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

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg this morning at 05.30 4.7.

 

[dunelm]

Fbg this morning at 05.30 4.7.

Smashing FBG

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on what might be a bit of a chilly start here in the dark and dangerous north. A busy morning of excitement today; veteran’s breakfast club (with 20% off this time), farmer’s market with all those greengrocerer’s apostrophe’s and then a shift on the poppy stall. Art bit - a bit minimalist but I stopped there. Hope your day is exciting - in a good way. The universe is change, life is opinion. I need some koffee.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.6:this morning.
Ankle still improving.
After classes today we are off for a meal with friends. Am really looking forward to it.

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on what might be a bit of a chilly start here in the dark and dangerous north. A busy morning of excitement today; veteran’s breakfast club (with 20% off this time), farmer’s market with all those greengrocerer’s apostrophe’s and then a shift on the poppy stall. Art bit - a bit minimalist but I stopped there. Hope your day is exciting - in a good way. The universe is change, life is opinion. I need some koffee.

I love this calming minimalist art bit.... @dunelm

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all from another dull but non hive triggering start here in L.A. I will leave the fbg testing or any bg testing until after the feedback from my latest scan so I'm a bit of a fraud here, sorry. @JohnEGreen hopefully you are pleased with that fbg. @dunelm a very busy day ahead. Is the 20% off the portions or cost - perhaps shrinkflation hasn't arrived there yet? I hope the apostrophe harvest this year has been bountiful way up north, yet another cause for pleading poverty by the Grain Barons and hedge funds here in the nation's bead basket. Thank you for sharing the art - very agreeably more is less. We acquired this year's Martinmas goose and a few more goodies from Lidl yesterday so job done and goose for Sunday roast. #thankful - I miss that wreath on our neighbours' (but two) door. I wish you all peace, the best health you can realistically expect and a thankful soul. I'm pretty sure excitement alters the human ecosystem in ways both mysterious and detrimental. Stay calm and drink kale juice.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. If you don’t feel you fit info either of those categories me, me’s and myself can offer no advice.

Blood sugars this morning were a disastrous for me 4.8

Now I must depart from this forum for today, me, me’s and myself have things to do, places not to go to and people to annoy. Life is good and also fun in the words of starwars …..make it so.

 

[jjraak]

Life is good and also fun in the words of starwars …..make it so.

@Lamont D won't be happy.....

 

[Annb]

8.9 at 06.00 today.

 

[karen8967]

4.8 for me have a good weekend everyone

 

[ianpspurs]

4.8 for me have a good weekend everyone

Great fbg and wonderful to see you @karen8967 Take the very best care of yourself and all you hold dear, you have a special place in the hearts of people here.

 

[karen8967]

Great fbg and wonderful to see you @karen8967 Take the very best care of yourself and all you hold dear, you have a special place in the hearts of people here.

Thanks ian means a lot x

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Three Badgers - Ma & Pa & Boy Badger
This Badger family, at least Ma & Pa have been visiting since 2022. They seem to spend pretty much the whole night between my back garden and my front garden. It is a safe route where they come from the woods at the back of me and along my dead-end road for about half a dozen houses and into my garden. I am glad they don't go any further afield because there are busy roads at the very far end of my road where the traffic speeds.
They eat the worms, the snails, and slugs, and mice, and the bigger version of a mouse...
They eat all my berries, that are edible to me, and berries that are not edible to me.
They wreck my vegetable gardens, but they leave the herbs alone. My tree kale and tree cabbage they leave alone because I barricaded them in with a fireguard, but now, a few years later, the tree kale is over10 foot tall, and is well established, and still growing taller...it is difficult to pick off the leaves now. Even though the cabbage white butterflies caterpillars completely decimated all the leaves this summer stripping it back to just a tree trunk, it is literally growing back beautifully now.
I am still racking my brains how to make some high raised beds for salads and stuff, and what could I utilize.... without spending a fortune or anything (!)... I had a bit of an idea last night.... And I do have another very long metal fire guard which would be of some help...
There were some noises outside last night, and I assume it was the Badger but my cochlear sound processor makes it sound like the noises are actually in my bedroom, and I panicked for a bit thinking something had got into my bedroom, but I closed the window and the noise was less so it was outside.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCH-fhSIeKS/?igsh=Z3llNnIzZ3VmeG14

And same vid on Tiktok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdNPYv9w/
Creative...a few trees on yesterday's skyline...

Time for midday nap now....

Have your best kind of day...

 

[gennepher]

I have just had a voicemail, but I subscribe to Hullomail which sends me the text version of the voicemail.
And this usually works well.
Except for this morning ..
Here is the voicemail I received...
Is this a scam?
I do not expect any responses for this...

英文请按1,中文请按2。国民保健署NHS语音通知,您NHS需更新资料,请尽快来补习资料,以免无法使用。线上更新,英文请按1,中文请按2。


EDIT: I Google, and I find many people have received Chinese messages like this one, and the messages range from you are trouble with the Chinese embassy, to threats that this that or the other is going to be deactivated and you are going to be in severe trouble.

What did my message say...
"Please press 1 for English and 2 for Chinese. Voice notification from the National Health Service NHS: Your NHS needs to update your information. Please come to review the information as soon as possible to avoid it being unusable. For online update, please press 1 for English and 2 for Chinese."

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Three Badgers - Ma & Pa & Boy Badger
This Badger family, at least Ma & Pa have been visiting since 2022. They seem to spend pretty much the whole night between my back garden and my front garden. It is a safe route where they come from the woods at the back of me and along my dead-end road for about half a dozen houses and into my garden. I am glad they don't go any further afield because there are busy roads at the very far end of my road where the traffic speeds.
They eat the worms, the snails, and slugs, and mice, and the bigger version of a mouse...
They eat all my berries, that are edible to me, and berries that are not edible to me.
They wreck my vegetable gardens, but they leave the herbs alone. My tree kale and tree cabbage they leave alone because I barricaded them in with a fireguard, but now, a few years later, the tree kale is over10 foot tall, and is well established, and still growing taller...it is difficult to pick off the leaves now. Even though the cabbage white butterflies caterpillars completely decimated all the leaves this summer stripping it back to just a tree trunk, it is literally growing back beautifully now.
I am still racking my brains how to make some high raised beds for salads and stuff, and what could I utilize.... without spending a fortune or anything (!)... I had a bit of an idea last night.... And I do have another very long metal fire guard which would be of some help...
There were some noises outside last night, and I assume it was the Badger but my cochlear sound processor makes it sound like the noises are actually in my bedroom, and I panicked for a bit thinking something had got into my bedroom, but I closed the window and the noise was less so it was outside.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCH-fhSIeKS/?igsh=Z3llNnIzZ3VmeG14

And same vid on Tiktok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdNPYv9w/
Creative...a few trees on yesterday's skyline...

Time for midday nap now....

Have your best kind of day...

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Thank you for sharing the video and creative of the trees on the skyline. I'm thinking the birds are pigeons and this is the dust cover for the soundtrack - lyrics may well be a heartfelt lament for swathes of the USA. I'm slightly discombobulated after Trump 2 but the attached made I larf, how else does one make sense of it all unless .......

Proportionally more or less than here in the UK? In Clacton-a-Largo and Kemiworld the betting seems to be on less because they need it to be more here to sustain 2 spite (I'm being careful there) filled parties of the right.

 

[Annb]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Three Badgers - Ma & Pa & Boy Badger
This Badger family, at least Ma & Pa have been visiting since 2022. They seem to spend pretty much the whole night between my back garden and my front garden. It is a safe route where they come from the woods at the back of me and along my dead-end road for about half a dozen houses and into my garden. I am glad they don't go any further afield because there are busy roads at the very far end of my road where the traffic speeds.
They eat the worms, the snails, and slugs, and mice, and the bigger version of a mouse...
They eat all my berries, that are edible to me, and berries that are not edible to me.
They wreck my vegetable gardens, but they leave the herbs alone. My tree kale and tree cabbage they leave alone because I barricaded them in with a fireguard, but now, a few years later, the tree kale is over10 foot tall, and is well established, and still growing taller...it is difficult to pick off the leaves now. Even though the cabbage white butterflies caterpillars completely decimated all the leaves this summer stripping it back to just a tree trunk, it is literally growing back beautifully now.
I am still racking my brains how to make some high raised beds for salads and stuff, and what could I utilize.... without spending a fortune or anything (!)... I had a bit of an idea last night.... And I do have another very long metal fire guard which would be of some help...
There were some noises outside last night, and I assume it was the Badger but my cochlear sound processor makes it sound like the noises are actually in my bedroom, and I panicked for a bit thinking something had got into my bedroom, but I closed the window and the noise was less so it was outside.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCH-fhSIeKS/?igsh=Z3llNnIzZ3VmeG14

And same vid on Tiktok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdNPYv9w/
Creative...a few trees on yesterday's skyline...

Time for midday nap now....

Have your best kind of day...

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Any possibility of putting up some kind of hanging planters? Or something screwed to a wall too high for badgers to reach?

 

[dunelm]

I love this calming minimalist art bit.... @dunelm

Thank you @gennepher

 

[dunelm]

4.8 for me have a good weekend everyone

Smashing and good to see you @karen8967

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Three Badgers - Ma & Pa & Boy Badger
This Badger family, at least Ma & Pa have been visiting since 2022. They seem to spend pretty much the whole night between my back garden and my front garden. It is a safe route where they come from the woods at the back of me and along my dead-end road for about half a dozen houses and into my garden. I am glad they don't go any further afield because there are busy roads at the very far end of my road where the traffic speeds.
They eat the worms, the snails, and slugs, and mice, and the bigger version of a mouse...
They eat all my berries, that are edible to me, and berries that are not edible to me.
They wreck my vegetable gardens, but they leave the herbs alone. My tree kale and tree cabbage they leave alone because I barricaded them in with a fireguard, but now, a few years later, the tree kale is over10 foot tall, and is well established, and still growing taller...it is difficult to pick off the leaves now. Even though the cabbage white butterflies caterpillars completely decimated all the leaves this summer stripping it back to just a tree trunk, it is literally growing back beautifully now.
I am still racking my brains how to make some high raised beds for salads and stuff, and what could I utilize.... without spending a fortune or anything (!)... I had a bit of an idea last night.... And I do have another very long metal fire guard which would be of some help...
There were some noises outside last night, and I assume it was the Badger but my cochlear sound processor makes it sound like the noises are actually in my bedroom, and I panicked for a bit thinking something had got into my bedroom, but I closed the window and the noise was less so it was outside.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCH-fhSIeKS/?igsh=Z3llNnIzZ3VmeG14

And same vid on Tiktok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdNPYv9w/
Creative...a few trees on yesterday's skyline...

Time for midday nap now....

Have your best kind of day...

View attachment 70564

Lovely trees on the skyline. Saw some raised beds in Norway this year. They looked like lined orange boxes on legs and seemed to do quite well.

 

[gennepher]

Thank you for sharing the video and creative of the trees on the skyline. I'm thinking the birds are pigeons and this is the dust cover for the soundtrack - lyrics may well be a heartfelt lament for swathes of the USA. I'm slightly discombobulated after Trump 2 but the attached made I larf, how else does one make sense of it all unless .......
View attachment 70566
Proportionally more or less than here in the UK? In Clacton-a-largo and Kemiworld the betting seems to be on less because they need it to be more to sustain 2 spite (I'm being careful there) filled parties of the right.

Thank you @ianpspurs
Beautiful words...on the song...