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

Oh enjoy the utter wonder of festooning (not the bags round the eye type though). Dark matter - I think that those that are in the know, just don’t know but do know what it isn’t. It doesn’t seem to play with magnets though.
 
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Time is not a constant, my 10:30am cup of tea, the tea is the constant, time is the variable.
 
I was once tasked with applying my improvement in knowledge when a teacher introduced study's of the bible to our lacking in being in church a lot, well hardly. The teacher believed it would improve our understanding of our C of E religious church. Improve attendance for Sunday school but the main reason was Christmas carols and Christmas stuff and of course, girls!
So I started reading to cover my backside from being questioned. However the story telling was stilted and drawn out.
I got to the chapters in who begets somebody else who begets somebody else, who begets somebody else etc and so on, et al.
So being a curious little blighter, I asked the teacher what begets mean. I assumed that it meant, that it was like wrestling, cos the Romans and Greeks did it and whoever was left at the end, was the champion.
I also had heard, about a French beget. Apparently, I had heard that it was long piece of French bread, meant for breakfast!
So putting two and two together, this begetting was a fight with French breakfast bread, hitting each other.
That is what we came up with in the Christmas choir, and to discuss it with our classmates including the young ladies.I
How our teacher, dispelled such thoughts was really disappointing.
Procreation wasn't creation????
 
Oh enjoy the utter wonder of festooning (not the bags round the eye type though). Dark matter - I think that those that are in the know, just don’t know but do know what it isn’t. It doesn’t seem to play with magnets though.
Isn't dark matter the result of eating liquorice the night before, or a night in the Guinness?
 
Now you will never get that image out of your head @Lamont D
Just for you...
 
Time is a man made convention to make our lives run more smoothly but it is a relative thing. At my age, everything is faster because I am relating it to the 78 years I have experienced. Every minute, every hour even, passes in a flash. But that is only the chronological time. In my REAL time the last 78 years have only gone by at about 1/3 of normal speed because I know that in myself I am only 26.

I do lose track of days but have fixed that problem. I get Neil to make calendar sheets for me. Each month is a separate A3 sheet with large squares for each day. This gets fixed to the fridge with magnetic strips and there is one little blue magnet which I move every morning so I can always check which day it is. Plus all appointments are in view all the time and are much more difficult to forget.
 
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Brilliant!
Mrs L would love one of them.
It would go amongst the fridge magnets from red light district that her sister and others have visited. But not the one in Antwerp! Oops!
 
I saw this and couldn't reply at the time.

Actually for ringers who ring birds the wing formulae is somewhat important because they migrate south more, due to cold winters.
The ringers measure their primary wing feather length because they are longer in Scandinavian birds due to longer migrations. But many still reach the UK in winter birders can't usually separate them in the field.

One should remember the feathers on a bird are not like fur, they move dynamically, if they are cold they fluff then up and look fatter, males change the movement of feathers in display. Etc.
Their weight gives some idea of their state of health.
Perching birds all have a similar moult and feather sequence.
A young Robin for example after fledging has juvenile plumage all spotted and brown and moults into first winter after getting it's red breast and is ready to breed after one year after hatching which is known as first summer.

Similar with blackbirds the males go through juvenile and first yr progression and all adult males get a eye ring and yellow bill when they move into first summer and breed as adults.
The other birds that seem to have dark bills, may be females, immature males and immature females.
I have been a birder since my youth and it has been a major interest.

Even skilled birders make a lot of mistakes especially with raptors.
D.
 
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All the best with any drive in this weather.
It was so foggy - freezing fog is what the weather man called it. I was so pleased that I took up Mr K's offer to drive me into work.

Luckily I checked my post and was able to correct it before posting it.
Predictive text had changed it to:-
'It was so fight - freezing dog is what the weather man called it.'.
 
I was so pleased when he decided to sorn his motorcycle, especially as in Norfolk the standard of driving has really gone downhill lately.

He was riding his Triumph earlier this year when he had a near miss with a car coming out of a petrol station. Further up the road he pulled alongside the car at the traffic lights and asked the driver why she hadn't checked the road was clear before pulling out. He was quite shocked when she said that she never bothered to look when she pulled out into the road.
 
Really good that your doctor has diagnosed what is wrong. Good that you worked out how to take the single dose supplement.
 
I must ask, Where is the enigmatic smile?
Can only see the grin on the cats face!
Only seen a cat as black as that in Bewitched???
Don't use your spellchecker!
Ha!
Aww ..the lovely Samantha....
And who can forget "I dream of genie"
& Did I mention aunt Zelda..xxx

Lauren 'thinks' she has witchy powers...(not so sure she doesn't, mind)

Omg, am I alone in noticing a theme, ....mmhh.

Yep, Such a sucker for a witch ....

And as for black cats, Sabrina's wins for me
 
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Never really been into looking at birds, but I gave a win for the clear passion that shines through in your post.

Think I'll pay a little more attention to them now, because of you.

Respect.
 
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