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@Annb
A hug for the constant chasing your blood sugars, I’m wondering if you monitored less and followed how you feel instead might help, but have you eliminated milk from your list of bad foods? Milk is bad for me, but we all have different body chemistries.
Good luck.
 
Fbg 6.6

I had one of those days yesterday...
The previous day, my medicines were not ready at the chemist. So I had to go out again yesterday morning.
So yesterday morning I went in and the person looking for my medicine said the prescription had not been put in, but I had not been told that the previous day.
It took 3 hours chasing up my medicines, and finally the prescription was put through from the doctorless surgery. And luckily the chemist's had all my medicines.

But I was absolutely exhausted with the time and effort that took.

I had no energy left, but I still had a couple of other things I had to do yesterday morning.

And going back home I passed the Country Store, where I needed a bale of straw. That night time badger, KissyKissy, has pulled out all the straw from my feral cat pods. My feral cat pods were made from old cat travelling baskets, and consequently the entrance is a bit big for them. KissyKissy is pulling out all the straw. I need to redesign them with small cat entrances, or make some different ones, and I need to put the cat straw back in to keep the cats warm at night.

I went in the entrance of the country store and I'm pushing my walker. And I am immediately confronted by a turnstile, one of those that used to be on public toilets that drops as you push it around thus preventing you pushing anything in with it.

I am gobsmacked, I can't even think for a moment. I have no way of getting into the shop. Then there are a few people behind me in those few seconds. A man comes in front of me and says I'll lift your walker over the barrier for you, and another person who I cannot see is behind me and holds my back so I don't fall over and the man in front of me who is now on the other side the turnstile with my walker has to move the turnstile for me because it is too strong for me to push.

I say thank you.

But my confidence is knocked. I feel disorientated because I've had to be helped through an unnecessary turnstile into a shopping store. I don't want to shop there anymore. So l go to the equestrian department to try and get my straw, but it has moved to the pet department. There were some other things I wanted but I just want to get the heck out the place.

On the way out I saw a mother with baby in a pram and she was just standing in front of the turnstile looking just as bewildered and I had moments before. Another lady came along and told the mother to walk through the turnstile she lifted the baby and pram over the turnstile to the mother, and then the mother was able to get in the store.

As I went back to my car I saw a woman in a mobility scooter who would have stood no chance getting through the turnstile, she would have had to shout for help. But there was only one member staff in that massive store, and she was on the till.

I had one more thing I wanted to do, but I just wanted to go straight home. I parked the car, got my walker out. But then I noticed that my front tyre was not straight, it was sticking out a bit and it was a busy side road and somebody could have shredded my tyre. So I left my walker outside the car, and I got back in the driver's seat, and I had to start the engine to be able to turn the steering wheel. In the meantime a woman outside the car is going frantic lifting up my walker thinking I'm going to drive off without it, and is trying to put it in the car and I'm saying no no no. Finally I get through to her why I'm in the car and the walker is outside the car, and I still haven't had a chance to get the wheel straight yet. She's at the driver's window at this point and she said, oh I'll do it for you so she puts her hands through the open window, and turns the steering wheel for me (!!!!!!), And says there I've got that straight for you now. I mean I'm sitting in the driving seat going to do this for myself and she did it for me...

I can't do anything else but say thank you to her, although I'm feeling, well I don't know what I'm feeling at this point but just feeling useless and stupid and inconsequential, and whatever else.

Finally I get home. And there is a no reply text from the doctorless surgery. It is signed practise manager and he apologises for the mix-up with my medicines. You have no idea how frustrated that made me feel because I'm being sent a text that I cannot respond to. There's no way of responding to this doctorless surgery, everything they send is a no reply text and if you want to go further with anything there is the normal telephone number which I cannot use with being deaf. Oh yes I bought all this up with them but they don't come up with an answer.

Then I notice my smart meter. Scrolling continuosly across the entire smart meter screen is a message which says "YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR WEEKLY BUDGET ALLOWANCE". It won't stop. No amount of pressing the screen to turn that bit off will work. I cannot get into any of the menu once that message in capitals is scrolling across the screen and it does it all day. I was going to turn the screen around, but then I lost my temper with it and it landed in the naughty corner.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, when I retrieved it from the naughty corner this morning it still works. It does this once a week for a full day. And you cannot stop that message scrolling across the screen, constantly chiding you.

I use no gas because the boiler broke down so I turned the gas into off. It is just electricity and I have a couple of oil filled radiators which are used to heat up my bedroom and the front room when needed. And at the lowest setting they use very little electricity. They turn on and off as needed and they retain heat in the fins which is why I like them, and when the temperature in the room drops below a certain amount then they heat up again. And it works very well for me. And I use my electric throw which is very very economical. And my electric bill for the week in this very cold weather might be anywhere between £9 to £11. So this smart meter was grumbling at me that I had exceeded my weekly budget allowance and my total bill for that week was £11.54.

What I pay in my direct debit each month more than covers my usage, and the energy company also have a pot of my money which is my reserve fund in their coffers in case of unexpected usage from me.

I don't know anyone else who uses that little electricity in a week, And that is my total power consumption.

I know the word I wanted now to describe yesterday, it was a feeling of powerlessness.

I know I'm on a short fuse at the moment because of the last two days, and I was due to drive and see my friend today, but it is a 60 mile round trip, and I did not feel like it this morning (especially as she is like a stuck record and complains about her husband who is disabled each time we meet, and I just didn't feel like listening yesterday) and so I've cancelled it, I said I'd see you next week because the next bit of stupidity I get from a person or organisation, they will get all my frustrations and I know that's how I feel.

I felt relieved once I cancelled her and now I've got the day to myself just to do my things

I have just thought does anybody know what a "stuck record" is nowadays?

There is one other thing that's been really frustrating these last two days, and that is an online application form to renew something. But it doesn't tell you what documents you need before you start the process, and I get two pages in and it says you need this document, and we need the details on pages so and so, and I go and get that document and come back to the screen but it's timed out and I have to start at the beginning again. And so it went on. I checked the council site and it has an outreach thing at the local library but that is closed all this week, and should be open on next Monday so there's nothing I can do about it. I went there a few years ago when I needed to do something similar with this, and she just did it for me in almost seconds. Well about 10 minutes.


Wild life nighttime camera...

Cats Amy & Jade

The little black cat, with the bit of white on its neck is Ammy (short for Amethyst), but I am fed with wrestling with spellcheck which keeps changing it to Amy, that I have finally given in, and am now calling her Amy. She has been in previous videos but she was almost impossible to see. She is a cat that remains hidden even in daylight.

At one end of the swing was Jade's dry biscuits. They have always been there. No other cat has eaten Jade's biscuits before, ever. Neither has the fox. Although cat Merlin, not in this video, unless he has tucked himself away on the swing, now eats Jade's biscuits.

The other black cat you can see with the white back legs is Jade who always resided in the middle of the swing (once Midnight relinquished his post to become a house cat).

You see Amy first, considering taking some of those cat biscuits. But it is like she keeps checking on whether the cat position in the middle of the swing is vacant but decides against it. However, this is the boldest I have ever seen Amy.

Then later, Jade tries. They are her biscuits, and so she jumps and eats...



Creative is a digital painting begun in ZenBrush3, and finished in Procreate.

Time for breakfast...06533691-1C86-45BD-BBA8-8B20A7DBABE7.jpeg
 
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Good morning all. fbs was 15.3 at 8am. HbA1c test tomorrow and follow up appointment booked with GP next week. Beginning to feel a little anxious about that. On the positive side 'was awoken in the early hours by the security light at the back of the house to see a large fox leaping up to the top of our box hedge outside the bedroom window and settling down there as if he owned the place. :D It explains the unfamiliar set of paw prints in the snow a few days ago. I wished we had one of Gennepher's night cameras to record him. After a good yawn he disappeared into the garden below out of sight. Have a good day folks especially those who didn't have such a good day yesterday. :)
 
alf_Josiah said:
@Annb
A hug for the constant chasing your blood sugars, I’m wondering if you monitored less and followed how you feel instead might help, but have you eliminated milk from your list of bad foods? Milk is bad for me, but we all have different body chemistries.
Good luck.
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Thanks for the concern. The reason I've been keeping a close eye on my BGs is that I thought milk was being a problem, but I have proved that it isn't. Still trying to find out what the main issue is. Since I went back onto milk and off the coconut milk my BGs have been a bit higher in the mornings again (I don't like the shape of the graph on the Libre which always has a huge high score between midnight and noon, then drops away to very low in the afternoon). I am wondering if cocnut does something beneficial, so will test that again. I am on huge amounts of insulin and want to try to reduce that. I need to keep an eye on what is happening until I can get it worked out. Trouble is, I can't feel anything until I am in the throws of a hypo or until I am really, seriously hyper, so can't follow how I feel.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

I had one of those days yesterday...
The previous day, my medicines were not ready at the chemist. So I had to go out again yesterday morning.
So yesterday morning I went in and the person looking for my medicine said the prescription had not been put in, but I had not been told that the previous day.
It took 3 hours chasing up my medicines, and finally the prescription was put through from the doctorless surgery. And luckily the chemist's had all my medicines.

But I was absolutely exhausted with the time and effort that took.

I had no energy left, but I still had a couple of other things I had to do yesterday morning.

And going back home I passed the Country Store, where I needed a bale of straw. That night time badger, KissyKissy, has pulled out all the straw from my feral cat pods. My feral cat pods were made from old cat travelling baskets, and consequently the entrance is a bit big for them. KissyKissy is pulling out all the straw. I need to redesign them with small cat entrances, or make some different ones, and I need to put the cat straw back in to keep the cats warm at night.

I went in the entrance of the country store and I'm pushing my walker. And I am immediately confronted by a turnstile, one of those that used to be on public toilets that drops as you push it around thus preventing you pushing anything in with it.

I am gobsmacked, I can't even think for a moment. I have no way of getting into the shop. Then there are a few people behind me in those few seconds. A man comes in front of me and says I'll lift your walker over the barrier for you, and another person who I cannot see is behind me and holds my back so I don't fall over and the man in front of me who is now on the other side the turnstile with my walker has to move the turnstile for me because it is too strong for me to push.

I say thank you.

But my confidence is knocked. I feel disorientated because I've had to be helped through an unnecessary turnstile into a shopping store. I don't want to shop there anymore. So l go to the equestrian department to try and get my straw, but it has moved to the pet department. There were some other things I wanted but I just want to get the heck out the place.

On the way out I saw a mother with baby in a pram and she was just standing in front of the turnstile looking just as bewildered and I had moments before. Another lady came along and told the mother to walk through the turnstile she lifted the baby and pram over the turnstile to the mother, and then the mother was able to get in the store.

As I went back to my car I saw a woman in a mobility scooter who would have stood no chance getting through the turnstile, she would have had to shout for help. But there was only one member staff in that massive store, and she was on the till.

I had one more thing I wanted to do, but I just wanted to go straight home. I parked the car, got my walker out. But then I noticed that my front tyre was not straight, it was sticking out a bit and it was a busy side road and somebody could have shredded my tyre. So I left my walker outside the car, and I got back in the driver's seat, and I had to start the engine to be able to turn the steering wheel. In the meantime a woman outside the car is going frantic lifting up my walker thinking I'm going to drive off without it, and is trying to put it in the car and I'm saying no no no. Finally I get through to her why I'm in the car and the walker is outside the car, and I still haven't had a chance to get the wheel straight yet. She's at the driver's window at this point and she said, oh I'll do it for you so she puts her hands through the open window, and turns the steering wheel for me (!!!!!!), And says there I've got that straight for you now. I mean I'm sitting in the driving seat going to do this for myself and she did it for me...

I can't do anything else but say thank you to her, although I'm feeling, well I don't know what I'm feeling at this point but just feeling useless and stupid and inconsequential, and whatever else.

Finally I get home. And there is a no reply text from the doctorless surgery. It is signed practise manager and he apologises for the mix-up with my medicines. You have no idea how frustrated that made me feel because I'm being sent a text that I cannot respond to. There's no way of responding to this doctorless surgery, everything they send is a no reply text and if you want to go further with anything there is the normal telephone number which I cannot use with being deaf. Oh yes I bought all this up with them but they don't come up with an answer.

Then I notice my smart meter. Scrolling continuosly across the entire smart meter screen is a message which says "YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR WEEKLY BUDGET ALLOWANCE". It won't stop. No amount of pressing the screen to turn that bit off will work. I cannot get into any of the menu once that message in capitals is scrolling across the screen and it does it all day. I was going to turn the screen around, but then I lost my temper with it and it landed in the naughty corner.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, when I retrieved it from the naughty corner this morning it still works. It does this once a week for a full day. And you cannot stop that message scrolling across the screen, constantly chiding you.

I use no gas because the boiler broke down so I turned the gas into off. It is just electricity and I have a couple of oil filled radiators which are used to heat up my bedroom and the front room when needed. And at the lowest setting they use very little electricity. They turn on and off as needed and they retain heat in the fins which is why I like them, and when the temperature in the room drops below a certain amount then they heat up again. And it works very well for me. And I use my electric throw which is very very economical. And my electric bill for the week in this very cold weather might be anywhere between £9 to £11. So this smart meter was grumbling at me that I had exceeded my weekly budget allowance and my total bill for that week was £11.54.

What I pay in my direct debit each month more than covers my usage, and the energy company also have a pot of my money which is my reserve fund in their coffers in case of unexpected usage from me.

I don't know anyone else who uses that little electricity in a week, And that is my total power consumption.

I know the word I wanted now to describe yesterday, it was a feeling of powerlessness.

I know I'm on a short fuse at the moment because of the last two days, and I was due to drive and see my friend today, but it is a 60 mile round trip, and I did not feel like it this morning (especially as she is like a stuck record and complains about her husband who is disabled each time we meet, and I just didn't feel like listening yesterday) and so I've cancelled it, I said I'd see you next week because the next bit of stupidity I get from a person or organisation, they will get all my frustrations and I know that's how I feel.

I felt relieved once I cancelled her and now I've got the day to myself just to do my things

I have just thought does anybody know what a "stuck record" is nowadays?

There is one other thing that's been really frustrating these last two days, and that is an online application form to renew something. But it doesn't tell you what documents you need before you start the process, and I get two pages in and it says you need this document, and we need the details on pages so and so, and I go and get that document and come back to the screen but it's timed out and I have to start at the beginning again. And so it went on. I checked the council site and it has an outreach thing at the local library but that is closed all this week, and should be open on next Monday so there's nothing I can do about it. I went there a few years ago when I needed to do something similar with this, and she just did it for me in almost seconds. Well about 10 minutes.


Wild life nighttime camera...

Cats Amy & Jade

The little black cat, with the bit of white on its neck is Ammy (short for Amethyst), but I am fed with wrestling with spellcheck which keeps changing it to Amy, that I have finally given in, and am now calling her Amy. She has been in previous videos but she was almost impossible to see. She is a cat that remains hidden even in daylight.

At one end of the swing was Jade's dry biscuits. They have always been there. No other cat has eaten Jade's biscuits before, ever. Neither has the fox. Although cat Merlin, not in this video, unless he has tucked himself away on the swing, now eats Jade's biscuits.

The other black cat you can see with the white back legs is Jade who always resided in the middle of the swing (once Midnight relinquished his post to become a house cat).

You see Amy first, considering taking some of those cat biscuits. But it is like she keeps checking on whether the cat position in the middle of the swing is vacant but decides against it. However, this is the boldest I have ever seen Amy.

Then later, Jade tries. They are her biscuits, and so she jumps and eats...



Creative is a digital painting begun in ZenBrush3, and finished in Procreate.

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What an awful day

What shop puts in turnstiles. :banghead:

No wonder your frustration meter was in the red.

Great call on cancelling meeting
Better for all, especially you.

(Who needs that sort of endless whining on a trip out)

Nice video

Don't cats look 'small' until you see them stretched out ?

How odd if they all walked on their back legs...the swagger they'd all have..:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

Hope today's a more pleasant one < pray >
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

I had one of those days yesterday...
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What a carry on, Gennepher. No wonder you feel so down a lot of the time. What a stupid shop making access so difficult - are they actually breaking the law? It must put potential customers off from shopping there - you are clearly not the only one having difficulties. I've never heard of a shop that tries to restrict their clientele. Can filling in your form wait until next week when the outreach place is open? If so, just forget about it until then. I'm sure they will be happy to do it for you. At least the lady by your car was trying to be helpful but I can see that it would leave you feeling powerless after the day you'd already had.

There are things you can do without help; things that you are really good at. You are a kind and generous person and very courageous facing all the difficulties you have. I hate depending on others - even Neil - but I have to and have to try to have good grace about it, so I understand to a degree how you feel, though my problems are not as serious as yours. I am also more fortunate in that my son is here and my other son is not far away so that when I do need help, I can get it. I wish there was a way you could get the help you need, without losing your independence, but I think society is becoming more difficult to deal with for those with any kind of disability these days - the caring seems to have gone amongst many, although I know that is too sweeping a statement to be accurate. There is care on this forum, and understanding, but we are all too remote to be of any help. Is there no organisation near you that could help out once in a while?

On a happier note, I love that artwork. It's a beautiful scene and beautifully rendered. Wish I could print all your works out and mount them. Would you mind if I make a folder on my PC so I can go back and look at them from time to time?

Forum is refusing to let me post this reply just now (10.35), but I'll try again in a little while.
Still refusing at 11.10. Wait another while. (Telling me to check in my browser console, but I don't know what that is, so I'll just wait)
 
Morning all on a dual celebration: Burns Night and Feast of the Conversion of St Paul. Haggis it will be since I can't find food linked to St Paul but your mileage may vary. Haggis may be carby and I'm not advocating others go off piste but c'mon, what's a few carbs going to do compared to the the big C? Anyhow, my guess, plus some trawling of t'internet and analysis, suggests the salt and other seasoning is at least as harmful. @dogslife good to see you here and best wishes for the HbA1c. @Krystyna23040 good news on the traffic lights and thanks for the good wishes. CT scans need to be analysed and then passed on via referring Dr. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative especially after such a frustrating day. Rock and a hard place for you and your feeling of agency in your own life versus those feeling they are helping. As for the country store I can see their dilemma. If it can be stolen it will be and as audaciously as possible. It seems that it is increasingly like the Hunger Games "out there." Your issue and the pram may prompt a rethink but dog eat dog seems to be rampant. @Annb I'm full of admiration for how you manage to post such positive posts despite the pain and bg switchback ride. I'm off to see some majestic equines, acquire a haggis and a complimentary coffee, Have a good day which is increasingly hard to define and not helped by what someone has brilliantly (IMHO) dubbed the scourge of long Boris Johnson.
 
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jjraak said:
What an awful day

What shop puts in turnstiles. :banghead:

No wonder your frustration meter was in the red.

Great call on cancelling meeting
Better for all, especially you.

(Who needs that sort of endless whining on a trip out)

Nice video

Don't cats look 'small' until you see them stretched out ?

How odd if they all walked on their back legs...the swagger they'd all have..:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

Hope today's a more pleasant one < pray >
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It was safest for all, by me cancelling @jjraak

That was quite a sweet video with the two cats.

It is definitely a taking it easy day today.
And I have some nice food and fresh eggs...
You have a good day...
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.6

I had one of those days yesterday...
The previous day, my medicines were not ready at the chemist. So I had to go out again yesterday morning.
So yesterday morning I went in and the person looking for my medicine said the prescription had not been put in, but I had not been told that the previous day.
It took 3 hours chasing up my medicines, and finally the prescription was put through from the doctorless surgery. And luckily the chemist's had all my medicines.

But I was absolutely exhausted with the time and effort that took.

I had no energy left, but I still had a couple of other things I had to do yesterday morning.

And going back home I passed the Country Store, where I needed a bale of straw. That night time badger, KissyKissy, has pulled out all the straw from my feral cat pods. My feral cat pods were made from old cat travelling baskets, and consequently the entrance is a bit big for them. KissyKissy is pulling out all the straw. I need to redesign them with small cat entrances, or make some different ones, and I need to put the cat straw back in to keep the cats warm at night.

I went in the entrance of the country store and I'm pushing my walker. And I am immediately confronted by a turnstile, one of those that used to be on public toilets that drops as you push it around thus preventing you pushing anything in with it.

I am gobsmacked, I can't even think for a moment. I have no way of getting into the shop. Then there are a few people behind me in those few seconds. A man comes in front of me and says I'll lift your walker over the barrier for you, and another person who I cannot see is behind me and holds my back so I don't fall over and the man in front of me who is now on the other side the turnstile with my walker has to move the turnstile for me because it is too strong for me to push.

I say thank you.

But my confidence is knocked. I feel disorientated because I've had to be helped through an unnecessary turnstile into a shopping store. I don't want to shop there anymore. So l go to the equestrian department to try and get my straw, but it has moved to the pet department. There were some other things I wanted but I just want to get the heck out the place.

On the way out I saw a mother with baby in a pram and she was just standing in front of the turnstile looking just as bewildered and I had moments before. Another lady came along and told the mother to walk through the turnstile she lifted the baby and pram over the turnstile to the mother, and then the mother was able to get in the store.

As I went back to my car I saw a woman in a mobility scooter who would have stood no chance getting through the turnstile, she would have had to shout for help. But there was only one member staff in that massive store, and she was on the till.

I had one more thing I wanted to do, but I just wanted to go straight home. I parked the car, got my walker out. But then I noticed that my front tyre was not straight, it was sticking out a bit and it was a busy side road and somebody could have shredded my tyre. So I left my walker outside the car, and I got back in the driver's seat, and I had to start the engine to be able to turn the steering wheel. In the meantime a woman outside the car is going frantic lifting up my walker thinking I'm going to drive off without it, and is trying to put it in the car and I'm saying no no no. Finally I get through to her why I'm in the car and the walker is outside the car, and I still haven't had a chance to get the wheel straight yet. She's at the driver's window at this point and she said, oh I'll do it for you so she puts her hands through the open window, and turns the steering wheel for me (!!!!!!), And says there I've got that straight for you now. I mean I'm sitting in the driving seat going to do this for myself and she did it for me...

I can't do anything else but say thank you to her, although I'm feeling, well I don't know what I'm feeling at this point but just feeling useless and stupid and inconsequential, and whatever else.

Finally I get home. And there is a no reply text from the doctorless surgery. It is signed practise manager and he apologises for the mix-up with my medicines. You have no idea how frustrated that made me feel because I'm being sent a text that I cannot respond to. There's no way of responding to this doctorless surgery, everything they send is a no reply text and if you want to go further with anything there is the normal telephone number which I cannot use with being deaf. Oh yes I bought all this up with them but they don't come up with an answer.

Then I notice my smart meter. Scrolling continuosly across the entire smart meter screen is a message which says "YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR WEEKLY BUDGET ALLOWANCE". It won't stop. No amount of pressing the screen to turn that bit off will work. I cannot get into any of the menu once that message in capitals is scrolling across the screen and it does it all day. I was going to turn the screen around, but then I lost my temper with it and it landed in the naughty corner.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, when I retrieved it from the naughty corner this morning it still works. It does this once a week for a full day. And you cannot stop that message scrolling across the screen, constantly chiding you.

I use no gas because the boiler broke down so I turned the gas into off. It is just electricity and I have a couple of oil filled radiators which are used to heat up my bedroom and the front room when needed. And at the lowest setting they use very little electricity. They turn on and off as needed and they retain heat in the fins which is why I like them, and when the temperature in the room drops below a certain amount then they heat up again. And it works very well for me. And I use my electric throw which is very very economical. And my electric bill for the week in this very cold weather might be anywhere between £9 to £11. So this smart meter was grumbling at me that I had exceeded my weekly budget allowance and my total bill for that week was £11.54.

What I pay in my direct debit each month more than covers my usage, and the energy company also have a pot of my money which is my reserve fund in their coffers in case of unexpected usage from me.

I don't know anyone else who uses that little electricity in a week, And that is my total power consumption.

I know the word I wanted now to describe yesterday, it was a feeling of powerlessness.

I know I'm on a short fuse at the moment because of the last two days, and I was due to drive and see my friend today, but it is a 60 mile round trip, and I did not feel like it this morning (especially as she is like a stuck record and complains about her husband who is disabled each time we meet, and I just didn't feel like listening yesterday) and so I've cancelled it, I said I'd see you next week because the next bit of stupidity I get from a person or organisation, they will get all my frustrations and I know that's how I feel.

I felt relieved once I cancelled her and now I've got the day to myself just to do my things

I have just thought does anybody know what a "stuck record" is nowadays?

There is one other thing that's been really frustrating these last two days, and that is an online application form to renew something. But it doesn't tell you what documents you need before you start the process, and I get two pages in and it says you need this document, and we need the details on pages so and so, and I go and get that document and come back to the screen but it's timed out and I have to start at the beginning again. And so it went on. I checked the council site and it has an outreach thing at the local library but that is closed all this week, and should be open on next Monday so there's nothing I can do about it. I went there a few years ago when I needed to do something similar with this, and she just did it for me in almost seconds. Well about 10 minutes.


Wild life nighttime camera...

Cats Amy & Jade

The little black cat, with the bit of white on its neck is Ammy (short for Amethyst), but I am fed with wrestling with spellcheck which keeps changing it to Amy, that I have finally given in, and am now calling her Amy. She has been in previous videos but she was almost impossible to see. She is a cat that remains hidden even in daylight.

At one end of the swing was Jade's dry biscuits. They have always been there. No other cat has eaten Jade's biscuits before, ever. Neither has the fox. Although cat Merlin, not in this video, unless he has tucked himself away on the swing, now eats Jade's biscuits.

The other black cat you can see with the white back legs is Jade who always resided in the middle of the swing (once Midnight relinquished his post to become a house cat).

You see Amy first, considering taking some of those cat biscuits. But it is like she keeps checking on whether the cat position in the middle of the swing is vacant but decides against it. However, this is the boldest I have ever seen Amy.

Then later, Jade tries. They are her biscuits, and so she jumps and eats...



Creative is a digital painting begun in ZenBrush3, and finished in Procreate.

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Splendid ‘cat falls’
 
Annb said:
What a carry on, Gennepher. No wonder you feel so down a lot of the time. What a stupid shop making access so difficult - are they actually breaking the law? It must put potential customers off from shopping there - you are clearly not the only one having difficulties. I've never heard of a shop that tries to restrict their clientele. Can filling in your form wait until next week when the outreach place is open? If so, just forget about it until then. I'm sure they will be happy to do it for you. At least the lady by your car was trying to be helpful but I can see that it would leave you feeling powerless after the day you'd already had.

There are things you can do without help; things that you are really good at. You are a kind and generous person and very courageous facing all the difficulties you have. I hate depending on others - even Neil - but I have to and have to try to have good grace about it, so I understand to a degree how you feel, though my problems are not as serious as yours. I am also more fortunate in that my son is here and my other son is not far away so that when I do need help, I can get it. I wish there was a way you could get the help you need, without losing your independence, but I think society is becoming more difficult to deal with for those with any kind of disability these days - the caring seems to have gone amongst many, although I know that is too sweeping a statement to be accurate. There is care on this forum, and understanding, but we are all too remote to be of any help. Is there no organisation near you that could help out once in a while?

On a happier note, I love that artwork. It's a beautiful scene and beautifully rendered. Wish I could print all your works out and mount them. Would you mind if I make a folder on my PC so I can go back and look at them from time to time?

Forum is refusing to let me post this reply just now (10.35), but I'll try again in a little while.
Still refusing at 11.10. Wait another while. (Telling me to check in my browser console, but I don't know what that is, so I'll just wait)
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Thanks @Annb

Form filling is urgent, but if I cannot achieve it, then I can't.
I am giving myself two days off it, and try once more on Friday. Failing that, it's outreach place next week...

That lady by the car was trying to be helpful, and all you can do is accept the help graciously, even if it is not what you need, because when they leave you, they still need to feel good about themselves.

I did have a network of stuff and people that before Covid and lockdowns. But that got destroyed with the lockdowns. And my groups have not reopened up. And neither have the CAB where I taught Art, and family history as Ancestry, and I help people do job search on computers, and some other stuff...that's not opened up again. All those connections and network of people that I could rely on for help or a lift, well they've fallen by the wayside, some died, some moved, and some are in need of help themselves now, so I've lost the network I had built up for my old age.

My daughter in Australia thinks I want to start joining groups again, so I said how because there's no way of knowing where the groups are. Yes, some of them post groups online, facebook etc but a lot are never updated nor taken down, and you look at this group, think that's good, and you click on the pages and you get 404 not found.

So you know then, they've not updated anything, and about the time I get to the umpteenth number of 404 I can't be bothered looking anymore.

So my daughter in Australia looked for pile of links. She sent a pile, so I spent the morning going through them only to get 404 not found, or the page you were looking for is not here anymore...etc.

Of course you can download and keep a folder of my work. And you can print and frame them if you want to.

I get the same problems trying to post on this forum...
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a dual celebration: Burns Night and Feast of the Conversion of St Paul. Haggis it will be since I can't find food linked to St Paul but your mileage may vary. Haggis may be carby and I'm not advocating others go off piste but c'mon, what's a few carbs going to do compared to the the big C? Anyhow, my guess, plus some trawling of t'internet and analysis, suggests the salt and other seasoning is at least as harmful. @dogslife good to see you here and best wishes for the HbA1c. @Krystyna23040 good news on the traffic lights and thanks for the good wishes. CT scans need to be analysed and then passed on via referring Dr. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative especially after such a frustrating day. Rock and a hard place for you and your feeling of agency in your own life versus those feeling they are helping. As for the country store I can see their dilemma. If it can be stolen it will be and as audaciously as possible. It seems that it is increasingly like the Hunger Games "out there." Your issue and the pram may prompt a rethink but dog eat dog seems to be rampant. @Annb I'm full of admiration for how you manage to post such positive posts despite the pain and bg switchback ride. I'm off to see some majestic equines, acquire a haggis and a complimentary coffee, Have a good day which is increasingly hard to define and not helped by what someone has brilliantly (IMHO) dubbed the scourge of long Boris Johnson.
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I still don't see the sense in the turnstile, because there are separate opening doors for exit and entrance, and you can't get out of the entrance doors by going out that way, they don't trigger to open. So, that still doesn't make sense.

Anyway, they've definitely lost a customer, me, because I will be getting my straw on Amazon in future.

Anyway, have a good the rest of the day.
 
@gennepher you are real inspiration to all, how you keep going I know not.

By now me, me’s and myself would have probably committed murder and living a life of luxury incarcerated in one of HM prisons where all my problems become the prison’s problems.
Hehehe
 
Fbg was 7.5 not sure why as yesterday's carb total was under 50 grams but still give it time and hopefully will get it back down eventually not heard from DN yet.

Spent a bit of time perusing family tree on Ancestry dot com yesterday and with all the interest in animals on here something caught my eye.

It was this little rhyme "
the Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge
rulyth all Englande under a hogge.

Penned by one Sir William Collingbourne an ancestor of mine in 1484 and pinned to the door of St. Pauls Cathedral.

Evidently Richard III (the Hogge) was not best pleased as poor old rebellious William ended up on Tower hill Hung Drawn and Quartered

It seems his last words uttered with his last breath were "Oh Lord Jesus, yet more trouble!"
 
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alf_Josiah said:
@gennepher you are real inspiration to all, how you keep going I know not.

By now me, me’s and myself would have probably committed murder and living a life of luxury incarcerated in one of HM prisons where all my problems become the prison’s problems.
Hehehe
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Thanks Alf
It is comforting to know that someone else would feel as frustrated as I do about all this....
 
JohnEGreen said:
Fbg was 7.5 not sure why as yesterday's carb total was under 50 grams but still give it time and hopefully will get it back down eventually not heard from DN yet.

Spent a bit of time perusing family tree on Ancestry dot com yesterday and with all the interest in animals on here something caught my eye.

It was this little rhyme "
the Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge
rulyth all Englande under a hogge.

Penned by one Sir William Collingbourne an ancestor of mine in 1484 and pinned to the door of St. Pauls Cathedral.

Evidently Richard III (the Hogge) was not best pleased as poor old rebellious William ended up on Tower hill Hung Drawn and Quartered

It seems his last words uttered with his last breath were "Oh Lord Jesus, yet more trouble!"
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Oh dear @JohnEGreen
It appears we should keep personal opinions to ourselves....
 
gennepher said:
It appears we should keep personal opinions to ourselves....
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Yes and they say words can't hurt you it would seem in his case they caused a world of pain.

Mind you he did compound his offence by sending a message to Henry Tudor urging him to land at Poole in Dorset raise an army and take the crown from Richard.

The cat was Sir William Catesby
The rat Sir Richard Ratcliffe
The dog Francis Lovell, the 1st Viscount Lovell
The Hog of course was Richard III

Not people you would have wanted to get mad at you if you had any sense that is.
 
JohnEGreen said:
Yes and they say words can't hurt you it would seem in his case they caused a world of pain.

Mind you he did compound his offence by sending a message to Henry Tudor urging him to land at Poole in Dorset raise an army and take the crown from Richard.

The cat was Sir William Catesby
The rat Sir Richard Ratcliffe
The dog Francis Lovell, the 1st Viscount Lovell
The Hog of course was Richard III

Not people you would have wanted to get mad at you if you had any sense that is.
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I don't suppose urging Henry Tudor to try to take the crown from Richard III did him much good either.
 
Annb said:
I don't suppose urging Henry Tudor to try to take the crown from Richard III did him much good either.
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True but as I have found out here on odd occasions you have to be careful about what you write though at least the mods can't have you executed only banished from the realm.
 
23.01
8.40 am FBG 4.9
Forgot to mention that as well as the plaster we also bought four tin sheets in various sizes. One of which was perfect to replace the missing sheet on the leanto. So MrSlim spent most of yesterday repairing the various bits of storm damage to the roofs.
 
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