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helensaramay said:
@evilclive I don't tend to think of climbing as an adrenaline rush kind of activity either. Maybe it's because I partake in it regularly but whilst it can scare the bijigers out of me at times, I don't feel I push myself to my limits.
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You never fall, even with a top rope? When I dabbled 25 years ago, I was completely unhappy about leading, but fine seconding - with a rope above, slipping isn't a problem. The tiny amount of bolted stuff I did was sort of between - I did fall off, but I trusted the bolts a lot more than a wonky bit of metal I put in a crack somewhere :-)

Even the experts don't go that far. The recent movie Free Solo is really interesting. Alex Honnold likes to achieve amazing feats without a rope but he does this by repeating moves again and again and again with a rope until he has like a muscle memory of what to do so the risk has been reduced.
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I know how that cameraman filming at the bottom felt - a lot of that film gave me jitters. But yes, Alex Honnold is definitely at the sane end of this game - there's a lot of people doing genuinely stupid stuff to look good on video out there. Though would I take bets on him making it past 50? Not sure...
 
Mel dCP said:
I just use it like any cream - in drinks, cooking, poured on etc...

@SueJB if you can get a Libre prescribed, they would give you a dedicated reader. You can scan it with most android phones, of newer (model 7 or higher) iPhones. That’s the basic setup and you have to manually scan yourself when you want a reading. If you add a transmitter like a MiaoMiao (you need to buy that yourself) it will scan the sensor for you every five minutes and send that number to your (doesn’t have to be particularly new) phone - but you do need a functioning phone for this. However, this setup will give you alarms if you go out of your desired range. You can do it on a budget :) Hope that makes sense, happy to explain further via pm x

@Japes - I have to send my DBS stuff off to the uni, must be something in the air!

Seems like the D-emon has been visiting us all in the night, I was rudely awoken by a 2.9 at 7am... :arghh::arghh::arghh: Quickly fixed by turning the insulin off for half an hour and shoving two dextrose tabs down my neck, so I could roll over and go back to sleep until about an hour ago. Hope you all manage to stabilise things as easily ❤️

Off to Kew with a picnic today, there’s an exhibition of Chihuly glass sculptures I really want to see - I’m a massive fan of his work since I saw the one hanging in the V&A.
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The Chihuly work is fabulous. I hadn't realised it was on. That has to be a diary date.
 
Mel dCP said:
I just use it like any cream - in drinks, cooking, poured on etc...

@SueJB if you can get a Libre prescribed, they would give you a dedicated reader. You can scan it with most android phones, of newer (model 7 or higher) iPhones. That’s the basic setup and you have to manually scan yourself when you want a reading. If you add a transmitter like a MiaoMiao (you need to buy that yourself) it will scan the sensor for you every five minutes and send that number to your (doesn’t have to be particularly new) phone - but you do need a functioning phone for this. However, this setup will give you alarms if you go out of your desired range. You can do it on a budget :) Hope that makes sense, happy to explain further via pm x

@Japes - I have to send my DBS stuff off to the uni, must be something in the air!

Seems like the D-emon has been visiting us all in the night, I was rudely awoken by a 2.9 at 7am... :arghh::arghh::arghh: Quickly fixed by turning the insulin off for half an hour and shoving two dextrose tabs down my neck, so I could roll over and go back to sleep until about an hour ago. Hope you all manage to stabilise things as easily ❤️

Off to Kew with a picnic today, there’s an exhibition of Chihuly glass sculptures I really want to see - I’m a massive fan of his work since I saw the one hanging in the V&A.
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Ta @Mel dCP but not got a phone and just glaze over I'm afraid with all this tech talk. I'd prefer not to prick but can't be ar**d with all these blue teeth, purr purr and the need for a mobile phone. Glad you sorted the D emon though. Hugs, hope you're OK now. Think I'll have to PM you as none of it makes sense but really appreciate your info. Just wish I understood it.... bit like not understanding the
D-emon
 
Oh heck more new avatars to confuse and confound .... though @therower that's pretty cool and it's the right sex :happy:
 
evilclive said:
My best tip for weight loss is to go caving. The last trip I did, 6 hours long, I think I was 1.5kg lighter at the end of it.
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My first thought was, hmm, a foot and ankle weigh about 1.5kg, so he's either had his foot chewed off by a subterranean pirhana fish, or got it trapped under a rock and cut it off with a Swiss Army knife...

Still, as long as you got to the pub, it'd be ok!
 
Scott-C said:
My first thought was, hmm, a foot and ankle weigh about 1.5kg, so he's either had his foot chewed off by a subterranean pirhana fish, or got it trapped under a rock and cut it off with a Swiss Army knife...

Still, as long as you got to the pub, it'd be ok!
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Haven't you seen the various documentaries? The Descent and The Cave both cover ways to lose weight underground quickly.

(The Descent is as funny to cavers as Cliffhanger is to climbers :-) )
 
evilclive said:
Haven't you seen the various documentaries? The Descent and The Cave both cover ways to lose weight underground quickly.

(The Descent is as funny to cavers as Cliffhanger is to climbers :) )
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No, will have a look.

I've seen and read Joe Simpsons Into the Void, and that thing about the bloke who got himself trapped under a rock in Nevada or wherever it was.

My only dice with death (apart from the dx DKA!) was getting tangled up in ropes underneath a windward capsized Graduate dinghy many years ago!

I recently watched the movie length documentary Last Breath, true story about a North Sea compression diver getting tangled up in a structure while the ship drifts off-station.

Far and away the best doc I've seen in a long time, mix of real footage from the incident, with dramatised bits and interviews with the main players.

I think it might still be on bbc iplayer.

Puts even our worst hypos into perspective!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004y5s/last-breath

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Happy Saturday campers going to be beautiful by the looks
Got up to high bms #standard can't wait for pump to sort this ‍♀️ getting the Medtronic 670 & self fund the guardian- come on a full night's sleep
Happy times all x
 
Good morning all :)

All I can say about climbing is I'm OK at the going up, but I don't do coming down - at all. Total freeze situtation..... And caving is something I'd try, but in very gradual stages. I like being on the water, in the water, round the water. Rowing, swimming, kayaking... love it.

Today is choose-new-suite day, and I get to buy a new very heavy based pan for making tofu in. It'll do beautifully for proper soups as well, and in the cooler weather I'm a great one for soup. I'd like a new small milk pan too although I admit I don't need it at all.

I had a totally weird dream - long, faintly ginger coloured caterpillars were coming out of my nose when I blew my nose or sneezed, and one even crawled out all on it's own. I have no idea whatsoever where that one came from. I let them go because they were alive, but weird!!
 
Good morning everyone, @Mel dCP looks as though you had a cracking day out :)
The sun is shining and the weather is going to be warm, off to work this morning and I hope it goes quickly too, I'm promoting Nivea sun cream and very apt for today.'s weather.............thank goodness it's not rain, hail, winds, sleet or snow lol :hilarious:
Happy June 1st everyone :happy:
 
Sunny white rabbits morning to everyone.
Evil D aka the madam has decided to give me a break and play fair.
4.8. Makes a massive difference to my mood
Great Tate and fun Portobello Rd market yesterday
More nettle fighting for me. Hope you all have a blast of a Saturday
 
Morning all!

Had a reminder of how life changes in 7 years on my Facebook memories this morning... "Japes did the only sensible thing and ate two bulrushes after the drowning of the jelly baby."

The context is the children's group at church at the time would've been doing the story of Baby Moses in the bulrushes and the then leader of the group did food-based activities EVERY time. So, they made bulrushes out of half-bananas coated in chocolate then put on a lolly stick, and their prayers were symbolised by putting a jelly baby in a boat they'd made and sending it off across our font which had been filled for the occasion when they came back into church and asked everyone to add a prayer to their prayers.

Of course, by the time we had about 20 or so jelly babies in paper boats bobbing around our medium sized font, the inevitable happened. One drowned. There was much 5 year old's angst as to the symbolism of this - would that meant the prayer wouldn't be heard?! (I sorted that one out fast - and was exhausted by the end, hence the two bulrushes being eaten by me! I mean, I didn't even officially do the children's work at the time, and I was still doing the bulk of it in a quiet, behind the scenes way.)

These days, I'd ponder the waste of my good hypo fixes as well as the general waste of food every time... (apart from the Jelly Babies, which I have always had Issues with, but which we keep a store of in church for a couple of people who do use them for hypo fixes, plus there are always Dextro tablets at my organ console.)
 
Forgot it was the 1st of a new month. The year is passing shockingly quickly.
 
Scott-C said:
No, will have a look.

I've seen and read Joe Simpsons Into the Void, and that thing about the bloke who got himself trapped under a rock in Nevada or wherever it was.

My only dice with death (apart from the dx DKA!) was getting tangled up in ropes underneath a windward capsized Graduate dinghy many years ago!

I recently watched the movie length documentary Last Breath, true story about a North Sea compression diver getting tangled up in a structure while the ship drifts off-station.

Far and away the best doc I've seen in a long time, mix of real footage from the incident, with dramatised bits and interviews with the main players.

I think it might still be on bbc iplayer.

Puts even our worst hypos into perspective!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004y5s/last-breath

Would it be worth my while signing up for BBC i player, eg do I have to pay ? Thanks

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