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Group 7-day waking average?

6.9
 
Morning

7.5 today, not much planned just work, seeing mum and maybe finding time for a bit of knitting. Very grey here so I am expecting to get a soaking again walking home from mums, at least hubby can drive me round to her.
 
freesia said:
Morning all. A good nights sleep was had last night as i took my sensor off in disgust. No alarms, no worrying about lying on it. A new one has now been applied ready for activation tonight. Finger prick shows 4.3 so i'd better get something to eat soon.

@ColinUK any specific sort of food?

@eggyg the path looks perilous! Looks lovely though.
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Lots of symbolic things like honey, apples, honey cake, apple cake, honey dipped apple etc. It’s about starting the new year off with sweetness.

As you can’t cook on Rosh Hashona food is cold so it’s buffet stuff with salads, fried fish etc rather than hot food. Also you’re meant to be in the synagogue at prayer so can’t cook hot food but still need to eat. Not that I go to shul but I do eat!
 
ColinUK said:
s you can’t cook on Rosh Hashona
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Is there a reason for that? I'm not religious but i find all the different reasons/stories about religion fascinating. I hope i'm not being discourteous.
 
After a thoroughly wet and miserable few days it's blue sky and sunshine here this morning, and here's the cherry on top:-
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Lovely birthday meal out for our eldest's 25th yesterday evening, and his girlfriend got here too. There was some doubt as to whether work commitments meant she'd be unable to make it, so really pleased that she did.

Hope you enjoy Ynys Môn (aka Anglesey) @eggyg - I've never been but I've read that it's one of the most Welsh parts of Wales.

Logged an eConsult with our surgery this morning to see about the niggle in my right hip, which has been bothering me on and off for a few weeks, although I'd be more concerned if it was constant rather than every now and then.

Hope this dramatic change in the weather is for everyone and not just for us here in the south.

Whatever your plans, have a good day.
 
freesia said:
Is there a reason for that? I'm not religious but i find all the different reasons/stories about religion fascinating. I hope i'm not being discourteous.
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Of course you’re not!

It’s part of the prohibition against doing “work”. That includes lighting a fire and carrying anything to mention just two things you can’t do.
In this modern age the lighting a fire rule has been extended/interpreted to mean that you can’t switch anything that may cause a spark. So that’s no electric switches (light switches, car ignition, oven, TV, radio, toothbrush etc).
Religious Jews can get around the restriction by having things on timer switches that are set before the festival starts. They can, and do, have stew/casserole type meals that are cooked on a very low oven for hours starting the evening before. But they’ll disable the interior light in the fridge so that it doesn’t come on when the door is opened.
My fridge has a setting for Shabbat that turns off the light and has the compressor running all the time so that won’t switch on during Shabbat and break the rules either.
Ironically it’s a German fridge!

(And yes the rules are subjectively bonkers.)
 
Good morning 6.0 today

@Martin.A congrats on another HS today

a pleasantly bright & sunny day today here (almost spring like)
I’m off work this week (a planned weeks holiday) although if I was working this week I would be at a sales conference today,
currently I’m sat in the garden enjoying my first cup of tea, definitely I would rather be here right now
Mrs G is off also off work, we did think originally about going away for a few days, however as I had my eye appointment earlier in the week, a dentist appointment, a blood test that should’ve been done yesterday we said we would just do some jobs around the home,
we haven’t done those jobs but have been relaxing quite a lot, I think we both needed it,

Following Mondays eye implant I’ve still got a slight headache, but far less than it was yesterday or Tuesday morning.

Have a lovely day whatever you are doing today
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Just heard it’s Park Runs 20th birthday this week, think I will go do it again,I've only a ParkRun once, anyone going ?
If you didn’t know it’s not just keen runners, you can as I did walk, you will never actually finish last !
 
Almost forgot to post this! 01:41 BS 4.3 Not much wriggle room so had a cuppa well milk, of course, & a big heaped spoon of honey! Then, put in my breakfast fry up of sausages, veg roll & hash browns once BS had risen a bit to 5.8.

A Very Good Morning to you all, at 11:56 as I type & probably just after midday by the time I push the button to post, & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

My BS was swinging a bit towards the end of yesterday before going to bed because my ears were starting to bug me & my BS was rising so, I had to increase NR: not enough to start with & then, a bit too much so, ended up in the 4s when I woke up. I have started spraying my ears with Otomize & ordered another bottle online as I always like to have a bottle to hand given how many times I keep getting ear infections! 🙄 I get ear infections more than I get colds! :(

BS is still a bit high today as I’m trying not to do too much NR & ears are a bit sore along with my right chin to ear neck area! Higher tones hurt a bit so, not watching anything today & reading instead.
 
6.3for me this morning.A lovely sunny day up here Lot of folks sitting in tea room garden.Poor nights sleep low glucose alarm went off four times The amount of jbs and malted milk biscuit weren't doing it Did go up to nine so I took a correction dose before the high alarm went off.Did the trick .Till I started writing this post low alarm went off again . Diabetes eh ‍ Congratulations to @ Martin a on your Hs.Have yourselves a good day folks
 
Afternoon everyone, much earlier today I woke to a 6.1 - that works for me.

The sun is shining in a clear blue sky so it's off for a bike ride shortly.
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7.4 for me wasn't too bad given that they were above 11 yesterday evening, due to taking too many JBs and biscuits, as I had another hypo. I've been adjusting my morning basal, and the morning dose is still a tad high.

Also, I've been under a lot of tension and, as a result, had a stiff neck and shoulders which stops' me from normal pastimes and jobs.

I, sometimes, think that I'm coming apart at the seams.

I went for a twenty-minute walk to see my CPN and, surprise, she wasn't at work; I haven't seen her in months now and keep trying to contact her and the team before I finally crack.

But it's a beautiful day and I should be grateful.
 
Evening all - sorry didn't have time to post this morning, though what the heck I was doing for 3.5 hours between getting up and before going out I can't recall. Anyway it's been the most glorious day today, except for a cold wind.

6.4 at 08:20. Went up to 7.1 almost as soon as my feet touched the floor to dash to the bathroom.

Met my friend for lunch in a nice restaurant. Both had mussels (starter size), new potatoes to share, bread was included and I had a small glass of wine. My friend had ice cream and we both had Americanos. We split the bill and it came to £24.40 each. It is now getting expensive to lunch out round here. We used to have lunch for somewhere round £12 - £13 each. Now even going to a fairly plain cafe without going potty will set us back around £20 each. We both said we can't do this every week. I don't mind inviting her to our house, ditto what she thinks and providing something easy is better, but the trouble is she lives a fair way the other side of town 2 bus rides away. Julian is a sweetie and will do a taxi service, but it is asking a lot of him. After doing some errands/minor shopping in town we had a cup of tea each in a cafe and even that was £7 total.

Home now for fish and chips - not takeaway. Me on the computer, whilst J is mending our wedding album which has fallen apart with age!!!

Have a happy evening all!
 
6.5 this morning for me.

Another good day for weather and we went out to the Rope Bridge (Carrick a Rede) where I somehow managed to cross it despite a low of 3.1 :(, the graph shows the point I went over the bridge !

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Beautiful coastline :

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Congratulations @Martin.A on your HS!
 
Good moaning! 3.7 Nd gentle rise after waking groggy 3.3. Quite a few LGEs! Now Phantom Pain starting! ☹️ I freckon the low was the 3 Wagu sausages I had for supper - only 3.3gm CHO per 100gm. Sadly very little flavour making tjem poor value!
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Fortunately no appointments till Tuesday as Patient Transport make it stressful for the patient patient. Then then one silly o'clock and two early doors in a row.

Broken cloud and not raining.

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