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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning everyone🙂

I woke up on 8.1 after a reasonably straight line overnight, and optimistically expecting a slight increase in Levemir to do the job of drifting me down to saintliness. Oh well, back to the drawing board:D

I had my trial of the new wheelchair. Amazing machine, very compact and comfortable, and ultra manoeuvrable. And tells you if you’re being over optimistic on adverse cambers, though it does cope with those with ease. Ordinary powered wheelchairs are a struggle on cambers, because the front castor wheels want to turn downhill. Because the front wheels on the new wheelchair don’t turn, you can just head forwards without worry.

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You can see the front wheels. All those small elements rotate, so that’s how they don’t need to turn. The folk who make it don’t call it a wheelchair - it’s a PMV - personal mobility vehicle. You can break it down into three parts and stick it in the car boot.

Anyway, I’ve ordered one. It’ll arrive next Friday. Needless to say, being a Rovers supporter, I’ve specified one blue flash and one white. Is that childish? Course not. Mind you, sending it round with the remote control on the phone App will be:D

So that’s £4k of daughter’s inheritance dealt with. Fun ain’t cheap.😉

Have good day, folks.🙂

By the way, the best way to cook Ox Cheeks is get them off the Ox first. The rest is easy if you’ve got four hours to spare:D
 
Good morning 11.3😳 forgot to take overnight Basal, busy yapping on the forum.🙄
Good luck with eye screening @Bloden.🙂
Hope you feel better @Lanny.

Another HS for @Grannylorraine, well done.🙂

I think that will be 10 @eggyg, yum yum.🙂

Great truck @mikeyB.🙂

Dull day but enjoy it whatever folks.🙂
 
5.9 for me and and 6.0+/- a couple seems to be routine now.

An odd thing happened during the night. Got up for the bathroom as usual in the early hours - they say its my dodgy prostrate - and I remember finishing peeing but my next memory is coming round on the bathroom floor. Dunno how I got there or how low I lay there. No bumps or bruises so I don't think I fell. Now beginning to wonder if I did not dream the whole thing. Bloody odd.
 
eggyg said:
I don’t mind you being nosy! Tomato consommé and homemade onion bread. Started the consommé yesterday, it’s stopped dripping now, looks nice and clear, so chuffed, it’s very easy to make and tastes so intense. Fillet of beef with fondant potatoes, honeyed parsnips, roasted cauliflower and an ox cheek croquette on a bed of Savoy cabbage, carrots and a red wine jus. Never cooked ox cheeks before, touch wood it works. Been marinading the cheeks for 24 hours so far, the longer the better apparently, then braise for 3 or 4 hours. For pud, rhubarb and custard, key lime pie and chocolate brownie. Three days prep and will be gone in a couple of hours! I don’t mind, I enjoy entertaining, there’s “ only” eight tomorrow, doddle! :D
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WOW! It sounds like an episode of Master Chef.:D😱😛
 
Docb said:
An odd thing happened during the night. Got up for the bathroom as usual in the early hours - they say its my dodgy prostrate - and I remember finishing peeing but my next memory is coming round on the bathroom floor. Dunno how I got there or how low I lay there. No bumps or bruises so I don't think I fell. Now beginning to wonder if I did not dream the whole thing. Bloody odd.
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No, you didn’t dream. What you had was urinary hypotension. As you get older (men, that is) emptying a full bladder can drop your blood pressure, so you ‘faint’. It’s very unusual for people to injure themselves fainting, you just sort of sink elegantly to the floor so your ageing vascular system can restore order.

Tip: Your BP drops anyway while you are asleep, so if you get up for a wee sit down to do it. I won’t tell anybody:D
 
Thanks mikeyB - new one on me. By the way, have been sitting down on my nighttime excursions for some time now!! GP noticed a few months ago that my BP dropped when I stood up, so add that to the urinary hypotension and bingo. Maybe i should ask about the BP pills next time I see somebody.
 
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mikeyB said:
Good morning everyone🙂

I woke up on 8.1 after a reasonably straight line overnight, and optimistically expecting a slight increase in Levemir to do the job of drifting me down to saintliness. Oh well, back to the drawing board:D

I had my trial of the new wheelchair. Amazing machine, very compact and comfortable, and ultra manoeuvrable. And tells you if you’re being over optimistic on adverse cambers, though it does cope with those with ease. Ordinary powered wheelchairs are a struggle on cambers, because the front castor wheels want to turn downhill. Because the front wheels on the new wheelchair don’t turn, you can just head forwards without worry.

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You can see the front wheels. All those small elements rotate, so that’s how they don’t need to turn. The folk who make it don’t call it a wheelchair - it’s a PMV - personal mobility vehicle. You can break it down into three parts and stick it in the car boot.

Anyway, I’ve ordered one. It’ll arrive next Friday. Needless to say, being a Rovers supporter, I’ve specified one blue flash and one white. Is that childish? Course not. Mind you, sending it round with the remote control on the phone App will be:D

So that’s £4k of daughter’s inheritance dealt with. Fun ain’t cheap.😉

Have good day, folks.🙂

By the way, the best way to cook Ox Cheeks is get them off the Ox first. The rest is easy if you’ve got four hours to spare:D
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Don’t worry, Mr Eggy held the horns whilst I cut them off! You need more like two days and four hours! Marinading in Aldi’s vino tinto, if it’s good enough for cleaning the drains it’s good enough for two tough old ox cheeks! Remind me again, it was the cheeks from the back end of the beast I needed?
Are you getting a personalised number plate for your PMV? Was thinking DOC 1!
 
Bloden said:
WOW! It sounds like an episode of Master Chef.:D😱😛
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My daughter has just said that! Saying that, on the Great British Menu last night, one of the chefs was doing fondant potatoes as in the heats he got pulled up for not having any “ starch” on his plate. His competitors were taking the Micky out of him for doing “ old school”! And here’s me doing them for the first time and thinking I was being trendy! 😱
 
I had to google fondant potatoes. I want some now. Mmm. 🙂

7.3 @ 6.53am
 
05:31 BS 7.0. Still finding it rough but, breathing is slightly better since using an air purifier, you know the type that cleans the air through water! Had it on all day & night! Noisy so, not much sleep! Have just switched it off & about to take inhalers & try for some more sleep. Have a bit of a cough now so, maybe a cold developing!

Hope everyone else has a better day than me! I’m trying for some more sleep now that my breathing has eased a bit! It’s a bit ironic that I just got a letter in the post yesterday for my annual asthma review on 29/05/19!

Have a good day everyone!🙂
 
eggyg said:
My daughter has just said that! Saying that, on the Great British Menu last night, one of the chefs was doing fondant potatoes as in the heats he got pulled up for not having any “ starch” on his plate. His competitors were taking the Micky out of him for doing “ old school”! And here’s me doing them for the first time and thinking I was being trendy! 😱
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What’s a fondant potato?! I’m completely out of the loop.:D

Morning all.🙂 Libre showed me a 5.6 this morning.😛

Off to a Saturday Welsh class - Siarad Sadwrn - with the ladies from my Easter revision course. Should be a larf!🙄
 
Morning. In the sevens again today, 7.3. Dull morning again and no plans to improve apparently. That’s fine I will be tied to the kitchen today. @Bloden a potato fondant is a potato ( usually cut out in a round shape about 2 inches in depth) pan fried in butter and then cooked in chicken stock, garlic and thyme until it’s all soft and fluffy and buttery. I can feel my arteries clogging up already! If done correctly they are delicious, undercooked...yuk! You only tend to have one as they are very rich. I will report back in the morning on how it all went. It’s only family so not under any pressure, after a couple of glasses of Sancerre I won’t really care anyways! Have a splendid Saturday everyone, hope it’s a good one. 🙂
 
morning guys 🙂

4.8 for me this morning

dull and pouring down here :( ah well no getting out for me today, hope you all have a fab day whatever you are doing! :D xx
 
eggyg said:
Morning. In the sevens again today, 7.3. Dull morning again and no plans to improve apparently. That’s fine I will be tied to the kitchen today. @Bloden a potato fondant is a potato ( usually cut out in a round shape about 2 inches in depth) pan fried in butter and then cooked in chicken stock, garlic and thyme until it’s all soft and fluffy and buttery. I can feel my arteries clogging up already! If done correctly they are delicious, undercooked...yuk! You only tend to have one as they are very rich. I will report back in the morning on how it all went. It’s only family so not under any pressure, after a couple of glasses of Sancerre I won’t really care anyways! Have a splendid Saturday everyone, hope it’s a good one. 🙂
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I hope you have a fab feast 🙂
 
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