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

[Muddy Cyclist]

There's much talent on this thread artistically and philosophically...it's great!

Thank you. Yes I agree this thread offers much diversity and interest along with good support for our common mysterious blood letting.

 

[BRSBRI]

Good evening everyone. The finger stabbing at 0845 this morning produced 5.9mmol which is a bit of a result given the food and naughty booze intake yesterday.

This was followed by listening to Tony Blackburn on BBC iPlayer as I pedalled 14 miles on the bike, going no-where in the bathroom and a breakfast of yoghurt, berries and a nice omelette with grilled asparagus. A cafetière of coffee was had looking at the pouring rain with a cool 16°C being the temperature. A change!

Had what I hope is the last visitation from the epidemic control team for my Covid test who also left me a full set of instructions if I'm released at 00.01 tomorrow - and they track you!

Lunch was a big bowl of soup (duck) and salad, with copious amounts of fizzy water.
BG at 1430 this afternoon was 5.4...

Been working throughout the morning and afternoon in prep for the big meetings this week...confirmed my departure a week on Wednesday, the day before my birthday (I was an April's fool babba) on that executive jet to Farnborough which then takes others after a night stop there across the Atlantic...I hope it arrives on time, but you never know - and there's no plan B...

Apart from that, couped up here and hopefully elsewhere tomorrow after the long awaited release SMS, carefully navigating my lot before returning here to the room and staff that've suffered me since arrival...

Zooming the UK in a mo....hopefully not seeing something like this

Have a great Sunday all!

 

[Krystyna23040]

A quick call to me, and I was on way to assist.
A chance to show off my battery charger/ booster gadget.

Hooked it up, started first time, 2 minutes they were back on their way.

Her dad impressed, looked at buying one.
until.. HOW MUCH

£50+ an investment for anyone whose time IS money
Sat by the side of the road for an hour or more, waiting for the breakdown guys, earning nothing or speeding on to his next job....no brainer to me.

Some people, very short sighted

Yes, they are well worth the money. We have one also.

 

[ianpspurs]

Welcome to Sunday. Today would have been my mum's birthday which she always claimed marked the real start of spring. Weather here is leaving the suburbs of sub-optimal and heading towards the long vacc . I don't want to contemplate returning to SO Towers in Michaelmas term, thanks. 5.1 on Swipey. Sub-optimal but not off the leash - just barking at passers by. Return to my homeland today to check on 91 yo MIL who is moving here tomorrow - 5 mins walk away. I will put flowers on my parents grave and tidy up generally. Their grave is next to my uncle and 10 yards from 1 set of grandparents and great grandparents. Mixed emotions (one year there was a beautiful clarinet rendition of Annie's song from a nearby bedroom - very moving) obviously not helped by having to use a pair of the gazillions of pork chops from the half pig I decided was essential to survival in Lockdown 1. How does one make eating a pork chop a pleasant experience? Salad should help. I have no idea about film stars - could Ben Stokes play me? Enjoy your day.

 

[BRSBRI]

Like those distant mountains getting stronger as they hit the foreground. That far away Mountain could easily be Snowdon seen from the Berwyns.

Hugs for crowds keeping you in. Looking at the lack of future holidays abroad I think this is how the UK is going to be for some time to come. Before Covid it was getting harder to walk and find wilderness now it's almost impossible. I read that they are going to start pushing the Countryside Code again, what ever happened to people's common sense and respect?

Well said. @muddycyclist @dunelm
European holidays look like they're off the agenda from what I'm reading meaning staycations and city breaks are on. Great for the economy but people seem to be so self-centred and diabolically selfish as you so rightly say.

We live not far from Pulteney Bridge in Bath (5/6 minute walk) - and although we love it, I'm imagining what the hordes of potential tourists will bring, apart from Coronavirus spikes...

I read eejits in Glasgow who eschewed Covid rules "celebrating" Glasgow Rangers football success have passed on Coronavirus to some of the police in attendance...this makes my blood curdle...

Rant over...! Now a green tea

 

[Krystyna23040]

The balance thing is slow returning though.
I play "walk the lines" on the pavement cracks, can't do too many, before losing balance , ho hum

You are doing really well. A brilliant way to improve your balance.

 

[BRSBRI]

Welcome to Sunday. Today would have been my mum's birthday which she always claimed marked the real start of spring. Weather here is leaving the suburbs of sub-optimal and heading towards the long vacc . I don't want to contemplate returning to SO Towers thanks. 5.1 on Swipey. Sub-optimal but not off the leash - just barking at passers by. Return to mu homeland today to check on 91 yo MILwho is moving here tomorrow - 5 mins walk away. I will put flowers on my parents grave and tidy up generally. Their grave is next to my uncle and 10 yards from 1 set of grandparents and great grandparents. Mixed emotions (one year there was a beautiful clarinet rendition of Annie's song from a nearby bedroom - very moving) obviously nor helped by having to use a pair of the gazillions of pork chops from the half pig I decided was essential to survival in Lockdown 1. How does one make eating a pork chop a pleasant experience? Salad should help. I have no idea about film stars - could Ben Stokes play me? Enjoy your day.

Sending all the best Ian. It's bittersweet to remember loved ones who are no longer with us. Man hugs from here to you and yours...

 

[ianpspurs]

Sending all the best Ian. It's bittersweet to remember loved ones who are no longer with us. Man hugs from here to you and yours...

Thanks @BRSBRI. The memories are all good but I will always know deep inside that I only function fully in that village due to being surrounded by so much love. Best to thank God for that and try to pass on what I can to my grandchildren. Our 3 boys all grew up loving exactly the same plot of land that shaped me. All but the last 2 of our grandchildren have slept, eaten, walked and played on that land.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.9 today. Was a bit later so probably DP kicked in.

Yesterday classes went really well. Then I did loads of admin and was even able to start writing up new exercises while Mr K watched rugby.

We even managed to finish watching New Grace between games. I really enjoyed it.as it was really well done. John Simm was very good as Roy Grace - even though he wasn't quite as I imagined him in the book.

 

[BRSBRI]

Thanks @BRSBRI. The memories are all good but I will always know deep inside that I only function fully in that village due to being surrounded by so much love. Best to give thanks for that and try to pass on what I can to my grandchildren. Our boys all grew up in exactly the same plot of land that shaped me. All but the last 2 of our grandchildren have walked and played on that land.

It's amazing - and I think that's fab. Fabulous.

We're all diaspora this end; far flung here and there. After a family breakup which happened during my undergrad years at university rendering me homeless and on the street for a period, we've all reconciled and are super close despite physical distances. It was my siblings that encouraged me to go and do a PhD, so I owe them tons...

Dad has gone now, but mum is still with us and in rather rude health I'm happy to say. She was a very young mother ...

Sticking together in one way or another is very important...

I'm covered in sepia poignancy now!

 

[gennepher]

That is magnificent. Easily a stained glass masterpiece too. Whaal.

Thank you very much @BRSBRI

 

[ianpspurs]

It's amazing - and I think that's fab. Fabulous.

We're all diaspora this end; far flung here and there. After a family breakup which happened during my undergrad years at university rendering me homeless and on the street for a period, we've all reconciled and are super close despite physical distances. It was my siblings that encouraged me to go and do a PhD, so I owe them tons...

Dad has gone now, but mum is still with us and in rather rude health I'm happy to say. She was a very young mother ...

Sticking together in one way or another is very important...

I'm covered in sepia poignancy now!

What an amazing journey yours is. I managed to straddle the two streams of life in many small villages. My family once owned the local pub, were involved in the mid C19th early C20th major employer locally - fruit growing- and my grandmother was the reception teacher for the village school. I went to Uni and eventually returned - having worked in London - as a professional so i fitted in with the newcomers. The new housing was designed for "aspirational" families - think high end, large 5 bed detached with appropriate price tag. We couldn't buy each of the 3 boys a house there. None of the scions of"traditional" families can and it causes resentment. I assume this is widespread in England.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. Today is hopefully a roast with mediterranean vegetables or more likely cold tongue pie, me and me's find keeping in Mrs J's good books a pointless challenge.

A young 5.3 this morning on that scheming meter.

Some strange topics this morning, but it is good to read that @jjraak is still making slow progress, slow but progress. @BRSBRI good luck with your freedom, tomorrow or today, @ianpspurs a hug, sometimes we just have to accept the cards we are dealt in the game of life and play.

Here in Tilehurst Towers the days are being counted till I can get out on my motorbike.
Remember avoid the morons and media.

 

[ianpspurs]

Just as an addition to my post on small villages. If, like my family, you own land and went to school with local councillors on the planning committee it is still amazingly easy to build a house. Not 3 more though, tends to "spoil" their village and tread on their toes. Who knew?

 

[BRSBRI]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. Today is hopefully a roast with mediterranean vegetables or more likely cold tongue pie, me and me's find keeping in Mrs J's good books a pointless challenge.

A young 5.3 this morning on that scheming meter.

Some strange topics this morning, but it is good to read that @jjraak is still making slow progress, slow but progress. @BRSBRI good luck with your freedom, tomorrow or today, @ianpspurs a hug, sometimes we just have to accept the cards we are dealt in the game of life and play.

Here in Tilehurst Towers the days are being counted till I can get out on my motorbike.
Remember avoid the morons and media.

I'd walk back to the UK for a slice of cold tongue pie btw...

Enjoy trying to get back on the good side...

Here's a thought: I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time...

 

[BRSBRI]

What an amazing journey yours is. I managed to straddle the two streams of life in many small villages. My family once owned the local pub, were involved in the mid C19th early C20th major employer locally - fruit growing- and my grandmother was the reception teacher for the village school. I went to Uni and eventually returned - having worked in London - as a professional so i fitted in with the newcomers. The new housing was designed for "aspirational" families - think high end, large 5 bed detached with appropriate price tag. We couldn't buy each of the 3 boys a house there. None of the scions of"traditional" families can and it causes resentment. I assume this is widespread in England.

That's a fab story too...roots, so important. I'm drawn not to Glasgow where all my formative years were spent as well as my time at Uni - but to the borderlands where I was born - around Gretna and the like, to where mum returned...a border reiver true!

You know, I was invited to Number 10 - the lair of the blonde idiot, just before Covid struck to a reception about tech in the UK...I made an excuse and like many of my peers stayed well away. He's the epitome of no family, self, cronyism and corruption and I might not have had the patience nor sense to bite my tongue. In the end, not due to Covid, the event was abandoned...

 

[ianpspurs]

That's a fab story too...roots, so important. I'm drawn not to Glasgow where all my formative years were spent as well as my time at Uni - but to the borderlands where I was born - around Gretna and the like, to where mum returned...a border reiver true!

You know, I was invited to Number 10 - the lair of the blonde idiot, just before Covid struck to a reception about tech in the UK...I made an excuse and like many of my peers stayed well away. He's the epitome of no family, self, cronyism and corruption and I might not have had the patience nor sense to bite my tongue. In the end, not due to Covid, the event was abandoned...

Good on your mum for returning to her roots and for you not giving "him" the oxygen of attending. My perception from the traditional blue side of my family is your view of him is widely held in those quarters. Not to mention the nuisance caused to them over their properties in Europe

 

[BRSBRI]

It's dinner time on my last night of confinement. My final Covid test has just come back negative...yay! And at 00.01 I get the text and RFID scanner code...very efficient...I hope

I'm ordering up seafood soup, Japanese katsudon pork chop, greens and salad...with a ½ bottle of chilled Riesling.

It's a rainy night and quite chilly compared to the steam bath of the last week anyway.

Early to bed for me as I'm out and about doing my schtuff tomorrow in a controlled sorta way

Happy Sunday one and all

 

[ianpspurs]

It's dinner time on my last night of confinement. My final Covid test has just come back negative...yay! And at 00.01 I get the text and RFID scanner code...very efficient...I hope

I'm ordering up seafood soup, Japanese katsudon pork chop, greens and salad...with a ½ bottle of chilled Riesling.

It's a rainy night and quite chilly compared to the steam bath of the last week anyway.

Early to bed for me as I'm out and about doing my schtuff tomorrow in a controlled sorta way

Happy Sunday one and all



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All sounds wonderful apart from pork chop. I hope the sandman cometh gently. Crying freedom must surely be genetically programmed. Maybe don't brandished your Claymore though.

 

[jjraak]

Good evening everyone. The finger stabbing at 0845 this morning produced 5.9mmol which is a bit of a result given the food and naughty booze intake yesterday.

This was followed by listening to Tony Blackburn on BBC iPlayer as I pedalled 14 miles on the bike, going no-where in the bathroom and a breakfast of yoghurt, berries and a nice omelette with grilled asparagus. A cafetière of coffee was had looking at the pouring rain with a cool 16°C being the temperature. A change!

Had what I hope is the last visitation from the epidemic control team for my Covid test who also left me a full set of instructions if I'm released at 00.01 tomorrow - and they track you!

Lunch was a big bowl of soup (duck) and salad, with copious amounts of fizzy water.
BG at 1430 this afternoon was 5.4...

Been working throughout the morning and afternoon in prep for the big meetings this week...confirmed my departure a week on Wednesday, the day before my birthday (I was an April's fool babba) on that executive jet to Farnborough which then takes others after a night stop there across the Atlantic...I hope it arrives on time, but you never know - and there's no plan B...

Apart from that, couped up here and hopefully elsewhere tomorrow after the long awaited release SMS, carefully navigating my lot before returning here to the room and staff that've suffered me since arrival...

Zooming the UK in a mo....hopefully not seeing something like this

Have a great Sunday all! View attachment 48240

Does sound very James Bond....

Going in under the radar, evading the deadly virus circulated by the evil SPECTRE, then popping up clearly visible, playing roulette/poker with Dr No. Getting captured, but then escaping the duck infested waters,
and thwarting his evil plot of WORLD DOMINATION before Dame Judy sends a chopper your way,
for a leisurely flight home to Mish Moneypenny.

But gave a big chuckle for the Dog pic...

oh and thanks for good wishes.