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

[Lamont D]

Helen is sixty today and was at Chester Zoo yesterday, one of her favourite places, today she will be looking at Roman Chester.
Hope she has a very happy day.

Perhaps it's not too wet!
We have had rain overnight and today in prospect is a very wet day in Cumbria, according to the forecast.
Have your best day.
Derek

Ps. I keep getting thwarted going down the Solway to see a Yankee, a Lesser Yellowlegs at Port Carlisle in the creek at low tide.

Back in the day, Deva (Chester) was a major staging area for every aspect of Roman life. The recent findings that have been discovered, have revealed more than anybody had predicted.
This also coincides with other recent discoveries on the peninsula, and how the Roman connection to Meols, which was in theory a point of invasion to the places around the Irish sea area!

It was revealed, many years ago, that in ancient and Roman, and including the Vikings eras. That they looked at the maps a different way. If you turn the map, viewing from the East towards the West. This puts the Isle of Man at the centre of all the trade, shipping and influence in the Irish sea. This is why there was a coastal community around the sea. Deva was an integral part of the empire because the River Dee was more navigable than the Mersey.

Happy birthday to Helen!

 

[Lamont D]

6.8 this morning, a bit stressful, phone call to roofers, not coming and will be in touch soon for another appointment! I'm so annoyed for many reasons, for both of us!
Mrs L new walking trolley has arrived (with seat) and other equipment has been instaled, but are on the first rung of the ladder towards a new bathroom, but told that it will take time! Hummmpph!

It is quite nice today after another rainy overnight. 20 degrees in the sun! But clouding over.
Chores and shopping done!

TGIF. Have a pre weekend best wishes to you all!

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on an overcast start to an overcast day here in the decidedly dark and dangerous north. It’s a bit rainy but never mind, better than being in a drought. 5.8 this am. Pots put away from last nights washing up and exercises done. Also, now that Mrs Miggins is up, bed made. Latest from the Zoe study indicates that ultra processed foods damage your brain: https://zoe.com/learn/podcast-ultra...aign=newsletter_week68_zsn&utm_content=2-68-2. Blimey, (No S… Sherlock) never would have guessed. Garbage in, garbage out. My body is a temple. One not too careful owner. Lots of restoration work needed. Art bit, mixed media, acrylics and Chinese ink. Probably going to play around with it. Happy birthday to Helen @lindisfel and I hope everyone has a pleasant day. I shall reward myself with another koffy.

Hi @dunelm
I absolutely love this watercolour.
It is a good technique...
Hope that coffee went down well...

 

[gennepher]

Hope you were able to rescue your SD cards @gennepher. You could well be right and you were saved from a worse disaster.

I have rescued most of then @Krystyna23040
Thank goodness!!!
Thank you.

 

[lindisfel]

Back in the day, Deva (Chester) was a major staging area for every aspect of Roman life. The recent findings that have been discovered, have revealed more than anybody had predicted.
This also coincides with other recent discoveries on the peninsula, and how the Roman connection to Meols, which was in theory a point of invasion to the places around the Irish sea area!

It was revealed, many years ago, that in ancient and Roman, and including the Vikings eras. That they looked at the maps a different way. If you turn the map, viewing from the East towards the West. This puts the Isle of Man at the centre of all the trade, shipping and influence in the Irish sea. This is why there was a coastal community around the sea. Deva was an integral part of the empire because the River Dee was more navigable than the Mersey.

Happy birthday to Helen!

Many thanks Lamont, she was meeting a Roman soldier guide this am.

 

[gennepher]

Oh dear, sounds so USA - very easy in a city all laid out in aligned blocks but not anywhere else. Why do we now need a compass? I use the online route plan and follow that but those A to Z books must still be the easiest way of following where roads and streets go.

@dunelm
@Krystyna23040
I always have a compass with me. Don't people carry compasses nowadays? I have one on my handbag strap...
I have a collection of compasses...
The only place it was no good was when I went over to Hilbre Island on the sands at low tide (decades ago when I could walk), and the thick dense mists suddenly dropped. No problem I thought, look at my compass....
But it was going bananas. Later I was told that I was on the stretch of sand that had some magnetic disturbance or something below.
Obviously I survived the experience 'cos I am still here...

 

[gennepher]

Helen is sixty today and was at Chester Zoo yesterday, one of her favourite places, today she will be looking at Roman Chester.
Hope she has a very happy day.

Perhaps it's not too wet!
We have had rain overnight and today in prospect is a very wet day in Cumbria, according to the forecast.
Have your best day.
Derek

Ps. I keep getting thwarted going down the Solway to see a Yankee, a Lesser Yellowlegs at Port Carlisle in the creek at low tide.

Happy Birthday Helen!!!

 

[Lamont D]

Many thanks Lamont, she was meeting a Roman soldier guide this am.

Hope it wasn't an appointment with an amphitheatre guard.
being a Christian around Deva could be a friendly chat with the lions from the zoo!

 

[gennepher]

There are a lot of us out there Krystyna. I failed my first driving test for that very reason. Even now after 78 years of practice, I still have, often, to ask myself which hand I write with to get a direction right. As for turning east or west...who knows where they are? Actually my husband did - he had an amazing sense of where he was in the world, but then, he was a navigator. I don't think he ever really understood why I had no such sense.

Yup, me too @Annb

No idea of left and right.
But I always, as a child thought my right ear was green ( I see the colour in my mind's eye), and my left ear is red (again in my mind's eye). And to tell which is left and right I touch my ear with my hand, and the colour I feel it is tells me if it is left or right. So if I touch an ear and the colour green is felt and seen, then that is the right direction....

J used to say, clever girl you know port and starboard. He had direction problems, and because he was a sailor he used port and starboard to remember...

One of J's jobs in the army was preparing and making and drawing maps. This was in the Middle East... I could never understand how you could make maps of shifting sands.

J should never have been in the army, every job they gave him he got wrong because of his dyslexia. He brought the whole camp to a standstill once when he was on the telephone exchange...so they thought he could do the least amount of damage in the map making/surveying department.

 

[gennepher]

Back in a bit. I still have my post to do, and creative...
Am very behind with the day.
Temp 23C here, but feels to me an icy 15C....

 

[lindisfel]

@dunelm
@Krystyna23040
I always have a compass with me. Don't people carry compasses nowadays? I have one on my handbag strap...
I have a collection of compasses...
The only place it was no good was when I went over to Hilbre Island on the sands at low tide (decades ago when I could walk), and the thick dense mists suddenly dropped. No problem I thought, look at my compass....
But it was going bananas. Later I was told that I was on the stretch of sand that had some magnetic disturbance or something below.
Obviously I survived the experience 'cos I am still here...

Probably been mined in the War!

 

[dunelm]

Hi @dunelm
I absolutely love this watercolour.
It is a good technique...
Hope that coffee went down well...

Thank you @gennepher. I have added a bit to it this afternoon but hopefully not too much. Will have to see.

 

[dunelm]

@dunelm
@Krystyna23040
I always have a compass with me. Don't people carry compasses nowadays? I have one on my handbag strap...
I have a collection of compasses...
The only place it was no good was when I went over to Hilbre Island on the sands at low tide (decades ago when I could walk), and the thick dense mists suddenly dropped. No problem I thought, look at my compass....
But it was going bananas. Later I was told that I was on the stretch of sand that had some magnetic disturbance or something below.
Obviously I survived the experience 'cos I am still here...

I have a few compasses. I take one with me when walking in hills, a map also. Silva make good, basic ones and I have one with a clinometer. I think that my old orienteering thumb compasses are probably out now - they do that after a while. Interestingly, the mag to grid, add - grid to mag, get rid for conversion of magnetic north to a map and vice versa is the opposite if you cross the equator - most annoying.

 

[Krystyna23040]

There are a lot of us out there Krystyna. I failed my first driving test for that very reason. Even now after 78 years of practice, I still have, often, to ask myself which hand I write with to get a direction right. As for turning east or west...who knows where they are? Actually my husband did - he had an amazing sense of where he was in the world, but then, he was a navigator. I don't think he ever really understood why I had no such sense.

My dad was exactly the same and so is my youngest daughter but her youngest daughter has a brilliant sense of direction.

When I was 17 I took my younger sister to Spain. We got off the coach signed into the hotel and then went for a lovely walk around Lorret de Mar. We started to go back to the hotel - but I realised that I had no idea where it was and had forgotten the hotel name. 4 hours later my sister luckily recognised the street the hotel was in.

Mr K thought that when I was driving my car it would be helpful to think of nearside and offside instead of left and right. No it definitely wasn't.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg this morning was 6.8.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg 6.9

Wildlife nighttime cameras
Fox & Badger looking for food together
Foxes & Cats & Badgers all within a metre/yard of each other!!!
It seems amazing to me that they were all there together...
58 seconds

Creative ... a fairy chair in my garden under the fuschia bush...

Time for a rest and a cuppa tea

Was working in the garage this afternoon. Repaired an old radio, just so I can have some background noise while painting...
Still a wee bit more tidying and sorting to do, and then I can start some painting ideas...

The rest of the garage still needs sorting and tidying, but that will be a later date, or I will never start painting....

 

[Lamont D]

For new recruits, Those who were unaware of right and left, used several methods including a rag on one arm.
Some learnt straight away but others were often punished until they drilled properly.
Maybe one of those who did military things could enlighten us!

For myself, never an issue, and I'm talking very young, but knowing right or wrong, in a deprived area, is very much a grey area!

 

[Lamont D]

Fbg 6.9

Wildlife nighttime cameras
Fox & Badger looking for food together
Foxes & Cats & Badgers all within a metre/yard of each other!!!
It seems amazing to me that they were all there together...
58 seconds

Creative ... a fairy chair in my garden under the fuschia bush...

Time for a rest and a cuppa tea

Was working in the garage this afternoon. Repaired an old radio, just so I can have some background noise while painting...
Still a wee bit more tidying and sorting to do, and then I can start some painting ideas...

The rest of the garage still needs sorting and tidying, but that will be a later date, or I will never start painting....

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Beautiful!

 

[ianpspurs]

Fbg 6.9

Wildlife nighttime cameras
Fox & Badger looking for food together
Foxes & Cats & Badgers all within a metre/yard of each other!!!
It seems amazing to me that they were all there together...
58 seconds

Creative ... a fairy chair in my garden under the fuschia bush...

Time for a rest and a cuppa tea

Was working in the garage this afternoon. Repaired an old radio, just so I can have some background noise while painting...
Still a wee bit more tidying and sorting to do, and then I can start some painting ideas...

The rest of the garage still needs sorting and tidying, but that will be a later date, or I will never start painting....

View attachment 63166

Thank you for sharing that wonderful chair and part of your garden. Enjoy making art in the garage. Here's an idea that may help a few people although my instinct is you are more visual/shape oriented.

 

[dunelm]

For new recruits, Those who were unaware of right and left, used several methods including a rag on one arm.
Some learnt straight away but others were often punished until they drilled properly.
Maybe one of those who did military things could enlighten us!

For myself, never an issue, and I'm talking very young, but knowing right or wrong, in a deprived area, is very much a grey area!

Never saw anyone having a problem after being taught that you always step off on the left foot, the one banged with a pace stick on day one. So, “by the left, quick march” - or slow march. Light Infantry 140 paces per minute rather than the standard army 116 and marked by the drill sergeant’s pace stick opened for a 30 inch stride. Drill for recruits is carried out evey day and perhaps twice a day with the pace called out by the drill sergeant. Well, it was when I was in the military - who knows nowadays.