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Thank you all for the hugs @alf_Josiah and @gennepher as well as the kind words about my memories of my dad @Annb @jjraak @dunelm. Sunday lunch over including a lupin bread and butter pudding - liquid sucralose sweetener. May have obviated the need for/scratched the pannetone itch at lower carbs . Just the cocoa and a win for Ingerland left to make this a Lou Reed day tn context. Elbow are for summer, innit. @dunelm are you available for weddings and Bar mitzvahs?. @gennepher thanks for the video and the light of the world allusion in that creative.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Thank you all for the hugs @alf_Josiah and @gennepher as well as the kind words about my memories of my dad @Annb @jjraak @dunelm. Sunday lunch over including a lupin bread and butter pudding - liquid sucralose sweetener. May have obviated the need for/scratched the pannetone itch at lower carbs . Just the cocoa and a win for Ingerland left to make this a Lou Reed day tn context. Elbow are for summer, innit. @dunelm are you available for weddings and Bar mitzvahs?. @gennepher thanks for the video and the light of the world allusion in that creative.
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You are welcome @ianpspurs
 
ianpspurs said:
Good morning everyone from The East on the second Sunday in Advent. A day of memories: old and, hopefully. newly minted ones later. Frosty enough for pond skating in Hunts in 1932 but none here today. Later we will be having a four generation meal, remembering and giving thanks for my dad who was born on this date. He would certainly be watching the football this evening, probably with our middle son whose birthday is the 8th. Having 92 yo MIL will be both wonderful and poignant for me. Grief is the price we pay for love. Dad would have been delighted to see my grandson work his way through a proper Sunday lunch at 15 months - he will be a strapping fella, Creaking joints? My right knee is so locked I can't put my sock on - gout. Usually only flares up after dehydrating illness so go figure - post covid? @dunelm wonderful art and thanks for the sour cherry hint. I did buy some but in severe flare ups fluid, tablets and time are all that works. Wonderful Advent calendar you have. A stairlift is certainly a gift from God - He moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Today’s Advent poem https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2021/12/04/ Have a great day everyone. I'm going to remember the immensity cloister'd in the phrase Bowlin' Warney. Thanks for the tips on field settings which helped the school team I captained aged 12 go unbeaten, driving me to so many places to play but never complaining or criticising aka offering advice, helping me choose then paying for all those bats, pieces of kit, all the building work and so much more. RIP dad. I was truly blessed.
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What lovely memories you have of your dad @ianpspurs
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you all for the hugs @alf_Josiah and @gennepher as well as the kind words about my memories of my dad @Annb @jjraak @dunelm. Sunday lunch over including a lupin bread and butter pudding - liquid sucralose sweetener. May have obviated the need for/scratched the pannetone itch at lower carbs . Just the cocoa and a win for Ingerland left to make this a Lou Reed day tn context. Elbow are for summer, innit. @dunelm are you available for weddings and Bar mitzvahs?. @gennepher thanks for the video and the light of the world allusion in that creative.
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How was the lupin flour bread pudding? Did it taste OK?
 
Was searching for warm thermal base layers this morning and found 3 pairs of M&S thermal base layer leggings - never worn because they are 2 sizes too big for me. I think I bought then in a sale 20 years ago.

Wore a pair today and they are brilliant - as they almost come up as high as my armpits. They are so cosy with my thermal base layer top tucked inside them.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
How was the lupin flour bread pudding? Did it taste OK?
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The B and B pudding was very nice. The non LC eaters thought it was like a brioche based version, no idea it was anything other than normal except when I had some. I had found the bread left an odd aftertaste but with the fruit, sweetener and grated nutmeg no problem. Thanks for the comment on my memories, Good news on the base layers. Hope you had a good walk and a warming coffee afterwards.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
Was searching for warm thermal base layers this morning and found 3 pairs of M&S thermal base layer leggings - never worn because they are 2 sizes too big for me. I think I bought then in a sale 20 years ago.

Wore a pair today and they are brilliant - as they almost come up as high as my armpits. They are so cosy with my thermal base layer top tucked inside them.
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A win for the day...

But what with you in armpit high leggings and the clicking castanets of @Lainie71 & others, the imagery rivals a Benny hill production .. :hilarious: :hilarious:
 
ianpspurs said:
The B and B pudding was very nice. The non LC eaters thought it was like a brioche based version, no idea it was anything other than normal except when I had some. I had found the bread left an odd aftertaste but with the fruit, sweetener and grated nutmeg no problem. Thanks for the comment on my memories, Good news on the base layers. Hope you had a good walk and a warming coffee afterwards.
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That's great that the fruit, sweetener and grated nutmeg disguised any aftertaste.

The walk was lovely and really good that the warm cafe was open so Mr K had his sausage roll and I had coffee and a coconut cream tub of vegan ice cream which was lovely and not over sweet.
 
4 am it was 8.8 and Libre indicated that it had fallen to that, so was probably fairly high during the night. It'll be on the way up now - I just had a cup of tea and some pills. Must stay awake. Em will be here about 7.30 so her mum and dad can go to work. Maybe I'll make a fry up of sausage, bacon and egg so she can take her pick for breakfast. So can I, of course. I stayed in bed longer than I should have - very difficult actually moving this morning - took me about half an hour to turn so that I could get my legs out of the bed. Must be the colder weather. I don't think it's any damper here than usual. Still plenty of time to get my shopping list ready for Neil; it looks like a long one this week.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you all for the hugs @alf_Josiah and @gennepher as well as the kind words about my memories of my dad @Annb @jjraak @dunelm. Sunday lunch over including a lupin bread and butter pudding - liquid sucralose sweetener. May have obviated the need for/scratched the pannetone itch at lower carbs . Just the cocoa and a win for Ingerland left to make this a Lou Reed day tn context. Elbow are for summer, innit. @dunelm are you available for weddings and Bar mitzvahs?. @gennepher thanks for the video and the light of the world allusion in that creative.
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Good to read that that lupin flour is being put to good use.
 
Good morning everyone on an early up and out sort of day here in the dark and dangerous north. I have instructions. They have been written on post it notes around the house so I have moved them up towards the ceiling, the better to ignore them. The gist of it is that Mrs Miggins needs to be up at 0715 as she is off on a wee trip with her twin sister to do secret female staring in shop window things and making noises like pigeons. I shall play that Tom Lehrer number, “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park”. Art bit - finished the detailed scratches. Now, do excuse me as I have to extend the waking up prodder to it’s maximum length. Oh for a good koffy!

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Annb said:
4 am it was 8.8 and Libre indicated that it had fallen to that, so was probably fairly high during the night. It'll be on the way up now - I just had a cup of tea and some pills. Must stay awake. Em will be here about 7.30 so her mum and dad can go to work. Maybe I'll make a fry up of sausage, bacon and egg so she can take her pick for breakfast. So can I, of course. I stayed in bed longer than I should have - very difficult actually moving this morning - took me about half an hour to turn so that I could get my legs out of the bed. Must be the colder weather. I don't think it's any damper here than usual. Still plenty of time to get my shopping list ready for Neil; it looks like a long one this week.
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To be greeted with the smells from that fry up - magical.
 
dunelm said:
To be greeted with the smells from that fry up - magical.
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She just chose a bacon sandwich - for her that is 2 slices of white bread, spread thinly with tomato ketchup and fried bacon. That left me with 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of streaky bacon and 2 sausages. Shan't be needing anything else for quite a while. BG before eating was 16.9 though, so perhaps it wasn't too wise to just finish off everything.
 
Annb said:
She just chose a bacon sandwich - for her that is 2 slices of white bread, spread thinly with tomato ketchup and fried bacon. That left me with 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of streaky bacon and 2 sausages. Shan't be needing anything else for quite a while. BG before eating was 16.9 though, so perhaps it wasn't too wise to just finish off everything.
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The fried food shouldn't raise you blood glucose much. The sausage if its quality sausage should not have many carbs, eggs very few and bacon not many just hope you didn't have bread.
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Annb said:
She just chose a bacon sandwich - for her that is 2 slices of white bread, spread thinly with tomato ketchup and fried bacon. That left me with 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of streaky bacon and 2 sausages. Shan't be needing anything else for quite a while. BG before eating was 16.9 though, so perhaps it wasn't too wise to just finish off everything.
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Well played and that breakfast will surely drag those numbers down in a couple of hours.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Was searching for warm thermal base layers this morning and found 3 pairs of M&S thermal base layer leggings - never worn because they are 2 sizes too big for me. I think I bought then in a sale 20 years ago.

Wore a pair today and they are brilliant - as they almost come up as high as my armpits. They are so cosy with my thermal base layer top tucked inside them.
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They just need a couple of straps over the shoulders and you have thermal dungarees @Krystyna23040

(PS I have some, the same, that stretch and stretch and stretch...)
 
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