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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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Krystyna23040
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I really enjoyed my shopping trip to Tesco. Normally I am too busy working to go shopping, so it was so lovely to be able to join Mr K on our little trip to get the Yeo Valley organic milk. Plus I found an interesting hazelnut flavoured coffee pod.
I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
I did hesitate before posting this post. I wondered if it made me sound seriously weird if the highlight of my day was shopping in Tesco.
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Not at all weird, just NFN
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Chance would be a fine thing! Why not enjoy it?
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Fbg 6.4
Encaustic painting. A painting. using wax and hot iron to draw with...
Too hot this weather...I hope it doesn't mean the opposite extreme for winter...
I am having a wee rest sitting at my open window at the moment watching the bumblebees who are working very hard collecting pollen in the mallow flowers..
Time to lock up...
Have a good evening....
Encaustic painting. A painting. using wax and hot iron to draw with...
Too hot this weather...I hope it doesn't mean the opposite extreme for winter...
I am having a wee rest sitting at my open window at the moment watching the bumblebees who are working very hard collecting pollen in the mallow flowers..
Time to lock up...
Have a good evening....
Krystyna23040
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Krystyna23040
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Yes, you are .right @Annb - why not enjoy it.
Also it was lovely and cool inside. So another bonus in 31° heat today.
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I wasted hours this afternoon, trying to find some information on the internet. I couldn't find it of course.
Back in 1533, Tom had a 13x great uncle who is recorded to have died, in a coaching incident. It was in a report from another 13x great uncle to the court of James VI (of Scotland). The incident gave rise to a myth of "the headless coachman of Blebo" who apparently still appears at Blebo where people have heard a rushing wind and clattering of horses hooves. Since only the noises have been heard, I don't know how they know the coachman is headless, but that is by the way. What I am trying to find out is how Andro Trail actually died in 1533. There are plenty of references to that old coachman, but nothing about what actually happened.
It struck me that coaches, as we might imagine them would probably not have existed at the beginning of the 16th century - there were no made up roads in Scotland at that time, or very few. I doubt that Blebo, near Cupar in Fife had more than tracks back then. So, part of the time wasted was used trying to find out when "coaches" first came to Scotland. Apparently they didn't come to England until the late 16th century, so in Scotland in 1533, it wouldn't have been what we know as a coach now - probably a covered wagon of some sort.
Turns out that riding in a coach, once they were invented (at the turn of the 15th/16th centuries, probably in Hungary), was not allowed unless the traveller was infirm in some way - women were actually not allowed to ride in a coach in France at that time, and men wouldn't dream of doing so (effeminate - real men rode horses or walked and really infirm folk would be carried in a palanquin, slung between 2 horses, fore and aft). However, Elizabeth I had a kind of horse drawn coach which was just a frame on wheels with curtains that could be pulled across when required and driven by a postillion riding one of the 2 horses. Fascinating.
I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
Back in 1533, Tom had a 13x great uncle who is recorded to have died, in a coaching incident. It was in a report from another 13x great uncle to the court of James VI (of Scotland). The incident gave rise to a myth of "the headless coachman of Blebo" who apparently still appears at Blebo where people have heard a rushing wind and clattering of horses hooves. Since only the noises have been heard, I don't know how they know the coachman is headless, but that is by the way. What I am trying to find out is how Andro Trail actually died in 1533. There are plenty of references to that old coachman, but nothing about what actually happened.
It struck me that coaches, as we might imagine them would probably not have existed at the beginning of the 16th century - there were no made up roads in Scotland at that time, or very few. I doubt that Blebo, near Cupar in Fife had more than tracks back then. So, part of the time wasted was used trying to find out when "coaches" first came to Scotland. Apparently they didn't come to England until the late 16th century, so in Scotland in 1533, it wouldn't have been what we know as a coach now - probably a covered wagon of some sort.
Turns out that riding in a coach, once they were invented (at the turn of the 15th/16th centuries, probably in Hungary), was not allowed unless the traveller was infirm in some way - women were actually not allowed to ride in a coach in France at that time, and men wouldn't dream of doing so (effeminate - real men rode horses or walked and really infirm folk would be carried in a palanquin, slung between 2 horses, fore and aft). However, Elizabeth I had a kind of horse drawn coach which was just a frame on wheels with curtains that could be pulled across when required and driven by a postillion riding one of the 2 horses. Fascinating.
I am one of those people who lacks focus and can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way.
