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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all and 8.6 for me due to trying to fettle one of those hypos that are slow to shift.

Anyway the sun is bright but the wind is still a chilly one.

Looks like we've been asked to take part in a Bradford city of culture event along with other local heroes Terror Vision, New Model Army, Paradise lost and Ghost Dance. Could be fun as Ghost Dance are fronted by our original singer. She and our guitarist hate each other with a passion and she had to pay us damages for trying to use our name.

Have a good day everyone.
 
ColinUK said:
5.9 this morning.

Hit the gym yesterday and then went to see the nurse to have bloods drawn. Told her the suite of test results from the hospital dermatology blood test in Feb (so hba1c, protein levels, cholesterol etc) which she was delighted about. Told her my current weight as well as it wasn’t a diabetes related vampire session.

She’s agreed that we’ll see what the numbers are like at my next diabetes check and look at coming off metformin and also the ramipril.

Other than that I’m trying to convince myself I don’t actually need a new iPad and that my very old iPad mini 4 has life left in it yet despite it not holding charge so well.

Meeting my ISVA this morning to talk about thoughts etc after the police meeting last Thursday. I’m genuinely ok with it overall I have to say.

I do want to think about how/whether to tell Matt that it’s all over and done with without giving him any indication that the case collapsed because he won’t give evidence though.

I’m thinking I might just tell a white lie and say that he pled guilty when shown the evidence. Or I might just never mention it at all.

Oh yesterday before the gym I went to Tate Modern and two exhibitions: Leigh Bowery and then Electric Dreams. I’ve no idea how or why Bowery is thought of as deserving a huge exhibition in Tate Modern. He was nothing more than a massive egoist and self proclaimed artist. He was an odious man.

Electric Dreams was a curious collection of “technological” art that predated the Internet. It was definitely a curious collection.
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Replacing the battery in you Ipad may do the trick, we have replaced batteries in the laptops and OH little tablet
 
MeeTooTeeTo said:
I use BitWarden Password Manager. I've only got to remember the master password and it generates all the other ones for me.
My passwords are ones like "4av@3^C8a!JeQQRi$jyZR" and "5mJVKyrM$V$Wm5@E35T@q"
(not my real ones if there's any hackers looking in) :D

Dez
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Can't think why you don't remember passwords like those ones o_O😱:rofl:

I sometimes use lines from favourite songs, just the first letters and never the first line or the chorus. Too easy to crack.
 
Good morning peoples. Bright, sunny and very frosty around 7am after morning chores.
A 6.4 for me this morning. Fingers crossed but FP readings for pre/post meals are coming down at last. Lunch was cheese and ham omelette with a teaspoon of branston pickle followed by tea with 2 rich tea biscuits. BG afterwards was under 5 and barely moved from pre meal result.
Picked up an old pond liner this morning. May use it for ducks later this year or create a new wildlife pond near the south west boundary as the garden slopes downwards and gets quite boggy there anyway.

Hope your meeting goes well @rebrascora
Enjoy the Tate @ColinUK I used to go quite often when I lived in Kent and north Hampshire as it was a short train ride into London.
Have a lovely day folks. I am catching up with laundry while the sun is shining.
 
Morning folks on this lovely sunny day. The pigeons are cooing, seagulls are squawking and the magpies are making one heck of a racket!

Another 9 for me first thing ~ no excuse, I guess the result of a spoonful of malt extract before bed, I just fancied something sweet!! 😛😉

Take care and Oh, by the way, have a nice day!
WL
 
Wirrallass said:
Another 9 for me first thing ~ no excuse, I guess the result of a spoonful of malt extract before bed, I just fancied something sweet!! 😛😉
WL
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Mmmmmm.... I love malt extract. Haven't seen it for ages. Mum used to give us spoonful every morning in the winter. Sometimes we had it stirred into porridge.
Judging by your reaction best I stay away from it for now.
 
5.6 this morning the gym went well yesterday and we went again today, the only alarming thing was my vision and how different it is now form 6 months ago with the lighting being florescent lighting makes it worse, my vision isn't good to begin with not diabetic related.
 
7.1 so, day on day, it's looking brighter. A gorgeous day with a very chilly easterly freezing us as I walked into it's face.

Had a flat line in all night with 6s and 7s as I had repeated nightmares. Evidently something has rattled me, probably the powers at be. Still rattled. I do hope I'm not going into psychosis.

Enjoy the rest of the day peeps.
 
eggyg said:
We have an Appleby up here too. Lovely little town on the outskirts of the Lake District near the Pennines.
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Appleby in North Lincolnshire, where my mother grew up, is a lovely, picture postcard village. As kids we loved staying at our Gran's during the summer holidays (this is in the 1950s). She lived in one of a row of 6 cottages with no running water or mains electricity, just a tap outside and a toilet in a block round the back. I say toilet but it was just a wooden shelf with a hole in the centre and one of those galvanised dustbins underneath to do your business in. They were emptied weekly by the council. They had to be lifted out and tipped into a bin lorry. Fortunately I never saw them spill one.

The row of cottages has long gone and been replaced by a modern bungalow but most of the village was much as I remembered it when I last dropped by 3 years ago before heading back home from Scunthorpe after a cousin's funeral.

My Gran and Grandad are still there, buried at the local church..
 
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Evening all - it's been a gloriously sunny day, but the wind has been eye-wateringly, nose runningly freezing!

10.1 after 2 low alarms (4.1) in the wee small hours, 4 Dextrose total and 1.5 ginger cookies. Plus I put my pump on 2.5 hours of -25%. It's not been great all day. I burnt the 1 slice of toast I had to eat so scraped the burnt bits off as that was the last of the bread until J came back from the supermarket. It was horrible, even drenched in Marmite. J came in with fresh bread just as I finished eating... his first comment "the toast burnt!". I think we need to replace the (24 year old) toaster!

We then went by bus to Porthlevan with some friends for lunch. Every restaurant was closed except the Square. The menu there had changed since I last ate there. Lunch is now sharing plates (@ £14 - £16 each), pasta (expensive @£20ish) or extremely expensive main courses. We all plumped for pasta.... then we waited and waited... some thing, we know not what, had gone wrong apparently. We received an apology but nothing else... eventually an hour after ordering we got our dishes, which really weren't all that great. I'd not want to repeat the experience. We decamped to the ice cream parlour down the harbour for coffee.

Just before we left the house I had a phone call from the DSN - my new pump has arrived. Training scheduled for 1 May. I hope the HCL is more aggressive than the Omnipod was! More on this in the fullness of time!

So wishing you all a good evening!
 
eggyg said:
We have an Appleby up here too. Lovely little town on the outskirts of the Lake District near the Pennines.
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Yeah we’re using that one as a base to spy on Eggy Towers from.
 
Leadinglights said:
Replacing the battery in you Ipad may do the trick, we have replaced batteries in the laptops and OH little tablet
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Yeah but what’s the fun in doing that?!!
 
Good evening everyone! 5'9 when I woke up this morning.

Last night I removed my wobbly sensor when it had 13 hours left, then took a long hot shower and decided to take a break from Libre for a day. My fingertips don't appreciate it but it has been kind of refreshing for the mind. I'll apply the new sensor after my shower tonight, so is ready in the morning for a busier day.

By the way, I bought some "micro-porous" (?) tape in Poundland, I wonder if that could help to keep the sensor in place, if I get another one where the glue is not so strong. Anyone has tried it? :confused:

I had a productive morning which included laundry, cleaning my room and a longer walk along the seafront to get to the cafe for my usual Tuesday session. Not many people could make it today but got to see one who I like and doesn't come very often, so that was nice. Then a smooth evening shift at work. From now I'll be working full days until the weekend, so I'm happy today was an enjoyable day. Will try to read a bit or do something nice in my breaks, so it's not all dull!
 
Morning all. 6.8 on this -3 degrees day. But the forecast is good.

The terrible twosome are here today from 8. 30, hence the early hour so I can get a wee bit peace. We got into the garden and went to the park yesterday with Eden so much of the same with Zara too today, but a nearer park maybe. It’s great when they’re in a buggy and you can walk at a fast pace, but four year olds tend to dawdle and it’s hard work.

Nowt else doing, we won’t have time.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.
 
Morning all. 5.8

Emailed the police yesterday expressing gratitude for their diligence, perseverance and professionalism during the investigation. Took the opportunity to formally accept the outcome and decline a further use of my right of review. So it’s now officially all over (unless at some point in the future I decide to invoke that right or the case is reopened because of something else happening).

I’ll tell Matt that it’s being closed because the accused has no commented. I’m not going to lie and tell him that he’s dead or pled guilty. They were silly ideas. Notwithstanding that they sort of made sense they are still very silly so they’re out.

In other news it looks like I’m getting a delivery of the missing kaftans this week. This will be two different sizes of the red/maroon stripy one alongside this beauty…

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Morning 6.6 again today
woke up quite sweaty thought was hypo maybe but not, which was a relief

Have a wonderful Wednesday
TC 😎
 
Morning all, 5.9 here, normal service resumed, with insulin injected into correct places this morning. To add insult to injury, round about lunchtime yesterday, when I could really have done with a CGM reading to keep tabs on whether I’d still got bolus going in to the system, I pinged my sensor off when i was dragging a teeshirt over my head! It only had 8 hours left to run, but I was about to go riding, so it couldn’t have timed it worse! I don’t know why it decided to come unstuck, they normally cling like a limpet and I have to prise them off painfully at the end.
 
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