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Ooh, somebody mentioned crisps. Tudor crisps were the crisps of my childhood (Cleveland). Gammon were the best, but I was young. Moving to the midlands where it was nasty walkers was a come down, and walkers have the colours for salt+vinegar and cheese+onion the wrong way round. Seabrooks...

It can be a right pain. Eg I can't just crash out for the night, because I'm going to have to take care of food and/or insulin during that time. Having to inject if I want to pig too (though that's actually good for me too, stops me pigging :-) ). Running low during walks is annoying. Having to...

3.8, 8.3? You're barely trying :-) I mentioned the other day that I set off for a bike ride at over 15. Finished the ride at 4.5, so I say I got that just about right. The day after I didn't eat enough early enough before setting off, and was below 3 while on a run. That turned into a sit then...

One caveat - is this 0.5u discovery recent, or over a few weeks? As you might see from other threads, the weather is sending people's insulin requirements all over the place :-)

On a drive back from Rome in July a few years ago in a car with no air conditioning, the jelly babies all turned into a big lump. (I think we did it in < 24 hours to Boulogne without touching a French peage. The Grand St Bernard pass was the best bit.)

That's one that's always weirded me about mainland Europe - cream. Nice bit of double cream, clotted for special occasions, but it always appears to be soured on the other side of the stream, which completely misses what a creamy taste should be,

Starting the sensor may be tricky - NFC phone or reader required, miao miao doesn't help with that AIUI. (I still use a reader + miao miao for alarms, phone doesn't have NFC).

I think our definitions of "massive spike" may differ :-) Two fairly slack days for me meant a couple of biscuits in the evening started sending me quite high. Time to go for a bike ride. 1.5 hours later. the trace looks like a mountain - up to 15, finishing at 4.5. It was a good ride, with...

Makes a change from Iain Banks's description of what drum solos are for in Espedair Street :-)

Very It's a Knockout. We had a company away day once which climaxed with a race where the organisers had got hold of some of the old costumes from it's a knockout, and I was lucky enough to be the runner in one. I now have a huge amount of sympathy for all those people on the programme who were...

I was quite lucky with my diagnosis. We'd just moved to a new town, and my wife (gf at the time) was very keen that we get properly registered with GPs, and as part of the registration there were some blood tests. They noticed the sugar on one, so said "come and do a fasting test". I went in...

It may be worth noting that some of those advantages aren't universally agreed :-) Re the scoffing - if you need help to avoid scoffing, then yes, the less nice taste of tabs might be worth it, but if you can manage your hypo treats, no reason to not have something nice. See also Jaffa cakes...

Different ratios at different times of day is pretty normal. You just need to work out what the different ratio is in the evening for you :-) (Dawn phenomenon would mean you need more insulin in the morning, which you say you don't, so you're probably not suffering that).

Gah, I'd have liked that. I was happy to go to the hospital and get the sliding scale to work out what doses should be, but after a day or so with nothing much happening it was starting to feel a bit like a waste of time. I was then caught by the weekend - the consultant hadn't seen me on the...

Just under two weeks, and I was raring to get back, especially because I was contracting at the time so no sick leave. But I look after computers for a living, so there's no serious physical challenges.