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Evening all,
Been an interesting day, to say the least. Got my first call from the educational supply support staff agency I’d recently signed up with to make my way over the mountain to a new school to help out in their IT department for the day. Got there and it turns out they needed me to cover for the actual teacher... mild adrenaline spike in my BG, because although I did a PGCE, it was last century, and I haven’t actually taught for, well, forever. And they hadn’t left any work either, so I just had to wing it... a couple of correction doses had me running mid fives for most of the day, so it wasn’t too bad.

Got my final assessment for the first responder thing tomorrow, so keep everything crossed for me!
 
helensaramay said:
It is certainly a beautiful part of the country with Bamburgh to the North and Craster (with its kippers) to the South.
My partner comes from Newcastle but, unfortunately, when we go up there most of our time is spent visiting his elderly relatives so I don't get to explore the area as much as I'd like.
A couple of years ago, I finally got him to agree to a week of sight seeing (whilst staying with his parents). We visited Bamburgh, Craster, Dunstanburgh, Seahouses, Farne Islands, Warkworth, Alnwick, walked along some of Hadrians Wall and spent a day mountain biking around Kelder.
As a Southerner, I didn't know much about the area but love how it is still relatively undiscovered.

Glad you have had the weather to enjoy it, this time of the year ... perhaps I'll get to check some of it out over Christmas.
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The beaches in Northumberland especially Bamburgh are beautiful
 
One of those days where I was torn between sympathy for the plight, admiration for the sheer ingenuity and mentally calling down all kinds of ancient curses upon the Abjectly Miserable Sinner of the Day.

In the meantime, I need to explain more clearly that used cloths do not belong back in the cupboard on top of clean cloths, but in the laundry bag ready for washing, and it's perfectly OK for me to have forgotten I'd put the packet of spaghetti (passing it on to someone before it went past its Best Before Date) in with the clean cloths ready for putting away. In the circumstances, it could've been much worse!

In the meantime, after a rollercoaster day on the blood sugars yesterday, (own fault, easily remedied - useful evidence for anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating what a small slice of shop bought cake can do to my blood sugars) I'm relieved I'm home for the night, on an even keel BS-wise and back in routine for some routines which had gone awry temporarily..
 
Aye up.

More experimentation with backed spud and chicken Kiev's seems that later on tonight I will spike so going to try, wing it, split dose and see what that does.:writer:

If it goes low then I guess it will upset the Libre lady which will be fun :rolleyes::hilarious:

On a more plus note just made up a new desktop wallpaper of old Soviet Space Race propaganda pictures to go with the Alphonse Mucha, Bauhaus, Chinese propaganda, Soviet WWII ones and British WWI ones I already have. :happy:

@Japes sounds like you at east had a more interesting day than I did. :)

@Mel dCP hope you went to class in mahoosive boots and best purple hair do? :)
 
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@Knikki My work days are always interesting and never boring... sometimes a little too interesting, and I occasionally crave some boredom! However, I wouldn't change this lot for anything and will definitely miss them when they move on in mid-July (well, most of them will.)
 
Mel dCP said:
I can’t fly, and I can’t sing. And I’m rubbish at housework. But I did have a stint as a motorcycle race mechanic, which is much more fun than hoovering ;)
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So ... Hoover + motorcycle mechanic = hovercraft = flying and does lip-syncing a song count as singing?
And mechanic abilities to operate the robot cleaner?
Of course there could be other skills you have in another part of the multiverse ?!?
 
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Mel dCP said:
Evening all,
Been an interesting day, to say the least. Got my first call from the educational supply support staff agency I’d recently signed up with to make my way over the mountain to a new school to help out in their IT department for the day. Got there and it turns out they needed me to cover for the actual teacher... mild adrenaline spike in my BG, because although I did a PGCE, it was last century, and I haven’t actually taught for, well, forever. And they hadn’t left any work either, so I just had to wing it... a couple of correction doses had me running mid fives for most of the day, so it wasn’t too bad.

Got my final assessment for the first responder thing tomorrow, so keep everything crossed for me!
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Sounds like the call to the school was like being a first responder where improvisation is key !! Well done.!!
 
Knikki said:
Aye up.

More experimentation with backed spud and chicken Kiev's seems that later on tonight I will spike so going to try, wing it, split dose and see what that does.:writer:

If it goes low then I guess it will upset the Libre lady which will be fun :rolleyes::hilarious:

On a more plus note just made up a new desktop wallpaper of old Soviet Space Race propaganda pictures to go with the Alphonse Mucha, Bauhaus, Chinese propaganda, Soviet WWII ones and British WWI ones I already have. :happy:

@Japes sounds like you at east had a more interesting day than I did. :)

@Mel dCP hope you went to class in moose boots and best purple hair do? :)
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Eclectic wall paper, love the idea. And chicken kiev adds to the flavour!!
 
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