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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on maybe dry maybe wet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.3 on the scales of Osiris this morning. Twelfth night so all remaining jolly bad things to eat are now consigned to the bin like an old copy of that Donovan ditty Intergalactic Laxative - just a couple of uneaten mince pies in reality. Grandchildren will dive into other treats - enough for at least half a year. Don’t look at them! Art bit, wet on wet with the blockbuster video card. Hope your first Friday of the year behaves as a Friday should. Just finished my koffy so going to have some more.


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dramatic scenic.
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gennepher said:
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Creative is this...the app crashed when I wanted to draw more on it, with more layers, so this is what you get...my last save on it!

Wildlife nighttime camera
The Fox & Merlin - this is Foxy Loxy who is friends with all the cats
I have in the past seen Merlin sitting on the ground literally a hands-width away from Foxy Loxy.
50 secs

Have your best day.

A cuppa next.


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I picked up my car this am it was three hours work and cost me £330 that is the cost in a high quality garage.
He said the slave cylinder was failing.in the servo for the clutch. Basically Skoda puts ****** plastic cylinders in nowadays and they fail early. When Hitler got them to make VWs the people's car ,they made their cars properly.

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lindisfel said:
I picked up my car this am it was three hours work and cost me £330 that is the cost in a high quality garage.
He said the slave cylinder was failing on the slave cylinder in the servo for the clutch. Basically Skoda puts ****** plastic cylinders in nowadays and they fail early. When Hitler got them to make VWs the people's car ,they made their cars properly.

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It's deliberate. They would say it's done because the different material is better but really it is a two fold justification, 1: it costs less to produce (less production cost = more profit) and 2: it will need to be replaced sooner (= more profit). Justification enough for their shareholders. I doubt that Skoda is any different to any other manufacturer these days.
 
7.1 this morning, not happy with that at all, maybe the stress, maybe the chores, maybe the shops, maybe it is Friday, maybe just me! Or probably, all of the above. A bit down today!
Seems to me, that post counselling day is like this, reflection, overthinking, second guessing, anxious about my feelings, but my usual energy levels seem depleted.S
A bit like, a hangover.
Mrs L has been ordered by myself, (it could be a first) to a day of rest in bed, which means plenty of stairs and steps recorded on my health app.

Good to hear from @SlimLizzy i hope that you aren't washed away with the flooding. And I do agree about the industry around greeting cards, it is too much, especially like me, big family, plenty of dates required purchases for so many, My DiL birthday tomorrow, nephew Monday, cousins next Tuesday, but I'm drawing a line with that one! It does seem there is one of many every week!!

The flooding everywhere is horrific, but we were warned many years ago. And it made me chuckle in adversity, when the news came on and the first place that a report was from was a canal in London.
The whole country, nearly, is growing webbed feet, and instead of being in somewhere where there is an emergency. The news channel went around the corner! Shocking London centric approach!

It is raining, the forecast said it wouldn't. But what do they know, millions spent on computer modelling, and data research, still haven't got a clue. I think we could be looking forward to a rainy season, not that we are close to one now! Monsoons, typhoons, hurricanes, storms, twisters!
What haven't we had, oh yeah, blizzards, booked for late February, or could be first day of the cricket season.

Apparently the cause for the state of the country, and for the country's problems, is the opposition party, according to an MP on BBC last night!
You can't write this!
Stupid question, do they really believe we are so stupid?
 
lindisfel said:
I picked up my car this am it was three hours work and cost me £330 that is the cost in a high quality garage.
He said the slave cylinder was failing.in the servo for the clutch. Basically Skoda puts ****** plastic cylinders in nowadays and they fail early. When Hitler got them to make VWs the people's car ,they made their cars properly.

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It is only around twenty years since the warranty for the body and chassis was brought in for more than ten years (ish) Rust was a common problem with second hand vehicles.
You only have to look at lighting, front and back. They were single items for each light. Now they are complete units, that have to be changed, costing then, a few bob back then, now in the tens of pounds if not in expensive models, hundreds.

Tiger tanks were notoriously breaking down in all weathers!
 
Annb said:
It's deliberate. They would say it's done because the different material is better but really it is a two fold justification, 1: it costs less to produce (less production cost = more profit) and 2: it will need to be replaced sooner (= more profit). Justification enough for their shareholders. I doubt that Skoda is any different to any other manufacturer these days.
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When I was a lad we took Frank's dad's bike pump apart cos it was poor we just put vaseline on the washer.
But we saw possibilities it was made well and lined with steel tube.
When his dad was at work we took it apart again and took the body and put a little demon in it and the fuse came through the connection hole. Frank had some Industrial ball bearings he got from the brick pit work shops and we propped it up on brick to fire it at a heavy wooden brick pit storage room locked door and after we loaded a ball the size of his dad's pump tube.
Would you believe it, we had quickly made a Elephant gun, the ball went straight through the thick wooden door when we fired it. .
We quickly turned it into a pump again none the worse but I bet you can't believe we didn't do it again.
Neither do I I was a lad and lads can't be trusted?
Derek
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and breezy L.A on MIL's 94th birthday which basically means the rest of the day is so much froth though we do have some important business meetings planned . @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing your art which are both wonderful - imho among my favourite. @SlimLizzy hug for Mr Slim and the crossing but winner for the effects of the D3. I caught a thought for the day type talk last Saturday which suggested leaving decorations up until Feb 2 so no rush.
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Happy 94th Birthday for MIL @ianpspurs
 
gennepher said:
Thank you @Lamont D

It won't let me reply to your 'Dreamy' comment...
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My fault (as always), I had to delete cos I double replied, so when I typed the 'dreamy' my answer was in the reply rather than my area for typing, gonna blame my arthritic sausage fingers!
No probs!
 
lindisfel said:
When I was a lad we took Frank's dad's bike pump apart cos it was poor we just put vaseline on the washer.
But we saw possibilities it was made well and lined with steel tube.
When his dad was at work we took it apart again and took the body and put a little demon in it and the fuse came through the connection hole. Frank had some Industrial ball bearings he got from the brick pit work shops and we propped it up on brick to fire it at a heavy wooden brick pit storage room locked door and after we loaded a ball the size of his dad's pump tube.
Would you believe it, we had quickly made a Elephant gun, the ball went straight through the thick wooden door when we fired it. .
We quickly turned it into a pump again none the worse but I bet you can't believe we didn't do it again.
Neither do I I was a lad and lads can't be trusted?
Derek
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As a townie, we made all sorts of weaponry!
The usual kids stuff, but some that had the potential to eradicate the whole population of my town. Ha!
Teenage kids in areas like mine were so resourceful. And can acquire things, that most of the population couldn't imagine.
Instead of what we used to make, the kids are so competent in computer science now!
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.8 this morning.
It has rained so much here. Our morning dog walk was a walk to the vet to pick up the tick and flea treatment.
There are plans to open a coffee shop and farm shop next to the vet which I am really looking forward to. Especially the coffee shop.
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Thanks for reminder, Kiki is overdue by a few days her treatment.
 
Annb said:
New dishwasher installed this afternoon. Ran it on an initial programme and it seems allright. Now I have to gather together enough dishes to run it properly - not so easy because it was all washed up before the dishwasher arrived. Its time will come though.
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I bet you cleaned the kitchen before they installed the dishwashing machine?
Just as you tidy up before the cleaner comes round?
I'm the same! Ha!
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a wet and breezy L.A on MIL's 94th birthday which basically means the rest of the day is so much froth though we do have some important business meetings planned . @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing your art which are both wonderful - imho among my favourite. @SlimLizzy hug for Mr Slim and the crossing but winner for the effects of the D3. I caught a thought for the day type talk last Saturday which suggested leaving decorations up until Feb 2 so no rush.
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It according to this
www.theguardian.com

Escalating bad luck lurks beyond Twelfth Night â the Stephen Collins cartoon

Being late to take down your Christmas decorations brings mishaps, they say …
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
Luckily, because we were away for most of the Christmas period, our decorations are limited to a short row of cards so no trouble to get them down in time.
 
Lamont D said:
My fault (as always), I had to delete cos I double replied, so when I typed the 'dreamy' my answer was in the reply rather than my area for typing, gonna blame my arthritic sausage fingers!
No probs!
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I have done that before now @Lamont D
And then been totally frustrated how to correct it...
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Lamont D said:
I bet you cleaned the kitchen before they installed the dishwashing machine?
Just as you tidy up before the cleaner comes round?
I'm the same! Ha!
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I did clean up as best I could, but that was because it was my cleaner's day to come. In the end, she phoned to say her little girl was ill so she couldn't come this week. Neil took the old machine out, so we gave that little space a thorough clean. In fact it was Neil who installed the new one. He wouldn't have put it in had there been any grime in the space - he's pernickity that way. Takes after his Dad.
 
Maybe of interest.
One lady photographer & her mums journey into dementia.

Pretty accurate, sadly.

BBC News - Dementia: Photos lay bare agony of slowly losing mum
www.bbc.co.uk

Dementia: Photos lay bare agony of slowly losing mum

From the mundane to the heartbreaking, photojournalist Helen Rimell documents her mother's decline.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Left phone at home yesterday.

Straight to sleep when I got home.

Fbg Friday AM 8.3

Trending downwards so happy with that.

2 years of filling my inner pot of excess glucose back up.

I think I see it as a positive, that cutting back is making the body scavenge & skim the inner pot of glucose, to deliver that unwanted (but necessary) glucose dump.

Soon retrain it, that the loss of its sugary intake is deliberate and I'm not laying lost & hungry in some desert.....I hope.

Good to be back hunting that elusive :
Less glucose IN.
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The dumping + skimming from that inner pot
= A better sugary/glucose diabetic equilibrium.

( Small prayer )
 
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