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

What a disappointment for you Gennepher. Maybe breakfast isn't their thing and they would be better later in the day. Don't imagine that you'll bother trying them again though.

What you are describing about the roads is just plain confusing - another example of people in authority not aware of, or caring about, how the people who vote them into office will cope. I don't blame you for not wanting to travel on those roads until they get it sorted out. Are the English, these days, so thick that they can't read a road sign giving a speed limit for a section of road? I don't know, not having been in England for so long, but not so if contributors to this thread are anything to go by.

Liking the photo.
 
Thanks @Annb for the photo compliment

I do not get the logic of those in authority...
 
My old infant and junior school which was refurbished in the early nineties because the Victorian age building needed demolishing. Only six years ago, half of the new building was not fit for purpose, because of the flat roof structure. This was addressed paid for out of the council and raising money, the government declined money, and because it was used for poor children in a poor area. It only got a brief mention on the local radio news. Of course this was exacerbated by the decision by the government decisions to stop the rebuild schools programme in the first year of the new Tory government in 2010!
 
Are the English, these days, so thick that they can't read a road sign giving a speed limit for a section of road? I don't know, not having been in England for so long, but not so if contributors to this thread are anything to go by.
If English contributors here don't seem too thick some of our senior politicians leave something to be desired
 

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6.9 this morning before a phone call for another assessment for the wife next week.
this is because those that decide yeah or nay for our bathroom improvement have now decided they need to try other mechanical assistant to bathe!
I am livid!
The wife is in tears!
of course it's down to funding, but it's not as if in the past decade since her court case, why she needs more proof that she is disabled to get the shower unit! Just how more disabled does she need to be?
A really beautiful day today!
but for some reason, I cannot enjoy it!
lawn needs cutting but it won't happen.
I just can't believe it!

My best wishes to you all as always.
 
You might nod in agreement with this. If only it wasn't so serious and dangerous
Interesting comment, likely spot on too

Too many glib lies from the right hand....
Until the left hand finds out and outs the lie .


On a salient note re 'truth'

This, from the same link I think is worthy of a wider read.


And from what I read re COVID 2.whatever....(a more apt name, from how behaviour changed )

In the majority of sufferers its almost unnoticed, and only once past, does it's true damage become apparent.
 
8.1 at 3 am today. Currently 7.4.

Busy day coming up today - cleaner should be coming to do the floors about 10 am and I have an appointment (6 monthly) at the medical clinic at 2.30.

Neil has been told that his Crohn's consultant wants him down in Glasgow for a colonoscopy soon. Bit of a problem for him since he refuses to have photographic ID so he won't be allowed to fly. He could drive, but he's not all that confident about the car's ability to do the trip. Being stubborn is all very well but in today's world it just doesn't work. It could, of course, be done in Stornoway, but the Glasgow hospital doesn't seem to trust the work done here in our hospital.
 
Hi Ann,
I doubt whether an hospital on the Island sees very much Crohn's disease, far better to have it done at a teaching hospital where real experts in the particular disease are resident.
A lot of non medical people, even those well educated, are ignorant that standards are not equivalent throughout the health service.
I hope he finds a way to Glasgow.
Best wishes
Derek
 
Fbg 7.9
That was that bad breakfast yesterday, and I only ate a bit of it...the fried egg, tomatoes (which had been microwaved), and the bacon which was over crispy. Then I realised the fat was old so stopped eating...


I wanted to know after yesterday with the the problems I had with the speed limit unpredictable variability in Wales at the moment.
How does sat nav know the speed limit?

So I googled.
"Speed limit information (SLI) systems inform the driver of the current speed limit by displaying it on the dashboard and/or navigation system. SLI uses cameras to recognise road signs or use speed-limit data from the navigation system."

Now the reason I ask this, is the where the 20mph sign has been taken completely down on one side of the road at one school, the speed limit on my sat nav is 30mph. But coming back on the same road, the 20 mph sign remains, and for that side of the road, my sat nav still shows the speed limit at 20mph.

This suggests to me that my car uses cameras or some such to recognise the speed limits from road signs actually on the road for its built in sat nav.

So all this removal, willy nilly at random, of the 20mph road signs pre the 20mph day of 17 Sept in Wales was a dangerous thing to do, especially outside schools. And also totally unnecessary because according to what I have read, the councils have something like 3 to 5 years to remove the unnecessary/surplus 20 mph signs which are outside schools etc. That does not have to be done yet. And the upshot of doing that action has meant traffic now drives past schools at 30 mph (because that is what their sat nav now shows the current speed limit is there) where there are no 20mph signs now, and I get impatient drivers beeping me and tailgating and overtaking me for doing 20mph past schools where there is now an absence of 20mph signs.

I have been googling how to put the speed limit warnings on google maps on my phone. Just set it up. Now I need to fix it to my dashboard (before I go out next) so I can see it easily when I am driving. Whatever system my phone uses to gauge the current speed limits, it will not be dependent on car cameras reading road signs...and I can see if the two different systems corroborate each other or not where the 20mph road signs have been removed.

Sorry, but this is really bugging me...


Wildlife camera
Badgers grooming each other
15 seconds


Creative is a photo of a beautifully scented rose in my garden...

Have a good day

Time for a cuppa coffee!


 
Winner for sorting out your own system for identifying speed limits and for that lovely rose. That is one plant that grows very well here and our bushes at present are covered in blooms. There will be lots of fruits in a while for the birds to enjoy.
 
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