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

Good morning everyone on what looks likely to be a non-precipitous bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. A smasher of a day yesterday with a well delivered school nativity by the teeny tiny 4 year olds - no spoonerisms. A jolly catch up with some of Mrs Miggins’ siblings and spouses then back home in time for tea and medals to find a card on the mat from one of our neigbours. It’s that bewilderingly festive tit for tat neighbourhood card exchange time folks! Art bit, same theme, wet on wet with a bit of red added. Hugs for the sleep deprived and the aches and pains that life throws at us. Talking of which, I had better take my daily dose of over the counter medication and then rattle into the kitchen to make some koffy.


 
Hello to all from L.A. on a morning where , drear, dark nighted (and dayed) December seems to be visiting many. Wouldn't it be good if a festival of light could appear about this time of year? Hugs for @Annb (pain), @jjraak (cold and cough), @JohnEGreen (early waking) @gennepher (dark days) and @Krystyna23040 - yesterday and now root canal work. @lindisfel good news on the run of quality sleep. @dunelm yesterday sounds like a good day and thank you for sharing the wonderful art. That evokes memories of the Fen Washes which froze for skating near my childhood home. There was an embankment for the railway. Be kind to yourselves today - to rephrase a well known saying love yourself as your neighbour. - you can't pour from an empty cup.
 
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Much sympathy for you and MrK on the loss if your little friend. He had his best life with you.
 
Thank you @ianpspurs
 
Beautiful! Absolutely love this series @dunelm
I hope that coffee was good....
 
14.12
FBG 5.4
MrSlim has got up early and gone to get his hair cut, later he is out for lunch with a a group of men.
For weeks I have been a slow starter and will need to do better. Can't be still in pyjamas mid morning when visiting. Will be expected to engage. Socialise.
Today trying to find suitable apparel for Christmas day. Boxing day is easier, much more casual. Am sure i will be exoected to dress up for Christmas lunch. However I have few clothes that are not practical. No doubt my mother and sister will be wearing diamonds.
Such an insignificant thing to need so much thought.
 
Fbg 6.6

Wildlife nighttime camera
Fox jumps up on swing - Jade disappears to rear of swing, then comes back
15 secs
Jade seems to know when the fox is thinking of jumping on the swing and she moves away sharpish, but returns immediately Fox has gone. This Fox I call Foxy Loxy.

Creative...ink drawing with brush pen...


Now time for a nap

Birdies and Beasties and Cats been fed.
A new resident blackbird is in the garden...

A cuppa first

Have your best day...

 
Thank you @ianpspurs, have a spiffing day
 
Wear a dinner jacket and tell them you are reading George Sands’ La Petite Fadette
 
Another superb piece with the brush pen. I like the sensitivity of the marks in the background agains the bold foreground
 
Thank you for sharing the wonderful creative. I can't pretend to see
dunelm said:
the sensitivity of the marks in the background agains the bold foreground
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but I'll try. I do, however, really like what you shared. As for light, yesterday was the Feast of St Lucy - big festival of light even here in UK. Originally, before calendars changed (1752 - must have been a pain @lindisfel ), was celebrated on Winter Solstice 21st. I can't give you more light but have a song (sorry Enrico) and a poem.
 
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dunelm said:
Another superb piece with the brush pen. I like the sensitivity of the marks in the background agains the bold foreground
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Thank you @dunelm
The Chinese brush pen makes these light/dark strokes easier to do, but I do need to have my arm resting on a cat or a cushion, enabling me to hold the top of the barrel, to be able to do the lighter fine background strokes...
 
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Thank you @dunelm
The Chinese brush pen makes these light/dark strokes easier to do, but I do need to have my arm resting on a cat or a cushion, enabling me to hold the top of the barrel, to be able to do the lighter fine background strokes...
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Cat will work best. The warmth will ease an aching hand or wrist - unless said cat is sleeping and dreaming of chasing tins of tuna.
 
A little update on our BT story.

Seems I jumped the gun, we haven't gone digital just yet.

Asked while cancelling engineer, as the instructions are to fit phone line from wall INTO router.

But we have no slot it fits into on the router ..mmmhhh

Seems before we switch they'll send a new router with a slot for the phone to fit into as it is...which is nice to know.

Thought we might need a new phone or an adapter.

So I learned something today, & thought I'd share for those who'll be swapping to digital later.
 
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Me thinks you've already got the 'Top of the Range ' model in midnight ...(heart)
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Thank you @jjraak
I believe I have !

I am just working on some AI generative art using Midnight as a model. The text I put generates the image I might be aiming for.

Here is my first attempt...


Then the app wanted monthly money. NO I said. Then it gave me an offer. NO I said. Then it gave me a rediculously cheap offer for the year which was less than their initial monthly offer. Okay...yes...my Xmas present to me...
 
Hug for the worry of fitting whatever dress code seems appropriate.

Going out on a limb here, so bear with me.

Struggled post trauma to cope very well in social situations.
I keep a lid on it, but it's always bubbling under the surface
( The feeling people are staring at the Scarring & limping, mainly)

What helped me, mad as it sounds, is I made those situations into a SiM's game, in my head.

When I get those feelings, I think ok, everyone of those is a SIM, and they're are only there to fill out the Game & if I turned the game OFF, they'd disappear and are of no consequence to me

Which means I can ignore those thoughts when I feel people look or stare.
And only worry about those SiMs I choose to interact with ...in whatever way I choose ...nice

The rest basically are just wallpaper or extras in my movie .

It's given me a confidence to deal with some troubling moments.

It must be how actors feel playing a major role.

Full of confidence & fully at ease with the part.

Not sure if you could fully filter out some members of the family,

But it does make those 'awkward' situations more bearable for me, & gives me a perverse joy, to mull over switching off one or two of the annoying Sims I've met since my resurrection & reintegration into polite society.

Yes, I know I sound mad.
Simple reason is I think I am sometimes.
 
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