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Type 1'stars R Us

WuTwo said:
I've actually got some self tanner in my basket at Amazon because I looked at my legs and was nearly blinded by the gleaming whiteness of the wretched things. It's too hot for jeans or trousers at work now (we have huge windows that get all the sunshine, all day long) so I want to wear skirts ..... hence, a little help!
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I love Amazon for most things I’ve never enjoyed wearing skirts, unless it is with tights. I’ve self tanned once and never again. Even with my asian complexion, it was Trump orange
 
Camping last night. Woke in 8.3 did my insulin packed away the tent, hypo to welcome breakfast. All sorted now. Hubby and child off swimming while I have some peace.
 
Went out last night in Adelaide with 26 diabuddies.
Great time taking about our experiences with TID ( ? tick from @helensaramay). One lady was diagnised with TID at age 71and has been told and had her pump's preferred bsl is set at 7.5 mmol/l by her physician. Grrr, i see that fear of hyposis driving this but it still rankles.
The diabetic mum with a newish baby however stole the show. He was a happy chappie all evening and received lots of cuddles and oohs and aahs, even when he unceremoniously posseted on his mother's shirt.
The outing reminds me of a tale: Many more years ago than i care to confess i was a young medical student who ventured acroos to NZ to do an elective placement in a hospital there. After my 6 weeks i toured NZ.
I was in a small town in the southern part of the South Island waiting for friends whose ancient Hillman Munx ( phonetic spelling according to NZ accent) motorcar had broken down en route to me.
In the Youth Hostel where i was staying was a librsry of sorts, where people had left books behind, in order to buy a new one.
One book was called 'Outliers' by American author Malcolm Gladwish. The book described instances where in a group of people research had found answers for unexpected findings of results or events.
The example i remember most was of a health study comparing two towns in a slate-mining area of the US.
One town had higher rates of blood pressure, smoking, higher fat diets, cholesterol resdings yet much lower rates of heart attack than the other town.
Of course now we know that a high fat diet and cholesterol results are pretty irrelevant but not when the studies were done, at least not as far as the researchers were concerned.
Researchers were truly puzzled by the results and strove to find an explanation. After long analyses and considerable thought the only possible determing factor to explain the much lower rate of heart attacks was the fact that that town had an Italian culture from the first families who settled there and the lifestyle of their descendabts, the celebrations, importance of family etc was the key to the research findings.
Taking 'heart' from that, a bunch of TIDs socialising, celebrating etc can be seen as health giving, as so many other activitues can be and why lonliness is to be guarded against, recognised and 'healed' as much as possible.
 
DCUKMod said:
There's a LOT of work going on in Leicester on this very issue, helensaramay. So many cardiac events in women are discovered a long time later - often when the second or subsequent events eventually lead to an ECG, rather than just indigestion tablets.
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And i think they had a difficult time recording cadio-vascular events in females (their term not mine) during the famous Framingham study because of this gross ignorance and bias.
 
Mel dCP said:
I’ve got a skirt on today. But nice thick tights cos it’s a bit nippy.

@WuTwo - here it is :)

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@Robinredbreast - photos or it didn’t happen! I’m still waiting for a big toenail to grow back before I get my feet out, but in the meantime I’ll stuck to my mahoosive boots :D
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Evidence M'lord.......... Golden toes DSC_0456.JPG :)
 
Mad cooking jag. We were almost out of bread and couldn't be bothered to go to the shops so husband made his gorgeous tomato bread.

Me, I made more parmegan and then had a mad desire for cakes so I have made carrot-cake muffins. They are cooling so that I will be able to add frosting to some but not to others. I used to make carrot cake all the time when my son was small - I have an all-in-one recipe that doesn't use eggs or butter. This time I added more nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger because we both like a spicy cake but apart from that the recipe was just the same. Took me back years!
 
WuTwo said:
Mad cooking jag. We were almost out of bread and couldn't be bothered to go to the shops so husband made his gorgeous tomato bread.

Me, I made more parmegan and then had a mad desire for cakes so I have made carrot-cake muffins. They are cooling so that I will be able to add frosting to some but not to others. I used to make carrot cake all the time when my son was small - I have an all-in-one recipe that doesn't use eggs or butter. This time I added more nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger because we both like a spicy cake but apart from that the recipe was just the same. Took me back years!
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My inner foodie is saying I would like a taste please. :hilarious:
Sounds absolute divine tbh and I'm drooling while I'm thinking about it. :hilarious:
 
MeiChanski said:
My inner foodie is saying I would like a taste please. :hilarious:
Sounds absolute divine tbh and I'm drooling while I'm thinking about it. :hilarious:
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Very moist, very spicy, not too sweet. In other words - yum! Next weekend I'm going to take out the sultanas and substitute chopped walnuts - see what that comes out like.

I found the ancient Magimix cake recipe book - it's about 35 years old if not more. I'm working out subs for the eggs and butter because there are a good few of those that I remember. And it has the recipe for those crumbly softish humungous cookies. I used to make those too... Ideas bubbling now!
 
@helensaramay - glad you're both sorted out! I like the Eagles as much as anyone else but wouldn't want to live in that particular hotel!
 
And I have Magimix lust! I had a lovely food processor but when himself moved in we amalgamated two households, and since he was staying at home and had said he'd happily do the household cooking we kept the tools and pots etc that he preferred.

Now the household has grown up and left us, I am part time at work instead of full time and I am a better "vegan" cook than he is. I'm gathering my own utensils again, slowly but I very much want to swap out the processor. Do you think he'd notice?
 
I’m currently in hypoland because I did unplanned cleaning. Dropped from 7.6 (included a snack) to 3.6 within an hour. I’ve cracked opened a jar of strawberry jam. I will send my bf later to the shop to buy coke, hehe. :)
 
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