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

Muddy Cyclist said:
What a super duper Christmas Card a real cracker. Hope the park visit was glorious and the coffee search successful.
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - I did wonder, when I got that paper sample, just what I would do with it - and the Christmas reared it’s head. Park was marvellous, a warm sunny day helps. Three bags of strength 4 koffy purloined.
 
This is sounding like equine purgatory. Just photoshop a couple of George Stubbs prints with near enough colouring and do a touch up job. No one will tell.
 
Today's Advent poem is Christmas and Common Birth by Anne Ridler. This should resonate with those mum's, gardeners, keen observers of the countryside or wildlife. Interesting timing as today I have planted some dormant fruit trees when for a few years now I would have been pruning the dormant apple and pear trees. I also noticed some primroses coming to life. For those awaiting new family members in the New Year, Ridler's final two lines may add something special. (certainly added something to the birth of out muddle son - Dec 8th but had a due date of Dec 24th) Who knows, maybe just a new poem and a few minutes of peace and quiet. Enjoy.
 
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This is seriously brilliant @Muddy Cyclist
 
Wonderful modern poem. Today on my Mountain Bike Ride I thought, the human species which is facing so many problems globally and as a whole think they are the world, yet are of little significance. The fauna and flora continue to flourish, either sleeping and waiting for spring or enjoying their winter glory, I could sense the world will continue with or without humans. Yet there is hope in new birth, human or otherwise. Thank you for sharing, now where is that Talisker?
 
lindisfel said:
Fine John,
Its good to see you, I trust you all are keeping well and Brother Adrian is now somewhat better..Your grandson's a big tough lad and I guess you are hoping he is ok for mixing at Christmas.
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Derek
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Thanks Derek we are doing not so bad though I was feeling not so well for a while but OK now.

Brother Adrian's second test came back negative so he has ended his isolation but some of the others second tests were positive and some of them are quite poorly.

Keiran had two tests negative and is mow home for Christmas even though the term has not quite ended so he is doing the final part of the term online and working on his dissertation.

I hope to get out and about again soon for a walk in the park hopefully.
 
Fbg 6.9
I don't know why it has gone up.
I have been eating all proper foods that keep it in the 6's.

I am a bit stressed over a couple of things. I know it doesn't help. A couple of hospital appointments came through. One is the eye hospital in Liverpool (England, and I live in Wales for January, and so another dawn raid for me to get over the lockdown border and evade the border police....). Also it is a late in the day appointment, parking is usually a total nightmare, and I dread it anyway. It is going to be dark, and then that nightmare coming home traffic through the tunnel. I just don't blinking want to go anyway, not just because of Covid. This appointment should have been last May '20.

But my Welsh optician a couple of months ago did all the vital tests (he had said he can do all the tests the hospital can), and said my eyes had improved (eyesight and those little black spots had gone, which they can come and go for anyone). Wales has not done any retinopathy tests this year (that had been cancelled until further notice because of Covid). My Welsh optician said I had no signs of retinopathy, and had given me a long appointment for a thorough examination, and for as many questions as I wanted answering. And also said I could go back to him any time at a moment's notice if I had any concern whatsoever.

I am now more concerned over the dark night driving (I think, yes Covid too). That was never a problem before, but with Covid travel restrictions, I am so out of practice with night time driving. I seriously want to postpone the Liverpool Eye Hospital appointment. But with me not being able to telephone personally with being deaf, I am going to have to ask a friend to do it. So I did. I got the message back "You will be OK. This is not new it is just more of the same and you have already got through a lot and have gained experience." (referring to the Wrexham Hospital experience a couple of months ago).

Not the reply I wanted. Tto be fair she is exceptionally busy at the mo, and to telephone to change things like an appointment also needs both of us on WhatsApp at the same time while she is ringing, so that I can authorise her to speak on my behalf, even though the appointment people are not in contact with me at that moment, and so she gets asked questions which I answer, and she relays to them, and then if they decide she is speaking on my behalf, then the next set of questions begin...

This can take a full morning, just to alter an appointment.

My friend will be less busy in the New Year and I will ask her again.

Anyway for my painting (spellcheck kept changing this to pain!) today is the Welsh tourist village of Portmeirion. But there are no tourists there in these Covid times. It has been used for several films, and probably most famously as "The Village" in the tv show The Prisoner in the 1960's. I remember watching it, but there were no captions or subtitles then on TV, so I had absolutely no idea what it was about (like most things I watched on TV). ITV didn't have the pamphlets like you could get from the BBC at that time which gave a paragraph or so on the programme but not the conclusion of the play or programme which I thought was stupid since these pamphlets were aimed at deaf people.

I think I might take a peek on YouTube and see if there is anything on there on The Prisoner.

I have been there as a child ( I didn't know then it was the village of Portmeirion), and I later took J a few times in the 1990's. The Prisoner was on a black and white telly, so when I took J, I was quite shocked to see all this colour.

Portmeirion...in Procreate...
 
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