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

Lamont D said:
Happy birthday @Annb, have a wonderful birthday.
FBG was 8.2 and rising again.

everyone have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes.
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Thanks so much @Lamont D. Especially so since you have so much to think about at the moment.

My Dad used to say that the Japanese heard that I was born and gave up the fight the next day, so I guess he was equating me with the atom bombs! I don't think my contribution anywhere near matches your Dad's and his comrades though.
 
Fbg for Fri am 6.8

A drawing of a bridge...
And I sprayed water on the paper after I had drawn it. It was done some time ago.....

I am still sorting and tidying..

Night night

Sweet dreams

After a week of an intermittent water supply, I think it's finally been repaired but it's going to take 48 hours to fill all the empty pipes...maybe I will be able to have a shower now... the water pressure was too low before...


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SlimLizzy said:
Thank you @Annb
Was on the beach with her two older sisters when we got the news. Baby was planned ceasarian birth, but needed emergency extraction two days before. Girls were supposed to be home before she arrived.
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Perhaps I should clarify - the beach was in France and the girls live in UK.
 
16.08
7.45am FBG 5.6
8.30am FBG 5.4
Am managing better control of eating and have lost a tiny bit of weight. Not that the numbers matter, what does is that some of my clothes are uncomfortably tight.

Second coating the kitchen unit doors today, while MrSlim fits the hob and extractor.
MrSlim has so much patience and works so hard. He never gets angry - not even when I insisted all the units had to come out and be realigned. A whole days work to take them out and line them up.
Or the day after when I requested 10mm off the worktops. After he had cut them to size.
Not even when I suggested swapping the two buffets in the kitchen and the utility around. He didn't get angry. He just refused to do it.
I may get my way on that yet. But maybe after the visitors have gone. We shall see.
Note; a French buffet is similar to a Welsh dresser, but with glass doors in the top section. Ours are oak and very heavy. There are several reasons for wanting them swapped. The slightly narrower one in the utility had actually got a deeper top cupboard and My cake tin fits. It has been painted, so would look better immediately.(minor reason)
Being narrower it could be centralised on the chimney breast, again looking better, (minor reason) but more importantly would allow more room for the fridge door to open, which sometimes crashes into the buffet as it is now, while still having sufficient space for the drawers on the opposite side to open. Its the practical reasons that are more important than the aesthetics.
For MrSlim it's the time and effort it took to install the kitchen buffet, which had to be modified slightly to fit and the thought of doing that again that puts him off the idea.
Have fun everyone, hope you get some sunshine
 
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SlimLizzy said:
16.08
7.45am FBG 5.6
8.30am FBG 5.4
Am managing better control of eating and have lost a tiny bit of weight. Not that the numbers matter, what does is that some of my clothes are uncomfortably tight.

Second coating the kitchen unit doors today, while MrSlim fits the hob and extractor.
MrSlim has so much patience and works so hard. He never gets angry - not even when I insisted all the units had to come out and be realigned. A whole days work to take them out and line them up.
Or the day after when I requested 10mm off the worktops. After he had cut them to size.
Not even when I suggested swapping the two buffets in the kitchen and the utility around. He didn't get angry. He just refused to do it.
I may get my way on that yet. But maybe after the visitors have gone. We shall see.
Note; a French buffet is similar to a Welsh dresser, but with glass doors in the top section. Ours are oak and very heavy. There are several reasons for wanting them swapped. The slightly narrower one in the utility had actually got a deeper top cupboard and My cake tin fits. It has been painted, so would look better immediately.(minor reason)
Being narrower it could be centralised on the chimney breast, again looking better, (minor reason) but more importantly would allow more room for the fridge door to open, which sometimes crashes into the buffet as it is now, while still having sufficient space for the drawers on the opposite side to open. Its the practical reasons that are more important than the aesthetics.
For MrSlim it's the time and effort it took to install the kitchen buffet, which had to be modified slightly to fit and the thought of doing that again that puts him off the idea.
Have fun everyone, hope you get some sunshine
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I gave a like for all the work Mr Slim has done, but should have made it a hug after I read your added part about the work involved in fitting the buffets. Hug for Mr S, if he does the work. Hug for you, if he won't!
 
7.9 at 04.00 today.

Still hunting for papers and jewellery. I've just thought of one more place I could look for the jewellery, so I'll go and check that soon, but I can't think of anywhere else to look for the papers. They are definitely in the house. They were never given either to the solicitor or the bank.

Still wondering how much of the paperwork I am hanging onto I should be keeping and how much should be burned or shredded. That is - how much of it it family archives that some future family historian might value? I have bank statements and cheques and cheque stubs from 1964 when Tom and I opened a joint account together to fairly recently when the bank stopped returning cheques. Same with credit card statements. Should I shred/burn them, I wonder. My brother tells me that where he lives, in Swindon, the council will not take away shredded paper, so unable to burn it, they have to just black out any personal information and put it into the recycling bin. I don't know why they refuse shredded paper.

EDiT: Found the jewellery! It wasn't where I thought I might look, so giving up on that, I noticed an old, wooden box that Alistair gave me years ago. I think he bought it as a jewellery box for me. I wouldn't have thought that was the sensible place to keep them, would I? Yes I would. What a daft notion. So, now to think of somewhere else I might have put all those papers....
 
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Fbg 6.4

Encaustic wax painting
I used my household iron to paint with the wax, and you can get very fine details even with a clumsy looking household iron. Mind you, your household iron is no good for ironing clothes anymore.....

I don't iron clothes anyway...

I did a kaleidoscope of this painting as well... .in thumbnail...

I hope you're having a good day....

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Been potting up little lavender plants this afternoon. It's quite amazing how fragrant they are even though they are only about 1 - 2 inches tall and, obviously, all leaves. I have 16 plants now - should be white, pink and blue but I can't remember how many of each colour. That should keep the bees happy and, with any luck, keep the flies away. Also have about 12 mint plants, of different varieties. Flies, look out! Not welcome here!

I also have to get someone to fill big tubs with compost (I can't get to the tubs, or handle the compost bags) so that I can then get someone to plant up 2 Californian lilacs. Also have to get someone to plant out the ivy and honeysuckle plants. It's all very well growing them/buying them in, but to actually do the heavy bit, I need a Neil or an Alistair, or perhaps Emily.
 
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Annb said:
I can't think of anywhere else to look for the papers. They are definitely in the house.
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Same with my marriage certificate. It certainly came home, in its peculiar long envelope, after I had to show it to the person running my employer's pension scheme over 25 years ago, but it hasn't resurfaced since. It can only be in the "study bedroom", but where?
Annb said:
My brother tells me that where he lives, in Swindon, the council will not take away shredded paper, so unable to burn it, they have to just black out any personal information and put it into the recycling bin. I don't know why they refuse shredded paper.
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Miss! Miss! I know! Pick me!

It's the same in Southampton, apparently paper less than 1cm wide can block the sorting machines.

9.5 today, possibly due to fasting experiment, not eating after 9pm. I usually need a bedtime snack in order to sleep. I didn't enjoy the experience but if it consistently lowers FBGs I will learn to live with it.

Scotland trip firming up. Dates/ hotels chosen, takeaway menus investigated and "must-see" landmarks listed. Daughter particularly wants to visit Queen's Street in Glasgow to see what sort of traffic cone the equestrian statue is currently sporting :D 500px-Duke_of_Wellington_coned_statue_Glasgow.jpg
 
debs248 said:
Same with my marriage certificate. It certainly came home, in its peculiar long envelope, after I had to show it to the person running my employer's pension scheme over 25 years ago, but it hasn't resurfaced since. It can only be in the "study bedroom", but where?

Miss! Miss! I know! Pick me!

It's the same in Southampton, apparently paper less than 1cm wide can block the sorting machines.

9.5 today, possibly due to fasting experiment, not eating after 9pm. I usually need a bedtime snack in order to sleep. I didn't enjoy the experience but if it consistently lowers FBGs I will learn to live with it.

Scotland trip firming up. Dates/ hotels chosen, takeaway menus investigated and "must-see" landmarks listed. Daughter particularly wants to visit Queen's Street in Glasgow to see what sort of traffic cone the equestrian statue is currently sporting :D View attachment 73542
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Enjoy your trip to Scotland, when it comes. There's lots to see. Even other statues wearing traffic cones. Is it a Scottish thing? There's lots on the Central belt, around Glasgow and Edinburgh but lots too in other areas - the Highlands, the Islands, the north east, coasts all around. It could take many holidays to take it all in.
 
Libre woke me up at 02.30 to tell me BG was too low, so I struggled through to the kitchen to get something inside me to bring it up. By the time I got there, though, it had bounced up to 6.7, so I just had a cup of coffee and dozed in the big chair. Up for another coffee about 04.30 and BG was still 6.5. A short time ago Libre told me it was too high. Must get back to taking coffee black.
 
17.08 four days to visitors.
8.325am FBG 5.9 disturbed night slept late.
Have three drawer fronts and a slimline pull out unit to second coat today.
MrSlim is planning to redo the kitchen floor this evening. He also volunteered to exchange the buffets - if i really wanted them moving. What a star ! After some discussion we have agreed that he will move the kitchen buffet to a more central position and I will paint it. Although whether that will be before visitors is doubtful. It's a complicated piece of furniture and will need at least three coats.
Am hoping MrSlim will plaster the bedroom ceiling today, if not it will be too late for it to dry or for painting. Actually maybe not, perhaps I couldn't cope with the mess! Not at this late stage.
Yesterday made a huge batch of crumble topping, was intending to make two puddings with some of last year's berries that are still hanging about in the freezer.
one large four portion for us and a two portion to give to a friend. At the last minute i remembered that her husband is lactose intolerant. So no buttery crumble mix for him. Made up another batch with plant based spread. Was still clearing up at 10.30pm. Now to find time to visit, am going to take some excess vegetables as well. Still no room in the freezer for fresh stuff.
9.45am FBG 5.8
Sunny day again, off out to water maybe the activity will bring it down further before I start eating.
 
@Annb, that's a brilliant idea for a future trip, "Traffic-cone decorated Statues of Scotland"!

I was only aware of the Queen's Street one, but that was over 20 years ago so perhaps it's set a trend in the meantime.

We'll keep an eye out for more and take some pics.

11.5 today, not surprising as I ate late and stayed awake until 7:30 to make sure hubby and daughter got up in order to drive to London to empty/ clean her student room.

Text exchanges suggest it's going as about as well as you'd expect with a teenager who has no natural inclination towards neatness. :banghead: They've moved on to emptying the freezer compartment which involves eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's each :rolleyes:
 
Daughter and family have now gone back home.

We had a wonderful time with them and are now exhausted - especially Bonnie who has slept right through her dinner time.

She has been so good with the grandchildren. They really love her. She is just 9 months old this week.
 
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Back up to 8.1 again. Bah!
Have had a beautiful day in the garden relaxing, when I mean relax, I mean doing the little chores of tidying up the plants, wedding etc. And lounging on my new garden furniture. So comfortable, don't need cushions. Read a book in the last couple of days, can't remember doing that for such a long while. Which just shows how well Mrs L is doing. I have left her to do things and Mrs L doesn't need me as much. Still listening out and worrying of course.
Got more people coming tomorrow.
And of course the rest of the usual visitors.
Going for Mrs L evening walk.
Best wishes.
 
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