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

gennepher said:
You need to keep your mouth closed when in the garden @Lamont D
You have to in my garden otherwise the clouds of flying midges will enter...flying up nostrils is their next bit of fun...
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And in mine, there swarms of em in the garden and footie pitches.
I have seen dragonflies, midges, gnats, so many flies, but luckily no mozzies.
 
gennepher said:
I realise those Kaleider kaleidoscopes may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I so enjoy doing them...
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Oh I don't know @gennepher, it looks as though you had some fun with those kaleider kaleidoscopes and revealing your source material introduces another dimension. It's extraordinary the contrasting patterns that emerge from the same photos!

Thursday's FBG 4.6 mmol/L on waking at 6.00 am.
 
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Poor wood pigeons, but I expect they make a good meal for the Sparrowhawk @LivingLightly
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Yes, it's thought that a female bird can survive for up to 6 days afterwards without food!

Of course male sparrowhawks being smaller in size prey on correspondingly smaller birds; in our neighbourhood chiefly starlings and blackbirds. They can be expected to hunt again within 3 days.


Thursday's FBG 4.6 mmol/L on waking at 6.00 am.
 
One should be careful of what you wish for I had hoped to for consistency and now seem to have it with a reading yet again of 6.9.
As for food standards I no longer drink tap water when I can I by meat from an organic pasture fed source that do not use pesticides and all vegetables are washed before use.
I have been wondering of late about those of us using the Libre sensors as to which one people are using whether they have stuck with the Libre 2 or are using the Libre 2+ or if they are splashing out on the Libre 3 if self funding I am unsure as to if the extra cost of the Libre 3 is worth the money.
 
smashing colours and patterns
 
Good morning everyone on yet another all things bright and beautiful start the the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.3 this a.m. Dinner out with my brother and his partner last night. They will be calling round for koffy in a while and then heading for home. Mum and I are then going out so that she can buy some wool and silk thread. She is on with a silk and cotton crochet bag for a cousin of mine and then wants to crochet a round the neck pouch for her mobile phone (that she always forgets to both charge and to take with her when going out). She has an alarm button round her neck but try and convince her that a mobile phone is a handy tool when help is needed! Art bit, ink splodges. Hope your day moves smoothly on, best make mum her morning lemon and honey drink.
 

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Morning all on a dull start to Super Salmon Salad day here in L.A. Libre 2+ here @JohnEGreen and it would have me believe my fbg was 4.7 which is as likely as many another random number I may have been proffered. @dunelm thank you for sharing today's splendid example of your artistic skills. Your post suggests you are back in England - have I misunderstood? #1 son finally had confirmation that he has passed his MSc with distinction yesterday and his son, #1 grandchild, cut our lawns. As he was doing the front ones (I was watching) a man from a house opposite said if he wanted to earn more money he could weed an area of his driveway. He worked hard on that, with some help and tips from me, which made me feel blessed to see and share that. He called in on his way to school just now to see if the man had paid up, which he hadn't. I felt bad for that but as I don't carry cash - haven't for years - I couldn't pay what I think it was worth Anyhow, I hope there are better moments today for him, me and you all.
 
Was wakened twice in the night by my Libre to let me know my BG was in the 3's. Fruit pastilles to bring it back up both times. Same thing again after I got up but it seems to have sorted itself out now, after 2 cups of tea. Now in the 5's which suits me much better.

Left hand playing up again today but I've found one of my support gloves to help a bit. Not sure what I did to deserve that, unless it was prising the tight, plastic lid off of a canister yesterday. It seems to take less and less to cause pain in muscles and joints.
 
Thank you @LivingLightly
 
Agree with this. Have had two really horrendous drives in UK. Motorway traffic, bad weather and hours of delays.
Shoulders hands and one knee are aching, eyes gritty too. Altogether a very unpleasant experience and a collosial waste of time.
 
That is interesting @LivingLightly
 
Have a great day with your mum hunting for wool and silk threads.

I like the autumnal art bit @dunelm
 
Thank you @ianpspurs - still in France with my mum - returning to UK on Monday
 
SlimLizzy said:
Agree with this. Have had two really horrendous drives in UK. Motorway traffic, bad weather and hours of delays.
Shoulders hands and one knee are aching, eyes gritty too. Altogether a very unpleasant experience and a collosial waste of time.
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The traffic has become horrendously bad on expressways and motorways, with more queues and traffic works than I have ever seen before. I am so glad I do not have to drive to work and I'm so glad I am not one of those lorry drivers or container drivers that have to keep the tight schedules which they just cannot do. Once they reach the open road they speed, and the way some of those loads are anchored or tied on (looks inadequate to me) the load looks incredibly unstable from the back, and I just want to get the heck off that road.
 
On driving, a note for anyone visiting Mordor, as @alf_Josiah calls it ...lol

(Headline says weekend, but details say Sunday....mmm )

BBC News - World Car Free Day: 200 London streets to close - BBC News

World Car Free Day: 200 London streets to close

Hundreds of streets across London will be closed at the weekend to mark World Car Free Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
Have planned shopping trip for Saturday. Sunday is almost always at home anyway, so I can bask in the righteous glow of having participated in World Car Free day.
 
20.09
9.10am FBG 5.8
Had a reasonable drive MK to Portsmouth, on 18th, which left me with hours to kill in an unprepossessing town. Better that though than traffic delays causing stress. Yesterday day drive from ferry to home. Not too much distance, but after a nearly sleepless night on the ferry, more difficult than it should be. Sat Nav not helpful at all. After a couple of false starts realised it was insisting I return to the ferry port. Tried and failed to reprogramme the unfamiliar device. Had to use Google maps on my phone. Forty five min journey took well over an hour. Shoulders and hands are aching. Probably been gripping the steering wheel too tightly.
Survey of house and garden. House ok, just dusty. Drifts of cat fur in places Kiki has had access too.
Garden simultaneously soaking and droughted. Tomato plants in pots just about surviving. Grass ankle deep and sopping wet. Greenhouse: some plants have done very well others look sickly.
Plenty of work for me here.
Kiki appears and seems pleased to see me for about the ten minutes it takes to unload the car, but as soon as she has access disappears into the loft to luxuriate in being indoors during the day. While we are away she is shut out doors in daytime, but spends the night indoors.
Watered everywhere that needed it. Picked up apples, three compost sacks full from half the garden and removed a few molehills in the same area then got out the mower. It struggled a bit, the grass is long and in places, still damp, now the top half of the garden looks like a hayfield.

Today will attempt to cut the rest, after preparation (apples, molehills, walnuts)
Then hopefully use the other mower to collect the grass cuttings from yesterday.
Am considering pulling out all the tomato plants in decorative pots and replacing with bulbs. Ready for spring and possible remarketing of house. I can't see how the agent can show people round in winter with the power off. Not leaving it on because if, when, I do go back to UK is likely to be for several months.
My daughters house is in a terrible state. Needs a complete refurb. Roof repairs including some rafters and purlins( don't ask, I don't know) the upstairs is being reconfigured with some walls and the stairs ( which are completely gone) moved. New walls upstairs. Floors and ceilings absolutely everywhere. Total rewire with upgrades. Ethernet. Plumbing too. There will be a new ensuite and family bathroom is being moved. New ground floor cloakroom, desperately needed in a house with family of six. The kitchen did have a useable sink until yesterday when the ceiling was taken down and the tap got broken. Not sure how they are managing now.
Am not sure how useful I would be in the building work, but I can carry stuff to skip. Hand tools to person on ladder and clean the smoke stained walls still standing.
More importantly I will be there to look after MrSlim. Who has a tendency to overdo it and has already had to take a day off because he wasnt fit to work. He appears to be living on something on toast too. Am now nagging him to get the oven fixed as a priority.
The bed in the caravan is not comfortable and neither of us are used to the noise of a busy city, which makes sleeping difficult.
Am feeling a bit guilty for enjoying the luxury of a long hot shower followed by ten hours of sleep. Woke only once, disorientated, had to put my phone on to work out where I was. Have slept in four different places in the last week.
it's so good to be home but feels very strange and quiet without MrSlim here.
 
How terrible that such a young life has been lost in this dreadful way. My heartfelt sympathies to his family who must be devastated by this tragedy.
 
5.6 this morning.
Because I m so up to date with admin we were able to go on a little jaunt.
We went to our local vet to order Poppy's tick tablets and get her weighed and then walked across to the farm shop, and then wandered over to the garden centre.

Both were dog friendly so Poppy could come with us. Once we had made our purchases we went to the new coffee shop next to the vet - which is also dog friendly.

The coffee was superb. It was such a relaxing morning.
 
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