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

SlimLizzy said:

Cherry season here. Black, red, pink ( just a few left) and white. View attachment 61641
Three layer day here too @Annb, but for the opposite reason. The sunburn mentioned a few days ago continued to get worse, with multiple small blisters forming. This despite factor 50 and covering up with an extra layer each day. Now wearing three layers of clothes if outside in the sun, which I am trying to avoid.
The horrible texture of my back had me wondering if I was turning into a toad.

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That sun can be fierce even through clothing so a good smothering of factor 50 and not out for too long. I had UV resistant clothing when I worked in East African and a very large brimmed hat. Cherries look fabulous and very good for you. Sour cherry allegedly eases gout. Will you be making lots of Clafoutis?

ianpspurs said:

Firstly, wonderful to see you @karen8967 and I echo @alf_Josiah's (now there's a first) good wishes . Ten degree temperature drop here which 93 y.o. MIL appreciates but none of that rain malarkey nor socks - hurrah. MIL looked at the Glastonbury performers with the eyes of one thinking what are these youngsters doing cavorting about - even Candy Staton (83). @gennepher hug for the lost fruit, winner for the stuffing recycling and Big Ted plan. Thanks for the video - what did happen to Susan Stranks? - and another majestic (other early main potatoes are available but lack their quality, so white ) kaleidoscope. @Annb I hope Neil manages to get those bins out. @dunelm all that work work saved by the rain, fantastic. Thanks for sharing your talent - when fully restored will that become your spare wine cellar? Attached will take some spin doctoring to explain away despite CamOs talking out of their fundaments last week. T-shirt for this arrived today - good cause I think having seen the impact on a few youngsters. Order your turkey but maybe don't put the sprouts on for a few days although the NHS dental deserts are impacting.

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Thanks @ianpspurs
I didn't get a drop of 10C
A drop of about 4 C, and it is rising again...

Krystyna23040 said:

That sounds like a really good Autumn project. It will be nice to see Big Ted resurrected.

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He will arrive completely revitalised....

4.8 for me have a good day all

Good morning everyone on a much cooler start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. We packed our duvets away at the weekend and are now just using a top sheet and a thin counterpane. Hope we haven’t moved too soon. Bumped into a pigeon wandering round our dining room yesterday afternoon. It had rings on both legs and had waddled in through the open French doors. Asked it to go back outside and then gave it some water and some bird food. Cheeky sod flew off without paying. Art bit - getting there. Some tyre kicking later this morning but first, koffy.

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a much cooler start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. We packed our duvets away at the weekend and are now just using a top sheet and a thin counterpane. Hope we haven’t moved too soon. Bumped into a pigeon wandering round our dining room yesterday afternoon. It had rings on both legs and had waddled in through the open French doors. Asked it to go back outside and then gave it some water and some bird food. Cheeky sod flew off without paying. Art bit - getting there. Some tyre kicking later this morning but first, koffy.


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Cool is good at the moment

Those pigeons! The countryside wants to come indoors at the moment....

Getting a bit claustrophobic your picture @dunelm for me...

Fbg 6.8

I was editing some video footage last night of a lovely little surprise, but I fell asleep...still tired. All I have the energy to do this morning is to edit a clip of Badger KissyKissy chasing Jade...

I need to be gone...
If I can find time later then I'll try editing again...to post tomorrow...

Creative is a kaleidoscope of a red admiral on Buddleia...not many butterflies this year yet.

Bye, here when I need to be there.
All I want to do is go back to sleep....
Have your best day.

Thank goodness - a much cooler morning. Still very busy today - but actually I do prefer busy.

The quote of the day in today's 'I ' by John D Rockefeller really resonates with me - 'I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure '

Another quote I really like is George Bernard Shaw Quote - A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell'

Cool at 15 Deg C today and everywhere looking green again. Birds able to get worms and feed their young and drought now we'll over in North Cumbria.
Zoom meeting this am with some other old men.
D.

Another body now has the label institutionally racist , one wonders if this applies to all institutions?

Drat, double drat, oh lordy lordy and disaster darlings absolute disaster. Blood sugars this Morening were firstly 3.3 and 30 seconds later 4.4


I had planned a shortish ride on my motorcycle, no way is that going to happen today now. Such are plans of mice and under the thumb men.

Plan B will be put into action after koffy.

I shall be seeking psychiatric help later today from the grumpy belligerent old men’s club. I think I’m turning woke, with my drat, lordy lordy and disaster opening sentence.

I think the straight jacket is calling……

Morning all from suddenly much too close to the North Pole - don't like that at all. @karen8967 wonderful to have you here again. @lindisfel did'nt need a report when it can be seen from space. Attached sums up the utterly despicable R/W agenda and supporting ecosystem. "You (the "in crowd") know precisely what I'm really saying" schtick, Delivered with a mock joking grin/gurn by Bojo (one of the "useful idiots" monetising and gaining adulation. More to be pitied than scorned really) Nigel, JRM, Charles Moore et al - especially that Oakeshott personage - are unpalatable to most sentient beings. Pervades/stains cricket, rugby, education, politics and, sadly, organised religion at all levels. Mea culpa, mea maxma culpa? Reaction to Harry and Megan, wedding at the very least, exhibit A imho. @dunelm that overflow wine cellar is looking splendid - thanks for sharing. Cheeky pigeon doing a flyer. No night time has been anywhere near that warm here - summer weight duvet still absolutely essential. I may now be a cold old mortal as my forebears used to say. @gennepher I hope you can shoehorn everything into the day - do you and @Krystyna23040 share a diary secretary by any chance? Thanks so much for the amazing kaleidoscope. Wonderful colours and shapes even though I have a visceral dislike of Budlea. Anyhow, even after all that - too choleric/splenetic perhaps? - have a great day. Man like Ian needs tea.

gennepher said:

Cool is good at the moment

Those pigeons! The countryside wants to come indoors at the moment....

Getting a bit claustrophobic your picture @dunelm for me...

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The colour will sort that out Gennepher.

13.4 at 4 am - at last got it down to 9 2 hours after insulin and breakfast.

I've obviously been in Brain-switched-off mode. Which is the latest institution which has been shown to be racist?

Racism is probably bred into all of us and it is hard to stamp it out ("give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.") I remember, quite a few years ago now, a black American lady (OK dark brown, if black is offensive, I don't know any more) telling me that she was astonished to find, when coming into contact with "white" Americans, that she was automatically distrustful and found it hard to even shake hands. It had never occurred to her that she could racially discriminate against someone of a different colour to herself.

Discrimination or elitism of one kind or another has to be guarded against because pretty well all of us are guilty in some form or another. What we often discriminate against is a different culture rather than a different skin colour. Coming into contact with people from quite a range of cultures over the years, I have had to inspect my own attitudes frequently and remind myself that my culture may be as offensive to others as theirs is to me, on initial contact. Sometimes, traditions from another culture do seem to us to be "just wrong" and not reconcilable with our own values but we have to be very careful when dealing with those sorts of clashes. Subjucation of women, FGM, stoning, beheading, abuse of animals, abuse of the planet, are all so patently wrong to me, but so right to someone from those cultures that practice them. In time, I hope, those cultures will change, for the sake of their own people. But does our own culture need to change?

Annb said:

I've obviously been in Brain-switched-off mode. Which is the latest institution which has been shown to be racist?

But does our own culture need to change?

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Great post Ann. To answer the questions: cricket and oh my goodness yes - fast.

ianpspurs said:

Great post Ann. To answer the questions: cricket and oh my goodness yes - fast.

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Ah, cricket. Yes, I did hear about that. I thought, perhaps, that yet another institution was being shown to be racist. Just a matter of time, I suppose.

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.8

I was editing some video footage last night of a lovely little surprise, but I fell asleep...still tired. All I have the energy to do this morning is to edit a clip of Badger KissyKissy chasing Jade...

I need to be gone...
If I can find time later then I'll try editing again...to post tomorrow...

Creative is a kaleidoscope of a red admiral on Buddleia...not many butterflies this year yet.

Bye, here when I need to be there.
All I want to do is go back to sleep....
Have your best day.

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I really love this kaleidoscope @gennepher

gennepher said:

Fbg 6.8

I was editing some video footage last night of a lovely little surprise, but I fell asleep...still tired. All I have the energy to do this morning is to edit a clip of Badger KissyKissy chasing Jade...

I need to be gone...
If I can find time later then I'll try editing again...to post tomorrow...

Creative is a kaleidoscope of a red admiral on Buddleia...not many butterflies this year yet.

Bye, here when I need to be there.
All I want to do is go back to sleep....
Have your best day.

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Thank you. My first Red admiral of the year.

27.06
Yesterday finished repotting all the tomatoes. Until five mins later turned round and saw I had missed a box. Another 18 still need larger pots or a place in the ground.
7.35am FBG 5.7
Plans for the day:
Watering potatoes.
Bit of market shopping before it gets hot.
Finish reporting tomatoes.
Except, some potato plants have disappeared. So started digging to find if any potatoes had been produced. Ended up watering and earthing up half the bed. Then shopping, but at supermarket. Boulangerie and Boucherie. Luckily it is mostly cloudy so more work on potato bed when I got back. Still can't be in the sun because of sunburn. So abandoned that when sun came out.
Repotted three large tomato plants and am now out of compost. Guess it's Normandy clay from molehills for the rest. They are all long overdue some care and attention, have got tall and skinny, may not be much fruit, but still I find it Impossible to just throw them into the compost bin.

SlimLizzy said:

27.06
Yesterday finished repotting all the tomatoes. Until five mins later turned round and saw I had missed a box. Another 18 still need larger pots or a place in the ground.
7.35am FBG 5.7
Plans for the day:
Watering potatoes.
Bit of market shopping before it gets hot.
Finish reporting tomatoes.
Except, some potato plants have disappeared. So started digging to find if any potatoes had been produced. Ended up watering and earthing up half the bed. Then shopping, but at supermarket. Boulangerie and Boucherie. Luckily it is mostly cloudy so more work on potato bed when I got back. Still can't be in the sun because of sunburn. So abandoned that when sun came out.
Repotted three large tomato plants and am now out of compost. Guess it's Normandy clay from molehills for the rest. They are all long overdue some care and attention, have got tall and skinny, may not be much fruit, but still I find it Impossible to just throw them into the compost bin.

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Busy lady. How's that little bird doing?

ianpspurs said:

Busy lady. How's that little bird doing?

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She started flying short distances last Thursday morning. By Saturday she was off into the world.