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

Fbg 6.8

Pouring with rain here...

Nighttime wildlife camera...

Fox & the Badger Family - Pa Badger takes cat biscuits from swing!



Creative is ink painting with FW inks, a hake brush, and water,nand a water spray bottle. I find a cheap absorbent paper gets the best results for me. And finished in Procreate for silhouette detail.

Those baby sparrows are a very hungry lot. They don't care about rain, they just keep on feeding...

Mr Heffalump, the wood pigeon comes every day to feed off the droppings from the fat balls...his wife has come along, and the pair of them are cleaning up after those messy sparrows...

Have a good day...

Time for a cuppa.

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Good morning everyone from a bit of a damp start here in the da’an Sa’af. Bloods this morning 5.1. Celebration of life went well yesterday and full of mixed emotions, those of happiness for a life well lived and the privilege to have been involved in it in some small way and the sadness of the loss of a family member or friend. Too tired to do very much today so have delayed my return trip home towards home for a day. Art bit, another example of something I did a few weeks ago in the style of Chinese artist Qi Baishi. Hope you all have some joy in your day, I shall make koffy and contemplate the rain.


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becca59 said:
@Annb why do you not have a blood glucose testing Kit?
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My daughter in law had lost hers and she is trying to get her BG under control so that she is able to have an important operation. She also has problems keeping Libre sensors stuck on and every one she had had fallen off - even the last one of mine. She borrowed my fingerprick kit until she got hold of some more sensors. All sorted now - meantime anyway.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.8

Pouring with rain here...

Nighttime wildlife camera...

Fox & the Badger Family - Pa Badger takes cat biscuits from swing!



Creative is ink painting with FW inks, a hake brush, and water,nand a water spray bottle. I find a cheap absorbent paper gets the best results for me. And finished in Procreate for silhouette detail.

Those baby sparrows are a very hungry lot. They don't care about rain, they just keep on feeding...

Mr Heffalump, the wood pigeon comes every day to feed off the droppings from the fat balls...his wife has come along, and the pair of them are cleaning up after those messy sparrows...

Have a good day...

Time for a cuppa.

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Wonderful effects and a smashing composition. I agree about using cheap absorbent paper for this sort of work. Not used FW inks but they do work very well.
 
dunelm said:
Wonderful effects and a smashing composition. I agree about using cheap absorbent paper for this sort of work. Not used FW inks but they do work very well.
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Thank you @dunelm

I bought these FW acrylic inks more than 20 years ago, and they are still going strong. And unlike other acrylic inks they haven't gone into that solid sediment at the bottom over the years.

I can use up all my bad buys of watercolour papers over the years now, when they weren't the quality I thought they were.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a bit of a damp start here in the da’an Sa’af. Bloods this morning 5.1. Celebration of life went well yesterday and full of mixed emotions, those of happiness for a life well lived and the privilege to have been involved in it in some small way and the sadness of the loss of a family member or friend. Too tired to do very much today so have delayed my return trip home towards home for a day. Art bit, another example of something I did a few weeks ago in the style of Chinese artist Qi Baishi. Hope you all have some joy in your day, I shall make koffy and contemplate the rain.


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I love this Art Bit @dunelm

Enjoy contemplating the rain...
 
Annb said:
My daughter in law had lost hers and she is trying to get her BG under control so that she is able to have an important operation. She also has problems keeping Libre sensors stuck on and every one she had had fallen off - even the last one of mine. She borrowed my fingerprick kit until she got hold of some more sensors. All sorted now - meantime anyway.
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The SD Code free is as cheap as chips and easy to operate, one can't afford not to have one and it's probably more accurate at low levels than the Libre.
Mine has never let me down in all the years since I got it.
Derek
 
Good Happy Morening Ladies and Gentleman, now before harbingers of doom gloom and despondency take me task over my morning greeting, let me, me’s and myself say if you woke up this morning it’s a reason to be happy.

Blood sugars yesterday were 6.7
Blood sugars this morning were 4.8, insulin dose has been calculated.

Now here in Tilehurst Towers today is going like yesterday, rapidly. Therefore I must depart.
Stay safe all and remember something or other.
Ab normal posting could or couldn’t be resumed tomorrow
 
The last two days have been quite good days in the North of England but temperature didn't go above 19 Deg C. Also good with it raining at night.
Today is a wet day and a good start to a wet weekend.

A pity we didn't have a clear sky to see the Aurora last night.

Doesn't look like Helen will be coming up on the rail in early August and then going to the Fringe for a week by train from Warrington the next week with all these strikes hitting the holiday maker.

Abigail and co also away having two weeks in Lanzarote.

When I was their age we had to fund them at Uni in the style they were accustomed.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
The SD Code free is as cheap as chips and easy to operate, one can't afford not to have one and it's probably more accurate at low levels than the Libre.
Mine has never let me down in all the years since I got it.
Derek
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The Aviva Accuchek is the one prescribed here. They are handed out for nothing at the hospital as needed and strips are free on prescription. We are very lucky in Scotland, or at least, in the Western Isles. She'll need to get in touch with the diabetes clinic and ask for a replacement for the lost one.
 
Good morning one and all on the feast of Saint Mary Magdelene. Have you all made your (Keto) Madeleines? Dry but cool for late July start here but heavy rain forecast later. @gennepher Pa badger is getting very forward. Many thanks for sharing that wonderful creative. I had to google Hake brush thinking surely not made from fish bones :banghead: @dunelm sensible not to travel if feeling tired. Thanks for sharing your art which deserved a winner but the hug is for the yesterday's sorrow tinged celebration. Lionesses should win comfortably today so some sport to watch. Enjoy your day - lots of Aussie voices currently singing in the rain in M16 0PX.
 
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6.7 on this dreadful Saturday morning, absolutely drowning again! Gonna build an ark!
It just winds you up! Turn on the sport and for some reason the golf, it's not raining!
Five miles to the east and it's very damp in my garden, drizzly, wet and windy!
Or is it just me, being an old codger?

Gonna try and support my local footie team this afternoon. Depends on my better half! I could do with getting out! And a bit of respite. Cricket rained off! We'll see!

Have a lovely weekend (take an umbrella), chores to be done, no shopping today (yay!)
 
This morning Libre 5.3 and finger prick 6.2

ianpspurs said:
Have you all made your (Keto) Madeleines?
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To be honest Ian since Keiran started redoing the kitchen have not been able to cook anything much lucky if I get a coffee subsisting on take away or cold food not ideal.
 
JohnEGreen said:
This morning Libre 5.3 and finger prick 6.2


To be honest Ian since Keiran started redoing the kitchen have not been able to cook anything much lucky if I get a coffee subsisting on take away or cold food not ideal.
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Good of Keiran to redo the kitchen but hug for the disruption.
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning one and all on the feast of Saint Mary Magdelene. Have you all made your (Keto) Madeleines? Dry but cool for late July start here but heavy rain forecast later. @gennepher Pa badger is getting very forward. Many thanks for sharing that wonderful creative. I had to google Hake brush thinking surely not made from fish bones :banghead: @dunelm sensible not to travel if feeling tired. Thanks for sharing your art which deserved a winner but the hug is for the yesterday's sorrow tinged celebration. Lionesses should win comfortably today so some sport to watch. Enjoy your day - lots of Aussie voices currently singing in the rain in M16 0PX.
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Pa Badger is a menace @ianpspurs
I would not like to go out in the middle of the night, through the garden to the garage to get some thing, like I used to, neither would I sit stargazing any more with hot water bottle and a hot flask. I never wore my hearing processor at night when stargazing, so I think I assumed the night was silent. And if an animal brushed against my legs, I assumed it was a stray cat...

A painting brush made of fish bones? That is an interesting idea Ian...
 
ianpspurs said:
Good of Keiran to redo the kitchen but hug for the disruption.
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Don't get me wrong I'm not really complaining in the last few weeks he's constructed decking in the back garden painted the kitchen ceiling installed a new light fitting in the kitchen now retiling the walls in the kitchen and has got a mixer tap for the sink he's going to fit thing is once he starts he doesn't stop till it's done I am very grateful and no mistake I'm just thankful we don't need a new roof.
 
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