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

ianpspurs said:
I came across Vygotsky via Bernstein and his two codes idea of language which he then applied to knowledge. Sociology was always far more interesting to me than psychology - as if you couldn't guess. Also, I just don't see you as an advocate of John Holt, not the singer, or Ivan Illich although I do see how some children will learn more looking out of the window than following the Gove National Curriculum. I incorporated Mrs Beeton and Marginal Gains in my teaching. Mrs Beeton? First take 2 eggs - teaching 101: so many colleagues in my first school (S London) had wonderful lesson plans and materials but couldn't actually get the children into the room or keep them there.
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Teaching 101 - smashing.
 
Lamont D said:
In over twenty years of coaching age groups from 7 - adult.
It cannot be just one way of teaching or method or trying to have an agenda, to how the training session should go. You must be versatile, you have a plan, but it can't be so rigid, or opinionated, or closed to the response.
I took lessons on body language, on how to talk to different age groups, to notice and recognise if someone was not as they usually were. And to ask them in a way not to offend.
To have engagement, involement, to take the time to explain. To encourage, to give them information, to help with the experience I have, to lead, to show by example, do what I hope they can learn from it all.
Not to expect exceptional performance, or expect them to perform at a higher level.
Appreciate their input or their energy, or lower their own expectations.
Be positive, be proactive, be prepared, always have their safety and health first and foremost.
To be in a safe environment.
Listen.
And keep learning yourself.
You don't know everything, or even close.
Keep reviewing your overall effect.
Patience, confidence, and a disciplinary process, that is fair and reasonable.
With the obvious parents or guardians consent.

Children want and need to learn, don't put up restrictive boundaries, let them express, experience, and absorb.
Learn to live, and live to learn.
You're in football ⚽

And I'm off to my retirement.
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Yep.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

A Blackbird A Cat & A Pigeon
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC6rOQZI30V/?igsh=MTA3M3hmdTZreW9oOA==

Same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdjFskWy/

Creative. I forgot to take this photo in daylight, so I have just been and used the flash. More of this amazing fungus .

I hope you had a good day.


I have had a bit of a disaster. I am trying to sleep in the front room at the moment. I discovered a hole that being eaten from outside somewhere through the brickwork up into my bedroom and this creature has eaten through brickwork, plasterboard, through my wooden floors, through my inside doorstep, my skirting board, and emerged underneath the bedside cabinet. And has been stealing some of my stuffing in my mattress.

I assume it is a rat from the size of the hole. Why one would randomly chew a way through into my bedroom I have no idea. I could understand them if they work they way up the service pipes into the kitchen but not this.

I filled the hole with wire and cement. It came in under my bedside cabinet it came in under my bedside cabinet and presumably went straight under the bed which is why Midnight could not catch it.

That's it I'm not sleeping in that mattress again. I have dismantled that cut it up and it's now in the garden.
The bed frame is entirely another matter. This bed was built in my bedroom by this firm who put in this bed that gave me massage, and had slats that moved up and down to support me and so I could sit up, and get out of bed more easily. But the thing failed pretty quickly and stoped working long ago.

There is a lot of heavy machinery in it and I just cannot dismantle that from the bed frame. I was hoping to get it all in the garden and then dispose of it after that, butts it was so heavy it was impossible to lift and it has been made in such a way I cannot get it apart, and at the moment I am attacking it with my plumbers hammer and a saw... I didn't realise it was going to be so difficult to dismantle it. But then the firm took three days to build it, and had this machinery to put it together, so I was expecting a bit much to get it out in the garden in an afternoon. It is so heavy it has been impossible to move or these years, and I want it gone.
The rat taking this stuffing out of my bed with the last door and so that's why I've attacked it today. Midnight does not understand where my bed has gone. And has disappeared I hope he's hiding in the bungalow.

I realise now it would have cost a fortune if I'd have asked somebody to dismantle it so I'm glad I attacked it myself.

When it stopped working I had the firm out and they insist that that I had broken it. But taking the foam mattress apart, I discovered several of the wires had melted and so were not joined together anymore. And I discovered burn marks where the foam had melted. This was an intensely dangerous bed and I had no idea. Even more than ever I want it gone. The heavy machinery part, I just have to put that in my driveway and a scrap man will take that.. the rest is chipboard very heavy chipboard, but if I get that in the garden it will just disintegrate in the rain and I can dig it in.

I think this is because the badger and the foxes have not been visiting lately, they tend to keep the rats away. I am hoping they come back as soon as possible.

So I am trying to sleep in a rocking chair end up front room but not succeeding very well. I am going to back to do a bit more sawing so I will probably do that on and off all night.

My plan had to be in to get one of those chairs that you can sleep in. I had one in my last house and it worked better than a bed. But I can't afford one just yet. So I'm hoping to use my zero gravity garden chair which is in the potting shed at the moment....

At least with the bed gone, I will be able to see two of the outside walls I could never see before and I would not have known if anything had burrowed a hole in it will be better for ventilation as well for the walls.... But I've got to finish dismantling this frame and the inner frame with all the workings, machinery and wires....

And like a @dunelm mentioned earlier he was moving his artwork into the main house because of the cost of heating etc, my new plan for the bedroom hopefully will be some shelving and my artwork to be on that shelving and I'm hoping I will be able to paint in there as well as sleep. It will be a multifunction room. But at the moment it is an almighty blooming mess...

I wish Midnight would emerge. He is not answering me.

I think this fungi is called earth star but I can't remember now
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@gennepher you are definitely 'Wonder Woman ' .
I am very impressed that you are tackling that huge job.

Hope Midnight comes back very soon.
 
Good morning everyone from a red sky in the morning here in the dark and dangerous north. We had a good look at it and talked about why it was all red and then the Girl In The Bubble declared quite firmly that there is lava up in the sky but then had to go and watch an episode of Peppa Pig before offering an explanation. Such is the way of some scientists, they just expect everyone to know. Mind you, she has just turned five so her brain has expanded quite a lot over the past week. One of her class mates is a lot shorter than her and has been five for ages, but then she does have blond hair - I know! Black Friday - sounds arrestable. Bargains, mega bargains and super mega bargains to be had and new ways of using the word ‘free’ to disguise hidden pitfalls. I have already saved a fortune by not buying anything but then every penny should be spent twice. Art bit - ink on wet watercolour paper, about 5”x3”. Take care out there today - there could be up to 70% off the day if you’re not quick! Quick of course is an action with many interpretations. Best make koffy.
 

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Krystyna23040 said:
5.6 this morning.
Very chilly here but it looks as though it will be a sunny day.

Not got much admin to do so will probably be doing quite a lot of relaxing, reading and coffee drinking.

Rehab on ankle doing well so today will join Mr K on the afternoon dog walk.
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Good to hear that your ankle is improving so much. Do be careful though. I don't suppose Mr K will want to be carrying you home, superman though he be.

BG at 03.30 was 8.8 and has been up and down a bit since.

Took a slightly larger basal dose this morning to try to stem these high readings. The lower dose, recommended by my diabetes nurse, has just led to increased BG and increased basal doses to try to control it. So I've upped it by a couple of points, back to where it was some months ago when things were under better control.

The Consultant yesterday told me my liver was slightly worse than previously (more scarring) and I really have to try to get the weight off and the BG down. Apparently, almost 2 years ago, he recommended to my GP that I should be put onto Ozempic but never heard back from the clinic. I heard nothing about that from the GP. He's going to ask them again to put me on to it but I'm not sure I want to add it to all the rest of the mini pharmacy that I am surrounded with.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
@gennepher you are definitely 'Wonder Woman ' .
I am very impressed that you are tackling that huge job.

Hope Midnight comes back very soon.
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Thank you very much @Krystyna23040 I had no idea it was such a huge job. Commonsense should have told me so but it didn't. Probably just as well or I might never have started...

I found Midnight in the garden shortly after the time of Midnight. I have no idea if he was thinking of running away from home with everything changing but I scooped him up and locked him indoors..... I need to get my bed ( one of the garden chairs) and his bed in my bedroom sorted before tonight
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from a red sky in the morning here in the dark and dangerous north. We had a good look at it and talked about why it was all red and then the Girl In The Bubble declared quite firmly that there is lava up in the sky but then had to go and watch an episode of Peppa Pig before offering an explanation. Such is the way of some scientists, they just expect everyone to know. Mind you, she has just turned five so her brain has expanded quite a lot over the past week. One of her class mates is a lot shorter than her and has been five for ages, but then she does have blond hair - I know! Black Friday - sounds arrestable. Bargains, mega bargains and super mega bargains to be had and new ways of using the word ‘free’ to disguise hidden pitfalls. I have already saved a fortune by not buying anything but then every penny should be spent twice. Art bit - ink on wet watercolour paper, about 5”x3”. Take care out there today - there could be up to 70% off the day if you’re not quick! Quick of course is an action with many interpretations. Best make koffy.
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This painting with the red roof is beautiful and soft and gentle @dunelm
 
gennepher said:
Thank you very much @Krystyna23040 I had no idea it was such a huge job. Commonsense should have told me so but it didn't. Probably just as well or I might never have started...

I found Midnight in the garden shortly after the time of Midnight. I have no idea if he was thinking of running away from home with everything changing but I scooped him up and locked him indoors..... I need to get my bed ( one of the garden chairs) and his bed in my bedroom sorted before tonight
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Am so pleased you found Midnight @gennepher
 
Morning all from L.A. where post Thanksgiving day dawns bright and chilly. I don't know my fbg and even if I did there are none of the issues currently in my in tray with which that would help. @gennepher my heart goes out to you as they say but despite all that you manage to share videos, creatives and photos - amazing. @JohnEGreen well done Keiran. @Lamont D I can't praise that coaching post enough - though I'm pretty sure you'd fail OFSTED for not scripting to the Nth degree. That's the crack in OFSTED and your post is the light. @Annb hug for the stress of the news from that consultation. It would be interesting to find out why your GP never told you. @dunelm thank you for sharing another splendid red roof piece and the wonderful account of how the minds of 5 year old children work. Who knew blond girls aged more slowly or were shorter? Our 4 blond girls seem to age normally and are well above average height (so is the dark haired one), could be an anomaly up there in the D and D region. They all live in the sunny South and East although their dad's are at least 6 feet 4 and mum's are about 6 feet tall, which may just be coincidence. As for Black Friday, we need a new tumble drier as ours seems to be making music and it isn't one which should. @SlimLizzy's tale of woe makes that urgent, not sure about bargains but any offers are helpful. Heat pump ones are all the go and seem to be Wifi and app enabled - whatsit knows why. @Krystyna23040 do still take it as easy as your DNA allows. Lots of words from me for no use whatsoever, perfect summary of where I'm at these days. Enjoy Friday - it's super salmon salad day (with Zoe 30+ sprinkles) here, well for me anyhow.
 
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My first thoughts on the attached were what could he have done to help - insert worthy cause of choice - with that money?. Then I was reminded by the Holy Spirit or whatever else you think that I recently bought 4 new shirts, a Cambridge University Rowing Club fleece (because I wanted one for years) and will be eating wild Alaskan salmon for evening meal and today we bought a new tumble dryer when we have a garden with a rotary clothes line. I'm just not wearing polo shirts or using towels which exfoliate my, now very delicate, skin. The mote and beam are very uncomfortable just now.
 

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Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and all those who in their youth never gave a thought to the future, now what a prophetic thought for a Friday afternoon? I must have read it somewhere :) .

My blood sugars this morning were 6.0 again, which was a surprise.

Our second youngest grandson is supervising Mrs J and me, me’s and myself today, courtesy of a school inset day, will Tilehurst Towers ever recover, yes of course is an answer of sorts.

Lots of chatter about edumacation and the tales of @gennepher ’s dismantling, how Gennepher copes is an example to a least me, me’s and myself. See, an education. It appears examples to learn are everywhere. It’s a shame our political leaders don’t learn.

Now after having my afternoon nap and being woken up by my grandson, I must move boxes containing decorations from one location in Tilehurst Towers to a more convenient one for Mrs J and forlornly earning brownie points. It appears any brownie points any male earns have a life measured in picoseconds, in Tilehurst Towers.

Must go………yes dear just coming.
 
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