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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

I have about ten of his books on my kindle including

Crocker's Hole
Erema
Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country
Fringilla Some Tales In Verse
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris
Mary Anerley
Springhaven
Slain By The Doones
The Maid Of Sker

I'm still trying to get copies of his other seven novels.

He could come across as a bit stilted but non the less I always have found him a good read

Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and James Barrie came together to form a committee to install a memorial to him in Exeter Cathedral after he died.
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ianpspurs said:
Thanks @shelley262. I have absolutely set my face against the cream in tea or full fat route. It will break my heart - probably literally - to go down that route. I have eaten a great deal of cheese since Saturday.
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If cream in tea is a step too far (I love it), how about low carb hot chocolate? A couple of weeks back I added a heaped teaspoon of very high percentage cocoa (Lidl’s brand is 8.7g carb per 100g) to a mug which was half double cream (heated) and half water. Added a bit less than a teaspoon of erythritol to take the edge of the bitterness. Delicious.
 
Goonergal said:
If cream in tea is a step too far (I love it), how about low carb hot chocolate? A couple of weeks back I added a heaped teaspoon of very high percentage cocoa (Lidl’s brand is 8.7g carb per 100g) to a mug which was half double cream (heated) and half water. Added a bit less than a teaspoon of erythritol to take the edge of the bitterness. Delicious.
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Strangely, my first idea was high percentage hot chocolate - even bought the machine to make it. Tend to use it mid morning not breakfast. I wouldn't use cream - maybe soya milk.The mad waking at 3.30 makes when to test for breakfast or when to have first food a little tricky. I also can't work out why it is 3.30 so often.
 
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SaskiaKC said:
You do realize that now you must tell your stories to us here, don't you? :D

@Chronicle_Cat I know what you mean about the profession changing over the years. That was a problem for me too, trying to come back to it after several years away. I actually found I didn't want to go back to public library work because the atmosphere had changed so much, and by that time it was too late for me to start work on a second master's degree to be an academic librarian.
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Very much like me. I considered going back to teacher's college to be a special education teacher but only 1/4 of new grads get jobs in the field here and at age 58, I'd be 60 by the time I graduated (now 62).
 
ianpspurs said:
Strangely, my first idea was high percentage hot chocolate - even bought the machine to make it. Tend to use it mid morning not breakfast. I wouldn't use cream - maybe soya milk.The mad waking at 3.30 makes when to test for breakfast or when to have first food a little tricky. I also can't work out why it is 3.30 so often.
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Funnily enough for the last week or so I have woken up at 3.23 exactly every morning takes me at least an hour to get back to sleep don't normally test at that time as when I last did, bloods where at 8.2.
 
Cumberland said:
Cataract operation tomorrow OMG so nervous
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Only natural to feel nervous but everyone I know who has had that op, including my mum who had both eyes done, have been fine and amazed at how much it has improved their quality of life afterwards. Best wishes.
 
ianpspurs said:
Strangely, my first idea was high percentage hot chocolate - even bought the machine to make it. Tend to use it mid morning not breakfast. I wouldn't use cream - maybe soya milk.The mad waking at 3.30 makes when to test for breakfast or when to have first food a little tricky. I also can't work out why it is 3.30 so often.
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hi ian
i became a member of the mortgaged mass in 1983 ..i renovated my small victorian house mostly by myself ..started relationship and subsequent family at the same time..from there on for about thirty odd years i woke up with a bang,,,three a.m ....on the dot every morning...there is a railway line very nearby and an early goods train passes about that time ...but...in my case five years ago my ex departed for pastures new never to return ....a weight was off my shoulders and i havent had the three a.m wakes ever again...dont think it was the trains that was causing the problem.... diawara....
 
ianpspurs said:
Loran Doone - several adaptations on TV back in the day - Sunday teatime?
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Lorna Doone for Sunday teatime--
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