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

A tranche of posts - about 4 pages - suddenly hove into view. Anything to do with server capacity and yesterday's post deletion? Anyhow, my bg is on something of a voyage of discovery over the last 2 days. Temperature 34.8 and SATS 98% so I assume even if I have somehow been smitten my spavined system is coping. @dunelm I would say that fbg is quite good - Jackfruit seems to be about 38% carb.
 
Reading quite OK but the taste was like 62% damp cornflake packet with a feint background aftertaste of fermented left sock.
 


Hi @Detritus .

Nicely explained by gennepher.

Another phone user of the web version.
All I would add is I click all of them.
(Hate to think I missed something.. )

I would also caution, that a few, myself included somtimes complain we don't always get those notifications, and/or we don't see the messages until they appear some time later. As I think @ianpspurs mentions today.

Few will take offence if late replying.
we all have different calls on our time, so I usually just say sorry for being late to reply.. Most seem to understand.

EDIT.
for me portrait view to text, but landscape gives more details of post/avatar.

Have a good day.. And welcome to the thread if I haven't said so already..
 
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Reading quite OK but the taste was like 62% damp cornflake packet with a feint background aftertaste of fermented left sock.
That would be the 2019, no vintage declared. Damp May that year.
 

Aw the way of kids... That fertile imagination scaring the bejasus out of us..lol

I recall as kids we used to run on the railways track..( yes..I know now )

Anyway we would go so far but no further.
A nearby estate had been built, but the platform had been left behind a brick wall on it.

And to get to it, we had to walk along the track and then into a short tunnel.

As you can expect we scared ourselves silly with tales of ghosts monsters etc just getting into the tunnel.. So passion were high.

On other side, at the far end sat what looked like a huge bird.. Really BIG..

It stopped us passing any further for a year or more, until we plucked up courage and got close enough to see it was a points signal of some sorts, 10 ft in the air. (mainline trains/some underground network).. And it had what looked like the wrapping of a large paper bag of potatoes caught up in it.. And everything that the wind threw up.. It looked like some evil scarecrow.

So once brave/stupid enough
we passed on into the underground network proper, where our activities came to a crashing end, as we got stopped and taken home by the police to some very vexed parents

So I gave your post a funny, as it reminded me of how kids think.. And brought back a few nice memories of old school friends.
 
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I recall the railway lines. I used to walk along the Mineral line on my own (it transported coal), and the tunnel was one third of a mile long. I could walk on the rail the whole way without falling off. Obviously I couldn't hear the train (with being deaf), but I could feel the vibration in the track...and got into one of the arched recessed bits at the sides.

I never got caught...and I am still here

Bet your parents were absolutely furious with you
 
@gennepher and @jjraak I never walked along railway lines but we lived near a very steep hill on the A1 and would try to race lorries down the hill on our bicycles.

I also loved climbing trees and have no idea how I grew up to be an ultra cautious adult scared of heights. Although that might have something to do with falling out of trees.
 
I bet you went very fast down that hill on your bikes to race the lorries...more dangerous than railway lines methinks!

That's one thing I never did...I never climbed trees...
 
@jjraak and @gennepher regarding railways, we used to walk along one to a very busy marshling yard, steam trains, we would jump on the rolling goods trucks as they rolled into their destination sorting sidings, then run over to the next ones needing sorting and ride back up the incline and do it all over again, never got caught or hurt thank goodness. We also used to jump across the locks on the canal and have gone home smelling stagnant once dried out, mom would have cained me if I had gone home wet, yes I smelt but as we only bathed once a week I doubt anyone much noticed.
 
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Today's effort, can't face watercolour painting today and so sat in the garden soaking up Vitamin D. On my bike ride today I passed through ancient Oak Woods at Brocton, 800 year old Oaks and decided for drama I need one in my next landscape so decided to do a quick layout sketch of the oak. A3 on black paper, no idea why I chose black, Oil Pastels with a limited pallet of colour and softening in the hot sun, 40 minutes. Thumbnail shows my pastels which I have had years.


 
Love it MC
 

I love working on a black surface @Muddy Cyclist
I think it works well.
Great dramatic sketch.


I have oil pastels, but they are old and hard, not really ever used them.
 

I love all these stories @Muddy Cyclist
We were adventurous kids weren't we!
 
I love all these stories @Muddy Cyclist
We were adventurous kids weren't we!


we had a lot of old factories closing down where i lived as a kid, major redevelopments going on.

Run outs took on a new danger lever when they came into play.
.running across the roofs, up and then down the other side of the huge glass roofs, feeling the glass bend and wobbling as you ran up it., then jumping roofs parkour style.....yehaww

police tried chasing us a few times, poor guys. roof +.little kids weight..maybe...but big burly blokes ..

Us Skipping off over the roofs, giggling as we waved them goodbye, in child like fashion,
then sliding down the stockpile of lamp posts at the council site nearby...and off home for tea.
happy days

but looking back, how on earth did we all survive childhood..
 
I love all these stories @Muddy Cyclist
We were adventurous kids weren't we!
Some would call it crazy. One of the other things we did as teenagers is tie our two wheel bikes to our ankle with a long piece of rope and then see who could ride closest to the edge of the Canal where the lock dropped to the next level, we would put powdered resin on our tires leaving marks on the Staffordshire Blue Bricks that lined the path, the rope was so that you could pull your bike out of the canal if you were unlucky enough to end up in the cut, yes I did once or twice.
 
running across the roofs,
That sounds like it was a lot of fun. I was chased by the police once or twice when a teenager, got stopped by a police dog that growled every time we tried to move, I cheeked the policeman and ended up at the local nick, where my grandad was a sergeant, very embarrassing.
 

I have no idea how we survived childhood @jjraak


In the town, I played in bombed out buildings with no floors and walking high up on the floor joists which were partly burnt out. I did take one tumble through to a basement. Managed to get home, and got into trouble again for torn clothes...

I never fell again.
 
I I totally get what you are saying. I am pleased I am not the only one who had to follow certain procedures that would ensure "the baddies" kept away. Even today I am quite sensitive to "atmospheres".
 
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