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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on quite a decent start here in the dark and dangerous north. We are winging up the motorway towards Gretna Green at present and will stop there for a quick koffy and a go on the anvil. Art bit - adding color - don’t know what will be next. Have a blast.


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Colouring is absolutely brilliant, not what I expected at all. Think I was half expecting to be more doom and gloomy and foreboding. I think that looks quite light and airy.

Enjoy your trip @dunelm
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a sullen skied, breezy Airfield cum Pig Farm cum forested area cum semi wasteland. Best seen on radio, imho. I didn't test and wouldn't have a huge amount of trust in the accuracy of any of the devices nor confidence in what the level, even if accurate, meant or precisely how it came about. I enjoyed the pheasant breast in mushroom, red wine and creme fraiche sauce last evening, followed by a row of Green and Blacks mint. JKP liked G and B better than After Eight. I know what the app I use says the carbs, nutes and vits were but beyond that is, in all honesty, really just guesswork. If you are "fully invested" your version of sound science says it is all true. If you are sceptical "settled science" says it is dangerous. Therefore big hugs for @SlimLizzy and @Krystyna23040 trying to ride this tiger. Nothing any of us can say will or should stop or change you so I hope you feel better in yourselves about doing your best as you see it. Which, for me, segues perfectly into your creative @gennepher. Whatever colours are there may actually be what they are "in reality" anyhow rather than what "the man", "big pharma" or "they" want you to see. Is art always meant to be like a photo? Today B Gas are finally sorting out Nan London's heating which is ironic since she now lives here. She is much stronger and more independent in the week since she left hospital, thanks be to God. She has already had at least 1 good offer on her place - play it cool Trigg, play it nice and cool. It is also super salmon salad day - factored in to the app (22.4 gms carb and 68% rda sodium today since you didn't ask). @jjraak is Potter about to beat Antonio to the £££££s sack race prize and be replaced by Poch?
Update: @dunelm absolutely sublime artwork. Safe journey both ways and have a great time - your own way. Not the best song on Rumours by a long shot (Songbird was by a distance). Have a good day everyone however you chose to define that.
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Thank you very much @ianpspurs
Art is whatever you make of it...
 
gennepher said:
A yellow filter will get those wonderful dramatic clouds @Annb

No yellow filter?
No problem!

Got a pair of yellow tinted sunglasses?
Then hold/tape them to the back of your phone lens while you take the picture of clouds...

No yellow sunglasses lens?
Then a piece of yellow cellophane/acetate will work.

It will make a heck of a difference to the definition of those magnificent clouds you see...
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That's very interesting. Wish I'd known that when I had a working camera. Alas, those days are long gone. I don't have a phone that will take pics either. I do have an Amazon Fire Tablet which does take photos (not sure of the quality) but I don't know how to get the images from the tablet to my laptop. Just have to enjoy your creations.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on quite a decent start here in the dark and dangerous north. We are winging up the motorway towards Gretna Green at present and will stop there for a quick koffy and a go on the anvil. Art bit - adding color - don’t know what will be next. Have a blast.


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Great effect. You are so good at the detailed work but then you add colour and we could be there, looking at the scene.
 
ianpspurs said:
@jjraak is Potter about to beat Antonio to the £££££s sack race prize and be replaced by Poch
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Have some pity @ianpspurs , please.

Laurens entire family are Fulham.

Yesterday was their world cup champions league & premiership title all rolled into one.

Already having to block so many asking exactly where "That blue flag goes "...:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

Haha...all good banter.

But i do think " harry potter & the chamber of missing points " isn't headed for any oscars or a long run, more likely the oddment bin by the checkout, if I'm honest
 
jjraak said:
Have some pity @ianpspurs , please.

Laurens entire family are Fulham.

Yesterday was their world cup champions league & premiership title all rolled into one.

Already having to block so many asking exactly where "That blue flag goes "...:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

Haha...all good banter.

But i do think " harry potter & the chamber of missing points " isn't headed for any oscars or a long run, more likely the oddment bin by the checkout, if I'm honest
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I have 2 Chelsea supporting sons courtesy of Mr Gullit, an Uncle who had a season ticket and kindly treated them to splendid seats and Lord Coe treating them to hot chocolate. I'll wait until after the NLD to enquire as to their humour. I have always liked this though.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on quite a decent start here in the dark and dangerous north. We are winging up the motorway towards Gretna Green at present and will stop there for a quick koffy and a go on the anvil. Art bit - adding color - don’t know what will be next. Have a blast.


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Excellent results Dunelm. I hope Mrs Miggins didn't get caught in the Greta Green shopping outlet near the motorway which she might of thought was a good way to start the long weekend! ;)
D.
 
ianpspurs said:
I have 2 Chelsea supporting sons courtesy of Mr Gullit, an Uncle who had a season ticket and kindly treated them to splendid seats and Lord Coe treating them to hot chocolate. I'll wait until after the NLD to enquire as to their humour. I have always liked this though.
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Good pickings. :happy:

And for those perhaps a little unfamiliar with football chants.

This ...is what I'll be greeted with at every family meet up, from one person to the entire tribe (& friends) and at the same volume :rolleyes::hilarious:. ...From now until hell freezes over.

NB caution, naughty word.
User discretion recommended
 
14.01
8.20am FBG 4.9
I have managed to contact a pet sitter, she has even less English than I have French. Communication was not easy but we arranged for her to come and meet Kiki on Thursday. We will discuss dates etc then. Although there is a small possibility of a neighbour feeding her, it's good to have a back up plan. The process of reducing Kiki's meals down to two a day seems to be going well. Next week lunch will be further reduced and hopefully after that abandoned altogether.
MrSlim is going to book ferry tickets to UK today.
 
FBG (at 6 am) 12.6
2 hours, pain killers and tea later: 14.9
Don't expect to eat for a while but I've taken my basal jab plus a correction bolus dose and am having a further cup of tea. Hoping the BG will come down to a more reasonable level in an hour or so. Oddly, had a proper hypo yesterday afternoon which left me very shaky for the rest of the evening, even though I got the BG back up pretty quickly. Then of course, it bounced way back up - one fruit pastille did that.
Unless something changes, I'm likely to be chair bound today. Left hip has decided not to co-operate with the standing/walking process. Usually it frees up a bit from a distinctly bearable pain level but today the pain is much greater and the left leg won't bear weight at all. I guess I'll try a larger dose of the painkillers in a couple of hours and see where we get with that.
Our eastern sky was quite heavy earlier but the clouds had a definite blue tinge - looked a bit like one of those very smooth finishes Dali used to get in his skies. Broken up now into grey clouds with patches of blueish white. Can't see the mainland mountains - I guess it's raining somewhere in between.
 
Hello everyone from a wet, blustery, bewildering Pig-N-Plane oddity in the East. No fbg but the Prof with whom I had a telephone consultation yesterday about some other problem I forget just now said my bg is fine. @SlimLizzy good news on the pet sitter and meal reduction for Kiki. @Krystyna23040 good news on the relaxation and Aldi cheese. Big but gentle hug for you @Annb but massive winner for the way you cope and communicate with such good grace and love. Today we hope to see our youngest son and his two children and I have my heart set on snaffling a shoulder of lamb for tomorrow. The, not so little now, guy likes lamb should he be here for lunch. So does Nan London who has mastered Alexa for messaging - fortunately. She slipped this morning and needed help to get up. Had she been at home/living alone no telling how long she would have lain there. Now, if you don't mind, I need to tea up and prepare to hunt for lamb and free coffee in the town of pampered horses awash with Emirates money.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, are you enjoying the weather? It has changed my plans slightly, but I woke up, late, but I did wake to another day damp or not, I stretched my arms out and didn’t hit wood therefore by definition a good day.

Blood sugars this morning were a late night cheese fuelled 6.7, me, me’s and myself can live with that.

Aches and pains, a right or left pain in the posterior, sympathy given. Now let’s invert our thinking, aches and pains, unless caused by an outside influence, don’t appear to manifest themselves until we enter our 7th and 8th decades hence perhaps we should suffer them with pride acknowledging they are medals for living so long.

What a load of old cods wallop, pass me the pain killers.

Stay safe, stay dry and whatever.
 
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BG at 1000 after bf at 0830 6.6
BP 1010.....126/72

Seem tired after a busy week.
I shall have to get my strength up, I find it difficult getting in and out the car in a restricted space since my right leg seems weaker.
Probably try to get a disability badge so I can have more space for my long body to unfurl when I get in and out, I don't want the ambulance men to come and get me off the ground. :)

D.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Hello everyone from a wet, blustery, bewildering Pig-N-Plane oddity in the East. No fbg but the Prof with whom I had a telephone consultation yesterday about some other problem I forget just now said my bg is fine. @SlimLizzy good news on the pet sitter and meal reduction for Kiki. @Krystyna23040 good news on the relaxation and Aldi cheese. Big but gentle hug for you @Annb but massive winner for the way you cope and communicate with such good grace and love. Today we hope to see our youngest son and his two children and I have my heart set on snaffling a shoulder of lamb for tomorrow. The, not so little now, guy likes lamb should he be here for lunch. So does Nan London who has mastered Alexa for messaging - fortunately. She slipped this morning and needed help to get up. Had she been at home/living alone no telling how long she would have lain there. Now, if you don't mind, I need to tea up and prepare to hunt for lamb and free coffee in the town of pampered horses awash with Emirates money.
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Hug for your mother-in-law, Ian. She's fortunate to be with you now. It is so easy to slip when your balance, or strength are not what they used to be. Especially now, with all the industrial issues - whether strikes or just overloaded services - older folk are very vulnerable. She must be feeling a lot more secure being with her family.

Have a good day with your son and grandchildren and enjoy that lamb! (I love lamb and can just imagine it)
 
Fbg 6.1

I am doing the upping my amitriptyline dosage today. I had to during the night as well. I am trying to avoid taking painkillers, I just want to avoid taking them if I can. But if I run out of the amitriptyline, then it will be onto the painkillers. My feet are doing the, we wish to be amputated dance today...

Is it all this wet weather or what? I'm disappointed my feet are hurting so much, especially as I am getting my blood sugar levels at a constant level most of the day without doing the rises they were doing at one time...

I just feel as though I am failing today.

Wildlife garden camera....
A little sparrow in the teeming rain!
He seems to have been eating the scraps of cat biscuits under the swing...
I am calling this a sparrow, but actually might be the little Dunnock that lives in my garden.

As I have just said, I feel I am failing today.
This is the best painting I can do for my Creative, it started in ZenBrush3, but I had to move it over to Procreate for a bit of help with brushstrokes. I know I can do better. But it's the best I can do today.

I am way behind today. It's now midday and I need to go and cook my breakfast.

I did feed the wildlife gang earlier while it was still dark. Everything had been eaten in the night, including Midnight's buffet bar in the kitchen, all the dishes had been licked completely clean. They had all queued up outside the catflap to get in, so I think even the wildlife are having problems with this wet weather. Midnight has another buffet bar in my bedroom, so he's alright if he needs a midnight snack.

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.1

I am doing the upping my amitriptyline dosage today. I had to during the night as well. I am trying to avoid taking painkillers, I just want to avoid taking them if I can. But if I run out of the amitriptyline, then it will be onto the painkillers. My feet are doing the, we wish to be amputated dance today...

Is it all this wet weather or what? I'm disappointed my feet are hurting so much, especially as I am getting my blood sugar levels at a constant level most of the day without doing the rises they were doing at one time...

I just feel as though I am failing today.

Wildlife garden camera....
A little sparrow in the teeming rain!
He seems to have been eating the scraps of cat biscuits under the swing...
I am calling this a sparrow, but actually might be the little Dunnock that lives in my garden.

As I have just said, I feel I am failing today.
This is the best painting I can do for my Creative, it started in ZenBrush3, but I had to move it over to Procreate for a bit of help with brushstrokes. I know I can do better. But it's the best I can do today.

I am way behind today. It's now midday and I need to go and cook my breakfast.

I did feed the wildlife gang earlier while it was still dark. Everything had been eaten in the night, including Midnight's buffet bar in the kitchen, all the dishes had been licked completely clean. They had all queued up outside the catflap to get in, so I think even the wildlife are having problems with this wet weather. Midnight has another buffet bar in my bedroom, so he's alright if he needs a midnight snack.

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That's exactly the colour our sky was this morning and the ground is the colour of the field outside our window. Love your use of colours. Can't see why you feel that this creative is inadequate. It is not, by any means.

You just reminded me that I took insulin about and hour and an half ago, intending to make my breakfast - and then I forgot. thank you. Ah - now my Libre is beeping at me. It will be reading 3.9, but the actual figure will be more like 4.1 or 2, so no worries, but I guess I should make that breakfast.
 
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