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Good afternoon Karen, good afternoon all. Our younger grandson’s 9 today, 9! However, I shouldn’t really be surprised, this last year’s taken an aeon to pass and the day he was born seems centuries ago. I can still feel my arms aching as I held him while my daughter slept after the birth...

Good morning Karen, good morning everyone. Have a good day. May blood sugars stay in the sweet spot and may there be something to make you smile. A walk then lunch out with a few friends next Friday was arranged just yesterday so a week’s anticipation is an enjoyable prospect. We’re two of...

Have you basal tested? Doing this helps you to work out how you’re responding to the amount of basal you use and shows where adjustments to dosing may be needed. It can take time, and repeated basal testing, to arrive at a better dose so you need to be patient. Like all things T1, an...

Good morning everyone. I do like the sun shining when I wake up, it makes all the dour and dismal less overpowering. I say this from the safety of retirement though, it’s an age benefit in these times that’s untouched by govt finance controls. Thank you sun, but please don’t get too beltingly...

I agree, the moderation filter’s useful, and time saving. It gave me some fun, not a primary motive for setting it up I suspect but all fun’s gratefully received by this heat and Covid retreating old bird.

Ooooo, look, I’ve got moderators’ asterisks on the bird name too. Which of nature’s plants or beasties can I name now to make it a hat trick? The Latin name for the moderated bird is Aegithalos caudatus. Yes, I had to google it. I can see 7 other birds that have the same naughty word in their...

A moderator’s dream tree Antje77! I assume you’re ok with English slang. There’s a patch of shade in the vege bit of the garden, the bit with the cat-like willow, where I took iced coffee after lunch. Bees on the marjoram, hover flies over the veg, long tailed **** in the wild cherry complete...

Have a good day @hh1, stay cool, hope the heat rash goes soon. Wish, too, that plums weren’t so insulin needy, it’s so hard not to stand by a tree and just gorge on them when they’re ripe. I’ve just seen that the name of the willow that needs pruning has been asterisked. I think you’ll know...

Good morning everyone. Great news about your thumb @urbanracer, and the great social life revolution @hh1. I still envy you the snorkelling @Marie 2, despite the T1 blood sugar shenanigans. I remember those out on the dive boat, the bits of insulin and/or carb that punctuated the trip to the...

Mornin’ everyone. How are you? It seems such a long long time that we entered this ‘new normal’, which I know I’d rather not be living through. Maybe living with T1 has given us the edge as we already know how to make a potentially bad thing ok. We’re adaptations experts. It’s already hot...

I’ve had a great variety of face to face clinic appointments over the years ranging from downright appallingly bad to life enhancingly excellent. There seem to be just a few nurses, admins and consultants who go beyond the basic requirements, who stay up to date with the research, who can listen...

Happy too that the cow survived a 100 km swim.

Relieved to hear you’re ok Antje. It’s utterly appalling for those caught by the worst in Germany. I wonder if any governments will feel compelled to act on climate change? PS I’m a cynic.

Been away in Suffolk for a couple of days, joining younger daughter and family. It seemed quite warm and due to get warmer. We came back last night before the holiday crowds moved in and daughter says it’s jammed today. Pub ran out of food yesterday, so the shops could be half emptied today. I...

When I was first diagnosed aeons ago I noticed that to begin with I wanted to eat anything and everything to make up for the weight I’d lost but since then I’ve noticed that a few cravings have come about because of a shortfall in minerals and vitamins, especially cravings for bovril and liver...

Not been on here for a while so just a quickie to say hug and get yourself fully better Cumbs. And to agree that the weather inhe South of this blessed isle is pants.

You’re doing well in adjusting the the insulin according o your blood sugar reading but the lows aren’t nice are they. We can’t tell you what to do here, just say what we would do if we were in your position. I’d ask the advice of a Diabetes Specialist Nurse, a doctor or a Consultant. Do you...

It’s hard adjusting to the new regimes of insulin giving, blood sugar watching and carbohydrate counting without the extra concerns this wretched pandemic has chucked at we T1s. Sympathy! If you’re worried about the increased risks after 19 June you could mitigate against them by using an FFP3...

Good morning everyone. Fruit sauce, I like bits of root ginger mixed into the apple chunks when making it, and definitely have to strain the blackberries. Nothing worse than spending a few hours removing pips from teeth. I missed the start of the talk, it was husband’s birthday yesterday and I...

PS a half unit pen is very useful, maybe you have one already?