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gennepher
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Happy birthday @alf_Josiah to your granddaughter xx
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Marjorie makes our burgers out of locally grass fed beef mince. They taste good, much preferred to the supermarket stuff of unknown origin.Different folks
Different strokes
Enjoy
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Remember my own small goals few years ago.Me neither @Annb
So we make a good team.
And fully agree
No point setting goals right now we won't achieve and that only discourage us trying .
It's all a jigsaw puzzle
Without the little pieces there is no completed picture.
So small goals are the way forward.
Best of luck achieving yours .
To be able to
1 brush my hair and teeth without
dipping head to meet the brush.
2 to fasten my own seatbelt.
This was bilateral frozen shoulders.
We all face different challenges. Now I can do pretty much anything so long as I don't overdo it.
Goid luck in meeting your goals to both of you
dunelm
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Ah, the joys of home made burgers when you know (or think you know) what’s going into it - unless, like me, you are lazy and get them from our local butcher.
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Good morning everyone from a wet weekend here in the dark and dangerous north and where white rabbits abound. There is a craft fair on today, or is it a craft fayre? Either way there will be folk trying to flog stuff at eye watering prices. I may go and wander round tutting, especially at the stand of someone I know who produces smashing pieces of art by fine pointillism. Still, artisan goods are probably worth the outlay - as long as it’s something you want. Hope that the birthday bash for your granddaughter went well @alf_Josiah and that the +tv line is fading into nothing. Art bit, some colour added. Have the best day that you can manage. I am slurping koffy and considering the daffodils. Which reminds me, a woman on holiday in Newcastle enters a hairdresser and asks if she can get a perm to which the hairdresser replies,”I wandered lonely as a clood”. I know, I’ll get my coat.
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7.8 this morning. Last night I was so so hungry and had some mascarpone cheese mixed with a little lemon juice and inulin. Pancreas obviously didn't like the extra food so late.
Really damp dog walk. Just relaxing with a coffee before we are off to Norwich for classes.
Really damp dog walk. Just relaxing with a coffee before we are off to Norwich for classes.
Annb
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3.30 am: 7.4. 8.30 am 7.1.
Just tea so far but I'm slow getting going this morning. Legs just didn't want to know, so painkillers taken and a cup of tea and I fell asleep agian. Still stiff, but I can move at least. Most of yesterday's chores are still waiting to be done. Might get to some of them today - Em won't be here - she's gone camping with her big sister and family. They'll be away for a few days. I do love to have her here, but never manage to get very much done when she is in first thing in the morning and then again in the afternoon.
Just tea so far but I'm slow getting going this morning. Legs just didn't want to know, so painkillers taken and a cup of tea and I fell asleep agian. Still stiff, but I can move at least. Most of yesterday's chores are still waiting to be done. Might get to some of them today - Em won't be here - she's gone camping with her big sister and family. They'll be away for a few days. I do love to have her here, but never manage to get very much done when she is in first thing in the morning and then again in the afternoon.
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01.04
9.15am FBG 5.2
Here you have Kiki and Tabby Tom where I found them last night. Tabby had got Kiki backed up against the wall and was right in Kiki's face - only just out of striking range. They both moved when they saw me, so less confrontational in the photo. Tabby was still singing "Love me do!" but Kiki was saying "Help Mum, I can't get down" This was about three hours after dinner time, twilight and It's unusual for her to miss dinner. It's quite possible she had been up there for hours, because MrSlim said he rescued her from that same beam while I was away in UK. Anyway, I was her hero again. Climbed up on the wagon and lifted her down, took her homr for dinner after which she apparently didn't give poor Tabby another thought. While he lingered around all night and is still here this morning. Kiki has gone out to see him after eating a hearty breakfast.
As a friend says she has a better social life than many of us humans.
9.15am FBG 5.2
Here you have Kiki and Tabby Tom where I found them last night. Tabby had got Kiki backed up against the wall and was right in Kiki's face - only just out of striking range. They both moved when they saw me, so less confrontational in the photo. Tabby was still singing "Love me do!" but Kiki was saying "Help Mum, I can't get down" This was about three hours after dinner time, twilight and It's unusual for her to miss dinner. It's quite possible she had been up there for hours, because MrSlim said he rescued her from that same beam while I was away in UK. Anyway, I was her hero again. Climbed up on the wagon and lifted her down, took her homr for dinner after which she apparently didn't give poor Tabby another thought. While he lingered around all night and is still here this morning. Kiki has gone out to see him after eating a hearty breakfast.As a friend says she has a better social life than many of us humans.
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White rabbits and welcome to April. I haven't been posting for a while as 'nothing positive to say but have been following everyone's adventures and quietly wishing you all well. As you may recall my sugars have been high for a long, long time and my last HbA1c was in the 90's despite being on maximum doses of Metformin and Gliclizide. At my last review I asked if my pancreas could be tested with a CPeptide test. GP's cannot request this but I had an Elastase test instead. After a 5 week wait the results were normal. 3+ weeks ago Linagliptin was added to my existing medication. It has taken all this time to gradually reduce but this morning my fbs was 5.4! 
My first in normal range for as long as I can remember! Just had to share. 
I just have to tolerate the side effects now which is like having a permanent cold + the risk of hypos but for now I'm over the moon.
My first in normal range for as long as I can remember! Just had to share. I just have to tolerate the side effects now which is like having a permanent cold + the risk of hypos but for now I'm over the moon.
ianpspurs
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Morning all and it is a wet one with little prospect of anything better here all day. Firstly an apology because I became a bit laddish/locker roomy over food yesterday afternoon. Despite all the "deep" poems and online sermons I read @jjraak delivered a deep sermon - different strokes for different folks. God's glory comes in different ways to us all. Thanks and you did so very graciously. @dogslife wonderful news on the fbg. Hopefully they will continue and the side effects will modify. @dunelm thanks for sharing that art. No reason on earth why I should have had any idea where it would end up but that was a surprise. Thanks and enjoy the craft fair. @Krystyna23040 hug for the effect of the later food and enjoy your break after today. @Annb I hope the painkillers continue to help. @alf_Josiah if today isn't the day I wish you a feint line. I've still only ever come across anyone using white rabbits on here and are we all too old for April fools?
Update: I read the attached after the post. Brilliant and applicable in so many contexts. Almost as if it was laser focused on me So relevant to managing bg, sport and relationships. Would have helped Bojo and Trump - probably given them both second terms and I mean that in a friendly way. (Source is C of E Dust and Glory Lent reflections)
Update: I read the attached after the post. Brilliant and applicable in so many contexts. Almost as if it was laser focused on me So relevant to managing bg, sport and relationships. Would have helped Bojo and Trump - probably given them both second terms and I mean that in a friendly way. (Source is C of E Dust and Glory Lent reflections)
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gennepher
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Fbg 6.7
Nighttime wildlife camera.
No time to finish the editing today, for this morning's post, on the one I am working on...it is taking too long, so here are a couple of clips I didn't use from yesterday's video.
The new ginger cat.
Can I have some food please, he asks Cat Midnight...
Then starts the waiting game while Midnight considers...
Creative is #14 Lighthouse mostly in Procreate...
Here is the final artistic dramatic version!
There were a couple of previous versions on the way to this one.
Here is the previous one to this one underneath it. My preference is the top one. I don't know which you might prefer?
I was trying, last night, in order to prevent the badger, KissyKissy, from destroying the swing bedding, so I looked for some citronella oil, which didn't work a few years ago against the badgers coming in the garden, but I couldn't find it. So I got my peppermint oil and at the very bottom of each cushion on the swing, which overlaps edge of the swing, which is the first thing, the badger can smell, I put a few drops of peppermint oil all the way along. I did this at that spot because I didn't want to stop cats getting on the swing to get at their dry cat food, they can always get on the side anyway.
I looked at the swing this morning. Great! Success! So, I thought until I looked at the rest of my back garden...what hadn't been destroyed...
He had taken apart a mirror, taken the backing off. I am presuming this is badger KissyKissy, but hadn't broken the thin mirror. There was soil now between the backing and the mirror. It was a concave one. The mirrors in my garden were another idea I had some years ago to try and keep badgers out of my garden. Some beast had destroyed the wood round one of my frog ponds. I hope there are frogs still left. And so the list went on...
I had left the pulled off blankets and cloths the badger, KissyKissy had soiled on the ground (I had been going to bin them later this weekend), and they had been pulled around, and tossed around. One was tossed on to a bush. I think I will hang them all on the Badger's washing line so they are not too sodden with all the rain, and he can pull them off when he wants to play...
Okay, so as well as "gennepher's cat diner", I now have "The Badgers Playground".
The plus is, I do not have snails nor slugs any more. Normally after all this rain there is a carpet of massive slugs and snails out there, and I cannot walk in my back garden without going crunch crunch crunch. Now, the ground is clear of snails and slugs.
It is swings and roundabouts here, or six of one and half a dozen of the other. I used to have a pretty garden with lots of nice pretty Garden Centre bought expensive flowers, I'll have to find the old print photos. However I now have a wild, unruly, untidy (some would say) tatty back garden, but it takes care of itself. No gardening required. The badgers and foxes dig and turn over the soil, and they both clear up the slugs and snails. And the wild flowers are beginning to come out. There is a carpet of yellow Celandines in between the yellow daffodils. Forsythia is blooming. Other yellow flowers are blooming. The purple Honesty is budding. Wild Garlic and Bluebells have put forth all their leaves and buds. Sweet Cicely has its feathered leaves and will bud soon. Forget-me-nots are budding. The flower list goes on...
The only thing man-made is my container vegetable garden, and I need to badger proof that....
Brain in gear, but it wants a nap first.
And I want a cuppa.
Have your very best day...
Nighttime wildlife camera.
No time to finish the editing today, for this morning's post, on the one I am working on...it is taking too long, so here are a couple of clips I didn't use from yesterday's video.
The new ginger cat.
Can I have some food please, he asks Cat Midnight...
Then starts the waiting game while Midnight considers...
Creative is #14 Lighthouse mostly in Procreate...
Here is the final artistic dramatic version!
There were a couple of previous versions on the way to this one.
Here is the previous one to this one underneath it. My preference is the top one. I don't know which you might prefer?
I was trying, last night, in order to prevent the badger, KissyKissy, from destroying the swing bedding, so I looked for some citronella oil, which didn't work a few years ago against the badgers coming in the garden, but I couldn't find it. So I got my peppermint oil and at the very bottom of each cushion on the swing, which overlaps edge of the swing, which is the first thing, the badger can smell, I put a few drops of peppermint oil all the way along. I did this at that spot because I didn't want to stop cats getting on the swing to get at their dry cat food, they can always get on the side anyway.
I looked at the swing this morning. Great! Success! So, I thought until I looked at the rest of my back garden...what hadn't been destroyed...
He had taken apart a mirror, taken the backing off. I am presuming this is badger KissyKissy, but hadn't broken the thin mirror. There was soil now between the backing and the mirror. It was a concave one. The mirrors in my garden were another idea I had some years ago to try and keep badgers out of my garden. Some beast had destroyed the wood round one of my frog ponds. I hope there are frogs still left. And so the list went on...
I had left the pulled off blankets and cloths the badger, KissyKissy had soiled on the ground (I had been going to bin them later this weekend), and they had been pulled around, and tossed around. One was tossed on to a bush. I think I will hang them all on the Badger's washing line so they are not too sodden with all the rain, and he can pull them off when he wants to play...
Okay, so as well as "gennepher's cat diner", I now have "The Badgers Playground".
The plus is, I do not have snails nor slugs any more. Normally after all this rain there is a carpet of massive slugs and snails out there, and I cannot walk in my back garden without going crunch crunch crunch. Now, the ground is clear of snails and slugs.
It is swings and roundabouts here, or six of one and half a dozen of the other. I used to have a pretty garden with lots of nice pretty Garden Centre bought expensive flowers, I'll have to find the old print photos. However I now have a wild, unruly, untidy (some would say) tatty back garden, but it takes care of itself. No gardening required. The badgers and foxes dig and turn over the soil, and they both clear up the slugs and snails. And the wild flowers are beginning to come out. There is a carpet of yellow Celandines in between the yellow daffodils. Forsythia is blooming. Other yellow flowers are blooming. The purple Honesty is budding. Wild Garlic and Bluebells have put forth all their leaves and buds. Sweet Cicely has its feathered leaves and will bud soon. Forget-me-nots are budding. The flower list goes on...
The only thing man-made is my container vegetable garden, and I need to badger proof that....
Brain in gear, but it wants a nap first.
And I want a cuppa.
Have your very best day...
lindisfel
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Had a walk through the hamlet this am, did a third of a mile and back. So I hope I am picking up a little. LH lower back has been very painful standing up and walking for some time. I am trying to see myself or visualise myself walking a mile and then two miles.
Thank you jjraak you have the gift of Encouragement!
D
Thank you jjraak you have the gift of Encouragement!
D
ianpspurs
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As you say swings and roundabouts with #badgergate. As for your garden, your is the operative word so it is perfect as it is now and was also perfect as it was. Thanks for sharing the two lighthouses which both showcase your amazing skills. Since you asked which we might prefer I will always go for the brighter one from such a choice*. Enjoy a peaceful day if at all possible.
*lower one in this case
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Annb
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The 2 lighthouses are terrific, gennepher but on balance I think I prefer the 2nd one. Moody, foggy but still substantial.
I never realised that badgers were so destructive. You are very patient and forgiving to try to make a special place for them as well as your cat friends.
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I normally take vit B12.
I ran out.
A friend texted me the other day saying she was having balance problems a bit. And that she thought it was because she hadn't been taking her vitamin B12 for a few weeks. She's much younger than me.
And I then thought, I've been a bit unsteady on my legs, the last few days, and I thought I wonder if it's because I've not been taking the vitamin B-12 that is causing this unsteadiness.
So I've got a new supply vitamin B12, and my unsteadiness and slight loss of balance has gone. I can't prove that it is because I took the B12 that sorted that out, but I've had periods in the past and I've been unsteady and my balance has not been so good, and I am wondering now if it was when I stoped taking the vitamin B12 for a bit because I ran out of them. I will keep a closer eye on this in future now that there might be a correlation between the two things.
I don't know if this is worth looking into and I don't know if anybody else has any input on this @Annb
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentleman and all like me, me’s and myself who at 11:30 is settling down to their 10:30 am cup of tea. The tea is the constant the time is the variable.
Blood sugars this morning were 5.2 a big surprise as my evening meal was a chicken and rice dish, rice is a big no no for me.
Now for a bit more good news. My covid test this morning was a clear -ve, whoopee it’s only taken 18 days, now I just need another 2 clear tests. Thanks to all for your support.
Also thank you for my grand daughters best wishes, she had a good day, her party is on Sunday, thoughtfully I have not been invited, but I am hoping for a small portion of some home made birthday cake, well one can live in hope.
I’m not sure about the rest of today, but an afternoon nap is pencilled in.
Stay safe all.
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@gennepher I like the lighthouses and also @dunelm ’s series of paintings, art is very subjective. Saying that I have been keen on Stubbs horses
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Never been keen on Stubbs etc
Blood sugars this morning were 5.2 a big surprise as my evening meal was a chicken and rice dish, rice is a big no no for me.
Now for a bit more good news. My covid test this morning was a clear -ve, whoopee it’s only taken 18 days, now I just need another 2 clear tests. Thanks to all for your support.
Also thank you for my grand daughters best wishes, she had a good day, her party is on Sunday, thoughtfully I have not been invited, but I am hoping for a small portion of some home made birthday cake, well one can live in hope.
I’m not sure about the rest of today, but an afternoon nap is pencilled in.
Stay safe all.
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@gennepher I like the lighthouses and also @dunelm ’s series of paintings, art is very subjective. Saying that I have been keen on Stubbs horses
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Never been keen on Stubbs etc
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gennepher
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Yes, it is how things are now at this very moment which are the most important things @ianpspurs
I probably go a step too far with my digital painting compared to what other people prefer visually. And I am aware we all have different preferences. I go that extra step, because it is always the mood I was in, in this case yesterday (when I realised the DPD delivery driver was scamming me, it would take too long to explain this, but it put me in a very very grumpy mood), which led me to this point in my painting...
For me, my painting, is letting out of some frustration, of the previous day or today. So basically my paintings are very personal to me.
Annb
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Certainly worth looking into. I did buy a vitamin B12 supplement ages ago and, of course, never took it. I take so many pills and potions that I mostly don't bother with the extras. I know I should - Neil even tells me to forget all the bits and pieces and use the ones he buys - 2 different multivitamin tablets, taken on alternate days to make sure he gets the full range. If I did that, it would only mean one extra pill a day and surely I could remember that. I do forget things - my brain is about as foggy as that lighthouse of yours - not menopausal foggy, I may say. Just old age foggy, or maybe lack of vitamin and trace element foggy.
