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

[alf_Josiah]

Good early evening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who took part in egg and spoon and 3 legged races.
Blood sugars this morning were a 5.3, if you drop the decimal point 53 is a prime number and in the real scheme of things totally pointless.

Yesterday when all our troubles seemed so far away, que music. I went out on my motorcycle for another shakedown ride, a total of 104 miles, of course I stopped part way on my journey for the compulsory vegan bacon sarnie, a pot of tea and chat to a fellow biker. The venue was “ The Dandy Highwayman “ at Cherhill on the A4 just east of Calne. If your interested look up the the Dandy Highwayman an interesting tale.
My route was Tilehurst Towers, Hungerford, Marlborough, past Silchester hill, then Cherhill with its white horse and the cafe.
I took a small diversion on the way home via Avebury and it’s prehistoric stone circle, then onto a back road up the scarp face of the Marlborough downs past the white horse at Hacken hill back into Marlborough on a very scenic minor back road.
Hopefully I can attach a picture of the remains of the sarnie, pot of tea and motorcycles in the back ground.

Today so far has been wall to wall rain, good for the reservoirs we are told.
Sleep tight all

 

[lindisfel]

Moving on. Hugs for your DIL @Annb and you @lindisfel. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative, photo and video. @dunelm another awesome transformation (the art) thank you for sharing the journey from starter for ten to supreme champion. Do you always have the vision of the finished piece in your mind or does it develop?

How is your young grandson Ian, I was sorry to hear he was poorly again I hope he is now recovering.
D.

 

[ianpspurs]

How is your young grandson Ian, I was sorry to hear he was poorly again I hope he is now recovering.
D.

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

 

[lindisfel]

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

God bless them, Ian.

 

[Annb]

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

I don't have a mobile phone so use the Libre monitor but Neil was telling me that he read an article about the Libre 3 saying that in future it will only be read from a mobile phone and they will not be supplying a separate monitor. Fine if you have a smart phone otherwise, back to the fingerpricks I guess.

 

[Lamont D]

No - the only options offered were surgery to fuse the area or surgery to remove the disc. Don't quite get it myself - removing the disc would just lead to more pain from what I can understand. My husband had lower back pain from his youth and it was eventually found that vertebrae in his lumbar spine had fused themselves. Way back then, there would have been nothing they could have done anyway. DIL's problem is that the offending vertebrae and disc are very high in her neck and in a dangerous position for surgery. But they do have to try in order to avoid her being crippled for the rest of her life.

Where the section of either the nerve or the blood vessels travel is the effected area where it is fused, to stop either from causing the symptoms and pain. All surgery in that area is typically dangerous. Especially if the effected area is at the front of the spine. I am trying not to need the surgery!

 

[Krystyna23040]

I trained/coached youngsters in sport, even though it is teaching in some respect.
You can get too absorbed in the things you are trying to achieve.
After 20years plus of coaching the little ones, as they grew, were then going into adult footie. It was time for many reasons to hang up my boots.
From what you have posted, I believe you can't be too bad yourself!

Thank you @Lamont D

 

[Krystyna23040]

Yes but what you do for your clients is just the same and you would do all that, probably more, if you were a school teacher - and others here. After a while many things - targets, learning styles, important data, seating plans, don't change. IT made things easier. I think the point is if one wants excellent outcomes and guide/develop others in any profession one has to walk the walk. Of course, some people don't/won't want to do the work. They usually can't understand why their classes/sales figures/whatever are "troublesome." Must make the job so miserable for them. I also couldn't/can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be rated outstanding at anything they do. Burn out rate for middle and senior leaders has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Amazing how senior teachers age facially from day one September to middle of the month.

Yes, you are right. I want so much for every client and class member to have an excellent outcome that I do put a lot of effort into achieving this.

I do think that I am incredibly lucky that I can help so many people doing something that I really love doing.

 

[lindisfel]

First night at the Proms started with Finlandia tonight, it was an impressive performance of one of my favourite pieces of classical music.
Its background indicates why Finland so much wants to be in NATO today.

It carries a similar depth of emotion when it's used in hymn music.
D.

 

[dunelm]

Good early evening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who took part in egg and spoon and 3 legged races.
Blood sugars this morning were a 5.3, if you drop the decimal point 53 is a prime number and in the real scheme of things totally pointless.

Yesterday when all our troubles seemed so far away, que music. I went out on my motorcycle for another shakedown ride, a total of 104 miles, of course I stopped part way on my journey for the compulsory vegan bacon sarnie, a pot of tea and chat to a fellow biker. The venue was “ The Dandy Highwayman “ at Cherhill on the A4 just east of Calne. If your interested look up the the Dandy Highwayman an interesting tale.
My route was Tilehurst Towers, Hungerford, Marlborough, past Silchester hill, then Cherhill with its white horse and the cafe.
I took a small diversion on the way home via Avebury and it’s prehistoric stone circle, then onto a back road up the scarp face of the Marlborough downs past the white horse at Hacken hill back into Marlborough on a very scenic minor back road.
Hopefully I can attach a picture of the remains of the sarnie, pot of tea and motorcycles in the back ground.

Today so far has been wall to wall rain, good for the reservoirs we are told.
Sleep tight allView attachment 61963

Nice route with some good places of interest to have a gander at.

 

[dunelm]

So kind of you to ask Derek. He seems to be bouncing back as the very young often do. Today his big sister, all 4 years old and about 2.5 stones wet through of her, is poorly. The Little Guy © has had a rough start - in baby version of ITU at <2 months old, pitiful images of him so small with tubes and canulas all over - but he is a tall, sturdy and strong chap whereas his sister is very dainty. Definitely the right way round. Just seen this story - does it affect anyone here?

All the very best to those precious grandchildren. I have an android phone so not affected by Apple breakdowns.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from another overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 when I woke at 5am. Cramp dance practice is not recommended so early in the day. In fact, I shall write to my MP and suggest it be banned, sent to a third safe country or added to the WHO list of things not to do. Just got the drill kit out of the garage and put one of batteries on charge for a top up. Prepare for buzzing noises and the making of small holes as today I shall be known as Bob the Bodgejob (no relation to Oddjob in Goldfinger). Art bit, another starter for ten. Enjoy your day as much as you can. Time is short, long, length, span, continuation of variable confused duration. Koffy, best have another one.

 

[lindisfel]

Good morning everyone from another overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 when I woke at 5am. Cramp dance practice is not recommended so early in the day. In fact, I shall write to my MP and suggest it be banned, sent to a third safe country or added to the WHO list of things not to do. Just got the drill kit out of the garage and put one of batteries on charge for a top up. Prepare for buzzing noises and the making of small holes as today I shall be known as Bob the Bodgejob (no relation to Oddjob in Goldfinger). Art bit, another starter for ten. Enjoy your day as much as you can. Time is short, long, length, span, continuation of variable confused duration. Koffy, best have another one.


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You've no real problem Bob!
Wendy will put you right!

 

[lindisfel]

Very dark morning in Cumbria, I think we shall have a wet day.
Not a good day for a Wigton couple we know having their 50th Anniversary open day with outside garden food.

 

[gennepher]

All the very best to those precious grandchildren. I have an android phone so not affected by Apple breakdowns.

I am reliant @ianpspurs @dunelm on a mobile phone for the app that provides the remote control for my cochlear hearing processing. The hospital's preferred app is Apple, it does have more control settings than an Android device. But Apple drives me stark raving bonkers every morning when I put on my hearing processor. And then when the updates happen, it can set the app into doolally mode. It can, some mornings take me over half an hour to set the processor settings to what I need each day. It sets the processor up to the settings the technician set it to, but I need them different in certain circumstances. And there are 2 settings which go back to OFF, and I have to reset them each time I turn the processor on. And then if the batteries go dead a few minutes later of doing all that, I have to go through every single d**n setting to get what I need it to be again.

My current Phone I take out with me is Android Pixel 4a, but the remote control app is not compatible (it was when I bought the phone but an Android update rendered the app useless). My old phone was Pixel 3a, and the remote control app works okay on that. So, when I go out of the house I need to take two mobile phones with me, so I can use the old phone to adjust my cochlear sound processor settings if I am in a very noisy situation and need to hear the person I am talking with.

None of these remote control apps for important devices some of us need to use/wear are remotely easily convenient. Everyone I know who has a cochlear sound processor just leaves them at the technician's original setting. And if a noise/sound situation is intolerable, they just take the processor off. That is fine if you have some hearing in the other ear, or you wear a hearing aid in the other ear, but I have no hearing at all if I take my cochlear sound processor off.

I had better stop here, because I have plenty of rant left in me on the subject of devices that have to be controlled by an app on the phone, and device updates cause havoc with this working.

Am I wearing my sound processor now? Nope. If the remote app plays me up when I am setting the settings up later, then I will say s*d it. And go back to captions etc. If I am going out, then I will grit my teeth and set it up. Often the remote app says, you have not got your processor on...I have got it on, and so this inane battle continues, until the remote control app finally connects with my speech processor.

Can't stop ranting can I?

It was so much simpler when I had a separate remote control in the early days, 15 years ago now.

I have made these problems known to the hospital many times. Finally I got sent to a speech therapist who apparently had been told to show me how to use the phone remote app. Her first words were 'I thought you of all people would know how to use the phone remote for the processor'. Got my back up? Yup! (And also because I'd had to drive all the way to the original hospital, and so that was a full day just for this, someone who knew less than I did about the app. But I smiled sweetly at her, handed her my phone, and asked if she would connect the phone remote app to my processor. She failed. She had me removing the app, reinstalling it. She had me reinstalling something else. An hour later she looked at me, you've done all this before haven't you? Yes, I said. I do know what to do I said, but I cannot make something work when there is a fault in the system. She did say I had taught her a lot about, that day, what the app did do, and what it couldn't do, that she had not known.

This is going to be the same for diabetic apps (and any other important remote control app), it may work for a time, but updates by the app developer who may not be the original developer of this app by this time, and updates by your device, and different devices will probably always make for a mess and stuff not working.

Sorry I carried on ranting...

 

[Krystyna23040]

6.1 this morning. Lovely dog walk in the sunshine this morning. Shortly off to Norwich for classes. A non-stop day until I finish at 6pm. Then a lovely relaxing evening.

Predictive text inserted non-profit instead of non-stop. Luckily I spotted it before posting.

 

[Annb]

I am reliant @ianpspurs @dunelm on a mobile phone for the app that provides the remote control for my cochlear hearing processing. The hospital's preferred app is Apple, it does have more control settings than an Android device. But Apple drives me stark raving bonkers every morning when I put on my hearing processor. And then when the updates happen, it can set the app into doolally mode. It can, some mornings take me over half an hour to set the processor settings to what I need each day. It sets the processor up to the settings the technician set it to, but I need them different in certain circumstances. And there are 2 settings which go back to OFF, and I have to reset them each time I turn the processor on. And then if the batteries go dead a few minutes later of doing all that, I have to go through every single d**n setting to get what I need it to be again.

My current Phone I take out with me is Android Pixel 4a, but the remote control app is not compatible (it was when I bought the phone but an Android update rendered the app useless). My old phone was Pixel 3a, and the remote control app works okay on that. So, when I go out of the house I need to take two mobile phones with me, so I can use the old phone to adjust my cochlear sound processor settings if I am in a very noisy situation and need to hear the person I am talking with.

None of these remote control apps for important devices some of us need to use/wear are remotely easily convenient. Everyone I know who has a cochlear sound processor just leaves them at the technician's original setting. And if a noise/sound situation is intolerable, they just take the processor off. That is fine if you have some hearing in the other ear, or you wear a hearing aid in the other ear, but I have no hearing at all if I take my cochlear sound processor off.

I had better stop here, because I have plenty of rant left in me on the subject of devices that have to be controlled by an app on the phone, and device updates cause havoc with this working.

Am I wearing my sound processor now? Nope. If the remote app plays me up when I am setting the settings up later, then I will say s*d it. And go back to captions etc. If I am going out, then I will grit my teeth and set it up. Often the remote app says, you have not got your processor on...I have got it on, and so this inane battle continues, until the remote control app finally connects with my speech processor.

Can't stop ranting can I?

It was so much simpler when I had a separate remote control in the early days, 15 years ago now.

I have made these problems known to the hospital many times. Finally I got sent to a speech therapist who apparently had been told to show me how to use the phone remote app. Her first words were 'I thought you of all people would know how to use the phone remote for the processor'. Got my back up? Yup! (And also because I'd had to drive all the way to the original hospital, and so that was a full day just for this, someone who knew less than I did about the app. But I smiled sweetly at her, handed her my phone, and asked if she would connect the phone remote app to my processor. She failed. She had me removing the app, reinstalling it. She had me reinstalling something else. An hour later she looked at me, you've done all this before haven't you? Yes, I said. I do know what to do I said, but I cannot make something work when there is a fault in the system. She did say I had taught her a lot about, that day, what the app did do, and what it couldn't do, that she had not known.

This is going to be the same for diabetic apps (and any other important remote control app), it may work for a time, but updates by the app developer, and updates by your device, and different devices will probably always make for a mess and stuff not working.

Sorry I carried on ranting...

It's no wonder you feel like ranting on about these issues. There are so many problems with mobile phones and their apps these days. I can't see why all these organisations insist that this is the way to go and try to force us into using them. If there was one system which could be installed on all devices and if it could be certain to work in all situations, I might feel differently (although I do have other issues with them) but it has been demonstrated time and again that this is not the case. What is happening is that we are being forced to accept the control of electronic devices over our lives, when the devices should be serving us, under our control, to make our lives easier.

I don't suffer from these problems because I don't have a mobile phone. That does cut me off from certain services, of course. There are 2 other issues with mobile phones and their apps: they are not secure and can be hacked into far too easily and they are expensive - too expensive for me to afford. There must be others out there who are in a similar situation to me and who, in many cases will be cut off from what the modern world could offer them.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone from another overcast start here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.1 when I woke at 5am. Cramp dance practice is not recommended so early in the day. In fact, I shall write to my MP and suggest it be banned, sent to a third safe country or added to the WHO list of things not to do. Just got the drill kit out of the garage and put one of batteries on charge for a top up. Prepare for buzzing noises and the making of small holes as today I shall be known as Bob the Bodgejob (no relation to Oddjob in Goldfinger). Art bit, another starter for ten. Enjoy your day as much as you can. Time is short, long, length, span, continuation of variable confused duration. Koffy, best have another one.


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Oh dear to the cramp dance. That could be your first exercise of the day @dunelm
Have some fun today...

 

[dunelm]

I am reliant @ianpspurs @dunelm on a mobile phone for the app that provides the remote control for my cochlear hearing processing. The hospital's preferred app is Apple, it does have more control settings than an Android device. But Apple drives me stark raving bonkers every morning when I put on my hearing processor. And then when the updates happen, it can set the app into doolally mode. It can, some mornings take me over half an hour to set the processor settings to what I need each day. It sets the processor up to the settings the technician set it to, but I need them different in certain circumstances. And there are 2 settings which go back to OFF, and I have to reset them each time I turn the processor on. And then if the batteries go dead a few minutes later of doing all that, I have to go through every single d**n setting to get what I need it to be again.

My current Phone I take out with me is Android Pixel 4a, but the remote control app is not compatible (it was when I bought the phone but an Android update rendered the app useless). My old phone was Pixel 3a, and the remote control app works okay on that. So, when I go out of the house I need to take two mobile phones with me, so I can use the old phone to adjust my cochlear sound processor settings if I am in a very noisy situation and need to hear the person I am talking with.

None of these remote control apps for important devices some of us need to use/wear are remotely easily convenient. Everyone I know who has a cochlear sound processor just leaves them at the technician's original setting. And if a noise/sound situation is intolerable, they just take the processor off. That is fine if you have some hearing in the other ear, or you wear a hearing aid in the other ear, but I have no hearing at all if I take my cochlear sound processor off.

I had better stop here, because I have plenty of rant left in me on the subject of devices that have to be controlled by an app on the phone, and device updates cause havoc with this working.

Am I wearing my sound processor now? Nope. If the remote app plays me up when I am setting the settings up later, then I will say s*d it. And go back to captions etc. If I am going out, then I will grit my teeth and set it up. Often the remote app says, you have not got your processor on...I have got it on, and so this inane battle continues, until the remote control app finally connects with my speech processor.

Can't stop ranting can I?

It was so much simpler when I had a separate remote control in the early days, 15 years ago now.

I have made these problems known to the hospital many times. Finally I got sent to a speech therapist who apparently had been told to show me how to use the phone remote app. Her first words were 'I thought you of all people would know how to use the phone remote for the processor'. Got my back up? Yup! (And also because I'd had to drive all the way to the original hospital, and so that was a full day just for this, someone who knew less than I did about the app. But I smiled sweetly at her, handed her my phone, and asked if she would connect the phone remote app to my processor. She failed. She had me removing the app, reinstalling it. She had me reinstalling something else. An hour later she looked at me, you've done all this before haven't you? Yes, I said. I do know what to do I said, but I cannot make something work when there is a fault in the system. She did say I had taught her a lot about, that day, what the app did do, and what it couldn't do, that she had not known.

This is going to be the same for diabetic apps (and any other important remote control app), it may work for a time, but updates by the app developer who may not be the original developer of this app by this time, and updates by your device, and different devices will probably always make for a mess and stuff not working.

Sorry I carried on ranting...

It’s a good rant @gennepher and quite right. An app developer, a phone developer, an app update developer, a phone operating system update developer - what could possible go wrong? More incompatibility than two people fibbing on a dating site.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.8

Wildlife nighttime cameras
A medley of animals, Pa Badger left the badger cubs at home with mum while he enjoyed foraging...

Creative is an ink painting I did, which I finished off with the black ink drawing in Procreate.

Sparrows - there are 30 plus baby sparrows in my garden and no parents. There are three females I particularly recognise because they were the first in this latest batch of baby sparrows. I called them the 3 Musketeers. They squawked loudly, fluffing up their baby feathers, but no one came. They could all feed themselves from the feeders but they were skinny. Eventually more baby sparrows got 'dumped' in my garden. And no one was feeding any of them, but they squawked loudly to no avail. Then they got on with feeding themselves from the feeders. Some doing better than others. So I felt an obligation, as the adult, to make sure the feeders were always full. 20 plus fatballs a day was needed for this hungry lot. And if they ran out, I have a whole pile of baby sparrows looking at me to refill... that happened yesterday afternoon. They seem to regard me as 'she who fills the fatball feeders'.

They play all day long, fly up to my bedroom (door is open outwards into the garden).

A couple of days ago, two adult male sparrows flew into the garden and began feeding all the baby sparrows. It was bedlam when the baby sparrows realised someone was feeding them. Fights broke out between the baby sparrows to be first to be fed by the adult male sparrows. These same two adult males are now coming daily, a couple of hours after daylight and are leaving around 4pm.

As far as I can tell, all the 30 plus baby sparrows are females. They live and play and sleep and eat in my garden. They are a flock of sparrows in themselves. Is this how flocks of sparrows are formed?

They are used to this human, and don't mind me wandering among them doing my stuff.

I can happily watch them all day...

Have a great day.

Time for a cuppa.