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

[JohnEGreen]

Had a letter from the hospital confirming bowel cancer not found, an hour later got phone call to inform me that they found a polyp and it will need removing then another hot passed and a call from the booking office wanting to book me in for next Monday not possible as have to stop warfarin for 7 days prior and doctor has to work out how to safely get me off warfarin it will get worked out but ain’t it topical we are all complaining about waiting lists but with me they get ahead of themselves what a larf .

 

[gennepher]

Outstanding....bravo .

Thank you very much @jjraak

 

[gennepher]

Greetings from L.A. one and all. @dunelm thank you for sharing your art again. Enjoy your Safari (do you have the correct jacket?) to Birmingham and have a bostin time there. @gennepher it is not blowing your own trumpet to be happy with such a detailed and well observed work. The most complex one yet imho. I imagine our neighbourhoods to be very different but I too am feeling the effects of hay fever much more this year. I am also having insect bites which have never been something I have noticed before. Maybe they like the chemical cocktail floating around me.JKP has bought me several anti insect tops as an early birthday present @Annb good news on the final radiator being fitted. I hope the stock/soup making goes well. I/we have had several goes at both. Always have high expectations only to be bitterly disappointed at the first mouthful. JKP likes ham hock. For me the taste is just not giving as gen Z say. I'm not a fan of anything much except eggs. Enjoy Tuesday - must soon be coffee and muffin with yogurt (h/m keto blueberry) time.

Thank you @ianpspurs
It is very rare for me to be really happy with some artwork I do. This one took me by surprise when I lifted my finger off the screen, and I am thinking that's not bad at all...

I too am covered with insect bites this year...

 

[gennepher]

There we go. Plans scuppered for a few hours anyway. Neil is OK but just as we were going to get all the cardboad and such outg to the car, the men arrived with our final radiator and are now under the floor, fitting pipes prior to actually putting the radiator in. Don't get me wrong - I am happy that they have finally come to do the job but it just reinforces the thought that there is no point making plans.

All the radiators have had to be turned off but we seem to still have tap water and, at least, I have my 2 soup pots on.

BG down now to 5.6.

I am glad this all seems finally to be sorted @Annb

 

[JohnEGreen]

Had a letter from the hospital confirming bowel cancer not found, an hour later got phone call to inform me that they found a polyp and it will need removing then another hot passed and a call from the booking office wanting to book me in for next Monday not possible as have to stop warfarin for 7 days prior and doctor has to work out how to safely get me off warfarin it will get worked out but ain’t it topical we are all complaining about waiting lists but with me they get ahead of themselves what a larf .

 

[ianpspurs]

Thank you @ianpspurs
It is very rare for me to be really happy with some artwork I do. This one took me by surprise when I lifted my finger off the screen, and I am thinking that's not bad at all...

I too am covered with insect bites this year...

Glad to read you liked your work - we all do.Hug for the bites. I've edited the quoted post so that it makes some sense and it is clear what was h/m and blueberry.

 

[gennepher]

I am swinging on my swing, taking videos of a wee little bluetit taking pieces of fatball for its babies...

I am less than a metre away, and I am leaning in to less than half metre away, and the little bluetit is not one bit fazed by me waving a black phone at it...

The perfect afternoon...but I am missing my afternoon nap...


EDIT... Phone battery died...took too many videos of bluetit and baby sparrows...late afternoon nap now...

 

[ianpspurs]

I am swinging on my swing, taking videos of a wee little bluetit taking pieces of fastball for its babies...

I am less than a metre away, and I am leaning in to less than half metre away, and the little bluetit is not one bit fazed by me waving a black phone at it...

The perfect afternoon...but I am missing my afternoon nap...

Is fastball a baseball based predictive text? Incoming thunderstorm here so hardly perfect - enjoy your swing and photo session.

 

[Annb]

That's it! Workmen have finished and gone. Now all we have to do is put it all back together. Too late to go to the recycling centre now and tomorrow the car has to go to the garage to see if its Uncle Norrie can fix it. He's a very clever mechanic and was a school friend of Alistair's and is a fairly close neighbour. He will do his best, but I'm not sure that electronics is his bag, so to speak. We'll see. We are rather stuck here without a car. No way to get all the junk to the recycling and no way for me to get to town to get my legs bandaged on Thursday, if N can't find or fix the fault tomorrow. Challenges.

Neil told me that the men had to drain the pipes under the floor for which they had a specially shaped tray to hold under the open valve but that tray had to be emptied frequently. The container they used was a hard hat! I could have given them a bucket if they'd asked. One of the many things we have too many of in this house is plastic buckets. I could have given them a couple to take away with them.

 

[Lamont D]

6.3 BG levels seem to be bouncing on a rollercoaster.

Other than a couple of appointment making phone calls and a letter telling us that the gas pipe work outside will start next week. I have had a quite relaxed day so far.

I'm still getting over How bad the blood contamination victims have been treated by our society.
As with post office, covid and of course Hillsborough, the reply from so called witnesses, that they cannot remember, is so blatant and disrespectful to those that have suffered.
And historical wrongs, are reverberating through the list of our once empire guilty instances.

How can a corrupt police system prosecute fellow corrupt lawbreakers?
Society has to change.

Sitting in the garden, could be heavy rain later. Quite nice out.
And the weather's not bad either.I
My best wishes to you all as is the norm now!

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
The Fox and the Cat
32secs

Creative...one line sketch.
These 3 people were talking ages.
I was watching them.
I was drinking my cuppa tea having a rest between shops.
Then I thought I will try and draw them.
I thought they would move before I finished.
But they didn't.
Their bodies moved position slightly.
I don't like sounding my own trumpet, but this might be the best one I have done yet...it surprised me when I took my drawing finger off the screen...

Warm today.
Hayfever again.
Eyes tired...it's the hayfever...
I think a nap now...

Have your best day...



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Smashing. You can see two people chatting away and someone thinking either, “can we get on with it” or “I can’t get a word in edgeways”. Snapshots of life. Brilliant.

 

[gennepher]

Is fastball a baseball based predictive text? Incoming thunderstorm here so hardly perfect - enjoy your swing and photo session.

That predicatative text playing games again. I corrected it awhile ago, but obviously not quickly enough...bed rest now while phone recharges..... no sign of thunderstorms here... but then the weather makes its own rules as well...

 

[dunelm]

Greetings from L.A. one and all. @dunelm thank you for sharing your art again. Enjoy your Safari (do you have the correct jacket?) to Birmingham and have a bostin time there. @gennepher it is not blowing your own trumpet to be happy with such a detailed and well observed work. The most complex one yet imho. I imagine our neighbourhoods to be very different but I too am feeling the effects of hay fever much more this year. I am also having insect bites which have never been something I have noticed before. Maybe they like the chemical cocktail floating around me.JKP has bought me several anti-insect tops as an early birthday present @Annb good news on the final radiator being fitted. I hope the stock/soup making goes well. I/we have had several goes at both. Always have high expectations only to be bitterly disappointed at the first mouthful. JKP likes ham hock. For me the taste is just not giving as gen Z say. I'm not a fan of anything boiled except eggs. Enjoy Tuesday - must soon be coffee and muffin (h/m keto blueberry) with yogurt time.

Thank you @ianpspurs - linen - so overrated unless of course you look like Peter Ustinov.

 

[gennepher]

Smashing. You can see two people chatting away and someone thinking either, “can we get on with it” or “I can’t get a word in edgeways”. Snapshots of life. Brilliant.

Thank you @dunelm
They were 3 people who appeared to randomly converge at that point, presumably they all knew each other fairly well, and then finally they all dispersed in different directions.
I was lucky, they were directly in front of me which made my job easier...

 

[gennepher]

Neil told me that the men had to drain the pipes under the floor for which they had a specially shaped tray to hold under the open valve but that tray had to be emptied frequently. The container they used was a hard hat!

Are you sure these are bona fide workmen @Annb who know what they are doing?

 

[RFSMarch]

Sounds awful. Sending you hugs and sympathy, for morale, if nothing else.

Yeah it has been a bit of a time... but not bowel cancer, so let‘s be thankful for small mercies.

 

[Lamont D]

That predicatative text playing games again. I corrected it awhile ago, but obviously not quickly enough...bed rest now while phone recharges..... no sign of thunderstorms here... but then the weather makes its own rules as well...

None here either.
Beautiful, warm and sunny

 

[gennepher]

Now I feel vulnerable.

On Ancestry I have two trees which I am the home person.

My parents that brought me up, which everyone knows as my parents, are on the tree I have made public.

But at my Aunt's funeral my cousin tells me in the church that the person in the coffin is in fact my mother, and he, my cousin, is in fact my brother. I knew none of this before the funeral.
So my second tree, where I am the home person with my birth parents I have kept private, so as not to upset any living relatives.

I got an Ancestry DNA test last year, and attached the results to my second private tree.

This morning I got a request from someone to view that private tree, because she says she is related to parent 1 on my private tree (this is my birth father)...

I have thought about it all day, she asked to view the tree, so I granted her private access.

Now I feel vulnerable...

 

[Lamont D]

Now I feel vulnerable.

On Ancestry I have two trees which I am the home person.

My parents that brought me up, which everyone knows as my parents, are on the tree I have made public.

But at my Aunt's funeral my cousin tells me in the church that the person in the coffin is in fact my mother, and he, my cousin, is in fact my brother. I knew none of this before the funeral.
So my second tree, where I am the home person with my birth parents I have kept private, so as not to upset any living relatives.

I got an Ancestry DNA test last year, and attached the results to my second private tree.

This morning I got a request from someone to view that private tree, because she says she is related to parent 1 on my private tree (this is my birth father)...

I have thought about it all day, she asked to view the tree, so I granted her private access.

Now I feel vulnerable...

compromise is the key to a successful relationship.

Teamwork still rears it's head up.

I believe it's your optimism, battling with your cautious side.
And both sides of it won't win.
that's anxiety.
which is normal.
hoping for a positive outcome for you.

 

[gennepher]

compromise is the key to a successful relationship.

Teamwork still rears it's head up.

I believe it's your optimism, battling with your cautious side.
And both sides of it won't win.
that's anxiety.
which is normal.
hoping for a positive outcome for you.

Thanks @Lamont D