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I may be wrong, but I thought Jenny was meaning LFTs as in covid tests rather than BG test strips?
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Colin g
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Yeah sorry writing this out side in the sun . Difficult to see
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Oh yes, what a numpty "you know who" was, expected everyone else to do the cooking for them! Totally agree about Sue Pollard!I did watch it. They were all really good. But the right person went. Glad “you know who” was out the episode before! I wanted to shove a bomb up his backside!
I see Lesley Joseph is on next week. I hope she’s better than Sue Pollard was last year! She got on my nerves. I’m beginning to think I’m becoming a grumpy old woman!
I've made enough for an army so you are welcome! Spare bed going begging since our mates don't want it!All round to yours tonight then😉 if i set off now i might just make it in time. I'll sleep on the floor and stay for the roast tomorrow
@Colin g you really ought to have some ketone strips. If you get the ones you pee on then the cost is negligible. OK the blood test ones are quite expensive as they cost the NHS £19.95 for 10 + you need the right meter, but it's a lot cheaper than admitting anyone to hospital. So look at it as saving money for the NHS rather than costing them!
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Four for me today on Wordle.All round to yours tonight then😉 if i set off now i might just make it in time. I'll sleep on the floor and stay for the roast tomorrow
I watched MasterChef last night too. I agree the right person went. So far i think the semi finalists are really good. Strictly to look forward to soon too.
Wordle in 3 today, i thought it was an easy one. How did anyone else do?
I’m really looking forward to Strictly. The first show starts when we’re away but it’s just the one when they find out who their partners are so not bothered about watching when I get back. And I nearly know everyone who’s in it this year for a change.
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I only just scraped in on 6! Ihad too many options for the letters I hadn't got.
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Do you drive? If you use a Libre to test for driving, there is a legal requirement to carry test strips and a meter, and to double check an unusual Libre reading, or if you feel hypo.
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Good result 🙂
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I don't. drive Having diabetes put me off . I know plenty of diabetics that do and fair play to them . Did a carb counting course a few years back with another 7 type 1 diabetic s . Some of their driving tales we're eye opening to say the least . And two of them were police officers
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If I work out how to test my blood in the first 20 attempts before giving up, I'll defo do this!
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4 for me today but I played a corker yesterday and got it in 2! 😎
eggyg
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I was annoyed as I really should have got it in three, had first four letters and just chose the wrong last letter.
Yesterday took me all six attempts for the same reason.
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Good morning 🙂 8.2 for me today 🙂
Northerner
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Take a look at Painless Pricks, by Alan S 🙂If I work out how to test my blood in the first 20 attempts before giving up, I'll defo do this!
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Good morning everyone. Up late!
BG 4.6 again. Interesting. I rekon I could get my next HbA1c even further down. Hmmmm
Today walk, church, lunch, walk, rest, tea, rest, sleep. And it's a chicken Kiev for tea too.
I may take my new hearing aids to church today. It might make it interesting to be able to actually hear what they are saying !!!
Cleaned the inside of the pipework under the kitchen sink yesterday, and removed a very rotten, smelly chop stick my wife had managed to drop into it some time ago, and tons of nasty, smelly dirt. I hate jobs like that. But it is now done. Ugh!
I am now really starting to recover from my longer walk to Lytham and back the other day. It really was a strain, but great exercise and it shifted a bit of weight too.
Have a great day today whatever you are doing
BG 4.6 again. Interesting. I rekon I could get my next HbA1c even further down. Hmmmm
Today walk, church, lunch, walk, rest, tea, rest, sleep. And it's a chicken Kiev for tea too.
I may take my new hearing aids to church today. It might make it interesting to be able to actually hear what they are saying !!!
Cleaned the inside of the pipework under the kitchen sink yesterday, and removed a very rotten, smelly chop stick my wife had managed to drop into it some time ago, and tons of nasty, smelly dirt. I hate jobs like that. But it is now done. Ugh!
I am now really starting to recover from my longer walk to Lytham and back the other day. It really was a strain, but great exercise and it shifted a bit of weight too.
Have a great day today whatever you are doing
Lanny
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06:00 BS 7.4 🙂
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
Just finished watching round 6 of AMA yesterday: took rounds 4 & to get all the political stuff; round 6 was just for fun with NO subtitles & my memory to get me through the tough bits!
China in 1911 was a melting pot of cultures & languages with Japanese, Russian, German & English being spoken alongside the Mandarin, in this drama: ANY wonder it was such a hard MUDDLE for my poor ears to “hear” & distinguish on round 1; Japanese was easiest to distinguish & the rest were easy enough once I got my ears retrained to “hear” 1911 Mandarin!
English was the hardest to make out & it’s a problem I first came across in 1982 on my very first trip to HK as a 10 year old: learnt the hard way to either speak entirely in Cantonese, back then pre handover, or entirely in English when out & about on the streets; using a mixture of the two is too confusing for both me & the general populace!
Why? I hear you ask! It’s because not knowing how the locals say English words when I speak perfect English in the middle of saying something Chinese I’m NEVER understood! That’s because there are so many words, terms & expressions in the English language that just can’t be translated so, just used as is but, changed to more Chinese sounding as some vowel sounds are not used much in Chinese! I suppose you could say that all foreign languages get changed like this into each native language!
Rather oddly pre 1997 I spoke entirely in Cantonese in HK & avoided using English words until I learnt how they were spoken in the Cantonese way as in theory English was taught in schools as a British Territory but, in practice few of the lay people on the streets spoke it well enough! Now post ‘97, not so obvious to start with & very noticeable now, English is much more widespread & much better spoken as Mandarin has taking hold over Cantonese now! So, I speak entirely in English now out & about as I can’t handle the contemporary Mandarin of today!
I didn’t know how English words sound in Mandarin as I learnt through experience how they sounded in Cantonese! So, I had the hardest time hearing & picking out the English especially, since it’s used in Chinese speech with Chinese grammar & syntax: it’s a perspective on my younger siblings & my “weird Chinese” that our older generation relatives always said about us!
I’m now just starting to read the English translation of the novel online. I got it wrong before & the TV drama came first: the novel was written from the original uncut screenplays of the episodes as the director was heartbroken by how “pieces were hacked out of his baby”, his words in a press release; with the clamouring of the global fans for releasing the cut scenes, no can do as it’s censored by the government, he knew there’s a market for finding out the full story!
I’m finding it quite hard going as the pronouns etc are confusing & all over the place as the most common mistakes made in subtitle translations are said pronouns! That’s because other than you & I, him & her, he & she, are not used: “that” meaning person, insert person’s name, is used instead; rather perfect for a gender bender drama, then! 🙄
Incidentally, the other most common mistake in subtitle translations especially historical dramas is timing or the time. Not in this drama as it’s set in 1911 with western clocks & watches in use by then, the day was split up into 12 zodiac hours, the same 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac years, lasting 2 hours each! It’s SO common a mistake in historical dramas that I automatically double the timings in my head: when the subtitles say 1 hour; it’s really 2 hours! It’s also a mistake commonly made by many Chinese people of today, especially younger people, that are SO used to the 24 hour clock instead of the more ancient 12 double hours of the zodiac!
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
Just finished watching round 6 of AMA yesterday: took rounds 4 & to get all the political stuff; round 6 was just for fun with NO subtitles & my memory to get me through the tough bits!
China in 1911 was a melting pot of cultures & languages with Japanese, Russian, German & English being spoken alongside the Mandarin, in this drama: ANY wonder it was such a hard MUDDLE for my poor ears to “hear” & distinguish on round 1; Japanese was easiest to distinguish & the rest were easy enough once I got my ears retrained to “hear” 1911 Mandarin!
English was the hardest to make out & it’s a problem I first came across in 1982 on my very first trip to HK as a 10 year old: learnt the hard way to either speak entirely in Cantonese, back then pre handover, or entirely in English when out & about on the streets; using a mixture of the two is too confusing for both me & the general populace!
Why? I hear you ask! It’s because not knowing how the locals say English words when I speak perfect English in the middle of saying something Chinese I’m NEVER understood! That’s because there are so many words, terms & expressions in the English language that just can’t be translated so, just used as is but, changed to more Chinese sounding as some vowel sounds are not used much in Chinese! I suppose you could say that all foreign languages get changed like this into each native language!
Rather oddly pre 1997 I spoke entirely in Cantonese in HK & avoided using English words until I learnt how they were spoken in the Cantonese way as in theory English was taught in schools as a British Territory but, in practice few of the lay people on the streets spoke it well enough! Now post ‘97, not so obvious to start with & very noticeable now, English is much more widespread & much better spoken as Mandarin has taking hold over Cantonese now! So, I speak entirely in English now out & about as I can’t handle the contemporary Mandarin of today!
I didn’t know how English words sound in Mandarin as I learnt through experience how they sounded in Cantonese! So, I had the hardest time hearing & picking out the English especially, since it’s used in Chinese speech with Chinese grammar & syntax: it’s a perspective on my younger siblings & my “weird Chinese” that our older generation relatives always said about us!
I’m now just starting to read the English translation of the novel online. I got it wrong before & the TV drama came first: the novel was written from the original uncut screenplays of the episodes as the director was heartbroken by how “pieces were hacked out of his baby”, his words in a press release; with the clamouring of the global fans for releasing the cut scenes, no can do as it’s censored by the government, he knew there’s a market for finding out the full story!
I’m finding it quite hard going as the pronouns etc are confusing & all over the place as the most common mistakes made in subtitle translations are said pronouns! That’s because other than you & I, him & her, he & she, are not used: “that” meaning person, insert person’s name, is used instead; rather perfect for a gender bender drama, then! 🙄
Incidentally, the other most common mistake in subtitle translations especially historical dramas is timing or the time. Not in this drama as it’s set in 1911 with western clocks & watches in use by then, the day was split up into 12 zodiac hours, the same 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac years, lasting 2 hours each! It’s SO common a mistake in historical dramas that I automatically double the timings in my head: when the subtitles say 1 hour; it’s really 2 hours! It’s also a mistake commonly made by many Chinese people of today, especially younger people, that are SO used to the 24 hour clock instead of the more ancient 12 double hours of the zodiac!
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