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

[DJC3]

Snap @Krystyna23040 5.3 for me. It’s also very windy. I slept with earplugs last night as it was so loud and having just gone down to the kitchen to make coffee, I noticed it had flooded again - the wind when it’s this strong blows the rain up into the chimney.
Off on my first Parkrun this morning. I shan’t run though ( I can’t lift my left leg properly) but a 5 k walk is a good start to the day. My home run will be The Eden Project just down the road, some bits are very steep, I think it’s meant to be one of the most difficult of the Parkruns because of this. I get puffed out just walking round there. I will treat myself to a big fry up afterwards I think.
@Muddy Cyclist your painting of the clouds inspired by the Dorothy L Sayers quote is marvellous, can’t believe it took you just an hour.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

@Muddy Cyclist your painting of the clouds inspired by the Dorothy L Sayers quote is marvellous, can’t believe it took you just an hour.

Thank you Mrs MC retired to bed at 11.30pm and I was wide awake and decided to paint so just over the hour. Hope you have a great parkrun and enjoy the fry up.

 

[UserABC2021]

6.6 this morning but it's my own fault for snacking late

1000 pages, nearly 20,000 posts, and over 282,000 views in less than a year. I cannot find another thread that comes close to those stats and it's all down to you. Your stories give life to our shared diabetic journey, you show just how unique we are in our relationship to and management of this pernicious disorder. Congratulations to you all

@Muddy Cyclist I'd be honoured to sit at your table, I miss the long debates of days gone by.

My school was a very old fashioned grammar school and we had a debating 'society' for after-school activities. It was a favourite of mine and a place where I learnt that a good debate can be pursued with equal vigour irrespective of viewpoint. Our teacher would make us change sides multiple times in a debate to stop us becoming too rigid. Years later it stood me in good stead and the other forum can often look like a battleground when it actually is no more than an intellectual version of rugby

 

[ianpspurs]

I cannot find another thread that comes close to those stats and it's all down to you.

Too modest Sir. I get the feeling you had a vision, if you will, of this thread very much along the lines of the debating society you enjoyed so much at school. If not it gladdens my, oh so cynical , heart to think that way. Either way, we are all indebted to you for creating this safe place. I just need to up my no platforming meds to avoid spoiling it.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

6.6 this morning but it's my own fault for snacking late

1000 pages, nearly 20,000 posts, and over 282,000 views in less than a year. I cannot find another thread that comes close to those stats and it's all down to you. Your stories give life to our shared diabetic journey, you show just how unique we are in our relationship to and management of this pernicious disorder. Congratulations to you all

@Muddy Cyclist I'd be honoured to sit at your table, I miss the long debates of days gone by.

My school was a very old fashioned grammar school and we had a debating 'society' for after-school activities. It was a favourite of mine and a place where I learnt that a good debate can be pursued with equal vigour irrespective of viewpoint. Our teacher would make us change sides multiple times in a debate to stop us becoming too rigid. Years later it stood me in good stead and the other forum can often look like a battleground when it actually is no more than an intellectual version of rugby

Down to your vision and it works.

You would be a very welcome guest. I went to one of the first humble Comprehensive Schools but with debating societies run along the same lines as your experience. Certainly was a good foundation for so many enjoyable discussions since those school days.

 

[HarryBeau]

My school was a very old fashioned grammar school and we had a debating 'society' for after-school activities

When completing my degree we had to participate in the mooting society we were given a fictitious case/client to represent in teams of two...I was so looking forward to it until I realised with a surname that came at the end of the alphabet (like mine) and an odd number of students in class my team consisted of one...me!

 

[PenguinMum]

Morning All. 5.6 again today. @ianpspurs I know its frustrating and I agree LC winter eating is more challenging. But you are keeping normal hba1c so hang on in there.
@HarryBeau good to hear you are better. It will probably be good to get out today. @DJC3 sorry to hear the rain got in, these are very challenging times, hope it doesnt get any worse. Enjoy the parkrun walk and the breakfast after. @OldButBold thanks for the milestone and I think we all enjoy the chatter. I am sending you a virtual toast with Taliskar! @Krystyna23040 I think your hygiene precautions are very sensible. I also think being sensible is probably the key to managing this. People shouldnt need Government campaigns to tell them to bin tissues, wash hands more often and dont cough over people. Last time I was in my nearest city a few weeks ago I counted 10 people coughing in the street without any effort to cover their mouths and that was in the space of 30 minutes. @Muddy Cyclist thanks for rhe beautiful clouds, a long time since we had a sky like that, liked the ground beneath very much too. @gennepher your sketch book trees were like willowy ladies dancing to me. It must be tricky to scale down to postcard size but will bring joy to the recipients. Glad that Popeye was fine and dandy even if it gave you interrupted sleep.
Another day at son’s new house today. Not really new but Victorian very pretty, very unloved but thats all going to change. Mr PM and the other Dad getting to grips with the damp mould in the second bedroom including removing the carpet, some emergency plumbing, light fixings being fixed, curtain poles being put up and the last of the painting. I am in charge of cleaning and catering again and being a gofer. By the time they move their furniture and themselves in next Friday it will be much more habitable.
Have a great Saturday and hope your homes stay watertight. Stay well, stay safe.

 

[Barb McD]

There’s an awful lot to be said for old school grammar education. Inter peer, inter form and house debating. The differences between listening and hearing. Opinion validation. Tolerance. The last three essential as life skills in Northern Ireland. Oh and sailing and fencing...

I was just a surprise baby, last of seven, housebound because of 70’s Belfast. All siblings almost a generation from me, all at grammar. So I could read, and did read all the time. ‘Rents were older fashioned than most, and maths was learned at my dad’s knee working out a treble Yankee at Doncaster.

Just a working class girl, aiming for stardom with nothing but a dream and a foil

Culture clash? Yes.
Did my kids go grammar? Yes.

Parsing and analysis rocks!

 

[UserABC2021]

Too modest Sir. I get the feeling you had a vision, if you will, of this thread very much along the lines of the debating society you enjoyed so much at school. If not it gladdens my, oh so cynical , heart to think that way. Either way, we are all indebted to you for creating this safe place. I just need to up my no platforming meds to avoid spoiling it.

I do hope that you will continue to post your biblical references with others, I have no objection to them and I do look up the ones I'm not familiar with. I just hope you can take it in good spirit should any of them be challenged, after all, how do we judge our faith in anything without it being tested

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Okay...

Fbg at 3:20 am is 7.1

when I went to make a cuppa early yesterday evening, I came back to the couch to find a totally fast asleep cat, Popeye, between my Berber fleece blankets. I wasn't going to disturb him, and so I took myself off to bed, expecting Popeye to rouse himself (he usually does when he realises I have gone to another location) and come and settle n the bed. But he didn't. So that was me waking up every couple of hours to check he was okay. He always seems to be awake normally, literally checking on me.

3am I went and checked on him again. He was definitely breathing (he is old, though doesn't act or look it, 28 in May he will be). Went back to bed, and moments later someone is mithering me, patting my face with his paw. So, we go off to the kitchen because he probably wants to use the cat tray after such a sound sleep (the kitchen door is always kept shut at night, I do shut all doors at night for fire safety, but if Popeye has decided to sleep in another room, then I leave interconnecting door open so he can reach me.

So, I am up very early painting...

This morning I tried doing two paintings at once. They are on totally different papers. One is the A5 sketch book I am using which is a mixed media paper. The other is a blank white index card.

The mixed media paper absorbs the watercolour paints and they look more hazy, which is a great effect for some subjects. The index card is not absorbent, the watercolours sit more on the surface, making the painting a little darker (which is what I was aiming for), and because of the nature of the index card (not meant for painting on) I cannot work into the painting in the same way as I do with the mixed media paper. But that is fine, I just have to find ways of working round it to get the effects I want.

The reason I am going small is because I belong to Postcrossing where random strangers send random strangers a picture postcard. The site issues you with an address. More people are asking for a handmade card on their bio. And I would like to do that. But send a painting. The painting will have to be postcard sized. And the reason why I am doing it on index card is so that I can glue it on a conventional postcard so I can post it. Some people still want you to send the postcard as a conventional postcard, others want you to put it in an envelope to protect it.

Anyway, over the last month, I have mailed myself a few of my paintings literally exposed on the postcard. They were pasted on to the postcard. I wanted to see if it was feasible without damage. To test it further, I out it in a postbox exposed to the elements on a Saturday, and it wouldn't get collected until the Monday afternoon. Each postcard survived out postal system intact and no damage at all to the exposed painting. One was a minimalist acrylic painting of Mount Fuji, another was a Chinese black ink drawing, the third was a collage of my painting to create something different...so it is feasible. I do have loads of ideas, far too many...I used to think ideas would run out, but they don't, ideas are unlimitless...they are are bottomless pit...

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Top one is sketch book. Bottom one is index card.

I will do this for a few days, two a day to see how it goes.

Now to get started with the day...I have some work I promised to do for someone...
Have fun
Take care
Hugs if you would like some...

Good experiment look forward to seeing more. Of this one I like the sharper and stronger colour of the non watercolour paper. Also looks very much like some of the tree lined trails of Cannock Chase.

 

[gennepher]

6.6 this morning but it's my own fault for snacking late

1000 pages, nearly 20,000 posts, and over 282,000 views in less than a year. I cannot find another thread that comes close to those stats and it's all down to you. Your stories give life to our shared diabetic journey, you show just how unique we are in our relationship to and management of this pernicious disorder. Congratulations to you all

@Muddy Cyclist I'd be honoured to sit at your table, I miss the long debates of days gone by.

My school was a very old fashioned grammar school and we had a debating 'society' for after-school activities. It was a favourite of mine and a place where I learnt that a good debate can be pursued with equal vigour irrespective of viewpoint. Our teacher would make us change sides multiple times in a debate to stop us becoming too rigid. Years later it stood me in good stead and the other forum can often look like a battleground when it actually is no more than an intellectual version of rugby

Thank you @OldButBold for creating this thread

 

[gennepher]

@gennepher your sketch book trees were like willowy ladies dancing to me. It must be tricky to scale down to postcard size but will bring joy to the recipients. Glad that Popeye was fine and dandy even if it gave you interrupted sleep.

Thank you @PenguinMum
It is tricky to go down to postcard size, but I will get used to it. And it means my daily paintings will be going some where, or some of them will!
Popeye is on my bed, purring away now...
You have a successful day!

 

[gennepher]

Good experiment look forward to seeing more. Of this one I like the sharper and stronger colour of the non watercolour paper. Also looks very much like some of the tree lined trails of Cannock Chase.

Oh great @Muddy Cyclist !
I am glad you like the sharper and stronger colour of the non watercolour paper...this is the effect I was trying to go for.
I need more practising with this....
You have a good day.

 

[SlimLizzy]

29-02-2020
8am FBG 5.7
@HarryBeau If a cough is preventing sleep I use pholcodine. It's a cough suppressant. Take only at night so sleep is possible. Comes in sugar free version as well. Ofc this depends whether you can buy it where you live.
@Muddy Cyclist thanks for the hug. Even more under the weather this morning. In both meanings of the phrase. Woke to lashing rain, howling winds, puddles in living room and kitchen. Plus a fresh wave of maggots. In both rooms. Not the best start to the day.
Later discovered next doors cat (the baguette thief) had been shut in our car overnight. Possibly up to 18 hours. Thankfully no puddles in there.

 

[HarryBeau]

If a cough is preventing sleep I use pholcodine. It's a cough suppressant. Take only at night so sleep is possible. Comes in sugar free version as well. Ofc this depends whether you can buy it where you live.

Thanks SL it is just a slight cough & I've slept pretty well through the last week...feeling so much better this morning & for the last few days...I'll still have a look for pholcodine just in case...I take warfarin so have to be careful of what I take otherwise my INR levels go haywire...I know with the Lemsip all in one I'm fairly safe so I sacrifice one for the other.

 

[Debandez]

5.8. Retirement party last night. Only thing on offer hotpot and peanuts and crisps. Designated driver so water and peanuts fir me. Hungry when I got home so 2 crackers and cheese at about midnight.

Just enjoying 2 x pork Hecks sausage with scrambled eggs whilst admiring my DUK top fan award haha

Hope the latest winds arent affecting anyone. Had a few too many peanuts last night, so far so good for me ;-)

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

29-02-2020
8am FBG 5.7
@HarryBeau If a cough is preventing sleep I use pholcodine. It's a cough suppressant. Take only at night so sleep is possible. Comes in sugar free version as well. Ofc this depends whether you can buy it where you live.
@Muddy Cyclist thanks for the hug. Even more under the weather this morning. In both meanings of the phrase. Woke to lashing rain, howling winds, puddles in living room and kitchen. Plus a fresh wave of maggots. In both rooms. Not the best start to the day.
Later discovered next doors cat (the baguette thief) had been shut in our car overnight. Possibly up to 18 hours. Thankfully no puddles in there.

Sometimes things just stack against us and we wonder why, even despair, funny old life, but I'm sure you will bounce back and in the meantime deal with whatever is thrown at you. However here is a wish for an easier time ahead.

 

[geefull]

good morning all

4.5 today

Hope your day treats you well

 

[SaskiaKC]

In observance of Leap Day my FBG did a huge leap this morning from yesterday's 7.something to 8.4. I would rather have had some bruises to remind me of my fall off the wagon yesterday. Oh, well, Better BG than BP. Onward and downward.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Fbg was 6.1 today. Far too high and quite demotivating when I consider the prospect of so little food, such high numbers and so little pleasure from all this discipline for the rest of my life. I seem to have reached my lowest weight and best bg control so those rewards have gone. Adjusting to the new normal is hard. I think the full implication of the BUT implied in T2 isn't inevitably progressive if you go LC has finally slapped me in the face. A little odd to wish everyone a great day after that but I think I'm capable of genuinely holding both those thoughts at once.

I missed your 6 as my 8 was running away with me. Oh, well, they don't call 'em Blood Horses for nothing!