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

[Lamont D]

I sincerely hope that family step up to the mark and give you what I think is some badly needed support.

thanks @dunelm,
Most already have.

 

[Lamont D]

Lots of hugs for you @Lamont D
I hope you get the help you need so badly....

thanks @gennepher.

 

[SlimLizzy]

WD40 for all manner of squeaks. Mr Slim sounds like my dad when it comes to books. Over the past month my mum as re-homed over 2,000 books and a similar number of CD’s as well as 3,000 vinyl records and who knows how many tapes. Luckily there is a book exchange nearby run by an English couple who have taken most.

Don't think WD40 will do it this time @dunelm i think the glass is scraping along the stone wall. Horrible noise. So it is to be left open until MrSlim can fix it.
We both had huge book collections when we met, but they have been gradually whittled down every time we move. nine or ten moves so far, unless I miscounted, when it will be more.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Really good to hear that you have possibly found a good cattery @SlimLizzy

Sadly it is full as are the other two I tried.

 

[ianpspurs]

@gennepher and @dunelm I wasn’t being facetious when I said I felt I almost had a sense missing which limits my full appreciation of your or any art. Looking at the sky or stars doesn’t do much if anything for me. Flowers and wildlife mostly have a similar failure to reach my affective domain. I do appreciate the graceful movement of the sleek horses in Newmarket, similarly our dogs running full tilt. Music, words and ideas do strongly resonate with me. Can be an absolute nightmare when JKP asks me what I think about clothes and when the subject of decoration comes up. My preference for wall colour is white if they can’t all be bare brick or wood, I don't like carpet. For choice I would only have grass and some raised vegetable beds in a garden. I may be a lost cause but in my defence I was a very premature baby so there was some development left.

 

[Annb]

November 5th will soon be here. An auspicious day. A day that will probably shape the future of a nation and, more personally, 55 years since my last baby was born (Alistair). He doesn't like bonfires or fireworks either and would definitely prefer that nobody would bother to remember his birthday. Very self-effacing is our Alistair.

 

[ianpspurs]

November 5th will soon be here. An auspicious day. A day that will probably shape the future of a nation and, more personally, 55 years since my last baby was born (Alistair). He doesn't like bonfires or fireworks either and would definitely prefer that nobody would bother to remember his birthday. Very self-effacing is our Alistair.

Happy birthday for tomorrow Alistair and of course you will remember his birthday.

 

[Lamont D]

Happy birthday to Alistair.
Cake or toffee apples?

 

[Annb]

Happy birthday for tomorrow Alistair and of course you will remember his birthday.

Thanks Ian. How could I forget? We have a kind of ritual these days. When my birthday is due I tell both boys not to mark it. Neil just goes ahead and gives me an "educational" gift (a deep tome on some subject I may have talked to him about in the past or a CD of some classical or ethnic music he thinks I should enjoy). Alistair turns up a day after my birthday with a gift that he "just happened" to see and thought I would like. Definitely not a birthday present. Alistair always says he doesn't want anyone to give him gifts on his birthday and would prefer that nobody took any notice of it. These days I only give him money because I have no idea what he would like so ask him to buy something that he does want. I think he just adds it to the general housekeeping, but I'm not sure. I do the same for Neil but that is the only way he will agree to any marking of his birthday - no cards, no special meal; nothing. I don't know where we get this from - maybe it was Tom's influence. He had never celebrated a birthday until his 29th one, his first one after we were engaged, when my mother gave him a present but he could never understand what that was all about. Scottish Presbyterians!

 

[Annb]

Happy birthday to Alistair.
Cake or toffee apples?

Neither, I'm afraid.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Sadly it is full as are the other two I tried.

Oh no @SlimLizzy

 

[LivingLightly]

Since I found the names Jack and kit wright Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy and Francis Tresham in the old family tree I don’t celebrate Guy Falks night just wouldn’t seem right somehow.
And anyway I have known too many people who have been injured by idiots throwing fireworks around including the 12 year old brother of a friend of mine who was blinded for life by a paint can thrown on a bonfire exploding I think it’s crazy to put pyrotechnics in the hands people who just are too irresponsible to have them never mind the poor animals that it harms.

I do agree @JohnEGreen. We don't celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. I've seen too many life-changing injuries caused by dangerous fireworks in the wrong hands.

By imposing a strict ban on private firework sales, we could limit these incendiary devices to organised displays on specific dates in the calendar such as 5th November and New Year's Eve. Currently, the November noise nuisance lasts up to a fortnight causing distress to farm animals, pets and wildlife.


Monday's FBG 4.9 mmol/l on waking at 6.00 am.

 

[SlimLizzy]

Oh no @SlimLizzy

Kiki has to have booster vaccination, arranging this has messed up my appts this week. Going to the wednesday market town on tuesday and the tuesday market town on wednesday. No markets for me this week. There is a chance the vet might be able to suggest a carer.

 

[JohnEGreen]

@Annb A happy birthday to Alistair
Or Là breith sona dhuit (not sure if that’s correct) from someone who could be a very very distant cousin as we do seem to have some convergence in our family trees

 

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg 5.8 this morning.

 

[SlimLizzy]

05.11
8.30am FBG 4.5
Another dull, grey and misty day. The mower is still stuck in the hedge, did leave a message for the neighbour, but no response. Now what?
It's going to be difficult to shift it on my own. Perhaps if I dig out under the back wheel and insert planks, in front and behind the wheel, would that do it? Looks as if i am on my own here, no other friends live near and there is the embarrassment factor to consider, if I ask my French neighbours for help. How far would the story of the englishwoman who got her mower stuck in a hedge spread? It's going to be a very messy job. Have not told MrSlim yet. He is returning on 19th for a few days. Really can't leave it until then!!!
Yesterday evening was sorting books and noticed a twinge in one shoulder, took me a while to realise I had probably strained it trying to lift the mower. Now
need to remember to do the exercises so that it doesn't develop into frozen shoulder. Read somewhere that Frozen shoulder is so common in people with Diabetes that it has been suggested that when Doctors diagnose a patient with Frozen Shoulder, they should also automatically test for Diabetes.
Was so good to have the warmth from the fire last night.

 

[dunelm]

November 5th will soon be here. An auspicious day. A day that will probably shape the future of a nation and, more personally, 55 years since my last baby was born (Alistair). He doesn't like bonfires or fireworks either and would definitely prefer that nobody would bother to remember his birthday. Very self-effacing is our Alistair.

And here we are. Bated breath time for the future of not just one nation. I am not bothered about my own birthday either but it is always nice when people remember and give me a hug. So happy birthday to Alistair and hope he gets a hug or two.

 

[dunelm]

05.11
8.30am FBG 4.5
Another dull, grey and misty day. The mower is still stuck in the hedge, did leave a message for the neighbour, but no response. Now what?
It's going to be difficult to shift it on my own. Perhaps if I dig out under the back wheel and insert planks, in front and behind the wheel, would that do it? Looks as if i am on my own here, no other friends live near and there is the embarrassment factor to consider, if I ask my French neighbours for help. How far would the story of the englishwoman who got her mower stuck in a hedge spread? It's going to be a very messy job. Have not told MrSlim yet. He is returning on 19th for a few days. Really can't leave it until then!!!
Yesterday evening was sorting books and noticed a twinge in one shoulder, took me a while to realise I had probably strained it trying to lift the mower. Now
need to remember to do the exercises so that it doesn't develop into frozen shoulder. Read somewhere that Frozen shoulder is so common in people with Diabetes that it has been suggested that when Doctors diagnose a patient as
having Frozen Shoulder, they should also automatically test for Diabetes.
Was so good to have the warmth from the fire last night.

Oh what a palaver - I wonder if you could get a lever under it and fashion a lever and fulcrum - it might lift it and be less of a strain for you.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from another grey start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Mainly unsupervised yesterday as Mrs Miggins meets up with old school pals for a natter on Monday mornings. She then has picking up The Girl In The Bubble (GITB) from school at 3 and then stays over to take her to school on a Tuesday morning - mum and dad leave for work quite early and it’s a good arrangement. Son in Law’s grandparents also help of course on other days of the week. GITB will be 5 in a couple of weeks so there will be a gathering together of the grandchildren and other miniature humans I expect. Art bit - doodle, doodle - here you go. Hope your day goes as well as can be expected. We will have a walk through the woods in a while. But first, some koffy.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Kiki has to have booster vaccination, arranging this has messed up my appts this week. Going to the wednesday market town on tuesday and the tuesday market town on wednesday. No markets for me this week. There is a chance the vet might be able to suggest a carer.

I do hope so @SlimLizzy