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

[JohnEGreen]

All this talk of schools brought to mind when in the not so distant past at a school in the Wigan area my grandson's teacher stood him in the front of the class and announced to the class that he was a chav and a ne'er-do-well that he would never succeed or do anything worth while he now has a first in economics a decent job as a data analyst for the post office and has nearly completed his masters with Bristol University.

So much for her opinion.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from a distinctly breezy L.A. where Jeeves has laid out my summer weight hoodie - but no socks or long trousers. Good man. Attached is the forecast weather so some rain may also drift your way @Krystyna23040. British summers and England cricket team batting collapses, good to see the old traditions are being kept @Annb I hope the journey and consultation go well. £900? as the advert says, because you're worth it. @lindisfel that tale of the dash for cover very much reminds me of my parents (fondly) - thanks. @gennepher I'd put money on 2 badgers being able to "have" a cat but what can't speak can't lie - except nowadays it can, does, goes viral and gets monetised. Not yours I add hastily. Thanks for the raspberry kaleidoscope. I miss the row of raspberries we had "back home" - the ones we planted here haven't taken. W******* have some huge and juicy blackberries this year - no scratches, or walking all over to pick them either. @dunelm stunning artwork thank you so much. A real shelter from the storm eh Bob? @Lamont D and @Annb hugs on behalf of teachers. Grievances held aren't healthy as Derek says but that, I believe, is what our sinful nature does. As he says, some here believe there is one and only one route to propitiation but people's views differ. Respect to all. Enjoy your day but live it in the spirit of the game
Edited for most egregious errors but still sloppy. Sorry for the disrespect

 

[ianpspurs]

All this talk of schools brought to mind when in the not so distant past at a school in the Wigan area my grandson's teacher stood him in the front of the class and announced to the class that he was a chav and a ne'er-do-well that he would never succeed or do anything worth while he now has a first in economics a decent job as a data analyst for the post office and has nearly completed his masters with Bristol University.

So much for her opinion.

Congratulations to your grandson @JohnEGreen on the perfect retort. Opinions are famously like fudaments. We all have them but almost always best not to show them off, just sit on them in most situations. Several Spurs fans should have honoured their pledge to walk naked down Tottenham High road due to a Mr H Kane even making the first team.

 

[gennepher]

Morning all from a distinctly breezy L.A. where Jeeves has laid out my summer weight hoodie - but no socks or long trousers. Good man. Attached is what is the forecast weather so some rain may also drift your way British summers and England cricket team batting collapses (Friday) good to see the old traditions are being kept. @Krystyna23040. @Annb I hope the journey and consultation go well. £900? as the advert says, because you're worth it. @lindisfel that tale of the dash for cover very much reminds me of my parents (fondly) - thanks. @gennepher I'd put money on 2 badgers being able to "have" a cat but what can't speak can't lie - except nowadays it can, does, goes viral and gets monetised. Not your I add hastily. Tanks for the raspberry kaleidoscope. I miss the row of raspberries we had "back home" - the ones we planted here haven't taken. W******* have some huge and juicy blackberries this year - no scartches, or walking all over to pick them either. @dunelm stunning artwork thank you so much. A real shelter from the storm eh Bob. @Lamont D and @Annb hugs on behalf of teachers. Grievances held aren't healthy as Derek says but that, I believe is what our sinful nature does. As he says some here believe there is one and only route to propitiation but people's views differ. Respect to all. Enjoy your day but live it in the spirit of the game

Thanks @ianpspurs
Midnight rules. This is his garden.
But when I go out in a morning and there is no Midnight, my heart sinks, then he comes out from hiding. He has no fear literally walking on the ground with them around.,

 

[ianpspurs]

Thanks @ianpspurs
Midnight rules. This is his garden.
But when I go out in a morning and there is no Midnight, my heart sinks, then he comes out from hiding. He has no fear literally walking on the ground with them around.,

Fearless and peerless. How's Monty these days or has he fled the scene of his crimes?

 

[gennepher]

Fearless and peerless. How's Monty these days or has he fled the scene of his crimes?

All animals are still present and correct, they just don't come in so much with the badger family taking over the garden.

 

[ianpspurs]

All animals are still present and correct, they just don't come in so much with the badger family taking over the garden.

That's good to know. I discovered a new phrase this morning - beige-fluencer - used pejoratively as part of the culture war here, imho. Ironically, the author seems to want a homogeneous society of rainbow-fluencers. Hoist by her own petard? I would guess you and I are on opposite sides as I would be overjoyed to be seen as beige. Looking for the t-shirt now.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.8

Watching the myriads of baby sparrows through my open glass bedroom door into the garden. But it will be closed when I need to get out of bed. These are winter temperatures. The air is icy cold. Time to put away summer clothes, find the winter duvet..

Wildlife nighttime videos.
Badger son tries wrecking my rubber mat! Pa Badger pushes him out of way, My mat, Pa says... Midnight comes along & repeatedly smacks Pa Badger. Then Midnight looks into Trail Camera lens, "See what I just did, Mum"...

Creative is a kaleidoscope of my raspberries in my garden...they are delicious...

Have your best day.

Time for a nap....

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Got to love a raspberry

 

[dunelm]

This is incredibly effective @dunelm

Thank you @gennepher.

 

[Lamont D]

When I was newly qualified electrician in a gas works my Electricians mate had worked as a Japanese prisoner of war on The Railway, he got of it all out talking to me when we worked together in the retort houses.
Your dad must have gone through a lot.

Within two years I had an HNC in electrical engineering having been a school failure, but I got a job as a direct entry broadcast engineer which changed my life for the better.
D.

My father was one of Wingates Chindits. He took part in the second 'walk in the jungle ' as he called it.
He was continually fighting off malarial after effects, a dose of quinine never far away!
He succumbed in 1985!
He wouldn't speak of his war 'work '!
Except for the time before his 'walk'!
Not many came back from Burma!
On arrival in India, he was seconded as a sergeant into the Indian army. I have a couple of photos with his fluted head dress on! He also spent time getting jungle training with the Ghurkas!

7.4 (again) today. Didn't think I would be so stabilised so quickly!

 

[dunelm]

Alf!

Sounds an interesting school...

My last school the girls and boys ran it, teaching staff, and finally the headmaster (who had come to our school straight from running Borstal) was at the bottom of having any authority or control. He was so cruel, dragging boys along the corridors by their hair, that we gave him no respect. He didn't instil fear in us.
For girls if discipline was to be metered out, the offender girls were dragged into the domestic science room flat (where we were supposed to learn housewifely activities such as ironing hubby's morning newspaper) and the the rest of us formed a ring to enclose the two girls who had to slug it out in a cat fight (not a pretty sight).
For boys, it was a ring of boys in the tar-macadam playground, out in public, and the offender boys had a boxing match until one was declared a winner.
If it was something between boys and girls, us girls were very good at mediation...
If it was something between the boys and teaching staff ( the boys could be complete idiots in causing needless trouble), then us girls acted as mediators in order to calm the teacher and get him back into the classroom.

And that was basically how my last school was run. And before you ask what kind of school it was, it was a Grammar school in a very deprived run down area.

And I was the different pupil. My prior senior schools had told me I was useless, not capable of taking exams etc.gave me nought or one out of ten for anything. When your back is against the wall, you can do anything...there is no other place to go.

So, at this last school I attended, I had nothing to lose. So, I didn't give a monkey's. My last two years in it were spent decorating all the corridors. I collected as many colour and Sunday magazines as I could, and spent my time cutting out and pasting these on the corridor walls throughout the school, creating murals. 'You can't do that', said the younger pupils, you'll get into trouble. 'No I won't,' I said. I did get called to the headmaster's office, but by the time I finished my verbal argument with him, I walked out with permission to do this mural, but I had to get it off all the walls before I left the school. Well, I didn't have to, because by that time the headmaster was proudly showing all visitors the kind of gifted pupil the school was creating. And to my surprise, the mural remained for many years on the walls.

I am now a respectable batty old lady...

What smashing and innovative way to brighten up a school - murals - not the boxing matches. Although… . I left school when I was 15, or so I thought. Went into the army as a boy soldier at 15 years and 4 months. I then spent 3 years in a military college. It did include boxing matches.

 

[gennepher]

Got to love a raspberry

Definitely!

 

[Krystyna23040]

The obvious solution was gluten, but I'm not gluten intolerant, I'm a lot intolerant among things but not gluten!

I am not gluten intolerant but after working with a dietician many years ago we found my severe reactions were caused by modern wheat.

One time we were staying with brother in law and they were very careful that everything was wheat free. I had a very puzzling severe reaction to dinner one evening. No wheat in the food and the soy sauce was wheat free.


The next day my sister in law apologised as the bottle of soy sauce had been refilled from a tin of soy sauce made with wheat. I was relieved because I thought I had developed a new allergy.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all from a distinctly breezy L.A. where Jeeves has laid out my summer weight hoodie - but no socks or long trousers. Good man. Attached is the forecast weather so some rain may also drift your way @Krystyna23040. British summers and England cricket team batting collapses, good to see the old traditions are being kept @Annb I hope the journey and consultation go well. £900? as the advert says, because you're worth it. @lindisfel that tale of the dash for cover very much reminds me of my parents (fondly) - thanks. @gennepher I'd put money on 2 badgers being able to "have" a cat but what can't speak can't lie - except nowadays it can, does, goes viral and gets monetised. Not yours I add hastily. Thanks for the raspberry kaleidoscope. I miss the row of raspberries we had "back home" - the ones we planted here haven't taken. W******* have some huge and juicy blackberries this year - no scratches, or walking all over to pick them either. @dunelm stunning artwork thank you so much. A real shelter from the storm eh Bob? @Lamont D and @Annb hugs on behalf of teachers. Grievances held aren't healthy as Derek says but that, I believe, is what our sinful nature does. As he says, some here believe there is one and only one route to propitiation but people's views differ. Respect to all. Enjoy your day but live it in the spirit of the game
Edited for most egregious errors but still sloppy. Sorry for the disrespect

Thank you @ianpspurs. It’s the undercroft at Oystermouth Castle - probably stored booze in it.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I was particularly kind to someone midweek while I was out, who was very distressed, and I sorted her out. And then an hour later she came looking for and found me, and thanked me so much, I had saved her day.

This oriental delivery guy went over and above for me. I am so grateful.

Kindness always gets passed on when we least expect it and when it is most needed.

I absolutely do agree with you @gennepher . You were very kind to someone and then someone was very kind to you - just when you really needed it.

 

[Lamont D]

Risen by 7am, drizzly early morning, breezy, garden is looking nice!
By 11am, deluge, swimming pool delivered by cloud, flowers looking sorry for themselves, petals being washed away! Lawn is very verdant!
By 12pm rain easing, went shop, got stuff, got drenched on way back in my shorts and sandals (No socks of course!)
Delayed walk till one pm (ish)
Got to love our summers, from one extreme to the other, all in a day!
No water in Norwich! Hosepipe ban in South East England! If you want some of ours, you can have it!
Ours is unlimited from the sky, the northern hills and mountains but mainly from the good people of North Wales, the mountains of Snowdonia. Well, we have always taken something, and maybe more from the Welsh!!!!!

Got wrapped up now, trekking around the hood!

Best wishes, keep dry!

 

[Lamont D]

I am not gluten intolerant but after working with a dietician many years ago we found my severe reactions were caused by modern wheat.

One time we were staying with brother in law and they were very careful that everything was wheat free. I had a very puzzling severe reaction to dinner one evening. No wheat in the food and the soy sauce was wheat free.


The next day my sister in law apologised as the bottle of soy sauce had been refilled from a tin of soy sauce made with wheat. I was relieved because I thought I had developed a new allergy.

So interesting, I have delayed walk cos of rain stops play in my hood.
I am an advocate of fresh food, nowt from a factory or with pre made so called fresh food.
My local food pub, has salad on the menu, but it is pre made and served like that, with either a vignette or dressing already applied. The bread is already buttered( not that I have it!) As I'm lactose intolerant, and if I wanted to, how could I eat it!
That is just the tip of the iceberg lettuce!
The growth of palm oil and soya along with additives, is causing so many problems with those like us, having issues tolerating some food.
I will look up again the name of that part of wheat, which is the culprit!

 

[SlimLizzy]

03.07
7.05am FBG 5.7
Significant date for my brother, in hospital for an op. He says not to worry, but of course I do...
MrSlims injuries are healing slowly. Still needing dressings and bandages. Must go and buy more.
Kiki has been out all night. We didn't see the Tabby Tom yesterday so am now sure it was him she was avoiding.
The tomatoes seem to be breeding. Last time I counted had 85. Some have been given away, but by today's count there are 101 plants. MrSlim suggests composting some. It might come to that as have not enough room to plant out all.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I will look up again the name of that part of wheat, which is the culprit!

Thank you @Lamont D

 

[Lamont D]

Phytic acid, is one of those ingredients in wheat and other grains and seeds. It is not bad in small doses, but too much, when it is not properly treated, causes health issues. It is mainly in plants, but associated with all grains, many seeds and starchy veg.
If your regular dietary intake, is something akin to toast in the morning, sandwiches for lunch, spuds with bread, came for after then the amount of Phytic acid over the years is bound to have an adverse impact on your health.
And it doesn't matter what type of wheat or grains you use. Or wether it is wholegrain, wholemeal seeded, or whatever else there is.
But like everything else, too much of a (good!) thing is bad for you and me!

The biggest problem with modern diet, is that it seems that everything is made with a version of flour from some grain or other!

Stay safe.

It is now very windy and cold, is it autumn?? At least the rain has gone for now!