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

I'm so glad our car is an old one. It has its problems but not with technology. We don't even have a Satnav on it, preferring to trust maps and road signs. When you look at a map of our Island on Google, it places us about 2 miles away along some narrow (one way) roads. Same with quite a lot of Google maps I have seen. My brother tells me he has a lot of trouble with his Satnav, although he has used one for years and keeps on using it. It can't cope with road closures for whatever reason and seems to come up with some pretty stupid ideas for alternatives.
 
Thanks Ian
 
Google maps are not the best...they do come up with inappropriate ideas for alternatives....
 
BG at 4.45 am was 8.9. Tea, painkillers, doze. BG at 7.00 was 7.9. More tea. Shower with bandages taken off (it's rebandaging day today, so I can unbind my legs and have a proper shower), weigh-in - ouch another pound gained! 9 am, more painkillers and more tea. Have to eat something soon - stomach making noises, objecting to being so empty and I have to go out in less than an hour for the rebandaging. Trying to empty the big freezer so I took out a couple of unidentifiable packets of 2 different kinds of soup (one green and one kind of orange) to have later but probably a mushroom omelette now.

This new counting calorie regime is already being a problem because I am trying to up the calorie count without upping the carb count. Hence the gain in weight, I think.

Now the Libre is bleeping at me, so I'd better see what it wants.

It's telling me that my BG is now 10.7 and I should do something about it. Insulin and breakfast, I think, is the order of the morning.
 
Hi Ian. No3 girl (child4 to family) arrived safely but earlier than scheduled causing a bit of a kerfuffle, slightly shaky start, so in intensive care couple of days, now home and doing better.
 
6.9 this morning. I went on to Fasthosts, my email provider and they were brilliant. Initially they were puzzled by the issue but they then worked out that the reason I was blocked was because I used the word payment in my group emails. So I substituted class fees for the word payment and bt internet did not block the emails. All I have to do next month is to remember that I cannot use the P word in my group emails.
 
The policy of dumping is an option which exacerbates any other cause!
my local area suffers from industrial pollution from further up towards Stockport Manchester area!
I remember the sewage system being diverted thirty or more years ago!
Which under EU ruling, cleaned up the river!
Since brexit, the sewage is back!

6.6 this am. Meter readings day, hmmmpmh! Gardening nearly done, a break in the weather, but missed the blue moon. Too cloudy! The heating came on automatically again. Summer is promised for the weekend, well, a possibility of maybe, could be, might get above a poor summers twenty degrees! We shall see!

Chores done, no shopping, gonna relax a bit after a busy morning, Gardening to do, food to prepare, life goes on!
My best wishes to you all as always!
 
Do not plan your journeys on an older than a few years satnav! The horror of not finding roads is frustrating!
And it costs to upgrade, shocking!
I learned to use my iPhone, but we had a super duper sat nav installed in my last season before covid!
Until recently, we never had anything but new cars, and if in doubt, your dealer has to sort it! Modern vehicles are designed not to mess about with. Gone are the days when you could tinker with them!
 
There's something odd happening with the birdlife on this island and I don't think it has anything to do with local pollution. Our sewage goes through a large kind of septic tank down by the shore. From there, relatively clean water is pumped out to sea. The same system is used all over the Island. It's not an ideal system, but better than pumping raw sewage directly out to sea. Our rivers are not in the right positions for any waste to be discharged into them. The land is not, in general, adulterated with chemicals because we mostly only grow grass for a few sheep; there are no factories to speak of - just a few mills. Nevertheless, our bird population has been drastically reduced. We used to see all sorts of birds from our windows but now it is just a few crows, a few starlings, a few sparrows and a family of greylag geese (about 8 of them). The occasional heron visits from the nesting site in Stornoway and there is a blackbird skulking around occasionally. The swans have stopped coming, the lapwings have disappeared, no more shrikes, even the corncrakes seem to have given up, no waxwings eating the berries from our cotoneasters. No idea what has happened unless it is something to do with climate changing and causing their food sources to dry up.
 
Hug for the driving hassle.

A marvelous for helping a friend.

& A winner for the sunset pic
 
My brother's Satnav is one that came with his new car just the week before the lockdown in 2020. He hardly drove it because of the lockdown and then he had his heart surgery and is only now feeling strong enough to drive any distance. So his car is as good as new, although it is 3 years old now. It manafged to take him all over the contryside when he was going from Swindon to Lancing (roadworks screwed everything up).
 
While on the subject of technology....

Informative, and an early heads up for any using Tele care services, maybe ..mmhh

How will the landline phone switch work and what do you need to do?

The old copper phone network will be switched off in 2025 and phones will instead use the internet to make calls. That doesn't mean you have to only use a mobile phone - but there are some changes coming. Here's what you need to know.
news.sky.com
 
Lovely veggies @SlimLizzy
 
Oh dear, I have a sinking feeling.
 
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