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

Should a canvasser try to engage you in a discussion this Genny lec I offer a link to an article which contains some useful phrases with which to engage any of the parties with , shall we say, a somewhat anachronistic world view unencumbered by observable reality, or truth without being rude. Casually dropped into conversation they should have an interesting effect on the facial expression of, say, Nigel Plc's door to door salespersons. Too wicked to anticipate spontaneous combustion? Also a thought provoking piece on just how "closed off" we Brits are. Being free is a bonus in these cozzie livs times.
 
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We were aware of the crisis when we first booked, so decided to be cautious where we located ourselves.

Seems Petra was a big camp,
And speaking to locals seems they got overwhelmed by the crisis.

And near mytilini some centres are still dotted about, but they seem far less busy now.

Last time when we left for the airport many hundreds were milling about, lost for what to do with themselves, it seemed.

This time barely anyone.

So hopefully it's eased everywhere.
 
A stubborn 6.8 again.
A cloudy cool day, dry. Around 13degrees.
After yesterday's mini rant.
You wouldn't believe that I received an email, from none other than an animal rights campaigners.
They wanted my signature and money of course to back laws to prosecute those who abuse animals.
I agree of course in principle but, the point is,
The government we have had, are trying to make laws against basic human rights. And been dogmatic about it, and persecuting those less able to protect themselves through parliament and the systematic destruction of the legal system through austerity.
I naturally deleted the email.

Have done quite a bit in the garden the last couple of days, and I was going to do more, but it's too cool to stay out unless I put about three layers of so, so I'm spending more time assessing what house improvements is needed, and I've ordered more paint etc.

As a professional kit manager, my expertise and training in washing, drying, folding clothes became natural when applying it to Mrs L 's laundry basket.
Having a very nice washing machine with lots of settings and potential to solve the most demanding womanly advice about the right way to do things. Always read The label, unless otherwise advised.
The washing line is the summer's dryer. And a lot more economic.
If you own a mansion, then you should have a drying room, and you should hang fragile items straight from the washing machine. And shouldn't be out in the strong sunshine to maintain the colour.
And even though it may be scientifically beneficial to hang clothes to hang to dry quicker, it may not be the best for the particular piece because it will not wear right on Mrs L.
You have to be trained on the basics, then into synthetics, wollens, cotton, linen and the particulars of womanly under garments, which under advisement, is not to be displayed in plain sight for some reason.
The use of detergents, softeners and other chemical weapons needed for specific fabrics has to be learned.
Bleach should be avoided entirely, as the outcome will surely be painful.
Folding and hanging up clothes is an art itself were seams are so important to how they are stored and put away. And of course, they should hang the right way up, we are not bats! Not inside out, nor in the wrong space, to save from static electricity and so on.
Ironing is done when left alone, and no one to disturb the concentration, and of course no one to witness the accident and disposal of said item. Deniability is sensible, only admit guilt on pain of suffering.
And always promise a shopping trip to appease the threats.

And if you think that women are bad about their clothes, 30+ pro footballers are so much harder to please!

If you find a specialist with a closed mind @gennepher. Nod and say thank you. Then find one with an open mind, who will help if you explain yourself.

And in recent news, the reformist fascists, are promising the earth.
It's a pity, that the Earth may not be there when they win!

My best wishes to you lot as always. May the sun shine out of .........!
keep warm you lot.
 
Good morning to you all from a dry, clear but less obviously almost mid summer in L.A. than yesterday. As someone once said, one can only hope or perhaps D:Ream. Hugs for TGIB, @gennepher and @jjraak. Thoughts and prayers for TLC to all. @dunelm thank you for sharing the trees. @alf_Josiah hanging out washing is complicated. You seem to have successfully completed level 1. The higher levels are far more complex. Different types, sizes and colours of pegs are needed along with the correct position on the line/rotary airer. Add in all the different receptacles for said pegs, correct manner of folding and order of loading dry clothes plus into which basket different items must be placed and one can see how it is a difficult, skilled task far beyond the simple male brain. Anyhow, tea won't drink itself. Have as much pleasure as possible in the unique circumstances of your Tuesday but peace be with you.
Thank you @ianpspurs and good luck with the OCD laundry methodology.
 
Good morning to you all from a dry, clear but less obviously almost mid summer in L.A. than yesterday. As someone once said, one can only hope or perhaps D:Ream. Hugs for TGIB, @gennepher and @jjraak. Thoughts and prayers for TLC to all. @dunelm thank you for sharing the trees. @alf_Josiah hanging out washing is complicated. You seem to have successfully completed level 1. The higher levels are far more complex. Different types, sizes and colours of pegs are needed along with the correct position on the line/rotary airer. Add in all the different receptacles for said pegs, correct manner of folding and order of loading dry clothes plus into which basket different items must be placed and one can see how it is a difficult, skilled task far beyond the simple male brain. Anyhow, tea won't drink itself. Have as much pleasure as possible in the unique circumstances of your Tuesday but peace be with you.
Sounds like my MIL's sytem. My mother was a bit more slapdash. As long as the washing got out on the line in some manner, if it wasn't raining, she was quite content. If it could be hung on a hanger - fine and good; if not it would stay in a basket waiting to be folded when someone got around to it. If that happened before someone wanted to wear it - fine; if not - too bad. Things that had to be ironed would be done before they got creased, but that was the only imperative. Tom was a bit shocked when he saw that I had some "bad habits" when I married. He soon got used to it though. These days though I can't get out to what used to be the drying green before all this rain stopped the grass being cut, so pulley or tumble dryer it is. Neil is a bit particular with his washing, so he does his own and folds it neatly. Asperger's! OCD isn't my style.
 
Sounds like my MIL's sytem. My mother was a bit more slapdash. As long as the washing got out on the line in some manner, if it wasn't raining, she was quite content. If it could be hung on a hanger - fine and good; if not it would stay in a basket waiting to be folded when someone got around to it. If that happened before someone wanted to wear it - fine; if not - too bad. Things that had to be ironed would be done before they got creased, but that was the only imperative. Tom was a bit shocked when he saw that I had some "bad habits" when I married. He soon got used to it though. These days though I can't get out to what used to be the drying green before all this rain stopped the grass being cut, so pulley or tumble dryer it is. Neil is a bit particular with his washing, so he does his own and folds it neatly. Asperger's! OCD isn't my style.
Oh god!
Oops!
But, you have just reminded me of our pulley drying system over and above the fire/chimney, in the 50s early sixties. We never had a drier, can't remember one, even when we had a twin tub.
We still went to the laundrette, on the corner of the main road.
As youngest, it was another of my chores, either after school of on a Saturday, it was closed on a Sunday. Sometimes did two washes there, whites and colours. Different settings of course. And I would sit there reading books or a comic, with the bags cos it wasn't called a laundrette or a laundromat., (Eek!)
It was commonly known as a bagwash.
Going to my under five years, and my mum had a Tuesday off, we would be at the council run huge laundry, and the hordes of washerwomen and their kids. It was so hot, the machines were massive. And I remember even then, the way every one of them helped one another, and never stopped talking.
Now you have machines with a computer that washes, dries, thinks for itself and stops when the sensors tell it to. My machines and driers in the club were the latest models in 2015. The detergent, the softener and stain remover (similar to vanish) were built in and programmed to supply in amounts suitable to the machine temperature and fabric setting, and it did have a heavy duty cold wash for when the kit got extra muddy. We still had to scrub sometimes.
The best was a refresh wash, after training the synthetics of the material of training kit and being a dark colour, a quick refresh wash of fifteen, twenty minutes and five minutes in the drier would wash to a good standard whilst the players were having something else to do, or getting changed.
The drier had an anti static, anti crease system built in, programmes for every eventuality, fabric and make a cuppa to my liking. It was great but not that great, I had to make my own cuppa!!!!!!
If it could fill and empty itself, hang out and fold and put away. I might be impressed!!!

Who the heck mentioned washing?
Bet it was some downtrodden individual that has to do too much in the home, and is not very adept at it all!
And is always looking for sympathy!!!

Gonna get the washing of the line now!
Have a lovely evening!
 
Oh god!
Oops!
But, you have just reminded me of our pulley drying system over and above the fire/chimney, in the 50s early sixties. We never had a drier, can't remember one, even when we had a twin tub.
We still went to the laundrette, on the corner of the main road.
As youngest, it was another of my chores, either after school of on a Saturday, it was closed on a Sunday. Sometimes did two washes there, whites and colours. Different settings of course. And I would sit there reading books or a comic, with the bags cos it wasn't called a laundrette or a laundromat., (Eek!)
It was commonly known as a bagwash.
Going to my under five years, and my mum had a Tuesday off, we would be at the council run huge laundry, and the hordes of washerwomen and their kids. It was so hot, the machines were massive. And I remember even then, the way every one of them helped one another, and never stopped talking.
Now you have machines with a computer that washes, dries, thinks for itself and stops when the sensors tell it to. My machines and driers in the club were the latest models in 2015. The detergent, the softener and stain remover (similar to vanish) were built in and programmed to supply in amounts suitable to the machine temperature and fabric setting, and it did have a heavy duty cold wash for when the kit got extra muddy. We still had to scrub sometimes.
The best was a refresh wash, after training the synthetics of the material of training kit and being a dark colour, a quick refresh wash of fifteen, twenty minutes and five minutes in the drier would wash to a good standard whilst the players were having something else to do, or getting changed.
The drier had an anti static, anti crease system built in, programmes for every eventuality, fabric and make a cuppa to my liking. It was great but not that great, I had to make my own cuppa!!!!!!
If it could fill and empty itself, hang out and fold and put away. I might be impressed!!!

Who the heck mentioned washing?
Bet it was some downtrodden individual that has to do too much in the home, and is not very adept at it all!
And is always looking for sympathy!!!

Gonna get the washing of the line now!
Have a lovely evening!
DIL runs a laundry which she calls "The Wee Steamie". This is to evoke memories of the days when Scottish towns and cities had "Steamies", which were old fashioned laundries where women could take their family wash and some soap and use the hot water and wash tubs/wringers, drying racks - hard manual work. The women had almost all of their social experiences in those steamies. It was where they gossipped and learned what was happening in the world as well as giving each other support through difficult times. Probably none of the younger folk in towns know anything about those bad old days or can even imagine the hardships but those women were tough! There was a TV play a few years ago about a Glasgow steamie. Brilliant piece of work.
 
Today is 18th June.
My next to eldest brothers birthday, he and I shared a bed for ten years, in our youngest years.
I do miss him.

It is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The fate of European history was decided at this final battle of the Napoleonic wars.
It would be completely different place now, if the allied armies had been defeated.

it is one of those ' what if' moments, that I do find intriguing and fascinating.
 
DIL runs a laundry which she calls "The Wee Steamie". This is to evoke memories of the days when Scottish towns and cities had "Steamies", which were old fashioned laundries where women could take their family wash and some soap and use the hot water and wash tubs/wringers, drying racks - hard manual work. The women had almost all of their social experiences in those steamies. It was where they gossipped and learned what was happening in the world as well as giving each other support through difficult times. Probably none of the younger folk in towns know anything about those bad old days or can even imagine the hardships but those women were tough! There was a TV play a few years ago about a Glasgow steamie. Brilliant piece of work.
Eactly, what I remember, but for the life of me I can't remember what we called them.
 
Fbg 7.9
Stress did that...

Nighttime wildlife video
Fox & Badger & Cat
43secs

Creative... like yesterday, on a postcard for my postcrossing friends, watercolour & ink drawing with Japanese calligraphy pen.
Put in Snapseed for copyright and name.

Ready for a nap...

Have your best day...
Enjoying these delightful wildlife videos @gennepher

This morning, I watched two of the fox cubs bounding along our garden path, well-lit by early morning sunshine. A short while afterwards, Mum followed and settled down contentedly in much the same sunny spot as before. Sunlight it seems has near enough the same effect on them as us.

My back garden, which is more akin to a nature reserve than a garden, is beginning to look like rain forest thanks to all the wet weather. Ferns have grown lush. while tall plants like Hemp Agrimony and Hogweed have shot up in recent weeks. Their large umbels of flowers attract an interesting range of pollinators but it's hard to see what's there this year as the umbels now tower above my head.

Tuesday's FBG, 4.3 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
 
Fbg 7.9
Stress did that...

Nighttime wildlife video
Fox & Badger & Cat
43secs

Creative... like yesterday, on a postcard for my postcrossing friends, watercolour & ink drawing with Japanese calligraphy pen.
Put in Snapseed for copyright and name.

Ready for a nap...

Have your best day...

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Smashing piece of art, I like this style
 
Enjoying these delightful wildlife videos @gennepher

This morning, I watched two of the fox cubs bounding along our garden path, well-lit by early morning sunshine. A short while afterwards, Mum followed and settled down contentedly in much the same sunny spot as before. Sunlight it seems has near enough the same effect on them as us.

My back garden, which is more akin to a nature reserve than a garden, is beginning to look like rain forest thanks to all the wet weather. Ferns have grown lush. while tall plants like Hemp Agrimony and Hogweed have shot up in recent weeks. Their large umbels of flowers attract an interesting range of pollinators but it's hard to see what's there this year as the umbels now tower above my head.

Tuesday's FBG, 4.3 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.
Thank you @LivingLightly

My garden is so much a jungle with all this rain,that it has a complete overhead canopy of green vegetation....

There might be the nighttime wildlife in there, but it remains hidden....
 
Good morning everyone on what appears to be a bright and sunny start here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl In The Bubble getting back to her funny, bubbly self as she trotted off home yesterday afternoon. Pal from LA arrived - always shopping first - boxes and boxes of breakfast cereals - a box of his favourite cereals is $24 stateside and as a true Yorkshireman, every penny has to be spent twice. Dog treats, ginger nuts and on and on. Cereal boxes will be discarded when all this stuff gets packed up into the huge, empty suitcase he brought to put it all in for his return trip. It’s M&S today but I expect it may be some time before he wakes up after flying halfway round the globe. Art bit - another tree. Hope your day is kind to you. I am going to make koffy and then sit in the garden for a bit of basking.
 

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.8

Have the very best day you can, rest assured me, me’s and myself will try.

Is it the done thing to mention the rugby term try in the middle of a foot the ball tournament?
 
Thank you @ianpspurs

It is a disgrace, and I tried very hard about 8 years ago to do something about this situation. But there is more that I haven't written about. I wasn't believed then, and I felt invalidated, a fool and more, because I was told that this situation could never arise. But this time, I had additional proof, in the form of serial numbers (which I had not known existed before), and I approached a different avenue to make my all concerns noted. And consequently everything else was checked out yesterday. And they found my mapping had been badly wrong for a long time.

Oh yes, cats sense my stress, especially Midnight. They do offer their own sympathy.
Lovely that Midnight and the other cats offer their own sympathy @gennepher. Really great that this time you had the additional proof that the mapping had gone badly wrong.
 
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