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Group 7-day waking average?

Afternoon

10.4 when I got up this morning, been grocery shopping, this afternoon I am going to prepare my marinade for my chicken drumsticks to take to bake club on Monday as they need to marinate for minimum 24 hrs and I’ll cook them tomorrow. Then going to do an old school aerobics class from my Davina app and a yoga class, I did very well with exercise while on holiday and since coming home I have only run twice and been to 1 yoga class.
 
Pattidevans said:
and @eggyg do enjoy your Greek night! Something I could do with at the mo as it would remind me of our summer holidays in our special place, Paleokastritsa, and sunshine.
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We haven’t been to Greece since 2018, Rhodes and Symi, and we miss it. So every now and again we do a Greek night. It really does evoke some lovely memories of our Greek holidays, especially in the winter when it’s cold and dark. Mr Eggy has got pittas down to a fine art, and my homemade hummus is to die for, even though I say so myself. I use Nigella’s recipe after trying many others and them just not being quite “right”. Doing lamb kofta kebabs tonight, haven’t done them for a while.
 
I think it is only fair to award a House Special to @khskel's cat.
 
eggyg said:
Fantastic, I love the sound of a Welsh choir. I would have probably cried. I’m soppy. 🙄
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TBH, we're a raggle-taggle bunch. There's some really talented, musical people in the choir (especially the choir master - he's got a beautiful voice) but most of us are just there to practise our Welsh and have a bit of fun. Yep, you'd probably have cried...from laughing so much! :rofl: 😛
 
Evening all. No reading as was at daughters and I'm off the rails anyway so don't want to know. Feel yuck, own fault. Back to it now but the toasted teacake for breakfast in the cafe was nice. 🙂
 
Today woke to 6.9
 
I might as well join the early posters here since I woke up with a start at 3.59am and couldn't get back to sleep, Most unusual for me unless I am hypo and even then I am back off to sleep in minutes if not seconds but it was a 5.5 and a nice straight line on my Libre which has 6 hours left and counting down to a new sensor which I applied last night. Hoping the new one is as good as the previous ones have been. Despite my reticence to upgrade, I am finding the Libre 2 works even better for me than the original. Hope I am not tempting fate in saying that!

Think I might head out for a breaking dawn walk since I have had my coffee and done Wordle. What else do people do at this ungodly hour?
 
Good morning everyone.

Up since 5am. At this hour I usually adjust my App for some new functionality dreamed up during the night, then there's the days food to sort out along with supplements to get everything in range and finally all the health tests...it all usually akes between 1 and 2 hours but can take a lot less if no App update.

Yesterdays update was to display the vitamin and mineral contents for each element of a selected meal and this morning was a final tidy up of a couple of related bits. Yesterdays update took all day. A lot of concentration. I enjoyed it.

BG this morning 4.9
Again BP is good (it has been elevated recently as I was worried/stressed about my wife) 113/78
Pulse is at its usual tricks...low... 54

Later church and a walk on the beach with my friend this afternoon. Oddly my joints sermed to ache a lot after yesterdays walk. It might have been due to the cold weather.

Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
rebrascora said:
I might as well join the early posters here since I woke up with a start at 3.59am and couldn't get back to sleep, Most unusual for me unless I am hypo and even then I am back off to sleep in minutes if not seconds but it was a 5.5 and a nice straight line on my Libre which has 6 hours left and counting down to a new sensor which I applied last night. Hoping the new one is as good as the previous ones have been. Despite my reticence to upgrade, I am finding the Libre 2 works even better for me than the original. Hope I am not tempting fate in saying that!

Think I might head out for a breaking dawn walk since I have had my coffee and done Wordle. What else do people do at this ungodly hour?
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Personally I had breakfast and got ready for my Sunday ride. I am now about 20 miles into what I hope will be a 45ish mile trip. Always ride early as roads are quiet and still have the whole Sunday with the family. Oh, 7.3 for me.

Have a great Sunday everyone
 
Morning all. 5.9 at 6.15 when I got up.

@rebrascora I went in the shower and got half dressed. ie undies and dressing gown back on. Opened my living room curtains, plumped my cushions, squared up my rug. Threw some bread out for the birds, and am now sat on my bum! Same as every morning really! I’ll do Wordle soon, I have a routine, forum, brekkie, Wordle, FB etc. the only difference today is we’ve family coming for breakfast at 9 so I’ll be donning my pinny very soon as I’m serving up a full English. Premier Inn eat your heart out. 😛 I’ve even made a strawberry compot and Greek yoghurt and toasted oat thingymebob. Had some frozen strawberries and lots of Greek youghurt left from our Greek night. I hope I get a good review on Trip Advisor.😉
PS I usually sit on my bottom in my jimjams for hours when I’m up at an ungodly hour!

Have a super Sunday folks. 🙂
 
@eggyg Elaine I’ve now got an image of you in your own Carry On film what with you in your undies and dressing gown throwing the curtains open to greet the day by pumping up your cushions for the world to see!
 
8.4 here. Been seeing me bounce up to the 8s consistently and loiter there after fast acting has run out so something once again is a wee bit off with me and/or basal.

If it was a quicker trip to get to @eggyg vs my fridge I'd be there in a heartbeat for brekkie, sounds wonderful :D I am in the mood for a cooked brekkie now.

@rebrascora my ungodly hours are usually spent appreciating everyone is fast asleep and I can have a coffee in complete peace. I also love the fact its too early to be pottering about making noise so can't so anything majorly productive either.
 
6.1 this morning. Unexpectedly as I was peckish last night post Opera and made some cheese on toast when I got home. And it wasn’t even low carb bread.

And this is what you’ve all been waiting for so here’s Colin’s Cultural Corner

Il viaggio a Reims - English Touring Opera

4/3/2023 Hackney Empire

Not heard of this one before booking it and not heard the music before tonight either.

It’s by Rossini and is an opera dramma giocoso which literally translates as an opera drama with jokes.

A little tiny bit of history before I jump into the incredibly dense and complex plot. This was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Charles X, the Bourbon King of France. Not that he was at all involved in making chocolate biscuits I believe.

His coronation was in 1825 and was being held in Reims.

Rossini only intended Il Viaggio to have a very limited life as it was so closely tied to a specific event. In fact it was only scheduled for 4 performances and that was meant to be that.

Factor in that vast chunks of the score and libretto were lost very soon after that limited run in 1825 and not rediscovered until the 1970s and it’s safe to say it could have been lost forever. I’m glad it wasn’t.

Anyway, before I tell you I loved it and had a smile on my face almost all the way through I have to tell you the plot. Brace yourselves because it’s a classic.

Curtain up and we’re in The Golden Lily, a spa hotel in Plombières-les-Bains. It’s a few days before the coronation and the hotel is full of people making their way to Reims.

The housekeeper frets impatiently about the work the staff are doing. The staff bitch about the housekeeper being impatient.

For some reason there’s a Countess staying there who hasn’t got her luggage with her as it’s presumably coming in a different bunch of carriages. But what a calamity! The carriage overturns and her luggage is lost!

She’s distraught and collapses many times on to a conveniently placed chaise and is pronounced dead by the local quack. She’s singing about her distress at the time so he really is a quack.

Her maid rushes in with great news. One of her hats has been saved and the Countess sings beautifully, and at length, about the Miracle of the Hat. Everyone else on stage is pretty much taking the **** out of her absurd joy but she’s too wrapped up in admiring the hat that she doesn’t notice.

Ooh there’s some (quite a lot of) love triangles going on. There’s the English Lord and the Greek poetess, the French cavalier and the countess, and someone else. Plus the lothario and the countess. And a Russian and a Spaniard vying for the affection of someone else.

There’s lots of beautifully directed squaring up to each other and puffing out chests but no duals.

Anyway, they realise that they can’t get to Reims as there are no horses. So they party at the hotel. All of the love triangles are resolved. There’s beautiful singing. And that’s it pretty much.

It’s very light but it was utterly joyous. Nobody dies!

Genuinely funny with some very witty musical jokes and a sizzling libretto which sailed very close to the mark for the time I’d imagine.

The staging worked beautifully. The direction was bold and clearly encouraged the cast of 31 to play up the pomposity of their characters when appropriate and the orchestra worked their socks off. I loved it!

In fact I loved it so much that I didn’t even realise I was sitting in the same seat I’d sat in before and judged to be the most uncomfortable seat known to man.

It’s a real pity that ETO only get the chance to have such a limited London run as this deserves to be seen by many.


There’s another CCC tomorrow as I’m seeing the Scottish Ballet production of Coppélia at Sadlers Wells this afternoon.

It’s had some seriously atrocious reviews but again it’s the first time I’ve seen any production of it so I’m going in with an open mind and my feet turned out into position one.
 
Morning

6.9, so first time in the 6’s for a while, still hope that I will get back to being I the 5s. Busy day today, starting with a run, then off to the crem (after a shower of course) as it is in-laws wedding anniversary. Then off to see if Primark has a suitcase hubby wants to get me from their Disney range, he knows the Primarks nearest to us are put I stock, but whilst it is a nice to have, at the end of the day suitcases spend most of the time either in the loft, in the hold or a plane or car boot. Searching supermarkets for croquet potatoes for mum as sh didn’t get them in her delivery on Friday, which is hardly surprising as when we went into Tesco yesterday to do our food shop the freezers with potato products were empty except for chips or smiley faces. During our travels today we will pass, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Asda so I still have hope to get her some. Finally to cook my sticky Guinness chicken for Bakeclub, which I will do while doing our roast this evening.

another good CCC, keep them coming

Hope everyone has a good Sunday.
 
Good morning - 5,9
 
Morning early-risers. 🙂 5.5 here.

It’s lesson planning for me today. Got some new students in every group, so got to make sure I accommodate their newbie needs. I just can’t get organized earlier in the week - I can only get things done last minute! Oh well, at least the weather’s ‘meh’ (grey and chilly) so I’m not missing out. 🙂 I’d still rather be gardening...
 
Morning all, 7.6 here, though that might disappear off the graph later, as I obviously had a huge compression low about an hour before I woke up and was down to 4.9 (I mean an hour before I finally woke up, I obv woke up enough an hour ago to do a scan, then went back to sleep. It was my second compression dip of the night. A combination of a new sensor and a very busy day yesterday, leaving me a bit dehydrated, I think.
@ColinUK that sounds like my sort of opera, no strappingly healthy looking heroines singing their socks off as they die of consumption.
 
@Robin I think most people would be hard pushed to not find something in Il Viaggio to enjoy.
It’s silly and it’s just fun!
 
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