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Mel dCP said:
Great to see you, @Robinredbreast - was wondering how you were getting on. Hello @SueJB too, missed you around the forum ❤️

V quiet day here, popped out to do a spot of food shopping earlier, and cleared out the Lidl reduced section as usual. They’ve stareted reducing today’s expiring stuff to 20p or 70p, so we made the most of that. Piri Piri mackerel and roasted veg for dinner, just need to go back through my records and see what I dosed for mackerel last time I had it, and whether I got it right!

Edited to add - that was dead easy to find, as I log all my meals with descriptions in MySugr and I just searched for “mackerel” which brought up three entries, completes with the photos, dose and graphs for after the meal. No idea if that’s a premium feature or not. So it looks like I don’t dose for mackerel...
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Travel, work and head space mean I've little time for the forum. Hope the fish doesn't go on and on and on and on......................... always does with me
 
kev-w said:
:) @Mel dCP I do that with the reduced aisle too! Home cooked Bhuna chicken for tea, little uns without chilli and mine got a spoon of my home made chilli pickle in, which is nice :p and hot, we swam this aft and spent a while plucking the rabbits fur as it's moulting heavily with the winter coat coming thru, bloods no higher than 9, no lower than 5 so a good day so far :)
Good to see you @Robinredbreast :)
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Always like your posts @kev-w
 
kev-w said:
:) @Mel dCP I do that with the reduced aisle too! Home cooked Bhuna chicken for tea, little uns without chilli and mine got a spoon of my home made chilli pickle in, which is nice and hot, we swam this aft and spent a while plucking the rabbits fur as it's moulting heavily with the winter coat coming thru, bloods no higher than 9, no lower than 5 so a good day so far :)
Good to see you @Robinredbreast :)
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I thought for a moment that you Was having rabbit for food for a bit lol.
RRB good to see you are doing well
 
kev-w said:
:) @Mel dCP I do that with the reduced aisle too! Home cooked Bhuna chicken for tea, little uns without chilli and mine got a spoon of my home made chilli pickle in, which is nice :p and hot, we swam this aft and spent a while plucking the rabbits fur as it's moulting heavily with the winter coat coming thru, bloods no higher than 9, no lower than 5 so a good day so far :)
Good to see you @Robinredbreast :)
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Thanks Kev :)
 
porl69 said:
I thought for a moment that you Was having rabbit for food for a bit lol.
RRB good to see you are doing well
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Knikki said:
@Mel dCP you been to a wedding? HMMM Give me food for though on mine :hilarious:

Yesterday was a bit of an up and down day, ended up with the most horrendous man flu, which knocked things about a bit.

Anyway went bed on mid green on the Etch A Sketch but switched all the alarms off, just wanted to sleep. Woke, before the sparrows started farting, because my bladder decided it wanted a walk, felt odd checked and a 12.2, which, while not happy about, was OK.

Shoved 4 units in and woke later at 5.1, so not bad, not bad. :meh:

As for the man flu, it appears to have naffed off, 24hour thing, it looks like, anyway fell OK :)
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Only saving grace is that it got you out of the washing up ??
 
In the Antipodes, BSLs improved on tweaking the basal. Good kite fly yesterday. Steady NW breeze. Unfortunately the flying fish kite had 'technical difficulties' ( in other words muggins here had forgotten to fix some vital details on the design) so some time soon ........ The walking along the beach, digging up sand for sand anchors, and hopping (= struggling) over anti-erosion fences all helped to moderate BSLs. Happy Monday to you all !!
 
8.9 at 5.30 am.
Ate too much again last night and its becoming a habit!
Its funny isn't it how I blame the food and not the insulin!

I need to give myself a talking to.

Have as good a Monday as you can have for a Monday.......

Tony
 
Good morning everyone. I have an appointment with the nurse to test my bp, she was off sick on my last two visits, which is frustrating, but hopefully she will be there :nurse: Awoke on a 7.1, which is good. Son is popping round, then my friend is this afternoon. Not feeling so low in mood today,:happy:
Have an awesome day ( even though it is Monday:rolleyes:)
 
kitedoc said:
Only saving grace is that it got you out of the washing up ??
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Nope still did the washing up :)

High alarm went off 2.00am (response to Spag Bol :) ) ~sigh~ in with correction dose woke at 3.3 ~shrug~ next time I will use 3units instead.

Just had first coffee so OK at the moment mind you BSL is climbing, but thats OK as I split does for the breakfast.

As a side note I have some new tech

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Which replicates all the xDrip stuff from the phone to the watch, of course being a "smart watch" it does have some annoying habbits but will learn how to switch them off. Great thing about the watch means I dodn't have to have the crested porcupine of a phone on me all the time.
 
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Morning all, just caught up on the thread, love the bat s__t crazy etch-a sketches! Nice to see no ones ever perfect............all the time.

My weekend entailed getting up early saturday to take daughter to play a football match (her first one) they won! but boy was it so frustrating - really really frustrating! The wife then sprang a surprise on me, her sister and husband were coming for dinner tomorrow (Sunday) and he was going to look at the saniflo system that hadn't been working great for a while and also had had a big water leak, due to my bad back (and the fact I knew it was going to be a right pigs ear to sort out) I'd just turned the water off to it - we can just about live with one bathroom. Sunday, Pigs ear it was, initial leak sorted easily enough, saniflo running smoothly BUT! taking it all out, and this bit was wrong and then that bit, small leak here and a small leak there, cistern issue there...........bs stayed fairly level and in range all day somehow and I cooked a fab roast as well (it wasn't just me that thought it fab!) - and the girls? either walking the dog or sat in the sun all day.

6.2 this morning :)
 
Tony337 said:
8.9 at 5.30 am.
Ate too much again last night and its becoming a habit!
Its funny isn't it how I blame the food and not the insulin!

I need to give myself a talking to.

Have as good a Monday as you can have for a Monday.......

Tony
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'Tis alright to talk to yourself but not to answer yourself back !! Best Wishes.
 
helensaramay said:
Hi Guys,
Back after hols. I had to ease myself back into the forum and this thread was the last because there was so much to catch up on:
- @Robinredbreast gets a new job
- @porl69 and @Cumberland share hairstyle fashion tips (from the 70s)
- @smc4761 downing her pink "mother's ruin"
- @Mel dCP becoming a SuperBorg
- @Chris Bowsher treating himself to the work pizza
- @porl69 planning pump-related Christmas present requests
- and a whole raft of rock related memories. Is there a reason why people with type 1 are into rock?

As for me, I had a wonderful holiday with amazing food, scenery, wine and a four-storey high mechanical elephant whilst walking more than 100 miles and enjoying the delights of French rail travel (comfortable, cheap and on-time).
Unfortunately, I was having so much fun, I went into auto-drive on the diabetes front forgetting to split my pizza dose and thinking the risotto would be more ricey than it was. After that, I was a little more conservative on the dosing with a plan to correct more often. This was a little challenging as the sun was too bright to read the display on my pump (even in the sun) and I didn't spend much time indoors.
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I hope you avoided sunburn. The bright sun-unreadable pump screen issue is a tough one. I partly succeeded by rolling up a magazine, placing that over the screen and putting my eye to the other end of the tube. With a bit of practice I could use one hand to steady the pump and hold the tube to the eye (a rubber band around the magazine was the trick) and manipulated the pump buttons with the other hand and use of the other eye. The tube tends to hurt the area around the eye if not placed carefully.
I decided against patenting the idea !! And no, I was not arrested for weird behaviour !!
If I had been questioned I would have said that I was a insulin pump astronomer !
 
Knikki said:
Nope still did the washing up :)

High alarm went off 2.00am (response to Spag Bol :) ) ~sigh~ in with correction dose woke at 3.3 ~shrug~ next time I will use 3units instead.

Just had first coffee so OK at the moment mind you BSL is climbing, but thats OK as I split does for the breakfast.

As a side note I have some new tech

vosm01.jpg


Which replicates all the xDrip stuff from the phone to the watch, of course being a "smart watch" it does have some annoying habbits but will learn how to switch them off. Great thing about the watch means I dodn't have to have the crested porcupine of a phone on me all the time.
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Is that your actual arm or a body double?
 
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