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

0325: 8.9. Now 11.3. I don't think it is the tea (only one cup so far) that puts it up. I think it is just the fact that I move around and use energy (quite a lot for me to move around) that triggers the release of glucose into my system - as if I needed it!

My brother and SIL should be back from their cruise by now, but I've heard nothing from them. I did send an e-mail but nothing back. Hope he will restart our Sunday telephone "date" this evening. I worry about both of them.
 
Good morning everyone on a quiet start to the last day of the year here in the dark and dangerous north. The grandchildren left yesterday morning and Mrs Miggins declared the afternoon 12th night. There have been some outpourings recently, some quite difficult to write down I fear and also to read. I hope that it helped. Art bit, I have no idea what this doodle is all about. It just sort of wandered out of the end of an ink pen so must have been in there all the time. Perhaps if I give it to some snake oil pseudoscientist, they will pour over the entrails of it, give me a Myers-Briggs personality test and flash Rorschach cards at me. Hope your last day of the year is a good one. Turn the telly off, kiss, laugh, sing, dance, spin around. It takes courage to be old but life is still good(ish) if you let it. Koffy, I really must have some koffy.


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Good morning everyone on a quiet start to the last day of the year here in the dark and dangerous north. The grandchildren left yesterday morning and Mrs Miggins declared the afternoon 12th night. There have been some outpourings recently, some quite difficult to write down I fear and also to read. I hope that it helped. Art bit, I have no idea what this doodle is all about. It just sort of wandered out of the end of an ink pen so must have been in there all the time. Perhaps if I give it to some snakes oil pseudoscientist, they will pour over the entrails of it, give me a Myers-Briggs personality test and flash Rorschach cards at me. Hope your last day of the year is a good one. Turn the telly off, kiss, laugh, dance. It takes courage to be old but life is still good(ish) if you let it. Koffy, I really must have some koffy.


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Very poignant words on this year end, fellow greaser, thanks for the laughs and
art work. Enjoy your koffy.
 
Morening and I really must get a move on.
Blood sugars this morning were 7.8 and again lucky not in double figures before the decimal point.

A neighbour is due in a few minutes with a broken chair that needs repairing, but also with hope of a vegan bacon sarnie which Mrs J has promised him.

Now I must get moving, bye for now
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a quiet start to the last day of the year here in the dark and dangerous north. The grandchildren left yesterday morning and Mrs Miggins declared the afternoon 12th night. There have been some outpourings recently, some quite difficult to write down I fear and also to read. I hope that it helped. Art bit, I have no idea what this doodle is all about. It just sort of wandered out of the end of an ink pen so must have been in there all the time. Perhaps if I give it to some snake oil pseudoscientist, they will pour over the entrails of it, give me a Myers-Briggs personality test and flash Rorschach cards at me. Hope your last day of the year is a good one. Turn the telly off, kiss, laugh, sing, dance, spin around. It takes courage to be old but life is still good(ish) if you let it. Koffy, I really must have some koffy.


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It's a triffid - in winter, or perhaps reaching the end of its life and waiting for the ferryman.

Do triffids hibernate in winter, or go into a dormant phase, like other non-evergreen plants?
 
Morning all on a day which always seems to divide people in terms of how to deal with the passage of time. Here both inclination and circumstances have aligned to make a sofa and TV catch up day ideal. @dunelm thank you for the wonderful art and a couple of hours thinking about your post, particularly the part on ageing. MIL is 94 on Friday, her mum lived to almost 100 (99.75). Both were widowed in their early 50s so that may affect their thinking but their views are worth considering and not, shall we say, wholly positive to be frank. The psalmists would tend to support their take on matters in many ways imho.. @JohnEGreen good news on dodging the Len Goodman's. @Krystyna23040 I'm delighted for you that this year is ending with your bg where it has normally been due to your hard work. @gennepher hug for yet more stress but as always you seem to have a good plan. Yesterday was a really good day here akin to Christmas past with a veritable feast, thanks be to God’s grace, and later family board and card games. If we weren't so tired and aware of Friday's celebration I'd box up all the decorations after that. I have another post being edited for later but tea drinking needs my full concentration for now. Have the NYE that is most true to who you really are and your current circumstances.
 
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Just been working on my family history - last day I have access to the Find My Past site until Neil manages to persuade my laptop to accept another operating system which will support the updated Firefox.

I knew that my grandfather was a widower when he married my grandmother and had found his first marriage (she was Annie Payne) and her birth. I was surprised when i discovered that her family must have been neighbours of my other grandmother's family. Small world.

Today I have discovered that Annie's ancestors came from all over Kent and Sussex as did Granddad's family, and some of my other grandmother's family. Also discovered that they had many of the same surnames residing in the same places. I'm beginning to think there must have been a family connection of the 3 lines from way back (around 1600). Fascinating puzzle, but I'm having to rush it all, just in case Neil can't update this laptop. I am taking screenshots to save so that I can study them later. Been doing that for about 3 hours, so have to stop now.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a quiet start to the last day of the year here in the dark and dangerous north. The grandchildren left yesterday morning and Mrs Miggins declared the afternoon 12th night. There have been some outpourings recently, some quite difficult to write down I fear and also to read. I hope that it helped. Art bit, I have no idea what this doodle is all about. It just sort of wandered out of the end of an ink pen so must have been in there all the time. Perhaps if I give it to some snake oil pseudoscientist, they will pour over the entrails of it, give me a Myers-Briggs personality test and flash Rorschach cards at me. Hope your last day of the year is a good one. Turn the telly off, kiss, laugh, sing, dance, spin around. It takes courage to be old but life is still good(ish) if you let it. Koffy, I really must have some koffy.


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Amazing @dunelm
I am liking this series...
 
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The below is my day from hell on Friday 29th Dec 2023. These are notes taken from my day of some of the events, and my thoughts and feelings and emotions...I have only written a fraction of the events.

I am getting an independent person in to assess the boiler if it is installed correctly, and the new flue in the roof. And whatever else I might need them for. I have several plans in action.
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I gave a hug for all that stress and trouble Gennepher, but a hug is so inadequate for all you have gone through over this boiler installation. I hope it is worth it at the end of the day, giving you cheaper heating and hot water.

What a ridiculous way to go about the job. We are supposedly having an air source heating system installed in the coming year - again it's part of the government scheme but we had a surveyor round the check how it will be done and what our existing system is. Neil was able to talk to him and find out what is to be done. The daft thing is that there is a fixed way of doing things and they can't deviate from it. We have perfectly serviceable radiators but under the scheme we have to have all new ones installed (Neil says they won't be as good as our existing ones but they can't budge on that). I am lucky that Neil will be here when the job is done and he wouldn't stand for the kind of carry-on that you have had to endure.

I'm sure you know how to go about seeing that everything is, at least, working properly but it sounds as though these fellows were some kind of cowboy operation. Also sounds as though your local council needs to be blasted for the firm they have employed. Not that there was anything inferior about the men who came to do the job, be they Moslem, Asian or whatever, but they needed ot be able to communicate with you - in your language, not theirs. They also needed to clean up after themselves. I've never heard of workmen being quite so slapdash.

I do hope you can take some time to relax a bit and to rest to ease away some of the stress this awful experience has put you under.
 
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My brother and SIL should be back from their cruise by now, but I've heard nothing from them. I did send an e-mail but nothing back. Hope he will restart our Sunday telephone "date" this evening. I worry about both of them.
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# Relieved! Just had an e-mail from my brother. They're home safe and sound. My e-mail got lost among the 300+ that awaited them on their return. Doesn't sound as though they enjoyed the cruise though. I'll hear all about it later today.
 
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Morning all on a day which always seems to divide people in terms of how to deal with the passage of time. Here both inclination and circumstances have aligned to make a sofa and TV catch up day ideal. @dunelm thank you for the wonderful art and a couple of hours thinking about your post, particularly the part on ageing. MIL is 94 on Friday, her mum lived to almost 100 (99.75). Both were widowed in their early 50s so that may affect their thinking but their views are worth considering and not, shall we say, wholly positive to be frank. The psalmists would tend to support their take on matters in many ways imho.. @JohnEGreen good news on dodging the Len Goodman's. @Krystyna23040 I'm delighted for you that this year is ending with your bg where it has normally been due to your hard work. @gennepher hug for yet more stress but as always you seem to have a good plan. Yesterday was a really good day here akin to Christmas past with a veritable feast, thanks be to God’s grace, and later family board and card games. If we weren't so tired and aware of Friday's celebration I'd box up all the decorations after that. I have another post being edited for later but tea drinking needs my full concentration for now. Have the NYE that is most true to who you really are and your current circumstances.
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Thank you @ianpspurs.
 
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