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good evening all :) 4.3 today spent 2 or 3 hours at Mum's today hunting for the main 'toby' outside the garden by the road. Mum told us she saw it about 40 years ago and it's near a big stone in the grass :bigtears: Playing at 'Time Team' we excavated two old road drainage channels ;) and...

good evening all :) 4.6 today mr gee and I up betimes this morning and off out to deliver the car to the mechanic for a small job (turned out bigger of course :sorry: ). Not a bad day here with some sunshine but I'm still feeling the cold, still, we got a walk round the village and as we...

good evening all :) 4.6 today dinner at Mum's today was high meat sausage casserole with a sauce made with half a can of ratatouille (10g of carbs from the label) as a concession to Sunday ;), lots of cauli and broccoli for me plus a couple of roasted spuds for mr gee and mum ;) LC...

good evening all :) 4.7 today Over to Mum's today because she says there is water seeping near the standpipe in the garden, and there is :sorry: Mr gee dug out all around the toby for the standpipe. that recent hard frost must have sprung a joint or split the pipe. We feel a plumber coming on...

good evening all :) 4.7 today We had to a take mum out to pick up her pension today but the street was very quiet :) did think about doing a bit of gardening but the wind was very cold so it will have to wait for another day ;) Hope your day is treating you kindly :) @gennepher - glad you...

good evening all :) 4.7 today quite late on the go this evening ;) I'm having flashbacks to the black and white TV we had when I was a child, fireball tuner anyone :sorry: Hope your day is treating you as kindly as you could wish :) @dunelm - fine foliage and a fine and handsome crow, you...

good afternoon all :) 4.3 today shopping, shopping and shopping today ;) our one day a week trek round the fresh produce :D Bought another box of that 'Tea and biscuits' tea, it tastes a bit as if you've dunked either a 'malted milk' biscuit or a 'rich tea' in your tea :hilarious: Can't find...

good evening all :) 4.5 today spent an hour raking beech leaves in Mum's garden so that will have to do for today's exercise ;) My own take on managing my T2D is mostly in my signature, I was lucky to be able to lose a lot of weight to bring me into what I suppose is 'remission', am I 'fixed'...

good afternoon all :) 4.7 today Apologies, suffering from a bit of burn out I think :( I will have to try to book a blood test for my annual review shortly, not looking forward to it for some reason Seeing the progress towards Spring and more 'normal' life is great but I'm ashamed to say...

good evening all :) 4.8 today a bit more normal today (well normal for me that is :D ) and only an itchy, red patch on my arm now. A lovely mild day here today so we managed to get a bit of garden work done, we've been meaning to give a short length of hedge at mum's a good chop so that it is...

good evening all :) 5.1 today and feeling much better thank you :) not quite back to normal but much better :joyful: still got a largish fairly colourful and warm patch on my arm. I had the Oxford Astrazeneca jab @jjraak as did both mr gee and his mum. The doctor who did the jab did say that...

good evening all :) 5.3 this morning Just a quick post today, don't think my cranky old body liked the covid jab yesterday :sorry: I was fine for about 4 hours then I got a stinking headache and went off to bed early, couldn't get warm so not much sleep. Dosed up on paracetamol and went...

good evening all :) 4.9 today I wish I could believe it was a touch of dp caused by eating no supper :sorry: A lovely day today bright, mild and breezy instead of positively brisk and windy. Mr gee and I got in a walk and a bit of garden work so that's all to the good :) Hope your day is...

good evening all :) 4.4 today Sunday again, adds shape to the week ;) Thinly sliced a couple of steaks and cooked with shallots and sliced mushrooms in a cream and paprika sauce today :) cauli, broccoli and carrots on the side. Mum and mr gee had 'bread and butter pudding' made with a thinly...

good evening all :) 4.6 yesterday and 4.8 today my technology is going through a strange patch :hilarious: First my desktop computer lost connection to it's storage drives, I think I must have knocked one of the power leads when I cleaned it's insides the other day :sorry: All fixed now though...

good evening all :) 4.7 today a mild day but with a very brisk wind from the sea here so mr gee and I got our walk in early then did some garden tidying. Tomorrow we go over to collect mum to take her to get her pension so I hope it stays dry ;) Mum says Katy isn't keen to go out in the...

Good evening all 4.6 today shopping day today which went pretty well apart from the rain. I bought a box of fancy Yorkshire tea bags, tea and malty biscuit flavour to try, could make a pleasant change :) Hope your day is treating you well :) @gennepher - I'm glad Popeye is back to his...

good evening all :) 4.4 today It's surprisingly warm here today although very windy :D Even the big heap of snow we piled up when we shoveled the car and path out has melted now :joyful: Over to Mum's to pick up her shopping list ready for the weekly trip tomorrow, the snow there is gone but...

good evening all :) 4.8 today much milder today and the snow here is melting fast. We went out for a village walk earlier and there are still shoulder high drifts of blown snow on the edge of the road above the village, fortunately the road is clear because the farmer came out to play with his...

Good evening all :) 4.8 today Sunday dinner at Mum's again today and a bit more snow shovelling to try to clear her drive. A very mild chicken curry for dinner, (much milder than mr gee and I prefer but Mum isn't keen on anything spicier :sorry: ) followed it up with a hybrid of baked custard...