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Happy Birthday for Adrian @JohnEGreen Green
 

Happy Birthday and many more to come
 
Happy birthday Adrian.....

Do pass on congratulations to him @JohnEGreen on the Farm Manager Promotion.
 
Best wishes to Adrian for his birthday and congratulations on his promotion.
 
6.4 at 03:00 today. Took painkillers and went back to sleep (in the kitchen chair) and woke again at 07:20 when BG was 7.9.

It's leg wrapping day today, so it's also weigh in day. 3 days into my carnivore experiment and I've lost almost 2 kilos. Can't be bad. I don't imagine I'll do it for long - it's a bit restrictive but that result is pretty good - and I haven't had a hypo since last week although BG has been in the low 4's some of the time.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Do you also eat young groundsel and chickweed leaves?
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I have many many dandelion plants in our "garden" which was simply a field with ancient cider apple trees, when we arrived. Yesterday I spent a few minutes collecting dandelion flowers from the "cultivated" half.



Anyone care to guess how many seeds are in the bucket?
 
gennepher said:
We have to re apply every 3 years once we reach 70 @Omar51
I wish it lasted 5 years, 3 years comes around too soon!
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MrSlim is over 70. His new french driving licence expires in 2039, the same day as mine. Huge relief for both of us as neither of us fancy taking our test again.
 
dunelm said:
At last - the great vit D ball returns
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Took my last massive dose of Vitb3 few days ago. Need to go and collect more from pharmacie. The Vitd ball has reappeared here in Normandy too, but apart from one day, has been accompanied by cold winds that necessitate covering up all my goosepimples. So not getting a lot of benefit from it yet. Still the long range forecast gives us a 50% chance of warm and dry weather sometime soon. Do I believe it? Not really, but we can hope.
 
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Made LC cheesecake during covid.
Grain free granola blitzed and blended with melted butter for the base. Whipped soft cheese, cream and a smidge of sweetener to top. Stirred in some lemon juice for flavour. Decorated with wild strawberries from the garden.
 
Happy Birthday Midnight. From Kiki.
She is looking a bit disgruntled because she has just suffered through her first tick extraction. This required two poeple and only one of them escaped unscathed.
 
Fbg 6.7

Badger prevention strategies have worked. The repair on the metal fireguard, and covering that and the bins in that passage with bird netting making it awkward/unpleasant for the badgers claws. They've left that alone. The problem yesterday was the badgers raiding my wormery again...

Thinking cap on, but it was really whatever was in the garage...I had some green plastic covered wire netting. A big roll of it. So, I rolled it round the wormery, which is a big tall dustbin with a lid. And then I pulled the top over and tied it with some rope, so I could pull it upwards and off easily to refill with garden scraps. And then replace.

That worked last night. The badgers took one look at it and didn't attempt anything. Instead, they ran around the garden and nosed around for worms.

So, problem solved last night, until the badgers have a meeting and get their thinking caps on....


Wildlife nighttime video
Badgers running around & nosing for worms
1 min 8 secs

Creative is another one line sketch, and is from me in the car, with a flask of tea, drawing on my iPad mini screen.
She has a jacket on, a long black umbrella over her arm, and is looking at her phone...


Have your best kind of day.

Time for a cuppa.

 
Hope you are both recovering by now.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Happy Birthday Midnight. From Kiki.
She is looking a bit disgruntled because she has just suffered through her first tick extraction. This required two poeple and only one of them escaped unscathed.View attachment 67038
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Thank you @SlimLizzy
Oh dear she doesn't look happy...
The hug is for the scathed person...
 
Morning all on a wet, cool day here in the distinctly drab East. Happy birthday and congratulations Ade. My fbg is unknown so cannot be shared. @Annb hug for the need to take painkillers at such an unearthly hour and best wishes for leg bandaging to go as well as possible. @dunelm thank you for sharing the photo and art. Either an excellent example of the vogue for ironic humour or outrageous chutzpah when a native of the D and D claims the speech of residents elsewhere in the entire universe is unintelligible @SlimLizzy thanks for the good wishes. Is their a prize for guessing how many dandelions? . Fight valiantly against whatever tribulation comes your way this day. I'm not expecting to meet #45, be served cabbage casserole, bacon, tripe and onions, watch antiques road show, call the midwife, motor sport, Sci Fi or Attenborough. Due to my legendary tolerance that will be a doddle.
 
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Lamont D said:
Had a wonderful afternoon with my lot.
A full house and plenty of noise.
Just what I needed and Mrs L nearly smiled.

But learnt that #2 has lactose intolerance as well as myself.
It seems it is hereditary!
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It is definitely hereditary.
My brother and first husband's sister were both lactose intolerant as children. Of course neither of us remembered that as adults. First child fine, no problems. Second multiple intorerances. Asthma, eczema and hayfever. Still gets bouts of all three as an adult, esp after too many milk products.
My daughter ( third child) was Lactose intolerant to age 8.
Daughter married a man who has dust mite allergy. His sister has gluten intolerance.
Their children have all had or still got lactose intolerance.
The second also had gluten intolerance. She still has to be careful and carries an asthma inhaler.
Third child( don't tell her but I thought they were mad) severe milk intolerance.
And baby IV. Milk intolerance. Not so severe. Will probably grow out of it sooner than her brother did.
I dread to think what complications their future children might have if they don't pick partners carefully.
 
Well happy birthday to Adrian and congratulations on the farm manager job
 
Your breakfast sounds delicious, but I would eat it for dinner.
 
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