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

Morning all. Anyone frez up their ninny as my dear sweet mamma used to say? Surely not our very own Motty Totty? :D Fbg of 5.4 - feels a real waste of time analysing and avoiding just to be there. Oxtail stew or whatever the modern idiom is cooked once Weds, skimmed then cooked long and slow yesterday in the Sage instant pot cum slow cookery thing was on point - as no one properly sentient says. Whoever felt it was a good idea to let JKP loose around Pat Val, a new Med Deli and “just a quick” wander around M and S food was a good idea needs help. How much chocolate and biscuits can 7 grandchildren eat? Apparently we'll return to do a proper job :arghh: Still, should pep up a few retailers’ figures. Trouble is ear syringing went so well I can’t mutter sotto voce now. .Wreath laid, reclusive uncle lured from his flat with the wreath laying ploy and promised to meet again soon. He liked Starbucks. Shocked by how many other shops in the Kite area of Cambridge seem to have collapsed due to Debenhams going. Good veggies from a stall there - been there 32 years - (no not the stock.) We’ll go to the centre another day. Enjoy day 1 of your cheese/single malt/rum/gin/beauty/pork scratching Advent calendar - unless today it is that Mexicana cheese atrocity. We watched a programme on how to re-purpose and upcycle furniture - contained distressing scenes. Laters
 
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Not having too much problems with the app this morning on my phone.

Temperature -1 at the moment the diabetic boots I bought the other week have a furry lining so are quite warm and as they come in wide or extra wide fitting they don’t pinch my feet so are less painful to wear.
Fbg of 5.3 this morning so happy with that.
Going to force myself out of my nice warm bed soon Judith has to go to work today mind you it’s just down stairs so not too unhappy.
Did not get to sleep till about 4AM so not sure I am wanting to get out of bed really.
 
Good white rabbits morning everyone who can get onto this ailing site that I think is powered by an old machine made by Richard Arkwright. Software by Charles Babbage but uploaded by the Chuckle Brothers following instructions written by Louise Braille. I donned my Muck Boots yesterday - big error. I bought them quite a few years ago when my feet were all formed as the inherited genes had intended, before the arthritis decided on a slow and progressive remodeling. Well it took Mrs Miggins a while to get them off - think shoeing a Shire Horse positioning. Words were uttered; “don’t put these on again. I will order some new ones, a size bigger.” - Result! Didn’t want the ask about the difference between the words ‘bigger’ and ‘larger’. Not much temperature out there today. May have to decant some art products into the dining room to save heating the art room which is down the garden. Art today, a couple of rocks to start with. Hope your newly arrived month greets you well. More koffy required.
Thank you for sharing another starter for 10. As you're a Brit through and through I think Craggy outdoor type fits you better than Rocky. Hug for #bootsgate and huge respect to Mrs Miggins for acting as farrier then buying new boots. How are the fetlocks today? - avoid the gallops for now - chilly round the withers - but I know a good equine hospital if needed (they serve all kinds of Sheikhs). I was kitted out in a sheepskin coat I had made to measure aged 19/20 so approaching 50 years old, sheepskin lined leather gloves (70 years old on Monday, 21st birthday present for my dad) and Beaver fur Ushanka - newish. Footwear was a pair of ten year old low cut Salomon walking/hiking boots I can now wear again - no idea why but very pleased with that.
 
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Morning all. Anyone frez up their ninny as my dear sweet mamma used to say? Surely not our very own Motty Totty? :D Fbg of 5.4 - feels a real waste of time analysing and avoiding just to be there. Oxtail stew or whatever the modern idiom is cooked once Weds, skimmed then cooked long and slow yesterday in the Sage instant pot cum slow cookery thing was on point - as no one properly sentient says. Whoever felt it was a good idea to let JKP loose around Pat Val, a new Med Deli and “just a quick” wander around M and S food was a good idea needs help. How much chocolate and biscuits can 7 grandchildren eat? Apparently we'll return to do a proper job :arghh: Still, should pep up a few retailers’ figures. Trouble is ear syringing went so well I can’t mutter sotto voce now. .Wreath laid, reclusive uncle lured from his flat with the wreath laying ploy and promised to meet again soon. He liked Starbucks. Shocked by how many other shops in the Kite area of Cambridge seem to have collapsed due to Debenhams going. Good veggies from a stall there - been there 32 years - no not the stock. We’ll go to the centre another day. Enjoy day 1 of your cheese/single malt/rum/gin/beauty/pork scratching Advent calendar - unless today it is that Mexicana cheese atrocity. We watched a programme on how to re-purpose and upcycle furniture - contained distressing scenes. Laters
They won't do ear syringe anymore in Cumbria it damages too many ears.
Have to pay to go into Carlisle and have the wax extracted about £70 for two but they have to be on the same head!
I have my own device from eBay that does it ok, but you can't see what your doing round the bend.

D.
 
We can't live in a black and white world, then again many may have been depressed and are suboptimal at times. Be encouraged you may be one of the sanest of men to get washed in the Mersey.
Thanks mate,
I have always been a well washed Mersey merman!
It's not my sanity, even though I am mad .............................................at the world.
My decision making, my problem solving, the understanding that I now second guess a lot of my thought processes. And I'm in an environment that I'm not suitable to cope with. I've lost my working life, now with Mrs L becoming increasingly more dependant on me. And I am losing the support and companionship, her inability to be presence. And the benefits of a loving partnership, that shared experience of marraige. It's the realisation that with her health issues, I am losing her as well. Losing what we have shared.

7.0 this morning.
I was a bad lad last night.
I could have eaten the fridge and I had one of Mrs L 's treats.
I am guilty!
I can't be hurting myself, I shouldn't, but I can't help it.
Comfort eating!
Gonna try and fast today as penance.

Gotta go, sorry for putting my feelings out there.
Shopling, more chores etc. Etc.
It's bloody freezing. No monkeys around!
 
Thanks mate,
I have always been a well washed Mersey merman!
It's not my sanity, even though I am mad .............................................at the world.
My decision making, my problem solving, the understanding that I now second guess a lot of my thought processes. And I'm in an environment that I'm not suitable to cope with. I've lost my working life, now with Mrs L becoming increasingly more dependant on me. And I am losing the support and companionship, her inability to be presence. And the benefits of a loving partnership, that shared experience of marraige. It's the realisation that with her health issues, I am losing her as well. Losing what we have shared.

7.0 this morning.
I was a bad lad last night.
I could have eaten the fridge and I had one of Mrs L 's treats.
I am guilty!
I can't be hurting myself, I shouldn't, but I can't help it.
Comfort eating!
Gonna try and fast today as penance.

Gotta go, sorry for putting my feelings out there..
Shopling, more chores etc. Etc.
It's bloody freezing. No monkeys around!
Keep putting your feelings out there if it helps and you are comfortable. What you say is ultra logical - things are happening to you in real time whereas many repress or only experience them some time after a loss. Most of us are in environments we are not suited to if we are really honest. The great fallacy of this century is that we can all thrive, all be living our "best lives" (deplorable phrase and practice imho) with (doctored) images for social media every day. You are a truly good, honest, loving man not remotely mad in that way but rightly in the angry sense. The situation in which you and so many others find yourself is just the outworking of a perfect pooh storm brewing for over 50 years. Logic only takes one so far - it is faulty because it is only part of the picture. May or may not help but REM nailed it imho.
 
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Morning all. Anyone frez up their ninny as my dear sweet mamma used to say? Surely not our very own Motty Totty? :D Fbg of 5.4 - feels a real waste of time analysing and avoiding just to be there. Oxtail stew or whatever the modern idiom is cooked once Weds, skimmed then cooked long and slow yesterday in the Sage instant pot cum slow cookery thing was on point - as no one properly sentient says. Whoever felt it was a good idea to let JKP loose around Pat Val, a new Med Deli and “just a quick” wander around M and S food was a good idea needs help. How much chocolate and biscuits can 7 grandchildren eat? Apparently we'll return to do a proper job :arghh: Still, should pep up a few retailers’ figures. Trouble is ear syringing went so well I can’t mutter sotto voce now. .Wreath laid, reclusive uncle lured from his flat with the wreath laying ploy and promised to meet again soon. He liked Starbucks. Shocked by how many other shops in the Kite area of Cambridge seem to have collapsed due to Debenhams going. Good veggies from a stall there - been there 32 years - no not the stock. We’ll go to the centre another day. Enjoy day 1 of your cheese/single malt/rum/gin/beauty/pork scratching Advent calendar - unless today it is that Mexicana cheese atrocity. We watched a programme on how to re-purpose and upcycle furniture - contained distressing scenes. Laters
Enjoy that stew, endure the upwardly strange shopping cart contents and your sophisticated advent calendar. Is this why school nativities now include cartoon characters, octopuses and the three confused ex PM’s? Mexicana cheese - not heard of that but up for a challenge. Had a go at these things last month (image below) - the chimp inside my head is sometimes quite ammusing.
 

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Thank you for sharing another starter for 10. As you're a Brit through and through I think Craggy outdoor type fits you better than Rocky. Hug for #bootsgate and huge respect to Mrs Miggins for acting as farrier then buying new boots. How are the fetlocks today? - avoid the gallops for now - chilly round the withers - but I know a good equine hospital if needed (they serve all kinds of Sheikhs). I was kitted out in a sheepskin coat I had made to measure aged 19/20 so approaching 50 years old, sheepskin lined leather gloves (70 years old on Monday, 21st birthday present for my dad) and Beaver fur Ushanka - newish. Footwear was a pair of ten year old low cut Salomon walking/hiking boots I can now wear again - no idea why but very pleased with that.
Thank you @inapspurs and for the roguish fashion statement news. Had to resort to my Altberg walking boots this morning - a gingerly taken 3 miles with a stop of koffy half way. Warmed up a bit now.
 
Thanks mate,
I have always been a well washed Mersey merman!
It's not my sanity, even though I am mad .............................................at the world.
My decision making, my problem solving, the understanding that I now second guess a lot of my thought processes. And I'm in an environment that I'm not suitable to cope with. I've lost my working life, now with Mrs L becoming increasingly more dependant on me. And I am losing the support and companionship, her inability to be presence. And the benefits of a loving partnership, that shared experience of marraige. It's the realisation that with her health issues, I am losing her as well. Losing what we have shared.

7.0 this morning.
I was a bad lad last night.
I could have eaten the fridge and I had one of Mrs L 's treats.
I am guilty!
I can't be hurting myself, I shouldn't, but I can't help it.
Comfort eating!
Gonna try and fast today as penance.

Gotta go, sorry for putting my feelings out there.
Shopling, more chores etc. Etc.
It's bloody freezing. No monkeys around!
If it helps by putting your feelings out there - then keep on doing it. Some paths get a bit bumpy in places.
 
Thank you @inapspurs and for the roguish fashion statement news. Had to resort to my Altberg walking boots this morning - a gingerly taken 3 miles with a stop of koffy half way. Warmed up a bit now.
Interesting typo - inadvertently included the middle name of a granddaughter. Wrong time and place to go into
her first name - I just disappeared down a rabbit hole about conditional evangelicalism over that - (B vs Z) Middle name from her maternal grandmother.
 
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Interesting typo - inadvertently included the middle name of a granddaughter. Wrong time and place to go into
her first name - I just disappeared down a rabbit hole about conditional evangelicalism there. Middle name from her maternal grandmother first name from Greek.
Blooming ‘eck @ianpspurs , these typos have a lot to answer for - or was it Mrs Malaprop - they may be rivals
 
Blooming ‘eck @ianpspurs , these typos have a lot to answer for - or was it Mrs Malaprop - they may be rivals
Ah, don't forget I was back in Cambridge yesterday. Even the dogs walk about stroking their beards and discussing such matters. As for school nativities, Octopuses are Love Actually inspired, biblically they should definitely include dragons - my grandson liked the Youtube video on the dragon one. (Google There's a dragon in my nativity if interested). Spoiler alert, didn't take place in a stable more like a communal living space but that's for later.
 
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Freezing cold here.
Everything still covered in frost.

For creative a photo of my Mahonia
I have lots of this, all down one side of my back garden...

Makes up for the sun being so low this time of year that it barely rises above bungalow roofs in the front garden at midday.


Wildlife nighttime video
Ginger Cat & Badger & Cat Jade
47secs


Have your best day...
Time for lunch...

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Good white rabbits morning everyone who can get onto this ailing site that I think is powered by an old machine made by Richard Arkwright. Software by Charles Babbage but uploaded by the Chuckle Brothers following instructions written by Louise Braille. I donned my Muck Boots yesterday - big error. I bought them quite a few years ago when my feet were all formed as the inherited genes had intended, before the arthritis decided on a slow and progressive remodeling. Well it took Mrs Miggins a while to get them off - think shoeing a Shire Horse positioning. Words were uttered; “don’t put these on again. I will order some new ones, a size bigger.” - Result! Didn’t want the ask about the difference between the words ‘bigger’ and ‘larger’. Not much temperature out there today. May have to decant some art products into the dining room to save heating the art room which is down the garden. Art today, a couple of rocks to start with. Hope your newly arrived month greets you well. More koffy required.
Nice rocks @dunelm
Those white rabbits are hiding being them...
Better get some more coffee when you order those larger wellies....might be a bit harder to throw these heavy ones in the welly throwing competition....
 
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