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Group 7-day waking average?

Woken up just after 6 by a raging thunderstorm - thunder every few minutes and torrential rain - that went on for the best part of an hour. Stopped now but it's very wet out there and forecast to stay that way. Hard to believe that a week ago we were enjoying the sunshine in Fowey. 5.7 when I tested and weekly BP check 135/73.

Congrats @Wendal @goodybags @ColinUK & @Robin on your HSs this morning.

Friday is Big Shop Day but having lost our colleague discount at Sainsbury's now that our eldest has left it might be a mishmash of supermarkets depending on who's cheapest for this or that. We have a Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Aldi & LIDL all within a mile and a bit. I'm sure there must be an App that compares prices across all of them - anyone know?

Hope no one's having to mop up this morning.
 
Good morning! Had a short lie in after yesterday's physio. Woke to a 4.7 which went to a Heinz (5.7) with FOTF. Must be an HS there somewhere!

No appointments till next Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday - Monday silly o'clock and other two days early doors! :(

Vey grey with mist, fog and drizzle. Quite horrible in fact!
 
After a night a the pub consuming too many crisps and a few beers, I was pleased to see a 5.1 this morning.
 
Martin.A said:
Woken up just after 6 by a raging thunderstorm - thunder every few minutes and torrential rain - that went on for the best part of an hour. Stopped now but it's very wet out there and forecast to stay that way. Hard to believe that a week ago we were enjoying the sunshine in Fowey. 5.7 when I tested and weekly BP check 135/73.

Congrats @Wendal @goodybags @ColinUK & @Robin on your HSs this morning.

Friday is Big Shop Day but having lost our colleague discount at Sainsbury's now that our eldest has left it might be a mishmash of supermarkets depending on who's cheapest for this or that. We have a Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Aldi & LIDL all within a mile and a bit. I'm sure there must be an App that compares prices across all of them - anyone know?

Hope no one's having to mop up this morning.
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When you retire you can go to OLDI! :rofl:
 
Well done to all today's House Specialists. I'm just 2 steps down with a nice round 5. 🙂

Dez
 
Martin.A said:
Woken up just after 6 by a raging thunderstorm - thunder every few minutes and torrential rain - that went on for the best part of an hour. Stopped now but it's very wet out there and forecast to stay that way. Hard to believe that a week ago we were enjoying the sunshine in Fowey. 5.7 when I tested and weekly BP check 135/73.

Congrats @Wendal @goodybags @ColinUK & @Robin on your HSs this morning.

Friday is Big Shop Day but having lost our colleague discount at Sainsbury's now that our eldest has left it might be a mishmash of supermarkets depending on who's cheapest for this or that. We have a Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Aldi & LIDL all within a mile and a bit. I'm sure there must be an App that compares prices across all of them - anyone know?

Hope no one's having to mop up this morning.
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There used to be a website designed for online grocery shopping that did exactly that. You selected your first choice and put everything you wanted in your basket. Then it compared everything with other supermarkets that would deliver to your postcode so you could see any savings clearly.
It’s gone to the great web in the sky now.
Speaking personally, Sainsbury’s is the most expensive supermarket around here. It’s regularly beaten on price, and quality, by both Waitrose and M&S.
 
Martin.A said:
Woken up just after 6 by a raging thunderstorm - thunder every few minutes and torrential rain - that went on for the best part of an hour. Stopped now but it's very wet out there and forecast to stay that way. Hard to believe that a week ago we were enjoying the sunshine in Fowey. 5.7 when I tested and weekly BP check 135/73.

Congrats @Wendal @goodybags @ColinUK & @Robin on your HSs this morning.

Friday is Big Shop Day but having lost our colleague discount at Sainsbury's now that our eldest has left it might be a mishmash of supermarkets depending on who's cheapest for this or that. We have a Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Aldi & LIDL all within a mile and a bit. I'm sure there must be an App that compares prices across all of them - anyone know?

Hope no one's having to mop up this morning.
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Anywhere’s cheaper than Sainsbury’s! They came out only second to Waitrose for being the most expensive. I do a mix of Aldi, Tesco and my local butcher/fishmonger.
 
A steady 6.4 for me this morning. My new MM780G seems to be managing overnights similarly well to my old tSlim - which I’m very relieved about.

Absolutely tonking it down when my ‘walk the dog early’ alarm went off, so I grabbed an extra 45 mins under the duvet!

Big HS congratulations to @Wendal @goodybags @ColinUK & @Robin :fanfare: :fanfare: :fanfare:
 
Good morning. 6.2

Dark, thick mist, awaiting another downpour. Vile. Woke several times in night with the horrors. Eventually got up, had a large bowl of yoghurt, fruit and nuts, and managed to sleep. Probably result of daughter ringing needing cheering up - think we just moved the gloom westwards to me. I am struggling a bit with the thought that even if we get a good outcome it will be spring before we can take hope. Oh well like falling off a horse - pull up the breeks and get back on...Speaking of which my jeans are getting quite loose so diet seems to be working.

Congratulations to all those 5.2s - what a nice sight.

Have a good Friday all.
 
Good morning everyone, It's a happy 5.4 for me today. congrats to the four HSs.

Have a good day folks and stay safe.
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it a 5.2 for me today Joining all you House Specials today congrats to you all, shopping trip for us have my fingers crossed the car is ok today but must confess I am a little bit concerned, all being well its booked in with BMW for a health check on the 16th then were putting it through its MOT early, not due until December but hubby doesn't want to be messing about if needed with it in cold weather, to be honest with all the new major parts we've replaced it should be fine, hope everyone has a good day
 
Martin.A said:
Friday is Big Shop Day but having lost our colleague discount at Sainsbury's now that our eldest has left it might be a mishmash of supermarkets depending on who's cheapest for this or that. We have a Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Aldi & LIDL all within a mile and a bit. I'm sure there must be an App that compares prices across all of them - anyone know?
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The grocers 33 takes a different set of 33 items each week and compares prices across supermarkets.
It also compares various other aspects like service layout, item availability etc etc.
Most stuff on the site is paywalled, but the grocers 33 page can give an overall comparison. The site has been going for years and years.
I don't know what access registering for an account provides, I've never bothered
www.thegrocer.co.uk

The Grocer 33: Mystery weekly shopping survey tracking a basket of goods from the 5 leading supermarkets

The Grocer 33 details the prices for each of the items in each of the five leading supermarkets in this week’s Grocer 33 mystery shopping survey, as well as basic price and promotion analysis and also has links to further pages displaying price and promotion history by retailer and other web...
www.thegrocer.co.uk www.thegrocer.co.uk
 
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We have Lidl, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons within roughly 2 miles. I find Sainsbury most expensive although they do price match stuff with Aldi, but those products tend to be of very basic quality. I do about half my shop in Lidl and either Tesco or Morrisons for the rest. Depends if we want bread. Morrisons bake a loaf we like. Tesco veg are better than all the others. Though we do patronise Sainsbury's when they have 25% off wine if you buy 6. Sainsburys veg are dire, but their potatoes are better than the other stores.
 
It's reasonable weather today. Not brilliant but not raining and largish patches of blue.

7.3 this morning. Not overly impressed with the HCL but I'm sure it requires less thinking about.

Have shortened both mine and Julian's new jeans to take on hols... can now start assembling clothes to pack, though weather forecast is a bit "Oh, not quite shorts, but on the other hand the forecast might not be right" by the look of it. However, we need to go to the chemist now to pick up the Libre 2 plus sensors, also when I got home I found they had given me a box of other meds with some of them missing.. instead of 28 tabs there were only 16 in the box. Will have to take that up with them and no doubt they'll try to make it my fault!

Congratulations to @Wendal, @Robin @goodybags and @ColinUK also @Pam123 well done you lot!

@Pam123 thanks for the suggestion re: ibruprofen and paracetamol. Unfortunately Dr says I shouldn't have ibruprofen due to CKD 3. However, I'm in less pain today and the paracetamol are coping thank goodness.

Have a good day what's left of it everyone.
 
OK so I've worked out that a HS (House Special?) is 5.2 but I have to ask ... why!!!???
 
Late posting as very busy day, but a HS this morningScreenshot_20240906_064158.jpg

Away for the weekend with very limited Internet so may not manage to post much
 
WOW I can’t believe so many of us were on that HS step today
I’ve lost count of how many today -but then again TBH after everything I’ve been through
I’m easily confused these days :rofl:

good to see @ColinUK you are getting on well with Mounjaro, however it’s a shame your GP couldn’t have prescribed it to you when you requested it
@Gwynn I’m sorry to see that your wife hasn’t been coping so well over the last few days, hope things pick up very soon,
@eggyg good to see you’ve now shrugged of that horrible bug that affected you and your hoards

congrats on the HS @42istheanswer @Pam123 @ColinUK @Robin @Wendal & anybody I’ve missed
 
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