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Happy Diaversary @Por69!
Karen, what a rotten thing to find someone’s been working busily at the Hour of the Wolf to make your life more difficult!
@helensaramay, scooping yoghurt out with a finger works too - tried, tested and recommended by grandsons when they were toddlers.
 
helensaramay said:
Morning all
I'm temporarily back in Brussels today.
To avoid wasting time and money on hotel breakfasts, I often buy a yoghurt from a local supermarket to eat at breakfast whilst I am catching up on emails, etc, in my room.
This plan nearly failed this morning when I realised the hotel's tea and coffee making facilities only had disposable mugs and a wooden stirrer - no sign of a teaspoon to eat my yoghurt. Thankfully, I had a plastic fork from last night's salad ... not ideal but, for future reference, it is possible to eat yoghurt with a fork but not a wooden stirrer

@karen8967 sorry yesterday was so rubbish. I hope today is better.
And I hope everyone's day is only eventful in a positive way.
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A friend of mine placed a fork into a partly filled ice tray and once frozen puled the ice block and fork out. It provided a sieveless eating implement until the ice melted !!
 
Colin of Kent said:
Whoever gave you that ticket is probably a miserable, grumpy so-and-so who needs to lighten up.
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Oh the irony!

A money making exercise especially if the 'whole' street got a ticket, community policing at it's best, surely a 'warning' to the neighbourhood would have been more prudent.

7.3 last night and 6.9 this morning, took the sensor off last night so who knows what my BG got up to during the night really (but based on previous nights I hope it stayed stable as the numbers suggest.) Now have a new Freestyle Libre branding to boot as well.
 
Hi all, Spent a frustrating time at the DNE appointment today because we could not get the username and password to work for downloading data from the pump. The help desk was not helpful and finally a call to the rep helped sort things out. I now have a new username and a more easily remembered password.
The graph since going on 40 to 45 g carb per day (3 weeks) is showing all in the 'green' range except for one 9.9 mmol/l and several 'purple' lows (set at below 4). (apologies @Mel dCP , I did not choose the colours)!!
The DNE was thrilled and actually said that a number of her patients, mainly T2Ds and some T1Dds are using this type of diet.
In 4 weeks I am visiting her and my doctor, hopefully with many more greens, no reds and no purples - it seems so much simpler thinking in colour!!
Malachite
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kitedoc said:
Hi all, Spent a frustrating time at the DNE appointment today because we could not get the username and password to work for downloading data from the pump. The help desk was not helpful and finally a call to the rep helped sort things out. I now have a new username and a more easily remembered password.
The graph since going on 40 to 45 g carb per day (3 weeks) is showing all in the 'green' range except for one 9.9 mmol/l and several 'purple' lows (set at below 4). (apologies @Mel dCP , I did not choose the colours)!!
The DNE was thrilled and actually said that a number of her patients, mainly T2Ds and some T1Dds are using this type of diet.
In 4 weeks I am visiting her and my doctor, hopefully with many more greens, no reds and no purples - it seems so much simpler thinking in colour!!
Malachite
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Happy times! Well done you.
 
@karen8967 I wonder if it's worth talking to your neighbours and making your appeal jointly? It seems the law says you must leave parking lights on when the speed limit is over 30, though until now I've never ever heard of anyone being ticketed for not doing so. I'm with @slip all the way, far more sensible to just warn people. I also wonder for how long you've all not been using lights and therefore not only had no idea it was a requirement but through custom and practise had your idea you were doing nothing wrong reinforced. That may be no help at all as I realise ignorance is no defence in things like this (I got ticketed for parking in a disabled space outside a closed hairdresser's in a mainly residential street on Boxing Day when there were three other cars in the street - long story but there was a good reason why I did it - as I had no idea that it's illegal to park in disabled spaces 24 hours a day, 365 days a year unless you have a blue badge or whatever's the current requirement. My appeal failed :grumpy:)
 
hh1 said:
@karen8967 I wonder if it's worth talking to your neighbours and making your appeal jointly? It seems the law says you must leave parking lights on when the speed limit is over 30, though until now I've never ever heard of anyone being ticketed for not doing so. I'm with @slip all the way, far more sensible to just warn people. I also wonder for how long you've all not been using lights and therefore not only had no idea it was a requirement but through custom and practise had your idea you were doing nothing wrong reinforced. That may be no help at all as I realise ignorance is no defence in things like this (I got ticketed for parking in a disabled space outside a closed hairdresser's in a mainly residential street on Boxing Day when there were three other cars in the street - long story but there was a good reason why I did it - as I had no idea that it's illegal to park in disabled spaces 24 hours a day, 365 days a year unless you have a blue badge or whatever's the current requirement. My appeal failed :grumpy:)
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Ive parked there for 30 years with no inccidents hh1
 
Colin of Kent said:
After a blissful night on the border between 3 and 4, I nudged it up to 6.3 with a 1hr 0% basal, to enable the drive to work, but now need to nudge it back down again!
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Well it turns out my 0.4u nudge wasn't enough... pre-lunch fingerstick says 9.1! Maybe it was this morning's infusion site change?
Plus, this Libre sensor seems to be a bit iffy: xDrip was saying 7.8. Hmm. :shifty:
 
Found the will power to vary my routine this morning. Normally I walk 3 yards from the front door to the car, drive to the office walk approximately another 15 metres from the car to my desk and then inject novo rapid and drink black coffee all morning and wonder why my BG levels aren't subsiding. This morning I dragged myself out onto the black dark streets at 0630 and had a 30 minute walk through the deserted streets. It is amazing how much easier it has been to control my BG today. Just shows how hard I was making my pancreas work before it broke!

On a side note nearly all of the houses I passed still had drawn curtains and no lights on at 0700. Are all jobs done by robots now and somebody forgot to tell me?
 
karen8967 said:
thanks for all your support everyone and advice much appreciated im just gonna wait for fine or whatever to arrive then deal with it then i am not giving it anymore of my time till then once again thanks everyone ;)
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Good luck with it. I'm not sure if you had a fixed notice stuck to the windscreen? https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets
You might want to look here too? https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/challenging-a-ticket

One other thing?? Have a look at the ticket, check it carefully & see if it actually applies to your vehicle??

In some cases (for whatever reason? kids 'avin a laugh or a driver with an unregistered/borrowed vehicle.) likes to "mix" the recipients up..

I'm not suggesting this is the case. Just read the document carefully. ;)
 
Evening all,
Back from another interesting DAFNE day. Woke at 3.6 and gobbled 4 fruit pastilles. 30mins later, rockin in at low 10 so obviously more carbs than I'd reckoned. Bus, walk, bus walk and by lunch a very nice low 5. I agree with @Shellback, walking does the trick. May lower basal tonight though because pastilles in the morning are a bit much or I could walk and buy some juice. I don't like getting up and coming home in the dark.
 
@Shellback - I do leave for work on a walk to work day around 7.00 a.m. so if you walk past my house at 7.00 a.m. most weekday mornings the curtains are drawn and the lights are off, but that's because my curtains are permanently drawn unless I've got visitors! (South-east facing room, my eyes don't like bright sunlight, protects my books from sun damage are among the reasons I rarely open my curtains. I'd much rather replace sun-damaged curtains regularly.) I started doing the walk for my blood sugars, but have grown to really enjoy walking for all kinds of reasons.

Unintentional basal test day today. Day time basal rates excellent, I am pleased to report. Food has now eaten for the first time in 48 hours! Sunday night saw me to-ing and fro-ing from bed to bathroom on an hourly basis, not always fast enough (do not think about the laundry, or the middle of the night floor mopping after Hour 3). Blood sugars rocketed after hour 2 and stayed there until this morning. Hence the basal test, since I was banned from work for 48 hours and not going anywhere.

Feeling a bit washed out still, but will be going back to work tomorrow, it's an easy day, relatively. Unless there's been complete anarchy in my absence.
 
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