Group 7-day waking average?

[goodybags]

We’re on it too. Luckily the dry weather we’ve been having hasn’t been conducive to slugs and snails.
Hoping our brassicas and lettuce will be safe this year.
@goodybags watch out for pigeons, they’ll nibble your plants.

thanks for the warning on the pigeons @eggyg, we actually have some nesting in some kind of fir tree (a monstrous carbuncle of a thing) that’s in the corner of a neighbours garden, it backs onto our back fence,
the last few evenings they have been getting a bit frisky and counting on top of the trellis that I fitted to the top of our fence, to raise the fence level and we are trying to grow trailing plants into the trellis to increase privacy, Mrs @goodybags took a small chainsaw to that tree last summer, will see if I can share the pictures of her displaying her skills when she was our tree surgeon last year.
Pic 1 before
Pic 2 after
pic 3 Mrs @goodybags equipped with a £49 Amazon special (it did the job… just) but ok maybe not really a proper chainsaw, understandably had to charge it up multiple times as on the big branches it drained the batteries rather quickly.

 

[goodybags]

Still no internet at home, b....y Virgin. Promised visits Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs but no show. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

O flip…. hope you get re-connected soon @Leadinglights, we actually just ditched Virgin in favour of Vodafone, after virgin put up my package from under £20 to over £54 and then they wondered why I cancelled 🙄

 

[eggyg]

A very early good morning. 7.2, not the best but it was almost a flatfish.

Went to bed early last night, 8.30, with the intention of reading, Mr Eggy was engrossed in the snooker, but I fell asleep quite early, hence being awake since 3.45. I lost the battle and got up. Our last day before leaving for Harris early doors tomorrow, 7am start to catch 7pm ferry from Skye. It’s a long way and we can’t take any chances of missing the ferry. Camille isn’t the best car to have to sleep in! Looking forward to seeing Skye again, we were last there in 2018 and we had an amazing time, even though it rained every single day of our week’s stay. It was when we were there and could see the Uists and the southern tip of Lewis and Harris from our wee cottage that we decided we’d go one day. It’s only taken seven years! Can’t wait.

We’re fairly organised and the car just needs packed, and then run the Hoover through the house. I might even have time to have a nana nap later.

Have a fab Friday, I may or may not have time tomorrow to log on, I’ll try, but if not I’ll “ see” you all on Sunday.

Mr Eggy decided to wash Camille yesterday, after a mostly sunny day, guess what happened? What always happens when he washes the car, we had a sudden downpour, our girls didn’t and they all live fairly close, as soon as he’d finished it stopped! Weird! He was drenched but Camille got a good rinse!

 

[Wendal]

Morning and a 6.9 for me but did go high after a late night cereal bar ( low alarm before bed) and then such a good sleep I did not take any correction dose.
Whatever your politics the by election result was dramatic and I do enjoy the detail from an interest point of view as to what is happening in society.
Funny I actually drove through Frodsham ( passed the spot where the previous MP assaulted his constituent) thinking there may be TV coverage but nothing yesterday.
What a lovely day yesterday weather wise and ended up on New Brighton sea front having an ice cream and walking by the Fort.It was like stepping back in time with lots of people and a ventriloquist with a toy dog on his lap singing songs like how much is that doggy in the window with an audience of two folk.
The Liverpool cranes across the Mersey appearing to salute the visitors completing the panorama.
Change in weather and WFH today as been a busy week and wind down to w/ end.
Have a great holiday @eggyg and everyone else enjoy your w/ end.

 

[Bloden]

Morning all. 🙂 7.1 here.

A bit of work admin this morning. Then a trip to the surgery (a 2-minute walk away) to see if my Humalog prescription is ready. My office is a MESS so I need to have a tidy up in there. Nothing very exciting, but all necessary...and we’re expecting a friend for the weekend, but not sure which train he’ll be getting.

 

[freesia]

Morning all. 5.4 for me. I went to see mum yesterday, she's very frail now. Her care package finishes soon but she's been doing everything for herself so she still has some independence. She's so lonely though, she'll speak to people on the phone but its not the same as seeing someone and she's frightened to go out on her own even though she's ok with her walker. Its so upsetting to see.

Anyway, today i'm seeing a friend this morning and we're going for a walk around a local nature reserve (for as long as my foot isn't sore) then a coffee in the tea shop.

Its definitely cooler today here but the sun is still shining. Hope it is where you are too. Have a good day everyone.

 

[Robin]

Morning all, a round 6.0 here. Looks cloudy, but no rain forecast.

 

[MeeTooTeeTo]

A 5.6 for me this morning. 🙂
Back to dull and overcast skies.

Dez

 

[Martin.A]

It's another lovely morning here and shaping up to be another scorcher, although not quite reaching the highs of yesterday. My suitcase of Summer clothes was retrieved from the loft yesterday evening and I've started re-packing it with my cold weather wardrobe. Hope I'm not being premature.

Grocery shopping later, as usual on a Friday, and I'll accompany my wife when she finishes work and does her Cinnamon Trust Volunteer dog walk. Luckily we have plenty of parkland close to where she has to collect the dog from. Hopefully my knee will be OK by then. It's niggling a bit this morning. Age catching up with me, I guess.

Hope everyone manages to have a good day. Missed an HS by a whisker - it's a 5.1 for me this morning.

 

[silver minion]

8.6 this morning. Oh well.... We had a bit of thunder and lighting late last night but not very much rain. Good job I watered the garden yesterday evening.
The sun is shining and there's a bit of a breeze so getting a load of laundry done before I go to my Tai Chi this morning.
Enjoy your trip to Harris and have a lovely relaxing time @eggyg

Have a good weekend folks.

 

[goodybags]

Morning 6.1 on waking today

Whilst in town yesterday sorted out a new mobile SIM card yesterday (went for a different network due to recently poor data coverage with incumbent)

A few jobs (tidying & sorting out) to do at home this morning for me whilst my wife is at work
then down to MK this afternoon
shopping at Costco & IKEA this afternoon Mrs @goodybags works long days Mon-Thursday then half day on a Friday

Looking forward to the bank-holiday weekend, I have tickets for a mate & me to see Northampton Town play the final game of the season tomorrow afternoon, plus in the morning the Walking Football/ Wellbeing Programme, I'm glad my back has now recovered (from the over stretching that occurred whilst excising at the program last Saturday morning)

Have a a fabulous Friday everyone
TC 😎

 

[TinaD]

12 for me this morning. Jabbed 12 units of Fiasp and my Levemir and went back to sleep and woke the second time 1hr and 49mins later on 4.4 with a sloping downward arrow so ate a JB to slow the drop and got up and had breakfast straight away which was a treat. Graph shows I didn't hit the red so perfect timing!
Apologies for absence. I lost my old lady, Cora, a week yesterday and it really knocked me for six. Of course I knew she wouldn't last forever but it is so hard to part with them when you have been together 30 years and they are like family. She was still alive when I found her and struggling to get up but couldn't, so I had to make the very difficult decision to end her suffering. Absolutely heartbroken still, but it will get easier with tiSo sorry

So very sorry for your loss but 30 years is a great gift of joy to which your memory will return in time again and again.

 

[ColinUK]

I meant ISVA!

Independent Sexual Violence Advocate. They’re folks who are assigned to survivors of sexual violence to not necessarily advocate on ones behalf in the truest sense of the word but to handhold and help your journey through the judicial system.
Mine has been invaluable as a sounding board. She’s also reassured me sometimes that police language is actually indecipherable and it’s not just me that can’t understand what they’re saying.

 

[ColinUK]

@rebrascora I’m so sorry for your loss. Cora will have known she was loved that’s for sure.

How were the rest of herd yesterday? It might take them some time to acclimatise to the absence.

How are you coping?

 

[Grannylorraine]

Morning

4.2 after a day of D & V which went on until the early hours, did manage to get some sleep, but feel tired this morning. No plans today due to spending a lot of yesterday in the loo. I might treat myself to one of @eggyg nanna naps.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Morning everyone. A 6.5 for me, and a slightly cooler start.

Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly @Grannylorraine - hope you feel much better soon.

Roll-on the Bank Holiday Weekend!

 

[TinaD]

Good morning. 6.9 after a broken night - awake midnight to 4 a.m. Not too much discomfort despite yesterdays foray into the caravan. Physio a bit of a waste of time urging me to descend steps forward as "that is how we teach it". Then admitted backwards was safer...Harumph!
Today ceiling covings going up while I pack for the great move. Loo sorted with raiser, shower seat organised with lowered kitchen stool, just mattress to move on Monday to make bed higher. Cant wait. Need to get to building society to move some money into building fund and also do some research on new kitchen units and bathroom fittings.
DPD struck again in failing to collect redcross wheelchair as "nobody available" - another flat lie. Since they were so late on delivery I have been using a neighbours...why does anyone use them?
Beautiful morning again - glad I havent set up veggie plots as it is bone dry in garden John reports - not something one often hears in west Wales. Hope it continues dry and sunny as looking forward to exposing white and withered limbs to the sun once the hospital removes these ruddy contraptions. Seen better looking legs on Egyptian mummies...
Wishing everyone a happy Friday.

 

[Lauren]

Morning, 6.1 for me today.

Today is the "School Birthday" - yes, where we actually celebrate the school's birthday. School is 139 years old today

I was told to 'dress as if you are attending a wedding' and am therefore wearing a light floaty thing which I've worn once before and took me approximately ten minutes to squeeze into.

There will be a ceremony which seems very regimented and precise. The children all have to turn on the spot at the same time when the call "TURN!" comes. And sing three hymns, seemingly from memory. Ages 3 to 18 - what could go wrong?!

This is my first time attending and I am both bemused and terrified. However, there will be a lovely three course meal for staff afterwards, so I'm sure it will be a mostly positive experience!

Have a good day everyone.

 

[Lauren]

Good morning. 6.9 after a broken night - awake midnight to 4 a.m. Not too much discomfort despite yesterdays foray into the caravan. Physio a bit of a waste of time urging me to descend steps forward as "that is how we teach it". Then admitted backwards was safer...Harumph!
Today ceiling covings going up while I pack for the great move. Loo sorted with raiser, shower seat organised with lowered kitchen stool, just mattress to move on Monday to make bed higher. Cant wait. Need to get to building society to move some money into building fund and also do some research on new kitchen units and bathroom fittings.
DPD struck again in failing to collect redcross wheelchair as "nobody available" - another flat lie. Since they were so late on delivery I have been using a neighbours...why does anyone use them?
Beautiful morning again - glad I havent set up veggie plots as it is bone dry in garden John reports - not something one often hears in west Wales. Hope it continues dry and sunny as looking forward to exposing white and withered limbs to the sun once the hospital removes these ruddy contraptions. Seen better looking legs on Egyptian mummies...
Wishing everyone a happy Friday.

Oh DPD! The stories I could tell...
I live in a block of flats on a fairly main road, so no parking out front. The number of times I have been sat at my desk which overlooks the main entrance, watching out for the delivery, only to see the DPD van pull up for a few seconds and pull away again, no one having got out of the vehicle, and then to receive a message saying 'no one was home to receive the delivery' - fuming! This has happened so many times, and if we complain they always take the driver's side. Next time I will film it!

 

[ColinUK]

5.0 this morning.

BP low (95/61 with 54 pulse) so I’ll email over this week’s readings to the GP in a bit and likely send them into a mild panic.

Was at the opera yesterday. Die Walküre. Royal Opera House. Started at 16:30 and finished at 22:15 - excessively long interval whereas they could have started at 18:00 and had two 45 minute intervals and still finished roughly the same time.

My first Walküre. It’s the second part of the Kosky ring cycle so uses the same aesthetic as Rhinegold did, largely empty stage, modern/timeless dress, elderly naked woman on stage almost the entire time, that kind of thing.

I didn’t know the story or the music (other than that bit everyone knows) beforehand so it was a revelation. It’s basically about a stropy god, his wife, his mistress and the kids he fathered (twins who form an incestuous relationship and the titular Walküre(s) who are pretty much all petrified of their god dad) being used as a plot to wrest back control of a magic ring (which happens in the next part I think).

As plots go it veers from utterly insane to really quite tender and domestic but it gets there via huge amounts of misogyny, domestic violence, racism, hints at a fondness for eugenics, and some rather good music.

I enjoyed it but felt that act 1 had some quite uneven acting (I forget the characters name but the brutish husband of the twin daughter was not the best actor) which defaulted to pointing and slapping the furniture to show us he was a brute rather than employing a quiet menace. Also he was armed with a gun which seemed incongruous when the whole thing is about a magic sword and a dragon.

One pet hate of mine also reared its head in act 2. If you’re going to drive a car on to the stage (in this case a rather beautiful 1930’s Rolls) then don’t reverse it off to exit, drive it off. Especially when the stage is certainly big enough to do that and it’s not got any other scenery on it at the time. It reinforces that it’s a prop and breaks the theatrical illusion in one fell swoop.

I did enjoy it overall. Singing was great. Music was great. I even liked the staging. But for a couple of very minor niggles it was a belter!