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

Good Morning and 5.7 for me today. Yesterday evenings Tuna Steak in a Mediterranean Sauce may be the cause of dropping numbers, who knows.

Cold and bright here but at least the wind seems to have dropped.

Keep safe and keep warm.
 
If it is Tuesday this must be Suffolk but this thread rattles along too fast so neither of those may be true. Swipey claimed my fbg was 4.8 but me no know. Great back story about your business @Muddy Cyclist and Mrs M C must have been mortified at that reaction. @BRSBRI love the idea of you in open toed sandals and Beret and I imagine both daughters would rofl at the idea of a cool dad - how sharper than a serpents tooth etc. Hope all goes well with the trip. @Krystyna23040 great line about Nespresso profit warnings. The red gooseberries were indeed eaten raw. Like all fruit best freshly picked in sunshine.. There was no team to pick a ton of plums a day, just me. A few were considered a ton a day men - me all of 19-23 - and basically given their own orchard. "Yellow eggs" (yellow Pershore) turned into jam and sold as apricot, amazing on croissants. The orchards are all gone now. @Muddy Cyclist cutting off a branch? If I so much as snapped one I would have been disinherited on the spot. I know not how this works but it is really cold here and I am feeling the effects of hay fever for the second time in my life. Peace be with you.
 
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Picking a ton a day of plums is so impressive. I hadn't realised that you were picking that amount on your own.

It sounds like the red gooseberries would be really nice with some yoghurt. It's a shame you never see them in the supermarkets.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, sorry still no time to catch up on all your posts, painting and general goings on.

A young 6.3 earlier this morning on that scheming meter of mystery.
Back to grindstone of what has become my life recently and a slightly different day today. Hopefully involving my motorbike .

Stay well, stay safe, stay warm and finally stay away from the media.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Picking a ton a day of plums is so impressive. I hadn't realised that you were picking that amount on your own.

It sounds like the red gooseberries would be really nice with some yoghurt. It's a shame you never see them in the supermarkets.
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Plum picking was perfect for UNI summers. Outdoor work, no travelling except by bike. Amazing tan by mid September. Only once picked pears - such an easy way to rack up money very quickly. In mid 70s £140 per week cash in hand was all good. I still have and wear the made to measure sheepskin coat I bought with some of the money the summer I turned 21 (and I was defo not overweight then) . Loved working with my grandfather who had planted some of the oldest trees and was delighted to volunteer me to pick the tops of the tallest trees in the area. "Don't worry, I know where there is a ladder big enough." Thanks granddad.
 
Journey start. MrsBRS and Arthur have walked into Bath with me - no point driving as it's quicker à pied as they say.

Big bowl of chicken soup to fortify me before we left the house of chaos.

Been to Boots to save hassle at Paddington, big hugs and a quivering lip from the missus (even after all these years of travelling it always happens), doglet whimpering. Sigh. Got smiles from them both before I meandered inside the station.
Couldn't get the GWR app to work so went to the ticket desk " 1st single to Heathrow Terminal 2 please". "You not coming back then"? Nice little chat, and GWR from Bristol Temple Meads has just left and will be here in 11-12 mins.

Snow is forecast for tonight
in them these parts.

Will check in shortly to test the phone prototype software upgrades we've just deployed...see how it does!
 
So it works (and so does GWR)! Away right on time.

I attached this photo by using voice commands only. If you can't remember the file name you just browse via voice. You can even change the photo's parameters the same way.

Guy at ticket desk in Bath was helpful - pointed out if I bought a regular train fare it'd be a stopping service to Heathrow, so I've just bought the single to Heathrow on the 15 minute Express...a whopping £32 notes! I almost fainted but pushed buy anyway...

Once a Scotsman, always a Scotsman
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Picking a ton a day of plums is so impressive. I hadn't realised that you were picking that amount on your own.

It sounds like the red gooseberries would be really nice with some yoghurt. It's a shame you never see them in the supermarkets.
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I love gooseberries and really thick Greek yoghurt. It's lush with peanut butter dribbled over the top. Mind you, I'd even eat sausages and peanut butter if that was delivered to me!
 
Stay safe and parsimonious
 
ianpspurs said:
Stay safe and parsimonious
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Just been speaking to colleagues in France. Thought I should swig this to get into the spirit with them. They're French after all...

"I remember you" said Adam of GWR with an eye smile, masked as he is. "Have more nuts and extra napkins after the last episode". It's too small a world sometimes.

I sipped it in between the face re-masking. Santé
 
Hi Ian,
See if you can spot the volcanic eruption when you go over Iceland on the Great Circle.
I loved seeing Greenland, Baffin Island and N.W Territories. What a massive place Canada is.
The volcano has got very actice and put out considerable lava flows in last 24 hours.
D.
 
I think you mean @BRSBRI - who I'm guessing isn't called Ian. I've been no further than local Sainsburys today
 
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Heathrow is a far, far quieter place, though much busier than any other airport in the UK - which is either a good thing or very disconcerting depending on how you look at it, with a 3rd wave of the dreaded Covid all but guaranteed to hit these shores in a couple of months at most.

GWR to Paddington, 2 of us in the carriage I was in; parked up beside the Heathrow Express - only me in my compartment, the others were up the other end of the train for the 15 mins jaunt.

Terminal 2 is huge, and with T3 and T4 shut, there's a few folks milling about but many many gaps. And the walk to the hotel - not a soul. An empty corridor where you could hear a pin drop.

Now installed in my room. Three hours after leaving Bath via central London - that's pretty good.

The dinner menu means you phone down, they give you a time and then you collect it for munching in the room.

Limited menu for me, and I'm starving. Should have picked up stuff before leaving Paddington, but here I am!

So soup - it's asparagus (leave the roll), Caesar salad with chicken on top then a cheese plate, leave the biscuits and a ½ bottle of wine to make it palatable. Have cashews with me and other bits as I know the breakfast to Paris tomorrow on the 0615 Air France connector will be a croissant or 12....

I'm hopeful at Paris in the lounge, there'll be something...if not, my diet is going to go well


Hope all's well with all of you
 
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