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

Winner for reading, but also a virtual hug for the uncertain ongoing Care situation.
 
Loving the colours here @gennepher and looking forward to the hand made paper
 
Take care @gennepher and hope to see you back on the thread when you can.
 
Thank you @geefull - an a fine wintery mountain scene from you with great scale and majesty
 
A fine composion. I like the way that you worked the trees and the river bank.
 
5.0 this morning. Dog walk once it gets lighter and then the farm shop.

Made a start yesterday on doing the bank reconciliations for November and December and catching up with emails.

Didn't do as much as I thought I would because I have just started reading Richard Osmon's first book - The Thursday Murder Club. I am hoping it will be good. Then there was the Mah Jong and Suduko games I played and the Murder on the Orient Express film that we watched plus dog walks - so I am amazed that I actually got any work done.
 
Do let me know what you think about The Thursday Murder Club - it’s on my list. Got to plough through three of Stephen Fry books at present though; Mythos, Heroes and Troy.
 
Good morning everyone from a damp squib of a morning in the dark and dangerous north
Crisp and sunny day yesterday and a couple of hours in the park while youngest granddaughter had her morning snooze. If the pram stops rumbling - the child awakes.
Just, just about, caught up on the thread - so diverse - so interesting - so enjoyable.
I have been fiddling about with finger painting - I know - take a look at my ink stained fingers. Early doors and only on a bit of backing paper - finger painting is not restricted to just fingers - heal of hand, side, a stick if you like. So here is go number 2. Have a great day if you can, the new year approaches and some people will be mulling over things so take care about what you are mulling with, some mulled things are dangerous and not just the wine. Best have koffy.

 
Greetings all but tinged with sadness at @gennepher's fully understandable need for a time out. @Krystyna23040 yesterday seemed like a full on day and I too had been interested in Osman's book but will look for the film as it will take some time for me to return to printed fiction. Currently enjoying the Guite Poem anthology and started a G K Chesterton compendium - does have some Father Brown but I want the beliefs sections most.
Fbg on Swipey was 5.2 which for that device is way too high IMHO but for all I know could be accurate and quite ok for me here and now. I seem to have held off gout for now with minimal Naproxen - good egg chaps - but boy has transit been affected. Like the lorries at Dover pre-Christmas.
Poetry part: 1 and 2 - Sonnet for Carers (topic comes up regularly here)
Be as good as you can folks.
 
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Just read this in the news which confused my simple mind and puzzled me...

'Sir Simon Stevens paid tribute to NHS staff in a new year message, saying they had "brilliantly" cared for 200,000 severely ill Covid-19 patients.

He said that by late spring he expected the NHS to have offered vaccinations to all vulnerable people.'

The word 'expected' makes me think they can't be sure they have enough vaccine to achieve this. If this is so how come several of my 74ish year old friends with no underlying health problems, very fit Mountain Bikers, runners and gym attenders have all been given dates to receive the vaccine? Makes me think it may be a Post Code Lottery or even worse those organising the roll out are making a pigs ear of it. Just a thought not an accusation.
 
Thank you for putting a smile on my face, finger painting is great fun bad enough with paint, ink is a whole different level of mess. I was Trying to decide what the creatures are, hopperty fleas came to mind .
 
Swipey: 5.8 - In the green all night and no jump at around midnight-1am so it looks like switching to have Jardiance at lunch and then metformin at dinner and before I go to bed is working to smooth that out. And especially given all the over-indulgences over the past few days (there... I said it)...

Think I am going to do work out Weds and Fri and back at it proper after all this merriment malarky has gone.

Lots of work planned today - lots of content to get written up for New year health-kick nuts and a brief interlude before the tennis season gets underway.

I have decided to ask my financial advisor to draw down the money I need to pay off my deferred self-assessment tax bill during lockdown, and to pay back the friend who bailed me out after the horror temporary tenant who broke all the expensive things! I feel I would rather do that than start the year with a debt. Psychologically it feels like the right way to get those out of the way. As my own, wonderful keeper of a BF says - this is your rainy day money. It might take a few weeks to draw down so as not to skew interest etc from the investment wrap but I need to feel like I am starting the New Year the right way.

This month FINALLLLLLY the rent from my late mother's bungalow looked to be at full strength with no sneaky little expenses coming out of left field. So for the first time since the summer when it was empty, I feel a little less anxious about it. Even Cave-Dweller's rent arrived this morning. I can even make up for not working out this morning by running up and down the stairs between my personal PC and my "work" laptop and printer down in the office.

One thing I am anxious is ... the next trip to the supermarket and after playing an extensive game of rock-paper-scissors with myself I decided that I neither have the stamina or the self-loathing to submit myself to Saimsbury's after a bank holiday Monday. I am going to use up what I have or buy spares from the Tesco Metro up the road and will hit Sainsbury's maybe on Sunday morning.
 
Great news about the impact of changes on BG, rent from the bungalow and decisions on how to proceed with regard to bills and loans. That all sounds like a major turn around from earlier in the month so I am delighted for you, I still need to see the words Rosington Bear on the screen but I mustn't be greedy.
 
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Thank you for putting a smile on my face, finger painting is great fun bad enough with paint, ink is a whole different level of mess. I was Trying to decide what the creatures are, hopperty fleas came to mind .
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Interesting, isn’t it, when we are not told what a thing is - does it invoke some sort of agnosia or just the brain scanning it’s album? I thought buffalo but it’s whatever you like.
Why are my finger nails telling me that a job as a miner of coal would be a better idea?
 
Good morning from the snow covered Midlands. Thick snowflakes still falling. Strangely quiet everywhere as no traffic about. fbs this morning was 10.1 after a good night's sleep following a day of pain. A day for staying snug and warm indoors me thinks and feeling blessed that we can do so. Be safe and warm folks.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

7.2 this morning on that meter of mystery and naughtiness.

Me and me's been lurking on the thread the desire not to post was strong.
Life here in Tilehurst Towers is strange and having survived the festivities, just new years eve to negotiate.
Have a great day.
 
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