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

Yes @gennepher - keeping feet and eyes is a huge motivation to keep carbs low. I use Fatsecret every day to plan my meals but have never managed to drop as low as 5g. At 20g I can still have my kefir, Yeo Valley organic Greek Yoghurt, ground flaxseeds and a few berries. I really admire your ability to stay as low as 5g - as yet I haven't managed it.

Luckily - just in time - I caught predictive text trying to substitute another word for organic. Predictive Text has been good for a while, but now I think it is trying to get me into trouble with the Mods.
 
Errant is a really lucky cat that he has such caring owners after being a stray for so long.
 
good evening all

4.3 yesterday and 4.4 today

I still find our volunteering day tiring but we're getting more used to it again. I tend to fall asleep in the evening after we get home

Don't know what it is about the lockdown but after the grand piano donation the other week there was an upright piano and an electric organ in the big shed yesterday (I saw that grin you lot, don't get me into trouble with the mods )

Mr gee helped the furniture volunteers to check and clean them.

I do join you in wishing that our doctor's would have got their act together in a more timely way. I spent a lot of my adult life getting more and more overweight and being told I was lazy and eating too much. You can tell they don't believe you when you say you're sticking to their dietary advice

My diaversary was on the 31st of May and you friendly people have been such a help and support to me. Keeping your eyes and feet in good order certainly does concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Hope your day is treating you as well as you could wish

@gennepher - I'm late to the group but I'm sending hugs, how dreadful of your AH neighbour I do hope that you get some satisfaction although it can not replace what has been lost.

I'm impressed with your plans to mitigate some of the lost privacy and I'm enjoying your paintings inspired by Lin Fengmian, your birds painting has a lovely delicate layered foliage background and your sunflowers are brave and determined (rather like you ).

@dunelm - more effective monoprints, that technique is certainly proving inspirational, your bird is very strong and I absolutely love your loose floral brush painting today, so airy

@Krystyna23040 - I have the greatest respect and admiration for your grit and determination in tackling your diagnosis

@Muddy Cyclist - lovely looking firm sand for a ride

Two great plein air rock pool sketches today, I love the way you use colour and bring it into your work.
Well done to Bella

@ianpspurs - please give my good wishes to Julie, how unfortunate, I hope it is not too complex an injury and will settle down and mend quickly.

art bit - I hope this loads ok, the first couple of tries I it told me the file was too big even though it was less than 500mb

 
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I have the greatest respect and admiration for your grit and determination in tackling your diagnosis
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Thank you @geefull
If only our doctors had realised that it was their dietary advice that was causing our problems.

I do love your painting. It reminds me of of a holiday we spent in Ireland.
 
ianpspurs said:
Proper Katz Deli yogurt then. Fage doesn't reach those heights for me.
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I really do love Yeo Valley Organic Greek yoghurt. It has got a great taste. I also use Yeo Valley Organic milk to make the Kefir. It makes the best Kefir out of all the different milks I have used.
 
Well done @gennepher. You have definitely worked out just how to get your privacy back and done an impressive amount of work to achieve it.

Plus you have done a lovely painting.
 
You are right. The loo buggy is such a good idea.
I used to carry jelly babies with me when I was injecting insulin. The only problem was that I love jelly babies and it took so much willpower to stop myself eating them when I didn't need them.
 
I agree with @jjraak - Julie is a real tough cookie to have driven that far with a broken ankle.
 
Thank you @geefull and what a smashing landscape from you today. Those little touches such as the fence and those tiny red flowers help to give it interest.
 
Good morning everyone from another promise of azure here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of chicken salad came in at 5.1 this am

The ninky nonks are going home this morning. Mrs Miggins will be taking them to the half way handover point on her own. I am at the GP surgery, we have 600 vaccines to give out to lucky winners - most will be second vaccines but there will be some younger people. Having had loads of practice so with the waiting room now being used as a concertina conga line and the paperwork and live reporting to NHS England we should be whisking them through. Just need to give my cattle prod a final charge!

Hope that everyone has a pleasant Saturday and can stay away from tourist hoards. Koffy time.

 
Thank you.

A superb landscape, I do likeold cottages in paintings, I can't paint them, yours always seem to sit so well in your landscapes and that tree suggests the age of the cottage, nice foreground also.
 
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