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

Tilapia is very popular in East Africa but quite an invasive species in warm waters. Had it many times cooked over hot coals with piri piri and what to the uninitiated looks like a pile of unctuous mashed potatoes - until the awful taste of mashed plantains hits the unprepared taste buds.
 
Small gains - good gains. Meanwhile, across the pond of despair..
 

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Good morning everyone on a pleasantly warm and breezy start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this a.m. and already The Girl In The Bubble has been collected by Mrs Miggins - it’s all hands to the sails during summer holidays to support working parents. No idea what we will be doing today which is exciting in itself. I have a single fennel bulb that needs using today so it will probably end up being roasted in the oven with some other veg and some parmesan grated over it. Will need some protein. Art bit - well there are some trees. Hope your day does not contain the word infelicitous. Mine will surely contain the word brunch at some point. But first, some koffy.
 

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You have done brilliantly @Lamont D as have many of us who have faced adversity from parents/school etc when there was no need. I always had my art no matter what anyone said or did, even my art teachers were derogatory of my work. I am shedding all that.
Thank you for my compliments x
 
Thank you for sharing the wonderful art and the earlier cartoon. I need to look around NYT to see their humour. As for sedentary, that can't be an absolute based on step count. The rest of us must be pretty sedentary compared to Noah Lyles and my METS now aren't the same as when I was 25. Have a great day.
 
A gentle breeze @ianpspurs
You are the lucky one...
A heatwave here...

Thanks for the lyrics. No, you can't trust Monday, the promised cloudy sky has fled, clear blue skies, and garden temperature in shade is already 25 and unbreathable...
 
Wow I love these trees @dunelm ...the thicker strokes of the mountains, and the simple lines of the trees...
 
Fbg 6.9
Okay short post
Day is already too hot here.
So a kaleidoscope for Creative, no time to do a painting, so I can do some jobs/work before this hot day totally saps my energy...

Nighttime wildlife video
38 secs
Badgers by the Swing

Have your best day

Kaleidoscope is in Laboscope and it is of a wildflower Red Campion

Have fun

I'll look in later when I am flaked out on my bed having an afternoon siesta....

 
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Another low alarm from the Libre around 01.45. Not too low (3.7) but had a couple of fruit pastilles to stop any further drop. 6.8 on waking - 6.3 by the time I got through to the kitchen. Not happy about having to take so many fruit pastilles these days. I used to like them, but don't any more. Not sure if that is my tastes changing or the recipe for the sweets changing. Not sure what the ingredients used to be but I notice that there are one or two extra processed sugars in them now, as well as plain sugar. Still, I don't have to enjoy them, they just have to work.
 
Very pretty kaleidoscope. We usually have lots of red campion but, so far, they are not flowering here.
 
Thank you for sharing the wonderful kaleidoscope. My mum had a friend whose surname was Campion. I never knew there was a wildflower called Campion, possibly because anything not part of a cash or food crop was considered a weed to be eliminated asap in my homeland. Hugs for how the heat impacts you (will be well over 35 in our sun trap back garden, mid to high 20s indoors - lounge in full sun, 26 at the weather station here but I'm very happy with that) which links back to the point about sedentary/energy/effort expenditure v Noah Lyles. Take it easy.
 
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Have you thought of buying a cooling jacket with fans built in may help keep you cool.
 
Thank you @ianpspurs
I will take it easy...you too...
 
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