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Group 7-day waking average?

5.3 for me today. 🙂
@freesia Happy Birthday

Dez
 
Happy Birthday and much cake (low carb) @freesia !
 
Morning all. 5.7 on this snowy morning. No one seems to have mentioned snow, am I the only one? All this talk of steak makes me sad, last week the consultant said if I have to eat “ hard food” for example, steak, it had to be very well done and very well chewed! I don’t think I’ll bother, a good steak is a favourite of mine but, alas, no more. :( Happy birthday @freesia at least it’s the weekend soon. Have a fab Friday everyone.🙂
 
Morning all. 6.5 today. Got up to out the recycling out (and wish @freesia happy Birthday) but went back to bed and only just got up. Rained all day yesterday but drier today thank goodness.
Had a better day up until the evening yesterday. Will walk to the card shop about 20 mins away and see how it goes, if I struggle I will get a taxi back.
Have my two grandsons later and overnight, that will be fun and very loud lol.
Have a good day all x
 
There's snow on the Bowland fells this morning @eggyg so I will mention it for you!

4.7 for me this morning after an unprecedented (where have I heard that word before?) 4.3 at bedtime last night. As I keep saying to others, musn't panic after a single odd reading, wait to see if there is a pattern before wondering about it.
 
Morning all. No white stuff on the West Berkshire Downs this morning. Just grey, miserable and damp.

A 5.4 for me this morning at 05:51. Had Braised Beef with Horseradish last night from Tom Kerridge's book "Dopamine Diet". Perfect meal for a cold winter evening.

On the steak front I love serving with a salsa verde. I make mine with fresh oregano, parsley and sage, red wine vinegar, olive oil, one chilli, couple of cloves of garlic and a dollop of Dijon mustard all blitzed in the food processor. Perfect with a rib-eye.
 
Well I am up there on the upper steps with @Michael12421,@freesia and @Gruers on 10.2 this morning with a wobbly horizontal line between 9 and 11 all night.... I have battled a steady decline in my overnight readings for weeks, did nothing differently yesterday, other than that I got a bit stressed and totally different overnight result. I didn't sleep soundly like I usually do either. Interestingly, it is a new sensor for me too @freesia.... Do you think Abbott are implanting some slow release carbs into their sensors??
@eggyg we have a dusting of snow here in the garden.... you can see the grass poking through on the lawn and a couple of inches up the hill in the horses field but it is raining now so will be gone soon I imagine. Sorry to trigger all the talk of steak when it is something you can't have just yet. I would have thought a well chewed medium rare fillet would pass through a restricted gut much better than a well done, well chewed steak.... but what do I know!
 
Here it is intensely cold and very wet. Doorbell rang half an hour ago and a couple of men pointed out that my guttering was not coping with the rainwater, water was seeping through the wall and into the house. Telephoned a friend and she is arranging for someone to come and see what is needed - but he can't give a date or time. This is going to be one hell of an expensive month - just as well we are not allowed to go shopping!
 
rebrascora said:
Well I am up there on the upper steps with @Michael12421,@freesia and @Gruers on 10.2 this morning with a wobbly horizontal line between 9 and 11 all night.... I have battled a steady decline in my overnight readings for weeks, did nothing differently yesterday, other than that I got a bit stressed and totally different overnight result. I didn't sleep soundly like I usually do either. Interestingly, it is a new sensor for me too @freesia.... Do you think Abbott are implanting some slow release carbs into their sensors??
@eggyg we have a dusting of snow here in the garden.... you can see the grass poking through on the lawn and a couple of inches up the hill in the horses field but it is raining now so will be gone soon I imagine. Sorry to trigger all the talk of steak when it is something you can't have just yet. I would have thought a well chewed medium rare fillet would pass through a restricted gut much better than a well done, well chewed steak.... but what do I know!
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I’m assuming the consultant wasn’t much of a cook and by well cooked really meant slow cooked until it was tender. A well done steak would be like a piece of shoe leather. @Bloden I’m thinking of going pescatarian, can’t imagine, at this moment anyways, of ever eating red meat ever again. But this time last week I thought I’d never want to eat anything ever again. So never say never.
 
Anitram said:
Another wet start after yesterday's total washout. Our eldest had been looking forward to resuming football training yesterday evening but it was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. At least his futsal training, restarting on Sunday, will be OK as that doesn't take place on grass.

My wife has the day off, using up some of her holiday allowance. Any unused days will be lost if she has any left over come the end of January. Normally by now she would have used it all bar the days she keeps free for Xmas & the New Year. We're planning to hit the shops in nearby Bracknell this afternoon once we've dropped our youngest off for his shift at Sainsbury's

Heard yesterday that a former work colleague has sadly died from Covid. Up until now I didn't know anyone who had even had it.

5.5 this morning.

Martin
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So sorry to hear about the loss of your friend Martin :(
 
Thank you everyone for your good wishes. I hope you are all having a lovely day x
 
@freesia
Oh... Blooming Heck! After all that I forgot to wish you a Happy Birthday. Do the kids at school know? Have they sung you "Happy Birthday".... Do you have any plans for this evening? A nice meal perhaps? Hope you are able to enjoy it as much as the current situation allows. X
 
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@freesia
Oh... Blooming Heck! After all that I forgot to wish you a Happy Birthday. Do the kids at school know? Have they sung you "Happy Birthday".... Do you have any plans for this evening? A nice meal perhaps? Hope you are able to enjoy it as much as the current situation allows. X
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Haha thank you. They did sing, bless them, and made me cards and drawings during wet play. No plans for tonight apart from a nice meal, feet up with a couple of glasses of wine and Gogglebox with hubby. We don't usually buy each other anything for birthday or christmas, just book a weekend away but that can't happen atm.
 
I'm soooooooo cold brrr. Freezing rain. If it freezes overnight then it'll be tricky going out, mind you I have to lean on my sholley anyways. 6.1 again this morning I think.
 
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