Type 1'stars R Us

[LooperCat]

@kitedoc - maybe flatten out the pack before cooling it, so that it sets in a slab instead of an unbreakable lump?

Nothing to report here, Spike showing a unicorn for the last 24h, with an average BG of 5.3±0.63 - happy MelBot. Considering I had a full day’s supply teaching the two most challenging classes in one of the (officially) worst schools in England yesterday, I was quite impressed!

Libre app thinks I’m dead, however. I reckon the MiaoMiao actually saves the NHS some cash here - most people would bin a sensor reading low and need another, but being able to calibrate them with blood, I can keep it going for the full 14.5 days.

Planning a quiet day, currently snuggled on the sofa with a good coffee and my favourite cat

 

[Japes]

Hi @karen8967, I have had my 3 cuppas, but about 12 hours ago !!
That it all to report , except for your summer and winter diaries, if you ever have a bar of melted chocolate due to the ambient temperature, think twice about putting it in the fridge. My 90% cocoa Lindt chock bar set like rock.
Might need to get the hammer and chisel out !! Eye protection in place first of course.

@Japes, tug of war with your T2 student

If I have missed anyone, my apologies. Please let me know and I can post you a sample.
Unfortunately South hemisphere posters have missed out because of the difficulty of posting samples in present weather conditions. But please keep it in mind for winter and I shall endevour to find a worthy material for the Antipodean summer.
Hand resting to ease typing cramppppppp[.

I'll pass on T2 Student's behalf, as I'm already traumatised at the thought of the poor student's dreadful sense of balance in a tug of war!! But, we can provide plenty of eye protection, hammers and chisels and yells of "Be carefull!!"

Why not re-melt the chocolate and use it as a covering for nuts (if you want it to last) or strawberries? Or would a second melting destabilise it even more, maybe?

 

[kitedoc]

I'll pass on T2 Student's behalf, as I'm already traumatised at the thought of the poor student's dreadful sense of balance in a tug of war!! But, we can provide plenty of eye protection, hammers and chisels and yells of "Be carefull!!"

Why not re-melt the chocolate and use it as a covering for nuts (if you want it to last) or strawberries? Or would a second melting destabilise it even more, maybe?

Jo @Japes, Glad you insist on eye protection!! good question about remelt. I fear it might set even more strongly but I could try it melted on walnuts. If it sets too hard I shall use the nutcrackers (appropriately)!!!

 

[Japes]

@kitedoc - maybe flatten out the pack before cooling it, so that it sets in a slab instead of an unbreakable lump?

Nothing to report here, Spike showing a unicorn for the last 24h, with an average BG of 5.3±0.63 - happy MelBot. Considering I had a full day’s supply teaching the two most challenging classes in one of the (officially) worst schools in England yesterday, I was quite impressed!

Libre app thinks I’m dead, however. I reckon the MiaoMiao actually saves the NHS some cash here - most people would bin a sensor reading low and need another, but being able to calibrate them with blood, I can keep it going for the full 14.5 days.

Planning a quiet day, currently snuggled on the sofa with a good coffee and my favourite cat

The most challenging students don't raise me at all, them all being my natural educational tribe.

Being observed dealing with them, or being on standby for the observation all flipping week (with an Hba1c in it) sends my morning bloods higher than they've been for ages.

Day after I'd been observed it was all back to normal. Today is hard to tell as I've started the new official plan for overnight basal.

 

[kitedoc]

@kitedoc - maybe flatten out the pack before cooling it, so that it sets in a slab instead of an unbreakable lump?

Nothing to report here, Spike showing a unicorn for the last 24h, with an average BG of 5.3±0.63 - happy MelBot. Considering I had a full day’s supply teaching the two most challenging classes in one of the (officially) worst schools in England yesterday, I was quite impressed!

Libre app thinks I’m dead, however. I reckon the MiaoMiao actually saves the NHS some cash here - most people would bin a sensor reading low and need another, but being able to calibrate them with blood, I can keep it going for the full 14.5 days.

Planning a quiet day, currently snuggled on the sofa with a good coffee and my favourite cat

Hi @Mel dCP, the chocolate reset in its foil packet so it was just a bit uneven in places but pretty much flat and same dimensions as purchased. A heat blower treatment might help. If it were a lump I would give it to @SueJB for statue casting.!!

 

[LooperCat]

The most challenging students don't raise me at all, them all being my natural educational tribe.

Being observed dealing with them, or being on standby for the observation all flipping week (with an Hba1c in it) sends my morning bloods higher than they've been for ages.

Day after I'd been observed it was all back to normal. Today is hard to tell as I've started the new official plan for overnight basal.

I’m very new to supply teaching, only started the week before Christmas. I did a PGCE in conjunction with my degree back in the last century, thinking it might come in handy one day (along with the lorry licence I lost when I was diagnosed) for finding work one day. So I’m very much learning on my feet - each school has different lesson timings, discipline procedures, and of course you have no idea which kids will cause problems until you’re having some, because they’re strangers. And half the time I’ve got no idea what I’m going to be teaching, or what the cover work left for me is. I’m a biologist, yet I’ve only had one lesson on that (amusingly it was about the importance of mostly carbohydrate in a healthy diet , and we all know my personal feelings on THAT) - so far it’s been Engineering, Computer science, Maths, IT, Art, RE and currently D&T. So I went expecting to be using laser cutters, 3d printers etc - and it turns out I’m teaching Construction! So carpentry, domestic electrics and painting & decorating...

 

[hh1]

@kitedoc,that's s ome homework you've done! A small correction - the Princess (as my dog is known to friends tho it's not her name) isn't a dalmation, she's a German Shorthaired Pointer. And if only I had half her energy.......

 

[kitedoc]

I’m very new to supply teaching, only started the week before Christmas. I did a PGCE in conjunction with my degree back in the last century, thinking it might come in handy one day (along with the lorry licence I lost when I was diagnosed) for finding work one day. So I’m very much learning on my feet - each school has different lesson timings, discipline procedures, and of course you have no idea which kids will cause problems until you’re having some, because they’re strangers. And half the time I’ve got no idea what I’m going to be teaching, or what the cover work left for me is. I’m a biologist, yet I’ve only had one lesson on that (amusingly it was about the importance of mostly carbohydrate in a healthy diet , and we all know my personal feelings on THAT) - so far it’s been Engineering, Computer science, Maths, IT, Art, RE and currently D&T. So I went expecting to be using laser cutters, 3d printers etc - and it turns out I’m teaching Construction! So carpentry, domestic electrics and painting & decorating...

Not many people could handle that range of subjects whilst juggling personalities of strangers and short notice for prep.
It reminds me of reading Teacher man, a book by Frank M'Court of Angela's Ashes fame. Born in Ireland his family moved to NY when he was young and graduated as a teacher. His first posting was one of the toughest schools in NY.. He relates how he got in trouble first day for eating a sandwich thrown onto his desk by a student in class and on the second for joking that Irish people went out with sheep,
He tells of this wonderful idea he chanced upon. He noted that, despite the children's stubbornness about writing, they seemed to be able to furnish letters, allegedly from their parents, giving quite inventive reasons for absence from school. He set his pupils the challenge of writing the best excuse for not attending school letter they could.
I am sure @Mel dCP you will become a legend like him before the week is out!!
PS some weeks ago on this forum I waxed lyrical about choice of paint colours for decorating. Fortunately for readers I did not describe all 101 exterior and mostly interior sample colours my mother-in-law looked at for her new home in 2000. The upshot which I called dub 'Christine's theorem' in her honour was that the colours which we often choose for interiors at least had some sensory connection to food. Not as blatant as bright avocado or lemon squash colours whose brightness can weary us, but more subtle colours with the important property of not being too warm (feeling too close) or cool (feeling too distant and 'frosty'. But creams, peach, apricot, pale yellows, cool orange, same with greens etc etc. Feature walls colours were another challenge as well as carpets, blinds/window furnishings, bedspreads etc etc. Pepper red feature wall anyone. And dare I state the obvious? the colour choice of the main bedroom demands sensory stimulation without causing a feeling of insatiable hunger or nightmares !!
Or is that another subject ??

 

[LooperCat]

Not many people could handle that range of subjects whilst juggling personalities of strangers and short notice for prep.
It reminds me of reading Teacher man, a book by Frank M'Court of Angela's Ashes fame. Born in Ireland his family moved to NY when he was young and graduated as a teacher. His first posting was one of the toughest schools in NY.. He relates how he got in trouble first day for eating a sandwich thrown onto his desk by a student in class and on the second for joking that Irish people went out with sheep,
He tells of this wonderful idea he chanced upon. He noted that, despite the children's stubbornness about writing, they seemed to be able to furnish letters, allegedly from their parents, giving quite inventive reasons for absence from school. He set his pupils the challenge of writing the best excuse for not attending school letter they could.
I am sure @Mel dCP you will become a legend like him before the week is out!!
PS some weeks ago on this forum I waxed lyrical about choice of paint colours for decorating. Fortunately for readers I did not describe all 101 exterior and mostly interior sample colours my mother-in-law looked at for her new home in 2000. The upshot which I called dub 'Christine's theorem' in her honour was that the colours which we often choose for interiors at least had some sensory connection to food. Not as blatant as bright avocado or lemon squash colours whose brightness can weary us, but more subtle colours with the important property of not being too warm (feeling too close) or cool (feeling too distant and 'frosty'. But creams, peach, apricot, pale yellows, cool orange, same with greens etc etc. Feature walls colours were another challenge as well as carpets, blinds/window furnishings, bedspreads etc etc. Pepper red feature wall anyone. And dare I state the obvious? the colour choice of the main bedroom demands sensory stimulation without causing a feeling of insatiable hunger or nightmares !!
Or is that another subject ??

I think the dark purple paint in my bedroom is called “heather climb” but my vivid purple on my shed is “Elizabeth’s plum jam”

 

[Jaylee]

@kitedoc

Libre app thinks I’m dead, however. I reckon the MiaoMiao actually saves the NHS some cash here - most people would bin a sensor reading low and need another, but being able to calibrate them with blood, I can keep it going for the full 14.5 days.

Hi @Mel dCP ,

My plan is to see how far I can push this sensor.... I'm just over half way through the "official" life of it & it's still amazingly attached using the Abbott instructions.
I use the Glimp app to read it. My meter is out only by as much as 0.8 at most above the scan if out at all..
I awoke with a 2.9er this morning. (When I say I woke. I'd been awake for an hour.) Glimp concurred within a gnat's boot size with the sensor scan. The Libre app just said "Lo." I used to get LO years ago on my old meters on anything lower than 1mmol?

I know the cause. Basal. Been rough for a few days with lurgey & upped the dose a unit..also had a hot whiskey & lemon which probably stunted my liver.

The Glimp app has the option to tether Miaomiao. Is that the app you use?

 

[slip]

Morning all, well afternoon! Unexpectedly work at 7am with a flat 9, did a small correction and went back to bed, 4.2 at brekkie, 4.6 just now!

@therower how was your morning scores?

 

[Robinredbreast]

Hi @karen8967, I have had my 3 cuppas, but about 12 hours ago !!
That it all to report , except for your summer and winter diaries, if you ever have a bar of melted chocolate due to the ambient temperature, think twice about putting it in the fridge. My 90% cocoa Lindt chock bar set like rock.
Might need to get the hammer and chisel out !! Eye protection in place first of course.
@karen8967, use as coffee stirring stick, disposes of itself
@helensaramay, ? a new construction material for cold countries
@Knikki, beware, a teeth breaker, but could be dipped in hot coffee
@Mel dCP, ? use in jewellery for ice skating and skiing, ? double as emergency skates
@Fairygodmother, use as a knee splint in winter
@porl69 and @smc4761 , portable table for pump reservoir change set up
@slip, material to cover banana skins if slip mentions are overwhelming
@Diakat, extra support material for going up those stairs, just might need to turn down the heating a peg or two
@Cumberland, practicing that discus throw or a bat for a chocolate cricket ball
@the rower, a material for a spare paddle .but not for stirring soup
@evilclive, holding up the pesky alternator
@Japes, tug of war with your T2 student
@Robinredbreast, a classy shield for the army
@Jaylee, for hair styling fo gigs, with use of hot blow dryer
@Daphne917, in place of tyre chains
@hh1, detailing the Dalmatian's wonderful coat
@SueJB, statute casting material
@XCheesyToastyX, melts for maintaining that poodle's gorgeous coat
If I have missed anyone, my apologies. Please let me know and I can post you a sample.
Unfortunately South hemisphere posters have missed out because of the difficulty of posting samples in present weather conditions. But please keep it in mind for winter and I shall endevour to find a worthy material for the Antipodean summer.
Hand resting to ease typing cramppppppp[.

Thank you, it wasn't too bad at all

 

[Knikki]

Afternoon all busy looking at Speakers as in the one you connect your amp/turntable too

As for BSL all flying low again, which is fine just delayed me from going out.

@Jaylee @Mel dCP uses Spike with her miao miao as she uses a phone from the shiny fruit farm. I think @helensaramay uses Glimp on and off but she does not wear an Etch A Sketch all the time. I think that me and @porl69 use ours with xDrip, it is like Glimp with a different layout and not quite as much info in it.

I did try Glimp out but I just did not gel with it and went back to xDrip

@kitedoc Yeah did the whole "dip in coffee" with a Curly Whirly which was OK but now I remember why I gave them up because as much as I like toffee, when I get it I always feel that I am pulling my teeth or filling out

 

[kitedoc]

I think the dark purple paint in my bedroom is called “heather climb” but my vivid purple on my shed is “Elizabeth’s plum jam”

Well done !! Based on colour names 50% score !! Maybe heather lavender is a 'better' name !!??
Lavender Farm, Bridestowe, Tasmania - ? gardening lesson , apologies focus distorted by enlargement
.............

 

[Cumberland]

Good morning friends
The weekends here and I hope you all have a good one

 

[Robinredbreast]

Hi guys, I am so excited I have received this letter today from my hospital and I am going on a Libre course in June. I can't believe it, after 30 years, I am actually going to try one out

 

[kitedoc]

Hi guys, I am so excited I have received this letter today from my hospital and I am going on a Libre course in June. I can't believe it, after 30 years, I am actually going to try one out
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Good for you @Robinredbreast, If it was in Australia at the moment I would be turning up in a shirt with no sleeves.
Too hot for any other garb.

 

[porl69]

Afternoon all busy looking at Speakers as in the one you connect your amp/turntable too

As for BSL all flying low again, which is fine just delayed me from going out.

@Jaylee @Mel dCP uses Spike with her miao miao as she uses a phone from the shiny fruit farm. I think @helensaramay uses Glimp on and off but she does not wear an Etch A Sketch all the time. I think that me and @porl69 use ours with xDrip, it is like Glimp with a different layout and not quite as much info in it.

I did try Glimp out but I just did not gel with it and went back to xDrip

@kitedoc Yeah did the whole "dip in coffee" with a Curly Whirly which was OK but now I remember why I gave them up because as much as I like toffee, when I get it I always feel that I am pulling my teeth or filling out

Yeah, I use xdrip with the MM. I am so lucky as its always very close to finger prick, within .2 to .4 99% of the time. I will bolus to it as well.
Toffee with my old teeth doesn't bide well lol...as much as I love toffee I love my teeth and fillings more

 

[Jaylee]

@Jaylee @Mel dCP uses Spike with her miao miao as she uses a phone from the shiny fruit farm. I think @helensaramay uses Glimp on and off but she does not wear an Etch A Sketch all the time. I think that me and @porl69 use ours with xDrip, it is like Glimp with a different layout and not quite as much info in it.

I did try Glimp out but I just did not gel with it and went back to xDrip

Cheers for the heads up. Oddly enough, this wireless attachment I aquired this morning for my Mobile meter only seems to work with MySugr.
I tried that yonks back & hit it off better with Diaconnect.

Good luck on your speaker quest. Crank it up to 11..

 

[kitedoc]

@kitedoc,that's s ome homework you've done! A small correction - the Princess (as my dog is known to friends tho it's not her name) isn't a dalmation, she's a German Shorthaired Pointer. And if only I had half her energy.......

Ah ! Thank you @hh1, I need to brush up on the finer points of dog breed identification ! She looks full of vigour. ? Carnivore diet the answer !!