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

Good morning. 4.88 mmol/L at 9 am this morning in Santa Cruz California. Went to a Birthday party last night. Because of portion control my FBG is within my usual range. Have a nice day everyone! For last few days it’s shivering cold in Northern Part of California!
 
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For some reason, I had another 'trapped' vivid dream.
The tunnel underneath a viaduct with lots of people cheering me, or was it jeering?
Anyhoo, the toy that was stuck in the drain was taking me through this tunnel, dark, dank and murky.
And I couldn't get off it.
Bloody dreams.
 

Positive thoughts
life is good!
 

Regular kitchen duties, fresh food are a big plus for my BG!
 
I love the muted colours on this @dunelm and the different backdrops...
 
Nope, no insult Ian.
I used to love Tony Hart as a child because of all the no words silent stuff he did, and I understood it all @ianpspurs
 
A very wintry scene to match the weather @dunelm
 
Thank you very much @ianpspurs
 
Lamont D said:
I like!
do get your security sorted.
never been to Fflint castle.
didn't know Fflint had one!
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Flint Castle @Lamont D
Quoted from Cadw site
"Begun in 1277, it was one of the first castles to be built in Wales by King Edward I. Its solitary round ‘Donjon’ tower, isolated from the rest of the inner ward, is unique in design. This is where Edward I’s “Iron Ring” of fortresses across north Wales to subdue the Welsh first began.

Just 122 years on, Flint was the setting to another turning point in history. Edward I’s great, great grandson Richard II came face to face with his cousin, childhood playmate and rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke.

This scene, set at Flint Castle, famously features in Shakespeare's Richard II. The castle serves as an important setting for a crucial part of the play — the moment that Richard II is captured:

Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
What you will have, I’ll give, and willing too;
For do we must what force will have us do
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But perhaps it was Richard’s hound, Mathe, who made him realise the crown had been lost. Ever present at the King’s side, it is said that Mathe ran to greet Henry on his arrival; faithful to the crown, not the man.

The greyhound maketh you cheer this day as king of England, as ye shall be;
and I shall be deposed. The greyhound possesses this knowledge naturally
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Richard II had given up his throne. Henry escorted him to London where Richard abdicated and later died in captivity. King Henry IV’s reign had begun and Richard’s sad fate, played out at Flint Castle, forever immortalised in Shakespeare’s words."

I did study this at school...never knew I would move near to it half a century later.....
 
Fbg 8.7

My son came to meet up with me and my daughter yesterday, and we were trying to find somewhere for me to eat but there was absolutely nothing suitable for me with my dietary problems and my diabetes.

Normally, I don't eat out anymore with my allergies/ intolerances etc. Rapeseed oil affects me badly, And much stuff is cooked in that and made with that. So I said I wouldn't eat, but because it has taken something to get us together in one place at one time, they want us all to have a family meal. But there was nothing suitable in any other places and the eating place we used to go, to where I can usually find something to eat was not there anymore and it was now an even fancier restaurant with no what I call straight unadulated straight food. I could not even identify what the food was we had.
And so I just ate a small portion that was in my dish ....

And so I need to spend today, eating to try and bring this number down ... and that end, I am going back to virtually nil carb, to do it that way... taking my usual diabetic medication of course.


Wildlife nighttime video
Two Badgers - Ma & Pa Badger
54secs



Creative...daughter and I painted some daffodils, using the same media as yesterday, but obviously more yellow from the gouache paints of yesterday. She gave me her finished painting and I gave her mine. Here is my painting...

I think gouache paints are satisfying to play with...

Then we went to meet my son.


I need a rest today, so I'll be sleeping on and off. It is pouring with rain and there's a paddling pool around my bungalow....


Have your best kind of day , and take it easy.

A stormy windy, rainy day out there with a paddling pool around my bungalow ...again...

Time for a cuppa.

 
How lovely to spend time with your family but what a shame there was nothing that was ok for you to eat @gennepher.
 
5.6 this morning.

Mr K took Poppy for a walk before breakfast while I had a shower. He finds it so funny that Poppy raced back from the park instead of her usual forensic checking of every inch of the route back home on our normal after breakfast walk. She obviously was very hungry.

Leave for classes in Norwich at 9am and back home at 9.30pm. I have a good long break mid afternoon. Diary Secretary has done it right for once.
 
BG at 04.00 was 6.4 which is OK but BP was back up to159/75. Not quite so good, but not as awful as last week so all's well. GP asked me to keep a record of my BP until she sees me again, which won't be until after I have a blood test - possibly on Thursday week. It's a b it of a faff, which is why I don't check it more often (probably should). Good news is that I can actually see that I'm losing weight - would have preferred to see it off my big stomach, but it's showing around my neck and face so I suppose that's an indicator that it is actually going from other parts as well.

Builders haven't arrived yet but the forecast is bad so maybe they won't come to work on the roof at all today. It's actually alright out there at the moment. Didn't know what to do with myself this morning - I was so hot! Thermometer only said 16 degrees though so can't think why, except maybe it was a persistent, dry heat rather than an intermittent slightly moist heat that we had before.
 
Winner for the smashing daffodils but a hug for not being able to get a meal out that satisfies your requirements. Important thing was being together.
 
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