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

Greetings all from a very sunny but bitterly cold L.A. Fbg was 5.2 which isn't a disaster daahling but makes me somewhat prickly. @JohnEGreen that last goodbye to your dad is so moving so huge respect to you for keeping your faith. @lindisfel life in that caravan must have been cold and yes, Marjorie did well not to take that drug. As for the winter of '63 I remember eating pigeons shot whilst trying to eat our Brussels, all night burners with apple wood roots and my dad being almost constantly unfreezing railway cottages plumbing throughout Cambs. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing your artistic gifts to brighten our days. @Lamont D hugs for '63 and today. @Krystyna23040 great Black Friday steal. Man cannot live by one air fryer alone so I bought this - don't judge me. @Annb knows how I "went native" there. As for that inquiry Lynton Crosby will love the focus on individuals not Austerityball. Isaiah 13.1 covers that and Matthew 9:15 is so Eddy Grant. Y’all have a good day now, ya hear.
 
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Greetings all from a very sunny but bitterly cold L.A. Fbg was 5.2 which isn't a disaster daahling but makes me somewhat prickly. @JohnEGreen that last goodbye to your dad is so moving so huge respect to you for keeping your faith. @lindisfel life in that caravan must have been cold and yes, Marjorie did well not to take that drug. As for the winter of '63 I remember eating pigeons shot whist trying to eat our Brussels, all night burners with apple wood roots and my dad being almost constantly unfreezing railway cottages plumbing throughout Cambs. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing your artistic gifts to brighten our days. @Lamont D hugs for '63 and today. @Krystyna23040 great Black Friday steal. Man cannot live by one air fryer alone so I bought this - don't judge me. @Annb knows how I "went native" there. As for that inquiry Lynton Crosby will love the focus on individuals not Austerityball. Isaiah 13.1 covers that and Matthew 9:15 is so Eddy Grant. Y’all have a good day now, ya hear.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. Smart looking contraption you have there. We have a similar one by Ninja but not with a fancy rotisserie. Take care when cleaning as the lining inside may be quite fragile to detergents.
 
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There has been a new bird in my garden since this morning. The bird is all black with a black beak. It is slightly smaller and more slender than the actual male blackbirds I have visiting who are distinctly plump now.

Am I right in assuming this black bird with the black beak is a young male blackbird? I have never seen a male blackbird with a black beak before. It is feeding off the ground, and in particular what the sparrows have scattered from their fatballs.

It is quite cold today, the car kept verbally warning me of ice on the road this morning. First time I have experienced that warning in this new car, and it makes a tinkling noise like breaking glass to warn me. It fair startled me as I am driving...
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Young male blackbirds have dark brown speckled plumage and dark beaks. I think adult male blackbirds only have bright yellow beaks during the mating season and then they dull down again until the next season but whether they actually go black, I don't know. Can't think what other bird it could be though. Maybe a young male but not a juvenile, not yet looking for a mate? The bright yellow beak and eye ring are only to attract a female after all.
 
I mentioned to Neil a few days ago that I was thinking of getting a small slow cooker and today what should come in the post? A Wonderbag. It is a highly insulated bag developed for the Developing World so that women could save time and energy and smoke inhalation, stirring cooking pots over wood fires and so that children would not have to spend so much time out of school looking for firewood. It seems you just bring a suitable pot of food to the boil and place it in the bag and seal it in and leave it - just like any other slow cooker. Looking forward to getting some meat to see how well it works. I try not to make only vegetable dishes these days (tum doesn't approve). At present, I only have some sausages and some bacon. Too late to make a slow cooked sausage stew now so they'll just be cooked in the normal way. Might try it with a salmon and vegetable stew tomorrow though.
 
ianpspurs said:
Greetings all from a very sunny but bitterly cold L.A. Fbg was 5.2 which isn't a disaster daahling but makes me somewhat prickly. @JohnEGreen that last goodbye to your dad is so moving so huge respect to you for keeping your faith. @lindisfel life in that caravan must have been cold and yes, Marjorie did well not to take that drug. As for the winter of '63 I remember eating pigeons shot whilst trying to eat our Brussels, all night burners with apple wood roots and my dad being almost constantly unfreezing railway cottages plumbing throughout Cambs. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing your artistic gifts to brighten our days. @Lamont D hugs for '63 and today. @Krystyna23040 great Black Friday steal. Man cannot live by one air fryer alone so I bought this - don't judge me. @Annb knows how I "went native" there. As for that inquiry Lynton Crosby will love the focus on individuals not Austerityball. Isaiah 13.1 covers that and Matthew 9:15 is so Eddy Grant. Y’all have a good day now, ya hear.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
 
Annb said:
Young male blackbirds have dark brown speckled plumage and dark beaks. I think adult male blackbirds only have bright yellow beaks during the mating season and then they dull down again until the next season but whether they actually go black, I don't know. Can't think what other bird it could be though. Maybe a young male but not a juvenile, not yet looking for a mate? The bright yellow beak and eye ring are only to attract a female after all.
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I didn't know that.
Maybe it is a late baby for this year, so a young male like you say.
Thanks @Annb
 
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I mentioned to Neil a few days ago that I was thinking of getting a small slow cooker and today what should come in the post? A Wonderbag. It is a highly insulated bag developed for the Developing World so that women could save time and energy and smoke inhalation, stirring cooking pots over wood fires and so that children would not have to spend so much time out of school looking for firewood. It seems you just bring a suitable pot of food to the boil and place it in the bag and seal it in and leave it - just like any other slow cooker. Looking forward to getting some meat to see how well it works. I try not to make only vegetable dishes these days (tum doesn't approve). At present, I only have some sausages and some bacon. Too late to make a slow cooked sausage stew now so they'll just be cooked in the normal way. Might try it with a salmon and vegetable stew tomorrow though.
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I used to use a Hay Box I made @Annb
I used a tea chest. Filled it with hay. Brought the stew to boil in the pan. Lid on. Carefully placed it in hay box. Hay on top. Put lid on top of Hay Box.
And some time later the food would be cooked nicely. This was in 1970's and 80's...
 
Annb said:
I mentioned to Neil a few days ago that I was thinking of getting a small slow cooker and today what should come in the post? A Wonderbag. It is a highly insulated bag developed for the Developing World so that women could save time and energy and smoke inhalation, stirring cooking pots over wood fires and so that children would not have to spend so much time out of school looking for firewood. It seems you just bring a suitable pot of food to the boil and place it in the bag and seal it in and leave it - just like any other slow cooker. Looking forward to getting some meat to see how well it works. I try not to make only vegetable dishes these days (tum doesn't approve). At present, I only have some sausages and some bacon. Too late to make a slow cooked sausage stew now so they'll just be cooked in the normal way. Might try it with a salmon and vegetable stew tomorrow though.
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Great present and what an attentive son you have. Enjoy.
 
gennepher said:
I used to use a Hay Box I made @Annb
I used a tea chest. Filled it with hay. Brought the stew to boil in the pan. Lid on. Carefully placed it in hay box. Hay on top. Put lid on top of Hay Box.
And some time later the food would be cooked nicely. This was in 1970's and 80's...
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Yes, when I saw it, I thought of a hay box. A thing I had heard of, but never used. We'll see how it goes. Not convinced at the moment if it will cook a joint of meat, or if the meat has to be cut into chunks so a stew, not a roast. Trial and error is the answer.

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Annb said:
I mentioned to Neil a few days ago that I was thinking of getting a small slow cooker and today what should come in the post? A Wonderbag. It is a highly insulated bag developed for the Developing World so that women could save time and energy and smoke inhalation, stirring cooking pots over wood fires and so that children would not have to spend so much time out of school looking for firewood. It seems you just bring a suitable pot of food to the boil and place it in the bag and seal it in and leave it - just like any other slow cooker. Looking forward to getting some meat to see how well it works. I try not to make only vegetable dishes these days (tum doesn't approve). At present, I only have some sausages and some bacon. Too late to make a slow cooked sausage stew now so they'll just be cooked in the normal way. Might try it with a salmon and vegetable stew tomorrow though.
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What a brilliant gift and same principle as a hay box. We used hay boxes in the Army. Usually a stew or some sort that can be taken out to the field to feed the troops. Saw similar in E Africa but they dug a hole, lined it with insulation, popped a simmering pan of whatever in and covered with insulation. Couple of hours later - all done. I have used the New Zealand Mauri Hangi method - dig hole, drop hot rocks in, place cooking pot on top, cover and wait. The Hangi method is good for cooking joints of meat but not sure about hay box method. Would be worth a try though. Perhaps marinade overnight first and not too big a joint. Thought - if you have a meat thermometer or some such with a probe that could be in the pot and the reading outside, you would get a good idea of temp change over several hours - your own cooking Libra! I did similar when I made a sous vide bath.
 
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ianpspurs said:
You absolutely sure everyone else isn't alternative? There is a great poem all parents and teachers should learn by heart. Neil is obviously not average but the gist of the poem is key. Take care. I'm being told to concentrate on watching White Christmas since I said to watch it. :banghead:
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Smashing poem. Don’t think I ever came across an average student; mean, mode or median - lots of range mind in all manner of things and one or two outliers. Never remove the outliers - these are the interesting ones and account for all sorts of skewdness. Never mind the bell curve - go for some skew.
 
ianpspurs said:
You absolutely sure everyone else isn't alternative? There is a great poem all parents and teachers should learn by heart. Neil is obviously not average but the gist of the poem is key. Take care. I'm being told to concentrate on watching White Christmas since I said to watch it. :banghead:
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That's a great poem. And you're right, teachers and parents should know that one and take it to heart. Neil has never been average. He has always been comfortable in his uniqueness. Teachers used to despair of him and he them. However hard I tried to persuade him to go to college, once he was too old for school, he dropped out because the lecturers knew less about their subjects than he did. That was his assessment and was most likely correct. Anything he wanted to study, he learned all he could about it and so was better informed than most college lecturers in a wider range of subjects. He was also better at understanding what he learned because he could link that learning to other areas of knowledge which also was rare in specialists. He has an alternative kind of brain and he's quite happy with that.

His attitude is very much like Em's. The world thinks she is "weird" and she embraces the idea.
 
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His attitude is very much like Em's. The world thinks she is "weird" and she embraces the idea.
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As someone who also embraces being weird, I do get it! But I still question why I'm so different!
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Went to the footie, regretting but not regretting! The football gods smiled on my lot for a change
However, I have a stonking headache, maybe the food but probably this morning's migraine. Mrs L has kindly reminded me that I'm a complete idiot. I just can't argue!
Gonna relax and watch the darts, feet up! No chores to do.
With the curtains up, it is like a darkroom, could take up developing! It's how I like it from the night shift sleeping during the daylight, even tho it's a good fifteen years, it also blots the street lighting, being on a main road, it is brightish.
I'll be back!

As an interest in the car industry, brexit and the continuous absurdity of the approach by government, could mean within the next few years. That more job losses are inevitable. When the government celebrate by announcing, that there is no job losses, within a production factory. It is nonsense.
The main builders of electric cars are now mostly based in Europe and expanding their workforce. As more and more buy electric on the continent. The British market has declined and are dependent on the fleet sales, so much. Declined so much in the last ten or so years particularly when we imposed sanctions on ourselves.
The rise in price, is expected to go up by ten percent in the new year as more restrictions on export come in. Major manufacturers will just move as some already have. Those who knew in the industry knew what would happen and warned the government the impact on the industry. However the opinion was that the French and Germans would still want free trade. They didn't!
Clowns!
 
Apparently, it is now legal, to call members of the conservative party, Tory scum!

I have often used more descriptive language! However I would be breaking the forums rules of I did so!
I am sure, I can leave it to your imagination, how I developed my tourettes from being from my background.
 
ianpspurs said:
CVGreetings all from a very sunny but bitterly cold L.A. Fbg was 5.2 which isn't a disaster daahling but makes me somewhat prickly. @JohnEGreen that last goodbye to your dad is so moving so huge respect to you for keeping your faith. @lindisfel life in that caravan must have been cold and yes, Marjorie did well not to take that drug. As for the winter of '63 I remember eating pigeons shot whilst trying to eat our Brussels, all night burners with apple wood roots and my dad being almost constantly unfreezing railway cottages plumbing throughout Cambs. @gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing your artistic gifts to brighten our days. @Lamont D hugs for '63 and today. @Krystyna23040 great Black Friday steal. Man cannot live by one air fryer alone so I bought this - don't judge me. @Annb knows how I "went native" there. As for that inquiry Lynton Crosby will love the focus on individuals not Austerityball. Isaiah 13.1 covers that and Matthew 9:15 is so Eddy Grant. Y’all have a good day now, ya hear.
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Frost all day in our N.Eastern sloping garden. I lit a fire in our multifuel stove that is in our sand stone inglenook.

It has not been lit very much and but soon was giving out a lot of heat.
Derek
 
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lindisfel said:
Hi Ian,
When your young and in love one doesn't feel the cold much, and one doesn't need the Spring to come to make the sap rise in the tree.
D.
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I have no idea what you are referring to!

Another memory from '63, we had a paraffin heater that had seen better days, but it was a godsend located in our bathroom, my dad was constantly worried about getting the paraffin, the cost and it obviously not working.
 
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