Group 7-day waking average?

Morning campers, a big, fat round 6. Dome nothing interesting yesterday, except read my book and finished it, and most likely doing the same today.
I might have another go at trying to decipher Ms Sturgeon’s new guidance for easing of the Scottish lockdown, not because I live in Scotland but we’ve a holiday booked on the Isle of Arran on the 1st May, postponed from last year. If it was the mainland it looks like it will be ok as she’s opening up the country on 26th April but in her speech yesterday, which I actually watched live, she mentioned the islands could make that decision themselves as they may not want “ visitors” coming over with the virus! I need to know whether to book the ferry or not. I hope Arran decides soon and we can get a ferry booked as of course their capacity isn’t as it was. It’s stressful but we can’t cancel the cottage without losing our large deposit as there’s nothing set in stone yet! I can see me at the crack of midnight of the day we are leaving booking the ferry like I’m trying to get tickets for Glastonbury! Refresh, refresh, refresh! I don’t fancy swimming over! 😱

Have a wonderful Wednesday. 🙂
 
A 5.7 for me at 06:02 on this chilly West Berks morning.

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone - hope you all have a good one.
 
Anitram said:
It's a milestone day for us as Nationwide have today taken our final mortgage payment, so after 30 years we are mortgage-free. Can't quite believe it.
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Happy days.
 
Kaylz said:
And here's me thinking you were just taking an interest and wanting to congratulate me on my bravery at change in my diet LOL, tried a super berry granola today as really getting fed up of porridge as it's been that for years, was odd not using the microwave lol xx
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Well I certainly am impressed but more to the point, did you enjoy it and will you be having it again?
 
4.4 for me today which I am very happy with. I was injecting corrections far too frequently yesterday but suddenly came tumbling down last night at 9.30pm and enjoyed a dark chocolate Leberkuchen @22g carbs (there is still one left in the packet from Christmas.... how impressed are you guys that I can keep a packet of 5 chocolate coated ginger bread that long!!) and then a couple of tiny slivers off Ian's left over pizza. It amounted to less than a half a segment. Levels went up to 8.7 and then slowly descended overnight, with no evening Levemir.
FOTF was in strong evidence this morning though as I went up to 8.9 in the hour following despite being active feeding and mucking out the horses and having had a slice of cooked ham to try to keep my liver quiet with my morning coffee before I left the house. If I inject insulin to cover it and then muck out I risk hypoing, so thought I would try a bit of protein. Clearly my liver is not easily fooled!

@KARNAK Lovely to see you posting regularly again Ted and congrats on your new investment. Be careful not to overbalance with that 50k in your pocket. Going to make sitting down a tad uncomfortable until you get the deposit paid!

@Anitram Congrats on paying off your mortgage. That must be a really good feeling. What plans do you have for all that extra money which will no longer disappearing each month?
 
Anitram said:
6.2 on this grey Berkshire morning, same as yesterday evening's post-prandial. Had been awake an hour before I decided to get up, though. Maybe I ought to have my test kit next to the bed so I can test literally on waking.

Our eldest spent most of yesterday in bed with nausea and muscle ache after his jab on Monday but he seems to have recovered this morning and will be OK to go to work later. My wife had hers yesterday evening (AZ) but hasn't experienced any side effects so far. Because she went to a vaccination hub I expected it to be busy so I took something to read while I waited in the car but she was in and out in 15 minutes.

After wondering yesterday why our youngest's birthday cards still hadn't been delivered my wife saw a posting on the local Gossip Girls Facebook page yesterday evening from someone down the road asking if anyone else had noticed the lack of mail deliveries over the last few days. Fingers crossed for today.

It's a milestone day for us as Nationwide have today taken our final mortgage payment, so after 30 years we are mortgage-free. Can't quite believe it.

Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone.

Martin
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Oh that’s a lovely feeling isn’t it? I didn’t quite believe it until the deeds landed on the doormat.
 
SueEK said:
Well I certainly am impressed but more to the point, did you enjoy it and will you be having it again?
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It was lovely! And I won't be making that decision until I scrutinise the data on my Libre but it's tomorrows breakfast as well lol, hopefully I'll have a better starting level to work from then though to get it's true effects xx
 
Kaylz said:
It was lovely! And I won't be making that decision until I scrutinise the data on my Libre but it's tomorrows breakfast as well lol, hopefully I'll have a better starting level to work from then though to get it's true effects xx
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That's good to hear. Tell us how it affected you later. Another choice for breakfast hey, better than mine, I don't have anything anymore xx
 
Bloden said:
Definitely a day to celebrate @Anitram! 😛 Mortgage-free, yippee!
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True story.
Took out our first mortgage in 1981 and there was a period of a few months later in the 80’s when the interest rate went up to 15%!
 
4.7

Was awake early so took myself on a walk. Ended up following my feet through St James’ and Green Parks and into Hyde Park.
I found the bench where he introduced himself to me.
I remember what he did before he came over to me and I remember where I’d parked, where he tried to kiss me and I’d laughed it off before we left the park.
I walked to see if I could find the actual location of the assault itself but nothing felt totally right.
Some of the surroundings have changed in 30 or so years but the fabric of the buildings is the same.
A couple felt familiar but there wasn’t that BOOM of the memory falling into place.

I’m going to go back after work this evening and see if it feels different at night. Hopefully that’ll trigger a memory.

Oh my new BP monitor arrived yesterday. It’s soooo lovely and slick. Unfortunately the readings aren’t too clever. I’ll monitor for a week twice a day and report back to the doctor but I’m guessing a prescription will be in order.
My BP used to be so ridiculously low but it’s been “normal” and then nudging high normal for a good few years.
Mum has been on hypertension meds for 50 something years now so if that’s what the doctor orders I’m not going to fight him. Especially as strokes run in the family.

Was curious if there’s a correlation or a causal connection between the diabetes and hypertension but if it doesn’t come down it doesn’t really matter if there is or not I guess.
 
So glad you are posting @ColinUK . Good to have a safe place for you to share your progress.

I have higher BP than I did before diagnosis but that could also be linked to ‘a change in age’. Either way glad that it is monitored and the meds seems to keep it in check. I now do the same as yours u and monitor it at home prior to an appointment, rather than use the one at the GP/hospital which are always a lot higher.
 
Very great day for celebrations @Anitram.

I remember after the first year of our mortgage, also at 15% interest rate, we reckoned we might possibly own the letter box!! We kept our payments the same as the interest rates dropped, o paid it off a little more quickly, and definitely celebrated when it was all paid off.

Celebrate well
 
5.5 this morning.

The sun is out, I have finished a jigsaw so time to get going. They are so addictive. I go to just put in a couple of pieces and then an hour later!!!

Have a good da y all.
 
SB2015 said:
So glad you are posting @ColinUK . Good to have a safe place for you to share your progress.

I have higher BP than I did before diagnosis but that could also be linked to ‘a change in age’. Either way glad that it is monitored and the meds seems to keep it in check. I now do the same as yours u and monitor it at home prior to an appointment, rather than use the one at the GP/hospital which are always a lot higher.
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I'm grateful to have this place. I do use Twitter and I'm totally open on there. Of course that's largely to strangers whereas I feel like I know you lot by now!

Felt brave when I got back so I've knocked up a little marinade for some chicken I picked up in waitrose. I'm not totally sure that using kefir in it was my best ever idea though. Time will tell.
 
Anitram said:
Well my wife and I have our own current accounts but also a joint account for running the household, into which we both pay every month. In the short term I guess we'll simply pay less in as we don't have a mortgage to cover.
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Mum and dad always have always had a joint account or two and their own individual accounts. But all that mum does is take money out of the joint on and put it in hers and then dole some out to dad for things he wants.
She firmly controls the pursestrings and always has done!
 
Anitram said:
As I understand it high blood pressure often occurs alongside diabetes and studies show there may be links between them. Mine's come down since I upped my exercise and changed my diet and is now either normal or just into high normal territory (I check weekly), whereas a year ago it was mostly high normal and sometimes in hypertension range.
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I was expecting there to be some link to diet and exercise but it didn't really fall even with the very strict diet and daily exercise last summer.
Perhaps it'll lower now.
 
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