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

Morning all from what is either another gorgeous warm, sunny day or testing and tiring time for much of UK Plc. Some will like it, some won't. School sports day time - do teachers bet on that? :D Very strange times as we all know the substantive outcome of G.E 24 but are tediously going through the formalities. Meanwhile one heals slowly, watches sport whilst smiling and waving at "them out there" @Annb hug for the cold but good it isn't COVID. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and behave yourself all unsupervised. @gennepher thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I'm thinking of you in that hot bungalow. @Krystyna23040 don't drive those poor souls too hard today
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@Lamont D I hope the test drive of the new shower is a success and pleasure. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you - did Marjorie watch the football last night? Now it is time for some Jarslberg and more tea here. I hope y'all find some marginal gains of your own today. Have a song and insert your own terroir.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from what is either another gorgeous warm, sunny day or testing and tiring time for much of UK Plc. Some will like it, some won't. School sports day time - do teachers bet on that? :D Very strange times as we all know the substantive outcome of G.E 24 but are tediously going through the formalities. Meanwhile one heals slowly, watches sport whilst smiling and waving at "them out there" @Annb hug for the cold but good it isn't COVID. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and behave yourself all unsupervised. @gennepher thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I'm thinking of you in that hot bungalow. @Krystyna23040 don't drive those poor souls too hard today
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@Lamont D I hope the test drive of the new shower is a succe ess and pleasure. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you - did Marjorie watch the football last night? Now it is time for some Jarslberg and more tea here. I hope y'all find some marginal gains of your own today. Have a song and insert your own terroir.
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Thank you Ian for the compliment...and the commiserations.

I am going to join you with tea.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Temperature in my back garden already 21C at 7:36 am
App tells me it's going to be 26C later...

Last night, Jade had not come for her supper. I had waited until dark, gone 10 pm, sat on the swing awhile, despite possible impending beasties, but no Jade. So left a plate of good cat biscuits out for her, and extra water. This morning I went out, and not one single cat biscuit had been taken. So that meant no foxes or badgers were out last night...or even stray cats...good job I have some back video footage from very busy nights...I vowed to myself to post one video for each day of the year, so I keep some busy nights footage for when there is not sign of any cat nor beast...

Nighttime wildlife videos
A Fox and a Cat yawns
I have to say, a boring 16 secs of footage...no wonder Midnight was yawning his head off...
414 views since I posted it last night !?!?
And some people watched it more than once. I looked on analytics...
I am assuming some people cannot sleep these hot summer nights...


Creative...my new series...studying some bushes and trees...
On paper, using a thin/small Japanese calligraphy pen...
In Snapseed for copyright and name and date.

Time for a rest now, started some ice cubes off...

A quick nap should see full basket of ice cubes...

Have your best day...

By the way I have been experimenting with Ceylon cinnamon for a while to see if that can lower my blood sugars. It does not. It makes not one jot of difference to me. I have bought a second , different packet of Ceylon cinnamon powder, in case the first was not authentic cinnamon power. In the meantime I was trying hibiscus tea for something else, and I found that reduced my blood sugar levels immediately while drinking it and after I finished drinking it. Still experimenting on that one.



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Hugs for the oven like temperature and hope that all the animals are surviving it. Smashing new series of artwork.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher - moved inside now as it’s getting quite hot even in the shade - all windows and doors open for a breeze
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Almost impossible outside today @dunelm
I am on the swing for some fresh air for a wee bit. There was a strong sea breeze, but now the air has gone still, and stifling and unbreathable...
The reason I am still outside isI am having an interesting conversation with a magpie. He thinks I can hear him...I can't...but I think he has new babies to feed and is looking for soft food for them.
I have just told him I will open a sachet of wet cat food for him...
Bye....
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from what is either another gorgeous warm, sunny day or testing and tiring time for much of UK Plc. Some will like it, some won't. School sports day time - do teachers bet on that? :D Very strange times as we all know the substantive outcome of G.E 24 but are tediously going through the formalities. Meanwhile one heals slowly, watches sport whilst smiling and waving at "them out there" @Annb hug for the cold but good it isn't COVID. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and behave yourself all unsupervised. @gennepher thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I'm thinking of you in that hot bungalow. @Krystyna23040 don't drive those poor souls too hard today
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@Lamont D I hope the test drive of the new shower is a success and pleasure. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you - did Marjorie watch the football last night? Now it is time for some Jarslberg and more tea here. I hope y'all find some marginal gains of your own today. Have a song and insert your own terroir.
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It was and more!
 
6.5 this 30 degreeer.
but I do have a slight cooling breeze across the footie pitches.
sitting in shade and the fans, windows and doors wedged open.
fans! Do not mention the footie!

I am still feeling fatigued even tho I do have very good energy levels. A bit of cramp at 6.30 that woke me, then the recycling bin men along with the guys in the trenches outside woke me up again. I had to have a cuppa.
have taken more salt.

Mrs L demanded bed rest for today, even tho, I offered a day out. Ah well, never mind.
finished another book this dinnertime, the latest Angela Marsden, crime novel. Very good.
back to Jodi Taylor's time police newby, to start.

slugs are giving me a hard time in my front garden.
I have no idea what to do. I watered the plants before sundown, as you should And I moved four of them and a couple of snails. Frustration setting in.

I think I might treat you to my new project, that I mentioned a couple of months ago.
But Mrs L is in need to afternoon tea.

Stay cool you lot.
Best wishes you lot.
Enjoy the heat if you can.
This is your summer. This is it!
 
gennepher said:
Almost impossible outside today @dunelm
I am on the swing for some fresh air for a wee bit. There was a strong sea breeze, but now the air has gone still, and stifling and unbreathable...
The reason I am still outside isI am having an interesting conversation with a magpie. He thinks I can hear him...I can't...but I think he has new babies to feed and is looking for soft food for them.
I have just told him I will open a sachet of wet cat food for him...
Bye.
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I put the cat food down for the Magpie I mentioned earlier, but My heart stopped, I thought the Green Man was watching me, inches away. His beady green eyes followed my movements.

Then I parted the leaves between his eyes. It was Midnight, who I unceremoniously booted into the bungalow.

By the time I got in, all the cat food had gone


So, I thought I would open my early "birthday" present a friend had sent me a week early. She said it would keep me cool in hot weather. A blanket, an Arctic blanket ?!?

Never heard of any such thing before.

It's better if you don't have any clothes on, she'd said. But I was too tired, so I just pulled this thin artctic blanket over me.

I wake an hour later, absolutely frozen to the core of my core of my body.

It's half an hour later again.

I now have my winter blankets on top of me.
I still cannot get warm, I am cold all through, my skin is still ice.
None of the reviews are as "good" as mine is going to be...
Most reviewers say the coolness of the arctic blanket only lasts a few minutes and it is useless...
Well, have as many fans going in the bedroom as I have, blowing on the arctic blanket, and you can be in your own cryo chamber...

I am just going to send my friend a blistering email...

I am not joking, I am so frozen cold...

EDIT: This blanket is called a cooling blanket on Amazon. This is the one my friend sent me.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Luxear-Japanese-Technology-Breathable-Children/dp/B0897G9C97
I am still too cold after this experience. I haven't warmed up yet, despite drinking a full flask of hot tea. My legs are the last to warm up...
It needs warnings not to use a fan in the room as you use this blanket...

I am going to make some tomato soup on this 28C hot summer's day, a day where I nearly got frostbite from this cooling blanket...
 
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Morning all from what is either another gorgeous warm, sunny day or testing and tiring time for much of UK Plc. Some will like it, some won't. School sports day time - do teachers bet on that? :D Very strange times as we all know the substantive outcome of G.E 24 but are tediously going through the formalities. Meanwhile one heals slowly, watches sport whilst smiling and waving at "them out there" @Annb hug for the cold but good it isn't COVID. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and behave yourself all unsupervised. @gennepher thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I'm thinking of you in that hot bungalow. @Krystyna23040 don't drive those poor souls too hard today
:D
@Lamont D I hope the test drive of the new shower is a success and pleasure. @lindisfel thoughts and prayers with you - did Marjorie watch the football last night? Now it is time for some Jarslberg and more tea here. I hope y'all find some marginal gains of your own today. Have a song and insert your own terroir.
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Thank you @ianpspurs and I shall endeavour to persevere in my unsupervised state.
 
gennepher said:
Almost impossible outside today @dunelm
I am on the swing for some fresh air for a wee bit. There was a strong sea breeze, but now the air has gone still, and stifling and unbreathable...
The reason I am still outside isI am having an interesting conversation with a magpie. He thinks I can hear him...I can't...but I think he has new babies to feed and is looking for soft food for them.
I have just told him I will open a sachet of wet cat food for him...
Bye....
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An extension cable and a fan or two by that swing and you will be all windswept.
 
Lamont D said:
slugs are giving me a hard time in my front garden.
I have no idea what to do. I watered the plants before sundown, as you should And I moved four of them and a couple of snails. Frustration setting in.
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I sprinkle my dried koffy grounds - slugs and snails don’t like it.Also handy to persuade cats that their toilet is elsewhere. You could of course get a load of chickens and ducks. Some other ideas Here.
 
gennepher said:
I have a couple of complicated sewing machines which were given me, they languish in the garage, too complicated.
I really want my old fashioned treadle back which I left behind....
I do have an old fashioned nearly two hundred years old Singer hand shuttle bobbin machine at the top of some shelves in the garage, but I cannot get it down...it was manufactured around 1851 and runs so smoothly...
Oneday I will get that down again...when I find someone to help...it was too heavy for Australian daughter to do...
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Neil bought himself a treadle Singer sewing machine - probably about 100 years old. He bought it to renovate it, but never got around to it. These were the machines we had when I was at school - much better than the later hand operated ones - once you got the rhythm of the treadle right, you had both hands free, as you do these days with the electric machines, but they were simpler and more reliable.

My mother used to make all my clothes, up to my mid teens, sewing by hand (needle and thread). What a job! I've once only made a dress, hand sewn and then I had plenty of time to do it, so could take it in easy stages. I wouldn't do it again though. Mum taught me to sew, Dad taught me to darn and my aunt taught me to knit. Knitting and darning I haven't done in years, but anyway, who darns socks these days? Dad also taught me to polish shoes as he was taught in the army - I don't do that any more either. My shoes are fabric to accommodate swollen feet and Neil's are always suede. These skills seem to have gone out of the window along with shoes that can be repaired. That's something else Dad used to do - Neil still has the cast iron last he used to use. Is last the right name for the shoe shaped thingy he had?

I'm right off the idea of sewing after the last 2 days. DIL's machine was far too complicated and I couldn't figure out how to adjust the stitch from zig-zag to straight. Luckily, the power cable fitted my newer machine so I used that but it kept breaking the thread - adjusted the tension, but that didn't help. I got as far as the very last seam and it just refused to do more than a single stitch before breaking the thread again, so I had to do that final seam by hand. The problem may be the thread I was using - it's a different one to my usual one, which I don't seem to be able to get any more. May try Amazon. I think it's OK and hope my friend will be happy with the result. Just have to press it now and she can have it.
 
Annb said:
Neil bought himself a treadle Singer sewing machine - probably about 100 years old. He bought it to renovate it, but never got around to it. These were the machines we had when I was at school - much better than the later hand operated ones - once you got the rhythm of the treadle right, you had both hands free, as you do these days with the electric machines, but they were simpler and more reliable.

My mother used to make all my clothes, up to my mid teens, sewing by hand (needle and thread). What a job! I've once only made a dress, hand sewn and then I had plenty of time to do it, so could take it in easy stages. I wouldn't do it again though. Mum taught me to sew, Dad taught me to darn and my aunt taught me to knit. Knitting and darning I haven't done in years, but anyway, who darns socks these days? Dad also taught me to polish shoes as he was taught in the army - I don't do that any more either. My shoes are fabric to accommodate swollen feet and Neil's are always suede. These skills seem to have gone out of the window along with shoes that can be repaired. That's something else Dad used to do - Neil still has the cast iron last he used to use. Is last the right name for the shoe shaped thingy he had?

I'm right off the idea of sewing after the last 2 days. DIL's machine was far too complicated and I couldn't figure out how to adjust the stitch from zig-zag to straight. Luckily, the power cable fitted my newer machine so I used that but it kept breaking the thread - adjusted the tension, but that didn't help. I got as far as the very last seam and it just refused to do more than a single stitch before breaking the thread again, so I had to do that final seam by hand. The problem may be the thread I was using - it's a different one to my usual one, which I don't seem to be able to get any more. May try Amazon. I think it's OK and hope my friend will be happy with the result. Just have to press it now and she can have it.
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After all your effort one would certainly hope your friend would be thankful but from this distance I'm fairly sure you will completely downplay all your effort. Peace be with you and thoughts with those of your family smitten with COVID.
 
Annb said:
Neil bought himself a treadle Singer sewing machine - probably about 100 years old. He bought it to renovate it, but never got around to it. These were the machines we had when I was at school - much better than the later hand operated ones - once you got the rhythm of the treadle right, you had both hands free, as you do these days with the electric machines, but they were simpler and more reliable.

My mother used to make all my clothes, up to my mid teens, sewing by hand (needle and thread). What a job! I've once only made a dress, hand sewn and then I had plenty of time to do it, so could take it in easy stages. I wouldn't do it again though. Mum taught me to sew, Dad taught me to darn and my aunt taught me to knit. Knitting and darning I haven't done in years, but anyway, who darns socks these days? Dad also taught me to polish shoes as he was taught in the army - I don't do that any more either. My shoes are fabric to accommodate swollen feet and Neil's are always suede. These skills seem to have gone out of the window along with shoes that can be repaired. That's something else Dad used to do - Neil still has the cast iron last he used to use. Is last the right name for the shoe shaped thingy he had?

I'm right off the idea of sewing after the last 2 days. DIL's machine was far too complicated and I couldn't figure out how to adjust the stitch from zig-zag to straight. Luckily, the power cable fitted my newer machine so I used that but it kept breaking the thread - adjusted the tension, but that didn't help. I got as far as the very last seam and it just refused to do more than a single stitch before breaking the thread again, so I had to do that final seam by hand. The problem may be the thread I was using - it's a different one to my usual one, which I don't seem to be able to get any more. May try Amazon. I think it's OK and hope my friend will be happy with the result. Just have to press it now and she can have it.
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At least you did not have to hand sew the entire thing, it is done and out of the way now @Annb
 
Mid Afternoon fellow posters and painters and etc’s

Blood sugars early this morning were a not so good 4.6 Remedial action had to be taken so I could get my blood sugars over 5.0 to drive.

I had and early appointment at the skin graft clinic and Mrs J can’t drive with her wrist in a splint. Low blood sugars for me, me’s and myself mean a couple ov jelly babies, 2 slices ov brown bread and jam. A result ensued. Then shopping after the clinic, then bowel cleansing koffy followed by a vegan bacon sarnie. Such is life, the universe and a smattering ov Vogon poetry.

Now tasks are calling along with Mrs J, if only I listened……..
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Forgot to post this and it’s now late afternoon or early evening ah them brain cells are awol.
 
Well that’s my first attempt at injecting myself done didn’t do to badly though didn’t quite fully depress the plunger but got most of the dose ok must do better tomorrow.
I remember some years ago well a lot of years to be honest I bought Judith a swish new sowing machine the result being a trip to the A&E with a needle transfixing her finger complete with cotton thread after that she would not go near it again so it got passed on to a friend.
 
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