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

Bloods came back at 48 so .... talking to the more sympathetic GP next week when he gets back off leave.
No details on Cholesterol (looks like it was not even tested for - Liver Function, Renal Profile & Full blood count all normal.

Updated sig.
Good result.
 
Going in the right direction, well done.

Hug for tired and pain.
 
I do like you seascape and sky, reminds me of visits to the west coast of Scotland with its white sand beaches and distant islands.
 
Sorry guys but I found this so funny that I couldn't resist sharing. She has a wicked turn of phrase which tickles me. Happy to delete and enjoy it all to myself.
I like the one about him telling the truth being like a cat bringing up a six kilo fur ball.
I bet she enjoyed putting that article together.
I wouldn't like to be any man in her life who gets the wrong side of her!
 
Sorry guys but I found this so funny that I couldn't resist sharing. She has a wicked turn of phrase which tickles me. Happy to delete and enjoy it all to myself.

GLORIOUS.

"There are seats of button-backed mahogany in that room that have given deeper thoughts to the implications of no deal than Priti Pate"
 

Hugs for the pain & distress.

Good post
Respect

Not easy to lay it out, but as said elsewhere, might help to vent like that

Your smart enough to know most of us won't have the answers, but still want to reach out

so while we aren't of much use, we just want to let one of us who is hurting....know.

Your not alone,

there are people here, happy to listen, nod when needed, and cheer for every point earned.

Can we fix it, sadly no.
But we are team @RFSMarch
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You're one of ours now, so we do what we can.

we'll commiserate from the sidelines and hope you come back from a defeat with a stronger ground game & a wicked backhand to life and all it's convoluted twists & turns.

So don't go, but if you do, ...don't be away for too long.

There's always a space here for those that return.
 
@gennepher - stunning picture of the viaduct, the strong light and the foliage have worked particularly well

art bit -

based on a photo I saw on the net
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Thank you @geefull

A great painting. The sea and land - you have used a slightly different technique, and I like it. Your skies are always developing, and depicting the different rainstorms...
Your paintings allow me to 'travel' within the painting...
 
Seems unlikely that last post here was 1 hr 34 mins ago when I'm looking at 7.37 am. Any old how, Swipey claims my fbg to be 4.3, Even if true I don't actually know what it means or what to do with that data. No doubt some kindly person will explain it all to me with reference to J Fung Esq, eating raw liver, cabbage casserole or other twaddle I don't need in my little bubble. I'm always a cheery soul until the third litre of tea. Toodles guys and gals.
 
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Hope you all have the bestest Saturday possible.

Emerging news that the roll out of the vaccine is not as organised as claimed, but I hope not as organised as a fox in a hen house! ..I am not holding my breath!

What's more important than the virus is the sillyness of the claims about co2! Recent ones I have come across. 1. That co2 went down this year! It didn't go down it went up slightly less than usual, but it is still cumulative and this carbon will take 100's years to remove, unless science can down pump it.....a massive task.
And it may well have started positive feedback already, releasing 10,000 of years of trapped co2 and methane.
2.To the religio/political fanatics who say its presumptuous of men to think man can damage the planets climate....get re-educated, its your grandchildren who face disaster.
These thoughts put my little problems in perspective.
D.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who juggle medications on their journey through life.

A 7.3 this morning on that scheming meter of misbehaving and naughtiness.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers, I miscalculated my insulin / exersize balance regime yesterday and ended up having a hypo with a reading of 2.9, shakes, sweats, slight disorientation, a mile or so from where Mrs J could collect me. That little episode curtailed my plans and Mrs J's plans for my afternoon. All part of life's rich pattern or so the saying says.

It seems that the schools around the Reading area are having covid problems and quite a few year groups are isolating, staff and pupils. Hmmmm I might just put myself back into lockdown.

Enough of the grim stuff. Christmas lights, some wonderful displays around here, a joy to see.
Hand and footnote, must buy shares in power companies. Now koffy calls.
 
Take care today young Alfred. Back into lockdown, workshop, domestic bliss and keeping in touch with us sounds like an excellent plan.
 

I understand that people want to 'fix'. But if I had a pound for every well-meaning person who has told me "oh but you WOULD have been fine if COVID hadn't hit' or "things will get better next year" - then I really would not be worrying about making ends meet now, would I?

The best response I had was from a mate I was supposed to talk to, who sympathised I have had more than my fair share of cr-ap to deal with on this second career... but also acknowledged that does not pay the bills or put food on the table.

You can only apply for work when you are in a decent mind set to do so. I know. When I was being bullied out of IBM I made myself go out on interviews when quite clearly I was struggling with clinical depression and of course never got anywhere but could only look back and see that several years on with the benefit of hindsight.

At the time I just put it all down to stress and brushed it under the carpet. I only realised it was depression when I was listening to a journo-friend's account of her depression years before we came together on the course. I realised everything she was describing was me back then...

All in all this week is right up there with the sudden death of both my parents (not at the same time) and my best friend described it as a kind of grieving as that last thread of hope got stripped away.

I have the money I got for some writing in the summer that I can 'ration' and maybe I can set myself a goal from next Monday to at least get Britwatch up to date before the tennis season starts and sort out my journalism portfolio/radio showreel by the end of the year. But... I need to be in the frame of mind to do it, and right now, all I seem capable of doing is playing games or watching TV.

See how I feel next week I suppose.
 
Fbg 6.2

Been doing this painting in ZenBrush3 since my last post. which appears to have been about 2 hours 26 minutes ago. Inspiration from Zhang Daqian.
But iPad overheats when I used ZenBrush3...badly. And so I had to have it on a chill mat to continue.
Also ZenBrush3 app is the biggest battery drainer I have ever come across. It was 100% when I started 2 hours 26 minutes ago. Then less half hour later (using ZenBrush3), it was down to 50%. This is usual with ZenBrush3.
So I had to recharge iPad, and had a nap until it was 100% again. Then started again.
iPad is now down to 48%. And so it is impossible to do a painting in one sitting in ZenBrush3
Annoying.

In Procreate it may use 30% of battery to complete a painting.

I am sure time has stretched because I feel like I have spent hours on this ZenBrush3 painting, and I had a longish nap while battery was recharging, which cat was pleased with as he relaxed on my chest...

Now onwards with the day...
Take care.
Stretch time if you need some more of it...it appears quite amenable for a bit of stretching...

 
5.6 this morning and my resting heart rate is finally below 100. Yesterday's average was 103 so hoping for better today.

Enjoy the weekend as best you can
 
I would like to offer both hugs and winner. But only one emoji allowed @alf_Josiah
I will go for winner!
And here is your hug...
 
A really good colourful landscape, well worth all the overheating. I do like these Zenbrush pieces.
 
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