Hello all
Warning - long post! Not a rant though!
We are home now, as of Saturday. We flew back to UK on Thursday, a painless journey and our friends picked us up from Heathrow. We stayed Thursday night with them in Surrey where they had looked after our car whilst we were away. We should have been home Friday, but we detoured to stay with friends in Hampshire for one night at their request for a catch up. On the 5.5 hour drive home (easy for once with no congestion) I caught up with all the posts here. It was impossible on holiday as the internet flicked in and out so often I couldn't even be sure of doing a "like". However, I've read CCC and seen
@TinaD's pond (wonderful) and
@Eternal422 s amazing palm. Congrats to all those HSs in the last month too!
@Bloden, I had the same hassle with Insulet. In the end I emailed my DSN, who emailed Insulet and the next day I got confirmation and a very quick delivery of an extra box.
BGs were absolutely terrible on holiday. 33% TIR on a lot of days. Whether that was due to the insulin going off in the heat or just inept carb counting on my part whilst eating unfamiliar foods in restaurants I don't know. Somehow I managed to forget to take my Metformin at lunch time for most of the holiday and actually developed an appetite! Despite that, I only put 1lb on. I think I may stay off it as it also eliminated other nasty bowel symptoms. However, the minute I set foot back on British soil my BGs dropped back to normal without me doing anything and I have been 99% TIR since! Go figure!
We think it will have been our last visit to Paleokastritsa as there were too many steps (60 from our apartment on the sea, to the road where all the restaurants are) and it’s rather hilly, which was a bit much in the heat. So we didn’t do as much as we have in previous years. Age is creeping up and my leg won’t cooperate! I must ring and get an appointment with the chiropractor.
Julian managed to sustain a fish-feeding injury. He was throwing stale bread from the rocks so we could watch the millions of little fish come to feed, when he slipped on seaweed, grazing his arm from armpit to wrist and pulling a tendon in his ankle. He proceeded to sit on the balcony with his ankle raised and an ice pack on it, whilst I served lunch and poured him wine! Fortunately we had bought Betadine from the pharmacy on our visit into Corfu town. Marvellous stuff, it heals cuts and grazes with amazing rapidity. For the next two weeks his ankle was another deterrent to rushing about.
The area was very busy, particularly towards the end of our stay. Mostly with a younger crowd, who seem to think it’s OK to parade along the road next door to naked. We witnessed an amusing incident whilst we waited for the bus into town. The narrow road was quite busy with coaches one after the other taking excursions to and from the monastery at the end, plus cars and quad bikes. One young lady strolled past on the other side of the road wearing a thong and little else except a teeny weeny bikini top. It was hard to see the thong between her generous buttocks and she was blissfully unaware of the traffic chaos she was causing as brakes were applied sharply to avoid collisions. Along came Spiros in his fruit and veg van, tailgate raised with his wares, strawberries, melons, peaches and nectarines plus fresh salad goods all tastefully displayed in the back. As he screeched to a stop we watched gleefully, waiting for the whole shebang to descend onto the road. By some small miracle all the fruit stayed where it was and Spiros, no doubt mightily relieved, continued on his merry way.
We attended no less than 4 "Greek nights" and managed to avoid dancing ourselves. We also attended a "Bouzouki evening" at a posh restaurant where we were entertained by a bouzouki player and a keyboard player. The music was actually very good, but we couldn't help being amused by the bouzouki player. He was wearing tight white trousers and he paraded around the tables seranading us whilst woggling his somewhat grubby crotch at eye level and staring boredly above our heads. Not romantic at all!
We celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary with friends whilst there. We asked one of our favourite restaurants to put on some canapes and wine for 7 of us, with the idea that people could then proceed to have dinner if they wished. As it happened the canapes were so generous that no one wanted any dinner! When the restaurant closed 5 of us, not wanting to break up the party, proceeded to Unlimit, a late night cocktail bar where we partied until 2:30 am - shades of our mis-spent youth.
So.... 4.9 this morning, on this cloudy/sunny breezy day.
4 machine loads down and laundry draped everywhere around the house, dreading the ironing. Off for more blood tests at 2:30 IIRC these are for kidney function (egfr has dropped to 58).
@MikeyBikey good luck with the podiatry today.
@Paul Gibbins I have B12 injections every 8 weeks. Mostly painless and they do make me feel so much better... but worth enquiring at the GP to see if you should also be taking Folate supplements.
So... enough from me! Talk tomorrow.
