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

ianpspurs said:
but I guess the situation is tailor made for some stress with you being an aspie?
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It depends, if I have nothing better to worry about then yes. Somedays I have nothing at all to worry about... which is worrying

lindisfel said:
Hope you don't mind me asking but do you take any bp meds A.A.? D.
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Ask away No, I don't take meds for BP. The only things I take is Metformin, my two sprays for COPD and an occasional antihistamine. My BP has always been around the 120/80 mark.
 
MRs MC banned me to my art room, just in case I'm Virus Riddled.

So finished yesterday's abstract Walter colour landscape. Inspired by other abstract painters as I had no idea how to begin with this style, based on saplings growing by a pool over Wolseley Estates which ourhouse backs onto. A4 about 1 hour in total.


I started another whilst waiting for drying of above, again no idea where I will take this or it takes me. A4 on a rougher Canson Watercolour paper.
 
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Get tested if you can because symptoms vary so much from person to person . I just had aches like starting with the flu but no sore throat or temperature or cough though I did lose my taste and smell a few days after ( this was back in the beginning of April ) , I was convinced that I just had a touch of flu ( Not coronavirus ) and it wasn't until we were offered antibody tests in mid July that showed that I had antibodies therefore I must have had covid .
 
Up we go again today well this am ( 6am on early shift so poor sleep might have impacted on bg ) with 8.3
 
good evening all

4.7 today

woke up with a jump this morning, I usually open the bedroom window when I go to bed and take a look about then close it enough to just get a bit of fresh air flow. The window hadn't latched and the wind this morning was so strong it blew the window open then banged it shut , I nearly jumped out of my skin

Not a bad day here today but it is getting cold now and the forecast says that it will be cold before weekend, winter draws on (and winter socks and winter scarves ...)

Hope your day is treating you well

@JohnEGreen - what a lovely compliment, thank you

@dunelm -
I like your landscape today, it's very spacious and I like the temple pagoda peeking out

She's isn't much bigger than a cat but Katy is an apricot poodle


@gennepher - interesting style of foliage in today's picture and I like the subtle colour

@Muddy Cyclist - Hope that your symptoms abate soon and it's not anything nasty

Lovely grove of trees in your landscape today, very well done and the palette is clean and vibrant, I like it very much

art bit -

windy weather some of our trees are completely bare already.
 

A great little copse of silver birches @Muddy Cyclist
Beautiful rainbow colours for your next painting...
 
Alien Aspie said:
Before bed, I thought I'd post this as a separate thing. It is the basis for my next try at animation but I think is nice on its own

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This painting is absolutely stunning in its own right @Alien Aspie
I wonder what the animation of it would be like?


You know you said yesterday you thought you had water retention. And I mentioned something like I thought processed food, and the pre packed sauce mix you used might have something to do with it. I also mentioned that I had some Xmas cake the day before. Well, I never checked my ankles after I had eaten it the day before - my ankles are the first to begin to swell. But yesterday with you mentioning your legs, I had another piece of Xmas cake (this is research you understand) and I had a nice huge chunk with butter on it...

Later in the day my normally slim, trim ankles (the rest of me isn't trim, but I am proud of my trim ankles!) had no definition, they had swollen, not a lot, but enough so you couldn't see the definition of my ankles. The only thing I had yesterday that was processed and shop bought was that Xmas cake.

Normally, the way I eat is straight unadulterated food, nothing out of a tin or a packet. (I do have tins as backup food, always have done this in case we get badly snowed in, or other crises)

I don't know what ingredient or combination of ingredients in the shop bought Xmas cake affected my ankles to retain water. But there are too many ingredients in the Xmas cake. I knew that when I bought it. But a friend on chat the previous day had said, go on get yourself some special food for Xmas like some Xmas cake to cheer you up for Xmas day. Now I don't get that ear worm for songs and music like the rest of you were saying the other day (I never have but then I have only the distorted version I hear of music and songs, so maybe it is not possible for me to get that ear worm). But what I do get, is if some says the name of a food I really fancy, and then says go on it won't do you any harm just once. I get that ear worm....XMAS CAKE....

So when I was in the Equestrian store the other day looking for horse bedding (no I don't have a horse), I saw this XMAS CAKE at the entrance....so I bought it. I walked away from it several times but brain kept saying XMAS CAKE YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT...so I got it.

Horse bedding? Well it is wood pellets, which apparently makes very good cat litter. Cat litter is expensive, a shortage in the shops again, and I have fallen out with Amazon, so I needed cat litter from somewhere. A huge sack cost £5.99. Someone put it in the car for me, and I had to be inventive to get it from car to bungalow - too heavy to lift. I digress from swollen legs and ankles.

Anyway, this morning my ankles are trim again, nice neat ankles, but I still have some Xmas cake left. Throw it away you might say. Not on your nelly. But it will be finished today, just for research you understand...to see if my ankles swell again.

I am guessing your shop bought sauce packet had something to do with your swollen legs, and that you are doing keto also might have created a more severe reaction with water retention. Normally, you possibly wouldn't notice a slight bit of water retention with the shop bought sauce.

I won't get any more Xmas cake (?!?), but I have worked out/made up a recipe in my head, with ingredients that are okay for me.

Sorry I have rambled a bit here...
 
No sensor on as I got caught up in a match that made me want to scratch out my eyeballs and up now to add the quotes and get it live forever 8. Then when the lodger stirs from his cave below I can start my workout and hit the spin bike.

Will put it on after a shower because it takes while to punch holes in a compeed, take the adhesive off and replace with body tape, but rock tape to stick it all down etc ...
 
Fbg 7.1
Why? I think it was that Xmas cake yesterday....it is naughty on several levels...

Now, here is an answer to the burning question many of you have had over the years.

Competition postcards...what happens to them when you sent the postcards in with an answer or answers to your favourite magazine, or the newspaper, or competitions on the back of cereal packets? Remember the days when you did this?

You thought they would all be binned didn't you?

Well I am here to give you the answer to that burning question.

I thought you just bought blank postcards and wrote the answer on the back. That was what my mother did, and as a child I would run to the postbox to catch the last post for her competition entries. She did them every week.

Well I learnt last year from my art group, that they all bought picture postcards to send in their competition entries. And they were still doing this in 2019 for their competition entries.

Well, I made a mistake when I bid for two lots of postcards. I only bid for postally unused postcards, so I can use them for Postcrossing. These two bids had half of the postcards postally unused. The other half had messages on and were sent through the post. Remember the days when you sent a postcard or letter to arrange to meet someone, no mobile phones in those days?

I spent yesterday reading though about a hundred of these. Interesting reading. Very.

But those people who had used picture postcards for their competition entries, these I was reading were in the 1990's, their postcards are around now! Were they sold by the competition people to whoever? So your data was passed on then!

From...their name and address, to Women Crime Writers Radio Times...Answer POIROT. And the picture postcard was of Hastings Pier.

Another was...their name and address...ref 'VM' Magazine...to VM/Best Western...presumably for a freebie. And the picture postcard was of Brighton.

Another was...their name and address printed on with an inked stamp...Answer Decoupage, Hoover, La Cafetière...to It's A Gift Perfect Home (March Issue). And the picture postcard was of a Walter Crane children's illustration.

These were all 1990's.

So now you have the answer to your burning question...'What happened to my picture postcard competition entry after the competition was over?' Answer - 'It is still hovering around somewhere over 30 years later...'
 
Good morning all. The Libre informs/gaslights me that it was a steady as she goes night and by 4.45 my fbg was 4.6. (I really don't need to be waking at 4.30 every morning.) Adding on the probable difference between L and Stabbo that makes well above 5.5 - eek. My scales also added on a kilo today but that was probably Sunday's dalliance with red meat and red wine - the things we do for love - finally kicking in. Yesterday was back to planet normal with mackerel and avocado salad. No swollen ankles or legs but I really don't need 74.4 kgs for anything I'm likely/able to do these days - 73 is plenty. Have a simply wonderful day. Wash your face, cover your hands and stay mentally distanced. Step away from the shop bought Christmas cake.
 
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Smashing minimalist clump of trees
 
Now that came out well - I like the spikey trees and grasses - it looks cold yet inviting. Smashing clouds. Wrap up warm.
 
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Thanks @geefull - your painting reflects the windy window - all those leaves being blown off the tree in the wind, a hedgerow of bare trees in the background already sleeping for the winter.
 
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