LooperCat
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We buy our Turkish tea when we visit Wood Green in London and get that, along with olive oil & honey soap very cheaply from my friend’s Turkish corner shop. The Welsh stuff we buy from our own corner shop - and take to our friend in Wood Green!Wow. I've never heard of either. Turkish and Welsh. I really like the sound of them. Now I have to track them down. Thank you.
Yeah, let's all go and get arrested and make a complete nuisance of ourselves, demanding insulin, more jelly babies, yet another bathroom visit, a doctor to confirm our needs, some longer acting carbs to prevent a nighttime hypo, low carb breakfast, enough carbs for our insulin breakfast, etc.I’m also a pretty keen demonstration attendee for causes I believe in. Haven’t got arrested yet though. #bucketlist
I’m also a pretty keen demonstration attendee for causes I believe in. Haven’t got arrested yet though. #bucketlist
I’m vociferous. Not antisocialA few years ago in the place where I live, Edinburgh, a bunch of "I'll save the world" teenagers/ Guardian readers turned up, managed to smash the windows of their own buses they'd used to travel here, noised up some local independent traders who, sensibly enough, kicked the ******* **** out of them, then decided to waste even more council tax payers money by ripping up Princes Street Gardens.
That ****** off Edinburgh residents big style. Choose your wars carefully.
Hey @KnikkiCrewe is a nice place it looks good in thick fog because you can't see it.
The young lass that turned up late was Emma ~waves a hello~ I think Jenny was the lady with an arm full of beautiful art on her.
Yeah it was fun day and the next one is aimed for October 12 in Manchester but that's as much as I know at the moment.
And you not quiet the miserable sod you make out
Really good to meet you and your other half, and because I the memory of a goldfish, once round the bowl, I have forgotten her name ~waves a hello~
I'm looking forward to trying these.@ert I like earl grey or sencha for iced tea. Hot tea, I like darjeeling with soymilk. And what's not really a tea but my favorite is a hot cup of ginger and mint tea/infusion.
My new tea-drinking phase is going well. I'm onto my sixth cup. What is everyone's favourite brand of loose tea? I'm in need of recommendations.
Love the dress code @Mel dCP. I tend to only look like a slob when I'm not leaving the house at all. Sometimes I don't even get dressed but will have cleaned my teeth!I’d advise going to your appointment with a printed agenda, like a business meeting, effectively. Research the criteria and state which bits you think you’d qualify under, and request a trial. I find dressing smartly sets things off on a footing that you’re having a conversation between equals, rather than you being inferior in status. Leave them with a copy for your records as well. I’ve got absolutely everything I’ve asked for using this approach with my clinic. Log every test, dose and correction, the more input they’re seeing you put in, the better your case. And if they can see that you’re having to do such ridiculous amounts of work to maintain your good levels, you can claim it’s impacting on your ability to live a normal life - that’s how I got my pump in the end. The simplest way to get a Libre is to test 8+ times a day between now and your clinic appointment and be able to prove you’ve done so x
@Scott-C That's a manic idea. I'll make the placards and @Mel dCP can you build a bullhorn and @Knikki supply cakes and biscuits. What's everyone else going to do for the cause?"Minutes of the Metabolic Unit meeting - November 2019.
1. The Committee agreed to prescribe the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to the patient @SueJB , partly because her record keeping demonstrated a commitment to sensible use of the product, and partly because the notoriously militant T1 @Mel dCP had used her newly acquired bus licence to round up equally militant T1s who then proceeded to superglue themselves to the Metabolic Unit doors, chanting, "#when do we want Sue on script - we want Sue on script NOW". On balance, the committee decided it would be easier to put Sue on script, instead of calling the police."
@himtoo A meeting of the lovely people on here and others sounds great. How do we get an invite?Hey @Knikki
It was fab to meet you , thank you so much for making the trip to Crewe. !!
also a big hello to the other forum members that attended @BeckyBoo2824 and @champ200581
it was grat to meet you both too !!
And pleased to have finally met @therower who I have known on here for quite a while now.
Date for next meeting is confirmed as october 12th in Manchester
venue still to be confirmed.
Hey @Knikki
It was fab to meet you , thank you so much for making the trip to Crewe. !!
also a big hello to the other forum members that attended @BeckyBoo2824 and @champ200581
it was grat to meet you both too !!
And pleased to have finally met @therower who I have known on here for quite a while now.
Date for next meeting is confirmed as october 12th in Manchester
venue still to be confirmed.
@Alison54321 and @SueJB There was thread started in he Discussions part of the forum
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...eet-up-in-crewe-uk.166191/page-2#post-2098561
Which basically was an open post, stuck my name down and off I went, there was also some traffic on FB and IM, nothing more than that.
There is another panned meet up in Manchester, so fairly central and on the main railway network which by the looks of things is going to the be October 12th which is a Saturday. Which if I see I when it is posted then I shall drop a link in here as well
@Japes no worries it really was a horrible day to be travelling anywhere yesterday
@Knikki thanks@Alison54321 and @SueJB There was thread started in he Discussions part of the forum
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...eet-up-in-crewe-uk.166191/page-2#post-2098561
Which basically was an open post, stuck my name down and off I went, there was also some traffic on FB and IM, nothing more than that.
There is another panned meet up in Manchester, so fairly central and on the main railway network which by the looks of things is going to the be October 12th which is a Saturday. Which if I see I when it is posted then I shall drop a link in here as well
@Japes no worries it really was a horrible day to be travelling anywhere yesterday
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