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Type 1'stars R Us

Morning all, another rude awakening with my high alarm at 5am, so will increase my basal rate a little for a couple of hours from midnight hovering around 5 now, so I’ve obviously got my bolus calculator on my pod controller set up right. According to my Libre app, I’ve been in the green since 10am on Wednesday - that’s 71 hours so far. Hoping to catch a three day unicorn!

Off overnight with the husband to the Cotswolds, got an AirBnB in a 17th century farmhouse tonight :) I expect eating out and walking around will balls up my unicorn, but it’s a price worth paying ;)

Have a lovely weekend all, what with it being autumn... favourite season!

@kev-w - sorry to read of your troubles overnight, I’m sure you’ll get it sorted quickly. New insulins always take a bit of fiddling with :(
 
Cumberland said:
Fleetwood Mac in all their various line ups are an amazing band

I really wish I had seen them live
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They are touring the US this autumn, only they sacked Lindsey Buckingham, but they might come to Europe next year, and maybe even have made it up with Lindsey Buckingham, by then.

So don't give up on it, it could still happen.
 
Morning! Was 14.6 before bed and this morning I was 14.0 so no change. Time to increase Lantus from 10 to 11.
 
Morning all, it’s a busy time of year and the bs are dancing the summer off - a small yo yo dance.
Been catching up with the music delights here and you’re ALL SO YOUNG! I was banged up in a repressive charity boarding school til Uni and hit the middle of the hippy era: first live concert was Cream, blown away! Then Hair took things on a new path. Protesting against the Vietnam War, outside the American Embassy and contributing to the creation of prostest posters and bags took it further.
On another note, I discovered the joy of good opera - in more recent times, like 12 years ago. But it has to be good!
Have a happy weekend all.
 
Fairygodmother said:
Morning all, it’s a busy time of year and the bs are dancing the summer off - a small yo yo dance.
Been catching up with the music delights here and you’re ALL SO YOUNG! I was banged up in a repressive charity boarding school til Uni and hit the middle of the hippy era: first live concert was Cream, blown away! Then Hair took things on a new path. Protesting against the Vietnam War, outside the American Embassy and contributing to the creation of prostest posters and bags took it further.
On another note, I discovered the joy of good opera - in more recent times, like 12 years ago. But it has to be good!
Have a happy weekend all.
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This all sounds exciting, except maybe the boarding school, though leaving it probably was. :)
 
Alison54321 said:
This all sounds exciting, except maybe the boarding school, though leaving it probably was. :)
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Oh it was @Alison54321, and the boarding school made us all rebels or conformers - we left in moulded felt hats or done up like ladies of the night. I think I only realised how close it was to a prison or a workhouse once I’d got away. There were loads of interesting people there, and the talk was good. Our school time rebellions were a mix of outrage, pathos and the downright dangerous!
 
It was a time of such rapid change, and music was very important as a driver of that change. I don't think it will ever be that important again. Change at the moment is driven by political decisions, not by people within a society creating a new culture, through music.

@Fairygodmother got to see, and be part, of that change.

Anyway, my blood sugar went too high overnight, and is now a little bit lower than I really want it, so I'm going to have to eat a banana, or something, to start doing what I need to do.
 
Just had to do a sensor change in a lay-by as I sort of smeared it out of position when I reached into the back of the car to grab something...
 
Cumberland said:
Should be good night for you

The last concert I went to was a few years ago in Newcastle

Black Stone Cherry, Foreigner and Journey who headlined (I thought Foreigner were slightly better) but all 3 were brill
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Sounds like a great gig, I like all three. The only thing about bands like this is that nowadays they tend to play big stadium venues, which i pretty much detest. Saxon in October is at a venue that holds about 2000 and that about as big a venue i will go to. Seen lots of old bands, at small venues holding about 400, which is amazing, been at front at a good few of them
 
Knikki said:
Fortunately I don't have any photos of me from the era, which has to be a good thing.

But like most in the mid 70's was into all the rock stuff, Yes is just one of the groups I did not get but Genesis, Selling England By The Pound is a fab album and was listening to that the other day.

Yep went through Punk, loved the energy and the Sex Pistols, Never Mind the *ollocks still gets played in the car.

But it was the New Romantics stuff that I really liked, Ultravox (with John Foxx), Japan to name a few and yep dressing in huge baggy suites with make up on :hilarious: leg warmers (remember them) :hilarious: and other strange things but loved those days.

Late 80' 90's and early 2000's most of that past me by like Rave, Acid House, Gansta Rap, Rap, Hip Hop and other things

However these days I will listen to many different musical styles as I think this week alone I have been listening to
Be Bop Delux
Alt-J
Howling Wolf
Sia
Chienese Man

Plus other stuff.

And stuff I had dismissed in the early years I am now finding a new appreciation of :)

On a side note, last night was good, did not set any alarms off for high or low, so an improvement, but was awake from around 4:00am waiting for an alarm to go off o_O:hilarious::rolleyes:
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Some great choices there Knikki, but I prefer Foxtrot, just, to Selling England by the Pound, if only for Supper Ready. Be Bop Deluxe as well what a fabulous and criminally under rated band

I was working in London in 1982 and was dragged along to see Japan, supported by a group call Blamange. OMG the worst concert in the history of music
 
Knikki said:
Rob Halford of Judas Priest is still around as I think the group is, he also sometimes teams up with BabyMetal group.

Your going to love this if you want to get past the intro flick on to about 1.00 minute

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They just released a new album a few months ago which is rather good. Halford can still sing in the studio at least. Seen a few few DVD. s of Priest from mid to late noughties and he is actually embarrasing. I love the song Painkiller but Halford simply cannot sing it anymore, even though he has a huge octave range. On this version he is trying to sing about 2 octaves higher than it should be
 
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