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

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and special mention for @gennepher with her perseverance on setting up her implant, you must the patience of a saint, the tolerance of something or other, well done on sticking with it and also highlighting the myriad of problems to the correct hospital departments.

Blood sugars were 6.7 this morning fuelled by belated grandson homemade birthday cake and late night dream inducing cheese.

Today here in Tilehurst Towers it is going to be a day of administration, avoiding the rain showers and tennis. With perhaps some more plinky plonky practice, I have already done 30 minutes this morning, pre koffy, brave I know.

Well is time to start my day, have a good one all.

Stay safe, stay dry and bark at the idiot box.

dunelm said:

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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Some years ago, when I could still use my legs, but couldn't easily bend, I told my husband about a new dance I had invented - something like the tarantella. It was called "the old woman taking off her tights". Involved quite a lot off hopping on one leg and twisting of the hips while trying to bend forward with a stiff back. It never took off. Perhaps I should have demonstrated it on Twitter or something.

Why are we being forced to use credit cards and apps in Car Parks. I resent using a mobile phone, they are just for ringing up and texting!
D.

This morning the new libre sensor gave me a reading of 5.4 but my finger prick thingie said 6.2.

I downloaded the updated app to my iphone before it was removed from the app store installed it and so far it's been working perfectly well weird isn't it.

gennepher said:

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.

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All immature House Sparrows look superficially like females.

lindisfel said:

All immature House Sparrows look superficially like females.

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I wondered about that...thanks for the info @lindisfel

Annb said:

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.

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It would be an idea, as you say, for there to be some kind of one system where all these kinds of apps for controlling medical devices could (have to) register on. And in theory you go to this one central site especially when you have a problem or for advice. In this way, all this information from the different apps devices/updates etc could be collated and in theory be sorted more easily. But that is probably all too difficult to set up @Annb

Currently I get told by the hospital to bring up my issues with cochlear. Cochlear direct you to the FAQ's. That in turn can direct you to the your phone provider who in turn direct you to...
No real person actually answers your problem/question/etc because no one knows the answer.

Good job others saw it!!
Roy Armstrong came out of the pub in Port Carlisle at 10 pm on Monday night and there was an Alpine Swift flying around outside.

A rather excited Roy rushed to the RSPB reserves manager's house in the same village and he quickly got out see it as well.

Birders live such exciting lives!

Morning all from a showery, blustery, potentially thundery L.A. Today's Lark in the Park (play on the local river name) is cancelled. Oh well, T20 finals day it is then @gennepher hug for apps issue and that wasn't a rant. Thanks for sharing the creative and sparrows tale. @dunelm hug for the cramp dance and thanks for sharing the starter for 10 and the concern for the babes. Little Guy apparently keeps asking to see Dadad . I've bloviated this week so sorry peeps. This is a good summary of what seems - belatedly - as though it could be fin-de-siècle for the nonsense. A tune for you Dunelm - nostalgia ain't wot it used to be. Crombie, brogues and two tones anyone? - pocket hanky de rigueur obs (Trilby optional)

ianpspurs said:

Morning all from a showery, blustery, potentially thundery L.A. Today's Lark in the Park (play on the local river name) is cancelled. Oh well, T20 finals day it is then @gennepher hug for apps issue and that wasn't a rant. Thanks for sharing the creative and sparrows tale. @dunelm hug for the cramp dance and thanks for sharing the starter for 10 and the concern for the babes. Little Guy apparently keeps asking to see Dadad . I've bloviated this week so sorry peeps. This is a good summary of what seems - belatedly - as though it could be fin-de-siècle for the nonsense. A tune for you @dunelem - nostalgia ain't wot it used to be. Crombie, brogues and two tones anyone? - pocket hanky de rigueur obs (Trilby optional)

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Thanks Ian

ianpspurs said:

Morning all from a showery, blustery, potentially thundery L.A. Today's Lark in the Park (play on the local river name) is cancelled. Oh well, T20 finals day it is then @gennepher hug for apps issue and that wasn't a rant. Thanks for sharing the creative and sparrows tale. @dunelm hug for the cramp dance and thanks for sharing the starter for 10 and the concern for the babes. Little Guy apparently keeps asking to see Dadad . I've bloviated this week so sorry peeps. This is a good summary of what seems - belatedly - as though it could be fin-de-siècle for the nonsense. A tune for you @dunelem - nostalgia ain't wot it used to be. Crombie, brogues and two tones anyone? - pocket hanky de rigueur obs (Trilby optional)

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Nice to see how you are wanted Ian. So he has moved on from dandad. You obviously make him feel safe when he's poorly.
D.

I would really like to admit to a lovely sunny, quiet, relaxing afternoon and evening!
But it wasn't!
it was frantic, frustrating and another word beginning with the fifth letter of the abc!
Good news this morning! 5.8mmols!!!!!!! First time below 6! So something is working.
Good news! Daughter got a job in first interview. The one she preferred, less hours, more money, closer to home. And a six percent pay increase when she will still vote against it, should get more to put up with our little cherubs! Made up for her!
Good news! New pad for the wife! Took three hours to get it sorted however!
Good news. Found a star trek (sure I 've posted it) DVD of a new series, really cheap!
Good news! Found out I could get tax money back. Have to get a claim form, and will pay less tax on my pension.
Good news! The wife has an appointment on Monday afternoon, phoned up three pm, got one straight away! And an appointment with a specialist a week on Tuesday for her mental issues.
Now the bad news! Wife couldn't remember her passwords for all her private stuff online. Had to download a ton of stuff. But it took me most of the evening.
Bad news! Next door had a birthday party all evening, banging music, screaming kids, loud adults singing, shouting, just noisy! (Still napped around ten!)
Bad news! It rained! Windy last evening in this part of the world. This morning, we have had some sun! A drop in wind, temperature up, then cloud, wind, drizzle, then thunderstorm, lightening, bouncing downpour, then just now, white cloud across the sky! Just need snow now!
Bad news! Sciatica is back after a couple of good days, tried to do my exercise but too painful. Had a job attempting to help the wife get washed and changed, having a nap now! Got some shopping done!
But watching the cricket and the darts today! Flicking about!
I would love to use my phone as a phone! But because of my lot. It has to be so much more complicated. I wish my computer specialist grandson, could move closer, so I could abuse his talents, instead of spending hours like yesterday afternoon.
He works as a specialist for education in his area and reads computer language as you and I would read English! (Yeah! Sure!)
He got a doctorate at nineteen, and has letters after his name (Bsc computer science)
Bad news. No ham shank left! Sorry, I ploughed through it (must have been a hell of a size animal!) Absolutely so tasteful! Fish or pork loin for tea this evening!
Hate writing long posts!!!!
I am so made up with this morning fasting reading! But not celebrating yet!
Have a wonderful weekend, beware of the wet stuff, spoiling it!

lindisfel said:

Nice to see how you are wanted Ian. So he has moved on from dandad. You obviously make him feel safe when he's poorly.
D.

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We seem to have bonded from the get go. He was unsettled as a newborn but instantly settled on me. Of course being the youngest grandchild, a boy and son of our own youngest baby there is absolutely no chance of him being spoiled - well his Nannys might

gennepher said:

Thanks Ian

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Booker and his band were very much a part of the Stax label. And one or two without googling, were involved in the air plane crash that killed the great Otis Redding. The majority of the band became famous in themselves. And we're originally session artists at Stax.
Great tunes including the test match music on the beeb called.........?

I loved my green/blue/ fawn two(?) tone suit! From Burtons!
A white Ben Sherman shirt, and crombies of leather soled (with grips) black. Great for doing northern soul dancing!
Great times!

Lamont D said:

Booker and his band were very much a part of the Stax label. And one or two without googling, were involved in the air plane crash that killed the great Otis Redding. The majority of the band became famous in themselves. And we're originally session artists at Stax.
Great tunes including the test match music on the beeb called.........?

I loved my green/blue/ fawn two(?) tone suit! From Burtons!
A white Ben Sherman shirt, and crombies of leather soled (with grips) black. Great for doing northern soul dancing!
Great times!

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Soul Limbo was the tune. Nice kit btw. More Motown and definitely the Drifters in my neck of the woods in those (Sixth Form) days for the lads, lads, lads crew. Change of direction in Uni years - togs and chunes. Taramasalata does that to a fella

gennepher said:

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.

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Smashing creative. Very expressive. Reminds me of Kenya.

ianpspurs said:

Morning all from a showery, blustery, potentially thundery L.A. Today's Lark in the Park (play on the local river name) is cancelled. Oh well, T20 finals day it is then @gennepher hug for apps issue and that wasn't a rant. Thanks for sharing the creative and sparrows tale. @dunelm hug for the cramp dance and thanks for sharing the starter for 10 and the concern for the babes. Little Guy apparently keeps asking to see Dadad . I've bloviated this week so sorry peeps. This is a good summary of what seems - belatedly - as though it could be fin-de-siècle for the nonsense. A tune for you @dunelem - nostalgia ain't wot it used to be. Crombie, brogues and two tones anyone? - pocket hanky de rigueur obs (Trilby optional)

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Thanks for the memories @ianpspurs. I once visited my grandparents dressed in a smart Ben Sherman and a pair of two tone trousers. I asked my grandfather what he thought of my fancy strides. He disappeared into a bedroom and appeared a couple of minutes later with a double breasted two tone suit that he told me he had bought in the 1950’s. Never wore two tone again.

dunelm said:

Smashing creative. Very expressive. Reminds me of Kenya.

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Thanks @dunelm

ianpspurs said:

Soul Limbo was the tune. Nice kit btw. More Motown and definitely the Drifters in my neck of the woods in those (Sixth Form) days for the lads, lads, lads crew. Change of direction in Uni years - togs and chunes. Taramasalata does that to a fella

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Motown has dominated my music brain. My fourth oor fifth album I bought was 'The Motown Story'. Which I acquired from an American PX store in Berlin in 1970. It was five vinyl 33rpm albums. Of all the best released top twenty hits of the sixties. My favourite song and group is 'Baby, I'm for real ' by The Originals. Typically a group of backing singers initially for the likes of Marvin, Supremes, and such.
Going to disco, funk and of course Northern soul. R&B, soul and an a really fussy eclectic range of oldies, new, and in between, what I like!
Smokey Robinson is my idol! He has three songs in my top ten. Al Green, two. Temps two. And two others!
I listen to my music every day.
And regardless of what is going on in my life. My music has always been there to be my safe place when I need to be elsewhere!
And being a man, it helps with my emotions!

Lamont D said:

Motown has dominated my music brain. My fourth oor fifth album I bought was 'The Motown Story'. Which I acquired from an American PX store in Berlin in 1970. It was five vinyl 33rpm albums. Of all the best released top twenty hits of the sixties. My favourite song and group is 'Baby, I'm for real ' by The Originals. Typically a group of backing singers initially for the likes of Marvin, Supremes, and such.
Going to disco, funk and of course Northern soul. R&B, soul and an a really fussy eclectic range of oldies, new, and in between, what I like!
Smokey Robinson is my idol! He has three songs in my top ten. Al Green, two. Temps two. And two others!
I listen to my music every day.
And regardless of what is going on in my life. My music has always been there to be my safe place when I need to be elsewhere!
And being a man, it helps with my emotions!

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I second that emotion.