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Thanks Alf' Morening all.
Blood sugars this morning were 6.1
@gennepher, a nice painting, I think I knew her mum! Well I am of Welsh extraction.
Panic stations here in Tilehurst Towers. Our eldest son and family are descending on us for lunch, they are having a lasagna with garlic and salad, their pudding will be chocolate mousse. Mine will be mince, peas and a fruit salad.
Before preparation can begin I have to clear all rubbish off the dinning room table.
Have a safe day all.
I noticed that @dunelm is travelling back to the dark and dangerous norf today. Safe travels fellow greaser.
Thanks Ian and thanks for the lyrics....Morning all on Sexagesima - let's see how Al Gore's rhythmn and a well known poster or two deal with that. Thanks for all the good wishes for MIL who is in the right place however much she clearly resents the "fuss" and need for help.. As @lindisfel rightly says she is both a tough 'un and of advanced years with life taking its toll. I think this pattern is likely to be increasingly familiar and her willpower for the fight will diminish. Possibly not until June as after the last hospitalisation she talked our boys into booking a cottage in Wales for everyone. Initially I wasn't going as I just don't like it there (hills for a Fen Boy - nope) but I'm seeing a bigger picture focused on JKP and our time together. JKP has precious memories of the Llŷn Peninsula: her father's home, family and long holidays. MIL is very close to her husband's family. Anyhow, I'll share a sublime moment - t'was but a mirth but, my, it was powerful - from yesterday. Driving back here - in the venerable RR naturally - through a bootiful village, listening to BBC R2. Tom Allen name checked Joan Hickson's Miss Marple - wonderful memories of weekends with my parents, escaping SE25 with pregnant JKP and our puppy. To top it off Gambo played this which somehow I had forgotten. Sounded amazing then and even better through new headphones now I've made the graphic equalizer suitable. Roast pork shoulder family meal here today. Well, No 3 son and his children. The babies of our family. @Annb and @alf_Josiah I'm all over the LC lasagne idea (is on it like a car bonnet still "a thing" ?) and have this LC pasta flour and pasta maker (reclaimed from No1 son - fondue maker wedding present hit the skip long ago did anyone ever really use their's?) on call for a slower time in the life of my Food Fairy. @gennepher thanks for the creative. @dunelm thanks for the art and have a safe but speedy journey taking back. Memories are such a precious treasure. Do have the best day you can but maybe not the Italian rugby team or Kansas City Chiefs. I no longer stay up for the Superbowl which was one of the joys when I first retired. Dare I luxuriate in one of our Bourbons - not the biscuits which I never liked -.later? Toodle pip, veggies for the trivet won't chop themselves, innit.
I love this sheep painting @gennepherFbg 6.8
Last night, Midnight wanted me to go to bed, and tells me by coming up to me, meowing, and leading me to the bedroom. But it was still early and I have a couple of jobs I want to finish. After trying to lead me to the bedroom several times, he got in a mood, stamped both his back paws on the floor and stormed out through the catflap. By the actual time of Midnight he had not come back in, so I went outside to look for him. I walked straight into Foxy Loxy who shot off. I tried to get Midnight come in and he wouldn't let me pick him up so I left him . But with him not being well with a respiratory infection relatively recently, I hadn't wanted him to be outside during the night just yet. It is still too cold. So I came in. I was worried in case the badger was out there because I have seen KissyKissy go for the cats and there was a kerfuffle and a scream noise off screen when I've seen that. One time, Kissy Kissy came back in to the screen view and was limping, right front paw injured, Merlin was the one that did that, I think.
Anyway, I went in the kitchen to make my bedtime, drink, and Midnight, shot in through the catflap. He was very vocal, as if I had shut the back door in his face when I came back in, and if I had stood at the door, saying come on Midnight come on Midnight he would have eventually deigned to come in. But I was mindful in case KissyKissy appeared, who would've come off worse in a confrontation between me, and a badger?
By the time Midnight had finished vocally telling me off in the kitchen, he is leading me back to my bed again, so all was well and he stayed on my bed the rest of the night.
Nighttime wildlife camera...
A very stormy night for cat Merlin...
Creative is a digital painting of a sheep. I worked for over an hour on that face, losing the detail, getting it back again! Finally I stopped! Sheep fascinate me. And I think I need to work on the structure and the detail of the sheep, especially their faces, and before I can do more (not abstract), but trying to work towards my style of painting a sheep. I need to do the study first, which is what I think I am doing here. At least I hope I am doing that.
So, you might be stuck with me doing this sheep study for awhile...
Time for a cuppa. Midnight has gone outside. He is waiting for the sun to reach my back garden, which it doesn't until about noon and then only for a couple of hours for him to sunbathe. I do the easy option, go to the warn side of my front window, I get the sun for about 5 hours there...
Have your best day!
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Yes, there is definitely no 'one size fits all' so it is good that we can work out what works for us. It would be really useful though if we knew what was really happening inside our bodies. I would love to know if I had increased my insulin resistance by going high carb, or did my pancreas fill up with fat, or was it (as one Consultant told me) that I was born with a weak pancreas.I gave you a winner for both the bg drop and being so aware of what works for you. It is always N=1.
Good luck with your trip to the dermatologist. Hope that goes well. Is the replacement of a pacemaker a big operation? Best wishes that it goes well.Trip to Dermatologist tomorrow for an annual check up of all my lesions on upper body. Re:Too much sun exposure when I was young.
Next week I have got a pre op assessment at Freeman Newcastle for a new pacemaker and the week after (3rd March) I have the op and the replacement pacemaker implanted.
Oh and and I have to slip in a diabetic eye test before the end of month.
Its all go.
D.
Love that lamb painting. Very much like the blackface sheep we see in the field across from our kitchen window.Fbg 6.8
Last night, Midnight wanted me to go to bed, and tells me by coming up to me, meowing, and leading me to the bedroom. But it was still early and I have a couple of jobs I want to finish. After trying to lead me to the bedroom several times, he got in a mood, stamped both his back paws on the floor and stormed out through the catflap. By the actual time of Midnight he had not come back in, so I went outside to look for him. I walked straight into Foxy Loxy who shot off. I tried to get Midnight come in and he wouldn't let me pick him up so I left him . But with him not being well with a respiratory infection relatively recently, I hadn't wanted him to be outside during the night just yet. It is still too cold. So I came in. I was worried in case the badger was out there because I have seen KissyKissy go for the cats and there was a kerfuffle and a scream noise off screen when I've seen that. One time, Kissy Kissy came back in to the screen view and was limping, right front paw injured, Merlin was the one that did that, I think.
Anyway, I went in the kitchen to make my bedtime, drink, and Midnight, shot in through the catflap. He was very vocal, as if I had shut the back door in his face when I came back in, and if I had stood at the door, saying come on Midnight come on Midnight he would have eventually deigned to come in. But I was mindful in case KissyKissy appeared, who would've come off worse in a confrontation between me, and a badger?
By the time Midnight had finished vocally telling me off in the kitchen, he is leading me back to my bed again, so all was well and he stayed on my bed the rest of the night.
Nighttime wildlife camera...
A very stormy night for cat Merlin...
Creative is a digital painting of a sheep. I worked for over an hour on that face, losing the detail, getting it back again! Finally I stopped! Sheep fascinate me. And I think I need to work on the structure and the detail of the sheep, especially their faces, and before I can do more (not abstract), but trying to work towards my style of painting a sheep. I need to do the study first, which is what I think I am doing here. At least I hope I am doing that.
So, you might be stuck with me doing this sheep study for awhile...
Time for a cuppa. Midnight has gone outside. He is waiting for the sun to reach my back garden, which it doesn't until about noon and then only for a couple of hours for him to sunbathe. I do the easy option, go to the warn side of my front window, I get the sun for about 5 hours there...
Have your best day!
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Epic tale. Bravo Alistair for all that and now delivering the post. No wonder Em wasn't up to school today.Alistair just came in with the post and told me the saga of the delivery of pups. It started off the night before when he had to finish off some laundry for delivery this morning, getting to bed about 11pm.Then, in the morning, he had to bath the 5 pups he was left with. To do that, he got up at 3 am. He got Em up and they got to the ferry terminal in good time and had a reasonable crossing.
The arrangement was to meet the new owners of 4 of the pups at Golspie railway station - one to take 2 pups and the other 2 to take one each. 2 people were waiting at the station and happily went home with their new pets but the 3rd one wasn't there. They waited, and waited, and waited. Nobody came. At last, after waiting for an hour or more they had a phone call from DIL to say she had a message on some social medium to say the people were unfamiliar with the area and had followed their SatNav into a wild and difficult "shortcut" - just a country track really. And they had gone off the road and were stuck in a ditch a couple of miles off the A9. And their phopne had no signal. Alistair was volunteered to go along this side road to find them and try to pull them out of the ditch. He had little idea where the side road was but off they went along the A9 and, as it happens, drove straight past the end of the road without realising. Having arrived in Brora, he realised that they had missed the turning so turned back and retraced his route. By this time, he had received another message to say that the couple he was looking for had walked and were waiting at the end of the road. That allowed him to identify the right turning.
He had to collapse the cage the pups were in to make room for the couple in the back seat, so they had to sit and nurse the pups while they drove back to their car. Alistair says it was a lovely scenic route to be enjoyed on a gentle, leisurely drive on a Sunday afternoon, but by no means a shortcut to save time. The trouble was,Alistair had no tow bar and had left his tow-rope at home. He only had an ordinary rope on the boot. He managed to tie it onto his car giving several strands of rope for strength. Then the other man tried to use the screw-in device at the back of his car, but part of it was missing. What to do? At that point, a police car arrived having had a report that someone had gone off the road (another driver had tried to get through and couldn't because the car in the ditch was partly blocking the narrow road). Unfortunately, they had no idea what to do either. Then a Land Rover came to the rescue. The driver had seen the pickle they were in from higher up the hill so had come to help.
He maneuvered into position and got out his tow-rope (essential kit in the Highlands) only to be told that the towing hook was missing. OK, so he needed to turn around to bring his rear in position to pull the out from the front. He backed up the hill to find a place he could turn, Alistair following to get further up the road to get his car out of the way. The Land Rover got stuck in a muddy spot! The husband of the couple, the 2 policemen and Alistair had to put their shoulders to it to push it out. Then the Land Rover backed down to the ditched car. The police said that their vehicle was in the way so they removed it and themselves from the scene.
In the end it only took seconds to pull the car back onto the road and, once they had ascertained that there was no damage, the pup was loaded into the car and the couple made their way home. Alistair then found that the remaining pup had got back into the car by himself and wormed his way under the back seat from where he had to be extricated. He was popped back into the reassembled cage and they went on their way.
Of course, all this had wasted lots of time and more time was lost when Alistair's SatNav took him on a chase cross country but eventually they arrived at their last destination and offloaded the last pup. They got back to Inverness and the hut they had booked (like a yurt but made of wood) and just both fell asleep - Alistair having driven for 18 hours. Next morning they collected the bath and did some shopping and headed to Ullapool and home.
What fun! It was an adventure for Em anyway. Unfortunately, today she is shattered and couldn't go to school.
What an epic adventure @AnnbAlistair just came in with the post and told me the saga of the delivery of pups. It started off the night before when he had to finish off some laundry for delivery this morning, getting to bed about 11pm.Then, in the morning, he had to bath the 5 pups he was left with. To do that, he got up at 3 am. He got Em up and they got to the ferry terminal in good time and had a reasonable crossing.
The arrangement was to meet the new owners of 4 of the pups at Golspie railway station - one to take 2 pups and the other 2 to take one each. 2 people were waiting at the station and happily went home with their new pets but the 3rd one wasn't there. They waited, and waited, and waited. Nobody came. At last, after waiting for an hour or more they had a phone call from DIL to say she had a message on some social medium to say the people were unfamiliar with the area and had followed their SatNav into a wild and difficult "shortcut" - just a country track really. And they had gone off the road and were stuck in a ditch a couple of miles off the A9. And their phopne had no signal. Alistair was volunteered to go along this side road to find them and try to pull them out of the ditch. He had little idea where the side road was but off they went along the A9 and, as it happens, drove straight past the end of the road without realising. Having arrived in Brora, he realised that they had missed the turning so turned back and retraced his route. By this time, he had received another message to say that the couple he was looking for had walked and were waiting at the end of the road. That allowed him to identify the right turning.
He had to collapse the cage the pups were in to make room for the couple in the back seat, so they had to sit and nurse the pups while they drove back to their car. Alistair says it was a lovely scenic route to be enjoyed on a gentle, leisurely drive on a Sunday afternoon, but by no means a shortcut to save time. The trouble was,Alistair had no tow bar and had left his tow-rope at home. He only had an ordinary rope on the boot. He managed to tie it onto his car giving several strands of rope for strength. Then the other man tried to use the screw-in device at the back of his car, but part of it was missing. What to do? At that point, a police car arrived having had a report that someone had gone off the road (another driver had tried to get through and couldn't because the car in the ditch was partly blocking the narrow road). Unfortunately, they had no idea what to do either. Then a Land Rover came to the rescue. The driver had seen the pickle they were in from higher up the hill so had come to help.
He maneuvered into position and got out his tow-rope (essential kit in the Highlands) only to be told that the towing hook was missing. OK, so he needed to turn around to bring his rear in position to pull the out from the front. He backed up the hill to find a place he could turn, Alistair following to get further up the road to get his car out of the way. The Land Rover got stuck in a muddy spot! The husband of the couple, the 2 policemen and Alistair had to put their shoulders to it to push it out. Then the Land Rover backed down to the ditched car. The police said that their vehicle was in the way so they removed it and themselves from the scene.
In the end it only took seconds to pull the car back onto the road and, once they had ascertained that there was no damage, the pup was loaded into the car and the couple made their way home. Alistair then found that the remaining pup had got back into the car by himself and wormed his way under the back seat from where he had to be extricated. He was popped back into the reassembled cage and they went on their way.
Of course, all this had wasted lots of time and more time was lost when Alistair's SatNav took him on a chase cross country but eventually they arrived at their last destination and offloaded the last pup. They got back to Inverness and the hut they had booked (like a yurt but made of wood) and just both fell asleep - Alistair having driven for 18 hours. Next morning they collected the bath and did some shopping and headed to Ullapool and home.
What fun! It was an adventure for Em anyway. Unfortunately, today she is shattered and couldn't go to school.
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