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

I like the way you have 'filled' this out as you put it. So interesting to see how it develops...an art lesson...
 
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That is so annoying @gennepher. Can you return it and get your money back?
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It is.
But I got it a few months ago when it was 2/3rds the price it is now. It is well out of the return date.
But in the garage, I do have clay and modelling clay and stuff. Which I can now air dry in this dehydrator, at a very low heat. (I don't have an oven) And it shouldn't cost much, just a few pennies of our exorbitant electric prices. Because of the low price I paid for it, I am quite happy to use it for that.
So, it is not a complete loss.
Thanks
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and nearly all who inhabit the 3rd rock from the sun.

This morning me, me’s and myself were blessed with a 5.2 on that meter.

Here in Tilehurst Towers number 2 son will coming down from Mordor ( London ) for a few hours, I shall continue working on the shields, axes and broadsword that have been under construction for months, A total of 4 shields, 2 battle axes and a single broadsword. Pictures will follow in due course.
Well fellow posters and painters enjoy bank holiday Sunday.
 
Hello everyone on Trinity 11 for some of us who are still enjoying a remarkably sunny, warm and dry summer. Very few like this one in my lifetime. Yesterday was one of those days when it is easy to believe in God's love when circumstances seem bleak. Great time with son and his children, sunshine, good food and purchases, Stokes Foakes and 9 other blokes triumphed. Thanks be to God. Fitbit stats suggest my body approved. No fbg but I will start to track with Stabbo as T1 is listed as a rare side effect of one element of my treatment. Swipey may not last long with all the scheduled scans. Enjoy Sheringham Park, the coffee and SR for Mr K @Krystyna23040. Yesterday sounds wonderful, the artwork is sublime and today fascinating @dunelm - enjoy. Lunch, here, with MIL today plus some steps (exercise snacking for now) and watching Antonio's misfiring but still “getting by'' crew. I'm not a fan of M and S almond milk - acquired from M and S in the concourse of Addenbrookes. Enjoy your day however you choose, provided you have that option. No problem staying warm here but some tricky decisions about energy use. We have used the air fryer much more lately having listened to a radio four discussion and I haven't noticed my tea being any the worse for pressing the 90 or 80 degree buttons on the kettle; sports action is the same on a chromebook screen as on an 80 inch TV. I'll watch Spurs on the expensive device though.
 
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Fbg 6.6

Well, my plan for my post this morning didn't work. The Red Arrows are based at Hawarden Airport this weekend, for displays at Rhyl (i think). Yesterday morning I watched Red Arrow 4 come in from the Peterborough direction on the plane app. I can only watch one at a time on the app. So I am not sure whether they were all together at that point. They were in mid Wales for a bit, and then were joined by a helicopter which was leading them quite slowly towards Hawarden. I wondered why, and then I realised there was a lot of air traffic in their path, commercial and otherwise. Finally there was very little, and then no air traffic in their vicinity. So, they proceeded much faster towards Hawarden, all the while being led by this helicopter. The plane app told me the helicopter was leading them. I was hoping they would come over my bungalow. A lot of air traffic does that as it is coming to land at Hawarden. But alas no, they came in a different route by the river. Maybe they come into a different runway? I heard the helicopter bringing them in. I can pick up helicopters very well with my cochlear processor. So that is the nearest I will get this weekend to experiencing the Red Arrows!

Now, the trail cameras. Repositioned them last night. The little one picked up nothing, although it should have picked up both badger and fox, the only two visitors last night. But they came multiple times. It must have something to do how the sensors pick up the surrounding stuff or not. The large one picked up 398 pictures and videos last night and the early hours of this morning. Half were pictures, half were 10 second videos. I couldn't look through them all, it would have taken all day and depleted the batteries in the trail camera. I need this card reader which will be coming next week sometime, and then I will be able to play them on the much bigger screen of my iPad.

So, I picked these to photograph the screen of the bigger trail camera. Best I can do today!

I made a collage of 4. Both badger and fox came in many times during the night from 9pm through to just after 4am. I do not know if it is different foxes coming in, but they seem different sizes. One looked awfully big.

You can see the badger (top right) come in to the bucket of water at the far end of the swing. He was drinking the full 10 seconds of the video. It is hard to see, but Midnight is on the swing, watching the badger. Have a look at the first picture as the badger is leaving the picture, and you can definitely see Midnight on the swing watching the badger. The second the badger gets out of frame, Midnight jumps off the swing and follows him. Brave cat? He is not in the least bit scared of the badger.

Bottom two are of the fox. He also goes to drink water from the bucket, but not in these pics. The fox is constantly checking the swing to see if Midnight is on there. I think the fox and Midnight are not friends. There has been a couple of occasions recently when Midnight has stunk to high heaven in a morning, and I think it is with a skirmish with the fox. The fox has sprayed him. I would like to see if I can capture on the trail camera what happens here.

Cuppa tea now.
So much to do.
Have your best day.

 
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I gave you a creative for the energy use of the air fryer. Interesting. We all need these hints. I don't have an air fryer...not yet.
Have a good day.
 
gennepher said:
I gave you a creative for the energy use of the air fryer. Interesting. We all need these hints. I don't have an air fryer...not yet.
Have a good day.
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Thanks for the creative. MIL has now acquired exactly the same air fryer as ours. They will also dehydrate and do so quicker and cheaper than a dehydrator from what I have read. Ours has a rotisserie function which is why we opted for it - see attached. (Great image of the chicken but foul plate (gift) - I really dislike patterns on crockery (almost anywhere except the grass on sports pitches and in religious buildings) intensely but flowers on crockery drive me mad. Pure, plain white for crockery, linen and walls if they can't be bare brick or stone. Stony silence/skills of a career diplomat time whenever JKP asks my opinion on dresses, linen, paint that she likes. I am resigned to the fact she will buy flowers and shrubs) Mixed news on the cameras but very brave of Midnight around badgers and very wise to avoid foxes. Thanks for the creative. I wonder if the Red Arrows started at Wittering which is near Peterborough?
 

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I just saw Red Arrow 4 doing a few turns in the air (on the app) around Peterborough, and that was where I watched him from, and so you might be right.
 
Fbg 6.7

Okay.
Now what do I have to report about yesterday?

Ah, I know.Daughter from Oz, on Skype googled when I showed her the trail cam pictures. She informs me that cats and badgers can get on very well. But foxes are another matter...
And then I got notice my card reader was coming in a few minutes!

So the rest of the day (instead of setting up something important) was putting the trail cam cards into the card reader and figuring that out. It was easy actually, after pressing a couple of wrong things.

I downloaded them on to my defunct iPhone from years ago. It worked. Made for easy viewing. And it allowed me to delete the pictures on the SD cards from the iPhone. So, for good measure, I reformatted the cards before I set up the trail cams (no idea if that was necessary). I did have to reset some settings on the more basic trail cam, but not on the other.

This morning it is raining, so I haven't taken the cards out of the trail cams yet. I am hoping I can leave them permanently attached to their posts now, instead of untying them to bring them in to look at the pics. But I had repositioned one of them last night, so it depends how successful that one was.

So, yesterday I was able to look at all the earlier pictures, and videos (without wearing down the batteries on the trail cams, by viewing them in the trail cam). A lot of interesting videos. During the night before last, my garden was tremendously busy with the foxes and the badgers. As soon as I had come in for the night and locked up, they came out of hiding. So, they must have been in the undergrowth while I had been out in the garden. Also Jade was wandering in and out of the garden during the night in between badgers. Midnight seems to get on well with the badgers. See the bottom two pics on the collage. I took stills from the video. The playful badger was playing Kissy Kissy with Midnight, and almost got him on the nose. Midnight just watched as you can see, he didn't flinch an inch.

My Creative today. A collage. The first pic, in the collage, shows evidence of a cub. It looks like a fox cub to me. Midnight watched it through a few 10 seconds video clips, then he got down and went in the undergrowth to investigate it. And I am hoping mum or dad fox was not about. At one point two badgers came in together. There are different size badgers and different size foxes coming in. Considering my garden is fenced all round, all these creatures are deliberately trying to get in my garden!

Just watching the flocks of sparrows and bluetits and pied wagtails feeding as I write this, and Mr Robin is eating from his favourite half coconut fatball.

A cuppa now and see if I can retrieve a SD card...

Have a good day.


P.S. Guess what? I am on the bed going through the trail cam pics yesterday afternoon when I look up because there is a noise. And reflected in my glass door, underneath my Believe sign is a reflection of the flypast of the Red Arrows in formation.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY...I did get to see them!!!

By the way, if I had been watching from my garden I wouldn't have actually seen then, they were flying so low..

 
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What a brilliant way to repurpose your dehydrator @gennepher
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who avoided the Reading pop festival, here in Tilehurst Towers we could hear the music clearly at times and other times just the bass. If I write and complain will they send me free tickets for next year?
Blood sugars this morning were 1st reading 3.8 and 2nd reading 4.5, I shall go with the 2nd reading.
Well @gennepher an interesting tale the local wildlife are lucky you take good care of them and again I take my hat off to you on dealing with technology.
Now it’s time for me, me’s and myself to go and get on with life.
Stay safe all and hugs where required.
 
5.6 this morning. Am relaxing with a coffee before going off to a coffee morning for the EACH charity. It is only just up the road so we can walk.
 
Hello everyone on essentially the same day weather wise here, just different titles. My choices are Bank Holiday Monday, remembering the Beheading of John the Baptist or Family Barbeque at No 1 son's. Your mileage may vary. Yesterday No 3 son and children were here for Sunday lunch, One year old grandson and his 3 y.o. sister are big fans of (aspirational) shoulder of lamb. Must be the anchovies and rosemary. We left out the garlic, MIL no fan of garlic. Spurs won, fitbit gave me a sub 60 resting pulse and >9k steps so thanks be to God. Good news on the SD cards and intriguing images plus result on Red Arrows @gennepher. @Krystyna23040 worthy charity to support, I think they have a shop in town which we have used. Whatever you do and wherever you are today, do your due diligence, enjoy yourselves safely, and think carefully of others.
 
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Thanks Ian

You have your best day...
 
Happy bank holiday...

A run of mid 7's for me...so nothing of note

A little more mobile of late, has seen walking increase nicely (crutch aided)
Now shoulder is probably back at near 80‰ the stairs using bannister rail is way more easy

Which allows me to take stairs up or down in a more normal fashion (the majority of the times )


Still struggle with that sideways movement of knee, so a straight set of stairs is almost doable, (given it's not too many.).but any turn in stairs and it's back to baby steps.

And with hand grip now back to 50% holding crutch is also adding to my confidence when walking, allowing pace to pick ...so a win/win, i think.

Been keeping up with forum

Fascinating stuff with the garden, @gennepher ..so much goes on at night.

And I am slightly in awe at how you approach the treatment to evict your uninvited guest @ianpspurs ...though I am mindful the public part is a very credible & sensible 'it is what is '...but the more private side must have your mind wandering at times....a hug, if acceptable for the worry that must cause.

Hope everyone else has the very best of a bank holiday monday....
 
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