.

BG at 0400 was 6.5. Up a bit, then breakfast and out for the leg thing during which I had a hypo. Luckily I had some h/m oatcakes in my bag, so had one of those to stop it. Up slightly (enough) but down again when we got home so another hypo. 4 dates and a nap later and it 5.5. That'll do me. Very chilly though, so I've put a small heater on in the kitchen - right beside my desk here to try to warm me up.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what is going to be a smasher of a day here in the dark and dangerous north. Getting up at 4am this morning, for no identifiable reason means that I can extend the dark bit on this point on the rotating oblate spheroid, or reference ellipsoid if you like, and listen to the voices arguing about why the alleged sensible one is losing the plot. Well I am not Spartacus so probably fallible in all sorts of ways and anyhow if we are all now going to be job seekers looking for home working opportunities I best get in the queue for the position of online mature companion to the bewildered, dust off my dancing pumps and become an ‘influencer’ and tic toc sensation. Hope you all have a pleasant Thursday. Art bit - some more moss gathering stones. A bit early yet to put the bins out - they get a bit scared sitting out there in the dark. Now, where did I put that koffy?


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Great art bit @dunelm
Look forward to the next bit...
 
I am late to post.
Went food shopping early, but tired when I got back so slept...
Now my iPad will only give a full keyboard the size of a thumbnail...have I woken in an alternate universe?
Had to find an external keyboard and put batteries in...

The sky was beautiful first thing...liquid gold.

Trying to figure out how to assemble some metal shelves I got this morning in the things you did not know you needed aisle in Lidl...

Wild life nighttime camera
Sleeping Cat while Fox & Badger visit...
45secs

Creative...
Well it isn't really.
It was Midnight being creative...
I was asleep on the couch and he had climbed on to the wooden shelves by the window which had all my last 3 weeks SD Trail camera cards in envelopes and labelled and dated. Midnight had managed to knock most of them off on to a sleeping me, and the SD cards had escaped their envelopes...

Here is a photo of the culprit...

An ambulance with blue lights has just come into the road. It has stopped outside a house I don't know the people. I had better go out and check if there is anything i can do, but there is not much I can do. I cannot telephone for people for them...

There but for the grace of God go I...

Take care...

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ianpspurs said:
Morning all. Fbg was 4.5 at 7.05 today. . Should be very quiet hereabouts as planes are largely grounded and a large part of 12k people in the area are quietly feasting. Happy Thanksgiving..God bless and protect those who protect us - let's be clear about this taking control nonsense. I'm listening to Amazing Grace by Judy Collins as I type just to blend in and because it is sublime. Odd day yesterday in many ways. Venerable RR now has fully working suspension again and an MOT - all within my budget so I’m off for my drip trip in said veehickle. MIL sat in hairdressers with JKP until a nice young hairdresser politely asked if MIL had the right day. Back again today. Squirrels went to the fire station but sadly no Sam or Jupiter. Local Sainsburys car park heaving with large cars and in store men and women in fatigues surveying turkeys. I don’t like leg of lamb but I like a bargain so half price leg of lamb came home with us along with two mini Christmas trees for the front porch. No, I don't have a rocking chair on which I sit chewing tobacco and shooting at cans. There's fitting in and there's taking the whatsit. I will be watching plenty of NFL though. @dunelm thanks for sharing the wonderful art again. Many bins are put out here by twilight the night before probably because of the shift people work. Enjoy your day
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Thank you @ianpspurs - best tell the locals that the spurs are not the Texas type? All the best for the drip trip in the smartly re-sprung RR. Bins up here have to put up with a huge deficit of temperature. Best write to Jimmy Dimly and ask if we are included in the area currently named as being a s**t-hole?
 
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dunelm said:
Thank you @ianpspurs - best tell the locals that the spurs are not the Texas type? All the best for the drip trip in the smartly re-sprung RR. Bins up here have to put up with a huge deficit of temperature. Best write to Jimmy Dimly and ask if we are included in the area currently named as being a s**t-hole?
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Thank you. Penny (the Big Sword Gel) says he didn't not never say nuffin. You can't prove it you Ess Ell Aye Gee and our brief says the tape is muffled ... oops. Now get out my pub you're barred. Or words to that effect. Anyhow, places norf of the Severn/Wash, even with a Tory MP, are a mystery to the real Toryocracy. You must be well above that line fella and come May (allegedly) out of sight out of mind for 5 years. Now Chipping Norton is an entirely different matter.

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lindisfel said:
When I was being treated for prostate cancer c.20 years ago we used to go to the church coffee morning during doing our shopping in local town. One lady of a certain age c.60 asked me how the therapy effected me.
When I said it's basically chemical emasculation she didn't ask any more questions.
:) D.

I must say I prefer Mr Spock's quote to Captain Kirk. Its life Jim, but not as we know it!
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You know I'm a trekkie Derek!
So, it wasn't an actual quote.
It was in the song star-trekking, it has been misquoted millions of times!
Including you, mate! Ha!
 
gennepher said:
I am late to post.
Went food shopping early, but tired when I got back so slept...
Now my iPad will only give a full keyboard the size of a thumbnail...have I woken in an alternate universe?
Had to find an external keyboard and put batteries in...

The sky was beautiful first thing...liquid gold.

Trying to figure out how to assemble some metal shelves I got this morning in the things you did not know you needed aisle in Lidl...

Wild life nighttime camera
Sleeping Cat while Fox & Badger visit...
45secs

Creative...
Well it isn't really.
It was Midnight being creative...
I was asleep on the couch and he had climbed on to the wooden shelves by the window which had all my last 3 weeks SD Trail camera cards in envelopes and labelled and dated. Midnight had managed to knock most of them off on to a sleeping me, and the SD cards had escaped their envelopes...

Here is a photo of the culprit...

An ambulance with blue lights has just come into the road. It has stopped outside a house I don't know the people. I had better go out and check if there is anything i can do, but there is not much I can do. I cannot telephone for people for them...

There but for the grace of God go I...

Take care...

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Is he writing his Christmas List?
 
lindisfel said:
I can't believe you never watched Star Trek and the Vulcan with the funny ears on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise analyzing a new planet for life for Captain Kirk?

What a sad life I have led.
Derek
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Not as sad as me mate.
I have all the dvds, memorabilia and lots of other stuff, including about 300 trek books. I have a next generation chess set. Huge jigsaw on my wall etc, etc.
I will maybe post my fascination with trek lore!
 
6.1, pre counselling, pre joiner, pre blinds measurer. Pre phone calls to a number of other people for things.
Now post everything and an unusual state of my brain after trawling for the triggers of my anxiety. I would imagine for everyone, no more episodes of star trek would certainly have that effect. But it is the future.
How will I cope, a rhetorical question obviously. And I probably will but to put it in reality. Mrs L will only get no better and my physical health will almost certainly deteriorate in the not too distant future. I can't help it.
However I have curtains to put up and curry to get done.
Live long and prosper.

My best wishes to you all as always.
 
lindisfel said:
But Star Trek did give some impetus to the civil rights movement.
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The story of Nyota Uhuuru (Nichelle Nichols) is a fascinating expose on the American civil rights movement and how Martin Luther King had a influence.
But even before that Gene Roddenberry had the writers put a political and a civil welfare message in every episode.
No one realised Sulu was gay!
 
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