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

[SlimLizzy]

Going to Chesterfield this afternoon to pick up my new car ordered it late last year so something to look forward to today.

I do hope you are pleased with your new car.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Nice male bullfinch on patio at breakfast. What colourful birds the males are.
I don't know how I will live in town and miss all this wild life.
D.

We are feeling the same. We love country living , but sometimes think it would be nice if we could walk to a shop... here we need to take the car to go anywhere. Even to take our rubbish to the dechetterie. There is no collection this far out.

 

[SlimLizzy]

We made the difficult choice to move a couple of years ago. I hope that you can find somewhere that will give you some happiness and joy. I find that my bus pass is a very good asset.

We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.

 

[JohnEGreen]

We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.

Maybe making such decisions are best made when not under the pressure of immediate necessity.
and yes enjoying the new car very much.

 

[SlimLizzy]

That is a shame @SlimLizzy - although it is highly likely that lots of birds and other wildlife have survived in your garden.

There was a sparrow rescued from the jaws of death on Friday. Held the back of Kiki's neck and shook gently, she released the dead sparrow- which immediately flew away with Kiki in hot pursuit. Tempted the cat down from the willow tree and shut her in the house for a while. But now she knows there are unwary fledglings out there. Have swept most of the mud off the road by the gate. Kiki was lurking in the hedge and attempting to grab the birds dustbathing there.
That might be how she caught the sparrow on Friday, because she shows little patience, always tries to charge and grab. Birds usually see her coming and escape.

 

[lindisfel]

Wish that was true. We have a murderous cat. She will hunt anything smaller than herself. This years known casualties : a bluetit, a robin, a couple of sparrows, whole nest of song thrush chicks, several voles, mice, a shrew, a small snake, one slow worm (may have survived minus it's tail) a lizard ( injured and probably died) Uncountable numbers of insects and spiders...
Counting them up I am actually a bit shocked.
Not exactly a haven for wildlife. Sadly
Seems the only things she doesn't catch are moles.
Not exactly a haven for wildlife. Sadly

I think moles don't taste very nice. Our cat never caught them to eat.
D.

 

[SlimLizzy]

05.06
8.15am FBG 6.5
Very late dinner. After 9pm
Estate agents round to value the house.
On the spot assessment a bit higher than expected, making sale more likely. But not really as high as we had hoped. Neither of us really wants to sell.
We may get another valuation, from a different agency, just to see what people who haven't seen the house "in the raw" would think.
The Bbq on Saturday was a success, great food and company. Mix of French, English, Czech, and Dutch people. We all braved the weather, cloudy with a north wind, until dessert, then moved the party inside.
The decision to have valuation done now is partly down to the Bbq on Saturday,
Because nearly everywhere was tidy and clean so not a lot of extra effort needed. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but now we are both unsettled.
Agent suggested a couple of small improvements in the garden. Take down the ivy here and is it possible to increase the height of the hedge there? So as to disguise slightly our only close neighbours, whose house is a very out of place modern building. There is a dip in the hedge level at the point where the house opposite is most visible. We might buy a tree to go there, if that is the only thing that devalues the house. Worth doing even if we don't sell now.
Decision, decisions.

 

[SlimLizzy]

I think moles don't taste very nice. Our cat never caught them to eat.
D.

I don't care if she eats them. They are a huge pest in the greenhouse and vegetable gardens. Digging up whole rows sometimes and undermining others so that the roots are dangling in air and the plants die. Although this year enemy No. 1 are the gastropods.
They are not just eating, but stripping the leaves of MrSlims grapevine. Which is why I was already contemplating ivy removal.

Ivy removal has started.

 

[lindisfel]

We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.

Waited 20 years too long now do not know how we do it. This place is too much for us.
Derek

 

[lindisfel]

6

 

[dunelm]

We are just at that point now. Deciding if we should move now, or wait until we actually need to do so. Very difficult decision.

Difficult decision and all the best with that. We decided best to do so while we were both still active. It seemed to work as there were quite a few jobs to do to get our current house the way we wanted it.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Fox & Cat (the fox is eating bits of fatballs dropped by the birds on the bird feeders)
31secs

Creative... I watched this man and his dog approach in the distance, in my passenger side mirror, as I'm sitting in the car drinking my tea. I started drawing him (one line drawing with my finger not leaving the iPad screen), as he passed me but I ran out of time when he went round the corner, and I had not done his dog, and so a squiggle had to suffice...

Sun is out, and I need a nap. I am getting old...

I'll finish my cuppa first...

Have your best day...

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on a not for long sunny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. A cheery 5.3 this am. Opticians yesterday for an eye watering glimpse into the rising cost of eyewear - I thought I was being quoted for a business class flight to Bali. My wallet is now in a safe house and being counselled by specialists after the emergency ten shilling note was dragged screaming from it’s dusty depths and out into the artificial brightness of an array of embedded LED ceiling lights. Taking brother in law out to lunch today to celebrate his escape from respite care and making his way back home like a cat who is unimpressed by it’s staff suddenly, and without a by your leave, moving to a new house. Art bit - blooming eck! A bunch of trees. Stay safe, don’t watch any news today - it’s all about a shouting match where nothing much is actually said. Koffy, that’s the ticket.

Great trees @dunelm

Enjoy your lunch today with brother in law...

 

[Lamont D]

6.5 this woeful weather Wednesday.
it is freezing in that wind, sunny with a chance of snow.......maybe?

Still got pains in the muscles, think I did too much for too long again, have I a choice?
so after important chores and shopping got my feet up for now.

#8 has arrived for an hour of fun.

We have already had discussions with the housing.
The issue isn't if, it's when.
as Mrs L gets older and less mobile. The decision to move her downstairs and bedroom and toilet for her to use maybe too much, so if we could do an exchange, a bungalow for disabled, that could be an option. But we will see. But I do know as always, Mrs L is reluctant to move or change anything. It can be frustrating to keep repeating her limitations, when she can't remember how much less mobile she actually is.
We do what we can.

#8 is demanding his grandad play with him, he is a ratbag!
Nanny wants tea!

Peace be with us all.
Please!

 

[lindisfel]

6

Sorry about the nonsense post. Got a bit lost.

 

[Lamont D]

6.
I am number six.
Which reminds me of a holiday in N.Wales in the Conwy valley, a day out to the village that was the location of the tv programme. And the nearby beach, on a lovely summer's day.
Name it without Google please?

Tomorrow would have been my eldest brothers birthday he would have been 80.
Yeah a brother born on D Day. (June 6)
My next eldest born on the anniversary of Agincourt and Balacava. (Charge of the Light Brigade) (25 October)
Then closest brother born on the anniversary of Waterloo. (18 June)
Then there is me........... Mine is the anniversary of ......an 1862 battle of Hampton Roads.
Never heard of that!!!!!!!
I did when I collected chewing gum cards on the 100th anniversary of the end of the American civil war., I was ten. And this was so interesting and got my history interest part of my brain so curious.
hence my history A level, even tho my interest wasn't in that area that the exam was about. Industrial revolution.

have a lovely evening.
my best wishes to all and sundry.
of which the link is cricket and Irish didn't do so well.

 

[JohnEGreen]

My father was born on the anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar 21 of October.

 

[dogslife]

6.
I am number six.
Which reminds me of a holiday in N.Wales in the Conwy valley, a day out to the village that was the location of the tv programme. And the nearby beach, on a lovely summer's day.
Name it without Google please?

Tomorrow would have been my eldest brothers birthday he would have been 80.
Yeah a brother born on D Day. (June 6)
My next eldest born on the anniversary of Agincourt and Balacava. (Charge of the Light Brigade) (25 October)
Then closest brother born on the anniversary of Waterloo. (18 June)
Then there is me........... Mine is the anniversary of ......an 1862 battle of Hampton Roads.
Never heard of that!!!!!!!
I did when I collected chewing gum cards on the 100th anniversary of the end of the American civil war., I was ten. And this was so interesting and got my history interest part of my brain so curious.
hence my history A level, even tho my interest wasn't in that area that the exam was about. Industrial revolution.

have a lovely evening.
my best wishes to all and sundry.
of which the link is cricket and Irish didn't do so well.

Ah@Lamont D. Could you be talking of Portmeirion? We spent the first day of my retirement there in one of the Italianate buildings which was very special but sadly during our evening meal in the hotel we received a call saying my father in law had been taken ill and we had to come home. Still a very special place in a lovely location.

 

[jjraak]

Yamas

No meter, so no testing .

After a swim in the hotel pool
(Just us)...and a little bit of massage via the pools filtration system .

We hit molyvos.

It's not game of thrones, but it so could have been.

A tiring day, so a run back in the car to an easy night at our favourite bar, and a very decent takeaway on the veranda.

While Lauren popped to the loo, this gorgeous cheeky one invited itself to make it a "table for three, garçon "...

Loving it

 

[Krystyna23040]

There was a sparrow rescued from the jaws of death on Friday. Held the back of Kiki's neck and shook gently, she released the dead sparrow- which immediately flew away with Kiki in hot pursuit. Tempted the cat down from the willow tree and shut her in the house for a while. But now she knows there are unwary fledglings out there. Have swept most of the mud off the road by the gate. Kiki was lurking in the hedge and attempting to grab the birds dustbathing there.
That might be how she caught the sparrow on Friday, because she shows little patience, always tries to charge and grab. Birds usually see her coming and escape.

Good that you rescued the sparrow from the jaws of death and good that you cleared the mud away so that Kiki cannot grab any more birds dustbathing there.