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

5.6 this morning. A very productive day so far. Poppy walked, lots of admin done and my friend who is a hairdresser has trimmed my hair.

More dog walking, admin and the weekly shop take place this afternoon. For now though - it is lunch, coffee and catch up with posts.I

Had to edit the post as predictive text changed weekly shop into weekly Shinto. Had to Google it. Apparently it is a supernatural religion.
 
Lamont D said:
Did I write this?
Sure you ain't got RH?
Never had inulin.
And of course lactose intolerance.
And my headmaster enjoyed dealing out punishment especially the corporal type to the peasents. Who had the temerity to gain admittance to his grammar school by passing the 11+ exam.
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I did have RH about 20 years before the diabetes diagnosis. I would swing from crazy highs to crazy lows. It then developed into diabetes and I only got the crazy highs (not lows which I wrote in error) .

Now it seems to have progressed to no highs but quite a few crazy lows which do leave me headachy and tired. Hopefully it will settle down.

I love Pink Sun inulin as it is really sweet, but as it is a fibre it can cause havoc in my gut if I eat too much.

Your headmaster was a very nasty man. He should never have been a headmaster.
 
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Annb said:
Tapioca pudding! Our school cooks made it with watered down milk. I could take the milk but not the tapioca. 2 of my intolerances are tapioca and arrowroot. Watered down milk is an abomination in a milk pudding. After all, the whole point of the pudding is the milk which preferably would be Jersey milk with some added double cream. But not tapioca. :yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck:
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Watered down milk is an abomination @Annb.
Especially with tapioca. My sister says that eating tapioca was like eating frog spawn - although I am sure she can't know that as hopefully she has never eaten frog spawn.
 
gennepher said:
I am late to the party today.

Fbg this morning was 6.9

I was overtired yesterday...those blooming badgers...and went to sleep yesterday evening, but then was awake the rest of the night. Nothing would induce sleep.

I had to do some fridge shopping this morning. By the time I came back I was so tired I went to bed and have been sleeping catching up on sleep.

What happened yesterday, when I went out the kitchen door, I found the badgers had broken my fireguard. I have a very large metal fireguard, protecting some bins, and things which I keep things in them like the recycle bags et cetera, and all this is protected behind the fireguard from the badgers. This has worked no problem for 12 months. I also have bin bags full of junk from the garage that are waiting to be thrown out when there is room in the wheelie. No food or anything edible in them. But the badger/s broke the front of the fireguard, got in and ripped open the bin bags, and scattered the contents everywhere.

It took me the rest of yesterday to clean it up, repair the fireguard with wire. And then I found some bird netting. I never used it on my vegetable garden. But I decided it would be suitable to wrap the fireguard in, and over the tops of the bins. My theory being that it would be awkward/uncomfortable for the badger and his claws.

So, I was drop dead exhausted by last night, and no sleep was not good.

The badgers never touched that area last night, so maybe it worked. But it makes it inconvenient to get at my stuff.

Last night the badgers took the lid off my wormery. And had been trying to get that heavy upturned plant pot out of it, in order to get at the worms. The badgers had obviously tried very hard.

I need to protect my wormery better, but I haven't got any energy at all today. Just thought...I have some army camouflage netting...but where is it? I'm thinking the badger might not like the feel of that in his claws...

It's gone 3 pm. I need to sort that now. And replace the SD cards with fresh ones. And get my recycling bags filled. It is a pain having these stupid bags, they are not badger proof, and I cannot leave them out overnight round here. There is devastation in all the streets round here by the time the dustbin men come to collect the recycling in the morning. I have to make sure they are out by 6,30am to catch the wagon at 7 am. They should have had wheelies for recycling. They did in Liverpool where I lived 20 years ago.

And the wildlife nighttime videos. Here is footage from the night before last, and at the end you can definitely see 4 badgers, two badgers are eyes, but they can be seen going into the area of my kitchen passage, where the fireguard was broken and the bin bags opened. They are the culprits.

Nighttime wildlife video.
4 Badgers running through the night
42 secs

Creative, another person wearing a padded jacket, crossing the road.

Make what you can of the rest of your day....

I need a cuppa...with a little extra....

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Hope got a good night's sleep @gennepher after a very tiring day yesterday.
 
Back from town and have started clearing the larder - there are some water pipes which run through a channel in the brickwork in there and the builders will need access to it on Monday. There is a metal grid on that wall with all sorts of things hanging on it - well they were. Now in a box but I can't get the grid off the wall - another job for Neil. Also to be moved out is a set of steel shelves holding jars and boxes of all sorts of cooking/baking essentials. I have plastic boxes for them to go in. The shelves are also blocking access to the pipes. They are very old shelves and need repainting anyway, so I don't suppose they will be reinstalled very quickly.

These shelves appeared in our lives when Neil was very small and we needed extra storage. One day Tom came home carrying this set of shelves (6 feet tall and 21/2 wide and pretty heavy. A local shop was shutting down and selling off literally everything and he had looked in to see what there was. The shelves cost him 10 shillings and they have done sterling service, moving with us 6 times and ending up in my larder. They originally held jars of Heinz baby food. Showing their age now but a spruce up with some suitable paint will see them right for a good few years more. A good ten bob's worth.

Edit: Never bought baby food so the jars that were supposed to have been on the shelves wouldn't have been any use to us, but the shelves certainly were.

Busy day today - legs first thing, then Zoom exercise class and this evening another Zoom meeting. Just as well I'm only eating one meal since there's no time to cook a 2nd one.
 
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jjraak said:
I hope all is well, @Krystyna23040 seems to be missing ... :(
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All is well @jjraak . This morning was really hectic and I had no chance to get on the forum as my hairdresser friend came really early to trim our hair - and of course we did a lot of chatting. Then I rushed out to walk Poppy before my sister arrived to help with the accounts and admin. We got through loads of work.

Have now almost caught up with the posts, walked Poppy again and we have also done the weekly shop. Just enough time left to do a bit more admin before relaxing in the evening.
 
SlimLizzy said:
It is definitely hereditary.
My brother and first husband's sister were both lactose intolerant as children. Of course neither of us remembered that as adults. First child fine, no problems. Second multiple intorerances. Asthma, eczema and hayfever. Still gets bouts of all three as an adult, esp after too many milk products.
My daughter ( third child) was Lactose intolerant to age 8.
Daughter married a man who has dust mite allergy. His sister has gluten intolerance.
Their children have all had or still got lactose intolerance.
The second also had gluten intolerance. She still has to be careful and carries an asthma inhaler.
Third child( don't tell her but I thought they were mad) severe milk intolerance.
And baby IV. Milk intolerance. Not so severe. Will probably grow out of it sooner than her brother did.
I dread to think what complications their future children might have if they don't pick partners carefully.
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Interesting about the connection between intolerance and asthma. Lots of family asthma both sides.
And quite a few who have preferences maybe not intolerance to not having dairy, and won't go near spreads or cheeses. #4 son had chronic asthma in his primary school years and often spent time in the hospital.
His breathing got better, for some reason, during covid.!!!
Grandkid #5 #7 has asthma but only mild.
I just wonder if, like #2 #6 if ADHD is also hereditary as middle son wasn't diagnosed but hyperactive.
But plenty of similar issues throughout the wider family. Of which male alcoholism is a huge issue.
And haemochromitosis is also.
And of course, heart issues as in most families.
Makes you think don't it?
 
@Lamont D - my original reply to you made no sense. Firstly I got confused with the interpretation of RH and thought it related to the RH factor in blood. I corrected that very quickly so you might not have noticed the error.

Then I was typing so quickly I got the highs and lows muddled so the post made no sense. When I corrected it (again at high speed) it made even less sense.

I have now corrected it and it should make sense now. I should have taken notice of the saying 'more haste less speed' which is very appropriate on this occasion.

This is, hopefully, the corrected post.

I did have RH about 20 years before the diabetes diagnosis. I would swing from crazy highs to crazy lows. It then developed into diabetes and I only got the crazy highs (not lows which I wrote in error) .

Now it seems to have progressed to no highs but quite a few crazy lows which do leave me headachy and tired. Hopefully it will settle down.

I love Pink Sun inulin as it is really sweet, but as it is a fibre it can cause havoc in my gut if I eat too much.

Your headmaster was a very nasty man. He should never have been a headmaster.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I did have RH about 20 years before the diabetes diagnosis. I would swing from crazy highs to crazy lows. It then developed into diabetes and I only got the crazy highs (not lows which I wrote in error) .

Now it seems to have progressed to no highs but quite a few crazy lows which do leave me headachy and tired. Hopefully it will settle down.

I love Pink Sun inulin as it is really sweet, but as it is a fibre it can cause havoc in my gut if I eat too much.

Your headmaster was a very nasty man. He should never have been a headmaster.
Krystyna23040 said:
I did have RH about 20 years before the diabetes diagnosis. I would swing from crazy highs to crazy lows. It then developed into diabetes and I only got the crazy highs (not lows which I wrote in error) .

Now it seems to have progressed to no highs but quite a few crazy lows which do leave me headachy and tired. Hopefully it will settle down.

I love Pink Sun inulin as it is really sweet, but as it is a fibre it can cause havoc in my gut if I eat too much.

Your headmaster was a very nasty man. He should never have been a headmaster.
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The thing was, in my school, not only was the head allowed to commit punishment, it was not uncommon, it was the norm for any teacher could inflict hurt on any child. And believe or not the head boy could on occasion use the cane.
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During my first four years at this wonderful establishment, I was on the end of a cane, a metal ruler, a chalkboard eraser, a plimsole, a t square, chalk thrown at me, hair pulled, slapped around the head, elbowed, threatened and numerous detentions.
On my report, a snooty teacher of physics who clearly resented teaching someone from my background to be in his class. I will be glad to not be teaching this boy in my class next term/year. I got my O levels in chemistry and physics. Strange that?
But I was nowhere near the worst behaved.
I was actually awarded full school colours, mainly for sport but for my history paper I did. An A level in fifth year.
It all changed when in my fifth year, the school went comprehensive.
No more corporal punishment, no mortar board, no cloak, no snobs in charge. Quite a few of the elite kids left for other grammar schools that didn't come under local authorities.
 
@Krystyna23040 the first part of my reply is at the bottom of the rep!y. If that makes any sense.
6.3 pre counselling day.
Not much to report.
Usual day when Mrs L has a chilling out day.
Dry morning, but it looks like rain again now.
And Katherine is on her way with a lot of weather.
Forecasters predicting something more calmer late April and warmer. But I could predict that. Nothing specific tho.
Have a lovely evening.
Still no idea on inulin.
Had the rock Dragon been found?

My best wishes to you lot as always.
 
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