Group 7-day waking average?

[rebrascora]

9.4 for me this morning and no idea why but I had my first unicorn in absolutely ages yesterday, which was a relief. Was beginning to think I had forgotten how!

@eggyg Yes, I am well aware that aubergines are far too late, but I had the seed, so thought I might as well give them a chance. I have grown them before once and I did actually get a couple of really decent ones (they were supermarket size) and I was chuffed to bits with them especially as it was first attempt and they seemed so "exotic"! I had planted them out in the garden rather than the poly tunnel so they had plenty of space. Some of these I have sown this week are smaller white ones so I wondered if they might need less "ripening" time if you know what I mean. Our season is probably just too short for them here though.

 

[Eternal422]

Good morning all! 5.1 today for me.

Just realised I haven’t posted on here for the last few days, been really busy including a great day yesterday on the locks at Hatton. There were just the two of us on duty and we had 7 boats to help through the flight, having to decide who needed the most help.

Just got home and had a call from Dad who had fallen, so we had to drive over there (about an hour) to pick him up. Luckily he was ok other than a cut on his elbow. They are both now saying they should go into a home but will hate it. We’re going to look at some and see what options they have, so we’ll see how it goes. It feels such a shame that they’ll get through all their money doing this but we can’t keep going on with fall after fall (now averaging around one per week). It’s amazing there haven’t been any broken bones yet.

Anyway, on a cheerier note, one of the CRT employees brought his dog into work yesterday who enjoyed cooling off in the canal !



Have a good day everyone!

 

[TinaD]

Good morning 5.7 this morning and highest yesterday was 7.9. Diet is exciting in this hospital. Allergic to tomatos and attempting bg control via diet. One of the kitchen special offerings was baked beans in tomato sauce. Are they trying to tell me something? Last night's delivery was a vast mound of mashed potato,a similar pile of carrots,with chicken and leek in a white sauce you could have set bricks in, followed by jelly...cross-examination this morning established thst was an error and that what had been sent was equally ubsuitable if different. A kindly auxilliary searched the darkest byeways and found me a salad big enough to fill a haynet, just leaves and no dressing. I fell on it with gusto. Who knew rocket and letuce could taste so good. Tonight and at lunchtime I am offered 2 types of pasta bake. What a good thing I am on blood pressure tablets...The girls snd I got busy on the job and have ordered mackerel salad in big plain print backed up with a phone call to the kitchen. God know what will be delivered but we have tried. Ah well it relieves the boredom and my jeans are noticesble looser. Pain levels last night were so low that I slept like the dead so it looks as if leg is healing. Only another month to go to next MRI when we will find out. The bad thing about lying still is that everything else seizes up so I have been puffing and squirming to loosen myself up. Neighbours in the ward find it mildly entertaing but what else are we here for if not to spread joy.?

 

[khskel]

Morning all and 6.6 for me.

I forsee gardening ahead followed by keyboard practice. Some of the early songs we are ressurecting have got some tricky passages in. I can only blame myself, I wrote them.

Have a good day everyone.

 

[Lanny]

Good morning all! 5.1 today for me.

Just realised I haven’t posted on here for the last few days, been really busy including a great day yesterday on the locks at Hatton. There were just the two of us on duty and we had 7 boats to help through the flight, having to decide who needed the most help.

Just got home and had a call from Dad who had fallen, so we had to drive over there (about an hour) to pick him up. Luckily he was ok other than a cut on his elbow. They are both now saying they should go into a home but will hate it. We’re going to look at some and see what options they have, so we’ll see how it goes. It feels such a shame that they’ll get through all their money doing this but we can’t keep going on with fall after fall (now averaging around one per week). It’s amazing there haven’t been any broken bones yet.

Anyway, on a cheerier note, one of the CRT employees brought his dog into work yesterday who enjoyed cooling off in the canal !

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Have a good day everyone!

I remember watching a sitcom I enjoyed a lot in the 80’s about a lock keeper starring David Essex. I just googled it & it was 1988 The River. David Essex played a lock keeper, Davey, who stayed in a cottage beside the canal, did the locks for people passing through them, met Sarah who was passing through & they fell in love with each other after some comedic shenanigans! 😛

 

[PattiEvans]

Today will be a quiet morning relaxing, then a bubbly bath, then I’ll dress in my glad rags and we’re off “out, out” to meet six friends in the pub at 3pm, we’ll be home and in our PJs by 9pm, I’m not a party animal like our @PattiEvans!

Oy... you are you know, except you expend your party energy with family! I'd be worn out doing the amount you do!

 

[Grannylorraine]

Morning

5.7 today, not feeling great, but not actually feeling ill, think it is more to do with MH than physical health. But it will pass.

For the gardeners on here, have I left it too late to plant strawberries, found a nice planter type thing in FIL garden and would like to do strawberries for my granddaughters who live in flat, but have no idea if and when they should be planted, obviously I will need to go to the garden centre to get some plants. Any of you keen gardeners are always welcome to visit and tend to my postage stamp in South West Essex, near the Dartford crossing, please feel free to come round.

Congratulations to all the HS yesterday.

 

[PattiEvans]

Morning all... it's promised to be sunny today but so far I see no evidence of it. Mainly overcast.

10.2 this morning, about where I went to bed...but I don't quite see why as I only had a bit of bread and cheese last night. Bread innit? Always the same....

Now today we are going to a party... this afternoon to celebrate our friends' Golden Wedding and her 70th Birthday with a buffet and a group and dancing in a function room at a pub in town. Should be fun.

Ironically after all our discussion on chocolate yesterday the book I was reading "The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris" last night describes a young Irish woman who takes a job in a bakery in Compiegne - at first it is miserable, until she makes herself a hot chocolate using a couple of drops from a little bottle of mysterious vanilla essence that she finds. The way she makes the chocolate is described quite lyrically and when she drinks it it's "like a kiss to her lips" and things magically become better. It's a nice book, easy reading after a series of rather gruelling murder mysteries.

Hope everyone has a Super Saturday! Take care....

 

[eggyg]

9.4 for me this morning and no idea why but I had my first unicorn in absolutely ages yesterday, which was a relief. Was beginning to think I had forgotten how!

@eggyg Yes, I am well aware that aubergines are far too late, but I had the seed, so thought I might as well give them a chance. I have grown them before once and I did actually get a couple of really decent ones (they were supermarket size) and I was chuffed to bits with them especially as it was first attempt and they seemed so "exotic"! I had planted them out in the garden rather than the poly tunnel so they had plenty of space. Some of these I have sown this week are smaller white ones so I wondered if they might need less "ripening" time if you know what I mean. Our season is probably just too short for them here though.

Oooh white ones, never saw those before. I think if our greenhouse was in a sunnier place they might have done better, it was exciting watching them grow but just not worth the space they took up. We’re not growing chillis or peppers either this year, just filling the greenhouse with tomatoes as well as starting things off. We decided this year to concentrate on things we eat a lot off, potatoes, onions, courgettes, carrots, celery ( for the first time), peas, beans, swede, parsnips, leeks and other alliums. Oh, and strawberries, raspberries and redcurrants. It’s a full time job!

 

[BobbleHat]

I remember watching a sitcom I enjoyed a lot in the 80’s about a lock keeper starring David Essex. I just googled it & it was 1988 The River. David Essex played a lock keeper, Davey, who stayed in a cottage beside the canal, did the locks for people passing through them, met Sarah who was passing through & they fell in love with each other after some comedic shenanigans! 😛

I loved that show - and I was pretty young but my 2nd ever crush was David Essex in this (my first was David Hasselhof - but only as Michael Knight in Knightrider, definitely not Baywatch era!!)

6.2 - have run higher than normal for me, in the 6s, all night (apart from what I think was a compression low at 03.00). Not sure why - we did have Indian takeaway last night but I chose wisely and had no spikes afterwards, just the diabetes fairy with an extra sprinkle of glucose on her wand today apparently.

I now have 3 days off in a row and the weather is still nice up here so, no really plans, other than usual house jobs and enjoy the good weather while it lasts.

However, it is my big 5-0 next month and we're hoping to get away for short break but, as usual, have been a bit slow to sort it so hopefully we can decide on where and when today!

 

[Lanny]

I loved that show - and I was pretty young but my 2nd ever crush was David Essex in this (my first was David Hasselhof - but only as Michael Knight in Knightrider, definitely not Baywatch era!!)

6.2 - have run higher than normal for me, in the 6s, all night (apart from what I think was a compression low at 03.00). Not sure why - we did have Indian takeaway last night but I chose wisely and had no spikes afterwards, just the diabetes fairy with an extra sprinkle of glucose on her wand today apparently.

I now have 3 days off in a row and the weather is still nice up here so, no really plans, other than usual house jobs and enjoy the good weather while it lasts.

However, it is my big 5-0 next month and we're hoping to get away for short break but, as usual, have been a bit slow to sort it so hopefully we can decide on where and when today!

I was feeling nostalgic to watch that again so, searched for it on youtube & it’s there: all 6 episodes; just put in The River David Essex!

I had a crush on David Essex as well watching this but, I’d never heard of him before as a pop singer: not into pop music as a Classical girl; thought he looked really dishy & I was 16 years old at the time! 😛

 

[Homer]

Morning

5.7 today, not feeling great, but not actually feeling ill, think it is more to do with MH than physical health. But it will pass.

For the gardeners on here, have I left it too late to plant strawberries, found a nice planter type thing in FIL garden and would like to do strawberries for my granddaughters who live in flat, but have no idea if and when they should be planted, obviously I will need to go to the garden centre to get some plants. Any of you keen gardeners are always welcome to visit and tend to my postage stamp in South West Essex, near the Dartford crossing, please feel free to come round.

Congratulations to all the HS yesterday.

I’ve got my strawberries under cover since it’s still very cold up here in the north, depends where you live but you could cover them for a couple of weeks, then by the end of this month should be ok. I take my plastic cover off at end of May

 

[Homer]

6.6 this morning
It’s very cold , we have had the heating on since 6 o’clock

 

[gail2]

Morning

5.7 today, not feeling great, but not actually feeling ill, think it is more to do with MH than physical health. But it will pass.

For the gardeners on here, have I left it too late to plant strawberries, found a nice planter type thing in FIL garden and would like to do strawberries for my granddaughters who live in flat, but have no idea if and when they should be planted, obviously I will need to go to the garden centre to get some plants. Any of you keen gardeners are always welcome to visit and tend to my postage stamp in South West Essex, near the Dartford crossing, please feel free to come round.

Congratulations to all the HS yesterday.

sending u love and hugs it will pass you know xxxx
gail

 

[Grannylorraine]

I’ve got my strawberries under cover since it’s still very cold up here in the north, depends where you live but you could cover them for a couple of weeks, then by the end of this month should be ok. I take my plastic cover off at end of May

Thank you, I live 20 miles east of London, so fairly mild, but will cover them up in case of frost, but I was more concerned I had miss the window for planting as gardening is really not my thing.

sending u love and hugs it will pass you know xxxx
gail

Thank you Gail.

 

[Pam123]

Congratulations on your HS better budge everyone along. Thay step us getting crowded today.
Are you able to cancel the shed and get another one? Sounds like the seller is giving you the runaround.

Yes I can cancel the order now. as its purchased through Amazon and yesterday was the deadline Amazon gave me, I am going to see what happens on Monday then if it doesn't come I will cancel and get a refund, we've been looking around just in caee but so far it looks like a lot of seller use the same courier, I just don't understand why the order is being scanned in every day in the middle of the night when the courier is in Sutton Coldfield.

 

[Pam123]

its another 5.2 for me this morning staying in all day so hubby can do more much needed work in the garden, home made steak and Kidney pie for tea tonight we couldn't get any Lambs kidney yesterday our butcher let us down so ended up with a mixture of OX and pigs with ive never tried before, soaked them over night on the advice of the butcher so finger crossed.

 

[Barrowman]

Afternoon all. A 4.7 for me much earlier this fine sunny day.

Have a good rest of the day folks and stay well.

 

[silver minion]

Oooh white ones, never saw those before. I think if our greenhouse was in a sunnier place they might have done better, it was exciting watching them grow but just not worth the space they took up. We’re not growing chillis or peppers either this year, just filling the greenhouse with tomatoes as well as starting things off. We decided this year to concentrate on things we eat a lot off, potatoes, onions, courgettes, carrots, celery ( for the first time), peas, beans, swede, parsnips, leeks and other alliums. Oh, and strawberries, raspberries and redcurrants. It’s a full time job!

We grew white Knight aubergines last year in the polytunnel. The fruits are quite slender and ready to pick when they are about finger length. I think they took 2 to 3 weeks after pollination to picking size. Fairly prolific. They seem to produce 5 or 6 in a cluster per time.

 

[silver minion]

Good morning from sunny Lincolnshire again. A 7.2 for me. I would like to get down to the 6's.
Went to the car boot again.(shopping in a field). Arrived at 8am. Sunny but biting cold wind so after getting a few bits and pieces we hit our favourite veggie stall then headed for home.
Our aubergine and pepper plants are looking very small and sorry looking. Don't think we will get a decent crop this year.

Congratulations on your HS @Pam123

Having a fairly quiet day, might do a bit of work in the borders this afternoon.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and no dancing on the tables @PattiEvans