Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Good morning 🙂 7.5 for me today 🙂
Morning all, 5.6 here. Off to do the weekly shop, it seems to come round faster every week.
Also, if you are doing routine stuff and not making any new memories, the brain concertinas up the time, looking back, like when you go on holiday for a fortnight, the first week takes ages because it’s all new, then the second week goes in a flash because you’ve got into a routine.This is because as you get older any period of time becomes a smaller percentage of your life. So the endless six week summer holidays when you were in primary school flash by now and the years mount up at an ever increasing pace!
Yes to the muck but rather a long way to bring it to our flooded allotment sadly.Good morning. 6.5 which isn't bad given steroid dose - I'm glumly working my way down from 30mg.
Currently the does is keeping the COPD down to a level which does not equate sleeping and drowning but failing to supress palindromic arthritis so walking around like Long John Silver. Weather has not adding the joy of life except for Thursday last week when Jake and I managed to extend the garden wall and clear the long hump caused by digging out the associated footings. The latter, being my job, went smoothly but took its revenge by evening while Jake was obviously glad to turn to painting the bathroom on Friday, heaving sandstone about having hit him in the wrists. Quite interesting working with another with the same affliction since we are both on quite different treatment regimes, both of which lower the immune system without noticeably fixing the problems. It is fortunate that the 2 consultants cannot hear our comments by evening or they would probably sue.
Still struggling to control the rapacious solicitor/estate agent/relatives on the inheritance stuff. Pointed out acerbically that the object of the intestacy rules are to preserve and distribute the loot to the heirs rather than to greedy strangers.
On the good front the bathroom make over (the kitchen having set a standard) is looking good. A soft greyish blue has replaced the rather beach hut colour which I had inadvertently applied during Covid lockdown. Much less startling to the morning bleary eye. Picked up a rather nifty shower screen from the builder's merchant at 30% of the price wanted by online suppliers, now hunting the auction sites for a suitable chair to up-cycle so I can reclaim my bedroom chair. I find standing on one leg to dry between the toes a tad risky. I quite like up-cycling and am positively smug about the replacement dining table and wheelback chairs which now glow with beeswax rather than varnish. Overall cost £30 - am I turning into Mr Scrooge?
Storm Kathleen, fortunately, caused no damage although it did highlight the need for another drain across the yard if global warming is to continue as universal flooding. We'll get to it when we hire a digger to clear the muck stack - anyone want a huge amount of horse manure?