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Here's a sonnet which is based on one of the O Antiphons used in evening prayer during Advent so very appropriate. This one has echoes in LOTR and King Lear so I'm obviously on board with that any how. The contrast with The Donald and the increasingly entitled occupant of No 10 among others is stark. There is far more of the Servant King in this thread than there is "out there." Have a great/good/safe Saturday evening.
 
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Neil has asked me to back up my laptop (which I don't do as often as I should) this evening when I've finished using it. He wants to try to do something (clever no doubt) to make my operating system run an updated version of Firefox so that I can use Family History websites. Find My Past will not be accessible after 1st January with the existing version and neither Ancestry nor the Mormon site is accessible now. At least Find My Past warned me, the others didn't. So, here's hoping. If I disappear, you'll know why.
 
That is really sad news @Annb
 
Prostate cancer can be a shock to men and the best way of delivering improvements is by standardising the best treatment protocols.
It was very variable over twenty years ago when they found I had a stage three bilateral carcinoma. With dense 11mm and 8mm tumours in my prostate.
They told me at Carlisle there was no treatment that could be given to this walnut sized organ and it was not operable.

Any improvement in drug therapy will come not through these little schemes but billions of money invested by
Big Pharma.

A few of those I knew with lower activity tumours than me died over ten years ago!

Why did they die and I live?
One said when his cancer had taken off again, although he knew what I had done. I wish I had listened to you Derek! It gave me no satisfaction or to his new wife after the death of his first wife some years before he found he had cancer.

He was a nice guy a former teacher and County butterfly expert.

My young cousin, the guy who made racing frames in Canada was a youngster at Lincoln grammar school when we got married.
His dad who was at Monte Casino in his tank, didn't survive the prostate cancer battle, but he had only palliative therapy.

Denis had minimal treatment to save his sex life by removal by operation of a stage two tumour out of the capsule and it must have spread the disease. He then had brachytherapy which involves another operation and radiotherapy by a bowden cable and probe with highly radiative irridium source housed in a lead lined vessel,. It was further disturbance and a waste of time.

He came to the uk before the pandemic and came to see us enroute fo Newcastle and we had a meal together before he went off the next day to Ireland via Newcastle and Canada. He was incontinent and the cancer was in the bones of his chest.Poor Denis we had been good friends and we took him birding along the Trent gravel pits on our bikes. He always remembered those times, although his dad and my mum were brother and sister all the male cousins looked very much alike. When Helen received a picture and obituary from my youngest cousin who been in Canada as visitor a few years ago she did a double take because we looked so much alike as adults.

I ask him if we could pray for him. He proudly said we dont do religion Derek, it didnt stop me praying.

His wife was the same. She wasnt going to mourn they had had a great life together in Canada

All men at Carlisle were given, including the butterfly man and I , was paliative treatments.
I had worked for these people for nine years.
Fixing their cancer treatment machines by radiation therapy mainly on treatments on women's breast cancers.


Even my daughter wouldnt question a consultants decision.


The oncologist who was friendly with me for years lied to Marjorie and I when we went to see him.
They had a policy of not sending men to Newcastle for treatment that was normal on the other side of the country and nobody not even the prostate cancer charity at Carlisle seemed to know or tell.
Now they do it at Carlisle.
D.
 
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Pork has arrived, gammon roasted, gorgeously slow cooked.
gonna sample very soon with cucumber and onion.

Mrs L awoke with a puzzled look on her face. Her confusion reigned until a cuppa and a glance at the decorations. First it was, chrimbo eve? Then, another week yet? Have to sort prezzies out?
so after assurances, it was a bit of a wait for Mrs L to get it together.

I have noticed with my FBGs that if I do them straight away they are in sevens, and because of the shaking, it does seem that if I give it an hour, I'm in sixes. Obviously the essential tremor and dawn phenomenon skew my FBGs. So, I've been thinking that, if I wait till pre meal, at around 2pm, as it is my first meal of the day, whether that will give me a true or more stable result?
I say this because I'm not getting below 6, and there should be no reason why I'm not back in normal levels.

Gotta go, cuppa and gammon shouting loud!
 
At a wild guess, could it simply be you're living in such a stressful environment, I doubt there's much 'relaxing' going on, even when you are relaxing @Lamont D

A slight side note, but maybe relevant .

Many on the forum boast of 5 FBG, many go even lower .

While I am admittedly more lax in my lchf diet & approach right now (too many battles, etc)

Even when I was super tight and back at sub 40 HBA1c, I found anything below 5 fbg, made me feel off, ill, like something was badly wrong with me.
A most unpleasant feeling.

I could I suppose have simply tried to maintain it at sub 5, and likely got used to the feeling.

But as a case of "we are all unique" I found or decided that for me, sub 5 was sub optimal & the circa 5 fbg was my happy place.

Perhaps, circa 6 fbg, given the stress you are under on a daily basis is yours ...?

No doctor or scientist here, just a thought.

I think @ianpspurs said something like "T2D" isn't the real or only enemy or similar.

A phrase that rang a bell.

Stressing over a number , we maybe can't reach, doesn't help us. And we might all be better served accepting being a little further from the danger zone, than if we didn't try, even if others manage to get further away than we can achieve, and accept where we land most often as being part of our natural terrain.

Just a thought .
 
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Morning all on two sleeps to Santa Day - unless there is an Elf -n-Safe Tea gawn mad ban. @JohnEGreen and @lindisfel are you two moonlighting as postpersons? Looks like my new start up exporting Cheese to Canada won't work. Nice chap called Honest Alexander (did remind me of Arthur Daley now I come to think of it) put me on to that idea. Anyone want 4000 tons of Stilton? @Lamont D hope you enjoyed the gammon and as @jjraak said T2 isn't the only or often biggest threat in the jungle. In your case it is certainly not and definitely not the most immediate. Anxiety and stress impact bg levels as much or more than food and you seem very aware of the dietary regime that suits you best. We are all unique as per David Unwin's N=1 mantra. Enjoy your day and the next few everyone with some well thought out, controlled off piste dietary joy. Setting the table with a place for these to calculate carbs may be obsessive but I like these little family traditions Have you seen the carbs in laughter?
 
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Fbg 6.7

Cold, still very windy, and rainy here...
Last night the sky was that ominous yellow ochre colour and pink and dark clouds, it was reported in a few places here. It seems it's when it's a red sunset, and low clouds create this...

Wildlife nighttime video...
This is the now the second night with the new cushions & coverings...
Fox & Badger (badger looks up at the swing and decides he doesn't like the new arrangement) & Cats & at the end large Cat Midnight looks at camera, this new cushion arrangement is not wide enough for him...
1min

Creative...Chinese Painting done In SketchClubApp with my swirling fingers again...

Time for a cuppa.

Have a good day.

 
Thanks for sharing the simply wonderful creative. Very calming to look at so hopefully the same effect for the creator. Let's hope the new arrangement on the swing continues to deter the badger. Think I may join you tea drinkers - people do say I should try just a little.
 
Thank you, Ian for the compliments
I do find it, relaxing doing digital art work on my tablet because I'm using my fingers to do it and that is relaxing and calming (and exercise for my fingers).
 
ianpspurs said:
You may like this which seems in your wheelhouse.
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Thank you...perfect...

And I was in the front room yesterday evening with the curtains open, watching the night sky while the moon went across my windows and I stayed there until the moon went out of sight at the other side shortly before midnight...

I miss watching the moon from my bed, which I cannot do in this bungalow, but could do in my last place I lived.

I have an impossible checklist for the next place I buy, and number one is watching the moon from my bedroom...
 
The battle of the swing is swaying your way. Could it smell far to ‘human’ at present - or won’t they care? A lovely calming scene this morning, smashing.
 
dunelm said:
The battle of the swing is swaying your way. Could it smell far to ‘human’ at present - or won’t they care? A lovely calming scene this morning, smashing.
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Swaying my way at present @dunelm but for how long?
I didn't think about that, these new coverings and cushions are recently from the charity shop, and it probably does smell too human at present...

Thank you for the painting compliment....
 
Good morning everyone on a late start to this lovely sunny day here in the dark and dangerous north. Video killed the radio star calls from afar. First my second youngest sister and her offsprings from Fayetteville in Deliverance country. She teaches at a school for performing arts which is where my two nieces attend. Then a call from my mother from the floods of soggy Saintes in France. Dad is now reduced to walking to the Co-Op as the route to the Leclerc supermarket is still by boat or bog snorkelling only. Girl in The Bubble last night - she is now off for her Saturday dancing class, dressed up as some sparkly Disney character. The dance class are also having their Christmas party at 4pm so another outfit will be needed but that is in the hands of her parents, we are off out late morning for a spot of sun bathing. Art bit - a festive wreath to hail in light over darkness - you get a cumulative few seconds more each day now and if you save wisely it could be about 3 minutes a day by March. Unless of course a law is passed to either tax it or proclaim that it all stays the same. Eppur si muove. Enjoy your extra few seconds of light today, I shall celebrate with another koffy.


 
Wow!
Very festive @dunelm

Enjoy that fresh coffee ...
 
Another 5.8 this Morening, the local, well nearly local fusion reactor is doing its stuff un hindered by big bags of water vapour at the moment.

I have been left unsupervised again, but I have had to talk to da Management on my electronic communicator, about what I know knot, I didn’t listen, life is simple, life is good.

Me, me’s and myself don’t recommend following my examples of behaviour, unless you like corporal punishment and gbh of your ears.

Now must go and stare at my motorcycle.

Be well all and stay safe
 
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