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

lindisfel said:
Hi Ian,
I used to like fresh mackerel. If you get them fresh, de-boning seems to work ok.

They used to be a cheap fish to eat and full of the right kind of oil.
D.
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Thanks Derek. I'm not a fan of anything much that is LC and has to be cooked. The big exception is salmon fillet to make the skin crispy Strip meat of the carby accompaniments and it isn't very appealing. to me. As a fen lad yourself, originally, you must be acutely aware that celeriac and cauliflower are just not a substitute for potatoes. Lc gravy is also wrong on so many levels IMHO. Rather like Heston's ideas, many "traditional"meals only work as a whole ensemble for me. I have tried really hard to make "swaps" but it is like swapping Harry Kane for the ball boy and pretending things are just as good. All individual taste/opinion and whatever compromises one is prepared to make/ can tolerate.
 
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gennepher said:
Thank you very much @Muddy Cyclist
I am sitting in the garden, only coming in to brew cuppas today. The birds and insects and flowers and bushes and trees are my companions today...
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Very nice this morning, got some grass cut and sat down and looked at the Buzzards circling high near a fluffy white cloud no bigger than a mans hand.

Midge this afternoon and did some weeding but the little devils started to bite because the wind had dropped. The duchess was helping and they started on her as well
It's somewhat early after all the cold.

I know someone who used citronella for the horses and swore by it.

I was out in a forest with with friends observing nightjars in June one year, late one evening, and one guy wouldn't use it even though we were being bitten to death.
He reckoned his wife would think he had been with another woman!
Far more fearsome than midge is a suspicious lady, so they tell me!

Did you use Skin so Soft by Avon or Deet @dunelm? I bet you had some good stuff in the Mob.
D.
 
We did have some strong stuff in the mob - no idea what it was @lindisfel - it just came in a small green plastic bottle. Avon Skin so Soft is the preferred solution to many motorcyclists and I have used it with great success when touring Europe. Useful stuff against the dreaded black fly up north of the border - my sister who lives in France thinks it’s the bees knees.
 
I find will power works, ignore them and they go away. Or maybe I just don't taste that good.

I was training two army guys on Mountain Bikes on a still day in the Brecons, they snapped a chain and took an age to repair it, all the midge left me alone but feasted on the two army guys, never seen so many lumps and bumps.
 
I promised another Cader Idris but in the mist, here it be. Sunset and mist from the North side of the Mawdach Estuary.

A4 watercolour...

 
good afternoon all

4.4 yesterday and 4.7 today

seems I go through occasional periods of stress about my bg, (even when it's ok ), either that or it's worrying about my weight, having spent a lot of my adult life very overweight/obese and nothing working to help it any real change in the upward direction tends to bother me to a disproportionate extent, (there are those who would say I'm a bit of a control freak/numbers geek too ).
I suddenly put on 1.6 kg over the last week (to add to the 3 Kg I put on over the lockdown), so I'm trying to avoid obsessing

I'm fine really, just staying away from numbers if I can

It rained this morning but we had to go out for mr gee to get his hair trimmed so we went over to Dornoch for a potter about afterwards, we haven't been since we took Katy for a clip so it was very pleasant and at least you can get a cup of coffee now

@dunelm - both your pictures work really well, very effective, it seems to me that the semi-sized paper gives a bit more defined line and the visible contrast between the rear/front application of the colour wash is interesting. I find the hints of muted colour in both very pleasing

@gennepher - hugs for your horrible experience at the hospital, especially galling when the people concerned should know so much better I hope your day in the garden has restored some equilibrium, nature and quiet definitely can have a beneficial effect.
I'm glad you have a helpful internet friend to aid in navigation

Both your pictures are fine and bravely very expressive, I especially like the explosion of colour

@Muddy Cyclist - Sorry you missed your ride today, I know how much joy it brings you
Your cauli, cheese and bacon sounds good I may pinch that idea

Your 'Cader Idris' in the mist is lovely and the colour you have brought into the foreground works brilliantly I love it.

'Skin so soft' works pretty well against the dreaded West Coast 'wee beasties' and I have a citronella candle for on the patio table

My least successful bug repellant was an oily spray I bought to take on holiday in Italy a few years ago
nothing at all wrong with it's repelling properties but it recommended you sprayed it on your ankles then rubbed it into your skin, all fine, the next bit said re-apply after 3-4 hours. I did and it left big oily patches on the support socks I'd taken to wear for long walks in the heat and when I took them off and washed them the 'support' bit had degraded in circular patches

Hope your day is treating you well

art bit - sorry, it's a redo of the art from the other day (as close as I could make it), to see how the paint behaves on the first batch of new paper I bought, it's Fabriano (studio) which is 280gsm I believe.

I shall try to post a thumbnail of the one on the original paper too below just for interest, the new paper takes a lot more water and at first glance I think the colour stayed more vibrant.


 
@geefull Thank you.

In the equine world you would be known as a 'do gooders' or as Mrs MC says she can get fat on lettuce leaves.

I agree the new paper does hold the colour better, brilliant picture again, yes I know it's the same subject but improving each time.
 
dunelm said:
Wonderful use of those reds throughout. The mist works very well - another good Cader Idris
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Thank you. my favourite Welsh Mountain. I do like Tryfan but it's a little busy these days.

Favourite Welsh walking country is in the Rhinogs but even that is getting busy. So Berwyn range and Mountain Bike is probably best escape.
 
Help! Every time I try to post, I get a Chapcha think asking questions about boats or bicycles

Update: apart from now it seems!
 
dunelm said:
Help! Every time I try to post, I get a Chapcha think asking questions about boats or bicycles

Update: apart from now it seems!
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had that a few times.

seems to be if the post is more then so many characters long

but as miserable as THAT is.....


WAY, WAY, WAY preferable then the Captcha ..with it's *** is THAT
Mystery word tour....

20 goes later ..and finally get it RIGHT.

A worthy nominee for the NEXT Olympics i think
 

Perhaps you are the answer to all our problems of climate change! Its the CO2 they home in on, you perhaps produce no green house gas, muddy?
A Scot on the N.W coast near Ullapool, where we stayed, reckoned they didnt bother him, one could see him as the product of evolution!
His wife from near Inverness got bitten horrible.
D.
 
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