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

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.5

I bought a couple of dry cat feeders, because of the hot weather and flies. The dry biscuits were in the clear container, and as the cat feeds from the bowl, gravity makes more biscuits drop. Good reviews on Amazon. Lots of them. No problems they say.

Who then was the culprit who simply knocked the clear container off the feeder scattering the biscuits everywhere...

Back to the drawing board.

Kaleidoscope using Laboscope app. The seagulls are screeching overhead at the moment...and there is a cacophony of noise from all the other birds who are remaining hidden on this promise of a hot day...

Coffee needed...

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.0 this morning. Thank goodness it is much cooler today.

I was worried about Archie in the heat, but he just slept all day and is absolutely fine. After the walk this morning he was chasing Poppy round and round the house.

He has definitely got more energy than I have today. Thank goodness I have a proper lunch break today.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all on what appears to be a totally different season to yesterday here in this part of the Exotic East. Grey skies and quite cool here this morning - probably good for everyone after yesterday. @gennepher hug for the cat biscuit feeders not working but the love shown in your plan is inspiring. Thanks for sharing that colourful kaleidoscope. @Krystyna23040 #sconegate seems to be dropping out of your system but hug for lack of energy, although I am sure that is comparative. Good news about you having a proper lunch break. We kept our 10 month old grandson hydrated and cool yesterday. He stole the show in Waitrose Newmarket, staff and fellow customers admired his smile, laughter and high fives with granddad. Have a good/great/best possible day but safely and with due care and respect for all you meet.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. Here in Tilehurst Towers the birds are chirping, traffic is trafficking and Mrs J is all excited as the grandchildren are coming for a few hours.
Bloods this morning were 5.5
@gennepher I gave you a hug, but also should given you winner for post. Anybody know what’s happened to our other posting painter @dunelm, hope he is well.
Those that are struggling with medical issues, me me’s and myself hope the heat not causing you problems.
Now I must depart and stare longingly at my motorcycle wishing we could make brmm brmm noises as ride into realm of good koffy and vegan bacon sarnies.
Stay safe, stay cool and act your mental age.

 

[jjraak]

Dunelm has done an Amy Winehouse

But went for his back, obv..

3 weeks he said it could be

He'll be missed

 

[gennepher]

Morning all on what appears to be a totally different season to yesterday here in this part of the Exotic East. Grey skies and quite cool here this morning - probably good for everyone after yesterday. @gennepher hug for the cat biscuit feeders not working but the love shown in your plan is inspiring. Thanks for sharing that colourful kaleidoscope. @Krystyna23040 #sconegate seems to be dropping out of your system but hug for lack of energy, although I am sure that is comparative. Good news about you having a proper lunch break. We kept our 10 month old grandson hydrated and cool yesterday. He stole the show in Waitrose Newmarket, staff and fellow customers admired his smile, laughter and high fives with granddad. Have a good/great/best possible day but safely and with due care and respect for all you meet.

Thanks for the hug @ianpspurs
And thanks for the kaleidoscope compliment...
Sounds you had a good day yesterday...

 

[gennepher]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. Here in Tilehurst Towers the birds are chirping, traffic is trafficking and Mrs J is all excited as the grandchildren are coming for a few hours.
Bloods this morning were 5.5
@gennepher I gave you a hug, but also should given you winner for post. Anybody know what’s happened to our other posting painter @dunelm, hope he is well.
Those that are struggling with medical issues, me me’s and myself hope the heat not causing you problems.
Now I must depart and stare longingly at my motorcycle wishing we could make brmm brmm noises as ride into realm of good koffy and vegan bacon sarnies.
Stay safe, stay cool and act your mental age.

Thanks @alf_Josiah


Gone to Blandford Forum @dunelm said ...

Good morning everyone from a Warm and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. I am informed by all who fondle pine cones that there are several more gallons of heat being poured over the UK in the coming days. Not as much as France and Spain of course but that’s Brexit for you. I have been awarded The Freedom of The Falkland Islands by the Legislative Assembly of said dot in the ocean. Well, OK, not just me be those that were there 40 years ago. You get a scroll and a Waddle of penguins to drive down the runway at Port Stanley once a year (date to be determined by popular vote).
Heading south tomorrow, destination Blandford Forum, so don’t know when I will be posting for a wee while.
Art bit - my latest row of trees with a bit of colour added. Have a wonderful pre-bin day, you do need to dig out those speedos. I shall first make koffy.

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[ianpspurs]

Interesting piece on the hopes, dreams and misspending of all our tax payer money from London 2012. Along with the appalling food strategy it helps to "Join the dots" for why the UK suffered so badly from COVID and why we have obesity and T2 "epidemics". I have played squash, football and basketball at Crystal Palace National Centre in the past - so inspirational/ such a privilege . We need high quality sports and recreation facilities at affordable rates everywhere - you can't be what you don't see. Driving through France I am always struck by the quality of such facilities in almost all places of even small size. Yes, I think this is linked to T2 and declining life expectancy. Not everyone is an elite sports person but a, b, c outline where the funding currently goes and doesn't go. Exhibit d implies things definitely won't only get better.

 

[ianpspurs]

Nearly forgot to wish Sir Paul McCartney happy 80th birthday.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Nearly forgot to wish Sir Paul McCartney happy 80th birthday.

I played happy birfday on the keyboard or plinky plonky machine, recorded it and sent the recording to a young lady earlier this evening, for the recording I wore my straw hat and special sheep conjugal rights tie and toasted her drinking from my Welsh mug, sorry forgot totally about Paul McCartney, never mind at 80 I don’t think he will care.

 

[Krystyna23040]

Morning all on what appears to be a totally different season to yesterday here in this part of the Exotic East. Grey skies and quite cool here this morning - probably good for everyone after yesterday. @gennepher hug for the cat biscuit feeders not working but the love shown in your plan is inspiring. Thanks for sharing that colourful kaleidoscope. @Krystyna23040 #sconegate seems to be dropping out of your system but hug for lack of energy, although I am sure that is comparative. Good news about you having a proper lunch break. We kept our 10 month old grandson hydrated and cool yesterday. He stole the show in Waitrose Newmarket, staff and fellow customers admired his smile, laughter and high fives with granddad. Have a good/great/best possible day but safely and with due care and respect for all you meet.

Your 10 month old grandson sounds like he is a really happy child. No wonder he really stole the show in Waitrose.

Yes, sconegate is dropping out of my system at last. Really puzzling why it has taken so long.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.2

Yesterday afternoon I sat with Midnight on the swing.
There was a new male Robin in the garden, a young one, it couldn't figure out how to land on the bird feeders.
Mr&Mrs Bluetit were also feeding at the same time, but minus their babies. I presume the bluetit babies now have their independence, and mum and dad are thinking of a new brood...

The female blackbird of the Mr&Mrs Blackbird was on her own the last couple of days but she was always singing a sweet song from a high branch. Suddenly, in flew a new male blackbird (not the nasty husband she'd had before). He was lovely and matched her perfectly. Within minutes the pair were canoodling in the clematis and honeysuckle. They have been very noisy...

I was so engrossed watching them, and my hand had been stroking Midnight for a bit, when suddenly he hissed at me and and his paw clouted my hand, drawing blood. Maybe he had been giving me a warning sign and I hadn't noticed, but that is the first time he has drawn blood. I instantly hissed back at him. He was shocked, humans don't hiss back. This human does. He ran into the undergrowth, but followed me to the bathroom while I sorted my hand. I ignored him for a bit, but he was trying his hardest with the slow eye blink, presumably to say sorry. Finally I stroked his head, and he gave me his belly to tickle. Which I did. He was happy now, and went to sleep.

Creative today...I tried several ideas. None of them quite worked. This is my best effort this morning.

Time for a cuppa.

 

[jjraak]

A very mixed up sleep excess or deficit sufferer here.

Back to testing, though why I'm bothering ..

8 was the worst so far, the other day, but that was after a 'hell to it' blast on a takeaway, by way of assuaging the aftermath of recent tests

A Chinese, since you ask, delicious, but probably in the long run not worth it, but at the time...most welcomed .

Tale of the week, boring, with a double lashing of boring On the side .

Topped off with needless anxiety over a return to faraway hospital for a CT scan of leg

Unnecessary angst, as I knew I wasn't seeing doc, so wouldn't be any further forward with word of plan of attack...but worry I did

Lauren came, like she 'knew' without me saying anything...xxx

As we waited outside hospital to be seen (large mobile unit in car park) and we watched the air ambulances arrive a few times,
it brought to the fore that the hospital wouldn't just bring back unpleasant memories for me, Lauren had plenty of those moments on her own travels to & fro visiting me..

( The ties of life that bind us, unseen but intertwined between us, none the less.)

Scan over in minutes, a quick word with team after,
seems it wasn't just a dodgy x-ray..though confirmation still has to come next visit.

So despite best efforts so far, I ended up googling potential strategies.

I know, I know..one sneeze & Google has You down as marked for death on some web pages .

But I'm just perverse, I'd rather seek the positives then live in the gloom, IF at all possible

Seems while it's not that common, it's also not that rare, and one or two avenues of treatment, before the options become a tad more invasive.

Yes, we've had the chat, "it could be simple, just wait & see" ...
And much as physical me 'Gets' that and is chilled, at least on the surface ....

Mental me, is a whole other kettle of fish.

That one's pacing the room, in whispers & shouts, stabbing out good & bad points, like an aircraft deploying chaff to confuse incoming missiles .

Which is why I'm probably awake at some rather ungodly hour.accordung to my reset inner clock

Right.....now I'm awake, I'm Off to make tea, and have another word with Brian,
( head of brains, thinking & research development, here at JJ head quarters, )

And suggest Brian tries being more like Jay, the outer guy here at JJ Inc.

Jay, Gliding smoothly across these troubled lakes,
While Brian's paddling like crazy below the surface at odd hours of the day & night


Life... It's our very own ocean.
Wide, deep & teeming with life

The journey across is littered with
Pleasures, Dangers, Lulls, squalls &
Unexpected storms.

Hope everyone is surviving
theirs as well as possible.

Give. Live. Love.xx

 

[jjraak]

Fbg 6.2

Yesterday afternoon I sat with Midnight on the swing.
There was a new male Robin in the garden, a young one, it couldn't figure out how to land on the bird feeders.
Mr&Mrs Bluetit were also feeding at the same time, but minus their babies. I presume the bluetit babies now have their independence, and mum and dad are thinking of a new brood...

The female blackbird of the Mr&Mrs Blackbird was on her own the last couple of days but she was always singing a sweet song from a high branch. Suddenly, in flew a new male blackbird (not the nasty husband she'd had before). He was lovely and matched her perfectly. Within minutes the pair were canoodling in the clematis and honeysuckle. They have been very noisy...

I was so engrossed watching them, and my hand had been stroking Midnight for a bit, when suddenly he hissed at me and and his paw clouted my hand, drawing blood. Maybe he had been giving me a warning sign and I hadn't noticed, but that is the first time he has drawn blood. I instantly hissed back at him. He was shocked, humans don't hiss back. This human does. He ran into the undergrowth, but followed me to the bathroom while I sorted my hand. I ignored him for a bit, but he was trying his hardest with the slow eye blink, presumably to say sorry. Finally I stroked his head, and he gave me his belly to tickle. Which I did. He was happy now, and went to sleep.

Creative today...I tried several ideas. None of them quite worked. This is my best effort this morning.

Time for a cuppa.

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A 'nice' for the relaxed moments, and deffo the time spent stroking midnight, in that unconscious way, animal lovers do

But a hug for the 'Ouch' moment, all too familiar to any cat owner, no matter how much loved we are.

The garden sounds delightful, @gennepher x

 

[gennepher]

A very mixed up sleep excess or deficit sufferer here.

Back to testing, though why I'm bothering ..

8 was the worst so far, the other day, but that was after a 'hell to it' blast on a takeaway, by way of assuaging the aftermath of recent tests

A Chinese, since you ask, delicious, but probably in the long run not worth it, but at the time...most welcomed .

Tale of the week, boring, with a double lashing of boring On the side .

Topped off with needless anxiety over a return to faraway hospital for a CT scan of leg

Unnecessary angst, as I knew I wasn't seeing doc, so wouldn't be any further forward with word of plan of attack...but worry I did

Lauren came, like she 'knew' without me saying anything...xxx

As we waited outside hospital to be seen (large mobile unit in car park) and we watched the air ambulances arrive a few times,
it brought to the fore that the hospital wouldn't just bring back unpleasant memories for me, Lauren had plenty of those moments on her own travels to & fro visiting me..

( The ties of life that bind us, unseen but intertwined between us, none the less.)

Scan over in minutes, a quick word with team after,
seems it wasn't just a dodgy x-ray..though confirmation still has to come next visit.

So despite best efforts so far, I ended up googling potential strategies.

I know, I know..one sneeze & Google has You down as marked for death on some web pages .

But I'm just perverse, I'd rather seek the positives then live in the gloom, IF at all possible

Seems while it's not that common, it's also not that rare, and one or two avenues of treatment, before the options become a tad more invasive.

Yes, we've had the chat, "it could be simple, just wait & see" ...
And much as physical me 'Gets' that and is chilled, at least on the surface ....

Mental me, is a whole other kettle of fish.

That one's pacing the room, in whispers & shouts, stabbing out good & bad points, like an aircraft deploying chaff to confuse incoming missiles .

Which is why I'm probably awake at some rather ungodly hour.accordung to my reset inner clock

Right.....now I'm awake, I'm Off to make tea, and have another word with Brian,
( head of brains, thinking & research development, here at JJ head quarters, )

And suggest Brian tries being more like Jay, the outer guy here at JJ Inc.

Jay, Gliding smoothly across these troubled lakes,
While Brian's paddling like crazy below the surface at odd hours of the day & night


Life... It's our very own ocean.
Wide, deep & teeming with life

The journey across is littered with
Pleasures, Dangers, Lulls, squalls &
Unexpected storms.

Hope everyone is surviving
theirs as well as possible.

Give. Live. Love.xx

I am giving you a winner for this post @jjraak rather than a hug. Hugs and maybe empathy/silent understanding for your emotions I imagine are always welcomed/appreciated.

It was good of the team to have a word with you after the scan, because they don't have to tell you. But I think it's good to have an idea what you might expect to hear from the doc. Mr Google comes up with some fun stuff, and it is near impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff, too many thistles in that field.

This is a poignant post of yours.

I'll give you a wee hug now.

 

[gennepher]

A 'nice' for the relaxed moments, and deffo the time spent stroking midnight, in that unconscious way, animal lovers do

But a hug for the 'Ouch' moment, all too familiar to any cat owner, no matter how much loved we are.

The garden sounds delightful, @gennepher x

Thanks @jjraak
I am so glad for Mrs Blackbird to find a new mate, after that ne'er do well of a husband of hers....she was singing her heart out for a few days, and new prospective hubby heard her...

 

[Krystyna23040]

Fbg 6.2

Yesterday afternoon I sat with Midnight on the swing.
There was a new male Robin in the garden, a young one, it couldn't figure out how to land on the bird feeders.
Mr&Mrs Bluetit were also feeding at the same time, but minus their babies. I presume the bluetit babies now have their independence, and mum and dad are thinking of a new brood...

The female blackbird of the Mr&Mrs Blackbird was on her own the last couple of days but she was always singing a sweet song from a high branch. Suddenly, in flew a new male blackbird (not the nasty husband she'd had before). He was lovely and matched her perfectly. Within minutes the pair were canoodling in the clematis and honeysuckle. They have been very noisy...

I was so engrossed watching them, and my hand had been stroking Midnight for a bit, when suddenly he hissed at me and and his paw clouted my hand, drawing blood. Maybe he had been giving me a warning sign and I hadn't noticed, but that is the first time he has drawn blood. I instantly hissed back at him. He was shocked, humans don't hiss back. This human does. He ran into the undergrowth, but followed me to the bathroom while I sorted my hand. I ignored him for a bit, but he was trying his hardest with the slow eye blink, presumably to say sorry. Finally I stroked his head, and he gave me his belly to tickle. Which I did. He was happy now, and went to sleep.

Creative today...I tried several ideas. None of them quite worked. This is my best effort this morning.

Time for a cuppa.

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@gennepher it is good that Midnight realised he had done wrong and tried to make amends. Hope the scratch heals we!!. Do you use tea tree oil as an antiseptic?

I especially love your kaleidoscope today.

 

[Krystyna23040]

A very mixed up sleep excess or deficit sufferer here.

Back to testing, though why I'm bothering ..

8 was the worst so far, the other day, but that was after a 'hell to it' blast on a takeaway, by way of assuaging the aftermath of recent tests

A Chinese, since you ask, delicious, but probably in the long run not worth it, but at the time...most welcomed .

Tale of the week, boring, with a double lashing of boring On the side .

Topped off with needless anxiety over a return to faraway hospital for a CT scan of leg

Unnecessary angst, as I knew I wasn't seeing doc, so wouldn't be any further forward with word of plan of attack...but worry I did

Lauren came, like she 'knew' without me saying anything...xxx

As we waited outside hospital to be seen (large mobile unit in car park) and we watched the air ambulances arrive a few times,
it brought to the fore that the hospital wouldn't just bring back unpleasant memories for me, Lauren had plenty of those moments on her own travels to & fro visiting me..

( The ties of life that bind us, unseen but intertwined between us, none the less.)

Scan over in minutes, a quick word with team after,
seems it wasn't just a dodgy x-ray..though confirmation still has to come next visit.

So despite best efforts so far, I ended up googling potential strategies.

I know, I know..one sneeze & Google has You down as marked for death on some web pages .

But I'm just perverse, I'd rather seek the positives then live in the gloom, IF at all possible

Seems while it's not that common, it's also not that rare, and one or two avenues of treatment, before the options become a tad more invasive.

Yes, we've had the chat, "it could be simple, just wait & see" ...
And much as physical me 'Gets' that and is chilled, at least on the surface ....

Mental me, is a whole other kettle of fish.

That one's pacing the room, in whispers & shouts, stabbing out good & bad points, like an aircraft deploying chaff to confuse incoming missiles .

Which is why I'm probably awake at some rather ungodly hour.accordung to my reset inner clock

Right.....now I'm awake, I'm Off to make tea, and have another word with Brian,
( head of brains, thinking & research development, here at JJ head quarters, )

And suggest Brian tries being more like Jay, the outer guy here at JJ Inc.

Jay, Gliding smoothly across these troubled lakes,
While Brian's paddling like crazy below the surface at odd hours of the day & night


Life... It's our very own ocean.
Wide, deep & teeming with life

The journey across is littered with
Pleasures, Dangers, Lulls, squalls &
Unexpected storms.

Hope everyone is surviving
theirs as well as possible.

Give. Live. Love.xx

I am not surprised that you succumbed to the temptation of the takeawa after your trip to the hospital. Good that you enjoyed it and actually fbs not that bad.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.4 this morning.

Mr K had definitely hung up his motorcycle boots for good now. The motorbike is polished and stored out of the way in the garage and is just awaiting a new cover to protect it.

He admitted that the 3 near misses that happened on a five mile ride really shook him up as they were really serious near misses. Then, when my class member's husband was killed on his motorbike, he decided that it was time to call it a day as the standard of driving on the rural roads around us has got so much worse lately.

We are off to Gooderstone Water Gardens shortly. Hopefully the water lilies have flowered.

 

[ianpspurs]

Good morning everyone from Exotic East Anglia, well all the tourist brochures say so therefore it must be true. Hug for the medical issues @jjraak and for finding the temptation of Dr Google too strong to resist. So far by God's grace I've avoided both that and enquiring of the high end medics in my extended family. Hopefully my prayers will continue to be answered in that respect. @gennepher hug for the hand injury - love hurts (Gram Parsons and Emylou Harris’ is the best version Lyrics here) and thanks for the kaleidoscope. My cousin and our PM share a birthday today with a fella I am starting to know just that little bit better - can't rush these things. No takeaway or meal out for my dual celebration. I may possibly know a guy who has control freak tendencies - becomes quite uncomfortable if he can''t choose the precise ingredients and cooking process. No 3 son and two grandchildren plus MIL here for my "traditional" lamb lunch - (never had a shoulder with the loin included, JKP seems to have charmed the local butcher - it's a whopper). I don't remember lamb studded with anchovies and garlic being on the menu back in the day. The off piste trip will be a few finger carrots and some h/m mint sauce. Cavolo Nero, Tenderstem and purple sprouting (surely must be leafy greens) and asparagus. No vegggies will ever be the same as home grown in Cambs but we sought out the nearest locally grown substitute we could find. We also found the lowest carb lamb stock for gravy Waitrose sell . No Eton Mess today - JKP has a very Elsie version, nor favourite LC cake - I’ll spread those out over the time I’m invaded. I will have some red wine since I doubt that will be the only poison going into me over the next period. Obviously this is just My Way to celebrate not The Way so back off Pearl Clutchers. Enjoy your day as you see fit - just don't spoil other people's or claim to know what is best for the whole world.