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

lindisfel said:
A lot of nestlings and small animals have been drowned. The local river came right up and flood a lot of the flood plain.
They will have to make best use of a late start this year. Serious flooding in norwest Cumbria.
Derek
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Sadly, nestlings are vulnerable at the best of times @lindisfel. It's extraordinary how many survive.

On a brighter note, I'm still feeding our resident robin family. Mr Robin turned up at our back door this morning asking if I'd noticed the shortage of mealworms. A devoted father, he hops onto my hand, saves one for himself and ferries the rest to his offspring,

Thursday's FBG 4.9 mmol at 6.00 am.
 
Good morning everyone on a strangely dry yet wonderfully quiet start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. A fan not working. Possible fuse, 3A - nope, best go and buy some. Fuse replaced. A fan not working. Strip down and do some electrical tests - all working within set parameters. Assemble, just the cover to fit - Plug in, switch on. A fan not working. Nock fan blade with finger whilst picking up cover - fan springs into life. ‘People are not disturbed by things but by the views they take of them’ - Epictetus. Art bit - a couple of trees. Be not troubled, today’s yesterday will be tomorrow’s day before the day before today. Now where is my koffy.
 

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At least you got the fan working!!!
Great trees @dunelm
 
5.1 at 05.30 today. I thought it would be higher because my BG was a bit on the high side last night.

After this long cold, wet spell, we have some kind of growth on the underside of our roof overhang - black kind of lichen looking. It needs to be cleaned off, when Neil can get around to it. Yesterday, I noticed a bird kept on flying up to the wall above my kitchen window and thought it was probably a starling looking for its original nesting place (now blocked) but no, it was a sparrow. It wasn't looking for a nest, it was picking something off of the "lichen". Flying up, hovering, pecking and then dropping away. No idea what it was finding there.
 
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My gut feeling....mmhh

You got lucky .
I think it's a test run, stock up on tinned foods, sunak & those in charge know what's coming.

Because this could be how sky net starts

Going to be countless people digging out fans for the forecast heatwaves.

Easier fighting a foe who's lost all its finger in summer 'fan' accidents

Conspiracy theorist...moi..

 
Morning all from a sub-optimally cool L.A. which is likely to be the high point of the late May Public Holiday for weather. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art and well crafted story of the fan. I/we are likely to need central heating and several layers of thermals more than a fan. @gennepher thank you for sharing the video and amazing creative. I couldn't claim to be very interested in birds but I can recognise skill and know many - morning @lindisfel - derive huge pleasure from observing them. If they played sport I'd obviously be fully absorbed. I don't watch horse racing but the racehorses I see in Newmarket are stunningly sleek and move so elegantly. @jjraak the reference to Sky Net is just not giving but each to their own. Thank you for sharing the photo - it appears some other animal has photobombed Frankie's photo - meh Enjoy National leaver's day which it seems must now be marked by buying an overpriced hoodie. Is it still a day for signing shirts and "other" garments and "the enforcers" patrolling corridors, playgrounds, fields and local shops that sell eggs and flour (with walkie talkies) and guarding all fire alarms? - such fond memories. On the plus side I have been given several presents, including a fully certified Bale era signed Spurs shirt, given by groups of students
 
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Thank you @ianpspurs
I am currently eyeballing a sparrowhawk who has eyes on my little bluetit who is working hard to feed his family....just put more protection out there...
 
I knew an electrician with a missing index finger on his right hand. He unwisely tested if a fan was running as a young electrician. A substantial fan it whipped it straight off no trouble. A bad mistake to make just once.
 
I'm not a fan of this!
 
All conspiracies need to be terminator- ed!
Not a fan either.
 
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