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

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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That is a really impressive air fryer @ianpspurs
 
Lamont D said:
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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I never realised there were people poorer than us! :)
Everybody had a job, only the work shy really didn't work, my dad went to work on the Excavator Test when he was dying of cancer, he had guts.
D.
 
Annb said:
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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I am afraid one has to have a work round if one wants to earn a living in society. One is empoyed on the employer's terms or you go without. It was known as self discipline when we were young.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
I am afraid one has to have a work round if one wants to earn a living in society. One is empoyed on the employer's terms or you go without. It was known as self discipline when we were young.
D.
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That was what I tried to get Neil to understand. Asperger's is a pain and it leads him to being stubborn. He has very little in the way of qualifications. When he was fit enough he was always a willing worker but he became unfit and unable to work at the heavier jobs he wanted to do and unqualified for the lighter, indoor jobs he could have done. He will never be materially rich but he is happy never to have dropped his standards of what he sees as integrity.
 
Fbg 6.6

Nighttime wildlife camera...
Cat Midnight sleeps on swing (bottom right) until Badger approaches (Prior to this Badger was trying to climb bird table pole...)
53 secs

Creative...
Some sketching in my sketchbook, using cat Midnight as a sketchbook stand.
He was obliging...

Birds are singing and feeding in the garden...
There are sparrows, bluetits, pied wagtails, one dunnock, one blackbird with a black beak, and the male robin is sitting on my door handle looking at me. The robin goes on the swing to take Jade's cat biscuits, and she (like Midnight did) allows the robin to do that with impunity.

Now to start the day...

A cuppa tea first...

Have your best day.

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

Nighttime wildlife camera...
Cat Midnight sleeps on swing (bottom right) until Badger approaches (Prior to this Badger was trying to climb bird table pole...)
53 secs

Creative...
Some sketching in my sketchbook, using cat Midnight as a sketchbook stand.
He was obliging...

Birds are singing and feeding in the garden...
There are sparrows, bluetits, pied wagtails, one dunnock, one blackbird with a black beak, and the male robin is sitting on my door handle looking at me. The robin goes on the swing to take Jade's cat biscuits, and she (like Midnight did) allows the robin to do that with impunity.

Now to start the day...

A cuppa tea first...

Have your best day.

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I really think your garden must be some kind of paradise, with all the birds and cats living happily side by side and even allowing foxes and badgers not to faze them. Like the sketched trees. Very like my own trees at the moment.
 
gennepher said:
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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Good morning @gennepher. Interesting to hear about your new arrival. A couple of days ago I had 3 similar birds arrive together in my garden. The right shape and colour of male blackbirds but with black beaks. Also unusual to see 3 together so wondered if they were the young of one family. One has been back again today several times using the tall part of the garden wall as a look-out post. Enjoy your day and keep warm. :)
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

Nighttime wildlife camera...
Cat Midnight sleeps on swing (bottom right) until Badger approaches (Prior to this Badger was trying to climb bird table pole...)
53 secs

Creative...
Some sketching in my sketchbook, using cat Midnight as a sketchbook stand.
He was obliging...

Birds are singing and feeding in the garden...
There are sparrows, bluetits, pied wagtails, one dunnock, one blackbird with a black beak, and the male robin is sitting on my door handle looking at me. The robin goes on the swing to take Jade's cat biscuits, and she (like Midnight did) allows the robin to do that with impunity.

Now to start the day...

A cuppa tea first...

Have your best day.

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Lovely to have so many birds in your garden. Smashing trees sketch and very thoughtful of Midnight to help out.
 
Annb said:
That was what I tried to get Neil to understand. Asperger's is a pain and it leads him to being stubborn. He has very little in the way of qualifications. When he was fit enough he was always a willing worker but he became unfit and unable to work at the heavier jobs he wanted to do and unqualified for the lighter, indoor jobs he could have done. He will never be materially rich but he is happy never to have dropped his standards of what he sees as integrity.
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I know it's a wide spectrum of high functioning autism but some get be doctors and scientists but they have to be of a nature willing to go through the process of the education system, or act normal out, or else society finds it difficult to place them permanently. For example a doctor in general practice would faze his or her patients out if they couldn't converse normally with interactive speech.
D
 
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Good morning all from a cold L.A. No accurate idea of fbg as I didn't swipe (right or left) but it was 5.6 at 9.21 so meh..Google swipe right by Forest Blakk. It picks up the no such thing as an average child and If you are feeling old it amplifies how much more complex teenage/adolescent/single lives are now. @lindisfel hug for memories of your dad, winner for how you kept warm and the sap rising reference - very psalm 29 v 1.. @gennepher thanks for sharing the sketch. The term obliging was a euphemism for a certain type of young lady - usually high bred - among my circle. Apparently we are all living/have lived as extras in the film Saltburn - that journo was married to Baron Sackville and went to Oxford so an interesting take I think C S Lewis is more on point (TLDR?), he usually is for me. So today? Can Spurs muster some centre backs? can I park my preconceptions and just judge leg of lamb as it is today or just smile and wave as the gels say how wonderful it was? Yes, I'm blessed to have the dilemma. Enjoy your day and count your blessings. Have a song - lyrics for you Genn
 
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Good morning everyone from what looks to be a dry day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this morning - must have been a carb light day when measured against the feather of Ma'at. Just got off a video call with my mother who is off to a tea party this afternoon. Some fund raiser. She is in charge of the tombola today and will be going to the venue on her red scooter and identifying as Red Dalek. Might get out for a walk today as my cough is subsiding although it does make the occasional unannounced appearance. Art bit, something else. Have a pleasant valley Sunday if you can. I have already consumed koffy so time to do a few exercises and then ponder the ingredients for some soup.


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Good morning all. fbs 7.6. Further to the posts about blackbirds, I have just found this:

Generally speaking, the resident UK Blackbird develop the distinctive orange-yellow beak and eye-ring around the first year of their life. In contrast, Blackbirds from other parts of Europe are believed not to develop their orange-yellow beak and eye-ring until the second year of their lives. Seeing a blackbird in your garden with a black beak and eye-ring is therefore likely to be a first-year male blackbird, perhaps a winter visitor from Europe.

Keep warm folks.
 
Talking of Daleks a poem by Atila the Stockbroker.

Asylum Seeking Daleks

They claim their planet’s dying
that soon it’s going to blow
And so they’re coming here - they say
they’ve nowhere else to go....
With their strange computer voices
and their one eye on a pole
They’re moving in next door and then
they’re signing on the dole.....

Asylum seeking Daleks
are landing here at noon!
Why can’t we simply send them back
or stick them on the moon?
It says here in the Daily Mail
they’re coming here to stay -
The Loony Lefties let them in!
The middle class will pay......

They say that they’re not terrorists:
That doesn't wash with me!
The last time I saw one I hid
Weeks behind the settee...
Good Lord - they’re pink. With purple bumps!
There’s photos of them here!
Not just extra-terrestial....
The bloody things are queer!

Yes! Homosexual Daleks
And they’re sponging off the State!
With huge Arts Council grants
to teach delinquents how to skate!
It’s all here in the paper -
I’d better tell the wife!
For soon they will EXTERMINATE
Our British way of life.....

This satire on crass ignorance
and tabloid-fostered fear
Is at an end. Now let me give
One message, loud and clear.
Golf course, shop floor or BNP:
Smash bigotry and hate!
Asylum seekers - welcome here.
You racists: emigrate!
 
lindisfel said:
I know it's a wide spectrum of high functioning autism but some get be doctors and scientists but they have to be of a nature willing to go through the process of the education system, or act normal out, or else society finds it difficult to place them permanently. For example a doctor in general practice would faze his or her patients out if they couldn't converse normally with interactive speech.
D
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Neil is high functioning (massive IQ) but took him well into his 20's before I saw any sign of ability to interact with people (other than me and even that was minimal). Now, in his 50's he is well rounded, helpful, empathetic, self-sufficient and unemployable.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Talking of Daleks a poem by Atila the Stockbroker.

Asylum Seeking Daleks

They claim their planet’s dying
that soon it’s going to blow
And so they’re coming here - they say
they’ve nowhere else to go....
With their strange computer voices
and their one eye on a pole
They’re moving in next door and then
they’re signing on the dole.....

Asylum seeking Daleks
are landing here at noon!
Why can’t we simply send them back
or stick them on the moon?
It says here in the Daily Mail
they’re coming here to stay -
The Loony Lefties let them in!
The middle class will pay......

They say that they’re not terrorists:
That doesn't wash with me!
The last time I saw one I hid
Weeks behind the settee...
Good Lord - they’re pink. With purple bumps!
There’s photos of them here!
Not just extra-terrestial....
The bloody things are queer!

Yes! Homosexual Daleks
And they’re sponging off the State!
With huge Arts Council grants
to teach delinquents how to skate!
It’s all here in the paper -
I’d better tell the wife!
For soon they will EXTERMINATE
Our British way of life.....

This satire on crass ignorance
and tabloid-fostered fear
Is at an end. Now let me give
One message, loud and clear.
Golf course, shop floor or BNP:
Smash bigotry and hate!
Asylum seekers - welcome here.
You racists: emigrate!
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Thanks for that John. Not long ago we had the vulnerable and key workers. Now they've been downgraded to the workshy and too many immigrants. How did we get here? One reason is trousering £1 mill+ in the jungle pretending to be Mr Reasonable whilst mouthing Trumpian covfefeishness in a plummy accent. Truly skeevy man but eminently suitable for "reality" TV
 
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