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  1. nomoredonuts

    I made gold from used test-strips!

    With plenty of time on my hands this week I tried something I read about - getting tiny quantities of gold from old mobile phones. A few attempts ( more error than trial), I ended up with a tiny dot of possibly good quality gold. Enough for a stud or a small tooth cap? I won't give the exact...
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    Jukebox for International Women's Day

    OK. With an extremely small amount of thought I propose a quick game. Give a song with a woman's name in the title (plus the artist if you know it). Let's try to do 100 songs in record time! Just one at a time please. Number one on the jukebox is: Oh Carol! Neil Sedaka
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    Bowels

    PARENTAL ADVISORY: There's nothing like a good chat about bowels. For the odd one or two of you that find the subject uncomfortable, you may need to close one eye. Following at least six months with a runnyish tum, I went to the GP who did the "brace yourself" exam before booking me in for a...
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    For mash, get Smash

    I've had a quick trawl through the Search pages, but can't find any information more recent than a couple of years ago. I have tried the resistant starch approach with regard to eating microwaved or re-cooked yesterdays mashed potato - (think Bubble-and-Squeak). So I woke up today with that 80's...
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    Quickie question and answer...

    Question really for SD Codefree users (or any related systems). Some time back I thought the spring in the stabber/lancet assembly was weakening. I couldn't get a new one from Home Health so I replaced the whole kit. Now I find the spring won't release and I'm facing replacing the kit, monitor...
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    You can't always believe what you read.

    I thought of calling this Fake News, but I want to avoid any references to he-who-shall-not-be-named... And by way of a disclaimer, I don't want this too taken mega-seriously, but I'd settle for any newbies who read it and realise that unexpected BG readings do occur. Us old hands ( and fingers)...
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    Pickle Juice. The new best thing.

    It's probably a bit early to start the silly season, but this story is now doing the rounds. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318618.php Has anyone read this or come across the idea? Or is it just a variant on the largely debunked Apple Cider Vinegar "cure" for high BG?
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    You are 20 times more likely to have an amputation...

    ...than someone who doesn't have diabetes. This was was the gist of an article in today's Guardian and a statistic which caused me to spray coffee and cream over my keyboard. The whole tenor of the piece seemed design to shock and I have to wonder about the facts behind it. 26,000 limbs removed...
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    Nanny state

    Seen in Morrison's. Other supermarkets are no better.
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    Steroid Abuse?

    So... I went to the doctor this week, with a droopy cheek, dribbly mouth and a non-blinking right eye. As it was a slowish onset I didn't think I'd had a stroke and was duly started treatment for Bell's Palsy. A quick trawl round the boards here shows that many of us have suffered this and in...
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    Blue flashing lights...

    Breakfast was two coffees with cream, and I drove to the shops intending to eat my first food around 11:30-12:00. I started to feel dizzy, then hot but didn't worry unduly. However I barely made it to the carpark as the world started spinning. Really badly. Closing my eyes didn't really help. I...
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    Buona sera from Italy.

    Hello dear friends. I’ve been fairly lax in posting while I’m enjoying a Roman Holiday. Drove down from Pisa and Florence to Rome last week. It was there that my my trusty SD Codefree died on me. I went to the back up battery only to find that had also expired. Nothing to do but visit a chemist...
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    14.5 To Go With Man Flu!

    So I abandoned the balmy Dorset coast to venture north to Bedford for a spell of dog-sitting for my sister. I came home with a hacking cough and near life-threatening man-flu! Sipping Benny-Lynne seemed to soothe the symptoms. Then by chance, I did a routine early evening test to find a record...
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    Just - One - Cor-net-to!!

    I'm going to be pootling the length of Italy this September, and I'm wondering if any members have any experience (or advice) of what is possible to find to fuel long days of sight-seeing. I understand that "normal" breakfast is a coffee with a dunked cornetto - not that ice-cream, but rather a...
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    Nobody?

    Just logged on to see what the reaction to tonight's Channel 4 News bombshell was. The trailer said that Type 2 diabetes could be reversed and maintained by losing weight. I couldn't watch at 7pm, so I missed this this life-changing news item. Anybody see it?
  16. nomoredonuts

    Hot Soup weather?

    There's a definite nip in the air nowadays. Even down here on the south coast where Christmas comes with the first daffodils... We made a batch of vegetable soup with whatever was to hand: two carrots, onion, celery, rasher of bacon and flageolet beans for extra flavour. Threw in a solitary spud...
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    Don't you just love holidays?

    Bacon and avocado for brekky. Quite drive down the coast to a nice beach. Booked a beach-side table for 2pm, swam, toasted myself then forced down some sardines, grilled squid and a good chunk of hake. And a bottle of rosé. More swimming after and a post-lunch reading of 5.3. Nothing...
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    Snacks on the go.

    Bit of a slow week on the threads, so I'm calling out to all and sundry for some ideas for snacks for a long road trip. (Obviously this is just a thinly disguised way to announce I'm having another holiday - but bear with me). I've got two days drive down to Spain,then a bit of a pootle round...
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    Even more things that raise your BG reading...

    Who'd have thought that seeing whales could be bad for your sugar? Not the island tacked onto the side of England but the biggest creatures ever to live on Earth, swimming free and just a few yards away. And while I think about it, volcanoes are pretty dangerous and cause raised sugar levels...
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    Losing too much weight on LCHF?

    I realise that not everyone is in this position, but I would welcome comments and personal experience. Quick bit of background that isn't covered in my signature: following my initial desirable weight loss which went hand-in-hand with lowering of BG, BP and cholesterol, I started on four months...