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

Fbg 6.4

Cat, Jade, appears to be playing cat and mouse with the fox.
Near the end of the YouTube video, Jade is watching the fox from the Wormery bin at the far end of the swing, and the fox doesn't appear to notice her...

Cat and Fox

Creative is another autumnal scene, painted in Procreate.

I was watching the sparrows a lot yesterday. There seems to be a permanent group of maybe 15 of them, sometimes a few more. Mrs Bluetit and Mr Greatit from earlier this year are also with them. I think Little Miss is with them, but I cannot tell her apart from the other sparrows any more. But sometimes, just Mrs Bluetit flies in with a sparrow, and so I assume that is Little Miss. Also in this grouping of sparrows is the Little Dunnock who has been around the past few months, and Mr Robin. I have not seen the Wren yet. But there are two blackbirds, a male and a female, who swoop in when everyone is feeding off the fatballs, as if they are trying out the neighbourhood before they take permanent residence in my garden.

There are still the flocks of small birds, early morning and late afternoon. Who sweep in. One of the 'paired' flocks is of Bluetits and Pied wagtails. At the moment they are flying together In a group.

Time for a cuppa.
Have a good day, the best you can...
I need a nap!

Good morning everyone from a lovely damp and fresh feeling to the day here back in the dark and dangerous north. Had a wonderful time helping celebrate surviving 70 years, complete with fair wear and tear and an uneventful 300 mile journey home, just as I like such trips - with the added bonus of no creaky back pain allthough the organ in charge of everything needed to stop me every hour and propel me towards small cubicles. Halloween last night - always interesting to see small puzzled faces when presented with a bowl of sweets with a few potatoes mixed in. Don’t know who got the Brussels sprouts dipped in chocolate. What fun. Art bit, colour added, on with something else. Have a lovely day if you decide to and the day cooperates. I simply must drink koffy and contemplate a walk through damp woods and down to the beach - wonder what time the pub opens?

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.4

Cat, Jade, appears to be playing cat and mouse with the fox.
Near the end of the YouTube video, Jade is watching the fox from the Wormery bin at the far end of the swing, and the fox doesn't appear to notice her...

Cat and Fox

Creative is another autumnal scene, painted in Procreate.

I was watching the sparrows a lot yesterday. There seems to be a permanent group of maybe 15 of them, sometimes a few more. Mrs Bluetit and Mr Greatit from earlier this year are also with them. I think Little Miss is with them, but I cannot tell her apart from the other sparrows any more. But sometimes, just Mrs Bluetit flies in with a sparrow, and so I assume that is Little Miss. Also in this grouping of sparrows is the Little Dunnock who has been around the past few months, and Mr Robin. I have not seen the Wren yet. But there are two blackbirds, a male and a female, who swoop in when everyone is feeding off the fatballs, as if they are trying out the neighbourhood before they take permanent residence in my garden.

There are still the flocks of small birds, early morning and late afternoon. Who sweep in. One of the 'paired' flocks is of Bluetits and Pied wagtails. At the moment they are flying together In a group.

Time for a cuppa.
Have a good day, the best you can...
I need a nap!
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So much going on in your garden and lucky that you have so much wild life - I have it that humans have decimated populations on land, sea and air since the 1970’s. Thank you for the art, I am enjoying this series. The colours are wonderful. I especially like the purple hints of hills in the distance and the way that the light opens up the vista.

5.2 this morning, just walked the dogs and having a cuppa then will carry on with my daily routine, have a great day everyone <3

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from a lovely damp and fresh feeling to the day here back in the dark and dangerous north. Had a wonderful time helping celebrate surviving 70 years, complete with fair wear and tear and an uneventful 300 mile journey home, just as I like such trips - with the added bonus of no creaky back pain allthough the organ in charge of everything needed to stop me every hour and propel me towards small cubicles. Halloween last night - always interesting to see small puzzled faces when presented with a bowl of sweets with a few potatoes mixed in. Don’t know who got the Brussels sprouts dipped in chocolate. What fun. Art bit, colour added, on with something else. Have a lovely day if you decide to and the day cooperates. I simply must drink koffy and contemplate a walk through damp woods and down to the beach - wonder what time the pub opens?

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Wow, absolutely amazing with the colour. Colour creates that magical mysterious life your painting has @dunelm

Poor children...brussel sprouts dipped in chocolate...

dunelm said:

So much going on in your garden and lucky that you have so much wild life - I have it that humans have decimated populations on land, sea and air since the 1970’s. Thank you for the art, I am enjoying this series. The colours are wonderful. I especially like the purple hints of hills in the distance and the way that the light opens up the vista.

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Thank you so much for the lovely painting compliment @dunelm

The wildlife has all gravitated to my garden, or else they are biding their time, hiding safely from the eyes of humans, and will emerge to take over the earth when it is their time once again...

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, apologies for not posting for a few days, but I have been a bit preoccupied with trying to solve a mathematical conundrum. Is the numerical value for infinity a prime number and why does it have a cubed root?
The other challenging puzzle is why has Mr Schrödinger’s cat Tibbles been replaced by Tachyons, answers to this one in a box.
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Bloods this morning were 6.1 and are being washed down with a tea, very shortly safety koffy will be made and drunk.
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Down sarf in wet Tilehurst Towers the day must be spent catching up on domestication, plinky plonky practice, saying “yes dear” to Mrs J and generally keeping out from under her gaze.
Hugs where required and stay safe please.

Morning team.

Yesterday spent walking dog, and an evening at gym keeping our Steph company.

Was bushed after walking dog, and almost baled on meeting Steph, but had said I'd go, so go I went.

A slow start but before I knew it, I was well into pumping this & stepping on that, 2 hours flew by.

Not so achey this morning compared to other days, either I'm getting used to this 'Arnie' life or I was slacking yesterday....mmhh

Nothing else of note except BG was an acceptable 7.1..(poor sleep ? )
Oh, and if you remember Marley next doors cat, uses our cat flat to enter block, then paws at our door for food.

Came back after taking the furry nephew for his late night walk, and behold, Marley was showing a new tenant (beautiful ginger cat) around his latest AirBnb let

Now dog & Marley , brush up & sniff each like brother & sister...

But ginger don't know that, and Frankie just slipped into dog mode and began a low growl.

To paint a picture, if you've ever seen the good, the bad & the ugly, or any spaghetti western, the stoppage of time, as the actors take steely looks at each ....cue ennio morricone

Then ACTION.....

Frankie's indoors so he's off his lead.
I was slow up stairs so stretching to catch him before his run at ginger,
Ginger freezes until Frankie moves,

Then like melted mercury, it's a ginger blur through banisters, a jump and a leap over a bemused Frankie, and just like that...
This Mexican stand off was over..phew.

Off for a cuppa & para's...knee playing up today.

Stay safe
Stay dry.

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.4

Cat, Jade, appears to be playing cat and mouse with the fox.
Near the end of the YouTube video, Jade is watching the fox from the Wormery bin at the far end of the swing, and the fox doesn't appear to notice her...

Cat and Fox

Creative is another autumnal scene, painted in Procreate.

I was watching the sparrows a lot yesterday. There seems to be a permanent group of maybe 15 of them, sometimes a few more. Mrs Bluetit and Mr Greatit from earlier this year are also with them. I think Little Miss is with them, but I cannot tell her apart from the other sparrows any more. But sometimes, just Mrs Bluetit flies in with a sparrow, and so I assume that is Little Miss. Also in this grouping of sparrows is the Little Dunnock who has been around the past few months, and Mr Robin. I have not seen the Wren yet. But there are two blackbirds, a male and a female, who swoop in when everyone is feeding off the fatballs, as if they are trying out the neighbourhood before they take permanent residence in my garden.

There are still the flocks of small birds, early morning and late afternoon. Who sweep in. One of the 'paired' flocks is of Bluetits and Pied wagtails. At the moment they are flying together In a group.

Time for a cuppa.
Have a good day, the best you can...
I need a nap!
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Beautiful! Reminiscent of the scene from my kitchen window a few weeks ago - before the wind took all the leaves from the trees. What we didn't have, this late in the year, was the brightness of the flowers to lighten the scene. We had foxgloves in the shady areas but only grass seed heads out in the sunny patches. But I can see our late summer there - there's my cherry tree, and there's my willow with the old rhododendron lurking behind, waiting for the leaves to fall so that it can take a chance to expand in the light. You may surmise that my garden is pretty wild. It is, we wanted it that way as a wild life habitat and now it has a mind all of its own.

I was trying to encourage a wild area for a clan of frogs that make their home alongside a ditch beside the road. I think they still live there, but our neighbour on the other side of the road, keeps cutting the grass down with his strimmer - he doesn't like to see it overgrown. This results in the frogs being exposed to the children coming along the road to school and being somewhat harassed by them. I wish the frogs would move onto the croft where there is a perfectly serviceable ditch they could use, but I can't insist on it - they are wild creatures, after all.

jjraak said:

Morning team.

Yesterday spent walking dog, and an evening at gym keeping our Steph company.

Was bushed after walking dog, and almost baled on meeting Steph, but had said I'd go, so go I went.

A slow start but before I knew it, I was well into pumping this & stepping on that, 2 hours flew by.

Not so achey this morning compared to other days, either I'm getting used to this 'Arnie' life or I was slacking yesterday....mmhh

Nothing else of note except BG was an acceptable 7.1..(poor sleep ? )
Oh, and if you remember Marley next doors cat, uses our cat flat to enter block, then paws at our door for food.

Came back after the furry nephews late night walk, and behold, Marley was showing a new tenant (beautiful ginger cat) around his latest AirBnb let

Now dog & Marley , brush up & sniff each like brother & sister...

But ginger don't know that, and Frankie just slipped into dog mode and began a low growl.

To paint a picture, if you've ever seen the good, the bad & the ugly, or any spaghetti western, the stoppage of time, as the actors take steely looks at each ....

The ACTION.
Frankie indoors so off his lead.
I was slow up stairs so stretching to catch him before his run at ginger,
Ginger freezes until Frankie moves,
Then like melted mercury, it's a ginger blur through banisters, a jump and a leap over a bemused Frankie, and just like that...
This Mexican stand off was over..phew.

Off for a cuppa & para's...knee playing up today.

Stay safe
Stay dry.

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Hug for the sore knee but great to have managed the 2 hours of exercise on top of walking the dog earlier in the day. Loved the description of the showdown between ginger cat and Frankie. I imagine the cat may well think twice before accepting the offer of your AirBnb however Marley may expound its virtues.

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.4

Cat, Jade, appears to be playing cat and mouse with the fox.
Near the end of the YouTube video, Jade is watching the fox from the Wormery bin at the far end of the swing, and the fox doesn't appear to notice her...

Cat and Fox

Creative is another autumnal scene, painted in Procreate.

I was watching the sparrows a lot yesterday. There seems to be a permanent group of maybe 15 of them, sometimes a few more. Mrs Bluetit and Mr Greatit from earlier this year are also with them. I think Little Miss is with them, but I cannot tell her apart from the other sparrows any more. But sometimes, just Mrs Bluetit flies in with a sparrow, and so I assume that is Little Miss. Also in this grouping of sparrows is the Little Dunnock who has been around the past few months, and Mr Robin. I have not seen the Wren yet. But there are two blackbirds, a male and a female, who swoop in when everyone is feeding off the fatballs, as if they are trying out the neighbourhood before they take permanent residence in my garden.

There are still the flocks of small birds, early morning and late afternoon. Who sweep in. One of the 'paired' flocks is of Bluetits and Pied wagtails. At the moment they are flying together In a group.

Time for a cuppa.
Have a good day, the best you can...
I need a nap!
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Love your painting @gennepher

Magnifique...

alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, apologies for not posting for a few days, but I have been a bit preoccupied with trying to solve a mathematical conundrum. Is the numerical value for infinity a prime number and why does it have a cubed root?
The other challenging puzzle is why has Mr Schrödinger’s cat Tibbles been replaced by Tachyons, answers to this one in a box.
.
Bloods this morning were 6.1 and are being washed down with a tea, very shortly safety koffy will be made and drunk.
.
Down sarf in wet Tilehurst Towers the day must be spent catching up on domestication, plinky plonky practice, saying “yes dear” to Mrs J and generally keeping out from under her gaze.
Hugs where required and stay safe please.

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I'm no mathematician (have a problem with numbers which gets in the way) but, since you can't calculate infinity to the end of, well .. infinity, it surely must be a prime number and that being the case, I don't understand how it can have anything more than an estimate of its square root, which, in itself must also reduce to infinity at the other end of the scale. But, as I say, I'm no mathematician; my maths teacher asked me to give up on maths when I was in the 3rd form. So, I have to admit to having problems with Schrodinger (I understand what it's about, but my feet are too firmly fixed to the ground to go along with it) and even more problems with Tachyons. Must ask Neil to explain it all to me sometime - pretty sure he'll understand it. If there's ever a question about anything, Neil is the go-to encyclopedia.

Edit to fix grammatical error

gennepher said:

I need a nap!

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And another smasher, @gennepher .

Oh the fun & games now midnight's stood down from the Nights Watch...lol.

That Jade's a cheeky one

Enjoy the rest .

Annb said:

Beautiful! Reminiscent of the scene from my kitchen window a few weeks ago - before the wind took all the leaves from the trees. What we didn't have, this late in the year, was the brightness of the flowers to lighten the scene. We had foxgloves in the shady areas but only grass seed heads out in the sunny patches. But I can see our late summer there - there's my cherry tree, and there's my willow with the old rhododendron lurking behind, waiting for the leaves to fall so that it can take a chance to expand in the light. You may surmise that my garden is pretty wild. It is, we wanted it that way as a wild life habitat and now it has a mind all of its own.

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Sound glorious

Aw, poor frogs....but like you say,
You can lead a frog to water ....

Hope the days a pleasant one.

6.8 this morning. Last night I hadn't realised that the A47 Southern Bypass was closed for roadworks.

I decided to follow the diversion signs instead of taking a country road shortcut. It added 30 minutes to my journey and I had one very scary moment when I came up behind a cyclist all in black with no lights - travelling along an unlit section of the road.

Next time I think I will use the country road shortcut.

PatsyB said:

5.2 this morning, just walked the dogs and having a cuppa then will carry on with my daily routine, have a great day everyone <3

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Cracking score & start to your day

A cuppa well earned.

FBG 8.7 - climbing now and currently at 13.9. I took insulin about half an hour ago and had some breakfast, so it should steady itself down a bit in a while.

Krystyna23040 said:

6.8 this morning. Last night I hadn't realised that the A47 Southern Bypass was closed for roadworks.

I decided to follow the diversion signs instead of taking a country road shortcut. It added 30 minutes to my journey and I had one very scary moment when I came up behind a cyclist all in black with no lights - travelling along an unlit section of the road.

Next time I think I will use the country road shortcut.

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Aghh my favourite pet hate at the moment.
All these adults having to be treated like little children.

idiots .

Big sums spent of bikes
Another wallet whacking for the 'right' clothes.

All so they can look good in the mortuaries because their life literally wasn't worth a light....aghh.

People do not realise how vulnerable & fragile the human body can be.

I-d-i-o-t-s....

Thank goodness you were on the case & became their life saver

Annb said:

FBG 8.7 - climbing now and currently at 13.9. I took insulin about half an hour ago and had some breakfast, so it should steady itself down a bit in a while.

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A hug for the see-saw issues balancing things out.

A win for the attitude, though

Good morning everyone from what is now a wet Breckland on a day promising strong winds but sunny intervals. Thank you for that absolute masterpiece @dunelm - stunning. @gennepher another wonderful autumnal creative reminding me that although autumn is leading to dark and dreary winter there is always light and hope. @Annb shame those frogs don't seem to want to find a safer habitat. @jjraak no wonder your knee is grumbling today after that hard day yesterday. Amazing how far you have come in a short time. @alf_Josiah enjoy the challenge of the puzzle and try not to annoy Mrs J any more than usual. I'm certain you'll be trying. Shopping put away, dogs and JKP fed and watered and my last full day of Paxlovid today. Currently watching T20 cricket - I don't think England scored enough but I'm hoping. Big game for Spurs later in Marseilles. Bearing in mind the traditions of the day and Spurs fans adaptation here's a song that has been an earworm this morning (not the usual lyrics so not linked but this version attached Genn).