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Good morning everyone... it is a brilliantly bright sunny Saturday here and i woke up to a higher than expected (hoped?) number - 6.3 . I had a salad last night and was hoping the meter would throw a sub 6.0 number but well, it is what it is. Probably because I measured at 8:00 and dawn phenomenon was probably at it’s peak. Anyway not fretting. Made some breakfast - eggs, a tiny slice of bread, grilled peppers, mushrooms, tomato... some greens with some cheddar. Maybe I should share a photo... so here we go!

Have a great weekend everyone

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Morning all. Very "hydrologic" here. Using idiom instead, it's proper brass monkeys, raining cats and dogs, or as they say in France, "Il pleut comme une vache ......"

FBG 6.6 mmo/lt at 0500. No problemo.

Have a great weekend. Tomorrow looks OK, weather-wise.
 
Shas3 said:
Good morning everyone... it is a brilliantly bright sunny Saturday here and i woke up to a higher than expected (hoped?) number - 6.3 . I had a salad last night and was hoping the meter would throw a sub 6.0 number but well, it is what it is. Probably because I measured at 8:00 and dawn phenomenon was probably at it’s peak. Anyway not fretting. Made some breakfast - eggs, a tiny slice of bread, grilled peppers, mushrooms, tomato... some greens with some cheddar. Maybe I should share a photo... so here we go!

Have a great weekend everyone

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Send me a plateful over please!

Breakfast in bed would be nice...

Thank you :)

>^..^<
 
Fbg at 6am was 10.8

Maybe if I had chosen a different finger it would have spat out a different reading...

Okay, I admit it...I ate some chocolate before I went to bed...that’s probably reason for higher reading...

Chocolate is okay earlier in the day, but not last thing ....

We have such a deluge here..Noah’s Ark is needed. Water is up to a couple of inches of my door frames. Bungalow is in a paddling pool...I live on top of a hill, so it should drain pretty soon...

Happy soggy Saturday

Take care x

>^..^<
 
Morning...after yesterdays deluge relieved it's stopped for now thankfully...chores to do...sod it can't be bothered another coffee & the news which is sounding more & more like a confessional...second potential prime minister admits to taking class A drugs...who would have thought.. next please....woke to a 6.3
 
15C99890-5EAB-434F-958A-3F63B7D01FEA.jpeg Many years ago I planted a kiwi fruit plant.

I wondered why it never fruited. But then I found out I should have bought a male plant and a female plant so they could make babies (you can get self fruiting ones now).

A few years ago I was fed up with it so tried to dig it up.

But it eluded me and crept along the undergrowth then shot up in various places between rose bushes and then up the fruit trees and then up the bamboo, and up the willow.

It grows at the speed of light. And I can walk up the path for a new tendril to catch me in the face...it is like a flipping triffid.

It has been in there about 15 or more years now and I have never had a kiwi fruit from it.

Until this year.

A wee little bee must have thought oh hey I know where I can find opposite sex pollen for this batty old lady’s kiwi plant, and came haring over with it this year.

Now there are enough developing fruits to open a fruit shop.

But now I am very seriously allergic to kiwi fruits.

Sigh...

But I do have raspberries, tiny strawberries, apples, pears, cherries, quince, elderberries and more berry stuff growing...

I think I need a cow to make all the double. cream I need to eat all these fruits. But it might be easier to get the cream from the dairy up the road. He is one of the few farmers in this country that sells unpasteurised milk and cream. It is heavenly...

This kiwi plant is going to go berserk in all this rain...

*for some reason I cannot attach the kiwi photo...trying again...
I think it worked this time!!!!

>^..^<
 
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gennepher said:
Many years ago I planted a kiwi fruit plant.

I wondered why it never fruited. But then I found out I should have bought a male plant and a female plant so they could make babies (you can get self fruiting ones now).

A few years ago I was fed up with it so tried to dig it up.

But it eluded me and crept along the undergrowth then shot up in various places between rose bushes and then up the fruit trees and then up the bamboo, and up the willow.

It grows at the speed of light. And I can walk up the path for a new tendril to catch me in the face...it is like a flipping triffid.

It has been in there about 15 or more years now and I have never had a kiwi fruit from it.

Until this year.

A wee little bee must have thought oh hey I know where I can find opposite sex pollen for this batty old lady’s kiwi plant, and came haring over with it this year.

Now there are enough developing fruits to open a fruit shop.

But now I am very seriously allergic to kiwi fruits.

Sigh...

But I do have raspberries, tiny strawberries, apples, pears, cherries, quince, elderberries and more berry stuff growing...

I think I need a cow to make all the double. cream I need to eat all these fruits. But it might be easier to get the cream from the dairy up the road. He is one of the few farmers in this country that sells unpasteurised milk and cream. It is heavenly...

This kiwi plant is going to go berserk in all this rain...

*for some reason I cannot attach the kiwi photo...trying again...

>^..^<
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You could send the kiwis here in exchange for the breakfast
 
Relaxing in the conservatory to the sound of rain beating down on the roof. Dogs snoozing and I am wondering if husband might suggest he takes the dogs out later while I am at work. Then I could relax a little longer with another Nespresso.

An amazing 4.7 this morning.
 
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Relaxing in the conservatory to the sound of rain beating down on the roof. Dogs snoozing and I am wondering if husband might suggest he takes the dogs out later while I am at work. Then I could relax a little longer with another Nespresso.

An amazing 4.7 this morning.
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Sounds brilliant... great weekend
 
Very hydrologic here too. The upside is no need to water the down side is I can't get out to weed. Another downside is the house smells of wet dog! Not the most appealing scent in my opinion. I need to nip to the shops in a while as the cream is running low - running out of cream is a disaster, the best part of LCHF is cream with everything!! I love cream. Perhaps that is why I have stopped losing weight??
Anyway to the purpose of this post the little man in my meter is still tidying and has unearthed yet another of those 5's this time it was a 5.7.
Take care
 
True Blue said:
Morning all. Very "hydrologic" here. Using idiom instead, it's proper brass monkeys, raining cats and dogs, or as they say in France, "Il pleut comme une vache ......"

FBG 6.6 mmo/lt at 0500. No problemo.

Have a great weekend. Tomorrow looks OK, weather-wise.
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@True Blue good man for not completing the French phrase. @Krystyna23040 great fbs and, absent work later, sounds like an idyllic start to the weekend. @Bildad great fbs again and hope the cream situation is resolved quick smart. I know @PenguinMum is one who finds cream a taste too far and over the past year I have started to question whether I enjoy it or just use it because I feel I should. I am more or less at 4 year anniversary of trying LC and my tastes even within LC have changed greatly over the past year. Anyone else find the same? Have a great weekend whatever the weather.
 
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But I do have raspberries, tiny strawberries, apples, pears, cherries, quince, elderberries and more berry stuff growing...
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I love the description of your garden gennepher...mine is very conservative...a straight lawn...a huge hedge...hanging baskets & pots...I love having my outside space but occasionally think it would feel good to 'walk on the wild side' a little.
 
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Morning all. 4.9 today and yesterday was 5.6. Off home today sadly, we’ve had a wonderful time. Back to bins for a little tale - the people who ran the lovely hotel on Mull where we stayed, used to live in Bucks near where we were and Mr C used to ‘do’ their bins! Small world eh?
@Debandez belated birthday wishes, so sorry I missed it but have a wonderful birthday week. That toastie must have tasted great!
@SaskiaKC I’m loving the major hydrologic event. Who thinks these things up?
@PenguinMum keep those 5s coming. Seafood and walking certainly seem to do the trick for me so I hope you get some good weather next week. The waterproof is definitely a good idea though - looking forward to seeing you.
No time for breakfast today as we have a train to catch and this hotel doesn’t start serving til 8 on Saturday annoyingly.
Have a good weekend all
 
SaskiaKC said:
All was forgiven ... or so I thought, until this morning when she woke me up demanding treats for breakfast. I lay there and told her it was far too early to get up, she had food in her bowl, let me sleep some more. But no. She kept demanding. Finally I got up ... looked at the clock ... saw that nearly an hour had passed since her first wake-up call and the present one -- she HAD let me sleep 49 minutes more. What a thoughtful cat.

And I definitely won't have to tell her what to say when we call the glasses people. ^. .^ ;)
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How sweet , we love our cats , but I actually am so tired of mine waking me up earlier and earlier as the sun raises earlier and earlier, so now I have decided that my lovely cat must have its meal-party just right before I go to sleep in hope of a lazy morning cat might sleep a bit longer IMG_0721.jpg

My number is 7.2 this morning due to pizza yesterday evening
 
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