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

I bet your W......ose tomato plants are superb. We love home grown tomatoes and every year we benefit from our neighbours growing too many from seed.
 
True Blue said:
Hi @ianpspurs
Mixed tomatoes? Need to decide if you want a bush or vine variety, then support, prune and nurture as appropriate. Suggest split the types into two separate areas if available. Good luck.
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Thanks @True Blue. We grew several varieties in the old garden - 2 full raised beds and some growbags. Yellow tear drop, Tiger and Purple were prolific. This is a standard 4 bed detached house so IMHO piddling little garden. Not sure of the soil/crop mix here, the raised beds were created from scratch and had a bespoke soil mix. They flourished - better outside than in green houses. They seem ok so far as does the W.......ose rhubarb. 5 fruit trees in pots - patio size - doing ok. Will never be home but best compromise I can manage just now.
 
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The Artist? He the same Artist and Sculptor who uses glaciers as His chisel!
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Krystyna23040 said:
I bet your W......ose tomato plants are superb. We love home grown tomatoes and every year we benefit from our neighbours growing too many from seed.
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When I was young I used to go birding round the old fashioned sewage farms..a great place for migrant wading birds unlike the modern treatment works.

The filter beds were full of tomato plants when they were drying out.
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lindisfel said:
The Artist? He the same Artist and Sculptor who uses glaciers as His chisel!
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I'm reading how He gave some bloke called Job a hard time just now. I tried to reach out to Job via Social Media (I think we would bond well) but no luck. The chickens loved tomatoes and after Mr Fox ate them the area around their coop had an unbelievable number of tomatoes spring up. I miss the chickens, rarely eat eggs now whereas I used to eat maybe 2 a day of our own.
 
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Hi Ian,
Theodicy is a big subject. Too big for a simple guy like me!

O.t.h. proper free range eggs are a different kettle of fish.. They taste superb, it must be all the beetles, slugs and worms they eat.
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Hi Slimlizzy,
I would leave it until well into July when all the birds have nested and the young hares are grown up and then get a local farmer in to take a hay crop for his cows.
I doubt very much if paradise will have short grass.
O.t.h. perhaps you should buy a cow in calf and then produce your own milk butter and cheese?
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Whoops. Idiot boy has been using the full sugar version - 79% carb - of caramel syrup in his coffee for 2 days. 6 shots of that produce an impressive inverted V on Swipey aided by 0% Fage Greek yogurt, flaxseed and raspberries - 4.9 to 5.3 over 2 hrs. Usually a dip with sugar free. Careless but the coffee tasted spiffing - which is a bonus.
 
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good evening all

4.3 today

finally plucked up courage to go get my bloods done, only three months late Weird how much I want to know, mind you when I originally phoned I was told 'we're not doing that just now'

Anyway I got my fasting bloods done this morning, now we await the results
I think my HbA1c will have gone up, I've noticed it's felt more of a juggling act to keep things on an even keel since I had the covid jabs.

Went over to pick up mum's shopping list and mowed a bit of grass and managed to tweak my knee again so I'm a bit dischuffed Hopefully it will feel better by tomorrow

Hope your day is treating you kindly

@gennepher - looks like an interestng app. I like your whale, enjoy the garden

@dunelm - a handsome junk, I presume they raise and lower the sail rather like a roman blind the battens should keep them in shape.

art bit - lots of fields of rape growing around here at the moment

 
Love the art as usual. No oil seed rape round here - air bases, pine trees, pigs (lots), sheep and some cereal. Quite a few acres of waste scubland which just looks scruffy. Rape seed declined in my old part of the Fens - vast acres of protein, peas and beans, which were mowed over by combines then ploughed and resown asap. None of the smell of OSR. When you get into the Fens proper around Ely rapid turnaround salad crops with fields worked from dawn to dusk by Eastern Europeans for now. Sorry to hear about the knee. A1c should be a breeze for you.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
Hope your audiology appointment goes well. I loved my BlackBerry phone and very reluctantly changed to a Samsung Galaxy but must admit that the Samsung is a much better phone.
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Went as expected, can't do wax, now waiting for wax removal appointment.

Yes sad to loose my Blackberry, new Samsung is fine but offers far to much for my requirements. Kids to the rescue when I next see them to simplify things.
 
lindisfel said:
Parts of the local area have quite a few wildflowers on the grass verge...it seems to be a good year for Red Campion.

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Red Campion, yellow iris and cow parsley are doing extremely well here. We had a good show of bluebells and wild garlic or rampsons.
 
I have two of those in our loft and some solitary bee nests, I will leave them be as they do no real harm. I feel sorry for wasps, so good for the environment and then a pest when the queen stops feeding them, we should feel sorry for them as they are only looking forward food and a bit of will power and calmness onour part will keep them away.
 
Ta. Considering I spent a life time developing computer software I have to say I find the setup irritating, still I will conquere.

As for Google I accept it's algorithms as I do Amzons and many other companies, modern life, why fight it?
 
That is a mighty fine painting you have given us, so much light and atmosphere a definite GREAT WINNER.
 
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