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

good evening all

was 4.5 today

Sunday lunch at mum's today worked well and the strawberries were every bit as good as they looked

We were hoping to get a bit of work done in her garden whilst we were there but it chucked it down just as we got there so it's been a lazy day mostly

spent the rest of the afternoon picking over the blackcurrants ready to stew them, I think I'll stew them, blitz them, sieve them then freeze the resulting puree in batches. That way I can make 'jam' for Mum or ice cream or... you get the idea

I don't enjoy the picking over process so I just sat down with an audio book on and worked until it was done

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@dunelm - I'm liking your sun dragons a lot dunelm, very satisfying

@gennepher - glad things are healing a bit, I like your landscape, some interesting textures in the foreground, this app. seems quite adaptable to variations in style and touch.

@Muddy Cyclist - I have some early video footage my dad shot on a couple of shared holidays but when we were growing up he was into photography, so it is slides and negatives we've got, memories all and enlightening to see what was important to family growing up seen from where we are now.

Arty bit -
Many thanks for the kind comments on my art, I probably wouldn't have gone back to art and begun to post if it hadn't been for the support here, thank you

another go at the 'cling film' thing in the foreground, the paint was a bit wetter this time.
 
geefull, princess of pastel watercolours!
Derek



 

Thank you @geefull

I love your painting. And your cling film effects.
Beautiful depth and distancing...
 
Busy day, decided to have a furniture move around all bookcases and cupboards down from upstairs into my studio, all my stuff in shed but at least my studio now looks a bit posher and Mrs MC is happy and I have scored some points. What a lot of moving of books, let alone furniture, still can't find a home for computer and printer...

So a quick long A5 watercolour sketch about 40 minutes....
 
It's great that you have got back into being creative and useing watercolour. Another success today, good strong bright colours and the cling film effect seems to work well for this one.
 
Good Morning and 6.2 for me today.

Su ny start, blue sky and a warm glow to the world here today. Muddy bike ride for me followed by finishing yesterday's home reorganisation, more furniture lugging.

Meander through your day with purpose. Keep safe.
 

A beautiful landscape of colour and distant mountains. And the bushy foreground. It looks a bit like that at White Moss Common in the Lakes. Your painting took me back there....
 
I was just tidying in my study/art room, when I looked in the mirror and saw smoke and flames coming out of the top of my floor standing halogen uplighter. And I think my brain is playing tricks on me. Then I look at the actual uplighter...0h no...I opened the door into the garden quickly. Unplugged the uplighter. Carried this flaming torch into the garden and left it out there.

The uplighter is more than 30 years old. I have a second one, same age in the front room....

Lucky escape. No I didn’t smell it, I lost my sense of smell as a result of the cochlear operation. And neither did the fire alarms go off. I cannot hear a fire alarm even with the speech processor on. They flash a light, but I wouldn’t have seen the nearest one from where I was standing.

I need to doing my zen painting now to calm down...

EDIT: The first thing I did in this bungalow when I moved here was to have a door put in every room to the outside. I have been caught in a fire before where I had to climb down a rope ladder from the second floor of an old building to escape from fire. So, me getting these doors to the back garden put in just in case there might be a fire, has saved my bacon nearly 20 years later.

Friends laughed at me saying you don’t need all those doors, even the door installer who had to knock out bricks and stuff, thought I was crackers for wanting so many doors.

I would do the same again if I ever moved house.
 
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Lucky escape indeed. Wonder if it was just the uplighter? Maybe get the house wiring checked out.
 
Good morning all. Plenty of posts not shown on my time line once again. 5.2 for me today, very, very beige indeed. Ate my OMAD late after seaside - Holkham- time with the tinies and pups so that could be a reason. Latest sensor seems to read higher - not one nighttime red zone. More likely to be very Ockham's Razor. Pups loved the sea but not the outward car trip. Tinies loved the beach, granddad not so much. Fantastic artwork @geefull and @Muddy Cyclist. Hug for the trauma @gennepher but amazing foresight to have so many doors.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who are grateful they woke up this morning. If you're not grateful can the NHS have your organs for the transplant programme, don't forget to inform your nearest and dearest.
I think I need a koffy.

A manageable 6.7 this morning, the joys of cheese as a late night snack. Not to mention the dreams.


Today for me and me's will be a continuation of last week's tasks, but Mrs J will be painting a dragon, I think it is modelled on one of her relatives.
Whatever your plans for today, enjoy them tomorrow will be different.
 
6.2 this sunny morning.

The guys should be here soon to continue their mission to lay the astroturf in the new play area I built, let's see how much more mess they can create

Her ladyship had a garden party last night which I joined to even up the numbers. As a non-social being I do find these things fascinating, five hours of people talking without direction
 
Good morning everyone from a lackluster start in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of the last of the meatloaf in thick onion gravy with slipshod cauliflower and some greens came in at 5.8 this am.

Some out of town loon drove his van onto the beach yesterday. Luckily, once the tide had gone out some kind fisherman with a tractor pulled the freshly washed vehicle out of the wet sand and back up the slipway. Entertainment for all - and a sudden rush for ice-cream, fish and chips and candy floss.

Youngest son started building his new “shed” yesterday - seven courses of blocks laid and three more to do. 7m long and to house a gym, utility and a small outside office as he anticipates working from home a good deal more. I have been volunteered to do install the electrics once the roof is on. Luckily there is already a 6mm steel wire armor cable that went to the previous, wooden shack thing.

My bit of zen today is a first look at a dot technique. I think that it may need ‘squeezing’ a bit, see how it goes.

Hope that everyone is as well as can be. Koffy time.

 
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