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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all, 5.5 for me which I am happy with.

Pay day! I have just spent a breathtaking amount of money on a "travel system" (aka pram and car seat) so that's me done until next month. Most of the big baby purchases out of way now though, phew!
Good job we live in a beautiful part of the country with lots to do for free outdoors for half term next week 🙂
 
ColinUK said:
Not showing as any availability for May next year but I think that’s more likely that they’ve not opened their booking calendar that far out yet.
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Colin, that looks very similar to an Athens Hotel I used in c.2002/3 when I had work across much of Greece. Certainly the rooftop breakfast and evening venue was fantastic and I had a bedroom with a similar view. Some of the other bedrooms looked onto anything except a view!

From the map on their website it is extremely well located for tourism purposes. When I was last in Athens their Metro system was still being expanded. For your research purposes it could be helpful to get a download of their current metro and choose a hotel convenient to the metro. Then, walking and Metro was the most efficient way of getting around, it's akin to London in that it reaches well out of central Athens; taxis got locked in traffic grids and were no fun to be in with little to see. But that may have improved today, some 25 yrs later. The Metro in central Athens had almost zero potential to be expanded or altered - sitting beneath the ancient foundations of classical Greece. What was built, was before the Archaeologists had (rightly) brought their influence to the city planning department.

It's a fabulous City; was expensive in relation to anywhere else in Greece and I can't imagine that having changed. If the hotel isn't taking bookings on line, try emailing direct. Their website looks slick, I can imagine the Hotel is astute enough to take a business opportunity - wherever it come from.
 
Wendal said:
Morning a 6.2 for me on getting up after a decline overnight due to some toast before bed.Why do I it but yes I know I like it.
Trip into our local bigger town centre yesterday to pay a cheque into an actual physical bank and a £50 note which I had acquired but simply don’t like them.Then a visit to dentist for check up and hygienist and took my wife in to get sone specs.
What a depressing place to visit with empty shops a huge big new car park which no one uses and people drinking on the streets in Mid morning and the market was cancelled.
Anyway rest of day was fine and nice trip to Shropshire today.
Have a good day whatever you get up to.
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I visited Bridgenorth on a bell ringing trip and thought what a nice place, the town was really buzzing with 2 markets and I didn't see one empty shop. Fantastic to see compared to my local Coventry which is very depressing, so many empty shops and lots of what I call cheapy shops.
 
5.6 for me on a lovely, sunny Berkshire morning. Need to make the most of it, though - forecast says thunderstorms tomorrow.

My test results from last week's diabetes review are all in and I was pleased to see that all of my numbers are in range. HbA1c has barely moved - 40 this time round, down from 41 - and my RBC is back into normal range after I was told I had mild anaemia last year. The iron supplement the GP recommended (Floradix), and which I've been taking every day since, seems to have done the trick. Cholesterol is higher than the DN would like at 4.4 but he didn't push the statins argument much. Seems I just need to keep doing what I'm doing then.

Usual Tuesday routine - swim before lunch and then accompanying my wife when she does her Cinnamon Trust dog walk after work - otherwise it's just the usual household & garden chores, but not until I've read the newspaper.

Whatever your plans, have a good day.
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 5.5 here. Builders arriving this morning to fix a leak in the new guttering they installed. Trouble is, we noticed it last time it rained, but that was a while ago and it hasn’t rained since! So hope we can remember exactly which joint it was.
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Bucket of water!
 
Morning all and 5.6 for me.

Grand day. Best get sone more washing out before it rains at the weekend.

Got to fathom the chords out for a song we recorded over 40 years ago. The guitar is quite distorted on a punk rock stylee and the tuning is rather suspect. The fact that I wrote it doesn't make it much easier.

Rehearsal again tonight.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Morning all from this sunny warm morning in London. I can't remember what the waking reading was but i'm currently 6.4, sitting outside having coffee. Its our 36th wedding anniversary today and we are wandering around, taking our time and seeing where our feet take us. So far, Oxford Circus, Carnaby Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, heading towards Hyde Park.

Congrats to any HSers today, i've not had chance to read anything yet so hopefully will catch up later.
 
Leadinglights said:
I visited Bridgenorth on a bell ringing trip and thought what a nice place, the town was really buzzing with 2 markets and I didn't see one empty shop. Fantastic to see compared to my local Coventry which is very depressing, so many empty shops and lots of what I call cheapy shops.
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Hi LL yes know Bridgnorth well and have stayed at Hundred House Hotel 3x in last 2 years as we love the garden.
We live in a nice market town which is very pleasant but occasionally have to visit the bigger places which can be depressing for a whole host of reasons.
I have lived through good and bad times and visit all kinds of areas daily both rich and poor so well aware of how different communities can view their daily life especially during uncertain times.
 
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8.6 this morning, rising from about 6.5 at 5am. The early morning rise us not consistent for some inexplicable reason.

Beautiful day. Did 6,100 steps + two buses taking some Amazon chinos back, only to be greeted by this sign:

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freesia said:
Morning all from this sunny warm morning in London. I can't remember what the waking reading was but i'm currently 6.4, sitting outside having coffee. Its our 36th wedding anniversary today and we are wandering around, taking our time and seeing where our feet take us. So far, Oxford Circus, Carnaby Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, heading towards Hyde Park.

Congrats to any HSers today, i've not had chance to read anything yet so hopefully will catch up later.
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Congratulations on your 36th Wedding Anniversary.
 
Lauren said:
Good luck on your exam! Let us know how you get on
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Great news! I passed! I got 42/46, of course I’m pondering why I got 4 wrong, unfortunately it doesn’t tell you which ones nor what the correct answers were so I must just stop now and accept a great pass!

For anyone interested here is what my BG did - can you guess when I was sitting my exam:rofl:?

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Eternal422 said:
Great news! I passed! I got 42/46, of course I’m pondering why I got 4 wrong, unfortunately it doesn’t tell you which ones nor what the correct answers were so I must just stop now and accept a great pass!

For anyone interested here is what my BG did - can you guess when I was sitting my exam:rofl:?

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Congratulations on passing the exam.
 
Lisa65 said:
A disappointing 8.9 but given yesterday's stress I'm not surprised.
We had little success with Lloyd's yesterday concerning my cheque, although the lady I spoke to was understanding, she said I can't have the cheque back to try and re-present it because once it has been rejected that's that. These days cheques are cleared by a central agency as a digital image rather than using the physical cheque.
She told me it's a known problem that if the ink used for the initial cheque doesn't print dark enough, the scan can be too faint.
Sounds like a load of rubbish to me, but my only option is to try and get Santander to either issue a new cheque or transfer the money to me electronically.
So I will be metaphorically girding my loins later to see if I can get somewhere. Meanwhile my poor mum is really upset because her life savings are inaccessible to either of us.
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Santander can confirm the cheque has not been cleared so they should be able to cancel the original cheque and either reissue another cheque or transfer funds. The money will be sitting in one of their holding accounts and still belongs to your Mum. They are temporary custodians of the money. It does not belong to them. Good luck.
 
I managed to get a triage phone appointment with my Dr this morning as my chiropractor suggested some blood tests to check for various things that could be causing my aching legs and everywhere.
WOW I have a blood test form with every test under the sun which will need the proverbial arm full of blood, booked for tomorrow am.
 
freesia said:
Morning all from this sunny warm morning in London. I can't remember what the waking reading was but i'm currently 6.4, sitting outside having coffee. Its our 36th wedding anniversary today and we are wandering around, taking our time and seeing where our feet take us. So far, Oxford Circus, Carnaby Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, heading towards Hyde Park.

Congrats to any HSers today, i've not had chance to read anything yet so hopefully will catch up later.
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Happy Anniversary :party:<3:party:
 
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