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

ianpspurs said:
Morning all. As requested a little more summer here so shorts, no socks and on we go. Fbg will stay a known unknown. I did stab a few times but Tee 2, in the posh name for a shower room in the bedroom, set gave all kinds of mad messages and readings and went in the bin. Downstairs one - exactly same age meter and strips - is a jolly good boy/girl/non cisgendered/?/whatever it self defines etc device. @gennepher amazing transformation. My dyed in the wool blue family feel The Giant Squatting Toad (copyright Tim Shipman of The Times) gave a stand up comedy routine pretending the UK is actually something like your Snapseed fartnarkled work. Etonian Delboy delivers Suuny Jim's infamous crisis what crisis faux pas. Locally, huge need for pig culling which really ain't like a bacon sandwich - category error. His base don't really do Specsavers so on we go. Meantime - the text above says it all Genn.
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Perhaps the solution lies is in the short story from school. I think it was... Ho Tai discovers roast pork.
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Good morning everyone from a very calm before the storm sort of beginning here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of crazed misunderstandings decided upon a flat 6.0 this am

A day of disappearing furniture. Funny old word usage in English. I think it actually means supplies or provisions - but only if you are crazy enough to live on the wrong side of the Channel. Anyhow, More ‘stuff’ taken over to our shipping container. Let’s hope that it doesn’t go on a cruise down the Suez Canal. Apart from that, the apparent hike in the wholesale price of cheese and the possibility of free give away hog roasts it was a very quiet day, unless of course you were a fireman pumping out the Metro tracks in the middle of Newcastle. Girl in the bubble later today - she now goes to nursery two days a week - and not yet two years old. That event takes place on the last day of this month.

Art today - unfinished path along the lake - will finish it today at some point. ‘I’m in the mood for a good mood today - ‘... I dearly wished I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.’ (Terry Pratchett). Where’s my koffy


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08.10
8.10am (nice bit of synchronicity there)
FBG 5.4
One hour later after CWC and 2 eggs scrambled with knob of butter BG 6.1
Lazy start to the day, messing about on laptop. That won't help BG, I had better get moving.
Have just realised my reluctance to get dressed stems from an anticipated visit to opinionated neighbour later this morning... Have stress indigestion which is whst revealed what was going on subconciously. Will be so glad when she is gone for good.
Her husband is a nice cheerful fellow. Will miss him.
 
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5.8 this lovely warm and sunny morning. Flu jab this afternoon. Should have visited the podiatrist yesterday but she is self isolating because her husband and daughter have Covid 19. Their daughter caught it at school.

had a lovely chat yesterday with a friend and then with Archie's first owner who still loves to hear how he is getting on - even after all these years.

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

A horrendous calculating causing 4.6 this morning, all my usual methods of determining my insulin dosage have been tried, but the one that proved effective was holding a wet finger up in the breeze.
I would like to get my blood sugars up to 5.5 then I shall feel confident in going out this morning on my motorcycle.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have a great day and stay safe.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

A horrendous calculating causing 4.6 this morning, all my usual methods of determining my insulin dosage have been tried, but the one that proved effective was holding a wet finger up in the breeze.
I would like to get my blood sugars up to 5.5 then I shall feel confident in going out this morning on my motorcycle.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have a great day and stay safe.
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Hope the levitation act on bg levels works so you can escape Tilehurst Towers. Double edged sword though. Great for you and Mrs A J but haven't those poor Brits suffered enough recently?:angelic:
 
alf_Josiah said:
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

A horrendous calculating causing 4.6 this morning, all my usual methods of determining my insulin dosage have been tried, but the one that proved effective was holding a wet finger up in the breeze.
I would like to get my blood sugars up to 5.5 then I shall feel confident in going out this morning on my motorcycle.
Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have a great day and stay safe.
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Hope the jelly babies (other emergency treatments available) get you above the minimum requirement for riding.
 
Turkey ordered for farm gate collection (who picks hers up now? ) December 23rd (gotta luv paypal pay in 3 - way less painful than 1 hit). I'll drive my own vehicle so no HGVs needed thanks Bozo. Just a traditional, iconic British made RR - if there is any diesel left. Worst case scenario we cook it on the barbeque if Vladimir turns off the taps.:angelic:
 
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Two Nuthatches at feeders this am. Friends down the road husband turned round to see a Kingfisher on his garden seat the other day, but they are right close to the river and it does flood their garden but the house is a meter above the normal flood plain limit.

If it floods us the ones living in the hamlet will have be a sons of Noah like Alf.
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One more for @gennepher and any others interested. I managed to get my blood sugars up to a safe level to ride this morning, I only did approx 52 miles there and back.ACCC422F-46BA-4099-9248-89E9A1DDA36A.jpeg

This is one of my favourite stop off haunts for a good koffy, usually on the return journey. Interestingly this pub was once owned by Johnny Morris of Animal Magic fame, but it has changed owners a few time since. It has 2 large car parks and extensive gardens.
Now the technical bike bit. It is blue, has black tyres and has a twin cylinder 700cc engine, weighs 60kg less than my old 1000cc 4 cylinder Honda CBF.
 
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lindisfel said:
I bet its hard keeping that one down to 70, Alf, on the open road!
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not as bad as it’s predecessor, but the bike is more for A and B roads ie in bike terms twisties so not as bad as you might think, bit of advanced motorcycling terms now, more counter steering and slightly opening the throttle. This does explain why I like to get way up’s norf when I can. Also it explains the total futility of speeding in a jam jar, ie car.
 
alf_Josiah said:
not as bad as it’s predecessor, but the bike is more for A and B roads ie in bike terms twisties so not as bad as you might think, bit of advanced motorcycling terms now, more counter steering and slightly opening the throttle. This does explain why I like to get way up’s norf when I can. Also it explains the total futility of speeding in a jam jar, ie car.
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You would enjoy the Penrith Alston Road. No good in a Jamjar!
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alf_Josiah said:
One more for @gennepher and any others interested. I managed to get my blood sugars up to a safe level to ride this morning, I only did approx 52 miles there and back.View attachment 51485

This is one of my favourite stop off haunts for a good koffy, usually on the return journey. Interestingly this pub was once owned by Johnny Morris of Animal Magic fame, but it has changed owners a few time since. It has 2 large car parks and extensive gardens.
Now the technical bike bit. It is blue, has black tyres and has a twin cylinder 700cc engine, weighs 60kg less than my old 1000cc 4 cylinder Honda CBF.
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Ah - a Yamaha Tracer - smashing bike and glad that you were able to get your blood sugars up to speed. From the colour of the sky, look like it was a good day.
 
lindisfel said:
You would enjoy the Penrith Alston Road. No good in a Jamjar!
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Penrith to Alston is a great biking road but not on fair weather weekends when it is jammed full of idiots taking corners on the wrong side of the road coming down from Alston. Some of them do end up down in them fields where sometimes the air ambulance can land. I usually turn right after St Johns Chapel and head down Allendale.
 
alf_Josiah said:
One more for @gennepher and any others interested. I managed to get my blood sugars up to a safe level to ride this morning, I only did approx 52 miles there and back.View attachment 51485

This is one of my favourite stop off haunts for a good koffy, usually on the return journey. Interestingly this pub was once owned by Johnny Morris of Animal Magic fame, but it has changed owners a few time since. It has 2 large car parks and extensive gardens.
Now the technical bike bit. It is blue, has black tyres and has a twin cylinder 700cc engine, weighs 60kg less than my old 1000cc 4 cylinder Honda CBF.
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Fantastic!
I remember Johnny Morris @alf_Josiah
I can see his programs in my minds eye, playing now!!!
Glad you had a good morning :)
 
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