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

Muddy Cyclist said:
Nice trees, looking forward to seeing all the different styles you are achieving.

Your DIY sounds hard work, hugs for the aches, winner for being there for your family and sharing your expertise.
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Thank you, techniques for trees are in some ways quite different from western art - as the saying goes, ‘endeavour to persevere”. it’s good to be helping son out with his monster shed.
 
dunelm said:
I have a book called Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting - useful for practicing techniques and as a general learning tool. I am working on trees - so here is one that I did last week - another tomorrow
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I looked for that on the internet @dunelm

Just found it in the Internet Archives. Borrowed it for 14 days. I have borrowed it before, a long time ago when I was doing actual brush painting. It might lend itself to ZenBrush2. I am just going to have a try.

I can access something, even old, in seconds in this day and age. In the late 60's and 70's it was going to either Liverpool Library, or catching the train down to Birmingham Library then looking through the card index and presenting my choice of old books to the librarian then waiting half hour or longer at the highly polished wooden tables for the librarian to find my books. It was a whole day's work.

Now, this morning within seconds from my bed, I can source @dunelm 's Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting from the comfort of my bed, and borrow it for an hour or a fortnight.

Just going to make a cuppa and then find something to try...
 
Morning all. Cold enough for heavy duty pyjama bottoms last night and not too wonderful today. Both well outside my comfort zone. I do have an fbg but whether it is either of the 5.3 on Tee 2 or 4.8 on Libre is doubtful, especially in this alternative truths world. @Muddy Cyclist the last painting posted is very much in my comfort zone so thank you so much. @dunelm father of the year deeds there and on a Lesser festival for Aidan as well - what with the artwork quite saintly yourself. @jjraak thank you for the post. Interestingly, that issue I dealt with in an almost zen like calm. I trusted the medics all along. With T2 I don't have that confidence. At the back of my mind I think I'm being played with LC. Enjoy Bank Holiday folks as one can't help feeling civil servants won't be the only ones drenched by the hard rain that's gonna fall.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and painters and bikers and building labourers, this list is getting longer.

A 6.4 this morning.

Not sure about today, tasks to complete sure, more swords to make, but plinky plonky has been much neglected recently.
Well fellow posters enjoy the last bank holiday before Christmas, I still have no more news on the shifting of Christmas, a by product of this unverified move could be more holidays.
Have a great day.
 
Straight 6.0 this morning and hedges to cut after doing the lawns yesterday. My lung volume really isn't interested in staying in the green so I shall take it steady.

Enjoy the day :)
 
Painting for today from @dunelm 's Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting I sourced from the Internet Archive, and borrowed it for 14 days.

In ZenBrush2

The mountain on the right took one hour because it was a dull day outside, then suddenly the sun came out and clear blue skies, and I ain't sitting in bed painting on a now beautiful day. So two mountains on the left and the clouds were a rush job done in 10 minutes (you can tell!)...I am out there in that sun...byeeee

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Alien Aspie said:
Straight 6.0 this morning and hedges to cut after doing the lawns yesterday. My lung volume really isn't interested in staying in the green so I shall take it steady.

Enjoy the day :)
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Take it easy. I will miss hedge cutting especially as I eventually worked out leaving the trimmings as mulch was highly effective. I took my cue for timing and not raking from the farmers. They hedge trimmed so much later on, around mid to end of October. One of the very few parts of autumn I enjoyed once I entered the barren land of non salad LC food.
 
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ianpspurs said:
I will miss hedge cutting especially as I eventually worked pout leaving the trimmings as mulch was highly effective
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I don’t let the hedges get overgrown so I can leave the trimmings like you said. I do clear where they fall on paths but that is minimal. I just find the ladders hard work after an hour or so.
 
Alien Aspie said:
I don’t let the hedges get overgrown so I can leave the trimmings like you said. I do clear where they fall on paths but that is minimal. I just find the ladders hard work after an hour or so.
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I bought an incredibly long Stihl hedge trimmer - absolutely useless here but part of a series of their tools powered by a beast of a battery. Besides, if builders ever finish here there are some interesting projects with gardens currently on the market. Just don't tell Julie.
 
5.0 this morning. Had a lovely time at Gooderstone Water Gardens. I love watching the passing of the seasons in all our favourite places.

At lunch time we sat on a bench by one of the ponds watching the reflection in the water of the branches of two huge weeping willows as they were blown by the wind. It was mesmerising.

Have watched some interesting youtube videos that are making me rethink low carb/keto and its effectiveness for sorting out my T2D.

One Dr says that T2D takes 20 years on average to develop and of course it follows that the longer you are T2D the 'more broken the machine is'. As I was on insulin for 4 years my machine must have been very broken indeed.

Apparently this brokenness could easily take 20 years to repair with low carb/keto/Intermittent Fasting - which is surprisingly really liberating as I had thought I was failing because I wasn't improving fast enough.

So from now on I am going to stop stressing out because I still can't (even after 4 years) eat more than 20g carbs a day without BSs going sky high. I am so lucky that I really enjoy low carb and it is no hardship to continue LC for the foreseeable future. Perhaps I will start to feel as tranquil as I did yesterday watching the reflections of the weeping willows.
 
mojo37 said:
My family wish they could "breed " then to have a less gaseous side effect ( I m the only one that eats them );)
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The frozen ones roast well - better than fresh IMHO - and don't appear to add to greenhouse gasses. Fresh, stir fried through with lardons, chestnuts and garlic are one of the wonders of the world. Those do leave a garlicky reminder.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.0 this morning. Had a lovely time at Gooderstone Water Gardens. I love watching the passing of the seasons in all our favourite places.

At lunch time we sat on a bench by one of the ponds watching the reflection in the water of the branches of two huge weeping willows as they were blown by the wind. It was mesmerising.

Have watched some interesting youtube videos that are making me rethink low carb/keto and its effectiveness for sorting out my T2D.

One Dr says that T2D takes 20 years on average to develop and of course it follows that the longer you are T2D the 'more broken the machine is'. As I was on insulin for 4 years my machine must have been very broken indeed.

Apparently this brokenness could easily take 20 years to repair with low carb/keto/Intermittent Fasting - which is surprisingly really liberating as I had thought I was failing because I wasn't improving fast enough.

So from now on I am going to stop stressing out because I still can't (even after 4 years) eat more than 20g carbs a day without BSs going sky high. I am so lucky that I really enjoy low carb and it is no hardship to continue LC for the foreseeable future. Perhaps I will start to feel as tranquil as I did yesterday watching the reflections of the weeping willows.
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I am glad to read that yesterday was so tranquil and uplifting for you. It is also interesting to read about the time this WOE may take to produce results. I struggle to see how it is helping me much but unlike you I don't feel I have made the progress to feel I could recommend it to others. I don't enjoy it but some folks say I'm stubborn enough to keep going - I don't recognise that description of myself:angelic:
 
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4.5 this morning
Still feeling the effects of yesterdays exertions but it was worth the effort I think here is another snap I took if that's OK.
It's quite a popular spot so social distancing was a bit problematic but manageable.
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