Krystyna23040
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5.1 this morning. Just dashing off to classes in Norwich.
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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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Annb
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8.8 at 0330 today. Dropped a bit and then rose again to 7.4.
My oil was delivered yesterday - only 500 litres but it should last us well into the spring and, who knows, by then they might have started on installing our air source heat pump system. Actually only 500 litres because even that was £400. The tank could probably have taken 1000 but I don't have the extra £400 to spare.
Guests I was expecting today have all gone down with some bug so won't be coming. This winter has been really bad for bugs. Every week I hear of someone who has had it. Some with both covid and a bug to follow on.
I now have a pile of food which I had prepared for them to find a home for. I'll ask Alistair if he can help with that, when he comes in on his round. I don't know if his family will eat macaroni cheese, or a carby veg soup but pretty sure they'll eat cakes. Problem is, I had made gargantuan amounts of everything because I was catering for quite a few - maybe their dogs will eat macaroni cheese.
My oil was delivered yesterday - only 500 litres but it should last us well into the spring and, who knows, by then they might have started on installing our air source heat pump system. Actually only 500 litres because even that was £400. The tank could probably have taken 1000 but I don't have the extra £400 to spare.
Guests I was expecting today have all gone down with some bug so won't be coming. This winter has been really bad for bugs. Every week I hear of someone who has had it. Some with both covid and a bug to follow on.
I now have a pile of food which I had prepared for them to find a home for. I'll ask Alistair if he can help with that, when he comes in on his round. I don't know if his family will eat macaroni cheese, or a carby veg soup but pretty sure they'll eat cakes. Problem is, I had made gargantuan amounts of everything because I was catering for quite a few - maybe their dogs will eat macaroni cheese.
ianpspurs
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Morning all - just - from L.A. where the air temperature is higher but the wind means it doesn't feel much warmer. My fbg is unknown but diabetic eye check revealed no retinopathy. Thanks be to God. @lindisfel good news on the new lease of life and new/newer mattress. @Annb hug for the food issue and your guests' illness. @dunelm and @gennepher thanks for sharing the art. Hope your Saturday is all you wish for but if not try Sunday.
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Annb
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So many people this winter are going down with these bugs - very few seem to have just colds and even those who have are having the worst colds ever. What a winter! Wonder if it is because of the lockdown or because of the Covid itself. Could be because we were all so isolated for so long that we have lost some of our tolerance for these viruses.
As far as food is concerned, it's always a risk preparing in advance, but it is the only way I can do it these days and it is worth the risk. I don't like food waste but, with any luck Alistair's family can deal with that for me. There's enough there to share with the wider family and, as I said, perhaps the dogs will be able to help out. If they can eat the macaroni cheese, it will save a little on their dog food and probably contain as much nourishment. All's well on that front.
Just need everyone to recover now.
SlimLizzy
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20.01
FBG 5.2
-2°C outside. Heavy frost. Very pretty but feel cold just looking it.
MrSlim made a gargantuan portion of porridge with milk. Not something that reheats successfully and I fancied something warm. So - added a dash of cream and handful of grated cheese, stirred until cheese melted and served with a little more cream and coffee. Not the most delicious breakfast, probably not on repeat, but bg after about an hour was 6.5 and another hour ish later back down to 5.1.
Not sure what these figures mean.
Kiki has finally understood the purpose of my teaching her to ring a bell. Its not actually about the treats - its about communicating a desire for someone to open the door. Hooray!!!
Its great to see MrSlim almost leap up from the table on hearing the bell to let her out. The bell seems to penetrate concentration on his phone even when a mew does not.
Now I just need to find another bell to hang outside. Which is the ultimate goal of the exercise. Kiki does appear at the salon window and mew (Very quietly) to be let in. If the curtains are shut, as they are in cold weather, or tv on. we don't see or hear her. So anticipating this have been experimenting with a small brass bell for several months.
I think it's been difficult fo her because the first touches I taught her were gentle and the bell requires a more forceful touch to sound. I am vastly pleased with her for making this leap in comprehension.
FBG 5.2
-2°C outside. Heavy frost. Very pretty but feel cold just looking it.
MrSlim made a gargantuan portion of porridge with milk. Not something that reheats successfully and I fancied something warm. So - added a dash of cream and handful of grated cheese, stirred until cheese melted and served with a little more cream and coffee. Not the most delicious breakfast, probably not on repeat, but bg after about an hour was 6.5 and another hour ish later back down to 5.1.
Not sure what these figures mean.
Kiki has finally understood the purpose of my teaching her to ring a bell. Its not actually about the treats - its about communicating a desire for someone to open the door. Hooray!!!
Its great to see MrSlim almost leap up from the table on hearing the bell to let her out. The bell seems to penetrate concentration on his phone even when a mew does not.
Now I just need to find another bell to hang outside. Which is the ultimate goal of the exercise. Kiki does appear at the salon window and mew (Very quietly) to be let in. If the curtains are shut, as they are in cold weather, or tv on. we don't see or hear her. So anticipating this have been experimenting with a small brass bell for several months.
I think it's been difficult fo her because the first touches I taught her were gentle and the bell requires a more forceful touch to sound. I am vastly pleased with her for making this leap in comprehension.
ianpspurs
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Congratulations to Kiki and obviously you for teaching her with faith and patience.
Well done ..& well done Kiki.
We don't have a cat, but next doors kept coming around, same issue so I put a little bells outside.
So cute when Marley started using it. Aaawww
Not so cute once he'd mastered it, and started speed boxing it if we were even the slightest bit slow to answer his first ring-a-ding.
Sitting in a cupboard somewhere.
Some boxing gym most likely gained its first cat boxer ...furryweight, obviously.
gennepher
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Thanks Ian
So much of COVID still about.
I think it's a mix myself .
We did build up some immunity.
But the message got so diluted
No one takes precautions.
Neither GPcs or Hospitals.
So the waves are circulating more easily, but it's not killing or hospitalising so many, it just seems normal.....
Personal opinion...it's like T2D
One meal won't kill us, it's the drip, drip, drip of elevated glucose that nips away at us relentlessly that seriously damages us in the end.
Same with COVID, repeated bouts, smaller damage than pandemic, but continuous erosion of our bodies systems...imho .
Lamont D
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Industrial but inventive and strikingly different, excellent.
Annb
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Our cat, the long departed Jimmy, had us well trained to open the front door for him when he knocked. The letter box was low down in the door and well within his reach. He must have lifted the flap one day to look inside and when he dropped it, we heard the clatter and went to the door. He strolled in as though he owned the joint (which, of course, he did). Thereafter, he would always knock on the door to be let in. Pretty sure he was the one doing the training, not us.
This was the same cat who fought off dogs, tore his way out of cat baskets, killed rats and walked on a lead like a dog. The song about Sam the Skull comes to mind when thinking about him, but he was the gentlest, best behaved cat that ever was.
Sam The Skull (The Glasgow Cat) Lyrics Alastair McDonald ※ Mojim.com
Sam The Skull (The Glasgow Cat) I'm a cat, I'm a cat,I'm a Glasgow cat and my name is Sam The Skull. I've got claws in my paws like a crocodile's jaws and a hi
mojim.com
Lamont D
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I like sea views. I can smell the sand as the tide ebbs.
Takes me back.
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Thank you so much @gennepher
Lamont D
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5.8 this non footie Saturday.
Shocking isn't it, the weather has frosted or waterlogged the turf we were due to try and perform on.
No shocked about an under 6 reading, wow!
Could it be , I'm behaving and being ultra LC?
Could it be, the chores and shoppr?
Could it be, #6 & #8 giving me a really good play and cheering me up no end for a couple of hours?
Probs all three. But so welcome. I did retest and it was the same.
Was rough yesterday, Mrs L and I had an achy breaky Friday. Not much done after essentials.
Meant more first thing, as Mrs L having a lie in, in the warmth of the July heat. (Wanted a day trip, last night in discussions, and isn't it her sisters birthday?) No!
Really still cold, out there. Only just above freezing on thermometer, windy, freeze, raining. Happy days.
Still ice on garden, won't be doing nowt out there, especially with storm coming tomorrow, unless it's Monday.
never had a cst, always dogs. But, my son's have a dog and a cat each!
Next door but two used to have a cat, it used to pick a spot to message me, a reminder of his being!
never did find out what happened to it. They are not my favourite.
We did have a cat when I was a nipper, and used to leave his prey on the carpet in front of the fire, we never fed him, sounds a bit harsh, but he defo had another home somewhere in the next street, we found out by the kids there. Or maybe more than one? Cats are like that.
Best wishes to you all as always!
No footie! What is there to do?
Shocking isn't it, the weather has frosted or waterlogged the turf we were due to try and perform on.
No shocked about an under 6 reading, wow!
Could it be , I'm behaving and being ultra LC?
Could it be, the chores and shoppr?
Could it be, #6 & #8 giving me a really good play and cheering me up no end for a couple of hours?
Probs all three. But so welcome. I did retest and it was the same.
Was rough yesterday, Mrs L and I had an achy breaky Friday. Not much done after essentials.
Meant more first thing, as Mrs L having a lie in, in the warmth of the July heat. (Wanted a day trip, last night in discussions, and isn't it her sisters birthday?) No!
Really still cold, out there. Only just above freezing on thermometer, windy, freeze, raining. Happy days.
Still ice on garden, won't be doing nowt out there, especially with storm coming tomorrow, unless it's Monday.
never had a cst, always dogs. But, my son's have a dog and a cat each!
Next door but two used to have a cat, it used to pick a spot to message me, a reminder of his being!
never did find out what happened to it. They are not my favourite.
We did have a cat when I was a nipper, and used to leave his prey on the carpet in front of the fire, we never fed him, sounds a bit harsh, but he defo had another home somewhere in the next street, we found out by the kids there. Or maybe more than one? Cats are like that.
Best wishes to you all as always!
No footie! What is there to do?
dunelm
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Thanks @ianpspurs. Hope your day is a blast - but not enough to knock you over.
Lamont D
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Feeling a bit perturbed this morning, two instances of horror, to me anyway, but I did control my anger issues.
First of all it seems that the sock eater in either my washing machine or my drier has magically made one of my Saturday socks disappear. To help you understand as a chrimbo pressie, I have socks that have the day on jt. Seven pairs. So the dilemma is of course which day do I wear instead? Or wear a plain set? Stupid socks!!!
Second was I was wearing my fleece lined hoodie to the shops well, you have to in the hood, don't you?
My mobile phone is in the pocket, I bend to get shovel in the back garden, .y dropped and bounced straight into a puddle of snow, rain and ice. It is only in the puddle for a few seconds. And I had a little panic! Did not know that it was so important to me!
First of all it seems that the sock eater in either my washing machine or my drier has magically made one of my Saturday socks disappear. To help you understand as a chrimbo pressie, I have socks that have the day on jt. Seven pairs. So the dilemma is of course which day do I wear instead? Or wear a plain set? Stupid socks!!!
Second was I was wearing my fleece lined hoodie to the shops well, you have to in the hood, don't you?
My mobile phone is in the pocket, I bend to get shovel in the back garden, .y dropped and bounced straight into a puddle of snow, rain and ice. It is only in the puddle for a few seconds. And I had a little panic! Did not know that it was so important to me!
Annb
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I've run out of superlatives about your art. Great painting, whatever you used to produce it. Looks like a storm is coming.
A lot to pick out of that, @Lamont D
A winner for the FBG.
A hug for that faulty calendar.
But loving how you roll with it..good man
Hope the aches ease.
Liking all the positives kids, play, diet
Weather is what is, we'll survive.
Haha, for the cat...nothing like leaving a gift for the gods, when stealing the soul of others.
And always a good reminder that while dogs have owners...
Cats have servants .
