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

Top tip.
Don't do a Joey and go commando ...just saying .

 
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Sounds nice and cosy @Annb.

Hug for the need for painkillers & feel you on slippers fitting, remember how hard compression bandages made that .can understand why normal bandages make that so much harder.

Best wishes Neil feels better asap .
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who walked backwards for Christmas across the Irish Sea.
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A 5.8 this morning on that meter that has a mind of it’s own.
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Here in Tilehurst Towers Mrs J and me, me’s and myself all 6 of me are being supervised by our granddaughter this morning, ah joys of being a grandparent. Luckily she doesn’t want to use the woodworking machinery, I am conscious of the noise at the weekend for our neighbours.
Lots of chat about covid vaccine side effects, interesting, Mrs J and myself have yet to book up, it will be my 6th jab and Mrs J’s 4th we held off booking before I had my hospital results, now we can book.
Now hugs where required, a swift boot up the posterior where required hopefully not required. Good luck to the 40 000 running, walking and hobbling round the streets of Mordor. Now I must go I am becoming comfortably numb and I must look occupied incase that slave driver of a granddaughter spots me slacking.
Stay safe all
 
Wonderful creatives and such fortunate sparrows. I hope the brain fug won't lead to a disastrous mix up.
 
Meant to post other day

Can't prove, but Laurens friend helps out a gp with vaccine roll out.

She advised I wait as it's moderns just now, but Pfizer is being rolled out soon as well.

But this seems to say it's only one (moderns) being used ..mmh

Coronavirus » Autumn COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine programme

www.england.nhs.uk
 
That sunflower looks almost edible.
 
Good morning everyone on a damp start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. Bronchial season is upon us and I have be tossed onto the bandwagon of chesty coughs without a bye your leave. I made Tom Yum Soup - it’s like chicken soup but on steroids. I use liquid stevia instead of the usual sugar - it is a sweet, spicy and sour thing, very pleasing and soothing. Some European folk put in a splash of coconut milk but I use double cream. In Thailand it would be something like carnation evaporated milk (I know!).
Art bit - some more detail. Is it Sunday today? If so, I hope you have a good one. Best make some koffy.

 
Hug for the chesty cough.
"Tis the season to be plegmy"
I think the song goes..?

Tom yum soup, you say..mmh

Not my fav but Laurens likes it.

For chest & airways might I also suggest ginger tea.

(For others info)
Root ginger, no need to peel.
Slice up a few pieces, more equals stronger.
Place in pot an boil up.
Let simmer very low heat 10 mins
Then serve like tea.

Years of winter colds , would start in Oct end in Feb (asthma, so I'm told)
Very few colds since I tried it.
Worked for me, might work for others..has well known quality.

And included in link below.
The added bonus ginger supplement 'may' lower fbg ...maybe

The Effects of Ginger on Fasting Blood Sugar, Hemoglobin A1c, Apolipoprotein B, Apolipoprotein A-I and Malondialdehyde in Type 2 Diabetic Patients - PMC

Diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder, causes many complications such as micro- and macro-vascular diseases. Anti-diabetic, hypolipidemic and anti-oxidative properties of ginger have been noticed in several researches. The present ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
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Hugs for the start of the bronchial season. Soup sounds good.
Plenty of fresh air good for everything, I think @dunelm

I hope those stars lead somewhere warm...and special. Always stairs or mountains to climb...
 
I shall have to find some. I did try growing some, but don't know what happened to them...
Enjoy your ginger brew @jjraak
 
Thank you @jjraak and yes, I do ginger tea (some on the go today) and also turmeric tea - I am running out of fresh turmeric so best get some more ordered. I buy the rhizomes by the kg and freeze them.
 
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Hugs for the start of the bronchial season. Soup sounds good.
Plenty of fresh air good for everything, I think @dunelm

I hope those stars lead somewhere warm...and special. Always stairs or mountains to climb...
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Thank you @gennepher - stairs and mountains - always onwards and upwards - unless you are coming down of course and then it’s towards a pub.
 
Fbg 7.2

The wild life..

Quite a busy night. This was last Sunday night. There was a lot more than this...
Midnight is the cat on the swing.
The white looking cat is a ginger cat I call Ghost Cat.
The little black cat is the latest stray. I call her Ammy (short for Amethyst).
Then after Kissy Kissy, the badger, wandered out of sight, she came back and was very naughty...
I shall post that sequence in a day's time..
She was very bad...

All this activity takes place outside my bedroom door to the garden, and until I bought a trail/wildlife camera, I had no idea all this activity was taking place on a nightly basis.

With not being well with that Covid jab, I lost a couple of days recordings on the SD cards. I forgot to download them, and reformatted the cards over the shots that were on it.

Oh well...

My creative shows what the sparrows think of the fat logs instead of fat balls...

I don't care. Less sparrows to feed...
Give it a couple of hours...if they last that long...

Time for a cuppa...

And a well earned nap...

Be good...or not...
whatever tickles your fancy...

 
Lovely illustration - they will have at the fat log once they are hungry
 
Good late Sunday Morening ladies and gentlemen.
A 6.8 on that independent thinking meter, who gave meters the vote I ask?

Me , me’s and myself got up late this morning then did 40 minutes plinky plonky practice, do you know just how confusing F#minor, F# and F are? I do.
Now I wonder why I’m running late, I must take my medication, drink koffy and avoid any further tasks forced my way by Mrs J
Bye for now.
Stay safe all and hugs where required.
 
Not quite so cold this morning. FBG still confusing me. I got up at 2.45 am after an odd sort of sleep: I'd gone to bed just after midnight and sat on the edge of my bed to say my prayers. I was aware that my brain was jumbling things up (tiredness) but next thing I knew it was 1 am and I had been sound asleep, sitting up on the edge of the bed. Not a good idea having an increased risk of toppling onto the floor. Not the first time I have done it - last time, luckily, I fell backwards onto the bed.

Anyway, I got up to check my Libre, which I'd left on charge in the kitchen (BG had been 17.1 at midnight so I took a correction dose and it had dropped to 12.8). Back to bed but woke again at 2.30 am and got up. BG at that stage was 5.5 but I decided to check again once I got through to the kitchen and it was up to 7.8. FBG, then, was one of those 2 readings.
Some spoiled sparrows there. Don't know when they're onto a good thing.
 
Morning all on the day of the actual or virtual London Marathon. Hug for the chesty cough but winner for the increasingly beyond majestic art @dunelm. I hope the Tom Yum soup and ginger work. Ginger is very much on my detest list so I've never considered such a brew as @jjraak suggested. If the need arises perhaps a never say never attitude would be worth considering? The go to in my family was hot lemon, honey, blackcurrant, cinnamon, mace and rum. @gennepher thanks for the creative and what ungrateful sparrows. MIL has somehow contracted COVID as well as being scammed out of lots of money. The LFT JKP did showed a small/thin line, we've never seen one, her symptoms are not severe and she has had the latest installment of jabs including flu. Bank put back all the money, blocked account and offered an extra layer of security. Lovely autumnal day yesterday weather wise but not so sport wise . Spurs, Cambridge United and Leicester Tigers all lost. In the case of Spurs and Leicester to the very teams I dislike most. As I type a mum and dad are pushing their son around the LM course in a bed like wheelchair so there are always unexpected inspirational gifts from Our Maker. @Annb hug for the potentially problematic dropping off but that prayer must have been well received to keep you safe. Enjoy your day but stay physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally safe whilst allowing everyone else the same blessings.
 
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Hugs for you @Annb

I know...spoilt sparrows!
 
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