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

lindisfel said:
Life is short Ann it's hard getting a job after 50,
I got three but I had a special skill set.
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Neil has lots of skills that he has taught himself. Plenty of academic ones and quite a few practical ones (electronics, languages, computing, plumbing, mechanics, building, art, sciences, music amongst them) but no bits of paper to tell an employer he can do them. He repairs things for people, he manages a web page for a local artist and he does his best to take care of his old mum. It doesn't pay very well, but he's quite content with his lot.
 
lindisfel said:
I never realised there were people poorer than us!
Everybody had a job, only the work shy really didn't work, my dad went to work on the Excavator Test when he was dying of cancer, he had guts.
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lindisfel said:
I am afraid one has to have a work round if one wants to earn a living in society. One is empoyed on the employer's terms or you go without. It was known as self discipline when we were young.
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Two things I found out into my working life. My dad couldn't do much, because of the after effects of double malaria, which the debilitating effects with which he died with in his early sixties. So he moved jobs quite regularly. But he eventually learned to get a sitting job with the council. This was in his last couple of years and got promoted, he was always active in bowls. My mum worked in a factory. Unstable income, big family, we struggled.
In my early teen years I became aware of some charity work close and was introduced to so.done who had had amputations and another with multiple disabilities including as you have mentioned thalidomide.
This opened my eyes into how poverty was because someone didn't want to work but incapable.
The idiots at the top, think we all work in offices 9-5 and have holidays etc.
I am one that has worked all my life, not in an office, on the shop floor, actually making the products.
But your statement that everyone should work, cannot be possible on more levels than is acceptable in a modern society.
 
Annb said:
I really think your garden must be some kind of paradise, with all the birds and cats living happily side by side and even allowing foxes and badgers not to faze them. Like the sketched trees. Very like my own trees at the moment.
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Thank you @Annb
It does feel like an amenable place for these different creatures.
Thanks for the trees compliment...
 
6.0 this day, maybe cos I never ate much yesterday and never a good night.
Migraine after headache is still annoyance, but feel a little better.
Not done as much as usual, Mrs L has taken a bit of sympathy, only a bit, mind you!
Switching on the arrows for some entertainment and click to the footie.
I am tired.

So I will get back later.

From the day I left school until March '20, I was employed. That is just over fifty years in work.
My wife worked when not pregnant until her disability in 2010, and we never claimed anything!

So when we need to get financial and social care. Why have the government gone missing?
It is because, the rules say because of my private pension, I can do this!
It isn't!
Because of certain circumstances, we are, because of everything costing more, and the increases in income is not high enough to help with it. We are slowly once again on that slippery slope.
I believed that my pension that I put in so much would help us retire with plenty to enjoy it.
It's not!
My private pension pays most but not all of my bills, and we need my government pension to pay the rest. Her P.I.P, is our food money and the few bits for the kids and grandkids birthdays and chrimbo.

This is existing, not living!
And we are a lot more fortunate that many, many others!
 
Thanks for sharing the latest art and take it easy with the walking.
 
lindisfel said:
Yes it would be terrible for her!
@dunelm. It started in Longtown.
I remember seeing a big herd of Friesians on the road side to Silloth all killed where they stood in the farmers yard near the road. Poor things must have been frightened.
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That's awful....
 
dunelm said:
Must have been windy last night as the incoming tide delivered gifts of pebbles and bits of wood.

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I love to hunt for things on the beach especially after a storm. I have started making jewellery again using glass and things I have found on my travels. They call it recycling, something I have done for donkeys!
 
We had a paraffin heater in our bathroom, heated the room up a treat. Was like the Baltics getting to the bathroom and the Baltics coming out! Sash windows, tall ceilings, no central heating just two storage heaters in the living room that took 2 days to heat up and then we would scorch our backs and bottoms on! Frost on the insides of the windows and that was despite using the shutters. Going to bed dressed as it was so cold! Good wholesome memories, so different now.
 
We had Aladdin heaters in the Army. We called them kero heaters as the issue fuel was kerosene (same stuff - kerosene, paraffin, aviation fuel). If you unscrewed the lid it became a stove and if you wrapped four pieces of wire over the lidless heater it became a toaster. Everyone had it configured as a toaster - splendid back notes when making processed cheese and tinned ham toasties.


 
Lamont you misquote me.

If one is sick, or is impaired so they cannot work, they should be looked after by the state.
If we make not working a lifestyle choice then it's up to us, we may have relatives we can sub on if we are rich but most British families won't be subbed on
They can't afford it.
There are those with mental issues after war they served their state and need supporting.

My mother was poor she didn't get hand outs and had R.A at an early age. She did some work for her well healed sister. She was in her thirties when my dad died and lost what she called her bread winner.
Before I got married she expected me to give her half my income and it was half my available cash when when I was a qualified electrician in a gas works. My mother spent all the money my dad left my sister and I for our educations. My sister should have gone to art school.
I made out but I had day release as an apprentice at Tech College and got an HNC in Elec Eng, latterly I use to study for my final exams in the Gas house toilets in an afternoon after I finished my assigned work.

I got a job as a Direct Entry Transmitter Engineer and quickly doubled my income from what it was as an electrician, but we had to agree to go anywhere in the UK, but the duchess was not as homesick as I was.
After a few years I was promoted, but being a manager was not for me I liked working in the field. I retired at 50 due to having to work nights and it was made available to me cos I trained staff.

I got a job working on hospital linacs and was soon promoted. I retired at 60.

My two girls both got degrees and are well rounded out people.
D.
 
I use 28 sec korosene in my oil boiler.
 
Have had a special afternoon in deep conversation with #8. He was informing me about his cars, the engines, especially Percy. Mickey mouse the duck and cats and dogs. In between licks of a lollipop. It was a sticky situation. With loud shouts of grandee, he interrupted my box viewing.
#7 has more certificates from school for maths and performed her latest routine of floorwork which included a flic-flac and splits! Impressive!
#6 has also received certificates and praise for his maths and music. His first term in big school has been good for him so far. It's a shame he and my daughter live a away from us. Do miss them but always on the phone.

Still feeling rough and tired, early to bed after the arrows final.

Around here and many other areas in the big industrial centres, not that there is much now! Someone has described out industrial heritage as a wasteland. The financial and services industries are the main tax gathering economies, the slow, export of our major industrial manufacturing sector, has been demolished by successive Tory governments until 2010, when it has since grown substantially. And no doubts put their cap on it and pocketed it.

I remember around here, two of my brothers were city and guild electricians. Lost their jobs, as did a whole generation after the eighties and it has happened again with this lot. There is no young jobs, there is very little future in finding secure employment, not only for those without further education or job prospects.

The waste is criminal and of course many still living with parents, cannot afford the rent, no chance of a mortgage! It is no wonder the birth rate is plummeting, and the average death age has dropped for the first time in over a hundred and fifty years!

Merseyside, even the more affluent areas has no Tory Mps. We know why!
High unemployment and no prospect of a decent wage, is a recipe for rampant poverty. An ideology of our conservatives for the past fifty years. It is deliberate and a criminal act in some of my peers views from working in a multinational.

People not economics.

However, on the sleaze tour of our beloved pm. Apparently, allegedly, he has used his hedge fund, during his years as chancellor to invest millions in a certain pharmacy multinational, who coincidently, were offered the contract to supply meds, including the covid and flu jabs that we depended on. And because, he hasn't declared an interest in the parliamentary record, and is one of the reasons, he hasn't submitted his WhatsApp messages to the enquiry, allegedly, allegedly.!!!

How could anyone vote for these criminals?

My best wishes to you all as always.
Rant over.
 
Life is rich Lamont with even one grandson like your little bundle of happiness. D
 
I was speaking to a guy the other day said his boy (young man actually) who would soon be 18 wouldn't conform to the schools rules on not wearing hoodies.

In fact his dad had a call from the school asking him not let him come to the school in an hoody again

The lad knew he shouldn't do it but chose to disobey. It is a good school but rules have to be kept and he was stupid to do something that could get him thrown out.
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