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

Fbg 6.5

Freezing here.
Got my black velvety fur fabric onesie on (that's my tummy at bottom of photo!), and a black real fur cat on me (he is on the left of photo). So big cat and not so little cat...
Creative is me getting out all my black pens again, and trying to see if they still work. Using a sketch pad of cartridge paper.

Got myself a heated jacket and a spare battery pack, so I can be warm all day. It heats back, front, shoulders and neck. Two battery packs last ALL day. It was one of the cheapest ones on Amazon, poor reviews, reviewers said it didn't work, there were no instructions (as is wont from China). Just use your brains you reviewing people, just double or triple press and short and long press the buttons etc to get to all the settings. It is quite clever. I am pleased with it.

Wildlife nighttime camera
Cat watches Fox & 2 Badgers
56secs
Midnight is keeping a check on them all.


Have a good day.

Take care...

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gennepher said:
'63 I lived in Kent.
The snow went right up the fronts of the houses.
Couldn't get out.
The army, Royal Engineers I think, dug us all out and made the roads passable.
It was a good job that army camp was based at the bottom of our road.
They were very useful!!!
As a child I knew the army would always save us...
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The Government would 'male chicken' it up today.
They would probably ship the snow off the land and fill the streets with it.

It was the Army that stopped the foot and mouth and the campaign was run by a guy who had the ability to stop it without allowing grafters to take over.
D.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

Freezing here.
Got my black velvety fur fabric onesie on (that's my tummy at bottom of photo!), and a black real fur cat on me (he is on the left of photo). So big cat and not so little cat...
Creative is me getting out all my black pens again, and trying to see if they still work. Using a sketch pad of cartridge paper.

Got myself a heated jacket and a spare battery pack, so I can be warm all day. It heats back, front, shoulders and neck. Two battery packs last ALL day. It was one of the cheapest ones on Amazon, poor reviews, reviewers said it didn't work, there were no instructions (as is wont from China). Just use your brains you reviewing people, just double or triple press and short and long press the buttons etc to get to all the settings. It is quite clever. I am pleased with it.

Wildlife nighttime camera
Cat watches Fox & 2 Badgers
56secs
Midnight is keeping a check on them all.


Have a good day.

Take care...

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That heated cat outfits sounds just the ticket. Thanks for the extra cat sketch.
 
lindisfel said:
The Government would 'male chicken' it up today.
They would probably ship the snow off the land and fill the streets with it.

It was the Army that stopped the foot and mouth and the campaign was run by a guy who had the ability to stop it without allowing grafters to take over.
D.
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Mrs Miggins was involved in the foot and mouth campaign. Coordinating vehicle movement in Northumbria. She said it was one of the saddest times for her.
 
lindisfel said:
Today day has been continuous blue skies and cold sunshine with the moon showing early in the eastern sky. It will be a cold night in northern Cumbria, people who can't afford to heat their homes, will find it hard particularly if their cold or ill.
The winters were colder when I was young. The freeze up in 1962/63 winter was extremely brutal and started when we had lived in a caravan from the previous March when we got married.
It was old caravan, on a site, which Marjorie and I renovated....we were poor but happy. At the start of winter I joined the Beeb and moved to the south midlands and sold the caravan whose outside toilet froze up by December 62. So they must have been frozen for three months into March 63.
We just had £50 at the start of our long journey the previous March.
D.
Yes it was just one open fire in most homes. The rest of one's house was freezing cold.
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With ice on the windows - inside!
 
Good morning everyone on a cool Caribbean start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. I stayed in the 4 zone for two years during the pandemic but 5’s are where the joy lies for me. 6 is probably OK for me also - just kicking the HbA1c can down the alley with the enthusiasm of a member of the Jamaican bobsleigh team. Just dug out my copy of The Enchiridion by Epictetus to remind me not to get involved in crowd nonsense and the babblings of the press. The book was not written by Epictetus but by one of his students. You can download ye olde English copy written in 1701 and made available through Google books if it tickles your fancy, where ‘s’ is written as ‘f’ and thorns are still dead popular. Art bit, just a splash of colour. Cough, cough, splutter, splutter - I am not in charge of my body - just my thoughts. Anyhow - or is it anyhoo! Hope your Saturday gives you a warm glow in this chilly willy weather - the manuka honey is even more solid than it usually is - Mrs Miggins will be désolé. I really ought to have some more koffy.


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gennepher said:
'63 I lived in Kent.
The snow went right up the fronts of the houses.
Couldn't get out.
The army, Royal Engineers I think, dug us all out and made the roads passable.
It was a good job that army camp was based at the bottom of our road.
They were very useful!!!
As a child I knew the army would always save us...
Click to expand...
The snow was deep in Kent that year. We didn't need to be dug out, but the army barracks was just half a mile away, so we were in a good position had we needed help. That winter, we went on a trip with colleagues of Dad's on a coach trip to London to see the Black and White Minstrels. The snow was piled up high on both sides of the road where it had been bull-dozed aside - probably about 12 to 15 feet high walls. All we could see was the icy road and ice walls. That was the day I discovered I had an inflamed appendix. Didn't really enjoy the outing as much as I should have.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a cool Caribbean start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. I stayed in the 4 zone for two years during the pandemic but 5’s are where the joy lies for me. 6 is probably OK for me also - just kicking the HbA1c can down the alley with the enthusiasm of a member of the Jamaican bobsleigh team. Just dug out my copy of The Enchiridion by Epictetus to remind me not to get involved in crown nonsense and the babblings of the press. The book was not written by Epictetus but by one of his students. You can download ye olde English copy written in 1701 and made available through Google books if it tickles your fancy, where ‘s’ is written as ‘f’ and thorns are still dead popular. Art bit, just a splash of colour. Cough, cough, splutter, splutter - I am not in charge of my body - just my thoughts. Anyhow - or is it anyhoo! Hope your Saturday gives you a warm glow in this chilly willy weather - the manuka honey is even more solid than it usually is - Mrs Miggins will be désolé. I really ought to have some more koffy.


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Great artwork. It always amazes me how a few random lines can turn, under your skilled hand, into a wonderful image.
 
6.0 this morning. Still really pleased with that number even though I am just out of the 5s.

Got a real bargain on black Friday. I was doing my normal shampoo and conditioner etc shop with Living Proof (who are quite expensive) and was really surprised that they had 25% off plus a free gift worth £34 - which was one of the things I was going to order. So I ordered more stuff and won't have to order anything for months.
 
What I remember of 1963 trying to show my dad I was a big man now by shaking his hand and saying good night sir then leaving the hospital to go home to have my mother wake me in the night to tell me he had died. How I wish I had hugged him and kissed him and shown him how much I loved him the biggest regret of my life.
So do not have the fondest memories of that year.
Bitterly cold winter no money little food mum having to go to what is now the DWP to beg for some money and being given the handsome sum of 7 shilling and six pence luckily we had family to help us through, one of the worst years of my life.

Fbg this morning 5.0.
 
dunelm said:
Mrs Miggins was involved in the foot and mouth campaign. Coordinating vehicle movement in Northumbria. She said it was one of the saddest times for her.
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Yes it would be terrible for her!
@dunelm. It started in Longtown.
I remember seeing a big herd of Friesians on the road side to Silloth all killed where they stood in the farmers yard near the road. Poor things must have been frightened.
D
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a cool Caribbean start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. I stayed in the 4 zone for two years during the pandemic but 5’s are where the joy lies for me. 6 is probably OK for me also - just kicking the HbA1c can down the alley with the enthusiasm of a member of the Jamaican bobsleigh team. Just dug out my copy of The Enchiridion by Epictetus to remind me not to get involved in crowd nonsense and the babblings of the press. The book was not written by Epictetus but by one of his students. You can download ye olde English copy written in 1701 and made available through Google books if it tickles your fancy, where ‘s’ is written as ‘f’ and thorns are still dead popular. Art bit, just a splash of colour. Cough, cough, splutter, splutter - I am not in charge of my body - just my thoughts. Anyhow - or is it anyhoo! Hope your Saturday gives you a warm glow in this chilly willy weather - the manuka honey is even more solid than it usually is - Mrs Miggins will be désolé. I really ought to have some more koffy.


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Splash of colour is very effective @dunelm
Enjoy that coffee...
 
There has been a new bird in my garden since this morning. The bird is all black with a black beak. It is slightly smaller and more slender than the actual male blackbirds I have visiting who are distinctly plump now.

Am I right in assuming this black bird with the black beak is a young male blackbird? I have never seen a male blackbird with a black beak before. It is feeding off the ground, and in particular what the sparrows have scattered from their fatballs.

It is quite cold today, the car kept verbally warning me of ice on the road this morning. First time I have experienced that warning in this new car, and it makes a tinkling noise like breaking glass to warn me. It fair startled me as I am driving...
 
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