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

Hi All its that lovely part of evening after a sunny but not hot day and I am sitting in the downward rays outside with my girls gambolling around and a gin and ST to hand. Promise of summer to come, bliss. We are surronded by rapeseed fields so there is a film of mustard yellow on our cars and everywhere but especially on our Bobs (who is mainly black). Talking of nature and birds the thing I will miss depending on where we move to is the owls calling out to each other while I am in bed on a chilly night. Its a bit like well I have heard it for so many years and wont forget it, kind of like never having pizza again but not quite.
 
SaskiaKC said:
56 where I was this morning but I'm not anywhere near the Great Lakes ??????

18 here now.
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Lolololol I have thought until very recently that the "KC" stood for a Kansas City, which to me would be "points south" of the Great Lakes... but geography is the weakest of my many many weak suits
Took me until last week to put "KC" and "KittenCat" together....
 
SaskiaKC said:
What urban folks have never heard birdsong? Most of us have heard it a lot, in parks, in our gardens ... all too often, if you ask me, especially too early in the morning waking us up.

What urban folks see a lot of derelict buildings, especially left derelict so long to have any plants sprouting out of them (I don't know what ailanthus is but I am all too familiar with ivy and kudzu!).

I am really confused by your post! :)
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I was sorta being polite about the folks who live in, say, the projects in NYC or LA for example. I imagine them having very little green and precious few birds. And the ailanthus trees, being capable of sprouting in a crack in the brickwork and growing to 10-20 foot tall in a week or two, are spotted in my home city in central Virginia... we have housing projects too but the last ailanthus I saw which had volunteered in/on a building, was on a vacant building on a main drag.
Tree of heaven? The tree version of kudzu for sure. Sorry to confuse!!!!
 
zauberflote said:
Lolololol I have thought until very recently that the "KC" stood for a Kansas City, which to me would be "points south" of the Great Lakes... but geography is the weakest of my many many weak suits
Took me until last week to put "KC" and "KittenCat" together....
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Oh, dear, and there I was thinking everyone might think I was a Knight Commander. :( (Or do women get that title?) :)

I had two very dear friends who had lived in Kansas City before I knew them, who later retired there to live near some of their kids.

 
zauberflote said:
I was sorta being polite about the folks who live in, say, the projects in NYC or LA for example. I imagine them having very little green and precious few birds. And the ailanthus trees, being capable of sprouting in a crack in the brickwork and growing to 10-20 foot tall in a week or two, are spotted in my home city in central Virginia... we have housing projects too but the last ailanthus I saw which had volunteered in/on a building, was on a vacant building on a main drag.
Tree of heaven? The tree version of kudzu for sure. Sorry to confuse!!!!
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No problem -- I'm sorry if I came across as critical or anything, it is so hard to try to do tones of voice in posts. :)

I have loved Tree of Heaven ever since I first read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, one of my favorite novels since I was younger than Francie Nolan.
 
PenguinMum said:
Hi All its that lovely part of evening after a sunny but not hot day and I am sitting in the downward rays outside with my girls gambolling around and a gin and ST to hand. Promise of summer to come, bliss. We are surronded by rapeseed fields so there is a film of mustard yellow on our cars and everywhere but especially on our Bobs (who is mainly black). Talking of nature and birds the thing I will miss depending on where we move to is the owls calling out to each other while I am in bed on a chilly night. Its a bit like well I have heard it for so many years and wont forget it, kind of like never having pizza again but not quite.
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I miss the songs of crickets and treetoads on summer nights, and the rising hum of cicadas(?) on summer afternoons.
 
gennepher said:
You reminded me of when I used to go to pop concerts with my friends, even though I couldn’t hear it with being deaf. I could hug the speaker in those days (they were on the dance floor). Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band were on in 1968. And I still remember them visually even now.

So I went on You Tube. I found a partial clip of Urban Spaceman (1968) exactly as I saw it then. It really brought a smile to my face, and I can see the words he sings now!

Didn’t think much of the next act that day in 1968....two (or was there 3?) skinny lads... Tyrannosaurus Rex...rubbish...no visuals...

>^..^<

Edit!!!!
Forgot to put link on!!!!


I am playing this on repeat....

The singer is good looking isn't he ?

Memories....

Another edit: the You Tube link won't play from the app. BUT it is fine and works clicking from the webpage...flipping technology!
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Ah, that singer is Neil Innes. I met Vivian Stanshall once, on the set when Tubular Bells was being recorded - another lifetime ago.
Great memories hugging speakers.
 
@SaskiaKC GEORGE HARRISON was your dear friend?????!?!!
 
6.0 last night
5.8 at 3.30 AM well...
6.0 at 6.00 AM

I am happy at the consistency. Last night’s dinner was salmon and garden salad. I used some white wine in the dressing and realized the wine was on the sweet side. Wasn’t my favorite wine but I still had a small glass with dinner. I was a bit unsure how this would impact my numbers but they don’t look too bad.... I guess the bottle in the fridge will be done soon
 
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