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

Krystyna23040 said:
Hope your test strips arrive soon.
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Thank you. However, testing seems only to give me a (very) rough of idea of the what with absolutely no clue as to the why or how to improve. I once went 6 months with no testing - carried on eating and exercising the same way - slightly better A1c than with rigorous testing regimes either side. I have added make a to do list to my imaginary to do list. I need a target and meaningless slogan. Get to do done or make Ian great again may do the job. Will your list be at scale/ramped up to 100.000 items by the end of next month? - unprecedented :angelic:
 
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Good afternoon from a very busy mornings gardening in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of fruits de mer and a rock and roll home made sriracha sauce came in at 4.3 this am.

Not a lot going on today; tending to seedlings, rinsing sprouting lentils and talking nicely to the very poorly kefir. So, deckchair out and some reading in the garden.

Interesting read here about detergents and UV lights:
https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b
 
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
A bit of a disaster yesterday, I overdid the insulin dose and consequently had a few problems yesterday....all day, I was a lot more careful this morning.

Yes I did take a reading, in fact two, but they are not representative of how things really are, hence they are for me to know.

Well folks below is a picture I took this morning with a little clue as how I hoped today would be spent, but the best laid plans etc.
A little sad news my motorbike has filed divorce papers citing my secateurs, unfortunately I must confess I have no grounds to contest the petition.received_274924440194017.jpeg
Enough of my tribulations have a great day.
Stay well, stay safe and stay at home.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you. However, testing seems only to give me a (very) rough of idea of the what with absolutely no clue as to the why or how to improve. I once went 6 months with no testing - carried on eating and exercising the same way - slightly better A1c than with rigorous testing regimes either side. I have added make a to do list to my imaginary to do list. I need a target and meaningless slogan. Get to do done or make Ian great again may do the job. Will your list be at scale/ramped up to 100.000 items by the end of next month? - unprecedented :angelic:
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I think I may need a two year lockdown to get everything done on my rapidly expanding 'to do list'.
I like your slogan 'make Ian great again' - it just might do the trick.

Mr K is always hopeful that I might adopt the slogan 'make Krystyna tidy'. I have tried but it hasn't worked yet.
 
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My painting for today, for my painting a day challenge to myself...

A pastel painting of a sky...and outlines of trees...

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EDIT...just to say looking at the small phone screen, it makes the colours look far too intense, but a tablet iPad sized (or larger screen) will probably show the more true colours of the pastel paintings.
 
alf_Josiah said:
A little sad news my motorbike has filed divorce papers citing my secateurs, unfortunately I must confess I have no grounds to contest the petition.
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Sorry to hear the tale off yesterday Alf
Does seem a challenge for some to balance the ying and Yang of highs versus lows.

And have to offer sympathy for the divorce, sad to think across the land, disgruntled bikes
Are gnashing and a wailing how they have been abandoned.

Going to be a lot of wooing going on once this is over to get those relationships back on track.

I predict a rise in plug n oil sales as the courtship season kicks into to gear

Hope some mediation. Puts yours back on the right road.. Can be heartbreaking if it does breakdown.
Sadly the only bright spot is we do tend to then get full custody of our wallets, back

for what that's worth if your broken hearted..
Not to mentiont that kick in the stomach moment when you think you catch a
glimpse of them with another..

Stay strong.
Try to keep it all together.
Sure that spark is still there
If you both want it.
 
SlimLizzy said:
26-04-20
Woke well before 6am again, no urgency to leave the bed, went back to sleep.
Could feel DP on second waking.
7.05am FBG 5.3
Today's TO DO list and meals are expected to be the same as yesterday's. Hoping to cross some off today though.
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Nice figs, @SlimLizzy .
How is Mr slim.
Has he now departed for the UK.?
How are you finding things..
I guess you must be busy,
I hope you pace yourself.

The life sounds idyllic, but I guess even paradise would have it's down sides.

Stay well
Take care.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
A bit of a disaster yesterday, I overdid the insulin dose and consequently had a few problems yesterday....all day, I was a lot more careful this morning.

Yes I did take a reading, in fact two, but they are not representative of how things really are, hence they are for me to know.

Well folks below is a picture I took this morning with a little clue as how I hoped today would be spent, but the best laid plans etc.
A little sad news my motorbike has filed divorce papers citing my secateurs, unfortunately I must confess I have no grounds to contest the petition.View attachment 40785
Enough of my tribulations have a great day.
Stay well, stay safe and stay at home.
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My bike is now having a long love affair with the optimate that it grew quite attached to during the winter months.
 
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To this thread, 1 year and 2 days old (sorry honey, daddy was away. I'll make it up :bag:)

Yep, 6.2 this morning :angelic:
 
jjraak said:
Nice figs, @SlimLizzy .
How is Mr slim.
Has he now departed for the UK.?
How are you finding things..
I guess you must be busy,
I hope you pace yourself.

The life sounds idyllic, but I guess even paradise would have it's down sides.

Stay well
Take care.
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MrSlim tells me he is well. Finding his feet in the new job.
He left early last Monday, so it will be a week tomorrow.
A lot of things are lost, or misplaced, we had such short notice there wasn't time to put everything away, although he did manage to sort out some jobs for me. The TO DO list grows ever longer, even though I work at reducing it. Sometimes one job completed creates another.
Have been cutting the hedge. It's a job I dislike and takes at least two days. Am working on the principle of the longer it's left the worse it will be to do. There is approx 25 metres left to cut still. It didn't seem right to carry on beyond lunch time, on a sunday, am just hoping the promised rain will hold off until i have finished it.
Am deliberately keeping busy, time to mope would not be useful to anyone.
Thanks for checking up on me.
 
good afternoon all :)

4.2 today

Sunday lunch at mum's today, baked chicken and veggies in a cheese and cream sauce followed by the tiramisu.

We got up this morning to an overcast sky with a bit of mist in the distance, finished lunch preparation in the sunshine streaming through the kitchen window, ate lunch to the patter of raindrops and drove home mid afternoon past the snow/hail drifts from a heavy shower we could see rolling across in the distance :confused: It's 10'C outside currently so we've had an eclectic selection of meteorology today ;):hilarious:

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)
@Alien Aspie welcome back :happy:
@gennepher your pastels are producing some interesting pieces of art, very different to your digital art, I'm enjoying both :)
@Muddy Cyclist the change from Tuscany cannot be considered a loss if your new series gives us work like this. What wonderful colour and light :joyful:

thanks to both of you for sharing and bringing so much inspiration :)

I have bought some new paints :sorry: I already have a Winsor and Newton student sketch box (40 plus years old, 12 unidentified colours including the fugitive blue), a Daler Rowney student travel set (with 24 colours), and the Kuretake paints which are more opaque than traditional Brit. watercolour paints.
Both the Winsor and Newton and the Daler Rowney are in very small pans because they are sketch/travel sets so I've taken the plunge and bought some St. Petersburg 'White Nights' it's still a box of pans rather than tubes but they are full pan sized and are 'artist grade' so now I have to get used to using them :) next thing will probably be some more paper.

mr gee is eyeing the comparative size of my knitting wool stash with minor trepidation now I've started 'acquiring' art stuff :hilarious:

art catch up - both White Nights paints
no 1 - a quick sketch just to try out a couple of colours that looked interesting

edit - for some reason no 1 is attached below rather than here :sorry:

no 2
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geefull said:
good afternoon all :)

4.2 today

Sunday lunch at mum's today, baked chicken and veggies in a cheese and cream sauce followed by the tiramisu.

We got up this morning to an overcast sky with a bit of mist in the distance, finished lunch preparation in the sunshine streaming through the kitchen window, ate lunch to the patter of raindrops and drove home mid afternoon past the snow/hail drifts from a heavy shower we could see rolling across in the distance :confused: It's 10'C outside currently so we've had an eclectic selection of meteorology today ;):hilarious:

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher your pastels are producing some interesting pieces of art, very different to your digital art, I'm enjoying both :)
@Muddy Cyclist the change from Tuscany cannot be considered a loss if your new series gives us work like this. What wonderful colour and light :joyful:

thanks to both of you for sharing and bringing so much inspiration :)

I have bought some new paints :sorry: I already have a Winsor and Newton student sketch box (40 plus years old, 12 unidentified colours including the fugitive blue), a Daler Rowney student travel set (with 24 colours), and the Kuretake paints which are more opaque than traditional Brit. watercolour paints.
Both the Winsor and Newton and the Daler Rowney are in very small pans because they are sketch/travel sets so I've taken the plunge and bought some St. Petersburg 'White Nights' it's still a box of pans rather than tubes but they are full pan sized and are 'artist grade' so now I have to get used to using them :) next thing will probably be some more paper.

mr gee is eyeing the comparative size of my knitting wool stash with minor trepidation now I've started 'acquiring' art stuff :hilarious:

art catch up - both White Nights paints
no 1 - a quick sketch just to try out a couple of colours that looked interesting


no 2
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Thank you @geefull
The St Petersburg paints are brilliant, I love them!
I love your stormy sky...and the rainbow underneath...
 
geefull said:
good afternoon all :)

4.2 today

Sunday lunch at mum's today, baked chicken and veggies in a cheese and cream sauce followed by the tiramisu.

We got up this morning to an overcast sky with a bit of mist in the distance, finished lunch preparation in the sunshine streaming through the kitchen window, ate lunch to the patter of raindrops and drove home mid afternoon past the snow/hail drifts from a heavy shower we could see rolling across in the distance :confused: It's 10'C outside currently so we've had an eclectic selection of meteorology today ;):hilarious:

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)
@Alien Aspie welcome back :happy:
@gennepher your pastels are producing some interesting pieces of art, very different to your digital art, I'm enjoying both :)
@Muddy Cyclist the change from Tuscany cannot be considered a loss if your new series gives us work like this. What wonderful colour and light :joyful:

thanks to both of you for sharing and bringing so much inspiration :)

I have bought some new paints :sorry: I already have a Winsor and Newton student sketch box (40 plus years old, 12 unidentified colours including the fugitive blue), a Daler Rowney student travel set (with 24 colours), and the Kuretake paints which are more opaque than traditional Brit. watercolour paints.
Both the Winsor and Newton and the Daler Rowney are in very small pans because they are sketch/travel sets so I've taken the plunge and bought some St. Petersburg 'White Nights' it's still a box of pans rather than tubes but they are full pan sized and are 'artist grade' so now I have to get used to using them :) next thing will probably be some more paper.

mr gee is eyeing the comparative size of my knitting wool stash with minor trepidation now I've started 'acquiring' art stuff :hilarious:

art catch up - both White Nights paints
no 1 - a quick sketch just to try out a couple of colours that looked interesting

edit - for some reason no 1 is attached below rather than here :sorry:

no 2
View attachment 40792
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Very nice, like the stile of thumb nail, looking forward to more.
 
No time for a long paint today, have been catching up with friends, virtually or telephone, lots been going on during lockdown, feel better for it, even some old 1960s school friends who we keep in touch with once a year. Good day.

So continuing on the English local landscape I looked at my photos of The Roaches a Staffordshire Moorland abaout 30 minutes from home and did a very quick sketch book layout for my next piece in the series. A4 water colour 10 minutes will try and do the proper painting Monday, stronger light needed.

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