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

UserABC2021 · Jul 23, 2020

6.5 due to being treated to curry by her ladyship. The first time we've been out for a meal since March, the restaurant was empty apart from us so we felt safe enough. All the staff were masked and the food perfect.

Finished both paths so I'm having a day off today before doing the hedges. I did generate more work for myself when I pointed out the Welsh slate slabs in storage could be used to finish off the dividing area between two of the gardens. I am being blessed with a hand truck to cart the slabs, better late than never

Enjoy your day

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

Alien Aspie said:
6.5 due to being treated to curry by her ladyship. The first time we've been out for a meal since March, the restaurant was empty apart from us so we felt safe enough. All the staff were masked and the food perfect.

Finished both paths so I'm having a day off today before doing the hedges. I did generate more work for myself when I pointed out the Welsh slate slabs in storage could be used to finish off the dividing area between two of the gardens. I am being blessed with a hand truck to cart the slabs, better late than never

Enjoy your day

What a legend. Amazing journey - well, all your life really - from the COVID scare to this point. Often said but in your case certified true, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy or been more richly deserved.

UserABC2021 · Jul 23, 2020

ianpspurs said:
What a legend. Amazing journey - well, all your life really - from the COVID scare to this point. Often said but in your case certified true, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy or been more richly deserved.

That's very kind but you haven't heard me when I'm all a-cussin'

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

Sounds hopeful but I guess the sting in the tail will be do people have to self finance?
https://www.theguardian.com/society...pancreas-to-cure-diabetes-ready-for-uk-trials

alf_Josiah · Jul 23, 2020

geefull said:
@alf_Josiah - devilish stuff that string might I commend Dr Tim Blais to you for fun if nothing else

Absolutely brilliant, thank you for posting.

Absolutely brilliant so good I have said that twice.

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

Ok foodies and or ketoids. Being a bear of very little brain/never learning to leave things alone I delved into Stephen Phinney and keto problems. May turn out that by trying to avoid all my joints seizing up, by avoiding salt as far as I can, I may have "blocked myself up" as it were. Since I won't use up h/m bone broth (I'll usually be bored after a couple of cups and throw it away eventually if not mult- day fasting; yes, we have bones in the freezer specifically for this) despite it being easy to make in the IP gizmo I wonder what whizzo bouillon powders or cubes or anything similar any of you use? Please don't tell me you just eat bacon - I'll explode with expletive laden rage.
Edit: Just clicked that I no longer use/add himaaarlyian pink salt - Julie got fed up trudging up those hills

alf_Josiah · Jul 23, 2020

Whoops forgot to post my blood sugars this morening.

An OK ish for me and me's 6.9.

Have a good afternoon fellow posters and painters. I have an appointment with my lopping shears.

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

alf_Josiah said:
Whoops forgot to post my blood sugars this morening.

An OK ish for me and me's 6.9.

Have a good afternoon fellow posters and painters. I have an appointment with my lopping shears.

Please make sure you only lop (small) trailing parts of tree/hedge young Alfred. Always check your zip before lopping - old Fenland adage. Maybe ask Mrs A J to check (I imagine she has eagle eyes) just to be on the safe side

lindisfel · Jul 23, 2020

Hi jjraak,
All this talk of physics got my brain in a fever thinking about Dominic Schrodingers cat in the bag, 16, that he attempted to keep invisible by putting a newly caught Grayling, (which as a fish can be long and thin and practically useless) over the bag in question, so we would not know if the bag cat was alive or dead!

It was all to no purpose, the cat is well and truly out of the bag now.

lindisfel · Jul 23, 2020

You have a wicked wit, Ian!
D.

ianpspurs said:
Please make sure you only lop (small) trailing parts of tree/hedge young Alfred. Always check your zip before lopping - old Fenland adage. Maybe ask Mrs A J to check (I imagine she has eagle eyes) just to be on the safe side

lindisfel · Jul 23, 2020

alf_Josiah said:
Absolutely brilliant so good I have said that twice.

The Einstein puppet was a dead ringer for Boris with all that yellow hair.
D.

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

According to the ONS in 2010 the average UK male was 5ft 9 ins 173.7 cms and weighed 13st . 83.6 kgs which gives a BMI of 27.2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11534042#:~:text=The ONS said the average,their lifetime, said the ONS. The weight one didn't surprise me but the height one seems very short. No idea what it is now but those details give an idea of how bad for UK dietary guidelines and/or lifestyle are. Being averages, presumably us boomers, the silent generation and gen x skew them. My impression is Millennials and gen z are definitely taller.

gennepher · Jul 23, 2020

Finished my letters and postcards, and just been down to the post office to post them...
Popeye wanted to come out with me, but I led him back to the bed with treats...
It took me longer than I thought so his lordship was in a mood with me when I got back, and insisted on a walk around the garden (he is on a harness and lead). Then he wanted to go in the potting shed. So he is now sleeping in his favourite spot, and I have sneaked back in to my comfy bed all to myself, without a cat somehow taking 3/4 of the bed. He can stay in the potting shed a couple of hours....

Now to play catch up, and think about a painting.

gennepher · Jul 23, 2020

dunelm said:
Wonderful lines - got to love the simplicity of it - nice ears.

Thank you @dunelm

gennepher · Jul 23, 2020

Muddy Cyclist said:
Afternoon and evening and BBQ (cooked own food) was extremely pleasant and fun to be with both of our kids and grandchildren. Since last family BBQ I noticed this time social distancing amongst us as a family is now even less and my kids are always over protective of Mrs MC and I and make an effort. It's difficult as we are social animals and anyway how can you push young grandchildren away, they are excited to see us in the flesh, want to share all they have been up to with great exuberance, want us to take part in games, races, skipping, yes me too I can still run in, skip and run out of turning ropes and even do it when two ropes are in use, grandaughters impressed, as was I. I did draw a line at trampoline activities, games of Twister and the hot tub. Lots of guitar playing and singing, story telling and fun, most enjoyable.

Managed to do an A5 sketch with coloured pencils and pens whilst sitting in son's back garden. In the farmers field behind the cottage there is a gap in the Hedge and here it is, two of my Grandaughters also did the same drawing but sadly I have not got photos of them.

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PS, (edit) In our family as I suspect in others, we are probably more at risk of catching the virus from them than from any other source. Our Sons two daughters spend a week with him then a week with their mom and her new partner, sons new partners theee boys spend weekends with their dad and his new partner, son is a farrier and sees lots of people every day. Daughter and SIL teachers although now on holiday but they see SILs two brothers and their children regularly. Contact tracers nightmare and our responsibility to best risk asses, take precautions, be aware and hopefully dodge the virus, living the new normal which is not going to change.

I think this is absolutely amazing. I love it @Muddy Cyclist
It reminds me of a children's illustrator who I always wished I could draw trees like that when I was child. I cannot remember his name.
I always wanted to scribble trees like that, and for them to look like trees. But my childhood drawings never came out like that.

lindisfel · Jul 23, 2020

Hi Ian,
I think it depends a lot on genetic makeup, hence where one comes from, as well as nutrition.
I am of the third generation that measured well over 6'. There were a number of 6+ footers in my 1938/39 born class at school.
D.

ianpspurs said:
According to the ONS in 2010 the average UK male was 5ft 9 ins 173.7 cms and weighed 13st .16 83.6 kgs which gives a BMI of 27.2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11534042#:~:text=The ONS said the average,their lifetime, said the ONS. The weight one didn't surprise me but the height one seems very short. No idea what it is now but those details give an idea of how bad for UK dietary guidelines and/or lifestyle are. Being averages, presumably us boomers, the silent generation and gen x skew them. My impression is Millennials and gen z are definitely taller.

gennepher · Jul 23, 2020

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from the moistness of the dark and dangerous north - what are the rules when walking into a shop wearing a soggy mask?

The wonder wheel of finishing off a chicken - and then eating it - came in at 5.2 this am

Off to the little house on the prairie this morning - youngest son will be turning up with the ninky nonks for a couple of days later on so that should be fun. Everything to be raised above 4 foot if you value it. Fireguards at the ready, child locks that don’t really work any more on the kitchen cupboards and the fridge.

@gennepher, @geefull - I find plumb blossom the most difficult of the ‘four gentlemen’ - bamboo, plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum - my mother, who painted bamboo for an hour each day for 40 years tells me to keep practicing.
@geefull - great hills, storm clouds and lightening. I do like your letterbox paintings. Toe - ouch, ooch. - Done the same so many times.
@Muddy Cyclist = Excellent sketch, I do like this mode of art, fine pen work combined with colour works so well.

An attempt at some landscape today - no idea where it is but we do have a distinctive cone shaped hill nearby called Roseberry Topping so maybe that is in the background.

Have a wonderful day and remember, Donald Strumpf wants everyone now to be patriotic and wear a mask. Koffy.

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I like your landscape @dunelm
Each time I look at it I see something different.

The only one of the 'four gentlemen' I do not like doing is chrysanthemum.

gennepher · Jul 23, 2020

My ZenBrush2 painting for today, another orchid. I am a bit too tired to do anything else.
I was going to put a third flower in but I think it would have been overcrowded.

ianpspurs · Jul 23, 2020

gennepher said:
My ZenBrush2 painting for today, another orchid. I am a bit too tired to do anything else.
I was going to put a third flower in but I think it would have been overcrowded.

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Post of the week. Have I only just noticed this

alf_Josiah · Jul 23, 2020

@gennepher, is that a moggie I spy?
@ianpspurs you just beat me

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