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

Morning all, I won't say good as it is a Monday after all. Thank you all for the kind words after the passing of my friend it means a lot. I have been wrestling with the meter of doom all weekend, rolling from the kitchen into the living room knocking all and sundry out of the way and generally making a mess (much to the annoyance of the better half) we must have knocked each other to a standstill! because I feel like a herd of heffalumps have ridden rough shod over me! Oh and I think it has won because after it had let me out of the full nelson head lock, it triumphantly threw a 6.7 at me! Mind the better half is more mad at the curtains she has made not "Hanging Right" than the mess I made battling the meter of doom. Enjoy the week ahead, get jobs done, lists made and completed, get the answers you want but above all have fun and tell your family and friend's that you love them, and make some memories that you can share.


Take care everyone.
 
Morning all. I woke to a 5.2 this morning. Yesterday the internet allowed me to watch the F1, except for the first 15 minutes when it crashed just as the lights went out. Then in the evening I watched the IndyCar well except for the first 15 minutes when it crashed as they were about to go green and start racing..... felt like déjà vu. Today I’m off to pharmacy and doctors, gotta phone my volunteer job and explain I can’t come as trains are on strike, and gotta phone through a medical supplies prescription drs can’t do it. Then crafting via FaceTime this morning and beading group this afternoon. I feel knackered just thinking about it all.

Anyway as promised train beading progress pic included. This is one of the number cubes to enable it to be an advent calendar.
 
gennepher said:
Aww, you made me laugh. I know none of this is funny taming the diabetic beast.
Hugs. You are doing well
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Thanks Gennepher....in the last week I have discovered I might have a bit of complacency creep ie. Mint KiKat (so not worth it) and Pasta bake (so yummy). Tbh I am surprised my FBG wasnt higher. Back on the horse today. Have a great day in the garden
 
good morning all

4.6 today

thinking we'll have a quietish day today, it's looking damp outside and I'm going to sort out a cupboard on the landing upstairs.

Tomorrow afternoon I have my annual review and will get the results of my blood test from last week. I did register for my results online but they haven't appeared yet, so as my granny would say, I shall possess my soul in patience and wait, tomorrow it is

Hope your day treats you well
 
@ianpspurs I find your view on the seasons interesting. I just couldnt live somewhere guaranteed hot and sunny every day. I like the variety of British climate. Dont you just long for a rainy day after a prolonged hot spell? However I dont like the short days of winter when it gets dark at 4pm but it doesnt last long. I always think I shouldnt need the house and hibernate.
 
Edit: ...shouldnt leave the house and hibernate.
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who sail on the good ship Venus and by dog you should have seen us......... whoops wrong forum.

I've been AWOL for a few day no names etc but this morning upon release from the arms of Morpheus my wayward and life of its own meter gave me a 5.

Well folks I have no idea what the day has planned for you all, but better make the most of it, today is the only chance we get at today.
What a load of old cobblers, I'm orf out with my mates chaos and mayhem hehehehe
 
Good morning everyone on another marvellous day - they all are really.

The wonder wheel of overdoing a fish curry with cauliflower rice and the ridiculousness of a glass (who are you kidding) of Sauvignon Blanc returned a 5.4 at 06 something or other.

This mornings “must get this done before I forget” - it takes only a few minutes for things I remember to do to just disappear from memory. It’s as easy as deleting an image on some electronic device - now you see it, now it’s gone - but a small bit of forensic software deep in the hippocampus (or the hippopotamus major) will drag it out in the middle of the night in two weeks time. A bit worrying but not as much as my increasing deafness (mind you I do get a War Pension from the government for ear damage and a damaged lower back so that’s all right isn’t it) - Anyhow - the thing this morning that woke me up was to alter the hours for the 250 step thing on my FitBit. It was set for 0700 to 1600 but lately - well since I stopped working completely really - I sometimes don’t get up until 7 and I want some peace and quiet first thing - not hurtling round the house like a dervish, trying to convince a small soulless watch that I am doing useful exercise.

Have a great day if you can - still opportunities for sunbathing and it’s cheaper now that we are into autumn. It’s not astronomical - but just wait until 23rd September and prices will be even cheaper.
 
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I wouldn’t have been able to resist the crunchy cheesy sticky bits either.
 
5.6 this morning. Today I have the grandchildren and their Great Dane Melody. Not sure what we’ll do but it’s a lovely sunny day ( so far) so garden fun and games I expect.
@dunelm I’m exactly the same with the memory of a gnat. Very frustrating.
 
Short answer is no I don't like the variety - 12 month summer, shorts, cricket and salad, lawns to cut is how I want heaven to be. Just look at the faces of the great unwashed in sunny weather compared to winter. Even more grumpy now I read 1 in 5 baby boomers - (the pig in the python) - is a millionaire. Surely, there can't be many more measures on which I am an epic failure?
 
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Magnum always referred to Hawaii as Paradise.
 
Are these 1 in 5 baby boomers all cooched up in some fancy private club in Mayfair? I know loads of baby boomers, I am a baby boomer, I am married to a baby boomer - majority still rules then - unless or course they are including those from Russia and China - yep, that will skew it.
 
I'm guessing concentration in S.E England + East Anglia with property prices and pension pots added together would easily give a million for 1 in 5. Net worth is a highly misleading figure.
 

Not long ago I watched two new programs about Woodstock that reminded me that we baby boomers -- the "Woodstock generation" -- were gonna change the world. Make love not money. Mm-hmm. Yeah yeah yeah.
I still don't know what happened.
 
ianpspurs said:
I'm guessing concentration in S.E England + East Anglia with property prices and pension pots added together would easily give a million for 1 in 5. Net worth is a highly misleading figure.
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I was amazed at house prices in Cambridge. And the "houses" being built there. They look more like garages. Very different from the university towns I have known here in the S.E. US. In these, a lot of the new housing is all for students, who apparently no longer want to live on campus in dormitories. I can't imagine how their parents afford it without being millionaires.
 
ianpspurs said:
I'm guessing concentration in S.E England + East Anglia with property prices and pension pots added together would easily give a million for 1 in 5. Net worth is a highly misleading figure.
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Ah! That would do it. You can buy a whole street in the dark and dangerous north for a few quid if you are not picky. Perhaps buy four like they did in that film “Help” and knock them through.
Personally, I prefer being with my family rather than working towards something mentioned in a will.
 
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