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Group 7-day waking average?

Oh yes! There’s sometime very similar in the south of Ireland called New Grange, can’t remember where this early, that marks the sunrise of the Winter Solstice but, it’s in a cave underground! 🙄

Edited to add:-* Googled it! It’s Newgrange, one word, in County Meath! I went there with my Dad years ago with the IAA, Irish Astronomical Association when I was the Vice President!
 
Morning all 5.7 for me. Let's see if @Robin and @rebrascora can shout snap again.

New saxophone arriving today. Had to get a temporary replacement for my vintage model which is having to go for a total overhaul and the waiting list is rather long. Finding a good technician for classic instruments is not easy.

Have a good day everyone.
 
khskel said:
Morning all 5.7 for me. Let's see if @Robin and @rebrascora can shout snap again.

New saxophone arriving today. Had to get a temporary replacement for my vintage model which is having to go for a total overhaul and the waiting list is rather long. Finding a good technician for classic instruments is not easy.

Have a good day everyone.
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Always wanted to learn the saxophone, or clarinet - maybe one day! 🙂 Do they do left-handed versions, or doesn't it matter? 🙂
 
Morning folks 🙂

6.0 for me, have woken up with a VERY sore back so must've been lying awkwardly :(

Hope you all have a lovely day! :D
xx
 
Morning all, 4.6 today.

Start of a busy weekend, Praise Gathering rehearsal and sound check tonight, and concerts Saturday and Sunday nights

Have a good weekend everyone
 
Morning all on this glorious day. Yesterday was atrocious, it was like winter. A 6.7 this morning, it’ll have to do. Feeling tired this morning as had a late night. Went to a book launch for a local author who is doing rather well, he’s called MW Craven and his last book The Puppet Show has had some great accolades and has been commissioned to become a TV drama. It’s set in Cumbria and is quite gruesome in places and scary, I was actually thinking of relocating at one point. That must be how they feel in Shetland! :D We ended up having a couple of drinks and a taxi ride home and I just missed turning into a pumpkin. Drinking on a school night, I should be ashamed! Have a marvellous midsummer day everyone. 🙂
 
7.3 the same as @Robin this morning, don’t know where that came from, was very good yesterday, oh well upwards and onwards. Have second physio appt today for my shoulder, don’t think she’s going to be very happy with me. Phoning GP over query from Desmond course yesterday, need to walk the dog and there is a horrible pile of last nights washing up waiting for me, yuk, best get on with it. Have a great day all, it is absolutely beautiful here this morning xx
 
Wow congrats Grannylorraine 🙂

Good morning all

6.9 this morning.

The good news is I've managed to download some sunshine so off for my walk to the pharmacy shortly for my meds and more strips 🙂

Have a great day one and all.
 
Good morning everyone🙂

I was well and truly shafted by the DF last night. Had a rather indulgent pasta meal last night - not a lot of pasta, but a tasty seafood sauce with king prawns and Queenie Scallops. Got the bolus just right, only spiked up to 9 ish, then back down into the sixes for the rest of the evening, and went to bed on 6.2. I had taken my night time Levemir.

Woke this morning and my jaw dropped. 15.1. At around 3 in the morning, 6 hours after eating, my BG suddenly spiked up to 15ish and continued that way till I woke. ‘Snot fair, that. What’s a man supposed to do?:confused:

Well, the answer is sit down, drink an Americano, puff on the e-pipe and shove in a corrective dose of insulin. Should be just right for the start of the cricket, England’s steam roller v Sri Lanka.🙂

Last day of cat sitting today, so her control victims switch back to offspring. I’ll just switch back to being ordered around by Mrs B.🙄

Anyway, have good day, folks. I will, for sure, just as soon as I’m back in the land of normal humans🙂

By the way, as Catch-22 was the only thing worth watching last night, I caught up on Star Trek Discovery on Netflix. Far and away the best Star Trek series ever, and a tremendous unexpected plot twist in the last episode. My gob was smacked. Hope it comes to terrestrial TV so those of you who don’t do such things as subscription telly can see it. Beats watching b****y tennis, for sure. 🙄
 
Good morning 10.9o_O followed in @mikeyB`s step, traditional spag bol made by a mate.😎 Bolus seemed correct, 3 unit rise dropped to 6.3 at bedtime.🙂 DF was on form or was it the empty biscuit packet laying across the duvet cover, who knows?🙄

Hope you get some relief from physio @SueEK .🙂
Glad you are nearly pain free @Lanny.🙂
@Kaylz are you sure you haven`t caught a backtearier infection.:D

Good luck for tonight and the weekend @Hazel.🙂

Take care folks, suns shining hope you all enjoy your day.🙂
 
Oh dear, @mikeyB & @KARNAK :(

I had the opposite problem, contrary to what I’ve would have thought! I was lower than usual all day yesterday & I was BAD, didn’t dare mention before! I had my favourite chips & beans, only JUST stopped myself from battered cod, at the fish & chip shop on the way home after physio yesterday: achey & feeling a bit sorry for myself! And I was a bit low after breakfast today that needed a jelly baby to bring me back up! 🙄 So, just now, for an early lunch I lowered my dose by -2 & from, yesterday’s readings, I’m lowering all Novorapid doses by -2. I just put it on the online order form for both Levemir & Novorapid repeats that I’ll have my chemist deliver on Tuesday as I’m off to Neck assessment on Monday! 😱:D🙄 Since I’m confessing, a bit belatedly naughty girl, I also had a bottle of coke with the chips yesterday & I WAS going to add +2/4 but, with the lower than I expected readings I didn’t & my BS was ok this morning! 😛:D

The DF can be very contrary, it seems! 😱🙄
 
Well I am going to shout snap with @Robin again today but only in so far as I also had a chunk of cheese before bed and had a higher than I would like reading this morning at 8.1. What is your poison as regards cheese robin??..... mine was several bites off my wedge of Jarlsberg last night, but a Gruyere or mature Cheddar also come top of my list. I don't think the cheese was to blame for my high reading though... I was late getting back from riding and then had to dash out to a meeting and didn't get home until after 10 and hadn't had anything since breakfast and was feeling unwell. The cheese was a quick and easy stick something low carb in my mouth before I crashed and was accompanied by a Nature Valley Protein bar which was only 10g carbs and I took 2 units of NR, so something went amiss.
I'm still reasonably happy the reading is below 10 though.
 
rebrascora said:
Well I am going to shout snap with @Robin again today but only in so far as I also had a chunk of cheese before bed and had a higher than I would like reading this morning at 8.1. What is your poison as regards cheese robin??..... mine was several bites off my wedge of Jarlsberg last night, but a Gruyere or mature Cheddar also come top of my list. I don't think the cheese was to blame for my high reading though... I was late getting back from riding and then had to dash out to a meeting and didn't get home until after 10 and hadn't had anything since breakfast and was feeling unwell. The cheese was a quick and easy stick something low carb in my mouth before I crashed and was accompanied by a Nature Valley Protein bar which was only 10g carbs and I took 2 units of NR, so something went amiss.
I'm still reasonably happy the reading is below 10 though.
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Gruyere, Cheddar for me too (or Emmental), as a snack, though I do like a bit of Camembert or Brie at the end of a meal with a glass of red wine on a Friday night.
I find if I eat a piece of hard cheese at bedtime, I don’t have my usual BG drop the minute I go to bed...but only if I’m at my normal bedtime level (7.5ish). If I’m a bit lower, say, in the 5s, and I think, aha! A bit of cheese will stop the drop and I’ll wake up in the 5s, it doesn’t work, and I can guarantee a hypo around 3am.
I blame the Diabetes Fairy for the inconsistency.
 
Robin said:
Gruyere, Cheddar for me too (or Emmental), as a snack, though I do like a bit of Camembert or Brie at the end of a meal with a glass of red wine on a Friday night.
I find if I eat a piece of hard cheese at bedtime, I don’t have my usual BG drop the minute I go to bed...but only if I’m at my normal bedtime level (7.5ish). If I’m a bit lower, say, in the 5s, and I think, aha! A bit of cheese will stop the drop and I’ll wake up in the 5s, it doesn’t work, and I can guarantee a hypo around 3am.
I blame the Diabetes Fairy for the inconsistency.
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I used to love Camembert or Brie on toasted crumpets with redcurrant jelly pre diagnosis, but since I am now doing my utmost to keep very low carb, two out of those 3 are now off the menu so I don't buy the Brie either.... was just looking at some today and craving those delicious treats. Maybe I would acquire a taste for it on it's own like I do with hard cheeses or maybe it would be good on cauliflower, it's just that I see it and long for the crumpet and red currant jelly combo and then I start wanting all sorts of other naughty carbs, so it is best to avoid the temptation.
I think you are right about the DF being responsible for spoiling our hat trick of matching fasting readings though.
 
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