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Group 7-day waking average?

Oh! Just thought of a funny side note you might find interesting: noticed it a lot recently; translating back & forth! You know the well used phrase “long time, no see” was originally pidgin English used by the mostly Cantonese speaking people people of Hong Kong back in the days of the British Colony as everybody to a greater or lesser extent HAD to speak English to the British, all government related & police enforcement etc in a British Colony, & the ones not well versed in English just translated verbatim what you would say in Chinese, it’s the same whatever dialect is used, & that’s the Chinese grammar; “Long time, no see”! That little piece of pidgin English has become SO commonplace now that everybody knows what it means & uses it: even saw it in English subtitles: doesn’t need translation! :rofl:

It makes me laugh that what our Chinese relatives were complaining about my, & my UK born siblings, about our weird Chinese: it’s pidgin Chinese; we literally said verbatim what we would say in English & the grammar is all over the place for Chinese listeners! o_O:rofl:
 
Ahhh! A Great Big Sigh emoji! It can’t be helped & it’s the silly o’clock zone! On only the 2nd day of 50 basal & I’m going low at night, AGAIN, the low yesterday I thought was due to over bolusing but, it’s a VERY, VERY, VERY SLOW drift down! I only ate breakfast past 5pm today & lunch about 4 hours after that! Hadn’t intended on eating dinner just now! Already tried 49 basal & BS was going high so, from tomorrow I’ll try a half unit dose, the 1st time EVER, & try an average of 49.5 basal by putting in 49 & 50 on alternate days & thighs? Never has SO small an amount of basal change affected me so much!

Just treated a hypo with a lemon Turkish Delight then, a nice biscuit & just now ate chicken & pork dumplings with a hopefully not too high a dose of 38 NR! The last of the dumplings, about 20 as I didn’t count them & dumped them all in, & with the dip, equal parts of soy sauce, water, rice wine vinegar & honey with sesame oil mixed in at the end once the balance of flavours is right, it’s takes a lot of NR usually: double whammy of the won ton pastry & the dip; 38 is very conservative for that amount of dumplings! I didn’t think I would eat it all but, cooked it all anyway & then ate it all as once I stared a hunger just seemed to take over! Maybe my brain was screaming at me to EAT!

Was turning in & in the 3’s & by the look of the graph for about an hour in the red! My head was just starting to ache when I ate the sweet after scanning & hurriedly cooking!

Up for another bit just to monitor it!

Just finished watching 3.5 episodes today & fully caught up for the release of episodes 8 & 9 tomorrow! I used to rewind a lot to hear the dialogue: now I rewind to read the subtitles; hearing & translating myself much faster than I can read the subtitles! So, sometimes I just ignore them & refer to them if I come across new vocabulary or different historical phrases I haven’t heard of before!
 
Morning a 6 from me and just finished watching on Breakfast TV about a NICE overhaul in way T2 Diabetes is treated with more personalised treatments to reduce deaths and complications.
Nice short day in St Helens/Haydock yesterday and home early and managed to keep BG in a better range but then had the Cheese and Onion Pie which I love.
I did go high for a short while but then came down for me to pick up son and his friend from work and a correction dose before bed kept me a bit lower than recently.
Off to Oswestry/Llangollen today which is always pleasant and been a nice week as weather is just the way I like it dry but not too hot.
Dogs walked,bin put out and just finished cup of tea so will catch another hour’ s dozing and then hit the day ahead so have a good one all.
 
Morning 6.6 today

Congrats on your HS yesterday @Grannylorraine

Have a Wonderful Wednesday everyone :D
 
Morning all. 5.3.

Cooler this morning, we never had any sunshine at all yesterday but are promised some today. We have Zara and Eden today, this will be the last childcare in this format as Zara starts school on 3rd September and daughter changing her hours at work to enable her to pick Zara up from school three days a week, we'll have Eden on Monday afternoons and pick Zara up, and other grandparents will have Eden on Wednesdays and pick Zara up. Eden at nursery Tuesday and Friday and daughter off on Thursdays. Half a day of childcare a week, barring sickness and covering for other grandparents cruises isn't too bad. Of course there's still the school holidays! No rest for the wicked!😉

Have a good day.

PS @ColinUK is currently unable to access the forum for some unknown reason, he's fine and I've told him we're all fine. Talking of which, not seen @Martin.A for a while, hopefully he's just talking a wee break and or getting ready for his annual Fowey holiday. Im sure he usually goes about now.
 
Morning all. 🙂 7.4 here.

Back in the orchard today to keep nibbling away at the overgrown fig tree - it reminds me of a mangrove (but without the swamp) with lots of skinny branches growing down from the main trunk. Dog walk first tho.
 
Congrats on the HS yesterday @Grannylorraine.

Hope the nasty bite is healing @eggyg.

6.0 for me this morning following a nice straight line overnight. Yesterday evening was a bit rollercoastery after eating some very nice Lidl chocolate with raspberry. I regret nothing!

Covering a colleague's clinic today whilst she's on leave, in the same location as mine, so another date with my rickety little desk fan :rofl:
 
Good morning! A new one on me LO! Three JBs and 15 minutes later it wss 6.1. I couldn't check on finger as I was quite shaky. This though could have been Amitriptyline withdrawal as I ran out yesterday and had a dreadful night. A saga I will post about separately. Hopefully I will get the Amitriptyline later today?!

Wheelchair service between 8:00 and 20:00, and DN similar window either today or tomorrow!

More autumnal but the BH is approaching...

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Morning all. A better than yesterday 6.4 this morning. We've had a drop of rain overnight, i think the last couple of mornings have been much cooler. Looking out of my living room window there are two huge trees in the garden at the back of our house. One still has green leaves on, the other is already gone completely golden. Autumn is approaching fast. It will soon be a year since i finished work! Where has the time gone?!

Today a friend is coming round for our weekly craft day. I might try and finish a crochet bag. (@Grannylorraine its nowhere near as lovely as the photos you posted, i've just used scraps of wool left from blankets i've made to make granny squares).

@eggyg i hope you managed to get the antibiotics.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Lanny said:
Oh! Just thought of a funny side note you might find interesting: noticed it a lot recently; translating back & forth!
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That reminded me of the old "story" about the first language translation programs back in the 1960's. They decided to translate the well known idiom "out of sight, out of mind" into Russian and then translate the Russian result back into English to see how accurate it was. Sadly the result was "blind idiot". :rofl:

A 6.3 for me this morning. 🙂

Dez
 
@BobbleHat and @freesia I never contacted GP in the end, I found half a pack of Flucloxacillin from last year's bites (arm last year, now they were VERY nasty), so using these up. My original bite has burst!:( But I've got a new one on my ankle which isn't as big or as itchy. Last night I discovered two more bites on my right elbow, one right in the pit, and one on the pointy bit, I'm sure that's the proper medical terms.:rofl: They haven't blistered up, so far. I've been well and truly nibbled, apart from hanging washing out and picking courgettes, I've not spent anytime outside since Sunday. I'm so itchy but have resisted the antihistamines.
@debs248 mosquitos absolutely love me, I've been bitten in the most glamorous places, Thailand, Portofino, Tuscany, South of France, you name somewhere in the world and I'll have a scar from a mozzie bite. I must say though, Italy was the worst, I was mess! It does tend to spoil the holiday. I've got worse as I've got older, immune system shot at. :(
 
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