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

gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Creative...I felt happier doing this one, but it is still not the picture I had in my head...this is J doing his sketching...I was always taking photos...now I am sketching and painting...

There are not enough minutes and hours in a day for me...

Have your best day.


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This says so much more than a photo @gennepher. Thank you for sharing.


Tuesday's FBG 4.6 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
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6.6 this morning. Relaxing and reading before setting off for clases. It Poppy's meet and greet the class day after a lovely walk around the field behind the hall. Lovely that the hall is only 5 miles from here so no 20 mile drive to Norwich today.

This afternoon I am having the shingles jab. Good that we are offered these jabs as shingles can be horrid.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I love your picture of J doing his sketching.

Such a shame that the shop lady's effort at being kind backfired so badly. If only she had listened to you.
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Thank you very much for the picture compliment @Krystyna23040

It did backfire badly for me. In addition as well as the hot brick wall keeping my back beautifully warm, sitting at the table and chair, not only was I exposed to the icy biting wind, a seagull saw my vulnerability and began dive bombing me. The wall had also protected me against the seagull....
 
Good morning everyone on a very damp start here in the dark and dangerous north. This is going to scupper Mrs Miggins’ plans for cutting the grass and maximising the use of the now paid for garden bin for tomorrow. As Mike Tyson once said, plans only last until you are punched in the face. Freyr the ruler of peace and fertility, rain, and sunshine was probably on holiday in The Maldives. Well, it’s a more realistic explanation than that evaporation and condensation stuff if you get all your answers from the inter web. Dentist for me this morning, Mrs Miggins out to lunch with sisters. Art bit - another tree. Hope your day goes well. Whatever happened to the idea of placing a razor blade under a pyramid to keep it sharp? Best make my koffy.
 

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Good morning everyone on a very damp start here in the dark and dangerous north. This is going to scupper Mrs Miggins’ plans for cutting the grass and maximising the use of the now paid for garden bin for tomorrow. As Mike Tyson once said, plans only last until you are punched in the face. Freyr the ruler of peace and fertility, rain, and sunshine was probably on holiday in The Maldives. Well, it’s a more realistic explanation than that evaporation and condensation stuff if you get all your answers from the inter web. Dentist for me this morning, Mrs Miggins out to lunch with sisters. Art bit - another tree. Hope your day goes well. Whatever happened to the idea of placing a razor blade under a pyramid to keep it sharp? Best make my koffy.
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I remember that, placing a razor blade under a pyramid to keep it sharp, but since I never used razorblades, I never tested it out @dunelm

I like the Art Bit, a well studied tree, but me always seeing faces in things, I cannot help but see the face of a little creature/being at the bottom of the tree trunk, and the tall branches are its very long long hair reaching out and upwards, and it's trying to do a balancing act walking along....

Enjoy that coffee....
 
gennepher said:
I remember that, placing a razor blade under a pyramid to keep it sharp, but since I never used razorblades, I never tested it out @dunelm

I like the Art Bit, a well studied tree, but me always seeing faces in things, I cannot help but see the face of a little creature/being at the bottom of the tree trunk, and the tall branches are its very long long hair reaching out and upwards, and it's trying to do a balancing act walking along....

Enjoy that coffee....
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Thank you @gennepher - yes, it’s easy to see faces in things, especially in trees.
 
Morening all, just heard Mrs J moving around, better scarper and make her morning tea!

Blood sugars this morning were 5.6

Plinky plonky ( keyboard lessons ) day here and hopefully a couple ov hours free from tasks and supervision.

Have a great day, smile, break wind silently and ……..yes dear I’m on it!
 
Fbg 6.9

Sun is out, and so is that biting icy wind...best admired from the shelter of a window...

Wildlife nighttime video
A medley of creatures, more than I had room to include in under a one minute video.
Fox & Badger & new ginger cat (never seen before) & Cat Midnight - the swing is very busy.
Midnight is not happy with this interloper ginger cat on the swing, nor with this large badger later on, but he comes back on the swing to claim his spot.
Midnight is still trying to train that large badger not to get on the swing, but when he heard that large badger approaching determinedly through the undergrowth, Midnight made the lightning decision to scarper...
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Creative - still playing with this idea of beginning with a splash of colour...

Have your best day...

Time for me to do something....a nap?

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Morning all from a truly eccentric area of the cold storage unit covering the entirety of Perfidious Albion. @dunelm thank you for the wonderfully sceptical and humorous post and another splendid work of art. @gennepher how do you manage to produce even more wonderful creatives each day? However you manage so to do, many thanks. @JohnEGreen thanks for the good wishes and originally sharing this which should be a kind of school song for this thread imho Y'all have the best possible day.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a truly eccentric area of the cold storage unit covering the entirety of Perfidious Albion. @dunelm thank you for the wonderfully sceptical and humorous post and another splendid work of art. @gennepher how do you manage to produce even more wonderful creatives each day? However you manage so to do, many thanks. @JohnEGreen thanks for the good wishes and originally sharing this which should be a kind of school song for this thread imho Y'all have the best possible day.
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Thank you very much for your lovely compliment @ianpspurs
 
5.9 at 02.15 today. Hovering in the 6's now.

My right hand has improved greatly. The knuckles are still painful but the swelling has subsided and, as long as I don't stretch my hand, it is relatively comfortable. Left hand joints, joining in the game along with both feet. At least some bits of me are having fun and games.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

Sun is out, and so is that biting icy wind...best admired from the shelter of a window...

Wildlife nighttime video
A medley of creatures, more than I had room to include in under a one minute video.
Fox & Badger & new ginger cat (never seen before) & Cat Midnight - the swing is very busy.
Midnight is not happy with this interloper ginger cat on the swing, nor with this large badger later on, but he comes back on the swing to claim his spot.
Midnight is still trying to train that large badger not to get on the swing, but when he heard that large badger approaching determinedly through the undergrowth, Midnight made the lightning decision to scarper...
56secs

Creative - still playing with this idea of beginning with a splash of colour...

Have your best day...

Time for me to do something....a nap?

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Staying inside out of that wind sounds like a good idea. Smashing creative, marvellous blending that works very well. Those bits of white work so well.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a truly eccentric area of the cold storage unit covering the entirety of Perfidious Albion. @dunelm thank you for the wonderfully sceptical and humorous post and another splendid work of art. @gennepher how do you manage to produce even more wonderful creatives each day? However you manage so to do, many thanks. @JohnEGreen thanks for the good wishes and originally sharing this which should be a kind of school song for this thread imho Y'all have the best possible day.
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Thank you @ianpspurs and for the song. Just found out that I was deprived of Sky television as a child, long before the prime miniature and long before it was even invented. Anyone else?
 
Annb said:
5.9 at 02.15 today. Hovering in the 6's now.

My right hand has improved greatly. The knuckles are still painful but the swelling has subsided and, as long as I don't sgretch my hand, it is relatively comfortable. Left hand joints, joining in the game along with both feet. At least some bits of me are having fun and games.
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A win I think. Hopefully things will settle down.
 
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ianpspurs said:
@Lamont D great news on your results - cracking A1c - so enjoy the curry. @gennepher thanks for sharing the superb creative. @dunelm thanks for sharing your art. European athletics to entertain us here this evening. Athletics in Rome, cricket in the Carribean and U.S of A, the foot the ball and Ho, Ho, Ho Lympics Could be the only glimpse of summer warmth we get this year. Hunker down one and all.
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Thanks mate.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @ianpspurs and for the song. Just found out that I was deprived of Sky television as a child, long before the prime miniature and long before it was even invented. Anyone else?
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We never could afford a television until 1968, when we got one from redifussion, we had their radio before that.
Any major televised events were watched on neighbours sets.
The prime miniature is showing how ignorant and privileged his life has been, and no concept of poverty of even doing without basics, such as food, housing, heating, decent clothing, and more relevant today, a health care and dentistry to those .millions that are doing without now.
Poverty and food banks are the tory legacies.
If he paid PAYE, on his income, his tax would be double and probably more.
The percentage of his tax is another tory con.

There are still so many that don't have a dish, and rely on the old terrestrial channels.

6.4 this run about, window cleaner, delivery, surgery visiting day, four buses, three women drivers, one was late!

Gotta go.
 
Lamont D said:
We never could afford a television until 1968, when we got one from redifussion, we had their radio before that.
Any major televised events were watched on neighbours sets.
The prime miniature is showing how ignorant and privileged his life has been, and no concept of poverty of even doing without basics, such as food, housing, heating, decent clothing, and more relevant today, a health care and dentistry to those .millions that are doing without now.
Poverty and food banks are the tory legacies.
If he paid PAYE, on his income, his tax would be double and probably more.
The percentage of his tax is another tory con.

There are still so many that don't have a dish, and rely on the old terrestrial channels.

6.4 this run about, window cleaner, delivery, surgery visiting day, four buses, three women drivers, one was late!

Gotta go.
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My uncle bought a TV around 1948. It was a massive piece of furniture with a 6 inch screen. We were taken to watch the boat race that year and on another occasion a famous science fiction story (another name I've forgotten, although I knew it a minute ago*). My cousin and I hid behind the couch, not wanting to see the frightening story unfold. We had Redifusion radio from the early 50's. Our TV didn't arrive until the early 60's - small, black and white; also from Redifusion. Dad didn't want it, but Mum did, so she had her way.

When we married, we couldn't afford a TV but eventually bought a second hand one (about a 19" screen and black and white) in about 1970. We didn't bring it with us when we moved to the Western Isles but a few years later my parents gave us their old black and white one when they replaced it with a coloured set.

My current set has colour and is a flat screen (19 inch again). We had to put an aerial in the loft even though we can see the mast from our window because of the metal in the wall downstairs.

Neil believes a TV is absolutely a non-essential (or even non-desireable) but it keeps me company in the small hours when most of the world is asleep.

Not having a TV wouldn't be my idea of a benchmark of child poverty. Not having shoes, or adequate clothes, or, more especially, not having nutritious food, or being deprived of the love of family, or being deprived of security, is the mark of poverty. There are plenty of children in this world, even in this country, who fall below the mark.

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*Just remembered, it was "Quatermass".
 
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