In the early 60's, the only phone we had access to was a phone box at the end of our road. Tom had a phone box directly opposite his house. He lived in Ayrshire, I lived in Kent - about 700 miles apart. So we had a regular "date" at those phone boxes - piles of coins at the ready."the telephne box" sounds like something from the last centuryHow old is your son?
Good luck with the family get together, Antje. You're well in control of your diabetes anyway, so just enjoy it all. One day "behaving badly" isn't going to have too much of an effect.No such thing as too many koftas!
Evening meal of cauliflower cheese and a pork chop, will have the same tomorrow.
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Wish me luck for the weekend, we have our yearly family weekend, and traditionally it's way worse bg-wise than even Christmas.
Usually worth it though with foods I don't eat as a rule but thoroughly enjoy, my take is that it likely won't cause me complications as a one off with my hba1c between 29 and 36 for years.
It might even go better than in previous years. The hotel is expensive, I hate hotels, there's a perfect empty parking lot in the forest at a 5 minute walk from the hotel, and I have a new car that fits a mattress.
Not being in the hotel at breakfast time but brewing a pot of coffee next to my car in the forest makes it a lot easier to ignore the breakfast buffet!
Although I may ask a family member to steal a croissant and one of those single portion butters for me, it is the family weekend where I traditionally make a mess of my diabetes after all...
Glad you enjoyed the cabbage. I just saw a cookery programme (Rick Stein) who was making a recipe using cabbage and minced lamb. It was a Greek recipe but I can't remember what it was called, or exactly what was in it. It was just fried off onion, garlic and lamb mince, cooked for a short time and then a pile of white cabbage put in the pan, then cooked until the cabbage was done. There might have been something else in it though. I'll have to experiment with that and see how it works out.
But the breakfast buffet is often the easiest for low carb!
It isn't if you absolutely love bread, milk, and fresh orange juice, and you're only in a hotel once a year...
I;m 87 in June and my son is 61 Haven't you ever seen a red telephone box. There are one or two left. And yes, they were from another century lol!!"the telephne box" sounds like something from the last century
We still use a landline. I do have a mobile phone for emergencies - like when the power goes down and so our landline no longer works but mostly we use the landline.No, I've never seen it. I remember landlines, but even that seems like the last century with the advent of the mobile age
In my village, the red phone box now house a defrinillatorNo, I've never seen it. I remember landlines, but even that seems like the last century with the advent of the mobile age
People use them for all sorts of things, from mini libraries to shower cubicles. They used to be sold off fairly cheaply but I gather that, now, they are quite costly. Market forces, I guess.
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I have a stool made from a washing "dolly" but never actually used one. My mother hand washed everything that couldn't be boiled in a gas heated "copper". Then it all went through a wringer before hanging on the line, or on clothes horses around the house. Before Tom and I got a washing machine, everything not hand washed was put into a bath of water with soap flakes or detergent and we took it in turns to walk up and down the bath (like treading grapes). It worked well and we had very clean feet.
I guess this will confuse folks, but my father played a washboard in a skiffle band in the 1960s. He had thimbles on his fingers to make the sound.
