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

A chune to go with @mojo37 's sloe, sloe, quick, quick sloe beverage. Basically a 2 fingered salute to the lying crazies currently running the asylum, their enablers and Elsie. Also a tribute to the Threadfather, Alien Aspie for this thread as an antidote to much of the rest of this forum, at least for me. Yes, yes. Haters gonna hate.
 
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I was laughing at that @SlimLizzy
 
Good to hear from you @jjraak
 
Dear, dear, me, that one had us on the edge of our seats.
D.
 
Great to see you jjraak, we all need your wisdom when life settles down for you.

Hope all your family thrives in this post Brexit-COVID world!
Derek
 
Good, she may consider you a gem!
Which of course is your true worth!
D.
 
Awkward Engineer solved the heating problem BUT our system needs to be run even in the summer. Something about a thermal store and pump seizing up without. Julie is ecstatic. Me?
 
Awkward Engineer solved the heating problem BUT our system needs to be run even in the summer. Something about a thermal store and pump seizing up without. Julie is ecstatic. Me?
Really @ianpspurs ?
CH that needs to be run in the hot sweltering heatwaves ..
 
Short blast once a week but still needs to run - or expensive refit or calling out B Gas on our Homecare each autumn/early winter.
Cheeper than a day trip to a Mediterranean island. Just wear shorts and make a nice salad.
 
Short blast once a week but still needs to run - or expensive refit or calling out B Gas on our Homecare each autumn/early winter.
How do you heat your water for washing in summer, Ian? Are they just point source gas heater driven rising main fed?

Once a week manual switch on of the heating boiler for 5mins should be enough to stop pumps and fans seizing up?
Derek
 
How do you heat your water for washing in summer, Ian? Are they just point source gas heater driven rising main fed?

Once a week manual switch on of the heating boiler for 5mins should be enough to stop pumps and fans seizing up?
Derek
Would that apply to any gas central heating boiler @lindisfel
Mine is 17 years old and I have only ever had the central heating on from November to mid March. In consequence it is off for nearly 8 months of the year. And I have never (yet) had any problems with it.
I don't like heat because of my dry eyes and dry mouth (Sjögren's Syndrome).
Thank you.
 
Fbg 6.9

I wanted to try some colourful stamps I receive from abroad and make them into a kaleidoscope.
So here it is. The square of blue is an Andy Warhol stamp. The other portrait stamps were Gwen Ifill, Marian Anderson, Hitchcock. There was a Purple Heart, and the rest were from a Spring Flowers series.
A lot of kaleidoscopes I do can appear heavy (to me), and I wanted something much lighter and freeing in appearance. Also discovered a couple of new things in Snapseed doing this.

It was really cold last night. I could see loads of stars in the night sky from my bed despite looking through double glazing!


 
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Hi gennepher,
My impression after over 40 years of electrical maintenance is that the equipment is nowhere as robust like it used to be.
So don't buy something more efficient just if you have old but reliable kit.

The day will come when we are forced to changed our boilers.
No doubt their sensitive little souls with cheapo foreign parts will need delicate nursing at great expense.

Reliable stuff is just a design issue.
But simple checks can avert problems if you have an honest man/woman doing your maintenance work.
D.
 
5.0 this morning. We are walking to our local market town instead of driving to one of our favourite National Trust places as we need to save petrol so I can continue to teaching Norwich.

Sunday lunch is booked at a pub with good reviews (it is the pub that Archie our chocolate Labrador tried to drag me into last time we walked past it). I will also nip into Boots and the Grape Tree while I am there to get some shopping.
 
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