Paul Gibbins
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Good morning all. 6.4 for me today.
You’re ruined Martin, not like us old folks back in the day! 😛Time to open Day 1 of my advent calendar, a dark chocolate one from Hotel Chocolat. My wife has a Lindt one, our boys always ask for a common-or-garden Cadbury's.
Ride on mower - yes. Lathe no - I had a Myford ML8 many years ago but valued the space above the activity.No lathe or ride-on -mower?![]()
My wife and I buy each other's advent calendars but she's never been able to find a dark chocolate one, except at Hotel Chocolat. Nice chocolate, though. It was a gnome today.You’re ruined Martin, not like us old folks back in the day! 😛
My partner and I buy two (different) 'old style' Advent calendars each year, with pictures (but no chocolate) inside, so that, each day, we can each guess the picture, just like we did as kids 🙂. We're not Christians, so we tend to buy ones with 'winter woodland' type scenes on the front, rather than Christian imagery.My wife and I buy each other's advent calendars but she's never been able to find a dark chocolate one, except at Hotel Chocolat. Nice chocolate, though. It was a gnome today.
Us old folks? Have you not noticed my age?
That sounds like a great tradition 🙂. I think it'll be next weekend for us.Morning all - yes it is still morning! Uniform grey today.... sigh.....
5.7 that jumped to 6.3 within 5 minutes. Much much better night's sleep last night, despite some very weird dreams!
Enjoyed yesterday afternoon in town with the choir singing in front of the huge Christmas tree. I see they had put a Santa hat on the Humphry Davy statue - this is official as impossible to reach without a cherry picker.... and contrary to everyone's fears the tree had plenty of lights on it!
Today we decorate the tree and our tradition is to get the lights on, do anything that needs a stepladder and then break out the Manzanilla sherry whilst decorating the rest of the tree with the ornaments we have bought over 42 years of holidaying together and go down memory lane. I shall make sure I've prepared all the elements of the roast chicken dinner before the sherry!
Congratulations to @eggyg , @Barrowman and @a live on your HSs.
@eggyg enough with the "us old folks", you are a mere babe who was starting school as I left!
Happy Sunday everyone!
Thanks Lorraine, 🙂
Good morning. 7.4 - shouldn't have had sweet corn and poached eggs for supper but felt childish (for that read stupid).
Nasty grey, damp morning. SAD light running to replace the absent sun. @ColinUK is looking good - obviously in the right place.
Storage now sorted - an enterprising old neighbour's son, normally my scrap dealer, has started up a unit 4 miles away. My ignorance shows I have been unplugged from the grapevine for a month or two. Mind on other matters I suppose. Meanwhile have had to ginger up solicitor, no surprise there. I don't mind spending a few weeks with family/friends etc but do think condemning buyers to spend January on a narrow boat is cruelty...
Have a peaceful day everyone.