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

lindisfel said:
Putting asylum seekers on boats, that's a new idea, what young kid wants to find a Magwitch in a grave yard and be frightened into stealing a pie?
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Really I don't know why they don't go the whole way and just build a few concentration camps to put them in.
 
My Fbg was sky high this morning.
Not possible with what I had eaten etc, unless something has gone badly wrong.
So it was the rooting out old meters and a new one.
All three decided on 6.7
phew

Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime cameras.
Midnight has had enough of those badgers.
This went on all night.
What on Earth is the fascination with the area in front of the swing?



Creative is acrylic inks and a Hake brush...

Have a good day.

 
lindisfel said:
Putting asylum seekers on boats, that's a new idea, what young kid wants to find a Magwitch in a grave yard and be frightened into stealing a pie?
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Didn't the majority of Australian's come from the boats, we dropped them off in Botany Bay?
Also, The Pilgrim Fathers were landed on New England because of their differences?
Also, My local city, has a maritime museum dominated by the triangle of displaced people because of a certain crop, which was very popular in the day, transported across the ocean by ship!
And it wasn't anything do with 'Ferry Cross the Mersey '!
 
lindisfel said:
I'm the guy on the right I had a 650cc Matchless, the bike on the left is a 650 BSA super rocket. I was 20 and that summer I wrote it off hitting a gypsy lorry on way back from the south coast at Kettering.
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A cracking pic of days gone by.

Exceedingly lucky on the physical damage, bad as it was.

The heady days of youth.
Impulsive & immortal, or so it seemed.
 
lindisfel said:
Well we have a record, didn't we create the first ones for the Boers in South Africa?
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During the Boer war, the people were mostly farmers and lived sparsely amongst the veld! A massive area. And the British decided, one way to stop the guerrilla tactics was to gather the families in camps, to concentrate the population. Stop the Boer army from using the farms and prevent the supplies from the farms.
However, of course, they couldn't supply the camps with the necessary amount of food and shelter, no resources. As the government hadn't budgeted for this new policy! It was a disaster. Thousands died unnecessarily!
And, yes, we have history!
Especially, with The East Indian company! And the slave trade! And the rest!
the Wonderful British fought two of three opium wars, hence Afghanistan, which wasn't about being a danger to britain, but about opium and trade!
 
How many more posts?

6.6, cold has taken a hold of my breathing and I'm coughing a lot more, it's okay when I'm in the sun, but as a cloud chills, I start hacking away like a rabid dog. Barking mad!
Still, better than yesterday.
Woke up to the Sun shining, lovely morning to lunchtime, mid teens temperatures, actually hadn't rained since yesterday morning! But more on its way tomorrow! Heard August is supposed to bring summer back! Hope so!
My son has returned from North Africa, had a very hot two weeks, spent most of it in hotel and restaurant and bar away from the heat! Couldn't swim in med, cos of jellyfish!
Didn't sunbathe, but is a lovely colour and post a bit of weight! Which is good!

My better half woke up and started to get ready for going out, so obviously I asked where and why, we were going out? She replied, that, we had doctors appointment!
So, I suggested to go for a bite, and slipped into the conversation, that the doctors was Tuesday, but we could still go out. She, then sat down and told me to make a cuppa!
By then, she asked again what time was the appointment?
I said to her, we could go out, but the appointment was Tuesday!
What day is it?
Thursday I said!
So we don't have to go out?
Not, if you don't want to, but it would be nice to get out in the sunshine.
And while I was doing chores, my beloved went to bed! Without telling me.
Made another brew, carried a few of her things, and fast asleep now!
Another day in paradise!
Cricket, darts tonight (been really good, top seeds crashing!) A bit of golf.
And maybe, three Tory losses in the by elections today!
Have a tremendous Thursday kids are off school!
 
I forgot to post an interesting article I skimmed earlier- long read - and have a link to a piece which suggests Cuba started concentration camps despite a common belief it was the British wot dun it first. Recommended regime post drip is plenty of fluid and take it easy so I guess I'm compelled to drink tea and watch cricket. Tough old gig but orders is orders.
 
Something that was pointed out me when I was holding down a full time job & looking after mum (Alzheimer's) & dad (terminal cancer )

Felt so guilty at first taking a 'day off'....but was the best thing I ever could have done for all our sakes .

Not always practical & in some cases even desirable.

But that respite each week kept me going for the years that followed.

Hope & pray you get the help needed & due to you.

And at such a small cost.
A miniscule amount money wise to the budgets of social care, compared to the costs of full time care offered by many others versus your single handed devotions to your wife's needs, with some respite care to give you those precious moments in time to catch your breathe.
 
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Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and all those forgoing their afternoon nap so they can post their blood sugars otherwise another day will pass without posting, just like what eye is.

Blood sugars Tuesday were 6.5
Wednesday 5.3
And today Thursday 5.3

Have you fellow posters noticed how sometimes life gets in the way, good job it does or your next appointment might be your funeral, what a cheerful thought.
I have not caught up on recent posts, sorry if I have missed anything important, but me, me’s and myself do hope all is Ok.

The vagaries of our Engrish language are playing havoc with my vocabulary and me, me’s and myself keep using other spellings and or meanings in my rightings and conversations. This was a reel problem on Tuesday when I was out on my motorcycle and stopped at a rather upmarket cafe for a vegan bacon sandwich and koffy.

Hand and foot in mouth note, later this afternoon Mrs J is insisting that she trims my beard and shoulder length hair. We shall sea.

Afternoon nap is now calling Loudly.
 
Two very interesting pieces there, Ian. None of the nations of the world have the franchise on inhumanity, it seems. Sad, but true. Also sad is the thought of no more fish and chips. Not that I am able to eat the batter or the chips any more, at least on anything like a regular basis. Wish I could. I did not so long ago, at Inverness airport waiting for a flight around lunch time. And I ate the whole thing! Delicious! Wouldn't do it often though.
 
It's a close run thing Spain was talking about concentration camps in Cuba in about 1895 we were doing it in South Africa in about 1899 so roughly around about the same time.
 
Smashing. Again, wonderful colours and effects. Just reminds me, I need a new hake brush as mine has gone a bit Jackson Pollock.
 
lindisfel said:
Well we have a record, didn't we create the first ones for the Boers in South Africa?
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In North Yorkshire sits the village of Middridge:
“Anglo-Saxon Middridge lasted for five hundred years before being destroyed by the Normans during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North. Those who survived this massacre (and the resulting disease and starvation) were enslaved by the invaders. They were forced by the Bishop of Durham to toil in the surrounding fields as serfs, and forcibly relocated to gloomy huts centred on the village green. The "serfs" eventually gained their freedom and the village green survives to this day, although the housing has improved considerably.”
An early example of a concentration camp which is still just about layed out as it was during that time.
 
20.07
woke at 7.05am. Got up few minutes later, shocked to see it was 8.29am.
8.50am FBG 5.8
Posted my excess cucumbers on a local anti waste site to give away, but sadly everyone interested was too far away. Can see some of them ending up in compost, which seems a waste. Have already taken out two plants to help reduce the glut. Previous years we have had glut of courgettes, so this year reduced planting, and chose a self fertile variety which has been effective, we are just about managing to eat them as they grow. Would be nice if melons were as productive.
 
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