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

6.2 pre appointment with diabetic nurse for myself and Mrs L!
Mrs L was in a right kerfuffle all morning. Her misrememberitis was totally in sixth gear for some unknown reason, taxi was booked and at one stage her response to getting ready was going upstairs and getting ready........ For bed! However, and I hate being late, I finally, managed, (yeah, really!) got her coat on and her new trolley ready! I got the impression that I was treading on a fragile floor! Clearly not her favourite thing to go for.
Anyway, we both received very good news, I'm back into normal levels, hba1c 39, yippee! Cholesterol, liver and kidneys, down, everything in or around normal levels range.
I am so chuffed, even my BP, was down, taking into account my issues and frustration through Mrs L! The dsn was impressed!
Mrs L, also had her results, and they too were much better, so I was pleased for her, and seems that my actions in the last six months are working. However, Mrs L didn't take to the dsn, especially after her flu jab! Quite reluctant and asking questions, again and again, asking to go the reception to book the dsn after bloods were taken (they weren't)!
She believes that she has an infection from the last change in meds but was tested and came back negative, but asked again, and at home a couple of hours later.
I had mine as well. Flu jab, I mean.
We both then had our covid jab. In our pharmacy next door to the surgery.
Had fun with taxis, and I needed to chill in the garden!
So I attacked ivy!
However, on this lovely October day, a bit breezy but shouldn't moan! I became tired and I think I have a cold!!!!!
Gonna have my food and take it easy, the arrows on the box and of course footie!

And to top it all off, we have now become a separate part of the country. Only the home counties can now call themselves a part of the country's interest. The rest can detrain and are insignificant!
And I just can't believe the racist rhetoric of our government ministers!

My best wishes to you all as always!

Chuffed to bits!

ianpspurs said:

Morning all from sore Deltoid central - both jabbed yesterday for covid and flu defence, hopefully. Less busy day today with no morning school drop off and only pickup here. Still feeding two grandchildren and their parents. Of course it is a great blessing and joy to see so much of our family and to have the wherewithal to help - thanks be to God. @gennepher thanks for sharing the creative which looks like the outworking of something(s) complex. I hope and pray working through things via that process works for you. @Krystyna23040 I'm glad the central issue of the day has been tackled and @alf_Josiah I'm glad for both of you that the zealot won't be. Enjoy your day - summer wants an encore hereabouts.

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Thank you very much @ianpspurs

dunelm said:

So much detail, a lot of noise in it, people coming out of and disappearing into it. Sparks the imagination.

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Thank you a lot @dunelm

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone from a bit of an overcast outlook this morning in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am and where is this summer standing ovation we are being promised or is this more non-leveling up hype? Sun arrived nicely yesterday so a pleasant walk into town and then a walk back again as I missed the bus - drat! Still, “the sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might”, and I was not in any hurry. Found a chicken carcass in the freezer so made a pot of chicken soup. Also some dangerous looking blueberry biscuits. No, and even the birds have turned their beaks up at them. Don’t you just love clinical trials? Just back from the supermarket, ladened down with essentials and now having a second koffy. Art bit, some colour added. Hope your day is going smooth and steady. If you begin to fall asleep, revert to Black Sabbath or Metallica. Best finish my koffy.


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I think those birds would like to keep their beaks intact @dunelm

Great colouring on your sketch....

Lamont D said:

You can join me tomorrow am doing my back exercise mate! If they work, it can benefits your other issues.
Keep well!

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Thanks Lamont, I have high hopes I can get walking again by end of year.
Best wishes
Derek

Lamont D said:

Stunning!

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Thank you very much @Lamont D

Lamont D said:

6.2 pre appointment with diabetic nurse for myself and Mrs L!
Mrs L was in a right kerfuffle all morning. Her misrememberitis was totally in sixth gear for some unknown reason, taxi was booked and at one stage her response to getting ready was going upstairs and getting ready........ For bed! However, and I hate being late, I finally, managed, (yeah, really!) got her coat on and her new trolley ready! I got the impression that I was treading on a fragile floor! Clearly not her favourite thing to go for.
Anyway, we both received very good news, I'm back into normal levels, hba1c 39, yippee! Cholesterol, liver and kidneys, down, everything in or around normal levels range.
I am so chuffed, even my BP, was down, taking into account my issues and frustration through Mrs L! The dsn was impressed!
Mrs L, also had her results, and they too were much better, so I was pleased for her, and seems that my actions in the last six months are working. However, Mrs L didn't take to the dsn, especially after her flu jab! Quite reluctant and asking questions, again and again, asking to go the reception to book the dsn after bloods were taken (they weren't)!
She believes that she has an infection from the last change in meds but was tested and came back negative, but asked again, and at home a couple of hours later.
I had mine as well. Flu jab, I mean.
We both then had our covid jab. In our pharmacy next door to the surgery.
Had fun with taxis, and I needed to chill in the garden!
So I attacked ivy!
However, on this lovely October day, a bit breezy but shouldn't moan! I became tired and I think I have a cold!!!!!
Gonna have my food and take it easy, the arrows on the box and of course footie!

And to top it all off, we have now become a separate part of the country. Only the home counties can now call themselves a part of the country's interest. The rest can detrain and are insignificant!
And I just can't believe the racist rhetoric of our government ministers!

My best wishes to you all as always!

Chuffed to bits!

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Congratulations on the A1cs. Fantastic news.

@gennepher Suella is my idea of a cat person BEFORE you

ianpspurs said:

@gennepher Suella is my idea of a cat person BEFORE you

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Not a person!
A fascist!

ianpspurs said:

@gennepher Suella is my idea of a cat person BEFORE you

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Am I a cat person?
Or
Am I a dog person?

My early childhood on the farm saw me and my constant dog companion, Sandy, who roamed everywhere with me.
Back at home with my parents, a firm rule of no pets. But I bought a white mouse and it lived under my jumper.
Left home. No pets at lodgings, but got away with cats for years.
Then had own house, so a dog.
Then took in stray cats.
Then had my hearing dog for many years. And more cats.
Hearing Dog died of old age.
Then another hearing dog, Meg, for many years.
Cats got less as got older.
Popeye was my oldest one at nearly 30.
Was never going to have another cat or dog.
Then there were the stray cats.
Then Midnight came along...he rules...

Lamont D said:

You can join me tomorrow am doing my back exercise mate! If they work, it can benefits your other issues.
Keep well!

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What a good idea we all need mutual encouragement.
D.

Lamont D said:

Not a person!
A fascist!

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Are you talking out about Cruella Braville?

ianpspurs said:

Thank you for sharing the art. I like those reds - very much a category error for a Spurs fan - and birds. Blueberry biscuits a tad bland even for the birds? This is a long read with some dubious Penguin Psychology included but since we have had two sets of two canines for about two decades I'm on the writer's side. @gennepher if you ever get the time to read it you may vehemently disagree. Attached is my idea of a cat person. I imagine her stroking one on her lap and cackling soon my precious, soon. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA via The Guardian.
Edit:~ those not that reds

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Ian whatever have you done to Liverpool? Next game they will take their ball back!

I see Cruella had to appologise to all dogs after standing on a guide dog’s tail while making one of her aren’t I a wonderful person videos with a blind person.

Hi all,
Shopping this am, going to Lidl then butchers and trying to get my tablets from pharmacy near doctors. Last time this happened and the Well chemist at the doctor's had no pharmacists, the pharmacist has to drive up each day from Lancashire.
So no dispensing and even no selling of over the counter items this week.

I shall run out of some of my tablets tomorrow.

I think one pharmacy will fail in the town leaving only one when we had three some years ago.
Looks like I may be going cold turkey on my Sertraline.
D.

Newcastle won Paris 4:1 a great result.

JohnEGreen said:

I see Cruella had to appologise to all dogs after standing on a guide dog’s tail while making one of her aren’t I a wonderful person videos with a blind person.

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That would have made a good photo shoot for a Labour party politics ad.
D.

Lamont D said:

6.2 pre appointment with diabetic nurse for myself and Mrs L!
Mrs L was in a right kerfuffle all morning. Her misrememberitis was totally in sixth gear for some unknown reason, taxi was booked and at one stage her response to getting ready was going upstairs and getting ready........ For bed! However, and I hate being late, I finally, managed, (yeah, really!) got her coat on and her new trolley ready! I got the impression that I was treading on a fragile floor! Clearly not her favourite thing to go for.
Anyway, we both received very good news, I'm back into normal levels, hba1c 39, yippee! Cholesterol, liver and kidneys, down, everything in or around normal levels range.
I am so chuffed, even my BP, was down, taking into account my issues and frustration through Mrs L! The dsn was impressed!
Mrs L, also had her results, and they too were much better, so I was pleased for her, and seems that my actions in the last six months are working. However, Mrs L didn't take to the dsn, especially after her flu jab! Quite reluctant and asking questions, again and again, asking to go the reception to book the dsn after bloods were taken (they weren't)!
She believes that she has an infection from the last change in meds but was tested and came back negative, but asked again, and at home a couple of hours later.
I had mine as well. Flu jab, I mean.
We both then had our covid jab. In our pharmacy next door to the surgery.
Had fun with taxis, and I needed to chill in the garden!
So I attacked ivy!
However, on this lovely October day, a bit breezy but shouldn't moan! I became tired and I think I have a cold!!!!!
Gonna have my food and take it easy, the arrows on the box and of course footie!

And to top it all off, we have now become a separate part of the country. Only the home counties can now call themselves a part of the country's interest. The rest can detrain and are insignificant!
And I just can't believe the racist rhetoric of our government ministers!

My best wishes to you all as always!

Chuffed to bits!

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Well done, Lamont.

Fbg 6.7

There was prolonged series of extremely loud noises last night, like maybe ground noise firecrackers going off, for over half an hour. I did think worse at some point, but the police station would have heard it all, and there were no police sirens nor police helicopter. And I do have a text number, because I am deaf, that I can report stuff that is not 999, which I did. So, hopefully some 'organised' thing? There are rifle ranges nearby but they are closed at 5pm.

When I went out out this morning to feed the stray cats, I realised I had left cat and bird food on the swing from during the day, a large bag of cat biscuits, a bag of peanuts, fatballs for the birds. I was restocking earlier on, but I was so tired yesterday I had fallen asleep before dark, and forgot to tidy up.

Nothing was touched. The full bag of catfood was there, the large bag of peanuts unopened...nothing was touched. That is way not normal for either the badgers or foxes. They would have opened the lot, and Pa Badger would have gone back to the sett and brought the rest of his family back to my garden. Checked the sd cards this morning (normally they go in envelopes so when I have time I check them all in sequence so I can post my little videos in sequence, and I re edit them again on the day I post them because they are too long, and because there is usually so much action, I have a couple of weeks of cards and prepared videos, the boring ones get deleted). So it is only in an emergency, or if I think something happened in the night, that I will check that night's video clips.

Nothing on all last night's videos. No fox. No badger. Not even one of my stray cats. Cat Midnight did not go out at all last night. This is not normal. The loud noises had scared him badly or else he knew what it was, and he slept right besides my head on my pillow last night (I'll have to put a clean pillow case on tonight). I couldn't get him to go outside this morning.

So my next thoughts are the badger setts are in the woods behind me...

Last night I went online on the neighbourhood site asking if any one else could hear these noises, no one responded. Usually people do come online when there are noises or police action or something. Nothing this morning either, so I am hoping it's some kind of 'celebration' people knew about.

Anyway, the nighttime wild life video (as I said above, from a few weeks ago) is Ma & Pa Badger greet each other.
17 secs


Creative is an acrylic painting I did in the garage.
I looked at it this morning, and started working in it with my silhouette app, and Procreate, but an hour later I deleted all my workings, and am posting it just as it was painted, except I put it in Snapseed and used the the FadedGlow filter ...

Time for my nap.
Time for another coffee.
Time to make a cuppa tea.
But I feel like having breakfast first...

Have your best day...

Lamont D said:

From my own experience and of course being nosey, there cannot be a specific recipe, regardless of where, tho irish, welsh, Vikings and every other tribe you could possibly argue, it is a derivitive from old history. Scouse comes from the pot of food, a kind of stew. Which is cooked over an open fire simmering for ever! Anything edible was put in it depending on seasons or availability and added until it was eaten or spoilt.
it wasn't particularly a meat stew, like most are, a vegan variety was used when meat was scarce, and from folklore, the irish, puts loads of spuds in.
And from memory, if there was meat used, there would be a second pot for a bone broth, a thin gruel, with added vegetables.
Everyone was told, that the marrow, wasn't only good for dogs, but beneficial for our health as well!
But I take that with a pinch of salt, which had to be added to most stews, soups, broth!

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Ah, perpetual stew. Keep the temperature right and it will last forever. Also used in hostelries arround the world since the invention of the wheel. when i worked in East Africa, the truck drivers and crews had one. It had been on the go for several years and topped up every morning with whatever was going - delicious but don’t look too closely. Like chicken feet in a Gurkha Baht, some parts of goat are more prized than others.