Group 7-day waking average?

[Martin.A]

5.9 for me on another bright and sunny Berkshire morning. It's a little on the chilly side, though. Grocery shopping already done and dusted and my usual Tuesday swim later. Hope they've turned up the temperature a notch for the pool and the showers from where it was last week.

Got our first Xmas card yesterday, from one of my wife's old schoolfriends, so I guess we ought to be thinking about getting round to doing ours this week. I think my wife bought a load back in September when they were on offer with Whistlefish (she's a big Whistlefish fan).

@Gwynn - pleased to hear you're hip's continuing to improve. Mine's not troubling me at all now and I'm back to going up our stairs two at a time. At its worst I found it was least painful going up on all fours.

@MeeTooTeeTo - I think the first Star Trek movie was good SciFi but not traditional Star Trek, but they got things spot on with The Wrath of Khan and the rest of the sequels.

Time for a coffee and the newspaper. Whatever your plans, have a good day.

 

[Silent Sands]

Good Mornink everyone, even though it's late now.

9.2 then dropping to 8.9 twenty minutes later. TIR at 89%. Not to bad considering the meal last night at the Carvery - Full roasted turkey dinner - luverly! There were only six of us in the end, saying that, we all had a good laugh and it was all quite reasonable (We got 20% off our total bill!).

 

[TinaD]

Good morning 6.5 after a poor night.

Got the dreaded "Mum, can you come" phone call last night. "Well, of course I can - no problem." Amazing the lies we parents tell our kids... The medics are now "scheduling" daughters operation - basically sometime in late January or in February depending on blood results. Thank goodness I found some storage. Apparently she has to do as little as possible post-op for 6 weeks..so it is Oxfordshire and Grandsons for me. With the ruddy solicitor wasting time it is inevitable completion will fall in that time. So I shall be starting packing and sorting now and Christmas decorating etc can go on hold for 2024. Hopefully we can make a right bonanza in 2025.

Don't understand all this decorating early in December - our family tradition is Christmas Eve and down again on January 6th - gives a living tree a chance of survival and minimises drifts of pine needles appearing for months afterwards, but each to their own. The pictures are lovely tho', particularly @Grannylorraine 's splendid wreath/wrath.

Woke to a clear sky, water running down yard and 2 inches in the dog bowl. It is now, inevitably, clouded over. Off to ring around dog groomers - don't think Mr Wolf's winter filthy state will cut it in civilised parts - if I am away for 6 weeks he will have to come with me.

Did you know that architects cannot do structural calculations? Wasted 2 hours yesterday with chap who can draw plans but needs to sub-contract calcs. Ah well, back to old friend and expert witness for a "mates rates" job.

Have a good day all.

 

[Colin g]

Was a 7 .2 for me this morning.After a bad night.took two painkillers at tea time for my knee and hips fatal for me as I know taking tramadol early evening will keep me awake all night.But had to do something for the pain ,low alarm went off 3 times ,then high alarm.Took correction dose for that.Im shattered now Pleased you enjoyed your holiday @ Colin UK.give you address so yo you can post me stick of rock Enjoy your day people

 

[Martin.A]

Don't understand all this decorating early in December

I think it started during the second lockdown in 2020 as a means of bringing some cheer to what had been a truly awful year, with no end in sight, and people seemed to have carried on with it. The houses in our close, bar one, are fully lit up already.

 

[Jodee]

Good day folks, 7.8 this morning, I know why but I'm not telling, just say I was a bad girl 😉 But the good news is 2 hours after breakfast it was 7.

I did some manual work in cutting down some excessive growth on shrubs with the loppers, got so hungry doing that now I have just enjoyed a nice lunch and will vegetate this afternoon in front of tv.

Have a great day everyone.

 

[ColinUK]

Weighed myself this afternoon for a post holiday check in. Whilst away I was going to have what I wanted. So I had some pizza, a little ice cream and I would often have two beers of an evening. Dropped 100g in weight and 2% body fat!

 

[PattiEvans]

Evening all - been a dry day but with a cold wind.

Can't recall what FBG was, but I know it was a bit too high for my liking. Anyway been out for the day with my friend. We went over to Mousehole as they were advertising their Christmas Craft Fair. There was some truly lovely stuff there and I am guilty of buying yet another bauble for the Christmas tree. I'ts a pale blue circle of glass etched with a picture of St Michael's Mount, so quite local.

We had lunch in the Ship Inn with it's roaring fires. Both had salt and pepper Squid and shared a portion of chips, which was a good thing, since the portion of squid needed a magnifying glass! Afterwards went to the Deli further down the harbour for a coffee.

@Grannylorraine your wrath is truly wonderful, I want one please!

@ColinUK well done on not gaining on holiday!

@TinaD our tree is artificial and at least 40 years old. Sorry to hear about your daughter, but yes, she needs her mum.

Hope all of you in pain feel better soon.

Dinner... now, just Merguez sausages and chips with maybe some buttery leeks.

Enjoy what's left of the evening folks...

 

[freesia]

Evening all - been a dry day but with a cold wind.

Can't recall what FBG was, but I know it was a bit too high for my liking. Anyway been out for the day with my friend. We went over to Mousehole as they were advertising their Christmas Craft Fair. There was some truly lovely stuff there and I am guilty of buying yet another bauble for the Christmas tree. I'ts a pale blue circle of glass etched with a picture of St Michael's Mount, so quite local.

We had lunch in the Ship Inn with it's roaring fires. Both had salt and pepper Squid and shared a portion of chips, which was a good thing, since the portion of squid needed a magnifying glass! Afterwards went to the Deli further down the harbour for a coffee.

@Grannylorraine your wrath is truly wonderful, I want one please!

@ColinUK well done on not gaining on holiday!

@TinaD our tree is artificial and at least 40 years old. Sorry to hear about your daughter, but yes, she needs her mum.

Hope all of you in pain feel better soon.

Dinner... now, just Merguez sausages and chips with maybe some buttery leeks.

Enjoy what's left of the evening folks...

Nice bauble @PattiEvans

 

[Lily123]

Good morning - 4.3

Have a great day everyone.

 

[Wendal]

Morning a 7.9 and a quiet day planned after long driving day yesterday.
Spent about 5 hours in the car but my level stayed in 6s and 7s all the time so nice and consistent.
Whether busy or quiet have a good day

 

[eggyg]

Morning all.6.8 on the meter after going for a wee and walking all the way from the bedroom to the kitchen to get my meter. All of 5 meters maybe. Sensor fell off through the night! I caught it last night on the corner of a cushion, I pressed hard on it and thought I’d saved it, unfortunately I didn’t, and it fell off as I turned over in bed about 2am. Was finishing tomorrow so no great loss, except I’m sure I was a 5.2 before my wander about! 😉

Had a lovely first day of our holiday. Cold but dry and bright (ish), at times, we did the Coffin Route from Grasmere to Ambleside. This is, as the name suggests, where the deceased Ambleside residents were carried to the burial ground in Grasmere as it was the nearest. It’s rough with stones and tree routes and five miles long! Can you imagine what it was like carrying a coffin all that way? I struggled with an egg sarnie, packet of cheese and onion and an orange Club in my rucksack! But like a trooper I made it all the way and we duly purchased our fillet of beef at the local butcher ( Mr Eggy carried that back, not on the Coffin Route, although TBF it was a deceased Ambleside resident). Went into The Olde Friars a very well established chocolate shop, there’s one in Keswick too, or did it close? Anyhoo, we purchased some chocolatey gifts for the children and grandchildren, and I may have bought some for myself! Hence the 6.8! Handmade chocolates are to die for, luckily I didn’t, and therefore Mr Eggy didn’t need to walk back along the Coffin Route with me and the dead Angus! 7 miles walked and 440 feet of elevation, just a nice flattish walk to start us off.

Today is mist almost all day, we’re going to have a wander to Rydal Caves as Mr E wants to take some ethereal shots! Then maybe a linear walk to Grasmere and perhaps a visit to the garden centre and cafe for a scone.

Here’s my pick of the pics from yesterday.

Mostly of Rydal water. Bit of snow on the tops. The stepping stones are right outside our accommodation, they’re quite famous, lots of photos have been taken, they’re not safe to walk over at the moment as the river is quite high. Us on the Coffin Route overlooking Rydal Water, we’d just had our egg sarnies. Oh and we popped into The Unicorn for a beverage, Ambleside’s oldest pub apparently.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

 

[Grannylorraine]

Morning

4.5 today, couldn’t sleep, worrying about work again after a bad day yesterday, I honestly don’t know why I worry so much, I obviously do an ok enough job otherwise they would have let me go.

@eggyg - lovely photos, I don’t think I would be able to resist handmade chocolates either.

@ColinUK - well done on losing weight on holiday.

@TinaD - just hugs, I hope your house sale gets sorted so you don’t have that to worry about while at your daughter’s house, sending my love to you and your family.

@PattiEvans - love the bauble.

as for Christmas decorations going up earlier and earlier I agree with @Martin.A, I think a lot more of us put our decorations up early in 2020 and now that has become normal, we always used to do ours around the middle of December, but now we do ours the 1st weekend in Dec. Although we have an artificial tree now whereas before we always had a real one so again putting up too soon would have meant a brown stick in the living room by Christmas Day, but when we moved as we no longer had a separate dining room the artificial tree that went in there is now our one and only tree.

 

[grovesy]

I don't put any decorations up.

 

[Gwynn]

Good morning everyone

BG 5.4

Nothing much done yesterday. Nothing planned for today. Good job as I am feeling a bit rough this morning.



Have a great day today whatever you are foing

 

[littlevoice359]

Very acceptable 7.1 for me this morning on waking and no worse for wear after my weekly music session with some good friends. Plenty of good tunes and songs, along with a few pints of Guinness. I find I am getting better as time goes on in figuring out how much insulin to take to count the carbs in the Guinness. My addition of an IOB (insulin on board) calculator to my web app makes the task a lot easier and prevents me from over-dosing myself.
I did need to have a light snack when I got home to prevent my BG from dropping after my walk home. My Dexcom sensor threw a 'signal lost' error at about 2:30am, which woke me up. Just killing the G7 app on my iPhone and restarting it sorted things out. But, since I saw that my BG was flat at 8.8, which I thought was a little on the high side, I took 1 unit of NovoRapid to bring it down a little. All together a very pleasant time last night.

 

[gail2]

5.1 for me
i feel good think my MH crisis is over todays going to be a good day

 

[Robin]

Morning all, 7.6 here, Dawn has decided to pay me a visit, I was pottering along quite happily in the 5s for most of the night.
Had my annual blood tests, and have holes in both arms and a bruise on one, to show for it. Never happened to me before, but the nurse fumbled the second test tube as she was swapping over, and there was a loud hiss and the tube condensated up with just a small drop of blood in the bottom. I didn’t realise, the tubes are sealed with a vacuum inside, which means they draw the blood up better, I assume. Only she dislodged the needle in my arm a bit and let air in to the tube, so it blew! Having dislodged the needle, she had to start again on the other arm, and I’ve got a large bruise on the original.
Nurse was mortified, and so apologetic, she said that hasn’t happened to her for a long time. She’s certainly been doing my blood tests for at least ten years without previous mishap!

 

[Bloden]

I don't put any decorations up.

Me neither - we go to my mum’s for Xmas and there’s no room in our lounge for a tree (especially with a puppy!). My BFF has got a flat Xmas tree that she hangs on the wall - I’m tempted, cos I do like a shiny bauble or three and some tinsel this time of year.

Morning all. 4.9 here.

Had my GP surgery diabetic review on Monday. Apparently, my A1c of 66 is “very good”. I said “No, it isn’t” - I wasn’t in the mood, as you can tell! I felt bad afterwards for not being polite, but...honestly...where do they get these people from?!!

Enjoy your Xmas decorations, ev1.

 

[MikeyBikey]

Good morning! A 7.3 this morning after a reasonable night for me.

ENT appointment at lunchtime (not silly o'clock or early doors for a change). 🙂

Broken cloud, very cold.