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

ianpspurs said:

Hello everyone on St Patrick's day and Red Nose day here in Little America. Some cognitive dissonance for a few with it being a Feast Day, Friday and Lent. Test for the grasp of the failure and forgiveness module. @dunelm thanks for the art and enjoy the theatre - still not completely sure if serious. Does MM have a tin whistle? Sounds as though the scan went smoothly music or not. @jjraak your week sounds good - will you be toasting St Patrick? - and the gym sessions seem excellent. JKP has sessions on Thursdays to help her back. Whilst I was being a drip and taking the very shaken but not stirred mystery tour of not really roads we had a communal Ocado: not just for us but also someone else. JKP informed them and was told, meh, just keep it all - including the 8 pints of milk, we will put it right when the other customer gives us grief - I paraphrase somewhat. Some spiffing items, a large sack of which No 1 son availed himself gleefully (JKP wisely edited his choices). No one knows what to do with the milk as his is a whole milk family, food banks here refuse fresh milk. Venison casserole was divine - store bought mashed swede - N Irish - is a thing here. Thoughts and prayers with @lindisfel today which I think is the 61st Anniversary of him being shown God's grace by marrying Marjorie. I hope @alf_Josiah and Mrs A J are both recovering. JKP ad myself may well go to Newmarket today to but Comic Relief Merch and possibly a replacement for something I've been mourning for about 15 years, Starbucks may also be involved then home for SSSF. How you doin'?

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Annb said:

SSk milk, or even fully skimmed, can be made into puddings with the addition of some cream. Puddings are probably not for you Ian, but maybe your son? They can be frozen for consumption in the future. Or added cream and fruit to make milk shakes or even ice cream for children.

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dunelm said:

Lovely sheep and such a dreadful day you had. Hope you have a better day today.

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dunelm said:

Good morning and welcome to a day of ‘In the green’ here in the dark and dangerous north. Grrr! I have chipped a tooth - it’s not painful and I have an appointment for Tuesday to get it molded back into shape. Meantime we are celebrating St Patrick’s Day by goin to the theatre for a rendition of songs labled “Seven Drunken Nights - The story of The Dubliners”. As my maternal grandfather came from Waterford, I am all ready with my atrocious accent. Art bit - as it’s Paddy’s Day - a bit of where giants once trod. Well, the start of it. Have as good a day as you can. Best finish my koffy.

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alf_Josiah said:

Good Morening Ladies and Gentleman

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Krystyna23040 said:

7.0 this morning. Very busy day today. Appointment with podiatrist then lots of admin. Got it all done. I was amazed how fast I zipped through it.
Now I can relax and read when I get home from classes at 9pm tonight. It is such a good feeling to be up to date with the work.

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gennepher said:

Fbg 6.8


Night time wildlife cameras...

I had to delete a lot of the videos because it was far too much for one night for me to video edit the next day.

And so I have missed out all the stray cats getting their food which was the cat biscuits on the swing.

The badger, KissyKissy was the first wild animal last night. He was determined to get at those cat biscuits on the swing.
He is watched very closely by cat, Merlin, who is literally only inches from his nose.
The badger then proceeds to dig out one of the containers in my container vegetable garden. And then he goes into the bushes on the left. Yesterday when I looked in those bushes, because the badger has been spending quite a lot of time in there, I found he has a collection fetish for my hand garden tools. I had been buying more to replace them but I didn't know it was this badger that was hiding them.

This badger, KissyKissy, was in my garden last night from dusk to dawn. He was wandering around the whole time.

A bit later the fox comes in, Foxy Loxy, and he immediately jumps on the swing and crunches away at the cat biscuits. He helps himself several times during the night to those cat biscuits on the swing.

The badger, kissy kissy, comes along and he is very determined to get those cat biscuits. He tries again and again and you can see him eating some of the cat biscuits. At one point a second badger comes along, his mate, a female who looks a little bit bigger than he is. She is under the swing playing with the foil containers which held the daytime cat food for the stray cats.

She soon leaves, she doesn't appear to have the same attraction to my garden that KissyKissy has.

KissyKissy is getting the knack of the swinging swing by now, and he has a good helping of the cat biscuits, watched very closely by cat Merlin, who is less than 2 hand widths away from the badges face. Merlin gives a verbal warning to the badger.

It is now approaching dawn, the birds are singing, and the badger goes home. Merlin's duty as guardian of the cat swing has now finished and he goes off into my kitchen (which is just around the corner) for some nice cat food.

There was nearly 200 2-minute clips of animal activity during the night. And that was a heck of a lot to go through this morning. I have had to be very selective so I concentrated on the badger mostly.




Creative painting in Procreate is another lamb.

It is now early evening, and time to put these empty SD cards back into the wildlife cameras. And new batteries to put in. I went over to rechargeable batteries because the batteries were barely lasting one night with the amount of activity that is in my back garden.

Is there this wildlife activity in most people's back gardens and they don't have a clue?

Because I didn't have a clue this much went on in my back garden every night, until I had to sort through those trail camera videos clips.

The stray cats need their evening meal now, and by the way I do put cat biscuits out for the badger and the fox but I put it under the bush. But they both seem to want what the cats have on the swing...

Night night x


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ianpspurs said:

A busy night in Genn's garden. Johnny Morris would have hammed up a wonderful voice over for those videos. Thanks for sharing that very fluffy lamb - shoulders still need development

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gennepher said:

Fbg 6.8


Night time wildlife cameras...

I had to delete a lot of the videos because it was far too much for one night for me to video edit the next day.

And so I have missed out all the stray cats getting their food which was the cat biscuits on the swing.

The badger, KissyKissy was the first wild animal last night. He was determined to get at those cat biscuits on the swing.
He is watched very closely by cat, Merlin, who is literally only inches from his nose.
The badger then proceeds to dig out one of the containers in my container vegetable garden. And then he goes into the bushes on the left. Yesterday when I looked in those bushes, because the badger has been spending quite a lot of time in there, I found he has a collection fetish for my hand garden tools. I had been buying more to replace them but I didn't know it was this badger that was hiding them.

This badger, KissyKissy, was in my garden last night from dusk to dawn. He was wandering around the whole time.

A bit later the fox comes in, Foxy Loxy, and he immediately jumps on the swing and crunches away at the cat biscuits. He helps himself several times during the night to those cat biscuits on the swing.

The badger, kissy kissy, comes along and he is very determined to get those cat biscuits. He tries again and again and you can see him eating some of the cat biscuits. At one point a second badger comes along, his mate, a female who looks a little bit bigger than he is. She is under the swing playing with the foil containers which held the daytime cat food for the stray cats.

She soon leaves, she doesn't appear to have the same attraction to my garden that KissyKissy has.

KissyKissy is getting the knack of the swinging swing by now, and he has a good helping of the cat biscuits, watched very closely by cat Merlin, who is less than 2 hand widths away from the badges face. Merlin gives a verbal warning to the badger.

It is now approaching dawn, the birds are singing, and the badger goes home. Merlin's duty as guardian of the cat swing has now finished and he goes off into my kitchen (which is just around the corner) for some nice cat food.

There was nearly 200 2-minute clips of animal activity during the night. And that was a heck of a lot to go through this morning. I have had to be very selective so I concentrated on the badger mostly.




Creative painting in Procreate is another lamb.

It is now early evening, and time to put these empty SD cards back into the wildlife cameras. And new batteries to put in. I went over to rechargeable batteries because the batteries were barely lasting one night with the amount of activity that is in my back garden.

Is there this wildlife activity in most people's back gardens and they don't have a clue?

Because I didn't have a clue this much went on in my back garden every night, until I had to sort through those trail camera videos clips.

The stray cats need their evening meal now, and by the way I do put cat biscuits out for the badger and the fox but I put it under the bush. But they both seem to want what the cats have on the swing...

Night night x


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gennepher said:

Well done!

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dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on an early drilling noise in the air morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Ongoing work on the garage conversion - boarding out, lots of screws. Theatre last night was very good as was the extended hours in the pub afterwards. Superfoods - just a marketing gimmick - my life is ruined Are there any true superfoods? Got to sort soup out later - Crispy pork hot and sour I think. Art bit - adding details. Hope you all have a smashing Saturday, I have koffy on the go.


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