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

geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.4 this morning

been a mixed day of sunshine and showers with many spectacular clouds :)

@lindisfel - was also out at 08.00am to Lidl :hilarious:

shopping day interrupted for mr gee to go see the DN to get his toes etc. tickled for the first time since he was only diagnosed a few days ago.
The rest of us aren't getting an HbA1c done any time soon, we've been put back to yearly because of the covid ;) , my foot etc. inspection was due at the beginning of September :sorry:

Still got loads of posts to catch up on :bag:

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@Muddy Cyclist - I absolutely love that picture of Typhan, so dramatic and with a lovely colour palette, enjoy your music :)

@dunelm - splendid tree and very well rooted in it's background landscape :)

@gennepher - I like that and for a first shot with a new program that's impressive :)

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Thank you.

Same here with HbA1c and Annual Check, next June for me if I'm lucky, annual review done on phone this year.
I like your hay field painting, I can feel the summer, beautiful.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

@gennepher - I like that and for a first shot with a new program that's impressive :)

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Thank you very much @geefull

That is a beautiful painting. The freshly cut field, and the bales of hay leading down to the sun sparked lake. And the wonderful rolling hills against that effective sky, brings back memories of the past...
 
The cathedral is a spectacular building and is worth a visit.
It once had spires on top of the towers.

JohnEGreen said:
Beautiful but dangerous the Mata Hari of beverages.

Thankfully we do not go to Lincoln that often and so will stay clear of the temptation of a repeat encounter.

The truly ironic thing about it all was while we were there my daughter received a call from her consultant Gastroenterologist for her telephone consultation, and he asked her to avoid dairy foods for the next week or so.
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lindisfel said:
The cathedral is a spectacular building and is worth a visit.
It once had spires on top of the towers.
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When I joined the RAF I did basic training at the former RAF Swinderby on our first weekend pass we walked To Lincoln not a short walk but at nineteen years of age thought nothing of it but I do remember that being my first visit to the cathedral. Very impressive and of course then you did not have to pay to get in as you do now you can go in and look from the front of the church but to go any further you have to pay as I did last year as I wanted to see Katherine Swynford's tomb, as supposedly according to the family tree she was my 19th great grandmother so was curious about it.
 
gennepher said:
I am late today. Went shopping early.

Fbg 6.5

Painting for today - I had a play with iPastel app. The free version. It is a little old fashioned, but I like the way it is set out with the colour palettes. I did find something that showed you a complementary colour, then I couldn't find it again. I am a bit tired now, because I went somewhere this morning (in Wales) where there are two new shops open (that I used to cross the border into England for), and they are literally warehouse sized. Although I am on my mobility scooter, I reckon it'll need a service after trawling up and down all those aisles. And I need a sleep...

So this is only a play of a few minutes. I am tired...I will try better next time in iPastel. Probably you can gets these effects (With a few more bells and whistles) in the other painting apps I have, but I liked the simplicity of iPastel.

Cat has been chucked in potting shed to sunbathe in there, while I have all outside doors and windows open in my bungalow for a good airing, and now a well deserved nap...

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Adventurous as ever, a new digital app! There is definitely a feel that pastels have been used to create your art and without all that dust and messy fingers.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.4 this morning

been a mixed day of sunshine and showers with many spectacular clouds :)

@lindisfel - was also out at 08.00am to Lidl :hilarious:

shopping day interrupted for mr gee to go see the DN to get his toes etc. tickled for the first time since he was only diagnosed a few days ago.
The rest of us aren't getting an HbA1c done any time soon, we've been put back to yearly because of the covid ;) , my foot etc. inspection was due at the beginning of September :sorry:

Still got loads of posts to catch up on :bag:

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@Muddy Cyclist - I absolutely love that picture of Typhan, so dramatic and with a lovely colour palette, enjoy your music :)

@dunelm - splendid tree and very well rooted in it's background landscape :)

@gennepher - I like that and for a first shot with a new program that's impressive :)

Art bit -
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Thank you @geefull - lovely autumnal scene from you - your scenes always make we want to put on my walking boots and grab my coat.
 
gennepher said:
I am late today. Went shopping early.

Fbg 6.5

Painting for today - I had a play with iPastel app. The free version. It is a little old fashioned, but I like the way it is set out with the colour palettes. I did find something that showed you a complementary colour, then I couldn't find it again. I am a bit tired now, because I went somewhere this morning (in Wales) where there are two new shops open (that I used to cross the border into England for), and they are literally warehouse sized. Although I am on my mobility scooter, I reckon it'll need a service after trawling up and down all those aisles. And I need a sleep...

So this is only a play of a few minutes. I am tired...I will try better next time in iPastel. Probably you can gets these effects (With a few more bells and whistles) in the other painting apps I have, but I liked the simplicity of iPastel.

Cat has been chucked in potting shed to sunbathe in there, while I have all outside doors and windows open in my bungalow for a good airing, and now a well deserved nap...

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New app - and into it already - have fun
 
Good morning everyone from a wet and bouncingly noisy start in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of fried greed tomatoes with eggs and bacon romped home at 4.8 this am

I brought in all the green tomatoes yesterday thinking to put them in paper bags to ripen and then thought - make chutney - so I did - but then saved 4 and did fried greed tomatoes in whistlestop time. Absolutely delicious. Why had I not done this before.
Summer shed now has a coating on acrylic based waterproofing on curtesy of Mrs Miggins - I will check it once it gets light to see if it OK or in need of another coat.

Waterfalls have been featured recently so here is another, perhaps a couple of brush strokes too many but hey ho - ink on rice paper.
Have a wonderful day if you can - it’s wellies and waterproofs here I think but first some koffy.

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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wet and bouncingly noisy start in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of fried greed tomatoes with eggs and bacon romped home at 4.8 this am

I brought in all the green tomatoes yesterday thinking to put them in paper bags to ripen and then thought - make chutney - so I did - but then saved 4 and did fried greed tomatoes in whistlestop time. Absolutely delicious. Why had I not done this before.
Summer shed now has a coating on acrylic based waterproofing on curtesy of Mrs Miggins - I will check it once it gets light to see if it OK or in need of another coat.

Waterfalls have been featured recently so here is another, perhaps a couple of brush strokes too many but hey ho - ink on rice paper.
Have a wonderful day if you can - it’s wellies and waterproofs here I think but first some koffy.

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And a magnificent waterfall indeed, very fine ink work.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a wet and bouncingly noisy start in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of fried greed tomatoes with eggs and bacon romped home at 4.8 this am

I brought in all the green tomatoes yesterday thinking to put them in paper bags to ripen and then thought - make chutney - so I did - but then saved 4 and did fried greed tomatoes in whistlestop time. Absolutely delicious. Why had I not done this before.
Summer shed now has a coating on acrylic based waterproofing on curtesy of Mrs Miggins - I will check it once it gets light to see if it OK or in need of another coat.

Waterfalls have been featured recently so here is another, perhaps a couple of brush strokes too many but hey ho - ink on rice paper.
Have a wonderful day if you can - it’s wellies and waterproofs here I think but first some koffy.

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A neighbour of my sister's used to make a delicious green tomato chutney wasn't quite the same when I made some though !
 
Good morning all from a very wet Wales finally got testing strips and came in at a 7.7 this am , not a brillant number but then I did indulge in my favourite crusty bread. Nice to be back testing helps keep my on track :angelic:
 
Good Morning and 6.1 for me today.

Grand day yesterday, walk, chat and play music in the Recorder Quartet everything from The Beetles to Sarabands by Bach, then some folk on guitars, banjo, Mandolin and Psaltery no singing involved. So no art from me yesterday sorry.

Today I have to take Mrs MC to hospital to have a small lump removed from her scalp which she keeps catching whilst brushing her hair, in and out procedure. With all the NHS hold ups we are hearing about in Mrs MC's case from first seeing the GP then consultant and now operation only took 6 weeks.

I have a 99 year old Aunty, my godmother, who is in hospital with breathing difficulty, non Covid related, she lived at home on her own until last week. She is refusing medication and food and hospital rang my cousin to ask how they felt about letting her leave this world with just palliative care. In itself no one's got any issues with this but her two sons can't visit, can't discuss this with her or face to face with doctors, the hospital is in a lockdown area. It must be so scary for my Aunty and so distressing for sons, seriously hard Covid times.

Make today worthwhile. Keep safe.
 
Out the last ten years we have had migrant visitors from the Siberian Taiga, visiting our garden in four Autumns.
So when there is a 'fall' of these birds on the East Coast, as there has been, we spend hours looking through the small birds in the garden each morning during October searching with bins.

The bird in question is the tiny Goldcrest sized, taiga sprite, called the Yellow-browed Warbler.
D.
 
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