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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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dunelm
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Good morning everyone on a propellers in a clear blue sky morning here in the dark and dangerous north with promises of ten whole degrees of what hopefully will be in centigrade. A flat footed 6.0 this a.m. I am hanging all the blame upon several false starts to my endocrine system due to Olympic starting gun misfires in the 10m bathroom dash throughout the night. Lack of light always scares the life out of my toes and knees. Bins have already been emptied and two cavalcades of orange clad persons have danced gaily down to road without a care in the world, enjoying the bone warming heat of an unexpected summers day. Out to lunch today with some of Mrs Miggins’ siblings and a couple of carers. It will be like a gathering of characters from Tom Sharpe novels. Art bit - just having fun with pigment powders. Hope your day goes well, I am already enjoying the luxury of koffy and the wonderful silence of a quiet room, watching birds hopping about in the sunshine on the recently cut lawn in search of the odd worm at tell tale worm casts.
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dunelm
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Wonderful effects and thanks for sharing the method - wonder where Mrs Miggins keeps her hair dryer
Similar here.
Have a lovely elderly gentleman customer.
Looks after his sister, bedridden, in pain, repeated hospital trips don't seem to have made any inroads as to why or how to treat .
Poo chaos exhausted, and in shouldn't be looking after anyone but should be GETTING looked after himself.
Such a cruel world that finds it far too easy to rely on the endless goodwill of those close by, even when they've all but run out of stamina ....so sad
Have a lovely elderly gentleman customer.
Looks after his sister, bedridden, in pain, repeated hospital trips don't seem to have made any inroads as to why or how to treat .
Poo chaos exhausted, and in shouldn't be looking after anyone but should be GETTING looked after himself.
Such a cruel world that finds it far too easy to rely on the endless goodwill of those close by, even when they've all but run out of stamina ....so sad
Winner for the day ahead & art
Hug for the above average bloods & shadow boxing your way to the toilet
Have a good un.
gennepher
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No, he wouldn't @dunelm
I have said something similar to my friend, But she says she has to cope with the verbal abuse from her husband when she returns. And she cannot face that. So she does not go out at all apart from to the shops once a week for food. And about once a month she meet me for a meal, and we talk for about an hour and a half. The rest of the time she is at his beck and call. This has been going on for very very long time, many years and I think she is approaching breaking point now.
She does have her own TV in another room, but Mr Beck & Call is calling her every few minutes because he has dropped something, or dropped the remote, or dropped a sweet, or even wants to know where she is in the flat. He has one of those picker upper things, but won't use it...
Like you say, but not in so many words, she needs to be firmer with him. (I have said all this in the past) He will not even let her watch a complete tv program in peace without calling her several times for inconsequential things.
That is an idea about that headset...I'll look into that...she might be getting an early birthday present from me...she would never buy one herself....
I need to try and 'train' her, to ignore him for, perhaps for an hour at a time, but telling him each time what she is doing and why, the length of time, and put the headphones on. His health is not at risk for that length of time or even a lot longer.
Thanks...
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gennepher
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Mrs Miggins is guarding that hair drier zealously....Wonderful effects and thanks for sharing the method - wonder where Mrs Miggins keeps her hair dryer
Thanks!
ianpspurs
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@gennepher and @dunelm thank you for sharing yet more of your highly skilled art, letting us -well this philistine at least - in on the equivalent of the secrets of the magic circle. Not that many years ago I would never have looked at some of the pieces you share. Very much my fault - and loss - not yours. @gennepher hug for the tiredness and taking on some of the worry/stress of your friend's situation. @dunelm hug for #comfortbreakgate but have a wonderful meal. @jjraak your concern for your customer does you great credit. Successive administrations have kicked social care into the long grass and since 2010 one in particular deliberately starved local authorities of funding. National insurance cuts and tax cuts for the "caked" need to be funded somehow and Genn's friend's husband and that man's wife ain't going to vote or complain. There is a generation that just grin and bear absolute pooh partly because it was even worse back in the day and partly through pride.
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dunelm
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Thank you @gennepher
dunelm
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Thank you @ianpspurs
ianpspurs
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I was looking for opinions/comparative warmth of aspirational gilets because country people do that, innit. Hereabouts Schöffel are the brand of choice but Rohan is a brand I like and if @Krystyna23040 is a fan one can only be swayed by such impeccable taste. The attached made me chuckle with recognition of the very people gently but perfectly pilloried. Scale acres down by maybe a factor of 100 for horses and they'll also all be walking around Newmarket when we go for our jabs shortly 
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Lamont D
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7.0 this dry day but cloudy with meatballs, no coolness, the sun came out for a while but short lived.
Having a relax day, catching up with stuff.
Beck and call, is something that you place yourself into.
Because you care, because you fear harm, you just can't ignore, in case........
You are loyal, it could get worse if I don't, the anxiety if I ignore.
I have an anxiety, when I go out, that something dreadful will happen cos I'm not there.
And the reverse was true as well during covid and after. I would only reluctantly go out, even tho it was essential I did.
Shopping I hate (with a passion) and there was only myself that could do it.
I know it sounds daft and mad, but you do sometimes feel a benefit from being there. Helping someone less able or unfortunate can be fulfilling.
And some like housework, cleaning etc.
I dont, but being tidy is my training in my work life. Can't abide things just left there.
Mad I know.
Having a relax day, catching up with stuff.
Beck and call, is something that you place yourself into.
Because you care, because you fear harm, you just can't ignore, in case........
You are loyal, it could get worse if I don't, the anxiety if I ignore.
I have an anxiety, when I go out, that something dreadful will happen cos I'm not there.
And the reverse was true as well during covid and after. I would only reluctantly go out, even tho it was essential I did.
Shopping I hate (with a passion) and there was only myself that could do it.
I know it sounds daft and mad, but you do sometimes feel a benefit from being there. Helping someone less able or unfortunate can be fulfilling.
And some like housework, cleaning etc.
I dont, but being tidy is my training in my work life. Can't abide things just left there.
Mad I know.
dunelm
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Hm. I like Rohan. I like the travel suit and shirts that I bought and of course my raincoat, casual jacket and other items - walking stuff. It endures. A gilet mind, not sure. I have two - not Rohan. But, whatever floats your boat - try before your buy.I was looking for opinions/comparative warmth of aspirational gilets because country people do that, innit. Hereabouts Schoffel are the brand of choice but Rohan is a brand I like and if @Krystyna23040 is a fan one can only be swayed by such impeccable taste. The attached made me chuckle with recognition of the very people gently but perfectly pilloried. Scale acres down by maybe a factor of 100 for horses and they'll also all be walking around Newmarket when we go for our jabs shortly
ianpspurs
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Probably teaching Granny to suck eggs but nonetheless worth sharing IMHO.
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Late afternoon or early evening. Take your pick, said Michael Miles.
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Life, the universe and a few other things got in my way today.
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A 5.6 this morning.
Life, the universe and a few other things got in my way today.
Have a pleasant evening, this is of course dependent on your longitude. If yours is different have a pleasant, which ever it is.
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You have obviously got very good taste @ianpspurs. Rohan is a very good brand.I was looking for opinions/comparative warmth of aspirational gilets because country people do that, innit. Hereabouts Schöffel are the brand of choice but Rohan is a brand I like and if @Krystyna23040 is a fan one can only be swayed by such impeccable taste. The attached made me chuckle with recognition of the very people gently but perfectly pilloried. Scale acres down by maybe a factor of 100 for horses and they'll also all be walking around Newmarket when we go for our jabs shortly
