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

ianpspurs said:
Ah, but did you have the jets, music and lights on?. I'm not at liberty to divulge if I know someone with such a bath. A friend does tell me chlorine tablets for such things are becoming expensive.
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All very overrated- a couple of pints of coke and a tube of mentos will give you the same effect as long as you don’t look too close.
 
Evening all.

A late night log in .

Starting back on testing in morning .

I'll Resume counselling today after a two week lay off
So that's something to look forward too

Sat here relaxing after a day out, with niece, and then meeting my oldest nephew for a catch up.

A lovely time out, but like always I pay the next day, hence the day of resting .

On a slightly more positive note, I find interest in some TV now.

Money heist .
Apparently circa 2020, but I missed it and now it's my happy TV joy
Subtitled Spanish bank robbery series
Very impressive so far

Right, back to sleep.
Today IS another day .

 

A winner for you!
 
Fbg 6.5

All present and correct with regular cats and birds yesterday and this morning...except for one bird, Mr Blackbird. There was a female blackbird chasing him the last few days, but no sight of Mr Blackbird yesterday, or this morning. I wonder what the female blackbird who was chasing him did to him...will he be back like a bad penny?

Midnight looks more and more at home in the garden. He was finding new places to get out of the sun yesterday, and at one point I couldn't find him. Panic alert. Then I found him in some dappled sunshine. It was a very good disguise.

I was researching yesterday how to get those matted bits of fur out. I found a different kind of comb/brush that gets the matts out of pedigree cats with long fur. I have ordered it and am going to try it. There are a lot more matted bits of fur next to his skin, that I cannot see, but I can feel.

Creative today is a combination of a photo of a postcard I am sending, and the stamps on the other side in Laboscope, kaleidoscope app. There are certain stamps you have to use up by January 2023. It's mostly the Machin Definitives stamps, the Queen's head stamps. But I had an awful lot of them, because they are the make up postage stamps to the value I needed to send postcards with Postcrossing. I just bought a few at a time each time I was at the Post Office, and they soon mounted up the last 3 years, but now they need using up, and I have to get the barcoded stamps after Xmas this year. So this means that some postcards I send have up to 18 stamps on them. Not much room for address or message. Anyway, the recipients are delighted they have so many stamps on the postcards I send. They don't know I am simply using up my stamps that will be obsolete come this Xmas. So, that was an unintended consequence. Now, I have started making patterns on the envelopes and postcards with all these stamps...

Time for another cuppa.

Have fun today.

 
Good morning everyone from a Warm and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. I am informed by all who fondle pine cones that there are several more gallons of heat being poured over the UK in the coming days. Not as much as France and Spain of course but that’s Brexit for you. I have been awarded The Freedom of The Falkland Islands by the Legislative Assembly of said dot in the ocean. Well, OK, not just me be those that were there 40 years ago. You get a scroll and a Waddle of penguins to drive down the runway at Port Stanley once a year (date to be determined by popular vote).
Heading south tomorrow, destination Blandford Forum, so don’t know when I will be posting for a wee while.
Art bit - my latest row of trees with a bit of colour added. Have a wonderful pre-bin day, you do need to dig out those speedos. I shall first make koffy.

 
Pity about the rush with the stamps but then the recipients will be delighted as you say. They make a marvelous kaleidoscopic wheel.
 
Interesting about the Falkland Islands @dunelm
Wow again for your trees.
They have a touch of Aubrey Beardsley about them...
I like this direction...
Take care...
 
gennepher said:
Interesting about the Falkland Islands @dunelm
Wow again for your trees.
They have a touch of Aubrey Beardsley about them...
I like this direction...
Take care...
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Thank you @gennepher - now I have to go and make an internet tour of Aubrey Beardsley but how will I transform my trees into the naughty and grotesque?
 
Hello everyone from a very sunny East Anglian anomaly. I now have the task of removing the image of @dunelm in Budgie Smugglers while still retaining @gennepher's wonderful kaleidoscope, his own trees, @Krystyna23040's magical, sunny dog walk and @jjraak having a long awaited catch up. All mingled with the look of wrath on Priti Patel's face. Too much for a quarter wit like me. Bad night for Ingerland FC after a wonderful ham and cheese toastie inspired display of biffage by England CC. So pleased for Jonny Bairstow and family considering the tragedy they underwent. I feel sympathy for the people of Pakistan. Do what you gotta do today folks without causing inconvenience, pain, suffering or unhappiness to other people.
 

Congratulations on the award..bravo

And presumably the radio silence is "Operation Therapy" that was mentioned in despatches recently ?

Best wishes it greatly aids better mobility or eases the pain, whichever is the greater need .
 
Disaster darlings, absolute disaster, overslept AGAIN 8:53 wake up time,
A 5.0 on that meter hmmmm
Just a cursory glance at todays posting, no chance to read and digest them properly. Sorry must now dash the internal rain cabinet beckons, then body fuel followed by medication and plinky plonky.
Stay safe all.
 
5.5 this morning. Blood sugars have taken ages to.get back to normal for me after sconegate. Even though the scone was lovely it definitely wasn't worth it.

Have a dilemma today. If it us cloudy and breezy the hall I teach in might be OK tomorrow evening. But if it has been in full sunshine all day it will be far too hot to run classes.

Met Office says breezy and cloudy all day. BBC weather say no breeze and full sunshine all day. The only thing they agree on is that it will be over 30 degrees.

I am usually good at making decisions but just cannot make up my mind on this one.
 
Good morning everyone on Corpus Christie day 2022 in the Exotic East where people are in carnival mood and sure to be up for this by tomorrow evening. Three days for sandals (absolutely no socks unless in pool slides), shorts and summer chunes - probably yacht rock for me. Does Alexa have a YR channel? Sublime moments early morning sitting near open patio doors, big mug of Assam, birds at JKP's bird feeder chirping away, the scent of whatever she has planted and morning worship. I should have been having a "procedure" this morning but no beds at West Suffolk so rescheduled for next Wednesday. All the sharp elbows or boosterism in the world don't cut it but Romans 8:31 works for me - YMMV. Give it beans today crew but hydrate well, slip, slap, slop and wear those wide brimmed hats. Tomorrow will be far hotter here
 
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Fbg 6.6

A hot day begins.

Regular cats and birds are around this morning, but it is pretty quiet, apart from the family of bluetits, who are feeding now.

A pterodactyl (heron?) has just flown past my window.
The hidden birds in my garden are now complaining, so they are there, keeping cool in the trees.

Yesterday I found that matt detangle brush/comb in the pet shop, at a cheaper price too (so I cancelled my Amazon order on a similar item).
Came home with my prize, and introduced it to Midnight.
He looked suspicious, but I started combing with it. All was going well. Loads of dead fur coming out, when suddenly it removed some matted fur from his skin. It just came out as I was combing with this detangle thingy, Midnight hissed at me. But he wasn't angry with me. I don't think it hurt because I hadn't tugged with it, but I think he didn't like the sensation.
So, I carried on, a second hiss as another bit of matted stuff came out. But he wasn't cross with me. It must be a weird sensation for him.
But he was okay for me to continue (well, put it this way, he didn't go for me, and his claws were still sheathed).
Third hiss as a huge bit of matted stuff came out.
I am now half a bucket of Midnight's fur later, so I stopped.
He immediately offered his tummy for tickles. Slightly apprehensively I tickle. But all is well. He wasn't cross with me for using the detangle device.

Now I realise how much needs doing to his thick fur coat. It might take a couple of weeks (at this rate), even with this new detangle device.

Jade is now polishing off the rest of the wet cat food and is now on to cat biscuits. No more wet food until tonight, too many flies around.

Midnight is sitting on the coir mat immediately outside my open bedroom door. He likes to be near as I am doing stuff. He followed me around inside the bungalow as I was getting his breakfast ready earlier.

Creative today is a kaleidoscope in Laboscope. I think I've overworked it - I was experimenting - trying to create the already hot day.... Oh well.

The skies above me are cross-crossed with the white trails of aeroplanes.

Time for another cuppa...



 
Hugs for the dilemma @Krystyna23040
Hope it works out for the best whatever you do xx
 
gennepher said:
Hugs for the dilemma @Krystyna23040
Hope it works out for the best whatever you do xx
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Thank you @gennepher. Am beginning to think that perhaps if class members have felt too hot all day that perhaps they just won't want to do a class in evening. Perhaps another coffee will improve my decision making.

Really good job you are doing with Midnight's fur.
 
Another coffee will help you make the right decision @Krystyna23040

Thanks for the Midnight compliment
 
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