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Group 7-day waking average?

13.2 so back in double figures. Disappointed as I can’t seem to influence it in any way. Chose to have homemade butter bean and sweet potato curry last night ... may as well have had fish n chips with the rest of the family 🙄
Hope you’re breathing improves @Lanny
Stay warm and dry folks xx
 
Good morning all🙂

Back to normal, 5.3 again, so summer adjustments finalised. If that isn’t holding out a hostage to fortune, I don't know what is:D

I’m having a day of rest, so apart from reading the Saturday papers, watching the footie, cooking a seafood risotto with barley instead of rice, I’m doing Eurovision. That mainly consists of texts between daughter and me with opinions and slagging off the GB entry. :confused: We’ve done that for years. It’s not quite as much fun as it used to be, when the late great Sir Terry Wogan commentated, while getting steaming.:D

Anyway, the duck that took up residence in a flower tub downstairs is now a mother as of yesterday. I actually watched a duckling emerging from an egg. So she’s wandered off with 8 babies toddling along behind in search of water. It’s about half a mile to the river, but the ducklings seem up to it. Good luck to ‘em.🙂

Have a good day everyone, it’s a bit cloudy and cool, but so what. Enjoy🙂
 
Just up after a little snooze without the noisy machine on & feel better. The machine has cleaned the air somewhat & some sleep makes my breathing a lot easier. So, will have midday meds & some food. Will have the machine on during the day to keep the air clear & have it off at night so, I can sleep. It’s sitting right beside my bed on the bedside table. I spent all day sitting in bed yesterday after changing the bedding. Which took SOME effort I can tell you as I had to stop & catch my breath 3/4 times but, the fresh clean bedding helped too! Not quite a duracell bunny yet but, getting there. 🙄
 
morning folks 🙂

7.0 for me this morning, feeling awful after a right coughing fit late last night, my throat is absolute agony :(

dull here again today but thankfully no rain, hope you all have a lovely Sunday :D xx
 
Good morning 3.5, JB`s and a couple of Gluco tabs back up to 5.2 now I don't think I can take a HS on that.🙂 Torbay air show 1st-2nd of June, great event brings in a lot of revenue for the bay.🙂

Hope you feel better @Kaylz {{{HUGS}}}, how`s Bubbles?

Enjoy your day folks, take care.🙂
 
Only just got up to a 5.8, a terrible headache and a scratchy throat, haven't got the energy for a run and trying to must the energy for housework and baking cheese tartlets to take to bake club tomorrow, I have a nice salmon salad for me to eat there.
 
Kaylz said:
morning folks 🙂

7.0 for me this morning, feeling awful after a right coughing fit late last night, my throat is absolute agony :(

dull here again today but thankfully no rain, hope you all have a lovely Sunday :D xx
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Grannylorraine said:
Only just got up to a 5.8, a terrible headache and a scratchy throat, haven't got the energy for a run and trying to must the energy for housework and baking cheese tartlets to take to bake club tomorrow, I have a nice salmon salad for me to eat there.
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I hope you both start feeling better as the day progresses {{{HUGS}}}
 
KARNAK said:
Hope you feel better @Kaylz {{{HUGS}}}, how`s Bubbles?
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thanks hun, you know what its like, was one of those once it started I couldn't stop :( lol, he's doing well, had a couple of attempts to get at it today but it must be damn itchy so I cant blame him, we'll have him at the vets for half 10 tomorrow morning so he should get the stitches removed 🙂 xx
 
Late on parade. A big fat 8 for me, I don’t know why I am surprised after what I ate and drank last night. The dinner party went really well, lots of compliments and eight clean soup bowls, side plates, dinner plates, dessert dishes and lots of dirty glasses, just finished tidying up! Going to relax this afternoon after hanging out the washing. No rest for the wicked! :D
 
Oh dear me, it seems quite a few of us are under the weather.

12:31 BS 6.8. Slept in today because I felt that I’ve turned a corner & my breathing eased up last night.
Now, that I’m up, I can REALLY feel the difference & I just realised my heart & blood pressure isn’t racing or pounding in my ears at every little effort: why I stayed in bed all day on Friday; spent short periods out of bed yesterday.

I don’t think I can run a Marathon yet, as the expression goes, but, my energy levels are coming back. You, know, I think that’s an odd expression, especially for me, & dosen't do any justice to anybody that’s actually run a Marathon: never could or did!🙄

Incidentally, off the subject here, but, since the latest iOS update on my iPad the on screen keyboard is driving me nuts! First, it split into 2 & I couldn’t see the words typed as it wasn’t at the bottom of the screen & then, when I googled it learnt how to put the keyboard back into one. NOW it’s still smack bang in the middle of the screen & I can see a little of what I’m typing but, have to keep moving the text, beneath the keyboard up to continue to see what I’m typing. I liked the old way better & it DIDN’T need fixing! If it ain’t broke; don’t fix it comes to mind!

Anyways, I digress, I wish you all a Good Day, or as good as it can be for you. 🙂 May you stay sunny on the inside if you can or, I’ve realised from the grumpy cat post & thread, never heard of before, some people take comfort from the Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave, mentality when life throws them a curve ball: it takes all sorts; my apologies if my sunny on the inside attitude does, or has, annoy!😳

Crikey, I AM getting back to normal! I’m very loquacious! I’ll stop now.🙄

Whew! Wiping brow emoji! Has she FINALLY finished talking yet? :D😱
 
Oh! Since I griped about the keyboard here, I’ll post the solution I found on google in case anyone else is having that problem too.

To put a split keyboard back together put your thumb & finger on the two halves & push them together unto the keyboard is back in one piece. To put the keyboard back to the bottom of the screen press & hold the keyboard icon button on the bottom right of the keyboard & select dock.
 
05:51 BS 8.1 not waking and only 57 minutes after eating before I go to bed. Stayed up to watch the final episode of GOT. As ever, no spoilers. GOT has come to an end. :(

As I’ve said before it’s done wonders for our tourist industry coach loads of tourists coming to visit the film locations. Apart from the film studios in Belfast there have been 25 locations where GOT was filmed in NI 6 of them are on The Causeway Coast! Comprising the film set that my brother keeps saying he, & my family & I, grew up on. I’ve been to 5 of those places many times & I feel duty bound to say my own hometown was one of those locations: The Dark Hedges in episode The Kingsroad; technically just outside the village of Stranocum in the Ballymoney borough council 6 miles away from me. I’ve said to people on the forum before that my hometown is best known for being the hometown of Joey Dunlop 5 times World Motorbike Champion but, it’s fast becoming more well known for The Dark Hedges because of GOT. :D

All the Causeway Coast locations, except for us, are on the open top Causeway Coast Scenic bus route all the way from Cushendun, the only place I’ve never been to, to Derry along the entire Causeway Coast: it’s what a lot of people do. The bus fares are at least double the normal fares & possibly more now as it was 25/30 years ago when I was on it once before: local people don’t use it; only tourists as it’s VERY slow! Very misnamed The Causeway Coast Flyer!

The Dark Hedges also won Countryfile’s photograph of the year in 2013 & featured on their calendar in 2014. It’s a country lane off the main little country B road lined with over a hundred year old beech trees that form a dome over the road. It was a lane to a country manor house that has since been ruined & is no longer there: literally a road that goes nowhere. Until last year people went in their vehicles on the lane but, the Ballymoney council had to ban that as there were too many fatalities from accidents, as the lane cannot sustain that level of traffic. You now have to park at the Dark Hedges Hotel & walk down there. 😱🙄

So, if you’re ever in NI you can visit the locations on the scenic bus route & a little out of the way The Dark Hedges & drop in to visit me! Incidentally tree lined roads are very common around here as it’s bogland. Ballymoney in Irish is named after the bog: Bally means town & Money means bog; always amuses me that my hometown is Bog Town in Irish. The trees are the only way roads can be built as the roots support the road & stop it sinking into the bog!😱

Right, tourist guide cap off, I’m going to bed now & wish you all a Good Morning at the start of a new week! 😉
 
Lanny said:
05:51 BS 8.1 not waking and only 57 minutes after eating before I go to bed. Stayed up to watch the final episode of GOT. As ever, no spoilers. GOT has come to an end. :(

As I’ve said before it’s done wonders for our tourist industry coach loads of tourists coming to visit the film locations. Apart from the film studios in Belfast there have been 25 locations where GOT was filmed in NI 6 of them are on The Causeway Coast! Comprising the film set that my brother keeps saying he, & my family & I, grew up on. I’ve been to 5 of those places many times & I feel duty bound to say my own hometown was one of those locations: The Dark Hedges in episode The Kingsroad; technically just outside the village of Stranocum in the Ballymoney borough council 6 miles away from me. I’ve said to people on the forum before that my hometown is best known for being the hometown of Joey Dunlop 5 times World Motorbike Champion but, it’s fast becoming more well known for The Dark Hedges because of GOT. :D

All the Causeway Coast locations, except for us, are on the open top Causeway Coast Scenic bus route all the way from Cushendun, the only place I’ve never been to, to Derry along the entire Causeway Coast: it’s what a lot of people do. The bus fares are at least double the normal fares & possibly more now as it was 25/30 years ago when I was on it once before: local people don’t use it; only tourists as it’s VERY slow! Very misnamed The Causeway Coast Flyer!

The Dark Hedges also won Countryfile’s photograph of the year in 2013 & featured on their calendar in 2014. It’s a country lane off the main little country B road lined with over a hundred year old beech trees that form a dome over the road. It was a lane to a country manor house that has since been ruined & is no longer there: literally a road that goes nowhere. Until last year people went in their vehicles on the lane but, the Ballymoney council had to ban that as there were too many fatalities from accidents, as the lane cannot sustain that level of traffic. You now have to park at the Dark Hedges Hotel & walk down there. 😱🙄

So, if you’re ever in NI you can visit the locations on the scenic bus route & a little out of the way The Dark Hedges & drop in to visit me! Incidentally tree lined roads are very common around here as it’s bogland. Ballymoney in Irish is named after the bog: Bally means town & Money means bog; always amuses me that my hometown is Bog Town in Irish. The trees are the only way roads can be built as the roots support the road & stop it sinking into the bog!😱

Right, tourist guide cap off, I’m going to bed now & wish you all a Good Morning at the start of a new week! 😉
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That's really interesting @Lanny 🙂 And thank you for 'no spoilers'! 🙂
 
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