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

Morning all from L.A. where mornings are increasingly like early Autumn .Given the date that surprises no one but Autumn in what may as well be suburbia isn't poetic. You'd have been stumped John. Swipey was all take a 4.9 for your fbg and be gone young sparrow me owl this morning. Trial run for Christmas dinner today as The Little Guy, his sister, #3 son and partner here today. Six hour cooked - 60c as per Heston B - rib of retired dairy beef. Aspirational butcher insists that is what he has for Christmas dinner and reason has prevailed for cooking method. When all 3 boys were at home we had bigger pieces which we cooked overnight that way. @dunelm congratulations to Mr Pickle, and Mrs Miggins on the walk and to LMP for impending birthday. Have a good day everyone.
 
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Thank you @ianpspurs. That rib of beef sounds delicious and hope it lives up to all expectations.
 
7.0 this morning so should soon be back in the 6s.

Finished the Rebus book that I started to read months ago. It has been so lovely to read some fiction for a change rather than text books and the daily newspaper. Oh, hold on, I forgot the daily newspaper is mostly fiction.

Will start the RIchard Osman book later today. We have been catching up with the Dalgliesh detective series and have actually really enjoyed watching it.
 
Sounds like a certain forumite is squating in your head - unless you do read the Torygraph or similar. You're better than that. Don't feed the the trolls
 
Another Morening, thankfully, a reason to be cheerful.

Blood sugars this morning were 4.8, preventative measures have been taken because very shortly me, me’s and myself are going to be very active.

Bank holiday Monday a good day not to travel and for those travelling safe travels.

It is only 9:12am and already Mrs J who has just arisen from her pit / lair has expressed exasperation at my inability to toast my particular bread from frozen, this aligns perfectly with my inability to use the washing machine and idiot box remote control. Life is just to precious to waste time on these tasks.

A question for those who follow named days, like St Egbert the 3rds day, who decides these days? Perhaps next Wednesday could be Susan’s day.

Now I must away, take medication etc etc and keep out from under you know who’s feet / hooves.
 
dunelm said:
Thank you @ianpspurs. That rib of beef sounds delicious and hope it lives up to all expectations.
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Thanks for sharing the sketch - very much as I remember it. JKP has an obvious deep connection to the area in a way I can't and definietly shouldn't pretend to. I can't quite make the leap from her being a Londoner to such a close connection to her dad's birthplace. She did spend summers there as a youngster and always spent time there before we married.She doesn't have the same "feels" for Fen washes and orchards as myself which is totally natural. I can still summon up the smell of this time of year "back home." Effectively, we lived in a clearing in an orchard in the last place so one absolutely "felt" the seasons. Truly blessed. Terroir is a human trait as much as food and wine imho. In theory buying good meat and cooking it sensibly - not overcooking - should be foolproof but Brits have some odd culinary habits.
 
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Great sketch @dunelm
Have a safe trip home...
 
Fbg 6.8

Wildlife nighttime camera
Cat Midnight and the Snail (who is intent on getting to the cat biscuits other side of Midnight)
These cat biscuits are coveted by every creature in my garden...
This footage was sped up many times over, and it took the snail over half an hour to reach those treasure cat biscuits on the other end of the swing behind Midnight.

18 secs


2.5k views in the last few hours...not too bad!!!

Creative - from some soft pastel paintings I did a few years ago. I am reworking them. I also had some Aquarelle Neocolour pastels Caran D'Ache (pastels to add water to), and played with these. So, a sort of pastel mixed media painting.

Quite cool today...

Time for a cuppa...

 
Thank you so much for sharing such an amazing creative. I would never have known it wasn't the work of a top photographer - not sure if that is a compliment or insult in artistic circles but it is meant as a huge compliment. Reminds me of autumn looking out over the fields back home.
 
I agree with Ian, that's an amazing and beautiful creative.
 
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If you can pronounce that place with a long name on Anglesey your one up on me.
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There is other shorter tongue twisters than Llanfairpg....... mate!

6.2 this morning and it is a brighter boring bank holiday Monday, but still on the cool side, with showers and of course a moderate cold breeze. The drowning in the big city illustrates how bad this last week has been!
Still can't give the lawn a haircut and it needs one desperately!
Granddaughter told me off yesterday as it was too long to help her show off! A very determined seven years old lady of potential sporting talent!
Hoping to have a quiet day to rest my back, but chores and Mrs L needs her brew and feeding!

Finished a remarkable scenic, very difficult jigsaw last night. It was of a city scene from a few miles away, the colours and buildings blended with the brown background of the outskirts and the grey skys!

Happy Monday's everyone!
As always my best wishes.
 
Don't tell the locals that it's a bit of a silly name for a place!
 
dunelm said:
There is the Snowdon train and the train round the lake. Don’t know any others, sorry.
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It was used back in the day to transport slate from the slate mines to Porthmadoc.
Obviously, once the majority of mines closed and they built a road through. The locals got together and preserved and maintained the track and brought carriages to bring the tourists in to help with the money!
A very picturesque journey which should interest in some artwork for you @dunelm!
 
Really enjoyed Richard's first three books, characters are interesting!
I have just finished Jodi Taylor's thirteenth(?) outing of St.Mary's chronicles. Everyone a five star read!
If you haven't read the first one, then you are missing something!
 
Oh!

One thing I don't do is try to make a painting look like a photograph (many artists do, and there is an incredible amount of skill and time consuming hours involved).

It looks so obviously like a pastel painting to me.
And unusually I do really like it. It evokes the evening scenes I used to see driving past in the car, when there is no chance of taking a photograph.

I take what you say as a compliment @ianpspurs
Thank you l
 
I read the first of the Richard Osman books and enjoyed it, so I bought the second but, after that I decided I didn't want to read any more - too shallow and too obvious where he is going with his theme. Nevertheless, I bought the third and that confirmed that I don't want to read any more. Sent the books on to my SIL and she agreed. She doesn't want to read a fourth one either.

But, each to his own. Glad if you do enjoy them more than me. It is well established that I have odd tastes in literature and in music.
 
Wonderful piece of art. Smashing.
 
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