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Fbg 7 at 2.30 am...

Still got this cold. Keep having hot/warm drinks, but not sure I am drinking enough. I love iced water, even in winter, but I know it's not supposed to be good for you, and for some reason, YouTube is extolling the virtues of warm water to me...yuck...

Okay, Wildlife Nighttime video...
I was editing this yesterday evening after my first sleep, and I had the iPad on setting never off, as it's most annoying when it goes off every few minutes. I woke up at 2.30 am this morning, iPad still in my hands, still on, with the battery on red...1% left...aagh, I am in mid edit...

I get the lead in just in time...and finish editing and posting on instagram and YouTube.

I thought this post would have been up ages ago, but no, I disappeared down the rabbit hole of Instagram and then YouTube, and so I am well out of my allocated time for getting this post done...

Badger in here - One night - Midnight's watch (until midnight)Jade's watch (12 mid to 6am)
1min 9secs
It didn't have any views in YouTube, nearly 6 hours, until I changed the title a bit just now. I added 'Badger in here' to the rest of the title ( it is now a clumsy title but who cares it is getting views). Instagram didn't have a problem with the original title, which was the whole point of the video (500views so far on Instagram, boo to YouTube).


This is a rambly post this morning...blame lack of sleep...

Creative...
Blame lack of sleep for that too.
No time, I need to get on with the day, which begins in a few minutes with a scented heated eye mask, electric blanket on, and my hand massager on...and I will wake up when I am ready to face the rest of the day...
Ah, creative...
A few more cheerful daffs in this incessant rain outside my kitchen door...

Sipping tea from my hot tea flask...feeling sleepy...

Have your bestest day...

Dreamland calls...

 
jjraak said:
Is that badger called tweetie pie ...mmm

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Haha...love the comedy timing of the cat at the end...

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I am sure that cat is a paid actor...
I am not sure if it easily apparent on the YouTube video, but her right eye, left eye on the screen, I think you can actually see right into her eyeball. It looks like it to me @jjraak

By the way, I feel that badger looks disappointed he can't see/find the cat in the beginning?
 
Afternoon All, overslept big time here in Tilehurst Towers and had to be roused from my pit by Mrs J. My task in the Morening is to make Mrs J’s tea, that was her sole reason for waking me, me’s and myself, such is marital bliss.

Blood sugars this morning were 4.4, 7.3 and 7.8 all different fingers and in less than a minute.

Very interesting article @dunelm , some of it obvious and some new stuff. Thanks for publishing it and such a large sample size.

Now I must go are try to reclaim my day.

Stay safe all, plinky plonky calls, oh and medication.
 
Yes, odd how wording can affect us...not a YouTuber here, more eBay, but I notice how the same things for sale, where some ads, just grab my attention more , is similar & essentially the same goal.

A win for the good reaction to improve the views, but a hug to for the poor sleep & continuing cold .

Enjoy the nap.
 
BG 9.6 at 0230 today. 8.6 by 0530. After insulin and breakfast it has now dropped to 7.0. Just in range. No more food today, so it should stay reasonably low. Unless, that is, my aches and pains, and lack of sleep, make it rise again.

Neil still has his cold, but feels a bit better today so thought he should do the shopping before that next storm hits us tomorrow. Forecast doesn't look very good.

I checked the storage facility in Stornoway yesterday to find out the cost and availability of storage for things we have to clear so that workmen can do our insulation/solar panel/air pump system starting at the beginning of April. It will work out at just over £36 a week for a container in their yard - and we have to supply our own padlock! My brother, in Swindon, is currently renting storage in a custom built facility to cover their removal period for £20 a week - the unit has a digital lock, so no padlock. The only reason I can think for the extra cost in Stornoway is that they have a monopoly. I guess that's just the way it is in a small place.
 
Morning all on a decidedly grey day here in, well near, paradise (you ain't getting Coldplay.) @gennepher thanks for sharing the photo of the daffs and I hope, in the best way, you have another dull day. @dunelm thanks for sharing all three interesting and illuminating pieces. As for the Kendall piece, Rumsfeld's profound thought sprang to mind initially. After a wander and ponder the dog that didn't bark hove into mind. How many of those stressors are actually caused by low carb/keto/IF? There's a tendency herein to dismiss that possibility. What one (well, this) might call Brexit/Horizon delusional disorder. I always thought "true science" was for the open minded. I'm not a fan of Kemiworld - DARVO on steroids - spoiler alert NSFW in parts. Have a good Tuesday - mine involves an annual intimate documentary. Hope the NHS still has copious anaesthetic gel for the very secret camera entrance TMI?
 
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Thank you for my hug @jjraak
I had a good sleep but I'm ready for my next sleep...
Lunch calls, or the ingredients do...
And I need to make it into something edible...

It depends on the algorithms of different sites, and I have often found this between Instagram and YouTube. YouTube needs to be more simple and basic in the titles. But with Instagram, you can make the title into more of a detailed explanation...
 
Thank you for my wish of a dull day @ianpspurs

I hope your day proceeds well.
 
I'm aware that may come across as somewhat arrogant - a temptation covered here and brilliantly in G K Chesterton's Father Brown story The Hammer of God. I'm not immune, just as flawed so offer the attached vision of living in peace/unity as an apology. What, y''all want I should grovel already?
 

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Once more into the loft, dear friends. Not me - I can't climb the ladder but Neil went up to get the second grill down for me to see. It's a massive, commercial, Buffalo one - weighs a ton and very difficult to clean - that must be why I discarded it before. I thought I had given the Buffalo one to my teacher at the catering college, but when I think of it, it was one with flat plates, this one has ridged plates. After discussion, we decided that we don't need either grill - that will give us a small amount of extra space. I was just going to send them to the charity shop but Neil reckons they would sell - new ones would cost over £300 for the one and over £100 for the second one. Might help towards the cost of the new heating system if we can sell them for, say £50 and £20. So the morning has been spent steam cleaning them and all the bits that go with them. They were obviously cleaned before they went into the loft, but now they are absolutely immaculate.

He also found three electric kettles - one he brought with him when he moved back home and he will keep in his little kitchen-cum-workshop but the other 2 will go to the charity shop, also cleaned and shiny. He also brought down a red enamelled steel pan which has been stained but is still useable and an ancient (Victorian) large, oval, enamelled pan which I remember my grandmother using to make my favourite dish. She called it China Pudding and it was a bacon filled, rolled suet pudding which was boiled in a cloth. My brother and I would sit at the kitchen table smelling the aroma as she took it out of the pot and unrolled it from the cloth onto one of those old-fashioned big oval platters. Then she would cut us each a slice of heaven! We both still remember that wonderfully light and tasty pud.

I inherited the pan from my mother, but in the years before I had it, somehow the enamel inside had broken away to expose bare steel about 3"x4" right in the centre. That is now a big patch of rusty steel. I've never used it but now I'm wondering if I really have to turn it into a pot plant holder or if it can be repaired. I know le Creuset will repair their own pans but it is a major task to be done in their factory, but I can't find any information about anyone who might tackle my old Granny's boiling pan. Does anyone, with the vast range of experience on this thread, know of a solution, or of a firm that might tackle it?
 
Thinking about sitting at that kitchen table I was picturing my grandmother making her "China Pudding" and I realised that part of the process was adding dabs of butter to the pastry. That was a puzzle because it was definitely suet pastry. She refused to ever teach either of her daughters to cook so they, and I, just had to watch and see if we could reproduce it. I could not have been more than 4 at the time, but the memory is fixed. She made the suet pastry, rolled it into a rectangle (must have been just under 1/2 inch thick) and then, using a dinner knife, put little dabs of softened butter close together, all over about 2/3 of the pastry, folded the last 1/3 over the middle 1/3, then folded the remaining 1/3 over the rest. She may have rested it for a while then, but she didn't have a fridge, so just on the table. Then she would roll it out again and lay the bacon rashers over the whole surface before rolling it like a swiss roll and putting it in a cloth (already fairly wet and covered in flour), tied the ends with string and put it into the big pot of boiling water to cook. I have never been able to reproduce that bacon roll - bacon isn't the same and I can't make the pastry. Maybe I could, using my memory. Not much reason to do it these days though.

It is there in bright colours and detail and I hadn't thought about it more than once in the last many years until I saw that big, black pot. Amazing what brings back memories. Can't throw it out, or even let it be damaged by holding plant pots. May just get Neil to make a pedestal for it!
 
Been a bit of a week or two here.

Suffice to say one major event rattled through our little group, setting off a small chain of events, that have required a lot of careful observations.

A little cryptic, but it's all personal to me & others, so don't want to say more, right now.

All of which leads up to the last few days being the reason I've dropped the ball, T2D wise.

So, an enjoyable meal with our Steph, good conversation, great food (Chinatown, wong kei)..and the tiniest beer bottle I've ever seen (33cl...or a gulp as it's more correctly called)

Homeward bound & a stop off, brought a small hangover Monday morning...my bad

No FBG then & I forget this morning ...

Other news is starting to get a little more pain in my leg.

Specialist other week said some pain is caused around knee by the bolts through leg, which sort of fits with the location & degree of pain.

New pain is around the skin grafted area, that's not infected thank goodness, but the area is more painful.

I'm wondering if lots of that is simply the nerves, pain receptors, whatever, that got cut or damaged during the accident or (more likely) the repair works, are making themselves active again...mmhh.

And yes, I know I should be making an appointment to see the doc, but I think I'm just sounding it out, aloud, because I think it will be back to the hospital that did the operations for them to take a good look at it ...if it continues.
 
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And not too sure how I feel, but I sold the silver scooter today

The cost of it just sat there for another year, was one I could no longer justify to myself.

Best insurance quote just north of £500, for a 125, when 3 years back I paid less to insure 2 125 scooter AND the 900cc..

And it's highly unlikely I'd be able to use it this year either

So as of now, all the bikes are gone.

And like I say, not sure how I feel about that.

A sense of loss I guess, sounds rather silly

But while a part of me is arguing it's just another turn of the page and the ending of a chapter ...
A whole other side of me sees that as the closing of the book .

Take care, all.
 
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ianpspurs said:
spoiler alert NSFW in parts. Have a good Tuesday - mine involves an annual intimate documentary. Hope the NHS still has copious anaesthetic gel for the very secret camera entrance TMI?
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Must apologise, so wrapped up in my own misery....

Had meant to wish you well for the trip.

Never a popular choice of intervention.

Mine felt like the insertion of one of those 'grandstand' type cameras,* you know, the intro ones leading up to frank bough saying "hello & welcome "

*for those of a certain age....

But i did have a chuckle at the dark humour....well played sir.

It's a serious subject & a worry certainly, but humour of that sort I believe, insulates & protects us from certain moments & situations life hurls at pace to us, now & again.

Hard to know how others cope or carry the weight of life sometimes, but from what I see, you just dig in, suck it up & get on with it, as best you can, because you know others rely on you.

Life's not always fair, so I have to tip my hat to anyone that has that mindset.
Respect.

Hope the day went well & results are issue free.
 
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