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

geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.3 today

finally plucked up courage to go get my bloods done, only three months late :sorry: Weird how much I want to know, mind you when I originally phoned I was told 'we're not doing that just now'

Anyway I got my fasting bloods done this morning, now we await the results ;)
I think my HbA1c will have gone up, I've noticed it's felt more of a juggling act to keep things on an even keel since I had the covid jabs.

Went over to pick up mum's shopping list and mowed a bit of grass and managed to tweak my knee again so I'm a bit dischuffed :( Hopefully it will feel better by tomorrow :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - looks like an interestng app. I like your whale, enjoy the garden :)

@dunelm - a handsome junk, I presume they raise and lower the sail rather like a roman blind :) the battens should keep them in shape.

art bit - lots of fields of rape growing around here at the moment :)

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Our Rape fields are all finished and we have seas of Barley ripening. Nice painting capturing those bright jewels in the landscape.
 
gennepher said:
I think I have caught up, but the posts for one day (24 hours) were skipping all over the place, and I would expect, when I open up this thread that the posts are all in order from yesterday, but no. I had to skip back and forth when I realised there were missed ones. Sigh...

Fbg 6.8

My painting for today is this...

Yesterday I was going through my paint apps on my iPad. But because of the latest updates by Apple, at least 5 of them do not work at all now. And a couple are misbehaving and not working properly. And I get the message that the developer of all those apps need to update them. I have paid for some of these which now will not open up until the developer updates the apps to suit Apple. Also my sketches and paintings are locked within these apps, and I cannot access them now.

If I were a developer I think I would have thrown the towel in by now...

So I downloaded a few more (I am trying to get something that gives me the versatility of the ZenBrush3 which I deleted because of its bad behaviour and heating up my iPad enough to fry an egg on, okay an exaggeration, but it was too hot to hold with my fingers almost instantly and I had to shut the iPad down).

I was dissatisfied with nearly all of them. I know what I want, but I have to download and try them out to see if I can work with that painting app. Many of them bit the dust immediately...

Finally I ended up with Tayasui SketchesPro. It was free, although you can pay for extras, which was what I did as it was a one off payment.

This is my first messing with it.

I was going to delete it, but then I saw an eye, and a 'whale' with a tongue. So, I tried to find out how to do the colour. I am jabbing everything on the screen with my finger...and I find it. But you need to know where to jab the screen, because it is blank of 'tools' for the most part. But I am learning where to jab my finger for this invisible icon...

So, here is my first attempt with it. I will play more with it later, I need to get out in the garden while the day is still peaceful...

So, I will love you and leave you, and peek in later...
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Winner for the drive you have for experimenting. Look forward to more.
 
SlimLizzy said:
If the problem is wax, have seen several people get good results with bicarbonate of soda drops. Might be worth a try.
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Thanks, will be treating my ears to a onslaught of chemicals. :)

Frustrating thing is when my wax was last removed Specsavers did an Audiology exam and my hearing in left ear is very poor but although doctor does have a copy of these results the NHS will not take them into account. So back in the system.
 
No art as we spent the evening watching Grandaughters jumping their ponies, two firsts and a second so good evening.
 
Found out today that my phone I have had a few years, a moto g4, has not been supported by Android updates for several years and is therefore not safe to use Android 7 phones, its like using XP!
Do you guys clock this at all?
It means changing ones phone every couple of years or so? What a rip off, I usually buy things to last and look after them.
D.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.3 today

finally plucked up courage to go get my bloods done, only three months late :sorry: Weird how much I want to know, mind you when I originally phoned I was told 'we're not doing that just now'

Anyway I got my fasting bloods done this morning, now we await the results ;)
I think my HbA1c will have gone up, I've noticed it's felt more of a juggling act to keep things on an even keel since I had the covid jabs.

Went over to pick up mum's shopping list and mowed a bit of grass and managed to tweak my knee again so I'm a bit dischuffed :( Hopefully it will feel better by tomorrow :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - looks like an interestng app. I like your whale, enjoy the garden :)

@dunelm - a handsome junk, I presume they raise and lower the sail rather like a roman blind :) the battens should keep them in shape.

art bit - lots of fields of rape growing around here at the moment :)

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Hi geeful,
Perhaps one of those knee supports you can get off Amazon may help until it settles down.
D.
 
What a wonderful world, time to stop, watch, listen and appreciate the beauty. Nature will do what it will no matter how much we interfere.

Sat in my garden in total silence with a glass of red wine, peace, beauty and spiritual, what a wonderful evening. :)

23.18 pm and still warm, bliss.

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Muddy Cyclist said:
Went as expected, can't do wax, now waiting for wax removal appointment. :banghead:

Yes sad to loose my Blackberry, new Samsung is fine but offers far to much for my requirements. Kids to the rescue when I next see them to simplify things.
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Hope you get your was removal appointment soon.
It is great that kids do come to the rescue. They don't seem to find it at all difficult to sort out Tech issues.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Ta. Considering I spent a life time developing computer software I have to say I find the setup irritating, still I will conquere. :)

As for Google I accept it's algorithms as I do Amzons and many other companies, modern life, why fight it?
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yes i should have remembered your background IS in IT..:banghead:

glad i posted anyway, even if it wasn't needed....:)

enjoy the phone.

guessing the garden pic was from it.

very crisp indeed :)

lovely little spot to see the end out the end of the day.

well jel, as i'm told some say..:D



the only compensation i can find, is come the REAL ZA,
and we all convene at yours, ala shaun of the dead

i Know now what an idyliic little spot i just.... "baggsied"..
that cane chair far side, next to the Unicorn, please.

there, i said it first....:hilarious:

hope you others find as good a spot as me & my mate Muddy...;):)
 
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ianpspurs said:
Tuesday already here - what day is it where you are at? 4.8 on Swipey from yesterday - meh. Menu from yesterday copied and pasted - adjust Fage and Raspberries downwards, move on. I'll make an appointment for my first bloods since election day 2019 just to draw a line under this era and move on. My BG isn't very amenable to control by diet but the full panel of bloods will be useful. Great painting again @geefull and who is that artist @lindisfel? Tenacity again @gennepher so I'm looking forward to the art from the new app. Glad you aren't sore and stiff @Krystyna23040. Nice upbeat post @True Blue - tomatoes? We have 3 bought from W......ose. "Back home" there was an amazing guy who sold upwards of 50 varieties each year - 20-25p per plant. May be someone in the villages here when life opens up. Bye.
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Thanks @ianpspurs
It is going to take me awhile to find out all the settings...
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.3 today

finally plucked up courage to go get my bloods done, only three months late :sorry: Weird how much I want to know, mind you when I originally phoned I was told 'we're not doing that just now'

Anyway I got my fasting bloods done this morning, now we await the results ;)
I think my HbA1c will have gone up, I've noticed it's felt more of a juggling act to keep things on an even keel since I had the covid jabs.

Went over to pick up mum's shopping list and mowed a bit of grass and managed to tweak my knee again so I'm a bit dischuffed :( Hopefully it will feel better by tomorrow :)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)

@gennepher - looks like an interestng app. I like your whale, enjoy the garden :)

@dunelm - a handsome junk, I presume they raise and lower the sail rather like a roman blind :) the battens should keep them in shape.

art bit - lots of fields of rape growing around here at the moment :)

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Thanks @geefull
I haven't seen any rapefields yet, but then I am not not driving journeys like I used to because of Covid...
I love that patch of yellow in your painting...
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
I have two of those in our loft and some solitary bee nests, I will leave them be as they do no real harm. I feel sorry for wasps, so good for the environment and then a pest when the queen stops feeding them, we should feel sorry for them as they are only looking forward food and a bit of will power and calmness onour part will keep them away.
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I quite like wasps @Muddy Cyclist
I have hundreds and hundreds of wasps in my garden come late summer when they get drunk feeding off the aphids on my willow trees. The ants are also milking/harvesting those aphids for their honeydew. I can stand among them, or walk through them to get into my potting shed or garage. Why do people want to kill nature? I can spend hours watching them...
 
lindisfel said:
Found out today that my phone I have had a few years, a moto g4, has not been supported by Android updates for several years and is therefore not safe to use Android 7 phones, its like using XP!
Do you guys clock this at all?
It means changing ones phone every couple of years or so? What a rip off, I usually buy things to last and look after them.
D.
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This is why I had to buy the Pixel 4a recently, and I had only had my 3a just over a year, and many things were not supported now @lindisfel
 
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