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

ianpspurs said:

the Katz Deli reference was to the famous scene from When Harry met Sally - I'll have what she's having. (decided against posting the youtube link) and your spell check suggestion.

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Krystyna23040 said:

6.2 fbs. Am now relaxing with a coffee after a lovely dog walk. Before the dog walk I realised my phone was missing. I knew it was in the house, but it was on silent so I couldn't ring it. After an extensive search of the house Mr K found it in one of the dogs beds. I'd obviously dropped it when saying goodnight to the dogs. What a relief.

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alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all missed the sailing of the good ship Venus, better stop their, that was nearly the first line of a rather rude rugby song. .....yes I played rugby in my youth, just for @ianpspurs, scrum half.

A early morning cheese fuelled 7.5.

Today is being donated to catching up with domestication, avoiding Mrs J and generally selfishly enjoying my self.

Looks like surge testing is going to be introduced into various areas of Reading, fortunately not the area we live in, but one and the rest of me's have to be alert.

Stay safe, stay well and stay away from Reading.

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alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all missed the sailing of the good ship Venus, better stop their, that was nearly the first line of a rather rude rugby song. .....yes I played rugby in my youth, just for @ianpspurs, scrum half.

A early morning cheese fuelled 7.5.

Today is being donated to catching up with domestication, avoiding Mrs J and generally selfishly enjoying my self.

Looks like surge testing is going to be introduced into various areas of Reading, fortunately not the area we live in, but one and the rest of me's have to be alert.

Stay safe, stay well and stay away from Reading.

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jjraak said:

Late to the show, but welcome to the 'hood'

Surge testing been here for ages, worrying at first, but all going to make up the case numbers rather then any specific measure it seems, at the moment anyway.

You could get LFT tests delivered if you wanted to help identify cases or for added reassurance.

Free & quick delivery from NHS if you opt for it.


Enjoy the day, seems like you've planned it well.

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Sugarlisa said:

5.5

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jjraak said:

A few days no fbg .so catch is it's still in the 6 range ..foods good, so still thinking it's the exercise that's lacking, and more so the intensity.

Small injury update, yesterday first time since Decembers incident that I managed the stairs in a normal fashion. Whoop whoop...only took me 6 months

Felt SO good, once I stopped to think I hadn't had to stop and single step once .

A couple of other good things happened.

Furry nephew was one, two lovely walks in the glorious sunshine,
And first public outing in shorts since early 2020....

And while I enjoy what I eat, I kind of hanker more now for some of the old dishes..spag bol being one.

Tried konjak ages back...yuk

Been toying with buying a spiralizer..reviews not all great, so dithering over which to by

Notice, ( obv now I WANT to try) very little in the way of courgetti type things in stores

SO I set about making some courghetti without a spiralizer
Cut strip's out of a plain old courgette, until I spotted a tip to use cheese grater.

How gloriously simple.

Grated, cooked, worked a treat

One more dish now useful for that work pack lunch.

Had a wonderful curry (balti style ) last night with roasted cauli rice..yum.

Just need to find similar for Singapore noodles,
And it's job jobbed .

Enjoy the day all.

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dunelm said:

We have a posh spiralizer hiding in the back of a cupboard and what a pain - works fine but try cleaning it without shredding your fingers. We have three little cone things - they sit in a drawer and are used often - easy to use and clean, take up little room - and cheap as chips. I think that they came from Amazon but it could have been from the Nile.
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jjraak said:

Cheers for that.
Small enough to fit in a draw, if it's left unused.

Last thing I need is yet another kitchen "Gadget" gathering dust AND taking up space on a shelf.


Ordered via Amazon , couldn't use the other choice, because I'm in de-nile

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geefull said:

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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Krystyna23040 said:

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.

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Krystyna23040 said:

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.

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dunelm said:

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.

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jjraak said:

Just a share, for a mad Max view of Australia.

Barren it maybe, but I can almost feel the heat and omg, i bet that sea breeze feels good

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56990845

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