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

5.7 today.

Yesterday got a little nostalgic for yesteryear when tea was sandwiches of different varieties a cup of tea and a slice of cake and or a few biscuits or cheese and crackers hence the slightly raised fbg today.

I am learning new stuff every day especially about art this thread has been a true eye opener for instance I had always thought that an eraser was for correcting or rubbing out mistakes but it's not it's for drawing with and as much a part of an artists kit as a pencil a true revelation for me.

Maybe one day I will be able to put it all together and produce something worth while. If I can just control these shaky old hands of mine and persuade them to put on paper what I see in my head.
 
mojo37 said:
What can I say 7 again with a 7.5
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Afternoon, I gave you a hug, not for your reading, but for your despondency over a 7. Please remember that we are all different with different chemical laboratories inside us.

Some time ago these threads for early morning readings appeared to resemble a competition as to who can get the lowest reading, thankfully this is no longer the case.
As long as you test regularly and keep a record of what and when you eat, what affects your fasting blood sugars will become clear.
Well done and keep up the good work.
 
Oh for the pleasures of a bucolic life.

Next door and down road they let their free range hens out into the field that runs up to our property. They can't get through my fence, it has pig netting with a thick hedge but they come through their farm gate and our back wide gate and scratch around and eat the bird food.
It was much better when Mr Todd sorted them out a few months ago and subsequently the new hens were locked in their pen all day. Now their out again and in the garden, so I tried to make this one think the sky was falling in this afternoon with a long wooden clothes prop.
It did the trick but I would not say running round the garden is a complete cure to a dicky tummy.

He gets them for £1.00 each from an egg farm and c.20 birds, but I dont want them in my garden in their well earned twilight months.
 
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I have been asked on another forum, would I please post a selfie of me in my purple hat with clear shield, and sunflower snood, (which explains I have hidden disabilities, otherwise I would not wear stonking sunflowers over my face), over my mask.

I said I would do so tomorrow.

So I have taken a selfie now. And thought I would give you a premiere...

May I say, I had no idea I looked quite like this.

The flu jab nurse a week ago tomorrow who told me to self isolate to protect myself against flu and Covid while the flu vaccine took, said my mask and snood was not sufficient to protect me because this is a hot spot area., and gave me a clear face shield which she said would be better for me to breathe,

But with this unexpected firebreak lockdown in place on Friday coming, I did need a bit more food shopping, while I can still go out to shop, so I can hide completely this next few weeks in my hermitage.

So this morning I added my purple hat with the clear face shield. I never looked in the mirror before I went out this morning. I can see perfectly clearly through this...

Do I really look like this?

I have to blame the flu jab nurse for this...


By the way, I need to go to my bank in the morning...
 

@lindisfel
My great-grandfather used to round up stray sheep, pen them, and then put a notice in the newspaper. Saying stray sheep found. Owner has one week to claim it, and if it wasn't claimed (it never was because of the newspaper he put it in), then he said in the newspaper advert he was going to to take it to the butcher and have it killed (I am pretty certain the butcher was in on this too).

So, you could do that with the hens on your property. Put a notice somewhere. Then just wring their necks a week later if they are not claimed, and pluck them. Then you have Sunday dinner...
 
Obvious who that is so disguise 101 needs a resit. However, you better be on your best behaviour in the bank whilst dressed as the sunflower kid.
 
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - walnut ink sounds interesting so looking forward to seeing how that works
 
@lindisfel - would have loved to have a go at El Capitan but in the USA only managed the Appalachians and then Chimney Rock (where Last of The Mohicans was filmed). I did though do the Troll Wall in Norway - curtesy of HM Govt.
 
Thank you @gennepher - I just used diluted watercolour paint but ink should be really good. When painting water on the back you might need something soft to rest the rice paper on - I used a felt pad.
 
Fabulous day - Polish sausages are really good as is their sauerkraut (kapusta I think). green ink - secret agent? Wonderful fantasy tree glowing in the dark.
 
dunelm said:
Fabulous Sila - cunningly disguising the malevolence
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Thank you. As they are the Arabic version of the succubus one wouldn't expect them to be ugly (my opinion of course) or they'd have trouble getting the job done
 
Ah the famous Bonnie Parker rides again
 
good afternoon all

4.3 this morning

rain, rain and more rain but at least it's not cold

been working on some more wardrobe pruning and some cupboard sorting, I found a small stash of summer things put away in a box under the spare bedroom bed, I'd forgotten how big a size I used to be double the dress size I am now.





Hope your day is treating you well

@Muddy Cyclist - it amazes me what you can do with five minutes fantastic sketch and lovely colour
- plum crumble

@dunelm - another interesting technique, I wouldn't have thought of adding colour to the reverse of the translucent paper. A good landscape enhanced by the subtle touches of colour

@Alien Aspie - I love your Jinn, a lady of mystery

@gennepher - sounds like you had a positive day. I love your tree painting, so much life
the purple hat is a keeper

art bit -
from a photo I saw on the internet
 
dunelm said:
Fabulous day - Polish sausages are really good as is their sauerkraut (kapusta I think). green ink - secret agent? Wonderful fantasy tree glowing in the dark.
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There is so much there at the Polish shop @dunelm
Thank you for the compliments
 

I love your purple outfit @geefull
I think my purple hat might go well with it
Thank you for the compliments

A wonderful painting to wander around...I love that windswept tree on the hillside.
 
Lots of Chicken Broth maybe?
 
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