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

Krystyna23040 said:
5.3 this morning. Even though it is a grey day we are off to Gooderstone Water Gardens after we have done the weekly shop. Am at the moment debating whether or not to have a third Nespresso coffee before going shopping.
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Go large gal, have another one before and a couple after because you're worth it.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Do you like wodgames as well? Am playing wordscapes
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I looked at Wordscapes. It looks really interesting but what put me off was this quote 'Wordscapes is the word hunt game that over 10 million people just can't stop playing!'. As I am definitely someone who gets hooked on games like Suduko and Mah Jong I would definitely get hooked on Wordscapes.
 
Another Specsaver advert courtesy of our visionary leaders. They can't be blamed for all the general circumstances but their actions invariably make any bad situation far worse than needed. Incompetence, arrogance, ideology, sloth, greed or all of the above.?
 
Thanks @geefull for the Snapseed compliment

That idea of notices in the window appears just to be in your area.
I am guessing that kind of idea might be in other small villages, but it is not in my area, an industrial town.

I love your new bottle of resist. It is very effective with those waves.
A brilliant seascape!
 
Your trees are getting even more amazing @dunelm
I look forward to them each morning...
 
Krystyna23040 said:
5.3 this morning. Even though it is a grey day we are off to Gooderstone Water Gardens after we have done the weekly shop. Am at the moment debating whether or not to have a third Nespresso coffee before going shopping.
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It is a hard life deciding whether to have that third Nespresso @Krystyna23040
 
Fbg 6.7

Badger has dug a new tunnel into my garden, so more wire netting and rebar to hold it in place. He knocked over my plant pots last night...

I am absolutely exhausted today, because yesterday I met my friend D and we talked for about 4 hours solid. A lot to catch up on from March 2020. But I am out of practice with the concentrating on all that lipreading and working out what she is saying (because my brain has to do best fit what it thinks I have lipread on), that it has given me a visual zig zag, black and white effect migraine. So, I am out of action now.
Aaagggh.

Inanimate objects today for Snapseed.
My radiator is the main photo put through Snapseed's noir tool, a few others, then played with curves.
Then I took another photo, so my bedside lamp again, played in grunge tool. And used it for the double exposure tool. I loved the way how the lamp appeared with the grunge tool, but you cannot see that full effect in the final version, because I reduced the size for it to go in one of the first photo's 'windows'.

So I will put two photos in today. The first is the final version, the second is just what the lamp appeared like after I put it through the grunge tool.



And here is the lamp before I reduced it for the final version. I like this one very much in its own right.



And I saw an Airbus Military A400M Atlas C1 RAF come into land at the John Lennon Airport yesterday. It was quickly followed by an Airbus 321 Wizz Air. The 321 was narrow bodied and along with its livery made it very distinctive in the skies. D said the first was carrying people from Afghanistan, and speculated the second was carrying military personnel.
I checked online when I got home, And checked landings at John Lennon Airport, I had the times obviously. I am not that au fey with names of aircraft, and some airspace buff had photographed them coming in to land and named them. They were flying quite low, and if I had seen several of the Military A400M's flying low I would have been apprehensive...
 
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Lovely to meet up with your friend. Such a shame it left you with a migraine. Hope you feel a lot better later today.
 
Just heard Doris on R4 N, I thought he was going to say we have a world beating retreat from Kabul!
It to be hoped its better than the 1842 British retreat.
D.
 
That was really interesting about the green thumbs etc I've never seen or heard about them ...a lovely idea .
 
Always good to catch up with friends and hope that you are now recovered from the strain of it. Interesting use of the snapseed app - what fun.
 
Good morning everyone from a drizzly start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of a chicken and egg situation landed a 5.0 this am

The Ninky Nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse are sat round the dining room table having breakfast; peanut butter sandwich, toast and jam, weetabix - I am just about able to have the odd slulp of my koffy. Youngest son and his mate left on their bikes at 0620 to catch the train to Newcastle (I made them a sandwich each to take with them) - 10 minutes later eldest son gets in from his last night shift of the cycle - Mrs Miggins is in bed, stacking Z’s. It’s almost like living on Waterloo station in a bizzare nightmare theme where I am stuck in a fast food cabin, running on a treadmill.

Youngest son’s pal is a vegetarian so made them roasted spiced cauliflower and sautéed creamed leeks using vegan cheese and some yoghurt substitute made out of coconut milk - pretty good results and the vegan cheese melted nicely into the creamed sauce - called Violife and 21% carbs - the sacrifices that these veggie people have to make.

Art bit - tree part taken from a painting that I saw on the wonder web. Have a wonderful Friday - I am tucking mine onto the weekend and bank holiday Monday to have a loooong weekend (the things you can do when you don’t have to earn a crust any more). “More koffy vicar?” “No thanks it makes me f**t.”

 
Fbg 6.3

Nice weather again.
Sparrows, and all the little brown birds, and all the different varieties of the word we are not allowed to mention family, that I get a row of 3 stars for. To give you a clue I will start you off with bluetits, greattits, long tailedtits etc Yesterday I was doing stuff in the garden and the long tailedtits were flying all around me, not at all worried about me moving around. The young ones have lost their cute chubbiness, and are now long and sleek.

Today's photo in Snapseed is from a £1 jar of solar 'fireflies' in the pound store. I brought various other solar lights, some that look like eyes, and my plan was to put them where the badger/s enters my garden so they look like eyes in the dark. You can buy solar eyes on sticks from Amazon especially to frighten your badger away, but you have to part with about £30 to do so. I don't mind paying the odd £1 out for an experiment but not £30, when I am pretty certain it doesn't work anyway. I can easily bring these little £1 lights in to recharge by lamp if it is a dull cloudy winter's day, should this idea work.

I think the badger is incensed by AH neighbour building this rigid wood and concrete Fort Knox fence all around his property, because badger would come out of the woods at the bottom of this neighbour's property, walk through and come out of his front gate, or would walk through my property. Badger's world has been turned upside down with this fence, and badger does not take no for an answer, and is making new tunnels.

But I do have to keep my garden secure for my elderly 29 year old cat, so the keep out badger project has to continue for the moment.

I used the double exposure in Snapseed, and made the second pic more intense and smaller.

 
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5.7 today. Yesterday I had a prioritising cashew nuts and Montezuma chocolate day instead of a prioritising protein day. Am back on the 'straight and nsrrow" today.

Yesterday had a lovely wander around Gooderstone Water Gardens. Mr K at last got a sausage roll (every bit as good as the NT ones apparently). I had cashew nuts and Montezuma 100%. A nice change from the protein powder mix I usually take. I continued in the same vein throughout the rest of the day and evening.
 
The day closed with fading blue skies into the sunset and blue skies this am, though the temperature will be limited to 19 deg C today.
What a difference that 100 or so miles over the Pennines makes!
Atb
D.
 
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