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

Thanks Ian....
 
I really enjoyed my shopping trip to Tesco. Normally I am too busy working to go shopping, so it was so lovely to be able to join Mr K on our little trip to get the Yeo Valley organic milk. Plus I found an interesting hazelnut flavoured coffee pod.

I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
 
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Chance would be a fine thing! Why not enjoy it?
 
Fbg 6.4

Encaustic painting. A painting. using wax and hot iron to draw with...

Too hot this weather...I hope it doesn't mean the opposite extreme for winter...

I am having a wee rest sitting at my open window at the moment watching the bumblebees who are working very hard collecting pollen in the mallow flowers..

Time to lock up...

Have a good evening....

 
I wasted hours this afternoon, trying to find some information on the internet. I couldn't find it of course.

Back in 1533, Tom had a 13x great uncle who is recorded to have died, in a coaching incident. It was in a report from another 13x great uncle to the court of James VI (of Scotland). The incident gave rise to a myth of "the headless coachman of Blebo" who apparently still appears at Blebo where people have heard a rushing wind and clattering of horses hooves. Since only the noises have been heard, I don't know how they know the coachman is headless, but that is by the way. What I am trying to find out is how Andro Trail actually died in 1533. There are plenty of references to that old coachman, but nothing about what actually happened.

It struck me that coaches, as we might imagine them would probably not have existed at the beginning of the 16th century - there were no made up roads in Scotland at that time, or very few. I doubt that Blebo, near Cupar in Fife had more than tracks back then. So, part of the time wasted was used trying to find out when "coaches" first came to Scotland. Apparently they didn't come to England until the late 16th century, so in Scotland in 1533, it wouldn't have been what we know as a coach now - probably a covered wagon of some sort.

Turns out that riding in a coach, once they were invented (at the turn of the 15th/16th centuries, probably in Hungary), was not allowed unless the traveller was infirm in some way - women were actually not allowed to ride in a coach in France at that time, and men wouldn't dream of doing so (effeminate - real men rode horses or walked and really infirm folk would be carried in a palanquin, slung between 2 horses, fore and aft). However, Elizabeth I had a kind of horse drawn coach which was just a frame on wheels with curtains that could be pulled across when required and driven by a postillion riding one of the 2 horses. Fascinating.

I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
 
So much to read, I was only off for 3 days!
dunelm said:
Blimey, I only use a lancet once.
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I did that at first but due to a prescription snafu and very elusive capillaries I was rapidly running out, so I decided to use them twice. Then I read about people who only changed theirs every year and decided in the interests of economy and waste reduction to see how long I could make each one last. After between 5 and 20 days it gets too blunt to draw blood so I change it.

Lamont D said:
as one of the carers has said, Mrs L has turned a corner.
and her mental health practitioner is so pleased with Mrs L.
Roll on the escape.
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That must be such a relief. Hoping for continued progress and some more restful time for you too.
Krystyna23040 said:
I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
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If you don't get to do it very often, shopping, even for groceries, can be a treat. I'm very much looking forward to a Morrisons shop that has been repeatedly deferred since last September! Looks like it might actually happen in the next few weeks
Annb said:
I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
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I'm a bit like that too, I don't see it as lacking focus, just that there are so many fascinating facts/ topics that my brain wants to look deeper into. I do try to park them for later attention, which is why my browser has approximately 1 billion open tabs.

One thought just leads to three or more others, and I follow up as many as I can manage. Today's "research" has included "useful" things like Blue Badge rules in Scotland, various medical issues such as interpreting cholesterol test results and checking whether students should register with a dentist at their home or term-time address, and "frivolous" things like Squishmallows and the German for "umbrella". I can't shut my brain off and don't really want to.

FBG today was 10.1, an improvement on the recent 11s and 12s.

Diabetes nurse readily accepted my reasons for not wanting to take an SGLT2i and has offered Mounjaro, which surprised me. Next appointment is 3rd September so have a few weeks to weigh up pros and cons. I don't mind temporary gastric slowing but am pretty sure I read an account of someone whose gastroparesis was permanent after coming off it. Gliclazide will apparently never be a possibility at this practice so no point asking again. What to do? Hmm...
 
Just tried to look over the fields to the next village - about 500 yards away from our outpost in this village - but couldn't see it! Visibility is about 100 yards. Can only just about see the bottom of our garden, but not much of the croft beyond it. Certainly can't see the bay.
 
debs248 said:
you don't get to do it very often, shopping, even for groceries, can be a treat. I'm very much looking forward to a Morrisons shop that has been repeatedly deferred since last September! Looks like it might actually happen in the next few weeks
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Yes, every week I wish I had the time to go shopping, so it does feel wonderful to actually be able to go shopping.
 
debs248 said:
I'm a bit like that too, I don't see it as lacking focus, just that there are so many fascinating facts/ topics that my brain wants to look deeper into.
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I am also a bit like that and often find myself going down fascinating rabbit holes when I am doing research on how our bodies move and stabilise - especially when looking at areas of the body that are very neglected by the mainstream.
 
Just had some really sad news. The husband of a class member of 25 years has just died. He actually was a class member also but the last few years was unable to come to classes because of his declining health. He was such a lovely person and coped really well in the class even though he was blind.
 
Fbg 6.8

Encaustic painting... my creative for today.
It is a painting created with wax using heat, and I used a household iron.

I rather like the abstract quality of this one...

The badgers are being a blooming nuisance....

They have taken to coming down the kitchen passage and trying to mess up all my rubbish, knock my big heavy wheelie over and scatter everything, when I've spent hours putting the stuff in and I have to spend hours clearing it up again and disinfecting, et cetera... I am having more steps backwards than I am having forward at the moment.

I did have a wooden gate put on both passages on each side of the house but something chewed through them. I assume the badgers. I have tried to block the kitchen passage off again but did not succeed.. it has a locked gate at the other end so they can't get in or out that way. But I can do nothing about the gate at the top end of passage where they chewed through. I'm not wasting money having a gate put in again. I do have two fire guards which were both specially to protect my plants and now I am using them to protect my bins.. I have ordered a new fire guard and where the gate is, that metal fire guard is going, and will be bungee corded in place. It's all I am capable of doing..

My only problem now is Midnight. That cat has never learnt to jump up or down. He can climb. He can abseil. He can slide down as if he is sliding down a scree, but he cannot jump...

He could squeeze through the slats in the gate, just... but I don't know how he's going to get over this fire guard...

Online tells me that as long as this metal thing is 3 foot high the badger cannot get over it..... you wanna bet....

These badgers move things to where they want to climb up and use them for climbing up onto the thing they want to get onto....

There is nothing, no food or anything to attract the badgers in my black wheelie bin. The only problem I have is the sachets of cat food. I can bag them several times over and put them in the wheelie but the badgers still know they are in there and since we do not get our black wheelie bins collected for three weeks each time you can imagine the problem I have with that blooming badger family.....

The lid of my wheelie was bungee corded down last night. Yet the badgers managed to push the wheelie over get the cord off and proceeded to open all my bagged stuff. That was what I faced this morning when I woke up and I still have not recovered.. I need to be getting on with my tidying and sorting... in the bungalow.


It was suggested that I soak some rags in white vinegar and put them all the way up and down that passage and on the bins and round the bins, and the recycle stuff, I have done that.

The badgers are a big problem round here for the entire neighbourhood. And people are trying everything to block them out of their gardens. Some people have brought those plastic type little stations. I don't know what you call them, but you can put your wheelie bin in it and the rest of your recycle. Our recycle is just in plastic sacks and I tie mine to a metal rose arch that I have put in the passage (especially for this purpose) so they are really high up and the badger cannot reach them. However, if the badger can get hold of the plastic sack, that plastic presents no problem to the badger wrecking them and getting my cardboard and tetrapacks and tins and plastic bottles out...

The only thing that would work apparently would be wood or more probably a steel thing to cover your wheelie and your recycle, now who can afford all that...

I have sent a request into the Council that we have proper wheelie bins for the rest of the recycle.

So the whole of today has been dealing with rubbish when I should've had a day off that kind of stuff.... modern life is not easy....


Anyway, when my fireguard arrives tomorrow, I think it is, I shall try and see if I can block the badgers from getting in the top end of the passageway. And Midnight is just going to have to learn to jump. ...

Have a good evening

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Those badgers are truly a nightmare @gennepher
 
8.8 when I gave up on sleep at 02.20 today. By 07.00 it was 10.5 - that was after a cup of coffee.

Neil has just this minute gone to drop the Scenic at the garage for them, finally, to fix the suspension. With luck, we'll get it back by tomorrow.

Fairly bright, but still breezy here today.
 
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