Group 7-day waking average?

06:00 BS 7.4 🙂

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Just finished watching round 6 of AMA yesterday: took rounds 4 & to get all the political stuff; round 6 was just for fun with NO subtitles & my memory to get me through the tough bits!

China in 1911 was a melting pot of cultures & languages with Japanese, Russian, German & English being spoken alongside the Mandarin, in this drama: ANY wonder it was such a hard MUDDLE for my poor ears to “hear” & distinguish on round 1; Japanese was easiest to distinguish & the rest were easy enough once I got my ears retrained to “hear” 1911 Mandarin!

English was the hardest to make out & it’s a problem I first came across in 1982 on my very first trip to HK as a 10 year old: learnt the hard way to either speak entirely in Cantonese, back then pre handover, or entirely in English when out & about on the streets; using a mixture of the two is too confusing for both me & the general populace!

Why? I hear you ask! It’s because not knowing how the locals say English words when I speak perfect English in the middle of saying something Chinese I’m NEVER understood! That’s because there are so many words, terms & expressions in the English language that just can’t be translated so, just used as is but, changed to more Chinese sounding as some vowel sounds are not used much in Chinese! I suppose you could say that all foreign languages get changed like this into each native language!

Rather oddly pre 1997 I spoke entirely in Cantonese in HK & avoided using English words until I learnt how they were spoken in the Cantonese way as in theory English was taught in schools as a British Territory but, in practice few of the lay people on the streets spoke it well enough! Now post ‘97, not so obvious to start with & very noticeable now, English is much more widespread & much better spoken as Mandarin has taking hold over Cantonese now! So, I speak entirely in English now out & about as I can’t handle the contemporary Mandarin of today!

I didn’t know how English words sound in Mandarin as I learnt through experience how they sounded in Cantonese! So, I had the hardest time hearing & picking out the English especially, since it’s used in Chinese speech with Chinese grammar & syntax: it’s a perspective on my younger siblings & my “weird Chinese” that our older generation relatives always said about us! :rofl:

I’m now just starting to read the English translation of the novel online. I got it wrong before & the TV drama came first: the novel was written from the original uncut screenplays of the episodes as the director was heartbroken by how “pieces were hacked out of his baby”, his words in a press release; with the clamouring of the global fans for releasing the cut scenes, no can do as it’s censored by the government, he knew there’s a market for finding out the full story!

I’m finding it quite hard going as the pronouns etc are confusing & all over the place as the most common mistakes made in subtitle translations are said pronouns! That’s because other than you & I, him & her, he & she, are not used: “that” meaning person, insert person’s name, is used instead; rather perfect for a gender bender drama, then! 🙄:rofl:

Incidentally, the other most common mistake in subtitle translations especially historical dramas is timing or the time. Not in this drama as it’s set in 1911 with western clocks & watches in use by then, the day was split up into 12 zodiac hours, the same 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac years, lasting 2 hours each! It’s SO common a mistake in historical dramas that I automatically double the timings in my head: when the subtitles say 1 hour; it’s really 2 hours! It’s also a mistake commonly made by many Chinese people of today, especially younger people, that are SO used to the 24 hour clock instead of the more ancient 12 double hours of the zodiac!
 
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Good morning, 6.0 on the nose today
yesterday forgot to check in but was 6.9

Have a great day everybody 😎
 
Good morning. 6.4 same as yesterday.

Plans today, washing and make a pie.

It poured down all day yesterday, it was very autumnal and the temperature never raised above 14. I actually had to dig a hoodie out to wear in the house at one point. Bit brighter today, forecast sunny intervals and a light breeze. Perfect drying day.🙂

Have a fab day all. 🙂
 
Morning all, 6.5 here. Had a rarity in the garden yesterday, a hummingbird hawk moth, we only get them in hot summers, when they are more likely to venture across the channel. They are a day flying moth, with a large body, and wings that flap at high speed. This one was visiting the bits of honeysuckle that have come out for a second flush.
 
5.7 for me today. Yesterday was miserable drizzly all day. :(
Forecast for today partly cloudy?

Dez
 
6.7 this morning and I think I’m coming down with an ear infection maybe.
I woke up in the night feeling really dizzy and going from sitting to standing it’s like the room is spinning.
It’s almost like being drunk but as I’ve not drink alcohol basically for 5 years I think I’m not drunk!
I’ll dig out the old covid test and do one of those to make sure it’s not omicron and other than that, making sure I’m hydrated and maybe dripping olive oil in my ears I’ll see how I am tomorrow.
I did look at 111 and their advice was to call 999 right away with I think might be just a little bit overdramatic. It’s been two weeks since the bike accident so it’s unlikely to be concussion. No neck pain. No pins and needles.

What else today? FaceTime with my little nephew who towers over me, turns 21 in a couple of weeks and a Survivors Zoom thing I’d like to attend but can miss if I’m busy doing something else.

Oh BP this morning 97/63 with a 58rhr which is all a bit on the low side so maybe that’s got something to do with the dizziness perhaps. I’ll keep an eye on it and if it gets worse I’ll call 111 or speak to the GP in the morning.
 
And a 5’2 today after a 5.9 on retiring last night.
 
9.5 for me this morning. Not happy with that but I've sent 3 units of Fiasp to deal with it and FOTF.
We are off to a club drive today with Arthur and Zak, so best get going as 4 wheeler is still to load onto trailer. Normally we do it the night before but it hammered gown last night, so it's a job for this morning.
 
Ali11782 said:
View attachment 21845ok so why did it go up at 4am?
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Remind us which basal insulin you use and when you inject it? It will probably be Dawn Phenomenon responsible for the rise but adjusting your basal might be an option to deal with it. The time you inject it can be as relevant as how much you inject. If this rise is a regular feature during the early hours of the morning then adjusting your basal would be the thing to try but if it is a one off then don't worry about it.
 
rebrascora said:
Remind us which basal insulin you use and when you inject it? It will probably be Dawn Phenomenon responsible for the rise but adjusting your basal might be an option to deal with it. The time you inject it can be as relevant as how much you inject. If this rise is a regular feature during the early hours of the morning then adjusting your basal would be the thing to try but if it is a one off then don't worry about it.
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Morning, I am on 18 units of tresiba which I take at same time as my tea time bolus.
Because I haven't had great control it's hard to tell if it's a one off. Have seen it do this before though.
Will see this week how it does. It is very frustrating.
 
Good morning. 6 on the nose today.

Getting sick of unreliable weather forecasting - both met and bbc gave extra low chance of any rain overnight or today - overjoyed they were both wrong but think I must nip down to the beach for some seaweed in hope of getting more reliable indication of the future... Quite chilly this morning at 16 degrees although as I chucked off the duvet at 0300 hrs and headed for a drink I noted it was 22 degrees. Shot round closing widows and lighting the woodburner before taking pills, exercising dog etc - which has brought the sun out so shall doubtless be reversing process in half an hour.

Family arriving at lunch time: 6 year old Rowan and 18month old Benjie plus parents. As the overspill is still full of Ukrainians I am sleeping in the study. The sofa bed is a damned sight harder than I recall. 5 of the 6 Ukrs off to Moldova tomorrow, by air and then bus to the Ukraine - not quite sure I believe the reasoning (need for new biometric passports before Christmas which, they say, is what their Embassy advises if application made in Britain). We shall see. At least they have done a mega clean up. I am quite looking forward to a few weeks peace and quiet as remaining Ukr has full time job 7-5 5 days a week. Sadly my dog loathes them and barks every time one of them comes on the yard - a tad stressful on the nerves.

Looking forward to seeing family - first time since April. Anticipate bg levels will be appalling but who cares? Did a huge food shop yesterday which included many forbidden items. It is essential and inevitable that the cook will have to try some of them. My son-in-law is particularly fond of desserts...
 
Morning all. After a few corrections after tea last night and overnight (i think i must have been injecting water), i woke to a 4.9. Not sure what happened with tea as it was quite low carb but i just shot to 12 and stayed there until the final correction at 4am.

Its sunny/cloudy but warm here atm. I might sit outside with coffee and my book while i can. The weather for tomorrow is supposed to be bad.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Robin said:
a hummingbird hawk moth
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Oh, is that what they're called? Thanks @Robin - I've been calling them 'those hummingbird insects'. I saw one when we first arrived in Asturias - they're fascinating to watch and really do look like a dinky hummingbird. In't nature brilliaaant!

Morning all. 🙂 11.7 here - oops, I didn't need that temporary basal after all. Still wet behind the ears.

Just been into the local town to get the papers and some bread. Today is the annual 'jira' or picnic in the park. Everyone sets up camp - gazebo, tables, chairs, BBQ, coolboxes - and spends the day eating, drinking and socializing in the...you guessed it...local park. We're giving it a miss this year cos it's about 30 degrees in the shade already. Fffleuurrrghhh!

That's so interesting @Lanny. I find it fascinating to hear about what happens when two languages collide. My husband's Welsh dialect is full of English words that have been Cymraeg-ified. When I ask him to spell them, he can't, cos they're only spoken, never written down. :D
 
Was 8.7 this morning half expected to be higher because ending up eating love hearts a biscuit last night was clearly dropping) anyway I've got my endoscopy on Thursday and I'm getting really nervous about it.
 
I’m actually finding it SO confusing reading the novel in English that I’m translating back into Chinese in my head: all the gender pronouns then, disappear; I know, from watching, who are males & females! o_O:rofl:

One way or another my head is getting a good workout by all this translating back & forth! 🙄:D😉
 
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