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Fbg 6.3

A new page in my sketchbook...
Like yesterday's painting, this was also painted with shaving brushes.... a large one, a medium one, and a small one.. I also used a fine brush for the detail.

I was to have met my friend today, but she was worried about the weather and the storm, so she cancelled...
It has been a beautiful sunny day today... and I thought I was going to have a day to do things I wanted to do...

But the badger has been a total menace in the night. He has wrecked so much, dug so many holes (or she or them). So instead of having a lovely day to myself, I am having to repair and sort out what the badgers have done.... and they have kindly left some holes with their poo in it... I can see it is full of seeds and berries so I have no idea what is going to grow in my garden next year. That will definitely be a surprise...

I bought some bird netting for another job, nothing to do with birds by the way... which I have not had a chance to do yet. So I will be using the bird netting to try and badger proof the holes where he is digging in from the end garden... I've just had my early afternoon nap.

Hopefully this might stop his or her or their wrecking spree... the bird netting and camouflage netting will not affect the cats, they walk on both of those, but if I sprinkle stuff like Chili powder and stuff then that will affect the cats, so I am bit restricted on what I can do. But badgers do not like netting or camouflage netting at all.....

I am just going have a cup of tea and then go out.

All of this stops my sorting out my bungalow tidying and throwing out and I have no energy left to do any of that...

So much for having a lovely peaceful day today....

I cannot stop the badgers coming in, they have several points of entry, and if I try to block them, they just dig a tunnel in, mostly from the person's garden at the end of my garden. It is just impossible....

A link to my painting

www.blipfoto.com

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Lamont D said:
Just a very quick visit.
Mrs L is in hospital. I have been there since last evening.
There is a lot going on.
And despite the wait is in the best place.
I have my first counselling appointment this afternoon.
Then back up to the hospital.
Family ha e been brilliant anchor course the staff.
Best wishes.
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Hugs for you, Mrs L and the family. Make sure you look after yourself through all this.
 
Lamont D said:
Just a very quick visit.
Mrs L is in hospital. I have been there since last evening.
There is a lot going on.
And despite the wait is in the best place.
I have my first counselling appointment this afternoon.
Then back up to the hospital.
Family ha e been brilliant anchor course the staff.
Best wishes.
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Hugs for you both for everything that is going on @Lamont D
 
gennepher said:
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Fbg 6.3

A new page in my sketchbook...
Like yesterday's painting, this was also painted with shaving brushes.... a large one, a medium one, and a small one.. I also used a fine brush for the detail.

I was to have met my friend today, but she was worried about the weather and the storm, so she cancelled...
It has been a beautiful sunny day today... and I thought I was going to have a day to do things I wanted to do...

But the badger has been a total menace in the night. He has wrecked so much, dug so many holes (or she or them). So instead of having a lovely day to myself, I am having to repair and sort out what the badgers have done.... and they have kindly left some holes with their poo in it... I can see it is full of seeds and berries so I have no idea what is going to grow in my garden next year. That will definitely be a surprise...

I bought some bird netting for another job, nothing to do with birds by the way... which I have not had a chance to do yet. So I will be using the bird netting to try and badger proof the holes where he is digging in from the end garden... I've just had my early afternoon nap.

Hopefully this might stop his or her or their wrecking spree... the bird netting and camouflage netting will not affect the cats, they walk on both of those, but if I sprinkle stuff like Chili powder and stuff then that will affect the cats, so I am bit restricted on what I can do. But badgers do not like netting or camouflage netting at all.....

I am just going have a cup of tea and then go out.

All of this stops my sorting out my bungalow tidying and throwing out and I have no energy left to do any of that...

So much for having a lovely peaceful day today....

I cannot stop the badgers coming in, they have several points of entry, and if I try to block them, they just dig a tunnel in, mostly from the person's garden at the end of my garden. It is just impossible....

A link to my painting

www.blipfoto.com

A new page in my sketchbook | gennepher

All Rights Reserved ©️ gennepher 2025 >^..^< A new page in my sketchbook... Like yesterday's painting, this was also painted...
www.blipfoto.com
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Thank you for sharing the wonderful painting. Those badgers are a real nuisance but at least they aren't attacking you - they are quite vicious and not especially worried by humans.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you for sharing the wonderful painting. Those badgers are a real nuisance but at least they aren't attacking you - they are quite vicious and not especially worried by humans.
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Thank you for the compliment Ian.

It does get very dispiriting at times with those badgers, and I am feeling that way at the moment @ianpspurs

I haven't finished quite what I wanted to do tonight because it started raining on me... so I will be up early to put the recycling out, because apparently it's windy in the night so I won't put it out till the morning, and I will make an early start on the garden and hope the badgers haven't done any more misbehaving...

They are not dangerous to me or the cats... they are just very naughty children....
 
gennepher said:
Good morning @LouT

I take 500mg Metformin in the morning and 500mg in the evening. I am not sure what advice I can offer. Are you taking the metformin with food?
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Hi,I was told to start with 500mg in the morning and then a week later up it to 500mg morning and evening, so hopefully that might help from Saturday when it goes up
Yes I’m taking it with food
 
Annb said:
Does the Metformin have to be with your breakfast? Perhaps with your last meal of the day would work better for you. I don't know if that is possible, but your diabetes practitioner should be able to advise you on that.
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I was told to start with 500mg in the morning and then after a week up it to 500mg morning and 500mg in the evening
I’m seeing the nurse at the GP on 30th which will be just short of 2 weeks since I start Matformin so hopefully I’ll see some difference with over night by then
 
My 2 replacement Libre sensors haven't arrived yet from Abbott so am still depending on the fingerprick testing. Unfortunately my Accuchek monitor's battery gave up this morning so I didn't get a reading at 03.20. I finally got around to sorting out a new battery for it (luckily had one the right size) about 05.30. Reading at that point was 8.9.

Ready for my 3rd cup of tea now and am feeling very hungry, but it is too early to eat. Very stiff and sore this morning too. Just unwound my bandages and getting ready for my shower. After that I can eat.
 
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gennepher said:
The only thing I can think of is an extending cat lead

But to get her over the road first, you need a cat basket and there are plenty that are just soft material which you could easily carry her to a field. But then she will still need to be on an extending cat lead. You couldn't let her run free, not with a busy road in between @SlimLizzy
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23.10
7.10am FBG 5.7
It is several hundred metres to the nearest quiet park, perhaps as much as half a kilometre. And all of it along this very busy road. I think she would panic when the first car went past, or we met another person and there are many huge lorries and agricultural vehicles that use
this road. ... it's extremely noisy. Much more so than we expected from the time spent observing it before we agreed to buy the house. Plus I have spent time teaching her the road is dangerous. ...
Perhaps the other direction would be better. Less traffic for sure after the first stretch. But not such a nice place for her to walk either... Dogs are not allowed in the cemetery, maybe that applies to cats as well. I will investigate further today.
8.05am FBG 6.7 DP is alive and well once more. It seems if FBG is a bit high, it will usually drop after an hour, but the reverse if it is a lower reading. Not sure what to do about it.

Edited to add. Kiki is now quiet in her cat carrier while in the car, perhaps I could drive her somewhere for exercise?
 
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Good afternoon all. fbs this morning was 12.4. I started with a really painful throat during the night on Tuesday and have since developed a nasty cold so I'm blaming that for my high levels. It would happen right in the midst of my 4x/day monitoring for my GP! Best wishes to all who are struggling at the moment.
 
Afternoon everyone. No fbg here as the sensor sits all boxed up on my bedside. I sense there are some members, new and long standing (you can sit down now), finding life something other than a bed of roses - odd phrase as who wants thorns up their fundament? I wanted to share a song John Green (sadly missed here) shared with me. It seems to me to encapsulate John both in attitude and faith even in the darkest times. Some text is overtly Christian but ignore that if you feel more comfortable and concentrate on the secular message. As my 4 year old grandson told me recently, never mind granddad, you're still alive - he's quite the philosopher :D
 
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My sensors arrived in the post today and the first one is working. I knew BG was high anyway and it reckons 10.1 which is in total agreement with the fingerprick test.

My dental plate, which I had repaired a few weeks ago has broken again. I knew it was going because it cracked again in the same place as before. I told the dentist when I went for another impression for my new one and she said that it wasn't unusual. Great! I've tried to stick it together with superglue and am leaving it to set properly before I try to use it again. I told the dentist that another dentist, years ago, told me that he would hate to have to make false teeth for my father because he had such an awkward jaw. Maybe I'm the same? She agreed that I am. Ah well, maybe as well as the bad things, (Rh negative blood, green eyes, soft nails, etc) I have inherited his longevity, with any luck. He made it to 93 and his mother made it to 97.
 
ianpspurs said:
Afternoon everyone. No fbg here as the sensor sits all boxed up on my bedside. I sense there are some members, new and long standing (you can sit down now), finding life something other than a bed of roses - odd phrase as who wants thorns up their fundament? I wanted to share a song John Green (sadly missed here) shared with me. It seems to me to encapsulate John both in attitude and faith even in the darkest times. The text is overtly Christian but ignore that if you feel more comfortable and concentrate on the secular message. As my 4 year old grandson told me recently, never mind granddad, you're still alive - he's quite the philosopher :D
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Reminds me of when the 3 year-old me climbed onto my distressed mother's lap having watched my brother being carried out of the house on a stretcher (didn't understand about polio and such like at the time). "Never mind, Mum. You still have me." It didn't comfort her one bit. "Well," I thought. "I'm obviously not good enough to make up for losing Michael."

We didn't lose him - he survived. Really my mother's distress was fear. He had succumbed and so might I have done. In fact, it seems that I did have polio but had toughed it out without medical help. However, that feeling of inadequacy stayed with me for most of my childhood and adult life.
 
Good evening fellow poster and painters.
On the painting note.
Mrs’J’s next painting is coming along nicely.
Now my blood sugars and insulin levels are controlled by the hospital and not to my liking, because they want me running high, under their treatment insulin doses in the morning my readings can be anywhere between 7.5 and 12. I can’t argue with them……..at the moment!

Have a pleasant evening everyone.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good evening fellow poster and painters.
On the painting note.
Mrs’J’s next painting is coming along nicely.
Now my blood sugars and insulin levels are controlled by the hospital and not to my liking, because they want me running high, under their treatment insulin doses in the morning my readings can be anywhere between 7.5 and 12. I can’t argue with them……..at the moment!

Have a pleasant evening everyone.
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I look forward to seeing Mrs J's painting @alf_Josiah
Hugs for you over the higher readings...
 
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Fbg 6.1

Painted in acrylics

Loads of rain today and it was just a little bit windy...

Night night from me
Sweet dreams...

Link for the painting
www.blipfoto.com

The next page in my sketchbook... | gennepher

All Rights Reserved ©️ gennepher 2025 >^..^< Painted in acrylics Loads of rain today and it was just a little bit windy... Night...
www.blipfoto.com
 
gennepher said:
All Rights Reserved ©️ gennepher 2025 >^..^<

Fbg 6.1

Painted in acrylics

Loads of rain today and it was just a little bit windy...

Night night from me
Sweet dreams...

Link for the painting
www.blipfoto.com

The next page in my sketchbook... | gennepher

All Rights Reserved ©️ gennepher 2025 >^..^< Painted in acrylics Loads of rain today and it was just a little bit windy... Night...
www.blipfoto.com
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Gennepher. That is a fantastic book of sketches you have there. A real treasury.
 
8.1 at 05.20 today. Late to bed (with a late dose of painkillers), so late up. Really rickety by the time I did get up though so getting through to the kitchen was a struggle. Made it, of course. Fuss over nothing really.

BG up to 8.8 after a cup of tea (and another off-and-on doze) and just had a few tiny crackers with cheese and some yoghurt. Tiny amount of insulin to deal with that so we'll see how we get on.

I'm getting to that age where friends disappear from time to time. This week has been a bad one - two good friends, both younger than me, have passed on, devastating their families because their decline was rapid and not expected. From all these miles away, the only thing I can do is pray for them. There are others I worry about because I haven't heard anything from them in some time. However, on the brighter side, one friend - much older than me - got back in touch last week after a long break (a friend of a friend of his son jogged his memory for me).

Alistair finally got his result from the hospital. Sadly, it is not something that can be fixed. The only thing that would fix it is surgery but surgery would be too dangerous and the doctors won't contemplate it. He's now looking at medical retirement. On the lighter side - he told his office manager of the result, commenting that he was glad to find that he wasn't indispensable at work. The manager shook his head and showed him some normally private data on the performance of the office. Since Alistair went off, performance figures have dropped dramatically and two people who had been put onto his routes to cover his absence, have one after the other, resigned due to the difficulty of the job. Not good for the office, of course, but kind of gratifying.
 
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