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

Good morning everyone on a rainy start to pre-bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Another Christmas dinner yesterday - the leftovers from an over catered Christmas Day feast so very grateful to have been fed twice - sort of repeats of repeats if you gobbled down Brussels sprouts. Good news is that we have shunned the telly over the past couple of days - it’s dreary, followed by more dreariness and interspersed with films of yesteryear like Spartacus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or a whole series of A Christmas Carol attempts. Bah! Humbug. Books, I have two on the go, Truth (a history and guide for the perplexed) by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Reasons Not To Worry by Brigid Delaney, a sort of stoicism take on modern times. I know. But I have read all the Terry Pratchett, Stephen Fry and Ian Banks (and Ian M Banks) books and my youngest nicked my copy of Beowulf written in Ye Olde Englishy with all my pencil notes. Art bit, the start or even the beging of something to doodle with over the next few days. Hope you are all OK as we hurtle towards the end of another year of stuff and into yet another. It’s mind boggling. Best make koffy.


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Good morning friends. I must say Christmas this year. Has been a bit of a mixed bag for me Keiran cooked Christmas dinner and did a fantastic job I sat at tha table to be presented with a fine repast but found that owing to a flair up of my MG chewing and swallowing was difficult so was only able to eat a small amount bit disappointing but thought at least my blood sugars would be low but Boxing Day morningfbg was 7.1 oh well.

Boxing Day our friend and her son came over for the day and we all had a great day ended up playing the Lord of the Rings version of monopoly but after three hours decided to call it a day.

So Boxing Day was reminiscent of the old days back in Plymouth when our two families used to get together for every Christmas in those days there would be over thirty of us not just the Six of us but was the best Boxing Day we have had in quite some time certainly since our friend’s husband my best mate of forty odd years had passed anyway.

Today my son is coming up from Oxford to spend a few days with us really looking forward to that.

My fog this morning was 7.6 not sure why as have not been eating that much over the last two days. As for books I have been reading A History of the Upper Coquetdale by David Dippie Dixon it’s where my father’s family were from and it has a few paragraphs about my 2nd and 3rd great grandfathers which I found interesting. I bought Judith Lucy Worsley’s book about Agatha Christie as Judith is an avid fan of Christie which she is enjoying.

Oh just thought I would add we may not have any badgers in our back yard but we do have a six foot tall elf of the inflatable kind it has a small pump attached so that it inflates automatically until it pops up our next door neighbour was out in his back yard when the elf suddenly appeared as if from nowhere he almost jumped out of his skin his wife thought it extremely funny.
 
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lindisfel said:
The last autobiography I read was Bonnington's. I thought what a selfish guy he was and what a wonderful first wife he had, who died of a horrid illness.
Bonnington's life was charmed, it seemed he couldn't die on a mountain.
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That's sounds like an interesting read @lindisfel. Did he go off climbing mountains when his wife was seriously ill?
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a rainy start to pre-bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Another Christmas dinner yesterday - the leftovers from an over catered Christmas Day feast so very grateful to have been fed twice - sort of repeats of repeats if you gobbled down Brussels sprouts. Good news is that we have shunned the telly over the past couple of days - it’s dreary, followed by more dreariness and interspersed with films of yesteryear like Spartacus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or a whole series of A Christmas Carol attempts. Bah! Humbug. Books, I have two on the go, Truth (a history and guide for the perplexed) by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Reasons Not To Worry by Brigid Delaney, a sort of stoicism take on modern times. I know. But I have read all the Terry Pratchett, Stephen Fry and Ian Banks (and Ian M Banks) books and my youngest nicked my copy of Beowulf written in Ye Olde Englishy with all my pencil notes. Art bit, the start or even the beging of something to doodle with over the next few days. Hope you are all OK as we hurtle towards the end of another year of stuff and into yet another. It’s mind boggling. Best make koffy.


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Art bit is interesting @dunelm

Coffee sounds good...
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Raining relentlessly again...
Windy as well...Met office warnings...

Wildlife nighttime video
Fox is wondering where the cats are...
Jade is there at the beginning and the end. She obviously had some prior arrangements...
No badger..
39 secs

Creative...landscape painting...

Time for a cuppa tea...

Have a good day...


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Lovely landscape - more towards Japanese than Chinese in a way.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a rainy start to pre-bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Another Christmas dinner yesterday - the leftovers from an over catered Christmas Day feast so very grateful to have been fed twice - sort of repeats of repeats if you gobbled down Brussels sprouts. Good news is that we have shunned the telly over the past couple of days - it’s dreary, followed by more dreariness and interspersed with films of yesteryear like Spartacus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or a whole series of A Christmas Carol attempts. Bah! Humbug. Books, I have two on the go, Truth (a history and guide for the perplexed) by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Reasons Not To Worry by Brigid Delaney, a sort of stoicism take on modern times. I know. But I have read all the Terry Pratchett, Stephen Fry and Ian Banks (and Ian M Banks) books and my youngest nicked my copy of Beowulf written in Ye Olde Englishy with all my pencil notes. Art bit, the start or even the beging of something to doodle with over the next few days. Hope you are all OK as we hurtle towards the end of another year of stuff and into yet another. It’s mind boggling. Best make koffy.


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That's looking very interesting - intriguing even.
 
BG at 0415: 6.9
Went down at first but now it's 7.5.

Very windy and wet, and dark. No ferries again today then, nor until the weekend by the sound of it. Not even sure it's safe to take the car to town for shopping and my leg appointment or podiatry appointment on Thursday. I'll ask Neil later. Not that there will be anything in the shops if he does go shopping.
 
Morning all from a wet, dark Brecks on the Feast of St John the Evangelist. One Christian tradition can take wine to be blessed and used for celebrations, praise and healing throughout the year. Interesting learning of the books people are reading. Cynical me latched on to this years ago and lazy? me thinks there isn't an exam at the end so why plough through fiction? Two weeks into a course on historiography and historical methodology made me realise whatever I read would be/was being debunked by someone else even as I was reading :banghead: @Annb I might just be up for one of the modern famous five books - could I read one in 30 minutes? As for TV, thankfully there has been plenty of NFL and football - obviously there aren't that many plots there but the action happens in real time. I do switch off very one sided games very quickly - especially if Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U or Kansas City Chiefs* will win comfortably. Joan Hickson as Miss Marple is my wheelhouse largely freighted with memories of Sundays at my parents before JKP and I drove back to south London when she was carrying #1 son. I do read but not for entertainment, currently very slowly working my way through a set of CS Lewis books - non fiction - while waiting for school pickup. Here’s two examples of the length of my present concentration span and take on modern life: New maffs ; Review of 2023. Probably kind of y’all to offer JKP a big hug after that lot. @dunelm and @gennepher thank you for sharing your wonderful artworks again today. We are truly blessed. @JohnEGreen I suspect the higher fbgs could have more than a hint of MG as the suspect.. I'm glad Boxing day was so good for you and you will spend time with your son. Enjoy your day in whatever manner boils your bacon - no bacon for me thanks I'm good.
Edit: * Add rubgy watching and Sarries winning easily plus Big Bash cricket viewing and David Warner doing well - Mitchell Johnson agrees.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet, dark Brecks on the Feast of St John the Evangelist. One Christian tradition can take wine to be blessed and used for celebrations, praise and healing throughout the year. Interesting learning of the books people are reading. Cynical me latched on to this years ago and lazy? me thinks there isn't an exam at the end so why plough through fiction? Two weeks into a course on historiography and historical methodology made me realise whatever I read would be/was being debunked by someone else even as I was reading :banghead: @Annb I might just be up for one of the modern famous five books - could I read one in 30 minutes? As for TV, thankfully there has been plenty of NFL and football - obviously there aren't that many plots there but the action happens in real time. I do switch off very one sided games very quickly - especially if Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U or Kansas City Chiefs will win comfortably. Joan Hickson as Miss Marple is my wheelhouse largely freighted with memories of Sundays at my parents before JKP and I drove back to south London when she was carrying #1 son. I do read but not for entertainment, currently very slowly working my way through a set of CS Lewis books - non fiction - while waiting for school pickup. Here’s two examples of the length of my present concentration span and take on modern life: New maffs Review of 2023. Probably kind of y’all to offer JKP a big hug after that lot. @dunelm and @gennepher thank you for sharing your wonderful artworks again today. We are truly blessed. @JohnEGreen I suspect the higher fbgs could have more than a hint of MG as the suspect.. I'm glad Boxing day was so good for you and you will spend time with your son. Enjoy your day in whatever manner boils your bacon - no bacon for me thanks I'm good.
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You could read the new Famous Five books in about 15 minutes max. To me satire should be funny as well as irreverent comment on current, or recent, affairs. The writing in these is so drear that it isn't even amusing. It has to be acknowledged that I have an odd sense of humour (could never understand why my mother and brother would curl up with laughter when listening to the Goon Show nor when Tom, Neil and Alistair laughed out loud at Monty Python). Others thought "Life of Brian" was hilarious; I thought it was amusing. Like I said - a medieval misery.

Are hugs required for the Review of 2023 as long as you don't read it aloud for JKP? If you do ...

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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet, dark Brecks on the Feast of St John the Evangelist. One Christian tradition can take wine to be blessed and used for celebrations, praise and healing throughout the year. Interesting learning of the books people are reading. Cynical me latched on to this years ago and lazy? me thinks there isn't an exam at the end so why plough through fiction? Two weeks into a course on historiography and historical methodology made me realise whatever I read would be/was being debunked by someone else even as I was reading :banghead: @Annb I might just be up for one of the modern famous five books - could I read one in 30 minutes? As for TV, thankfully there has been plenty of NFL and football - obviously there aren't that many plots there but the action happens in real time. I do switch off very one sided games very quickly - especially if Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U or Kansas City Chiefs* will win comfortably. Joan Hickson as Miss Marple is my wheelhouse largely freighted with memories of Sundays at my parents before JKP and I drove back to south London when she was carrying #1 son. I do read but not for entertainment, currently very slowly working my way through a set of CS Lewis books - non fiction - while waiting for school pickup. Here’s two examples of the length of my present concentration span and take on modern life: New maffs ; Review of 2023. Probably kind of y’all to offer JKP a big hug after that lot. @dunelm and @gennepher thank you for sharing your wonderful artworks again today. We are truly blessed. @JohnEGreen I suspect the higher fbgs could have more than a hint of MG as the suspect.. I'm glad Boxing day was so good for you and you will spend time with your son. Enjoy your day in whatever manner boils your bacon - no bacon for me thanks I'm good.
Edit: * Add rubgy watching and Sarries winning easily plus Big Bash cricket viewing and David Warner doing well - Mitchell Johnson agrees.
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Thank you Ian
 
Annb said:
You could read the new Famous Five books in about 15 minutes max. To me satire should be funny as well as irreverent comment on current, or recent, affairs. The writing in these is so drear that it isn't even amusing. It has to be acknowledged that I have an odd sense of humour (could never understand why my mother and brother would curl up with laughter when listening to the Goon Show nor when Tom, Neil and Alistair laughed out loud at Monty Python). Others thought "Life of Brian" was hilarious; I thought it was amusing. Like I said - a medieval misery.

Are hugs required for the Review of 2023 as long as you don't read it aloud for JKP? If you do ...

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Mostly I read before JKP and MIL arise or in another (sport TV) room. Spurs are for the big TV in the lounge. Is my TV, my rules - except grandchildren, especially the Little Guy - too petty? (If i'm in the same room I usually need noise cancelling headphones. MIL's choice of viewing can drive me close to spontaneous combustion. I discovered Tibetan healing music that way. The point in the review of '23 about nature really just meaning outside resonates strongly now after a year of that. I'm not proud of those feelings but no amount of prayer has worked) so no hug for that required but thank you on her behalf. To be fair, JKP is pretty much on the same page over most of that. Hug for you guys left with empty shops due to the weather.
 
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What fun, the Octavia that has never been any trouble had an expensive service.
Then just before Christmas the cambelt and a water pump was changed due to slack bearing and all the antifreeze needed redoing.

No mileage done just driving home 3 miles.

Withing a week I had all four tyres change for new Michelin's. Another six miles.
Took it out for shopping this am first time since tyres changed) after Christmas !at Lidl and coming up the hill from there to go into Wigton it was ok, parked in disable spot whilst Marjorie went B.S. then came straight home and it seemed as though my clutch had been cut off, it was down near floor boards.
Clutch had gone gear change clunky just got home.

Tried to ring garage but closed for Christmas and New Year.
It is all Redolent of Rodent.

I have never lost a clutch in years of driving.
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Raining relentlessly again...
Windy as well...Met office warnings...

Wildlife nighttime video
Fox is wondering where the cats are...
Jade is there at the beginning and the end. She obviously had some prior arrangements...
No badger..
39 secs

Creative...landscape painting...

Time for a cuppa tea...

Have a good day...


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That is charismatic. Spendid.
 
ianpspurs said:
Mostly I read before JKP and MIL arise or in another (sport TV) room. Spurs are for the big TV in the lounge. Is my TV, my rules - except grandchildren, especially the Little Guy - too petty? (If i'm in the same room I usually need noise cancelling headphones. MIL's choice of viewing can drive me close to spontaneous combustion. I discovered Tibetan healing music that way. The point in the review of '23 about nature really just meaning outside resonates strongly now after a year of that. I'm not proud of those feelings but no amount of prayer has worked) so no hug for that required but thank you on her behalf. To be fair, JKP is pretty much on the same page over most of that. Hug for you guys left with empty shops due to the weather.
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When I was still working, but already having difficulty walking, a colleague asked if I would like to go for a walk in the grounds of the college at lunchtime (the only large wooded area on the Island other than the commercial wood farms). My answer was "Susan, outside is an alien environment to me". It was a joke to cover my failing ability. After that, though, I realised that it was quite true. I used to be a very active outdoor type. Now, outside is alien, even if not very natural. Here, outside is nature raw in tooth and claw. Better to stay indoors as much as possible.

Glad that your Tibetan music pleases you. It should calm the savage breast. Sadly, it would drive me mad!
 
6.8 this day of darts. Had to go big shop, for of all things tea! Picked up a few fresh bits and a couple of treats for Mrs L. It is now two years since the FiL died. And left a huge hole in Mrs L 's life!
she did really well again yesterday, even if the idea of the kids going back to school today had a place in her thoughts! Ah well!!
The weather is inclement!
Poor Clement!I
It is dreadful, lots of rain, windy and chilly even tho my thermometer is in double figures.
Another storm. Soon be running out of names.
My spring bulbs are surging up. Is it me or are they really early?

Bits and bobs to do. Who is Bob?

Check back in after munching on gammon and pork and other tasty morsels.

My best wishes on this Christmas Wednesday to you lot as always.
 
Tip of the day.

When going to the biggest game of the season, you have a vehicle that will get you there!

Explanation.
First time, gear link went, had AA fix it overnight.
Third time, loom and fuses went on fire. A few miles short of stadium. AA fixed the van during the match. Enough to get home.
But we had to travel the last few miles to the stadium with no electrical power. And already late, had to organise entry with security to get the mechanic into the national stadium.

We did have some fun getting around the country.
 
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