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Type 1'stars R Us

evilclive said:
Disasters are genreally stopping. The snow has all gone too - two excellent walks up Penyghent and one up Whernside while it was around. Lots of using the mini spikes on our boots - they are magic.
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Ah... "End of days..." Lasted the weekend where I am. Ice? Cut an old sock & place over the shoe on the ball of the foot.
It grips & stops one going down like the sack of proverbial in the urban environment....
It don't look pretty. (& some folk may ask "what did you do to yer foot?") But then my granddad never needed a hip replacment either. :)
 
Morning

Bert, the garden Blackbird, is now beginning to sing, he is quiet at the moment, guess he is just tuning up. And yes there are many things, mainly inanimate objects that have names in our house :)

Bloods?
Oh those, well running on the lowish side down around the 4 to 4.5 so all OK, went gym as well last night, cant have @helensaramay hogging the gym all the time :hilarious: mind you spin class????? nope not yet, my lardy ass would envelope the seat ;)

Have a wonderful day......
 
helensaramay said:
I was advised not to take my pump through a body scanner.
If I am invited to do so, I either remove the pump temporarily and get them to swab it whilst keeping it within my sight at all times. Or I refuse the body scanner and get patted down manually. Different countries seem to prefer different methods. For example, in the US, they will not touch my pump at all.
I have found most airport security are familiar with insulin pumps and know what to do. It is a couple of years since someone at Heathrow told me I chose to have diabetes so I chose to wait around.

My local airport has tried to gently pressure me to get into the body scanner ("my wife has an insulin pump and she always goes through the scanner") but I just point out the advice is not to and if it fails it is my life that will be at risk.

I am sure I am being overly cautious but I would prefer that to the small risk of a broken, uninsured pump.
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I agree @helensaramay, but you would be surprised how many buildings such as Parliament, court houses and the like require scanning of handholds, bags and body scanning these days. It is getting very difficult to argue with each guard about the body scanner. Sometimes I have been able to have the pump detached and handed around the body scanner but that brings up a whole lot of other problems. One bunch of guards took it as permission try and pull the pump apart, another time the person dropped my pump. Luckily it had a soft landing.
Devil and deep blue sea, I reckon.
 
Good morning all
Well numb-nuts here thinks he forgot to basal last nigh!! Was woken at 4am with alarms and an 11, corrected with 3 units and woke at 7am with an 12 (no alarms!). Corrected with breakfast and got to work with a 13, corrected and 1 hour later am at 14!!! DOH!!!!! Today is going to be a mass-correction day :banghead::banghead:
 
helensaramay said:
@kitedoc I am now coming up with multiple stories of "minor misdemeanours" to explain why you spend so much time in curt houses ... don't explain, I am happy to think of you as one of those gentle, unexpected gang land bosses and will think twice before I disagree with you again :)
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Ha! Ha !! @helensaramay, yes I could be Mr Big up on court charges and involved in Parliamentary enquiries.
But equally over the past 6 years on a pump I could be a witness, accompanying a friend to court, or visiting a shadow Minister in State Parliament with other health care consumers to protest closure sexual health clinic which threatens the future physical and mental health of consumers in vulnerable age groups ( like school children who do not wish to see the GP their Mum and Dad see and be spotted by the receptionist who knows Mum ) etc.
But by all means, paint me whatever fits best.
As one way: Would you do me the honour of choosing (with others involved if you like) a new avatar: I shall post 6 but others if no consensus is reached !!

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kitedoc said:
Ha! Ha !! @helensaramay, yes I could be Mr Big up on court charges and involved in Parliamentary enquiries.
But equally over the past 6 years on a pump I could be a witness, accompanying a friend to court, or visiting a shadow Minister in State Parliament with other health care consumers to protest closure sexual health clinic which threatens the future physical and mental health of consumers in vulnerable age groups ( like school children who do not wish to see the GP their Mum and Dad see and be spotted by the receptionist who knows Mum ) etc.
But by all means, paint me whatever fits best.
As one way: Would you do me the honour of choosing (with others involved if you like) a new avatar: I shall post 6 but others if no consensus is reached !!

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WOW.....amazing kites. Did you make those?
 
Good morning friends

Another bright sunny start to the day

Have a good day
 
porl69 said:
Good morning all
Well numb-nuts here thinks he forgot to basal last nigh!! Was woken at 4am with alarms and an 11, corrected with 3 units and woke at 7am with an 12 (no alarms!). Corrected with breakfast and got to work with a 13, corrected and 1 hour later am at 14!!! DOH!!!!! Today is going to be a mass-correction day :banghead::banghead:
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Sometimes the canoe does not go straight. Gentle correction and direction of the stream will set it back on course !!
 
LOL @kitedoc, up up and away................with the kite fairies :playful:

I do like the gorilla and the banana though!
 
kitedoc said:
Ha! Ha !! @helensaramay, yes I could be Mr Big up on court charges and involved in Parliamentary enquiries.
But equally over the past 6 years on a pump I could be a witness, accompanying a friend to court, or visiting a shadow Minister in State Parliament with other health care consumers to protest closure sexual health clinic which threatens the future physical and mental health of consumers in vulnerable age groups ( like school children who do not wish to see the GP their Mum and Dad see and be spotted by the receptionist who knows Mum ) etc.
But by all means, paint me whatever fits best.
As one way: Would you do me the honour of choosing (with others involved if you like) a new avatar: I shall post 6 but others if no consensus is reached !!

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I vote No. 6
 
Chimp and banana here, could it be assessing the carbs?
Bert the Blackbird, Bernard the wood pigeon, anyone else got names for their garden’s birds?
 
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