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

Krystyna23040 said:

[

That is absolutely idyllic and great that you can switch off the noise from.your. Neighbours.

Click to expand...

geefull said:

good evening all

4.2 today

turned out to be quite a cool and cloudy day so Sunday dinner inside at mum's today

The new ice cream recipe was voted a success (spiced rum and lemon), I served it with a small slice of almond and lemon lc sponge and a bit of plum and red gooseberry 'compote' (getting fancy now ).

Hope your day is treating you well

@dunelm - a hug for the day of mixed feeling though the morning sounds splendid
I do really like your bonsai, very stylish and that green has worked really well

@ianpspurs - 6th birthday, sounds like fun

@gennepher - sounds like you're planning a good and calm day in the garden
Snapseed and your imagination has turned up trumps again

art bit - my study of a work by an artist called David Drummond, I admire his skill at painting water
View attachment 50973

Click to expand...

alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen from the realm of learning domestic tasks.

A disastrous 4.3 this morning on that scheming meter of mystery and unpredictability.

All is now quiet, the covid festival, whoops sorry pop festival has finished, the great unwashed pop fans will be making their way happily home. Best avoid Reading town centre and the exit roads.

Did someone mention Monsoon Malibar? Hmm nice and how you @gennepher cope me and me's will never know, @lindisfel thanks for making me laugh, @ianpspurs trying to understanding your post today will be my intellectual challenge.

Here in Tilehurst Towers it is day 3 of the bank holiday and the 3rd bbq in a row of bbq's, our youngest son and his wife are coming from Mordor ( London ) at lunchtime, so best get on with tasks.

Stay safe all.

Click to expand...

Krystyna23040 said:

5.1 this morning. We had a lovely walk around Sheringham Park yesterday. We did our favourite walk so enjoyed some lovely views of the sea then followed paths that plunged deep into wooded valleys.

The NT have moved tables and chairs back into the courtyard - so it was really nice to be back to normal.

Click to expand...

JohnEGreen said:

4.4 for me this morning bit on the low side but feeling OK.

@ianpspurs Ian how does it feel being top of the league how novel is that.

Must admit even though I have been a Liverpool supporter since standing on the Kop End age three the first football match my dad took me to, I do have a sneaking like for Spurs since travelling down with a RAF mate of mine who was a Spurs fan from Wolverhampton to White Hart Lane 1n 1969 to watch a match on several occasions that was just before Jimmy went to West Ham in March 1970 if I remember correctly.

For all our great artists here you never fail to amaze me.

Click to expand...

dunelm said:

Thank you @gennepher, still not sure about the colour - will probably grow on me . Wake went well and it was good to catch up with so many family members. Mrs Miggins had spent the past few weeks making up a time line photo album of her parents stretching from early year and including all their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren - and extended family and friends.

Click to expand...

dunelm said:

Fabulous piece of art and so good that you can sit in your peacefull oasis in the midst of all the chaotic goings on and have a picnic.

Click to expand...

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a dull, drizzly yet very quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of salad days came home at 4.8 this am

Grandchildren went home yesterday afternoon but not before a last splash in the sea, a barefoot dash along the sand and a visit to an ice cream parlour. “Wow, ice-cream and in the morning, before lunch.” Dad returned from his bike ride, scooped them up and off they went. We will see them again in a couple of weeks. Fig tree needs pruning, it’s had a recent growth spurt - there is a bumper crop of figs ripening on the branches but we always give them away.

Another bonsaieque tree, sumi-e style. Hope you all manage to have a good bank holiday Monday. I am starting with a double mug of freshly made monsoon malabar.


View attachment 50981

Click to expand...

ianpspurs said:

Good to hear your day went well. Sausage roll up to par?

Click to expand...

ianpspurs said:

Forgot to offer a hug for the anti social neighbours and the "well meaning" in crowd @gennepher. Why do they imagine we all want to be bffes? To save post waste another top notch seascape @geefull.

Click to expand...

geefull said:

good evening all

4.3 today

mostly very quiet here today for a Bank Holiday change, probably because the weather was cooler and cloudy so quiet we could hear our 'sociable' newest neighbours across the road in their garden distantly chatting and laughing with friends.

Mr gee and I spent some time today sorting out stuff' from the big cupboard under the stairs, I think perhaps it 'grows' in the dark whilst we're not looking

Hope your day is treating you well

@dunelm nice sumi-e style tree, I especially like the foliage
What a nice idea to create a photo album for the family

@gennepher - a hug for the tinnitus and a winner for your peaceful day
You're right about your Snapseed, it does look like a restful cool forest

@alf_Josiah - hugs for the fbg, hope the barbeque is enjoyable

art bit - inspired by something seen on the internet (unfortunately I've misplaced the reference )

View attachment 50990

Click to expand...

geefull said:

good evening all

4.3 today

mostly very quiet here today for a Bank Holiday change, probably because the weather was cooler and cloudy so quiet we could hear our 'sociable' newest neighbours across the road in their garden distantly chatting and laughing with friends.

Mr gee and I spent some time today sorting out stuff' from the big cupboard under the stairs, I think perhaps it 'grows' in the dark whilst we're not looking

Hope your day is treating you well

@dunelm nice sumi-e style tree, I especially like the foliage
What a nice idea to create a photo album for the family

@gennepher - a hug for the tinnitus and a winner for your peaceful day
You're right about your Snapseed, it does look like a restful cool forest

@alf_Josiah - hugs for the fbg, hope the barbeque is enjoyable

art bit - inspired by something seen on the internet (unfortunately I've misplaced the reference )

View attachment 50990

Click to expand...

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.5

Yesterday passed as I expected. I got my peaceful day. But I put my cochlear sound processor on for a minute or so to listen/hear what noises/sounds were going on. It was more or less as noisy as I expected, but noisier.

One one side the insentive Xmas light neighbour had many cars and their extended family and children and grandchildren, and riotous games had been organised for the grandchildren, and the smell of a barbecue, and the adults were laughing and joking, a complete party.

One the other side, AH neighbour was drilling, continuing to dig up concrete with a pneumatic drill, still the scraping of a metal spade against concrete, and more machinery noises. This has been going on, on a daily basis for months now.

And down the bottom half of this cul-de-sac was a riotous just adults party of all those at the bottom half of this cul-de-sac, (they are a bit of a collective elite going out on trips and to Sunday lunch together in a parade of cars and wave to the rest of us plebs at the top half of this cul-de-sac, and the Mad Chainsaw Man waves and shouts to me 'Bet you wish you were coming with us!' Absolutely not...) going on in Mad Chainsaw man's garden, it sounded like adult party games. There was a lot of shouting, and then a sudden collective roar amongst them when someone won or guessed something. With being deaf I cannot follow this kind of fast interactive kind of stuff. Living next to a football stadium is quieter than that.

So, my sound processor was removed quickly. Time for a peaceful picnic on my thatched swing with my tinnitus for company, only the tinnitus had now acquired a barking dog (?¿?). But the memory of that ongoing cacophonous noise faded away into oblivion, Maybe all this noise upset the Tinnitus Dog, so that is why he was barking.

My photograph in Snapseed for today. It is the reflection that was thrown on the wall by that solar 'eye' light of yesterday. I thought it looked like a forest of trees. So a little work in Snapseed and here we are.

Enjoy today. Have fun. Have peace.

View attachment 50983

Click to expand...

gennepher said:

Love this @dunelm
It is my morning uplift with your trees...

Click to expand...