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

The blue/purple works so well here - for me it’s out of the darkness of winter and into the light of spring.
 
Stunningly good photo’s
 
Great to have you back @JohnEGreen
 
Another fine dancing tune
 
Thank you @geefull. A fine minimalist yet at the same time quite detailed painting from you today with a restricted palette. Superb. This year, parallel rows of stakes such as these have appeared towards the end of the beach due to very rough seas sweeping away sand. Local historians have no records of them and are scratching their heads as to what they were for. Mind you, archeologists have just found, about 6 miles away, the earliest salt production site ever found in the UK, dating to around 3,800BC.
 

Hi,

I have to admit, some pretty impressive photos from your device.
Just a little disapointed we don't see you photo bombing/selfie style "suited & booted?"
(Unless it is more smart casual at Apple.)
Hope your appraisal went well..
 
Good Morning and 5.9 for me today. Baked Cauliflower and other veg probably overdid the parsnips again.

Meeting SOn in law this morning for a Muddy Cycle ride, he says we are riding from the Southern end of Cannock Chase starting at Daughters Home. I will Be getting my bike transporter out and on Wilfrid to get there or I'm faced with a 10 mile ride even before we started Mountain Biking and I already ache. I suspect 3 hours riding is in store knowing son in law, Oh to be 40 again.

Mrs MC is visiting MIL in nursing home, apparently costs have gone up 4% doesn't sound a lot but with costs of £1200 per week it makes a huge difference and lowered the number of years MIL can afford to pay for so Mrs MC is stressing.

Keep safe and make the day yours.
 
Hi,
The better half gets her second A.Z. this am with mixed feelings.
The story seems to be coming out in dribs and drabs and I am not sure we have had an accurate assessment of the probabilities yet? However, I am sure they are much better than having Covid in ones 70s and 80s.

5.8 this am.

Have good day all
D.
 
good morning everyone on a morning of mystery and anticipation here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of home made burger with a cauliflower and parmesan colcannon came in at 4.7 this am. (Blimey - just typed that without looking. Only one transposition and no keys locking - oh, that’s a four banked Imperial).

A new TV - or is it now an entertainment station or something - whatever, all this new fandangled electronic super smart tech takes forever to set up and even needs your mobile number so that it can send you codes and then you have to have your brain scanned and your eyeballs engraved with mystic symbols before answering the riddle of the Sphinx, ticking the squares containing traffic lights and swearing that you are in fact not related to Deep Blue.

Yesterday I was playing about with marbling on rice paper using ink -Mrs Miggins was not impressed with the kitchen sink but hey, that’s what bleach is for. Anyhow, some worked, some didn’t and some worked and then Mr Sausage fingers ruined them. Never mind. This one didn’t come out very well at all but I used the sooty smudge to do a quick (don’t think about the brush strokes) pair of wading birds. Hope that everyone has a most pleasant Thursday - I am now slurping koffy.

 
I gave you a winner but sad about the 4% increase for MIL - how are we going to keep up when such costs go up with interest on any saving being so low at present.
 

I know a few people with that same attitude. There are shockingly a lot of people who do that - and when I think about the 'advice' I was given by my diagnosing GP (basically shut the hell up and take all the tablets I want to give you) it really doesn't surprise me.
HIS view was... "I will dose you up on Metformin, you don't need to manage your BGs with anything, just come back in six months" ... he was FURIOUS when I got my bloods down with LC and monitoring with a Libre and I had to plead with him to sign a Libre statement to take on flights along with spares. He told me to my face I was "wasting my money" to which I retorted it was my money to waste.

With attitudes like that in the healthcare profession, is it any wonder there are people out there who think metformin is a miracle tablet that lets them eat whatever the hell they want?
 
Tricky decisions but for now it seems like the odds are well in favor of taking the jabs
 
And it turned into a masterpiece, I like the effect you have managed to achieve by averting a potential disaster. Would hand that on a wall.

Hugs for baffling technology does make one think about their sanity.
 
dunelm said:
I gave you a winner but sad about the 4% increase for MIL - how are we going to keep up when such costs go up with interest on any saving being so low at present.
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Thanks, interestingly we asked what happens when MILs money runs out, family top ups was the answer paying the difference from what the state puts in. No real figure given but anything between 200 and 500 per week was casually mentioned as though it's nothing.
 
Had mine yesterday and you can't help but think and worry about clots as the needle goes in. Your Better half was fine with the first jab so one assumes second won't be a problem.

Hug for worry though.
 
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