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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wet and rainy time warp start in the dark and dangerous north. the pumpkin hunters scooped out the ‘brains’ from their pumpkins this morning and after drawing on their designs, I cut them out with a sharp serrated tomato knife - just the ticket. The pumpkin seeds have been cleaned and are now in a low oven, drying out. Languages. I get by in English and also German, French (but not Parisian French) and Swahili. French, like English changes depending upon where you are with Toulouse allegedly being the purest ‘school’ type. I have one brother who speaks very good French, Spanish and Swahili. Another speaks two Dutch dialects, North Holland and the Dutch/Belgian Limburgish where he lives. My sister taught business English to French business people but the greatest linguist in or family are my parents who, having lived in France for going on 30 years, have the most marvelous way of speaking whole sentences in a melange of strangeness. Art bit, quick sketch of a tree and some birds. Hope your day is moving along swimmingly - our street is a chuckling brook! Best not drink any more koffy.


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Sounds as though the pumpkins are coming along nicely.
Great sketch of tree and birds @dunelm
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wet and rainy time warp start in the dark and dangerous north. the pumpkin hunters scooped out the ‘brains’ from their pumpkins this morning and after drawing on their designs, I cut them out with a sharp serrated tomato knife - just the ticket. The pumpkin seeds have been cleaned and are now in a low oven, drying out. Languages. I get by in English and also German, French (but not Parisian French) and Swahili. French, like English changes depending upon where you are with Toulouse allegedly being the purest ‘school’ type. I have one brother who speaks very good French, Spanish and Swahili. Another speaks two Dutch dialects, North Holland and the Dutch/Belgian Limburgish where he lives. My sister taught business English to French business people but the greatest linguist in or family are my parents who, having lived in France for going on 30 years, have the most marvelous way of speaking whole sentences in a melange of strangeness. Art bit, quick sketch of a tree and some birds. Hope your day is moving along swimmingly - our street is a chuckling brook! Best not drink any more koffy.


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Look like Rooks pitch falling, a sign of a coming storm.J Mead Faulkner mentions it in his book Moonfleet.
 
7.1 this morning. Mr K is definitely improving. He is much more his normal self today. I am trying to stop him overdoing things. Hopefully I will be successful.

I have two very puzzled Labradors demanding their lunch. My explanation about clocks going back has fallen on deaf ears so I have given them one of their treat biscuits to stave off their hunger for another hour.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
7.1 this morning. Mr K is definitely improving. He is much more his normal self today. I am trying to stop him overdoing things. Hopefully I will be successful.

I have two very puzzled Labradors demanding their lunch. My explanation about clocks going back has fallen on deaf ears so I have given them one of their treat biscuits to stave off their hunger for another hour.
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I think I need a treat as well @Krystyna23040
 
Good Afternoon, well me, me’s and myself think it’s afternoon, but being of a non caring nature I don’t really care, the marking of time is artificial unless it involves my 10:30 cup of tea, the tea is the constant the time the variable.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.6 .

All the chatter on this fred about languages, spoken and written makes me think what an erudite group you all are, perhaps if I didn’t choose thuggery, taking without consent, practical house breaking and safe blowing as options and chosen more akademic options I might understand what is being written about.

I must now go and clean up my jemmy bar.

Stay dry if you can and also safe.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Wildlife nighttime videos
Cat Jade's night ~ she had jumped to the back of the swing when the badger had begun rocking it.
42secs

Midnight has been spending most of his time this last week being attached to me like glue while I have been ill, and has hardly been outside at at all.


Creative...two owls, inspired by Lin Fengmian...
I am enjoying doing these owls.

I need a quick Power Nap. Then try and do something...

Have your best day.

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Smashing owls, all paired up for twitting and twooing. I like this style
 
Krystyna23040 said:
7.1 this morning. Mr K is definitely improving. He is much more his normal self today. I am trying to stop him overdoing things. Hopefully I will be successful.

I have two very puzzled Labradors demanding their lunch. My explanation about clocks going back has fallen on deaf ears so I have given them one of their treat biscuits to stave off their hunger for another hour.
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Would it be 7 hours for Labradores?
 
5.7 this new dark age of the annual back turning clock Olympiad.
Where did that come from? Or is it because of the Sabbath of christians?
I might upset Derek but I do not label myself as anything but me.
My belief in religion, left me quite young, it didn't apply to me. I couldn't believe in a church that was made up by a king because he needed something that he couldn't get from the religion he was following!
The head of that church now, is someone who has been given it because he was the oldest male.
Why does the majority of country's have its own religion?
They can't all be right?
I have seen too much to believe in a mythical superior being that created everything!
If it was a diety, how could it allow so much suffering?

Those owls look a bit surprised @gennepher?

I requested that Mrs L help me with organising the list for Christmas. And her reply was. We can do it on the weekend. I then explained what day it was whilst turning the fifth clock back! Why are you doing that on a Sunday in Augusr?
It is just not funny!
Youngest son arrived to watch footie. No grandkids! So off to finish the garden. A bit of de-grassing and trimming of my front bushes needed for this time in four weeks. For the annual mini light show.
Trying to fit it all in with darts, footie, cricket and chores to do!

My best wishes to you all as always.
 
Lamont D said:
5.7 this new dark age of the annual back turning clock Olympiad.
Where did that come from? Or is it because of the Sabbath of christians?
I might upset Derek but I do not label myself as anything but me.
My belief in religion, left me quite young, it didn't apply to me. I couldn't believe in a church that was made up by a king because he needed something that he couldn't get from the religion he was following!
The head of that church now, is someone who has been given it because he was the oldest male.
Why does the majority of country's have its own religion?
They can't all be right?
I have seen too much to believe in a mythical superior being that created everything!
If it was a diety, how could it allow so much suffering?

Those owls look a bit surprised @gennepher?

I requested that Mrs L help me with organising the list for Christmas. And her reply was. We can do it on the weekend. I then explained what day it was whilst turning the fifth clock back! Why are you doing that on a Sunday in Augusr?
It is just not funny!
Youngest son arrived to watch footie. No grandkids! So off to finish the garden. A bit of de-grassing and trimming of my front bushes needed for this time in four weeks. For the annual mini light show.
Trying to fit it all in with darts, footie, cricket and chores to do!

My best wishes to you all as always.
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The clocks being changed every so often was because the powers-that-be (or were at the time) wanted us to be able to trade with Europe and decided to fall in with their hours and never mind that old-fashioned idea of Greenwich Meantime (ie when the sun is actually overhead at noon somewhere in the UK - Greenwich as it happens). So we now have British Summer Time when we match up better to office hours in Europe but we can have our old GMT back when it is dark most of the day up here in the north.

As far as a deity allowing so much suffering goes, I reckon that, if we have been given the free will to run our own world, then we run our own world and we get what we deserve. No God makes us inflict harm or warfare on others, we do that ourselves, or the people we choose to allow to govern us do. It's sad that so many of us can't see the dangers in what our elected, or non-elected leaders do before it's too late and we are forced into situations we don't want to be involved in, or have done in our name. Maybe the whole world needs a better system of government or even a better structure for the Grand Debating Chamber that is the UN.

Hope you get done all you wanted to do in the garden and the rain holds off. At least you can relax a little while working at that and your son is in the house.
 
Lamont D said:
5.7 this new dark age of the annual back turning clock Olympiad.
Where did that come from? Or is it because of the Sabbath of christians?
I might upset Derek but I do not label myself as anything but me.
My belief in religion, left me quite young, it didn't apply to me. I couldn't believe in a church that was made up by a king because he needed something that he couldn't get from the religion he was following!
The head of that church now, is someone who has been given it because he was the oldest male.
Why does the majority of country's have its own religion?
They can't all be right?
I have seen too much to believe in a mythical superior being that created everything!
If it was a diety, how could it allow so much suffering?

Those owls look a bit surprised @gennepher?

I requested that Mrs L help me with organising the list for Christmas. And her reply was. We can do it on the weekend. I then explained what day it was whilst turning the fifth clock back! Why are you doing that on a Sunday in Augusr?
It is just not funny!
Youngest son arrived to watch footie. No grandkids! So off to finish the garden. A bit of de-grassing and trimming of my front bushes needed for this time in four weeks. For the annual mini light show.
Trying to fit it all in with darts, footie, cricket and chores to do!

My best wishes to you all as always.
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FYI re clock changes. Blame William Willett . Anyone else remember the brief period when the clocks didn't change in Autumn? Made precious difference in my part of East Anglia but I assume it did further north.
 
Lamont D said:
5.7 this new dark age of the annual back turning clock Olympiad.
Where did that come from? Or is it because of the Sabbath of christians?
I might upset Derek but I do not label myself as anything but me.
My belief in religion, left me quite young, it didn't apply to me. I couldn't believe in a church that was made up by a king because he needed something that he couldn't get from the religion he was following!
The head of that church now, is someone who has been given it because he was the oldest male.
Why does the majority of country's have its own religion?
They can't all be right?
I have seen too much to believe in a mythical superior being that created everything!
If it was a diety, how could it allow so much suffering?

Those owls look a bit surprised @gennepher?

I requested that Mrs L help me with organising the list for Christmas. And her reply was. We can do it on the weekend. I then explained what day it was whilst turning the fifth clock back! Why are you doing that on a Sunday in Augusr?
It is just not funny!
Youngest son arrived to watch footie. No grandkids! So off to finish the garden. A bit of de-grassing and trimming of my front bushes needed for this time in four weeks. For the annual mini light show.
Trying to fit it all in with darts, footie, cricket and chores to do!

My best wishes to you all as always.
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I have all those questions and ten thousand more besides but I still believe. I believe in a person who died for me and I never get upset because someone believes differently to me.

It was a tongue in cheek comment I made about agnostics and atheists.:) but there are things that religions and politicians do that abuse mankind and some who serve those systems would love it to be different.
I can walk into any church and feel all Christians are my brothers.
Shalom to you my friend .
Derek
 
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ianpspurs said:
FYI re clock changes. Blame William Willett . Anyone else remember the brief period when the clocks didn't change in Autumn? Made precious difference in my part of East Anglia but I assume it did further north.
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Yes - I imagine many of us do remember when we were all using GMT to fix the time. Not that noon was the same throughout the UK - apparently the train network couldn't cope with everyone having their own local time as noon progressed from east to west. Ships set their chronometers by the dropping of the ball at Greenwich so they could find their way around the world. (I watched Tom set the clocks on a ship in the Thames as the Greenwich ball dropped and visited the observatory to see the brass strip marking the meridian. Had a very instructive hour - Tom loved to teach about how navigation and time were linked.)

Here in the north (not all that far from the Arctic Circle really), Em will, from tomorrow onwards, go to school in the dark and come to me in the twilight after school. I suspect that, now that her mum is working at a nearby Primary School, she will go by car in the mornings since DIL's school starts 20 minutes after Em's. Next year, she will be on the bus going to school in Stornoway and it will be pitch dark both ways.

Many people here suffer from SAD due to the long weeks of darkness but, really, it doesn't make much difference what time the clock says it is - dark in the morning and dark in the evening and dangerous to children on foot both times. More so because there is little street lighting off the main roads and few pavements on narrow roads around the villages. Changing clocks don't do much for farmers either - animals are pretty set in their ways and cows need milking when they need milking, work on the land has to be done as and when conditions allow.
 
lindisfel said:
They had double summer time in the War.
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Despite having heard several lectures on the subject from my navigator husband, I could never see why we bothered changing the clocks. Why couldn't we just get up at an appropriate time whatever the clock said, and go to bed when ready, not according to the clock? Time was, people worked during the daylight hours - perhaps extended by some kind of lamplight - and rested or slept during the dark hours. Wouldn't do in this modern world, I don't suppose.
 
Annb said:
Despite having heard several lectures on the subject from my navigator husband, I could never see why we bothered changing the clocks. Why couldn't we just get up at an appropriate time whatever the clock said, and go to bed when ready, not according to the clock? Time was, people worked during the daylight hours - perhaps extended by some kind of lamplight - and rested or slept during the dark hours. Wouldn't do in this modern world, I don't suppose.
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I see difficulties in getting teenagers up early enough and getting young children to bed early enough when it's really light in summer.
 
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