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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a bit of a blustery start here in the dark and dangerous north. Yesterday, in a sunny interlude to the rain, we walked into town, picked pebbles and stones from the beach and caught the bus home in the rain. Today is pebble painting but not until after we head to a local museum to find treasure and artefacts and probably sample the cafe. Children today seem to be perpetually hungry, I wonder if i was and have forgotten. Art bit, some more lines. Hope your day is kind to you and that you find the right book for the moment. I need to send in our gas and electric meter readings this morning but I simply must finish our koffy first.


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interesting sketch @dunelm

Hope you enjoyed the pebble painting...
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning all on what I'm provisionally taking as Friday but in this odd limbo time it could be any day. I do hope you are all living the dream - fever, tiktokable or whatever label is most woke/aspirational this week. @Bildad good to see you and I hope your business flourishes in 2024. Since Hephers in Cambridge closed no bookshop will ever quite satisfy me again.
Printed books don't have hyperlinks and a kindle (I think I have 2 somewhere) book limits me to one task if text based. Audio books would probably be my choice these days.
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@dunelm and @gennepher thank you both for sharing your creatives be they photographic or artistic. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Blickling Hall. Interesting start to my day. A convoy of eery hi viz shapes with blue lights about 10 feet high moving along the path on the edge Newmarket at 7.20. Then I saw the amazing horses as well. My expected life span is too short to be preparing vegetables so I Waitrosed them today. Pigs in blankets reduced and piled as high as me - possibly an exaggeration. A cranberry and orange Danish each for the gels just for brownie points all done and back home by 8.20. Enjoy whatever day today is.
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Thank you Ian...
 
JohnEGreen said:
Judith loves books but also has a kindle with several hundred books on it with the kindle she can carry those hundreds of books with her no matter where she goes which would be impossible otherwise.
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Yes books can be really heavy.

I was studying for my Level 4 Backcare Certificate and decided to take my really heavy text books with me on a visit to Australia to be at the birth of our first grandchild. When I got to Sydney I noticed a sticker on my case which stated 'this case must only be lifted by two people '.

Of course there was absolutely no time to read text books so I was really silly to take them.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who are celebrating the season of gluttony is almost over.

We, here in Tilehurst Towers have finished our celebrations and are looking forward to a simpler and normal dietary regime.

Me, me’s and myself had my diabetic review yesterday morning, the diabetic nurse used the pronoun Ms, not Miss or Mrs, 5 minutes into the review I was told I was rude, I was rude. It wasn’t a Tuesday so I wasn’t playing the woke game.
I was also asked why I don’t come under the GP’s. I didn’t use the word incompetence, when dealing with diabetics with my medical history and medications, but the implication was there. This all sounds negative, but they appear to be happy with my control and my A1c was down. We parted on on good term with a fair amount of laughter.

As an avid reader of escapism and entertainment books I have tried to read everything that has been written about fellow posters reading habits. One book that hasn’t been mentioned is Fahrenheit 451, google if you must.

Mrs J has reclaimed her dining room table and will continue with her painting, in due course I shall publish her artwork on here.

Now it’s time for me to eat something simple then an afternoon nap as befits an aging, bearded, overweight greaser ( slang for motorcyclist ).
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I did own a copy of Fahrenheit 451 @alf_Josiah but I think it ended up in the fire.
 
gennepher said:
I read through a green or yellow coloured sheet...I have been told I have Irlen's syndrome. I did have green tinted glasses for close up reading etc, but they were expensive. And then when your prescription changes, then it is another pair of the expensive green glasses...so went over to clear reading glasses and used a coloured sheet...
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Yes, the glasses are expensive. I have an Irlen’s Syndrome testing kit somewhere, unused for several years. There may be some of the green and yellow sheets left - they have both a shiny side and a mat side.
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning all on what I'm provisionally taking as Friday but in this odd limbo time it could be any day. I do hope you are all living the dream - fever, tiktokable or whatever label is most woke/aspirational this week. @Bildad good to see you and I hope your business flourishes in 2024. Since Hephers in Cambridge closed no bookshop will ever quite satisfy me again.
Printed books don't have hyperlinks and a kindle (I think I have 2 somewhere) book limits me to one task if text based. Audio books would probably be my choice these days.
View attachment 65216Sore remainer eh - get over it
:D
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@dunelm and @gennepher thank you both for sharing your creatives be they photographic or artistic. @Krystyna23040 enjoy Blickling Hall. Interesting start to my day. A convoy of eery hi viz shapes with blue lights about 10 feet high moving along the path on the edge Newmarket at 7.20. Then I saw the amazing horses as well. My expected life span is too short to be preparing vegetables so I Waitrosed them today. Pigs in blankets reduced and piled as high as me - possibly an exaggeration. A cranberry and orange Danish each for the gels just for brownie points all done and back home by 8.20. Enjoy whatever day today is.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. So many cut price treats in the supermarkets - we will be feasting on a melange tonight before the grandchildren depart tomorrow - their first time trying a melange but could be a pot-pourri.
 
I was expecting visitors tomorrow afternoon and was well into the food prep - expected there to be 5 kids and 5 adults so I thought I'd make pizzas for the kids and a dhal/rice dish for the adults, plus sweet things, of course. Dhal done, in the fridge, pizza elements done, and in the fridge. Oatmeal sponge cake done (for the lady who won't eat wheat but thinks oats is good for her diabetes), lemon cup cakes done - both cakes ready for finishing, mini Christmas pudding cakes out of the freezer and defrosting, ready to finish tomorrow. All well in hand to avoid rushing around at the last minute. Then a phone call to say that one household has Covid, another have such heavy colds that they're staying away from everyone, the diabetic lady decided not to go our and about since she's not long outg of hospital and needs to be careful. So - no early New Year guests.

Luckily Alistair came in right at that moment so went away bearing Christmas puds and the pizza kit for Em to finish off. The dhal is in a foil tray now, ready to go in the freezer, the cakes will go into plastic boxes and I'll see if I can find spaced for them in the freezer as well - much of the space is taken up with bags of grapes DIL is intending to use to make wine, when she can get around to it. Now I can relax, except I think the dishwasher has broken down again - not because of problems with the water supply as before, I don't think. At least, if it is, it is manifesting itself differently. Back to hand washing the dishes meantime.
 
FBG on this Friday footie, flinging, frosty, f..f..f..f..!
Weather still inclement, and my body is back in pain.
FBG @8.30 5.6.
FBG@ 9.00. 5.7.
Still shaking @ 10.00 5.3.
As Marvin would say, What's Going On?

Anywho, my left side from head to Achilles is in minor pain.
8.25, I woke up. That, other than a toilet visit is ten hours stright.
But I'm paying for it!

Had a visit from #8, and played with him, a couple of ouches slipped out and he followed me around quoting, copying, along my discomfort, whilst a hearty laugh, sprang from his throat. His rolling around on the carpet, have me a chance to tickle him in revenge.!
He is a ratbag!
So full of mischief!
So lovable!

Mrs L has Mickey mouse clubhouse on for him and he managed to stay still for just a few minutes, to catch my breath. His gonk train set circling the room as it is pulled along with a lot of noise of course.

Some quiet time, got a few Chores to do, cooking some really nice bacon from butchers. And then preparations of the gammon and beef for New Year.

Read Farenheit back when the film was out, when young the library was the place to find or order books once a month, taking the kids.
I read all of Ludlum before Hollywood poked it's nose in!
Le Carre, all those classic paperbacks, of spies.
Mystery, WWII, Horror and what ifs!
Haven't been to one in yonks!

There was a now famous battle that has been established close to where I live. And it was just as important as Stamford bridge, Hastings, on how the British isles was divided up between the men of the North.
Regardless of either Saxon, Angles, Vikings, Celts, Normans, Jutes, Britons, and so on. They were considered as Norse or Northmen by some historians. Many were southern European from pre Roman, Greek, Persian and Slavs.
As humans we still haven't learned much about getting on with our neighbours!

My best wishes to you all as always. From this mod, pre political skinhead, and now skinhead involuntarily.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Yes, although sad it feels good that his ashes are back home. It does feel that he is still here.

We have our Saffy's ashes at home also. She passed away in 2009.
We didn't tell our girls that we had kept her ashes in a cabinet in the lounge as we thought they would think we were silly.

We had her picture on the opposite wall. Our 18 month old granddaughter loved the picture and I played a little game with her where I would say where is Saffy and she would point to the picture. Of course we didn't tell her about the ashes. So she always pointed to the picture.

Daughter and granddaughter had popped in and I decided to show daughter the little game I had been playing with granddaughter.

When I said where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture. Then she went into a trance and really slowly she started to circle around - still pointing her finger. Daughter was really worried and asked me what is happening. Granddaughter was by now pointing at the cabinet where Saffy's casket was hidden.

We couldn't work out how granddaughter knew where the ashes were hidden.

We forgot about the incident and then some years later Mr K asked granddaughter - where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture and not the hidden casket. All very strange. How, at 18 months had she known where Saffy's ashes were hidden.
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As a child and still, I see things. My mum took me to see a catholic priest as she was was worried, the priest said I was very privileged and gifted. Children are innocent that's why they see stuff, more than us adults, they are not closed off that's probably why she knew where Saffy's ashes were hidden x
 
Lamont D said:
Wow!
That is the station I mentioned.!
Wow!
What where you smoking?
Ha! Only joking!
That would blow my mind!
It must have been like an out of body experience. The goosebumps, the tingling and sick must have been unbelievable. I'm jealous now!
All my mystic things are Deja vu or in my weird dreams.
What an experience!
Thanks for sharing!
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Would be nice if my only mystic things were Deja vu and weird dreams but unfortunately they are not. Weird and wonderful, too many stories to tell! The time slip shop is fascinating!
 
Lainie71 said:
As a child and still, I see things. My mum took me to see a catholic priest as she was was worried, the priest said I was very privileged and gifted. Children are innocent that's why they see stuff, more than us adults, they are not closed off that's probably why she knew where Saffy's ashes were hidden x
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That was good that the Catholic priest didn't have a closed mind. I think that he might have been quite unique in that respect.

I used to be really 'closed off' but there were several unexplainable incidents that happened to me prior to the Saffy's ashes incident (and since) that challenged that way of thinking and I am not 'closed off' anymore.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
That was good that the Catholic priest didn't have a closed mind. I think that he might have been quite unique in that respect.

I used to be really 'closed off' but there were several unexplainable incidents that happened to me prior to the Saffy's ashes incident (and since) that challenged that way of thinking and I am not 'closed off' anymore.
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Considering my mum took me - knowing that she had gone through the same I think she was just confirming that she was not going mad herself! The priest was very interested, but there are many Catholics that are gifted and I often wonder if the priest was gifted also. I fear not the dead but the living and angels come in many shapes and forms. I think Saffy was your guardian angel that night x
 
By 7AM this morning blood sugar was down to 7.5

I have bad earache for the last few days from the ear down to the neck making swallowing very painful and keeping me awake so this morning I gave in and called the doctors surgery to my surprise was given an appointment for 9:30 AM so now have antibiotics for suspected inner ear infection starting to feel better already though still painful but slightly less so.
 
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