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

JohnEGreen

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5.2 this morning.
Some times the predictive text seems to know what you are going to say before you do other times when combined with the spell checking you get words inserted that just make what you post nonsensical I’m often having to correct the corrections.
 

Annb

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More common to break a wrist putting hand down when falling, as Mum did some years ago. We all got the lecture - and some years later when ducking under a barrier my foot turned on loose stones. Down I went. "Don't out hands down" echoing through my head - then " I'm going down on my face! Flung both arms up to form a landing pad for face. Some scrapes to hands, arms and knees, but thankfully no worse damage.
That's how I chipped bits off of both elbows. 2 occasions, 2 sets of stairs. Wrists were quite unharmed but it took a while to get my arms to straighten out properly each time. Apparently they called them transmission breaks. Still better than falling onto my face on concrete stairs. :oops::oops:
 

gennepher

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5.2 this morning.
Some times the predictive text seems to know what you are going to say before you do other times when combined with the spell checking you get words inserted that just make what you post nonsensical I’m often having to correct the corrections.
Thank goodness @JohnEGreen it is not just me this happens to....(I had to correct two things in that last sentence)..
 

gennepher

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Good morning everyone on a wonderful sound of silence start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. A trip has been planned. This time to Birmingham. I am leaving it in the capable hands of the Safari team (Safari just means ‘to journey’ but nowadays usually includes seeing wild animals - small grandchildren may fall into that category). Decadently frittered away time yesterday on that expensive pastime of doing sod all. Apart I must say, from the important task of supervising Mrs Miggins on the delicate task of applying some Teak oil (not to be confused with tea tree oil). Art bit - last of the five Indian ink on wet blotches. Hope you day is fruitful. I have a bit of shopping to do later but first I need some koffy.
Absolutely brilliant art bit @dunelm
 

dunelm

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6.5 at 05.50 today. Up a bit now but it'll be OK once I have breakfast.

Soup making day today - or at least stock making. A chicken carcass to deal with and a ham hock to boil up. That will give me stock for a pot or 2 of pea and ham soup and for some chicken and leek soup when weather turns cold again. Have to have a think about what to do with the meat from the ham hock.

Neil plans to take a whole pile of cardboard and paper to the recycling plant today but I haven't seen hide nor hair of him yet. I bought (online) some pasta made from edamame beans and mung beans and he tried that yesterday. It may not have suited his delicate constitution so plans might be subject to change.
Love the sound of that stock making. I tend to roast chicken carcasses for a bit before shoving into a pressure cooker with a few veg. How do you do yours?
 

dunelm

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5.2 this morning.
Some times the predictive text seems to know what you are going to say before you do other times when combined with the spell checking you get words inserted that just make what you post nonsensical I’m often having to correct the corrections.
Mrs Miggins know what I am going to say before I have even had the thought.
 

Krystyna23040

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Afraid, I'm way behind with posting again @Krystyna23040.

We're all different, but on diagnosis in 2003, I went cold turkey on sweet foods in general and although I'd thought my palate might change, I was unprepared for just how quickly that happened.

I too love the way Montezuma's Absolute Black slowly melts and coats every part of your mouth with a soft and sticky chocolate gooeyness. Delicious.

Monday's FBG 4.3 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.

Yes I do agree the way Montezuma's Absolute Black slowly melts and coats every part of your mouth with a soft and sticky chocolate gooeyness is absolutely delicious.

Although my palate has changed and most sweet stuff tastes really yuk to me now - I still do like salted caramel ice cream or a piece of cheesecake (especially lemon cheesecake) as very very occasional treat.
 

Annb

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Love the sound of that stock making. I tend to roast chicken carcasses for a bit before shoving into a pressure cooker with a few veg. How do you do yours?
I roast the chicken, take off the breasts and legs for use in other dishes and then put the remaining carcass with all the still attached meat into a pot with some basic stock veg and herbs and boil for about 25-30 minutes. I think that's long enough for chicken bones. The ham hock, on the other hand, will boil for hours with all the meat on it for using later on. My MIL used to do the same thing with a lamb shank, serve the resulting soup first, then the meat with some more veg as the main meal. Dessert wasn't usually on the menu after a very filling meal. Unfortunately, I've never like boiled lamb or mutton so it was a bit wasted on me.
 

SlimLizzy

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football, both the game and the culture.
I have always known that the society we live in, in this country, has been rotten to the core.
The ethics and rules we live by, the law, politics, the hierarchy, upper echelons of the civil service, royalty.
Even to the propaganda we see every day in our press and media.
The whole lot are corrupt.
After today, the truth behind the scandal was a damming indictment of how bad it is. How the care of so many susceptible people did not get the duty of care or even given the choice. How children were used as guinea pigs. How the few doctors, the decision making, the cover ups, the lies, the deceit.
I was listening intently to the mention of Alder Hey in the early eighties. And the shocking news that children were given infected blood. #2 son had an operation in 84.. For a herniated bowel. And of course, he was given blood.
It is frightening to think my lad could have been infected.

On top of the Hillsborough disaster,
The post office scandal.
Water.
Brexit.
Power,
Oil and gas.
The banks.
The city of London.
Russian assassins.
The power brokers.
Self interest before what is right.
Bought Tories and a complicit right wing press over the years since the late adventures destroyed our democracy.
There has been an orchestration by successive governments bought by foreign influence, to infect of our way of British ideals.
The consistency of government based on cover ups and scandals, dogma, for the benefit of the corrupt elite.
The pursuit of profit before the rights and care of the people.

Food banks.
Child poverty.
That is what Tories term success.
While our pm, banks more money every week, than 95% of the population earn in a lifetime.

Sometimes, I am ashamed to be English.
And if you look to the past. Colonialism, forcing our ways on other people. Not just drug dealing , but again going to war with the Chinese to so as to be able to trade in opium. Then there is the barbarism of slavery.
Were we Great? The hell we were.
Will we be again? We never were. Have heard several people say they are ashamed to be British. I suspect more think so. The UK is a tiny, overcrowded, inefficient island, whose misled public stupidly voted to be outside of the EU, their biggest trade partner.
A place where the pursuit of profit can be used to justify almost anything.
Where honesty and morals have no place in political life.
Recently a teacher was explaining that in the UK, she wasn't allowed to teach about the holocaust, because it could be upsetting and should be forgotten.
Some other subjects were also ruled out. All of which could be viewed as potentially damaging the view of Britain as "Great"
 
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jjraak

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Mrs Miggins know what I am going to say before I have even had the thought.
They all do that, sir... ;)

In Vietnam one year, we don't normally hang with other tourists, but just clicked with two other couples.

Ladies lovely, but the boys just my kinda guys

Quick with the witty banter and general sledging and happy to laugh at themselves to boot.

Rented a minibus and driver for the few days.

On the journeys Lauren ( not her real name) kept finishing my sentences & generally butting in & offering opinions as us lads had our own little conversations,
( nice but a tad annoying every single time)

One lad, spotting my rolling eyes, says how lucky we are having her in our company...

Because who needs Google when we've got woogle..:hilarious:

Which they used mercilessly for the rest of the holiday.

(Which she took brilliantly btw.
She gives as good as she gets.)

Happy days.
 

gennepher

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Nighttime wildlife video
The Fox and the Cat
32secs

Creative...one line sketch.
These 3 people were talking ages.
I was watching them.
I was drinking my cuppa tea having a rest between shops.
Then I thought I will try and draw them.
I thought they would move before I finished.
But they didn't.
Their bodies moved position slightly.
I don't like sounding my own trumpet, but this might be the best one I have done yet...it surprised me when I took my drawing finger off the screen...

Warm today.
Hayfever again.
Eyes tired...it's the hayfever...
I think a nap now...

Have your best day...



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Annb

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6.5 at 05.50 today. Up a bit now but it'll be OK once I have breakfast.

Soup making day today - or at least stock making. A chicken carcass to deal with and a ham hock to boil up. That will give me stock for a pot or 2 of pea and ham soup and for some chicken and leek soup when weather turns cold again. Have to have a think about what to do with the meat from the ham hock.

Neil plans to take a whole pile of cardboard and paper to the recycling plant today but I haven't seen hide nor hair of him yet. I bought (online) some pasta made from edamame beans and mung beans and he tried that yesterday. It may not have suited his delicate constitution so plans might be subject to change.
There we go. Plans scuppered for a few hours anyway. Neil is OK but just as we were going to get all the cardboad and such outg to the car, the men arrived with our final radiator and are now under the floor, fitting pipes prior to actually putting the radiator in. Don't get me wrong - I am happy that they have finally come to do the job but it just reinforces the thought that there is no point making plans.

All the radiators have had to be turned off but we seem to still have tap water and, at least, I have my 2 soup pots on.

BG down now to 5.6.
 

dunelm

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I roast the chicken, take off the breasts and legs for use in other dishes and then put the remaining carcass with all the still attached meat into a pot with some basic stock veg and herbs and boil for about 25-30 minutes. I think that's long enough for chicken bones. The ham hock, on the other hand, will boil for hours with all the meat on it for using later on. My MIL used to do the same thing with a lamb shank, serve the resulting soup first, then the meat with some more veg as the main meal. Dessert wasn't usually on the menu after a very filling meal. Unfortunately, I've never like boiled lamb or mutton so it was a bit wasted on me.
I have never got on with boiled mutton or lamb either. I like the ham hock idea served a la Pot-au-feu as they would say in France.
 

jjraak

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Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
The Fox and the Cat
32secs

Creative...one line sketch.
These 3 people were talking ages.
I was watching them.
I was drinking my cuppa tea having a rest between shops.
Then I thought I will try and draw them.
I thought they would move before I finished.
But they didn't.
Their bodies moved position slightly.
I don't like sounding my own trumpet, but this might be the best one I have done yet...it surprised me when I took my drawing finger off the screen...

Warm today.
Hayfever again.
Eyes tired...it's the hayfever...
I think a nap now...

Have your best day...



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Outstanding....bravo .
 

ianpspurs

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Greetings from L.A. one and all. @dunelm thank you for sharing your art again. Enjoy your Safari (do you have the correct jacket?) to Birmingham and have a bostin time there. @gennepher it is not blowing your own trumpet to be happy with such a detailed and well observed work. The most complex one yet imho. I imagine our neighbourhoods to be very different but I too am feeling the effects of hay fever much more this year. I am also having insect bites which have never been something I have noticed before. Maybe they like the chemical cocktail floating around me.JKP has bought me several anti-insect tops as an early birthday present @Annb good news on the final radiator being fitted. I hope the stock/soup making goes well. I/we have had several goes at both. Always have high expectations only to be bitterly disappointed at the first mouthful. JKP likes ham hock. For me the taste is just not giving as gen Z say. I'm not a fan of anything boiled except eggs. Enjoy Tuesday - must soon be coffee and muffin (h/m keto blueberry) with yogurt time.
 
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