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

lindisfel said:
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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Do you have a stovetop fan? To spread the heat around. We had to change our beautiful and stylish woodburner for a less attractive but more practical one with a flat top suitable for the fans. Now the whole room is warm, whereas before we had tropical and arctic zones with a very small comfortable area between.
 
Lainie71 said:
We had a paraffin heater in our bathroom, heated the room up a treat. Was like the Baltics getting to the bathroom and the Baltics coming out! Sash windows, tall ceilings, no central heating just two storage heaters in the living room that took 2 days to heat up and then we would scorch our backs and bottoms on! Frost on the insides of the windows and that was despite using the shutters. Going to bed dressed as it was so cold! Good wholesome memories, so different now.
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You know its cold in the house when the guzunders freeze over. :)
 
SlimLizzy said:
Do you have a stovetop fan? To spread the heat around. We had to change our beautiful and stylish woodburner for a less attractive but more practical one with a flat top suitable for the fans. Now the whole room is warm, whereas before we had tropical and arctic zones with a very small comfortable area between.
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No we dont need one slim lizzy, since I had a heart attack in April I have had bad mobility issues and cant get upstairs to our Den but we have plenty of room downstairs and the house is not cold with the heating on. We have heaters on thermostats all over the house and I need it warm at 84 with multiple health issues. The stove is just for comfort and its a nice kind of heat. I am not grumbling life is good for us we have each other.
Derek
 
Lamont D said:
Have had a special afternoon in deep conversation with #8. He was informing me about his cars, the engines, especially Percy. Mickey mouse the duck and cats and dogs. In between licks of a lollipop. It was a sticky situation. With loud shouts of grandee, he interrupted my box viewing.
#7 has more certificates from school for maths and performed her latest routine of floorwork which included a flic-flac and splits! Impressive!
#6 has also received certificates and praise for his maths and music. His first term in big school has been good for him so far. It's a shame he and my daughter live a away from us. Do miss them but always on the phone.

Still feeling rough and tired, early to bed after the arrows final.

Around here and many other areas in the big industrial centres, not that there is much now! Someone has described out industrial heritage as a wasteland. The financial and services industries are the main tax gathering economies, the slow, export of our major industrial manufacturing sector, has been demolished by successive Tory governments until 2010, when it has since grown substantially. And no doubts put their cap on it and pocketed it.

I remember around here, two of my brothers were city and guild electricians. Lost their jobs, as did a whole generation after the eighties and it has happened again with this lot. There is no young jobs, there is very little future in finding secure employment, not only for those without further education or job prospects.

The waste is criminal and of course many still living with parents, cannot afford the rent, no chance of a mortgage! It is no wonder the birth rate is plummeting, and the average death age has dropped for the first time in over a hundred and fifty years!

Merseyside, even the more affluent areas has no Tory Mps. We know why!
High unemployment and no prospect of a decent wage, is a recipe for rampant poverty. An ideology of our conservatives for the past fifty years. It is deliberate and a criminal act in some of my peers views from working in a multinational.

People not economics.

However, on the sleaze tour of our beloved pm. Apparently, allegedly, he has used his hedge fund, during his years as chancellor to invest millions in a certain pharmacy multinational, who coincidently, were offered the contract to supply meds, including the covid and flu jabs that we depended on. And because, he hasn't declared an interest in the parliamentary record, and is one of the reasons, he hasn't submitted his WhatsApp messages to the enquiry, allegedly, allegedly.!!!

How could anyone vote for these criminals?

My best wishes to you all as always.
Rant over.
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Why did you not move to an area where there was work, you could have found more interesting work, you had a good start in a grammar school?
A vocational career is not just paper qualifications.

D.
 
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Marjorie said to me after zoom church yesterday am are we going to lunch at Wheyrigg today? With that l had it booked for 1300 and we took the Fabia, the Octavia takes a long time to warm up and we're at our table trying eating out firsts just after 1330. Garlic mushrooms in spicy cream soup with garlic bread and then our turkey lunch but too much on plate and extra off plate to eat it all. However my neck was hurting giving me pain so Marjorie had some handy paracetomol, thinking it's due to lifting multifuel, will have to use some wheels to bring it to house.
The food caused my BP to crash and I felt rough and the duchess drove back home and I slept most of the afternoon.
No evening meal needed it filled us for the day.
D.
 
5.4 this morning. Really raining heavily so we are thinking of leaving really early for Norwich just in case the A47 floods again.

If it isn't flooded and we get there early I will relax in the hall with the heating on and my flask of Nespresso coffee and catch up with some reading until the class arrives.

Too wet for the dog walk so did some walking backwards up and down the hallway to get some exercise in after breakfast. Very interesting that it works you more strongly than walking forwards and you burn more calories.

It also has other benefits. You have to be very careful though that you do it in a safe place. Good for knee, foot and lower back issues but you need to slowly build up the time you do it. Probably starting with one minute only.
 
Lainie71 said:
We had a paraffin heater in our bathroom, heated the room up a treat. Was like the Baltics getting to the bathroom and the Baltics coming out! Sash windows, tall ceilings, no central heating just two storage heaters in the living room that took 2 days to heat up and then we would scorch our backs and bottoms on! Frost on the insides of the windows and that was despite using the shutters. Going to bed dressed as it was so cold! Good wholesome memories, so different now.
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I had an Aladdin parrafin heater in the 80's @Lainie71
It was a massive 13 roomed 3 storey Edwardian house with attic rooms.
I had it on downstairs in my bedroom/studio when the children were at school. When they came home, it got put in the hallway (which was massive, a big room in itself) but enclosed in a fireguard to keep it safe (from riotous children running everywhere), there were always more than my 3...
It was very effective.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.4 this morning. Really raining heavily so we are thinking of leaving really early for Norwich just in case the A47 floods again.

If it isn't flooded and we get there early I will relax in the hall with the heating on and my flask of Nespresso coffee and catch up with some reading until the class arrives.

Too wet for the dog walk so did some walking backwards up and down the hallway to get some exercise in after breakfast. Very interesting that it works you more strongly than walking forwards and you burn more calories.

It also has other benefits. You have to be very careful though that you do it in a safe place. Good for knee, foot and lower back issues but you need to slowly build up the time you do it. Probably starting with one minute only.
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I do that backwards walking along the side of the garage wall...for safety...and it is fairly sheltered... @Krystyna23040
 
Fbg 6.5

Wildlife nighttime camera
One wet crazy Badger - gets on the swing & dries himself...
This is Boy Badger. His father Pa Badger had an obsession with my swing, & Boy Badger learnt from his father...
I've never thought of a badger wanting to dry himself before. But they often look absolutely soaking wet!
2min 36secs

Creative. Tree drawn on cartridge paper with old Pentel brush pen.
Obliging cat acts as sketchbook stand. He has claimed my left arm.

Absolutely pouring with rain...

Time for a cuppa, and more morning nap...with the cat...

Have your best day...


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gennepher said:
I had an Aladdin parrafin heater in the 80's @Lainie71
It was a massive 13 roomed 3 storey Edwardian house with attic rooms.
I had it on downstairs in my bedroom/studio when the children were at school. When they came home, it got put in the hallway (which was massive, a big room in itself) but enclosed in a fireguard to keep it safe (from riotous children running everywhere), there were always more than my 3...
It was very effective.
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We had a coke fuelled stove in a corner of the kitchen when I was small. It heated water for the house and heated the kitchen but the rooms were big and the rest of the house was cold unless Mum lit the fire in the front room, then that room got warm as well, but not the rest of the house. One day I tripped and fell against the stove - hands down. Both palms stuck to the stovetop. I was very wary of it after that.

BG at 0300 was 7.5. 7.3 at 0630. 7.1 at 0800.

My winter fuel payment from the DWP has arrived in my bank account. So I can pay for the oil that I bought a couple of weeks ago. That's great - my overdraft doesn't look like being anywhere near as bad as I had thought with that paid in.
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Wildlife nighttime camera
One wet crazy Badger - gets on the swing & dries himself...
This is Boy Badger. His father Pa Badger had an obsession with my swing, & Boy Badger learnt from his father...
I've never thought of a badger wanting to dry himself before. But they often look absolutely soaking wet!
2min 36secs

Creative. Tree drawn on cartridge paper with old Pentel brush pen.
Obliging cat acts as sketchbook stand. He has claimed my left arm.

Absolutely pouring with rain...

Time for a cuppa, and more morning nap...with the cat...

Have your best day...


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Even the willow is weeping in the rain.
 
Annb said:
We had a coke fuelled stove in a corner of the kitchen when I was small. It heated water for the house and heated the kitchen but the rooms were big and the rest of the house was cold unless Mum lit the fire in the front room, then that room got warm as well, but not the rest of the house. One day I tripped and fell against the stove - hands down. Both palms stuck to the stovetop. I was very wary of it after that.

BG at 0300 was 7.5. 7.3 at 0630. 7.1 at 0800.

My winter fuel payment from the DWP has arrived in my bank account. So I can pay for the oil that I bought a couple of weeks ago. That's great - my overdraft doesn't look like being anywhere near as bad as I had thought with that paid in.

Even the willow is weeping in the rain.
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Thanks @Annb very soggy today.

Midnight needed the bathroom...he spent 5 mins staring at the cat litter tray (he hates the litter tray), then suddenly decided to risk the rain...he shot outside...came back in absolutely drowned and dripping water all over the floor...I had to towel dry him...
 
Morning all from Soggy Bottom and every other part of L.A. No fbg today as I didn't swipe initially and what Libre is showing doesn't accord with anything other than some random malfunctioning. Not attributable to the Great Satan in me nor T2. Leg of lamb yesterday was, sadly, just as I remember - how can the main muscle(s) transporting the animal about ever be made succulent? The creamed spinach with some nutmeg and the celeriac puree rescued things. The gels had a different take on the meat but all here agree shoulder is better. Who knew? :D @Annb good news on the winter fuel payment and a smaller overdraft. @gennepher thanks for the creative and hug for poor, wet Midnight. @Krystyna23040 good idea to go early and chill out - great fbg. @lindisfel hug and take it easy. @Lainie71 well done you for taking that plunge. @Lamont D enjoy that family and hug for the times in which we live. I read your post then I read psalm 120 - quite spooky in some ways. However, not even the Liberal Govt of 1906-14, Atlee's crew or Blair ushered in the New Jerusalem - spoiler alert humans never will. Maybe if the Union Barons stop making Wilson, Foot, Kinnock, (the wrong) Milliband and Corbyn leader they may win some elections or in Wilson's case do something useful (keeping us out of Vietnam aside.) Enjoy your day. Mad Jack of Suffolk over and out
 
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lindisfel said:
Marjorie said to me after zoom church yesterday am are we going to lunch at Wheyrigg today? With that l had it booked for 1300 and we took the Fabia, the Octavia takes a long time to warm up and we're at our table trying eating out firsts just after 1330. Garlic mushrooms in spicy cream soup with garlic bread and then our turkey lunch but too much on plate and extra off plate to eat it all. However my neck was hurting giving me pain so Marjorie had some handy paracetomol, thinking it's due to lifting multifuel, will have to use some wheels to bring it to house.
The food caused my BP to crash and I felt rough and the duchess drove back home and I slept most of the afternoon.
No evening meal needed it filled us for the day.
D.
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Hope today is better for you. Strange how our brain just doesn’t seem to understand the fair wear and tear of rest of body. I think that I would have had half of that dinner and asked for the rest in a box.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Wildlife nighttime camera
One wet crazy Badger - gets on the swing & dries himself...
This is Boy Badger. His father Pa Badger had an obsession with my swing, & Boy Badger learnt from his father...
I've never thought of a badger wanting to dry himself before. But they often look absolutely soaking wet!
2min 36secs

Creative. Tree drawn on cartridge paper with old Pentel brush pen.
Obliging cat acts as sketchbook stand. He has claimed my left arm.

Absolutely pouring with rain...

Time for a cuppa, and more morning nap...with the cat...

Have your best day...


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Another smashing tree. I like those pentel brush pens.
 
Good morning everyone on a somewhat dryer morning than last nights deluge here in the dark and dangerous north. Wood/coal burner on last nigh. I does have a windmill fan thing on top @SlimLizzy - very effective. Highlight of the day so far was somebody shoving a white hot blade into my left calf at 2 in the morning, quickly followed by examples of highland dancing, Irish jigs and Sufi whirling. No idea for the rest of the day apart from a walk before lunch - or should it be after - probably after to get any blood sugar lowering effects. Art bit, a few additions. Hope you all have a smashing Monday. I ought to have another Kory.


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