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

Welcome to Windy Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday if you are in the UK. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire now have red weather warnings I am told. Thoughts and prayers with all emergency and essential workers and their anxious families at this time. Add in COVID and the stress level must be "something else" I imagine but only imagine because I haven't walked the obligatory mile in their shoes. @gennepher what a wonderful account of wildlife and love - from you- in your garden. @dunelm good news on your heating system joining the C21st where so much else is a long way from anything The Woodstock Generation hoped for. @Krystyna23040 excellent news on fbg, dog walking done for the day and the progress you made yesterday. Your one to one clients are truly blessed. Ladies and gentlemen stay safe and I sincerely pray we'll meet again.
Edited: Wrong their corrected. Can't do anything about making sense. sorry.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Welcome to Windy Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday if you are in the UK. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire now have red weather warnings I am told. Thoughts and prayers with all emergency and essential workers and there anxious families at this time. Add in COVID and the stress level must be "something else" I imagine but only imagine because I haven't walked the obligatory mile in their shoes. @gennepher what a wonderful account of wildlife and love - from you- in your garden. @dunelm good news on your heating system joining the C21st where so much else is a long way from anything The Woodstock Generation hoped for. @Krystyna23040 excellent news on fbg, dog walking done for the day and the progress you made yesterday. Your one to one clients are truly blessed. Ladies and gentlemen stay safe and I sincerely pray we'll meet again.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
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ianpspurs said:
Welcome to Windy Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday if you are in the UK. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire now have red weather warnings I am told. Thoughts and prayers with all emergency and essential workers and there anxious families at this time. Add in COVID and the stress level must be "something else" I imagine but only imagine because I haven't walked the obligatory mile in their shoes. @gennepher what a wonderful account of wildlife and love - from you- in your garden. @dunelm good news on your heating system joining the C21st where so much else is a long way from anything The Woodstock Generation hoped for. @Krystyna23040 excellent news on fbg, dog walking done for the day and the progress you made yesterday. Your one to one clients are truly blessed. Ladies and gentlemen stay safe and I sincerely pray we'll meet again.
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Hope you stay safe today. Luckily we are still on an Amber warning - even so it is getting pretty wild out there.
 
Just retested after breakfast my BG was 4.5 shocked myself, but remember I take 80mg Gliclizide with my breakfast it’s probably more that, hopefully when I go for a fasting bloods at hospital in March if this carries on they may decide to take me off Gliclizide hope so in 22 years of type2 diabetes I have always been diet controlled and it’s worked but staying at home for nearly two years no exercise at all I’ve put on 2 stones but I’m working at getting it off, I’ve lost 1st 6lb over last 6 weeks but I have a way to go to be were I want to be my holiday abroad will give me the push to do it. K
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Daylight now creeping across the sky. Gusty out. A few flying objects and stuff rearranged and added to my garden by the wind.

Windy.com tells me that wind will be gaining force around noon here, and continue until Saturday. Possible winds of up to 80 mph. But the data keeps changing each time I look...

I have an email saying some medical supplies I was expecting to be delivered today, won't be now as they are not letting their drivers out to brave the winds. But no re-delivery date given.

The bridge is closed all day today.

My other meds are going to have to wait until next week to be collected...

My creative this morning...
There were a lot more than 200 bulbs in those bags...done in Procreate and SketchClub apps.

I did about 4 changes of jackets and coats yesterday. They are still drying out. It took me ages to warm up under the electric blanket when I came in.

My garden was teeming with wildlife despite the wind and rain and hailstones, and me being out there.

Frogs hopping around. The stray cats came for food, and one went indoors and sat in the middle of my room for awhile watching me work (I left all doors open for fresh air and to blow the dust away...saves cleaning and dusting...). The sparrow and female blue tit were doing an amazing balancing act on the swaying bird feeders, and I had to keep replacing their wooden perches. The female blackbird (who acts more like a friendly robin), followed me around the garden, within a few inches of me, and checking the bulb planting (but Mr Blackbird does not like me at all). The starlings clung on the the bare swaying cherry tree branches at the end of my garden. Oh, and mousey came out to look at me brazenly. We were outstaring each other. A field mouse. I said, 'You wouldn't still be standing there if Popeye were still here'. Mousey still stared at me. 'Popeye would have had you down his gullet by now, head first, in one piece, and with just your frantic tail waving out of his mouth,' I told mousey. With that, mousey number 2 leapt from nowhere, shoved mousey number 1 out of the way, and I saw it had no tail, it had been bitten off. It would have had no head if that had been Popeye. I need another mouser, and none of these stray cats are fitting that bill. They are just waiting for their servant to feed them...

I was never going to get those bulbs in. Then I remembered, J was always buying me lovely plant pots (he had been a potter as well as a painter). And I had them filled with seasonal bulbs. When the bulbs died back, I used to put that plant pot behind the potting shed until those bulbs were ready to emerge again. In this way I had many plant pots, many different seasonal bulbs, and rang the seasonal changes in my garden easily and effortlessly. But eventually they died off, my garden became more wild, and I put the empty pots safely away. Now I had to find them.

I found some, filled them with soil. I have an area where I make my own rich soil (done that for the last nearly 20 years). I also have my wormery in a dustbin (done that for the last nearly 20 years as well), and they make soil for me. Still a lot of back breaking effort, but it got the job done. I am thinking when I finished, I wouldn't mind some double snowdrops...(yes, shoot me, I ordered some when I was warming up under my electric blanket later...75 of them...they are arriving on Monday...)

A nice warm cosy electric blanket beckons today. I deserve it!

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Superb illustrated story telling @gennepher. We have swathes of snowdrops in our garden as well as yellow crocuses - should I go for saffron collecting?
 
Granny_grump_ said:
Just retested after breakfast my BG was 4.5 shocked myself, but remember I take 80mg Gliclizide with my breakfast it’s probably more that, hopefully when I go for a fasting bloods at hospital in March if this carries on they may decide to take me off Gliclizide hope so in 22 years of type2 diabetes I have always been diet controlled and it’s worked but staying at home for nearly two years no exercise at all I’ve put on 2 stones but I’m working at getting it off, I’ve lost 1st 6lb over last 6 weeks but I have a way to go to be were I want to be my holiday abroad will give me the push to do it. K
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Well done with your weight loss. Hopefully they will decide to take you off Gliclizide in March. Exercise is also really important for me. My after meal blood sugars are always much better when I get plenty of exercise.
 
This may not help @Granny_grump_ or anyone else with their weight loss or indeed anyone with the current and worsening COL crisis. However, since I find LC a way of eating lacking in much joy - Friday salmon salad is usually the highlight - I thought I'd share the recipe. Personally, I hate the aftertaste of erythritol so would need to swap the sweetener:
LC bread and butter pudding . Very weird in that I didn't really ever like pudding/dessert when I had the choice. Fruit is a huge loss to my world. JKP has just acquired a box of the most amazing looking, smelling and apparently tasting oranges:bigtears:. I also thought I really liked red meat before starting LC. Oh, I don't receive any backhanders from these guys - I'm not an MP.
 
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dunelm said:
Superb illustrated story telling @gennepher. We have swathes of snowdrops in our garden as well as yellow crocuses - should I go for saffron collecting?
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Thanks very much @dunelm

That would save a few bob, to harvest your own saffron.
Alas the birds harvest (demolish) the saffron from the yellow crocuses in my front garden, so no saffron to be had here...

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Too much saffron...
 
Afternoon all.
An unsurprising 8.3 this Morening, I know what I did and 8.3 is the price.

A neighbour’s gazebo has lost its roof and I have lost some felt from my top shed, I think I have more to lose. Drat, double drat and drat again.
Now I must go and right upturned pots etc, etc.
 
ianpspurs said:
Welcome to Windy Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday if you are in the UK. Suffolk and Cambridgeshire now have red weather warnings I am told. Thoughts and prayers with all emergency and essential workers and their anxious families at this time. Add in COVID and the stress level must be "something else" I imagine but only imagine because I haven't walked the obligatory mile in their shoes. @gennepher what a wonderful account of wildlife and love - from you- in your garden. @dunelm good news on your heating system joining the C21st where so much else is a long way from anything The Woodstock Generation hoped for. @Krystyna23040 excellent news on fbg, dog walking done for the day and the progress you made yesterday. Your one to one clients are truly blessed. Ladies and gentlemen stay safe and I sincerely pray we'll meet again.
Edited: Wrong their corrected. Can't do anything about making sense. sorry.
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"Woodstock".:hilarious:

How old that make ya feel, @dunelm :D
 
Hi all

Up earlier to get a cuppa Lauren usually takes furry nephew to work help out our 'neice'

Weather warnings now red for London

So she left him with me, I was back in bed, sipping tea, he jumped up and snuggled up, and dropped off to sleep ...and the moment lured me into so both snoozing until 1pm..

Exhausted today
Therapy yesterday followed up with a session or two after

New boiler fitted, required access to roof, wood/glass hatch open to the sky

Fitted tested and locked back up..so I thought

Nice & toasty indoors, but that wind speed earning had me anxious .

So step ladder out, and up to check.
A 5 minute job, if that.

Yesterday, like Chris bonnington in a snow storm fighting the elements ..one step at a time, then reaching to recheck and secure locks someone had t bothered too..
Glad I checked

Then, the began the decent, Sherpa less, back to base camp in kitchen.

Then on to prep & cook the evening meal .delicious..

Come 10pm exhaustion takes me off to bed,

Where brain THEN decides to mull over endless problems.

how much fun with is can one organ have, for goodness sake.

Anyway up now.
All good,
Wind whipping down the street
Scooter left leant over on the 900cc
Like a biking tripod

Be leaving it until one of the nephews can visit, I already cancelled one visit, the youngest comes over on a scooter .so no..just no .

Say best if the wind is yet to come, oh dear :sorry:


No FBG. Fed dog, the I ate then loo, checked emails, THEN thought .oh *****r..(rhymes with slang for rugby )

So an achey, indoors day today :)

Be safe everyone.
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Afternoon all.
An unsurprising 8.3 this Morening, I know what I did and 8.3 is the price.

A neighbour’s gazebo has lost its roof and I have lost some felt from my top shed, I think I have more to lose. Drat, double drat and drat again.
Now I must go and right upturned pots etc, etc.
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Lots of hugs for you Alf
Flying roofing felt is never a good idea...
Checking my potting shed roof and garage roof...that is by holding my iPad high and taking a photo (but not going up a ladder), however all appears good...
But my next door's neighbour's felting is doing some interesting swirly dances.
And on the back of my garden is a garage that had some of the roof torn off by Storm Arwen, is having some more damage done to the remains of their garage roof, the gusts currently dismantling the wooden trusses that held up the roof.

Take care outside Alf, the lulls in the gusts are very deceiving...
 
gennepher said:
Hope the power stays with you Ian...
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Thanks and you too @gennepher. Who thought decluttering all flasks since "we never go anywhere to need them these days" was a good idea? Also, I was adamant that we would never have a gas hob whilst I lived. To top it all off, due to the rise in the price of steel and the difficulty of sourcing a steel gas connection we are reliant on electricity, even for controlling our heating. Makes one wonder if we really do live at the best time in history.
 
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jjraak said:
"Woodstock".:hilarious:

How old that make ya feel, @dunelm :D
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I am trying to ignore this so called accusation about the time that I was in charge of the CPS (whoops!, wrong blog).
I will have you know that at the time of Woodstock my heretofore shoulder length hair had been enjoying for some time what can only be described as a very short, short back and sides and my tie dyed shirts replaced by khaki ones.
 
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