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

dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from another day of overcast sky here in the dark and dangerous north. A reading of 5.2 this morning does not reflect what we had for early dinner with some of the grandchildren. Mrs Miggins has already left the building. Off to have a CT scan - what fun! Just set up our 30 year old Vita-Mix to make a batch of cauliflower and broccoli rice. The latest model has a pulse function but flicking the on/off switch is cheaper. That squirrel has been back at the bird feeder over the road - must let my neighbours know about that. Art bit - finished the detailing. There was not much left to do. The sun is having a good go at breaking through. Have a smashing day if you can. More Koffee needed.


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A long corridor to where?

Good grief, is that what a vita-mix costs nowadays @dunelm ?

I was making paper in mine, and then it stopped working....
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a sunny north Wales on the morning after a splendid gathering of Welsh and English relatives of MILK/JKP. For reasons best known to themselves I have an open invitation to the local community owned pub where I will always be welcome. The 2 poorly girls are recovering but will take today slowly. We are off to collect a waterproof backpack with pockets for drinks bottles after #coffeewreckedtablegate. @gennepher those videos are amazingly clear and have lovely colours. That creative is stunning and the description of the process is remarkable. @dunelm I hope Mrs Miggins' scan goes well and thanks for the creative which does look very like the broch @Annb linked. Have your own kind of wonderful Wednesday.
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Thank you very much @ianpspurs for the video and creative compliment.

Hope your day went well...
 
Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those of a gentle calm nature, for they shall have low blood pressure.

Talking of blood
Blood sugars this morning firstly 8.8, secondly literally 30 seconds after 7.8, take your pick just shows the variations available.
I wanted a higher reading this morning so I played games with my diet and insulin dosage yesterday evening.

Have a good day and as we say in the motorcycling world shinny side up.

Stay safe all, now safety koffy beckons and so do other things.
 
Once again, wakened in the very early hours by Libre telling me BG was too low. Had a sweet from the emergency supply and went back to sleep. Wakened again an hour later - it had dropped down again. Even lower - another sweet and tried to get back to sleep. Tossed and turned for another half hour and then got up at 3.30. BG 5.9. Even one of those sweets should have sent my BG rocketing but 2 didn't this time. It's not as if I'd only had one meal yesterday. I had 2, fairly substantial meals. "It's a mystery..."

Haircutting day today - should have been last week but the hairdresser phoned to say she couldn't come then but will come today. Doesn't seem long since my last haircut, but my head is looking kind of shaggy, I have to admit.

Also the day for my Tesco order - should be later than the hairdresser. E-mail from them today, with my receipt, to say that the chicken is short dated, so I'll have to cook it tomorrow, or put it in the freezer, which has very little space in it. 3 substitutions which look OK. Quite a few things weren't available. Just as well, the essentials cost £85 for half a week's needs! Monday is Co-op shopping day. Won't be as much but it will still put weekly bill up to well over a hundred. That's about 130%+ on a few months ago.

I think the starlings are ready to leave their nest. The parents have stopped bringing food and are just sitting on the handrail below the nest hole "singing" the occasional little song of encouragement.
 
Good morning everyone on a damp squib of a start here for International Double Dip Bin Day here in the dark and dangerous north. Garden bin has already been emptied and we have now lost interest in waiting for the recycling bin lorry. Girl In The Bubble is here already and has tucked into some Weetabix and now making water patterns with a dropper on a plastic tray. Art bit - colour added and we are under a foreign sky. Have a great day if you can. My koffy has already been consumed.


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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a damp squib of a start here for International Double Dip Bin Day here in the dark and dangerous north. Garden bin has already been emptied and we have now lost interest in waiting for the recycling bin lorry. Girl In The Bubble is here already and has tucked into some Weetabix and now making water patterns with a dropper on a plastic tray. Art bit - colour added and we are under a foreign sky. Have a great day if you can. My koffy has already been consumed.


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An unusual green for the sky. Like it, and the green moon/planet @dunelm
 
Did half plus half mile return up lane at side of house. Still plenty of birdsong even though the cloud that's come from the North sea through the 'Cumberland Gap' has brought the temp down to about 14 today.
Blackcap , Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler all singing plus Skylark and Yellowhammer.
D.
 
Fbg 7.5

Bit late, for me, this morning in posting.
Bin stuff and recycling to get out.
Had messages to do, appointments to make...

Now I am collapsed on my bed with a cuppa.

I am not moving for a couple hours.

But I will have to move then because I have some 1/4 price mince to make stuff with, so that will be my afternoon job! So that is my day sorted, this hot summer day...

No eggs for love or money in England yesterday, but this morning went to Polish shop and there was a long white Polish wagon, with more eggs than you can shake a big stick at....


Fox & Badger & Cats
Fox leaps on Swing to get Cat Biscuits



Creative using painting in Procreate and a couple of apps, red roses from my front garden...

Time for a nap...Cat is napping on my lap. I might have traumatised him. I have reduced the number of feeding stations. There were never meant to be this many in the bungalow in the first place. It was supposed to be just in the kitchen before Xmas, but his Lordship fell ill and I put an additional feeding station by my bedroom door. I didn't think he was going to pull through at the time. Anyway that feeding station stayed by my bedroom door. So to try and deter the mysterious kitchen thief, all kitchen food went to an outside covered feeding station which I worked on yesterday. I was knackered, but I wanted to do that anyway. And I have plans to make a winter shelter for any beastie in that passage as well.

So, there is no food in the kitchen for any wild or stray beasties now. And the kitchen door to the bungalow is firmly shut, to deter any wanderers to my bedroom. But then then leaves the problem of Midnight wanting to do his business in the night. I don't want to get involved in cat trays. Midnight always puts himself to be on the front couch around 6 pm at the moment. Last night I was in bed for 7pm. I was drop dead exhausted. I just had to hope Midnight would wake me up if he needed to toilet, because in effect he was locked in. I am fast asleep and I am woken up by a cat patting my face with his paw. So, I got up put him in the kitchen so he could get out the cat flap, shut the door on him so he would not be able to get back into the living room and neither would any other beastie. There are some luxurious throws on a chair in the kitchen for him to sleep on.

The couch in the living room is where my daughter will need to sleep when she comes, and he may not take kindly to that because he wants his own way. So, I need him to learn to sleep in the kitchen during the night, just for the moment. There was only a couple of hours left before dawn. So, this is breaking him in gently to get used to this idea (!?!).

But when I returned to the kitchen a few hours later, the cat water bowl was spilt all over the floor, as if two animals were in a scuffle. So did the mysterious beast come in? I was so tired last night, I forgot to put the SD card in the camera in the kitchen.

Ultimately, the goal is to block that cat flap at night...hopefully his lordship can be trained/learn to toilet in the day. But, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry..

Have your best day...

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Annb said:
Is that green? I often have discussions with my family about green but usually green v brown. I think I must have some problem with my perception of colour. To me, that sky is blue - edging towards the green (turquoise) certainly, but definitely blue. I can see the green in the moon though.
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I am not much better with colours @Annb !!!

I think we all have a slightly different perception of colours.
If I am being accurate for me on what I see, I see a grey, a sort of off white, and like a sort of yellowish green for the sky. And the moon/planet definitely has more yellowy green in it!!
 
gennepher said:
I am not much better with colours @Annb !!!

I think we all have a slightly different perception of colours.
If I am being accurate for me on what I see, I see a grey, a sort of off white, and like a sort of yellowish green for the sky. And the moon/planet definitely has more yellowy green in it!!
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It's quite unusual for women to have poor colour perception for men it is not so unusual.
D.
 
Late to the party here but I hope you all had good days. From our family of fourteen, five have so far had "issues." Sales of Milton, Dioralyte, Lucozade, bottled water and loo roll have soared in this area. One car needed a full interior valet today - with travel, 4 hr process. Washing machine in the Big House is seeking early retirement. So far myself, JKP or MIL unaffected but there are some very bored little girls and a tired mum and dad. Quite handy DIL has her own paediatric consultant and GP (both retired) on call in France but as she's a nurse hardly a holiday. Pity as for the first time in my experience Wales has met the no socks, 1 thin layer test for part of the time. The most recent victim was to drive home to Winchester tomorrow and his wife can't drive. At the moment we plan to travel as far as Oswestrey tomorrow since the epic 8 hr inward journey was too much for MIL. May you live in interesting times.
 
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Morning all from the nursing home on the Llŷn. So far no reported incidents overnight but signals aren't reliable. We didn't bring carrier pigeons and there is no line of sight for semaphore. Packing then saying goodbye to a BIL/Uncle before heading across the border to eat and sleep. That was the original idea for last Friday to avoid an over long journey but other people had much more cunning plans. So far MIL has had her fill of places and people to see so main mission accomplished. The mission creep of family holiday for 3 different families, JKP and myself was never remotely realistic IMHO. Illness made that problem worse. Have yourselves a merry little Friday
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 7.5

Bit late, for me, this morning in posting.
Bin stuff and recycling to get out.
Had messages to do, appointments to make...

Now I am collapsed on my bed with a cuppa.

I am not moving for a couple hours.

But I will have to move then because I have some 1/4 price mince to make stuff with, so that will be my afternoon job! So that is my day sorted, this hot summer day...

No eggs for love or money in England yesterday, but this morning went to Polish shop and there was a long white Polish wagon, with more eggs than you can shake a big stick at....


Fox & Badger & Cats
Fox leaps on Swing to get Cat Biscuits



Creative using painting in Procreate and a couple of apps, red roses from my front garden...

Time for a nap...Cat is napping on my lap. I might have traumatised him. I have reduced the number of feeding stations. There were never meant to be this many in the bungalow in the first place. It was supposed to be just in the kitchen before Xmas, but his Lordship fell ill and I put an additional feeding station by my bedroom door. I didn't think he was going to pull through at the time. Anyway that feeding station stayed by my bedroom door. So to try and deter the mysterious kitchen thief, all kitchen food went to an outside covered feeding station which I worked on yesterday. I was knackered, but I wanted to do that anyway. And I have plans to make a winter shelter for any beastie in that passage as well.

So, there is no food in the kitchen for any wild or stray beasties now. And the kitchen door to the bungalow is firmly shut, to deter any wanderers to my bedroom. But then then leaves the problem of Midnight wanting to do his business in the night. I don't want to get involved in cat trays. Midnight always puts himself to be on the front couch around 6 pm at the moment. Last night I was in bed for 7pm. I was drop dead exhausted. I just had to hope Midnight would wake me up if he needed to toilet, because in effect he was locked in. I am fast asleep and I am woken up by a cat patting my face with his paw. So, I got up put him in the kitchen so he could get out the cat flap, shut the door on him so he would not be able to get back into the living room and neither would any other beastie. There are some luxurious throws on a chair in the kitchen for him to sleep on.

The couch in the living room is where my daughter will need to sleep when she comes, and he may not take kindly to that because he wants his own way. So, I need him to learn to sleep in the kitchen during the night, just for the moment. There was only a couple of hours left before dawn. So, this is breaking him in gently to get used to this idea (!?!).

But when I returned to the kitchen a few hours later, the cat water bowl was spilt all over the floor, as if two animals were in a scuffle. So did the mysterious beast come in? I was so tired last night, I forgot to put the SD card in the camera in the kitchen.

Ultimately, the goal is to block that cat flap at night...hopefully his lordship can be trained/learn to toilet in the day. But, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry..

Have your best day...

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Annb said:
Is that green? I often have discussions with my family about green but usually green v brown. I think I must have some problem with my perception of colour. To me, that sky is blue - edging towards the green (turquoise) certainly, but definitely blue. I can see the green in the moon though.
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OK, a pale grey wash, then a splattered blue swirl then to the left and top only a smidge of yellow. Colour is only a perception but a lot of problems with color vision are the result of genetic alterations in the red or green cone pigments due to the crossing over of chromosomes during meiosis. My viva was on damage to the visual system and how that translates into real life issue but it was a long time ago.
 
Fbg...forgot about it until I had been up two hours and done lots...did I forget yesterday?

Oh well, I am into forgetful old age!

From the nighttime trail cameras, a very short clip of Merlin on the swing. He had been and is sitting on the dry cat food supply for the regular stray cats. He hears something, and you can see his alarm. But no indication on video as to see what it was.

Cat Merlin hears something...


I have been spending far too long/far too much of my time watching and editing these video clips. Maybe 4 or 5 hours some days. I also post them on Instagram, and they cannot be more than 60 seconds long.I cannot post the YouTube video on to Instagram, not even a short one. I have to make a separate video for Instagram. And I have been posting every day on YouTube, and most days on Instagram. So, this has led me to rethink how I do every aspect of this. I need to change my strategies, because I have other stuff I need to do. In terms of views, Instagram sends me several messages a week saying this one has had 500 views, another one 900 views, and yet another has 1.5k views. I was shocked, I didn't realise you could get those kind of views on Instagram. On YouTube, the views might be in single or double figures (usually) but then my shorts on YouTube can bring in up to 2.9k views. But there is extra work to do those shorts, and timing of posting is key. My daughter from Australia and I discussed this last week. I am also doing a project for her, which I have abandoned a wee bit from lack of time.

So we decided at least one more year on this wildlife video project. I need to re-evaluate, re-strategise every aspect of it. And my young grandson has made suggestions. He is a computer nerd, like my son.

I am happy that people get to see animal behaviour they would not otherwise see. That is my reward from doing these wildlife videos.

I am trying to write this with a large spread out black cat on my lap, and me feeling like comfortably dozing, and watching my small birds out of my glass door.

I could happily sit here all day...

Ah, the sun has come out...now time to do some other stuff!

The kitchen SD card only picked up Midnight and Merlin, nothing else. But I know it is missing some stuff. The kitchen is too small for it to trigger off properly, and in time to capture a shot.

And one more thing. I was sitting in the kitchen chair with an cuppa, after I had made beef burgers. The kitchen door was half closed, so I was not seen by anything outside. My new cat feeding station is outside (and not in the kitchen anymore) when I realised some large birds were flying in, the glass on the door is frosted. Then I saw through the cat flap that it was magpies. My Mr Magpie, his Mrs, and their 3 young magpies! And he was showing his young magpies how to find kind batty old ladies who put wet cat food and dry cat biscuits out for them!!!

So much for my new stray cat feeding station...

He has taken them all into the back garden as well. And the remarkable thing is, all my sparrows and my baby sparrows, as well as other small birds do not regard this particular magpie family as a threat. They all stay in full view,mhappily chirping and playing and feeding, all the while this particular magpie family are in my garden. I find this amazing, and uplifting that they can all get on.

Okay, creative now, Germander Speedwell. It's been in Procreate, through a few apps, then into Snapseed which refused to work last night, so I had to find another way to get my effect I wanted. (I re-installed Snapseed, re-booted the iPad, etc etc, but all to no avail)

Ah, and that poor love, Midnight spent all night locked from coming any further in the bungalow than the kitchen. He wouldn't come in last night. And I am trying to make sure that tech savvy beastie does not come in for food.Nothing was caught on camera, but I am pretty certain it came in. But Midnight has his comfy luxurious chair in the kitchen. This morning he looks at me with baleful eyes, doing the slow eye blink...

Have your best day!

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