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[MikeyBikey]

Yesterday I had to pick up my meds. One was missing. They couldn't get hold of it...for the third month in a row. I had spares but they are now running out. So the pharmacist suggests why not switch to an alternative that they can get. Ok. Ahh but you have to go through the GP first....what???!! Why not just switch if it is the same???? Time to jump through hoops. So today I have to tackle the almost working NHS system. Wish me luck...

Good luck with finding an alternative. Sadly most meds like BP and statins are not like for like swaps. I had an issue last year but some leg work (only got the one) found a supply the pharmacist didn't! So worth a ring round as if pharmacy can fulfill an item you can get it elsewhere.

 

[Robin]

Morning all, 5.3 here. So close!

 

[Paul Gibbins]

6.9 this morning. After coffee.

 

[Martin.A]

5.5 this morning after a remarkably low 4.3 post-prandial yesterday evening. Double-checked it by switching hands and doing another test - 4.4, so it seemed I really was that low. Not totally convinced so being me I did a third finger out of curiosity and got 4.2, so time to take it as correct and stop wasting test strips. Dinner was Tuna Pasta Bake, my portion with 30g of red lentil pasta, which usually puts me in the low 5s.

Friday is BP check day - 112/66 today, so no issue there.

Pool was almost as chaotic yesterday as it was on Tuesday but by the time I was getting close to finishing my swim there were only half as many people in there as when I started. Maybe I need to time my arrival at the pool so I get there halfway through the session rather than at the start. Might try that next week.

Big Shop Day. My wife and our eldest both WFH Fridays, which means I have a choice of 2 cars today, so will be off to Sainsbury's later and then out to the greengrocer at the garden centre for our fruit & veg.

Whatever your plans have a good day.

 

[eggyg]

I’m just gonna pitch up in your garden!

You’d be very welcome but don’t expected isolation. Not with the hordes!
Have you tried the Eden Valley? Beautiful part of the county. Will be quieter and cheaper. Stay away from the honeypots of Keswick, Ambleside, Windermere etc. I went to New York at Easter once, it was busy but not Ambleside busy! 😱

 

[MikeyBikey]

You’d be very welcome but don’t expected isolation. Not with the hordes!
Have you tried the Eden Valley? Beautiful part of the county. Will be quieter and cheaper. Stay away from the honeypots of Keswick, Ambleside, Windermere etc. I went to New York at Easter once, it was busy but not Ambleside busy! 😱

Went to the Lakes in June about 40 years ago. Couldn't believe the traffic in some areas! 😱

 

[ColinUK]

You’d be very welcome but don’t expected isolation. Not with the hordes!
Have you tried the Eden Valley? Beautiful part of the county. Will be quieter and cheaper. Stay away from the honeypots of Keswick, Ambleside, Windermere etc. I went to New York at Easter once, it was busy but not Ambleside busy! 😱

It would be a complete delight to meet the hoards of Eggy’s!

 

[ColinUK]

Went to the Lakes in June about 40 years ago. Couldn't believe the traffic in some areas! 😱

Some of it’s still there.

 

[ColinUK]

Went to the Lakes four years ago I think. Stayed at a hotel basically on the motorway, I think it was a Travelodge, which was ideal for driving in to the National Park each morning and out again in the evening. Can’t remember how far north it was but I think it was roughly Keswick way.
Traffic was absolutely fine most of the time but we avoided the bigger tourist draws and concentrated on the quieter lakes. It was beautiful.

The car helped as it was a hired convertible 4 seat Mercedes.

 

[MeeTooTeeTo]

"I don't believe it!!"
Another 5.3 this morning. 🙂

Dez

 

[MikeyBikey]

8.6

Funeral today. My brother’s father in law died early yesterday morning.

Been looking at cottages/bothys for a quick get away but August prices are absurd and I’ve very little time to slot a back in between say next week and the end of September. Not so sure I relish the idea of a week in a remote off grid bothy at the start of October for double or triple the cost of a week in the sun somewhere so I might look at doing that instead but what I want is a quiet break away from everything and a sunshine break might not scratch that itch. And then I’m stung by single occupancy rates.

Tomorrow is the London Meet Up and a train overtime ban so I’ll be at the Shakespeare’s Head in Kingsway, very near Holborn tube and not far from Charing Cross, City Thameslink, Blackfriars, Farringdon or Waterloo train stations. Hope that some others do turn up and I’m not Jonny No Mates!

Sorry to hear about your loss...

I haven't been away since 2018 as every year since has had a zero star rating! With ongoing treatment I am trying to get a long weekend away but the cost independently as a wheelchair user is prohibitive! A specialist company to the same hotel is charging about five times more for the same hotel as Shearings do for able bodied! Having taken my ex's mum and wheelchair a couple of times I know once in a hotel in a room with level access shower there are no problems. Twice maybe, five times no way. I am sick and tired of the rip off the single, the elderly and the disabled that prevails in this country!

 

[goodybags]

Good morning bit of a high one this morning
with a 8.0 on the nose

looks like I forgot to press the button and post yesterday, I had to ask a decorator to go
although he came highly recommended by a prev neighbour & frien,
we realised he just wasn’t doing a good job, and was far to S L O O O W
so think my mind was elsewhere, anyway yesterday was 6.6

on Wednesday, my hospital visit went quite well, I thought I was in and out the hospital quite quickly but realised how long I had been there when I paid for the car park (it’s a pay on return to car system)
anyway the surgeon was happy with the X-rays, Im not 100% sure I’ve said the right thing

as the consultant said my bone regrowth is doing well he felt I could be ready for wearing shoes for around 3 hours a day (currently I’m still wearing air-cast boot)
and suggested it might even speed up the process of healing to try and get back to being more active,

so have spoken to my boss about a plan on returning to work
i suggested if I can do half days W/C 14th August, and see how I manage and take things from there
will see what tha management and HR come back with and if that can work With them.

congratulations on the HS @Gwynn

have a great day everybody 😎

 

[Lily123]

Good morning - 6.7 at 8:30

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Barrowman]

Morning all

Grey and windy again and the weather forecast doesn’t look good for the next few days.

Anyway, it’s a 5.5 for me today.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe.

 

[Bloden]

Morning all. 🙂 6.1 here - a basal tweak that works, yay!

We woke up in the autumn (cold n wet), it's almost coffee time and it's the spring (warm, cloudy blue skies), I suppose that means it'll be summer this afternoon (sun like a blow-torch) and winter by bedtime. That song by Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day - is on a loop in my brain.

The Lakes! Went there every year from age 9 onwards for a week with my crazy Yorkshire cousins. Lots of great memories. Haven't been back for 30-odd years, wow.

 

[eggyg]

Went to the Lakes in June about 40 years ago. Couldn't believe the traffic in some areas! 😱

It’s much worse now, getting parked is a nightmare. And since lockdown, when we couldn’t go abroad it’s become even more busier and therefore much more expensive. We go every December for a week, Coniston this year, much quieter but cottage prices are still fairly high, we don’t pay much less than we do April/May in Scotland. There are quiet places to go to, you just need to know but inevitably there’s no shops/pubs/cafes, or toilets! I am very lucky to live a stones throw away and still believe it’s the most beautiful place on earth.

 

[TinaD]

Good morning. 6.8.

A tiny patch of blue among the rolling clouds. Planning on a quiet day as everything pretty painful yesterday evening. Not much to do outside except pressure washing and trimming the front flower hedge - activities guaranteed to encourage a flare so I shall ignore them for the time being.

6 week wait for bone scan results. Last time they gave me a rough idea on the day and a write up to the GP within the week. Poor old NHS.

Have a good day all.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Good morning everyone! 4'3 today.

Again the 6:30 am start, but last night I was all relaxed and convinced that I started 8 am. Thank goodness I was texting my work friend about something else and he asked "who starts tomorrow 6:30, you or me?". I thought it was him, went to double check the rota and boom...I would have been in trouble this morning! Tho I'd also be more rested

I went on Trainline and my train tomorrow doesn't seem to be affected, fingers crossed.

i hope you get your train tomorrow. All the best

 

[Nayshiftin]

It’s much worse now, getting parked is a nightmare. And since lockdown, when we couldn’t go abroad it’s become even more busier and therefore much more expensive. We go every December for a week, Coniston this year, much quieter but cottage prices are still fairly high, we don’t pay much less than we do April/May in Scotland. There are quiet places to go to, you just need to know but inevitably there’s no shops/pubs/cafes, or toilets! I am very lucky to live a stones throw away and still believe it’s the most beautiful place on earth.

Very beautiful but as you say at a price. However its all over now. However mum and dad did do without so we got a holiday. Has it really changed so much ?

 

[eggyg]

Went to the Lakes four years ago I think. Stayed at a hotel basically on the motorway, I think it was a Travelodge, which was ideal for driving in to the National Park each morning and out again in the evening. Can’t remember how far north it was but I think it was roughly Keswick way.
Traffic was absolutely fine most of the time but we avoided the bigger tourist draws and concentrated on the quieter lakes. It was beautiful.

The car helped as it was a hired convertible 4 seat Mercedes.

Was it Cockermouth? That was the only Travelodge in the Lake District at the time. They’ve just built one or building one somewhere in the south Lakes I think. I lived near to Cockermouth when I was a child and went to school with a great x4 ( or there abouts) niece of William Wordsworth. That’s my claim to fame, apart from booking Gregor Fisher ( Rab C Nesbit) a villa in Crete! He lives just over the border.