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@penfold APD chili is great, you can load up on the sour cream, cheese and guacamole and it is great served in Cos Lettuce leaves....so you do not miss the rice.

Hey nought wrong with glamping! I had my very first camping experience last year, my Brother in law bought 60 acres of Scottish Highland with his pension pay out so we headed up there for 2 weeks last September with the dogs and a tent.......one tap, a burn to wash in, and a composting loo which turned out to be a coffee table with a circular hole cut out of it, a plastic tub trug and a bag of sawdust!!! It was a bit of a baptism of fire!

Dogs went on strike and refused to go out of the car or the tent until we went and bought them coats!

So on balance glamping sounds good to me!


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Morning folks, what a wet and miserable day! @johnnybaker45 that's fantastic news about your diagnosis, I'm so pleased for you. When my son was attending his previous college he was a member of a group for students with Aspergers Syndrome and they all became very good friends. He still sees them socially 2 years after they left that college. I hope you make some good friends too
 
Love the camping tale @Lindy1706 sounds rather basic for us! For 3 weeks in France we have an enormous amount of gear - including an awesome camping kitchen shipped from the US. The Volvo estate and roof back are rammed ... surprisingly love it, and given I work designing fabulous homes for clients (or that's what people think LOL) it's great to get back to nature. This year 'les glucides' will be my new French term as I check labels in HyperU for carbs!

Hadn't thought about the guacamole - thank you. Stacks of avocados so will do that. Also will load up with sour cream and cheese. That should keep me content, as well as a cheeky glass of red!
 
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This avatar will not be staying for long, I tried to put it on my profile page but couldn't. This was the only way to do it, sorry.

My sister and me (blonde) taken when I was in my mid-20's.
The reason it is 'odd' around the edges is because it was a key-ring photo that had really started to shrivel around the edges. My kids wanted to save it so they removed it from key-ring and saved it on my pc.

Just to add, I look nothing like this now.
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Lindy1706 said:
@penfold APD chili is great, you can load up on the sour cream, cheese and guacamole and it is great served in Cos Lettuce leaves....so you do not miss the rice.

Hey nought wrong with glamping! I had my very first camping experience last year, my Brother in law bought 60 acres of Scottish Highland with his pension pay out so we headed up there for 2 weeks last September with the dogs and a tent.......one tap, a burn to wash in, and a composting loo which turned out to be a coffee table with a circular hole cut out of it, a plastic tub trug and a bag of sawdust!!! It was a bit of a baptism of fire!

Dogs went on strike and refused to go out of the car or the tent until we went and bought them coats!

So on balance glamping sounds good to me!


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Yes, I'm with you on this one, Lindy! Glamping certainly seems to be the way forward.
The last time I went camping (which was about 30 years ago) I insisted on taking our double mattress along, strapped to the roof of the car. It made me less than popular with the other half, but I still found the whole thing disagreeably primitive. Morning ablutions al fresco with the aid of a chemical bucket and a bowl of icy water, and sharing my tent with a large community of local bugs, are not my idea of the perfect components for a relaxing holiday!
A nice, comfy bed, perhaps a (low-carb) chocolate or two on the pillow and a champagne dinner would do a lot more to float my boat nowadays!
Good luck at the hospital today with your husband - I hope all is well.
 
Good late morning, my lovely friends on www.diabetes.co.uk type 2 life forum,

This is my new www.diabetes.co.uk account and avatar. I am known as Autisticwonder1970 on this particular account. I changed my yahoo account in allegiance of and to commemorate my new autistic spectrum disability diagnosis which happened yesterday just after 4 pm in the afternoon. I updated my email account too. If you want that please PM me.

My blood glucose reading now, at 10:02 am in the morning is 8.5 after consuming 2 slices of Marmite on Toast with Kingsmill 50/50 Bread, Countrylife English Butter, and Marmite.

Have a lovely day.

Edited to remove personal details and email address.
 
@johhnybaker45
It must be a great relief to have a proper diagnosis after all this time. The knowledge must have already helped to understand what you are dealing with on a daily basis and to understand why you feel a certain way or do the things you do.
I'm wondering if there are websites and forums discussing Autism like this one for Diabetes....
 
Afternoon, on lunch break. Soup and wholemeal sandwiches. Another stunning cloudless day and 22°C. Have a good one. Might do a BBQ later since it's so nice. :)
 
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Afternoon, on lunch break. Soup and wholemeal sandwiches. Another stunning cloudless day and 22°C. Have a good one. Might do a BBQ later since it's so nice. :)
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It's horrible down here. It's cold (18 degrees), grey, and has been raining all day so far. The forecast is the same for the whole week.
BBQ's going onto eBay.....
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It's chucking it down in Cambridge Eddie and set in for the day:)


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I was thinking 18℃ sounded nicely warm....(mayb not heatwave but Defo not cold)
Sun has gone here but despite hoolie blowing it IS still really pleasant out
 
Hi everyone hope your all well. Non stop heavy rain here!, apparently same for few days yet.yesterday nurse said to keep using eye drops, they finished yesterday and I'm trying to get more from doctors, if they will give will have to walk in the rain! I presume eyes have healed as nurse said they're OK! Cooking chicken /veg soup today, trying to be healthy.
 
It's not to rain here all week. I'm finished my lunch and off outside for some rays before back to the grindstone lol. Bye ! :)
 
eddie1968 said:
It's not to rain here all week. I'm finished my lunch and off outside for some rays before back to the grindstone lol. Bye ! :)
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TTFN, enjoy the sun. Ooh, ray ban, stops the rays.....so that's how those sunspecs got their name... don't forget your sunscreen
 
Heavy rain, and I'm cooking slow roasted lamb with cauliflower mash .
 
Sun gone in, loud rumblings in the distance, got very humid and no breeze could be in for a downpour/storm? Enjoy the good weather if you have it, as at the weekend it's all change, got cold weather comming. :(
 
Just back from a lovely walk in the woods, 21 degrees here so that, in the words of Eddie, is a Scottish heatwave :) got up to 23 degrees yesterday changed my winter curtains in the lounge for lighter summer ones- hope that I'm not being too optimistic
 
13lizanne said:
Just back from a lovely walk in the woods, 21 degrees here so that, in the words of Eddie, is a Scottish heatwave :) got up to 23 degrees yesterday changed my winter curtains in the lounge for lighter summer ones- hope that I'm not being too optimistic
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Scotland is getting the brunt of the cold weather at the weekend :D Here in York it got to 25 degrees yesterday, - I'm waiting for the storm as the rumbling of thunder is getting nearer and louder, and we have fine drizzle starting.
 
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