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[dunelm]

Thank you, trunk one movement with paint full rigger large rigger brush.

Those are great trees you have created today, so much work. Take care going home.

Thank you, took a while. Left Birmingham at 0630, home just after 9 - roads not too congested, even the M bits round Birmingham. Didn’t stop and didn’t go to Barnard Castle

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Thank you, took a while. Left Birmingham at 0630, home just after 9 - roads not too congested, even the M bits round Birmingham. Didn’t stop and didn’t go to Barnard Castle

That's a good average speed you managed, put your feet up.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Admin this morning. Really boring but must be done.

I can hear Mr K in the kitchen preparing our lunch - Courgette pizza boats. Delicious. @ianpspurs you might like the recipe because the tomatoes, tomato paste, choritzo and mozzarella cheese completely mask the taste of the courgettes. It is not actually that high a carb content - even with the tomatoes. Daughter said that it was delicious and as good as anything she has eaten in a London Restaurant. It was from a recipe on the Sainsbury's website.

 

[ianpspurs]

Admin this morning. Really boring but must be done.

I can hear Mr K in the kitchen preparing our lunch - Courgette pizza boats. Delicious. @ianpspurs you might like the recipe because the tomatoes, tomato paste, choritzo and mozzarella cheese completely mask the taste of the courgettes. It is not actually that high a carb content - even with the tomatoes. Daughter said that it was delicious and as good as anything she has eaten in a London Restaurant. It was from a recipe on the Sainsbury's website.

Thanks @Krystyna23040. I like courgette and chorizo is high on my like list. Sainsbury's and pizza don't feature much on that list, if at all, but I'll search and set The Food Fairy an appraisal objective to try to make something edible. Alternatively, I could just eat some chorizo and tomatoes Is this the one https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/courgette-pizza-boats?

 

[lindisfel]

Thanks @Krystyna23040. I like courgette and chorizo is high on my like list. Sainsbury's and pizza don't feature much on that list, if at all, but I'll search and set The Food Fairy an appraisal objective to try to make something edible. Alternatively,

This is something we can't eat, Ian!
The bread I made for the Duchess saturday!
It not fair how some can eat carbs and have an hba1c 38@ **
D.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thanks @Krystyna23040. I like courgette and chorizo is high on my like list. Sainsbury's and pizza don't feature much on that list, if at all, but I'll search and set The Food Fairy an appraisal objective to try to make something edible. Alternatively, I could just eat some chorizo and tomatoes Is this the one https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/courgette-pizza-boats?

Yes, that's the one. We just halve it for us and it is plenty enough. As I am sitting here the smell of it cooking is wafting up the stairs to the office.

 

[jjraak]

The same old myth again this am.
All T2D's are fat, lack self control and need the Newcastle diet.
Or its the back handed remark .....? your not fat!
D.

Ahh..the Tenko diet.
believe they tried that in many places circa 1940's

not that popular, if i recall.

 

[jjraak]

Morning...an eventful Bank Holiday weekend culminated in an ambulance ride to our A+E department after a thirty four hour nose bleed which began on Sunday morning at 7am finally stopped at 8pm last night after treatment... taking Warfarin has it risks but it's better than the alternative...got home last night at 9 pm so good to walk back through the front door & get into my own bad slept for a whole seven and a half hours...haven't bothered to take FBG this morning might try later can't decide yet...just going to potter round and try to relax...keep safe everyone.

IMG..sucha worry to see so much blood.

i used to get horrendous nose bleeds, and despite the 'it's really just red water'
the worried looks on the adults faces said otherwise.

glad you are ok and back safe.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thanks @Krystyna23040. I like courgette and chorizo is high on my like list. Sainsbury's and pizza don't feature much on that list, if at all, but I'll search and set The Food Fairy an appraisal objective to try to make something edible. Alternatively, I could just eat some chorizo and tomatoes Is this the one https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/courgette-pizza-boats?

Just remembered that we did change the recipe by doubling the mozzarella cheese - we use a whole pack for our two pizza boats. The amount in the recipe wasn't enough.

 

[ianpspurs]

Just remembered that we did change the recipe by doubling the mozzarella cheese - we use a whole pack for our two pizza boats. The amount in the recipe wasn't enough.

Thanks and that makes sense to me as it all looked a little on the meagre side for me. Says the man who just ended an 19 hr fast with 4 roamine leaves spread with gaucamole, some excellent chorizo and a 26 gms bar of 85% chocolate. This is all about how little one can eat whether you call it The Newcastle diet, LC, Keto, IF or any thing else, IMHO. Jack Whitehall successfully pilloried this. At times we need to hold our hands up and say fair cop guv I'm guilty of that.
Young Whitehall:
Gluten-free ducks. Whatever next? They’ll be going keto. That’s what’ll happen. I can’t keep up with the fad diets. There appears to be a new one every week. You’ve got juicers, your fasters. The fasters, that’s the weirdest one. It’s like a cult. Fast the 5:2 diet. “Yeah, I’m doing the 5:2 diet. For five days, I eat what I like. For two days, I fast. And for seven days, I tell everyone about it.” And they’re always so desperate to tell you how good fasting is for you. It’s like: “I have eyes in my head, I can see what’s in front of me.” These people look emaciated, physically weak. Like prisoners of war. “Oh, I’m so sorry, I can’t have that biscuit. I’m actually doing a fast at the moment. It’s absolutely amazing, you’ve got to try it sometime. I haven’t made saliva for three days.” “What have you lost?” “Two stone and my vision.” “It’s honestly the best I’ve ever felt.”

 

[Krystyna23040]

Thanks and that makes sense to me as it all looked a little on the meagre side for me. Says the man who just ended an 19 hr fast with 4 roamine leaves spread with gaucamole, some excellent chorizo and a 26 gms bar of 85% chocolate. This is all about how little one can eat whether you call it The Newcastle diet, LC, Keto, IF or any thing else, IMHO. Jack Whitehall successfully pilloried this. At times we need to hold our hands up and say fair cop guv I'm guilty of that.
Young Whitehall:
Gluten-free ducks. Whatever next? They’ll be going keto. That’s what’ll happen. I can’t keep up with the fad diets. There appears to be a new one every week. You’ve got juicers, your fasters. The fasters, that’s the weirdest one. It’s like a cult. Fast the 5:2 diet. “Yeah, I’m doing the 5:2 diet. For five days, I eat what I like. For two days, I fast. And for seven days, I tell everyone about it.” And they’re always so desperate to tell you how good fasting is for you. It’s like: “I have eyes in my head, I can see what’s in front of me.” These people look emaciated, physically weak. Like prisoners of war. “Oh, I’m so sorry, I can’t have that biscuit. I’m actually doing a fast at the moment. It’s absolutely amazing, you’ve got to try it sometime. I haven’t made saliva for three days.” “What have you lost?” “Two stone and my vision.” “It’s honestly the best I’ve ever felt.”

With the much bigger portion of mozzarella cheese even Mr K says they are surprisingly filling. I think the chorizo helps as well. Will be interested to hear what you think of them.

In my opinion they are a whole lot better to eat than the dreadful soup and shakes diet from then NHS. For me - real food wins every time (of course this is just my personal opinion and I am sure that some people will do really well on a soup and shake diet).

After my first daughter was born l lost the baby weight with a Slimfast Shake diet. I lost the weight but it completely put me off shakes for life.

 

[HarryBeau]

glad you are ok and back safe

Just clearing up the debris it's the warfarin always a risk...really tired drained but feeling better than yesterday thanks...going to rest up this afternoon a Netflix day I think.

 

[ianpspurs]

With the much bigger portion of mozzarella cheese even Mr K says they are surprisingly filling. I think the chorizo helps as well. Will be interested to hear what you think of them.

In my opinion they are a whole lot better to eat than the dreadful soup and shakes diet from then NHS. For me - real food wins every time (of course this is just my personal opinion and I am sure that some people will do really well on a soup and shake diet).

After my first daughter was born l lost the baby weight with a Slimfast Shake diet. I lost the weight but it completely put me off shakes for life.

I have never tried that form of shake. I did use some recipes from a book on using Nutribullet for T2 management at the start of this and for protein shakes in month 2. The green shakes took some forcing down and convincing myself they were good for me.

 

[Krystyna23040]

I have never tried that form of shake. I did use some recipes from a book on using Nutribullet for T2 management at the start of this and for protein shakes in month 2. The green shakes took some forcing down and convincing myself they were good for me.

Perhaps Slimfast shakes have improved since 1973 when I used them. Years ago a colleague persuaded me that green shakes were really healthy and I bought a machine to make them. I am sure that green shakes are really healthy but I didn't like them and the rather expensive machine lived in the back of a cupboard for years until I found someone I could give it away to.

 

[lindisfel]

I am sure all you guys who live in towns must yearn for the bucolic life?

A poor picture but I am taken by the Herdwick lamb that is born black but progressively changes colour.
Sometimes they have these rather odd looking white goggles.

 

[gennepher]

The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.

 

[gennepher]

@gennepher - I think that this one took a couple of hours as it was so fiddly - I did a very find outline of the trunks and main branches, then small branches, finally added detail and the leaves.

wonderful - I do find this best done with a deep breath and on we go - a lot harder than it looks and I sometimes need several goes before I get one that works - like in the tale of the customer who wants the artist to paint three birds.

I was curious how long it took. I can see it would take awhile. Thanks for telling me @dunelm
It is helpful.

Yup, I remember that tale of customer and artist and 3 birds.

 

[gennepher]

How are you @Alien Aspie
Are you okay?

 

[Krystyna23040]

@ianpspurs on the subject of soups and shakes I have just read the following quote from Dr Aseem Malhotra - who always talks a lot of sense. "to imply that ultra-processed low calorie soup and shakes is the best solution to reverse Type 2 Diabetes is misleading at best and deceitful at worst. Only a minority can tolerate such a restrictive diet beyond a few days".

 

[Krystyna23040]

The nurse appointments this afternoon didn’t quite go as planned. One nurse was now doing asthma review, diabetic review, hypertension review, and pessary change. She didn’t bother with the asthma review, took blood pressure and pulse and told me it was skipping a beat every now and then but as long as I had no palpitations I had nothing to worry about. She didn’t do any of the diabetic checks. But when she tried to arrange for me to have a blood test her computer wanted to send me 50 miles away. I said I didn’t think so. Finally I got one nearer.

The problems started when she tried to take my pessary out. She panicked because she couldn’t get it out. It wasn’t until she sank to the floor in a panic attack that I realised her gloves were very bloody. She was hyperventilating. I am lying on the couch (obviously), talking to her in a calm voice. I can feel the blood flow. You’ll have to drive to A&E she said. Get a doctor I said (this is at my doctor’s surgery). You don’t understand, she replied, there are no doctors here. No doctors? You need to drive to A&E, she said again. There was no way I was capable of even getting off the couch, let alone drive the distance to A&E.

Go and ring for a doctor from another surgery I told her. She got off the floor and I could hear her panicked voice talking on the phone. Another doctor came pretty quickly from another surgery. He used a pair of scissors to cut the pessary away because it was tangled with my bladder or something by now. And he put the new one in.

I am lying down in bed at home now. Heat pads on my tummy. Paracetamol for pain. Still bleeding, but it is easing.

It is not Covid-19 that is going to kill me but a bl••dy pessary change.

Apparently this nurse and another nurse are literally running my doctor’s surgery which has no doctors. And there won’t be any flu jabs in the near future, at this surgery, because there are only these two nurses to do it.

The NHS is totally down the pan.

@gennepher That is an absolutely horrible thing to have happened. I do hope you feel a bit better very soon.