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Group 7-day waking average?

Congratulations everyone who got a heinz 57 today; I nearly had one myself, coming in at 5.6.

It's a gorgeous morning here - wall to wall blue sky and sunshine, temperature of a balmy 7°, certainly mood-lifting.

OH and her support are rearranging our front room, I'll never find anything when I get downstairs now. Mind you, as I understand, they're putting away the last remnants of Christmas that's been languishing on the shelves.
 
Morning all - another vile wet and miserable day - though the wind has dropped at long last!

5.3 this morning. I did find time to adjust basals yesterday. Pleased with 5.3 but it's now dropping and is 4.2. Eating a biccie at present with a -20% temp basal on and will re-adjust 5 - 7 period down a bit today.

Found a magic recipe for using left-over mashed potatoes yesterday. We had the cheesy potato puffs last night and they were lovely! Still got lots of gammon left from the one I cooked on Monday, and some of the potato puff mix, so with a few green veggies that's dinner sorted for tonight. Good thing as we are meeting friends late afternoon/early evening as always on a Wednesday.

Congratulations to @eggyg @Grannylorraine and @MeeTooTeeTo on your HSs.

@Eternal422 just sending hugs and hoping you can get something sorted for your parents.

@DianeD and @Martin.A good to see you both back again! @Gwynn hoping you are OK.

Have a good day all
 
Grannylorraine said:
Morning

Joining @eggyg and @MeeTooTeeTo on the 5.2 step todays plans finish off some knitting/crotchet projects and then weather permitting go out with the running group this evening.

Congratulations to my fellow HSs
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Martin.A said:
I'm joining the Heinz 57 club on this rather cool Berkshire morning. No sunshine, and none in the forecast either, just a sky the colour of milk.

@Sharron1 - I get up and test while the kettle's boiling, so generally within 5 minutes of getting out of bed.

@rebrascora - I agree about Austria. My wife and I had a lovely summer holiday there a couple of years after we met, staying in Kirchdorf in Tirol but with coach trips to places like Salzburg. Stunning scenery, including the nearby Wilder Kaiser mountain ridge. I've stayed in Vienna too, but that was back in 1968 (blimey, is it that long ago..??).

Free day, more or less, so as it's forecast to be dry I think I'll cut up the honeysuckle I had to cut down and bag it up for the garden waste collection tomorrow. Neighbours are back and they're OK with me stripping their creeper off the fence panels that the storms brought down. But first, coffee and read the newspaper.

Congrats @eggyg and @MeeTooTeeTo on your HSs

Hope everyone has a good day.
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Dream on......had an exchange in Erlangen and Nuremberg as a teenager in the 60s !!!!!! Very different for a Scottish teenager but I loved Austria. Been back several times, youngest son is skiing there just now with the Royal Marines training course.
 
rebrascora said:
@Martin.A You won't believe it but Kirchdorf was my very first stay in Austria when I was 17. It was fabulous not least because they had record amounts of snow just before we arrived which was a yard deep on every roof and piled high everywhere. Temperatures were something silly like -25 but it was fine and sunny and everything including the air glistened. Your breath froze on your hair and eyelashes, but it was just absolutely magical! It was my first trip abroad and my first skiing holiday and I fell in love with skiing and Austria and have been back many times over the years, mostly in winter but also spring, although that all stopped when I got my horses. Would love to go back for a walking holiday one day. Happy memories!
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We walked into nearby St Johann a few times and one thing I remember is that whenever we encountered locals they always smiled and said "Grüß Gott". Despite German being my foreign language choice at secondary school I'd never heard that expression, but it's apparently the common way of greeting people in Austria.
 
EMcKT said:
Dream on......had an exchange in Erlangen and Nuremberg as a teenager in the 60s !!!!!! Very different for a Scottish teenager but I loved Austria. Been back several times, youngest son is skiing there just now with the Royal Marines training course.
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I never went on an exchange but my father was Regular Army (and former Royal Marine, as it happens) and his regiment was stationed in what was then West Berlin back in the early 60s. When asked to choose between German and French for O-level once we were back home, German was the obvious choice as I'd picked some up while out there.
 
a live said:
went to semering to star it 1 hour from Vienna and then to Salzburg hinterglem
im original from Vienna (i guess you could see it from my spelling)
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Was that Saalbach Hinterglemm? We’ve walked there a couple of times in the summer. Was there enough snow? Son is going to Kitsbühel in a few weeks time, and saw on the World Cup skiing TV coverage from there recently, it all looked very green, apart from the course route that had obviously got the snow cannons working full time.
I remember being greeted with Grüß Gott there, @Martin.A , and also in the Dolomites in Italy, which used to belong to Austria.
 
Martin.A said:
I never went on an exchange but my father was Regular Army (and former Royal Marine, as it happens) and his regiment was stationed in what was then West Berlin back in the early 60s. When asked to choose between German and French for O-level once we were back home, German was the obvious choice as I'd picked some up while out there.
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EMcKT said:
I took German and French, both boys took German as well but all is forgotten
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I might have forgotten mine had I not worked for three multinationals with factories and offices in Germany. I've had dozens of German colleagues during my working life and been to Germany several times for meetings.

At the start of last year I decided to pick it up again as a way of keeping my aging brain active and have, so far, logged 376 continuous days on Duolingo.
 
7.1 this morning. Fell asleep before my bedtime reading again and then been awake since 1.30am. Lots on my mind!

Ah well, going to be an interesting day in the office, the boy is struggling with school so it's going to be a challenge to get him there and I've got ever increasing anxiety about my DSN appt on Monday.

But life would be boring if it was easy so the time. Or something!..
 
5.8

And it’s my 58th birthday today so that’s nicely matched.

Off to Houses of Parliament for 9am as I’m touring Big Ben this morning. They provide earplugs. The Tempest this afternoon.
 
Good morning - 4.1

Have a great day everyone.
 
ColinUK said:
5.8

And it’s my 58th birthday today so that’s nicely matched.

Off to Houses of Parliament for 9am as I’m touring Big Ben this morning. They provide earplugs. The Tempest this afternoon.
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Morning Colin a better match would be a HS and you being 52 but no matter have a great birthday and will still give you a Star.
A 6.2 for me and another flat line and off to Southport today and then again tomorrow so should be poignant and pleasant as such a nice place and people.
Have a great today whatever you are upto.
 
GM

4 8 for me.

Doing my knee exercises, listening to the dreadful news re the mid-air collision.

Wishing you all a pleasant day.

Happy birthday @ColinUK. Same day as my sis's. I have the birthday cake and goodies ready for delivery to her.
 
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