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

[ianpspurs]

Thanks for the skinnybread link @ianpspurs

You're welcome - we help each other. Someone else passed me the link and it is all the bread I use - it appears Schneider protein brot is not available anymore. It is very soft inside (but crusty exterior) so a breadknife isn't great, we use an electric slicer which does for cooked meat as well - I can eat cold cooked meat relatively happily. Although yeast is now in the mix, some users had bad experiences when it was in a separate packet, we add a tsp of yeast to ours. Good protein and fibre profile.

 

[lindisfel]

Good morning everyone from pleasantly quiet start here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of bacon wrapped stuffed chicken came home to roost at 5.2 this am

Mrs Miggins has been busy and almost managed to block in my art table with all the surprising things discovered in the attic. Lots of paper records going back to the invention of the spinning jenny so an incinerator may be in order. Or shall we use the log burner and pretend that we are burning top secret documents? Charity shop benefited from all manor of useless kitchen gadgets that were such good ideas when purchased but then did nothing to improve culinary skills or food taste. I wonder if we will uncover some K Tel albums in the attic?
A clueless Captain, a spirited siren and pompous petty officers. No wonder they’re all at sea. No, not the govt this time but HMS Pinafore by ENO at the London Coliseum. We are in London for Remembrance weekend, wonder if we can fit it in?

Art bit - not quite what I had intended but never mind. Hope your Friday is a splendid one. Time for my first koffy of the day.

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Can't ID your birds, they are a rum combination, Dunelm!

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and those who throw caution and whatever else they can find at the wind and paddle their own canoe.

An unsurprising 7.5 this morning.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers, what is left of today will be devoted to my shed, but first my afternoon nap.

 

[dunelm]

Can't ID your birds, they are a rum combination, Dunelm!

I think they are supposed to be Startled Cassowaries

 

[coby]

Well my bg had risen to 5.9 this morning, but then again my sore throat of the last few days disappeared only to leave me sneezing and getting through tissues today!!!

 

[ianpspurs]

I think they are supposed to be Startled Cassowaries

What wine would you recommend with that dish, please? Shall you be posting the recipe by and by? No hurry, finish your koffy and digestif (s) old chap

 

[dunelm]

Well my bg had risen to 5.9 this morning, but then again my sore throat of the last few days disappeared only to leave me sneezing and getting through tissues today!!!

Welcome to this little corner of thread city

 

[lindisfel]

Hope that the heating is sorted quickly - if I remember rightly, electric supply in France is fazed power and needs balancing throughout the house. Better news about Errant and clever French vet saving you hard earned cash to spend on gourmet moggy food.

Not like that horrid 110 volt systems in the States!

But if there are three phase supplies in France it wouldn't half blow the seat out of your pants if you got across the 440v of two adjacent phases. Each phase peaks120 degrees behind the next one.
One can have hours of fun with the maths.
D.

 

[lindisfel]

I used to get the job of yearly maintenance of the main distribution board at our transmitter. Didn't like it cos it meant a nightshift. One needed to quickly isolate from the 11kv cct taking all the covers off beforehand, quickly checking all the connections for heating after switching off.
One of the guys before me dropped a spanner in the disboard before it was switched off and it melted when it got across two busbars. I knew this from the guy who helped him.

He soon got promoted!
He apparently said, "Flipping heck" at the time!
D.

 

[gennepher]

Well my bg had risen to 5.9 this morning, but then again my sore throat of the last few days disappeared only to leave me sneezing and getting through tissues today!!!

Hello!!!

 

[dunelm]

What wine would you recommend with that dish, please? Shall you be posting the recipe by and by? No hurry, finish your koffy and digestif (s) old chap

It will need to be something with body and sophistication - Blue Nun perhaps

 

[dunelm]

I used to get the job of yearly maintenance of the main distribution board at our transmitter. Didn't like it cos it meant a nightshift. One needed to quickly isolate from the 11kv cct taking all the covers off beforehand, quickly checking all the connections for heating.
One of guys before me dropped a spanner in the disboard before it was switched off and it melted when it got across two busbars. I knew this from the guy who helped him.

He soon got promoted!
He apparently said, "Flipping heck" at the time!
D.

That’s one way to perm your hair

 

[lindisfel]

It will need to be something with body and sophistication - Blue Nun perhaps

Surely you can't surpass a pint of Black Sheep?

 

[ianpspurs]

It will need to be something with body and sophistication - Blue Nun perhaps

Sophisticated table lamp afterwards? I thought you may have been a Mateus Rose kinda guy - less of your pennies - always a consideration Beyond the Wall, so I've heard. (Hatfield and The North always made me chortle)

 

[coby]

Hello!!!

Hi gennepher

 

[alf_Josiah]

Well my bg had risen to 5.9 this morning, but then again my sore throat of the last few days disappeared only to leave me sneezing and getting through tissues today!!!

Welcome our cozy little corner of this huge site.

 

[coby]

Welcome our cozy little corner of this huge site.

Thank you for the welcome x

 

[lindisfel]

That is what I will have to do @dunelm slice it and put it in the freezer, because there is nothing I love better than freshly baked bread.....

Yes, the sunflower does look very cactusly round the edges. It is like it is protecting the seeds...
It does look wispy washy in colour at this stage of its life, which is why I gave it a whirl through Snapseed...
Not sure what to do about those sunflower seeds yet...

An ex cook told us once if a loaf goes dry, cut it in half, run both sides under the cold tap and put in a hot oven for ten minutes or so and It tastes like newly baked bread.
D.

 

[dunelm]

Sophisticated table lamp afterwards? I thought you may have been a Mateus Rose kinda guy - less of your pennies - always a consideration Beyond the Wall, so I've heard. (Hatfield and The North always me chortle)

Got to love a Mateus Rose even though they have changed the bottle shape.
Here is what the original one looked like when I did the still life in 1966. My mum had it until two years ago when she got fed up of it and gave it me back.

 

[gennepher]

You're welcome - we help each other. Someone else passed me the link and it is all the bread I use - it appears Schneider protein brot is not available anymore. It is very soft inside (but crusty exterior) so a breadknife isn't great, we use an electric slicer which does for cooked meat as well - I can eat cold cooked meat relatively happily. Although yeast is now in the mix, some users had bad experiences when it was in a separate packet, we add a tsp of yeast to ours. Good protein and fibre profile.

Yes we do need to exchange ideas @ianpspurs and it is great that we do on here.
Thanks