"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

2 scrambled eggs and 1 slice ham
90 minutes walk with friends, followed by coffee (tea for me)
Celery with pate, hm coleslaw. Small ice cream
Hours gardening
D: chicken breast marinated in soy sauce, lime and ginger then airfried. Hm Asian coleslaw. Glass rose.
30 minutes gentle walk. Put one poster on village noticeboard, gave spare handbags to one charity collection and a load of books to another. I like a walk with a purpose

Got up earlyish at 9 today, which felt very early after a wild (but low carb) weekend.
Saturday we started at 8 am because part of Astrid's roof had be opened, and closed again on the same day because of rain.
After a long workday we had a party at a friend's place for her 40th birthday where I ate some vegetarian barbecue stuff, lots of nuts, and some dried sausage. Beer and tequila has been had as well.
The party lasted until 1:30 am, after which we went to the house of Tales ex-wife, walking distance, to sleep. His 22 year old daughter and her boyfriend were still awake so we had another couple of beers.

Tale and Astrid had just gone to bed and I was about to brush my teeth when his 19 year old son Luca came home with four 16-18 year olds he just met in tow.
You all know me well enough so you can guess how this ended...
We had a lot of fun, they had a bottle of tequila, and after an initial misunderstanding of them thinking I was Luca's mum I believe they accepted me as part of the gang despite me being old enough to be their mum. I even ended up wrestling with one of the boys (and lost, finding myself neatly folded up in a corner of their garden with my face on the tiles), quite familiar after doing the same thing with Tale (and always losing) for months.
I am rather amused by thinking about what that teenager must have thought the next day when he remembered, I'm quite sure very polite teenagers aren't too used to wrestling with fat middle aged women!

Tales son and I also made a plan to make some money out of the difference in cost for tobacco here and in Germany. I'll drive and invest, he sells. We'll split the profits. Yes, I'm a bad person.

Went to sleep after 5 am, and by 11:30 am they decided it was time for me to wake up so I was attacked by Tale and a water pistol, very effective way to wake up.
Coffee and a wonderful saltwater swim in the sea on our way back. No other swimmers around so no need fuss with bathing suits, wonderful waves to get rid of the hangover.
A leasurely two hours of sanding and painting before going home, Tale cooked a pasta dish so I decided this was too complicated being this tired and I opted for a LC toasty instead.

Today I went for a quick swim alone after waking up, and spent most of the day working on Astrid's house.
I was afraid I wouldn't be able to climb up the thing. (what's this called in English? It's in the picture here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/post-2717465)
I already had the rubbish left arm, but on saturday I overdid it with sanding with the right arm (I'm mostly left handed) so now I have a very angry tendon in my wrist. Climbing up the thing definitely didn't look very elegant, but it worked and with very little pain!
I painted the window, and cut different sized circles from white bitumen roofing felt (English?) because Tale has decided he wants to decorate the roof with those circles, no matter it's not a roof in view,
I couldn't cut them with my left hand because a lack of muscle power, couldn't cut them with my right hand because of the painful tendon, and I was so happy to find out holding the knife two-handed did the trick!

I was the designated cook today, bit nervous about that, I very seldom have people over for dinner, but Astrid, Tale, and Astrid's 3 children all liked my food.
A mix of veggies: onions, green beans, bell pepper and cucumber with some black beans in chilli oil, a spicy peanut sauce, pork belly pieces marinated in black bean and garlic sauce, and fried eggs.

was afraid I wouldn't be able to climb up the thing. (what's this called in English? It's in the picture here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/post-2717465)
It's called scaffolding @Antje77 or a scaffolding tower if its a moveable unit.
Sounds like you had a very busy weekend with lots of fun.

Antje77 said:

I couldn't cut them with my left hand because a lack of muscle power, couldn't cut them with my right hand because of the painful tendon, and I was so happy to find out holding the knife two-handed did the trick!

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What a busy and adventurous life you lead Antje. Sounds like fun, if a little hard on your body sometimes. Cutting that roofing felt sounds dangerous with 2 arms not working very well. Keep having fun, but do take care.

I did cook the duck yesterday and had half of it left over so had that cold for breakfast with 3 RyVita. Took what I thought was about right dose of insulin to handle the carbs in the RyVita but got it wrong again because BG dropped to 3.3. Cup of coffee with a bit of sugar in it, didn't work so another dip into the fruit pastille packet. That has brought BG up to 4.6, so I think it's OK now.

2nd meal will be bits of pork sausage cooked in the remaining leek and sour cherry mixture.

Still trying to sort out this kitchen and seeing if I can fit an extra armchair in when my royal visitors come. It's proving difficult because it already has my big armchair and an office chair in the sitting down/office bit of the room. The table is really too big and I do have another one which would be better, but Neil has started stripping the surface to get rid of the whitened area where my mother in law used it for ironing with a steam iron and lifted the French polished surface. Then Alistair and family had it for a while and it has come home with lots of little areas of water/tea rings on it. Neil is hoping to strip the whole surface and repolish it. It's a lovely, old (about 1935), art deco, oak table and just the right size for this room, unlike the one I have here at the moment, which is a 1970's Danish, solid teak, circular table which can extend to about 10 feet long. Too good for a kitchen and has to be heavily protected at all times and too big anyway.

We have a problem in this house with tables. Neil brought a huge, oak refectory table home with him when he came back, Tom bought this Danish extending teak table in 1971, just because he loved it, and I love my old oak table. We just don't have space for all of them but they are all valuable and I'm not prepared to just give them away. However, I don't think anyone on this island would have a house big enough to have either of the more valuable ones. I did have another table. It was pine and, again, Tom bought it because he liked it. I sold it about a year ago but it was a better size than the 2 problematic ones I am left with. Neil thinks he might try to sell his one, but I can't see anyone giving him a good price for it. I suppose I should be glad to have too many rather than not enough but what I could do with is a bit of extra space.

shelley262 said:

It's called scaffolding @Antje77 or a scaffolding tower if its a moveable unit.
Sounds like you had a very busy weekend with lots of fun.

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Thanks, and yes, a lot of fun, and I love how you all are so supportive of whatever adventures happen to me, no matter if it's (potentially morally questionable) activities with my neighbour, smuggling tobacco, swimming in ice, climbing on scaffolding towers with 2 not exactly functional arms, or getting drunk with random teenagers under the legal drinking age!

This really is the best corner of the internet!

@Annb , your table problems made me laugh out loud!
Not at you, I fully understand the tiresome issues, especially living on a small island, but still!

Annb said:

What a busy and adventurous life you lead Antje. Sounds like fun, if a little hard on your body sometimes. Cutting that roofing felt sounds dangerous with 2 arms not working very well. Keep having fun, but do take care.

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Still taking care, even if I'm not exactly following safety protocols by using my bare feet to hold the roofing felt while cutting. But at least I use the right type of knife, which added some safety.
All circles have been cut now, tomorrow it's back on the scaffold for more painting. Wrist is still swollen and sore, thankfully it will get rest during the weekend.

Astrid, Tale and I will be visiting a small, alternative music festival for two nights.
All visitors are considered co-workers of the festival, everyone is supposed to bring some food for general use, there is no entrance fee, drinks are sold without profit, and bands play for free!
Very much looking forward to the weekend, even though I'm pretty sure I'll sleep alone unless I meet someone there.

For now, I've spent some time at home with the dogs after working, and I'm about to go back to Astrid by bike, we'll have another barbecue.

A quiet day here.
Didn't go double dancing because I found a thorn in my big toe last night and think it had been there a while as its all hard and swollen.
Did give me chance to catch up on some admin and gentle food prep for a day out tomorrow.
B: full fat greek with seeds and a teaspoon ginger preserve.
Nibbles of celery walnuts and olives while Prepping.
L: hard boiled egg, cheese and red cabbage coleslaw
A long sleep
D: pork chop with the first green beans from the garden (3 of them!), half a courgette (slugs got the rest) and spinach. A small ice cream
Cooked a pasta dish for hubby... omg was so sweet but he loved it.

Been both very tired and very hungry all day. Wondering if I'm sickening for something. Hope not as out with a friend all day tomorrow.

MrsA2 said:

A quiet day here.
Didn't go double dancing because I found a thorn in my big toe last night and think it had been there a while as its all hard and swollen.
Did give me chance to catch up on some admin and gentle food prep for a day out tomorrow.
B: full fat greek with seeds and a teaspoon ginger preserve.
Nibbles of celery walnuts and olives while Prepping.
L: hard boiled egg, cheese and red cabbage coleslaw
A long sleep
D: pork chop with the first green beans from the garden (3 of them!), half a courgette (slugs got the rest) and spinach. A small ice cream
Cooked a pasta dish for hubby... omg was so sweet but he loved it.

Been both very tired and very hungry all day. Wondering if I'm sickening for something. Hope not as out with a friend all day tomorrow.

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Hope you're not sickening for anything and manage to have a fun day out with your friend tomorrow - time with friends is usually therapeutic.

MrsA2 said:

Didn't go double dancing because I found a thorn in my big toe last night and think it had been there a while as its all hard and swollen.

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Yikes!
Please keep a very close eye on it, and see someone about it if in any trace of doubt, you need your feet.
If you hadn't noticed it being there for a while, you might want to have it looked at anyway, if you didn't feel the thorn in the first place you can't trust the toe to tell you if something serious is going on.

Antje77 said:

@Annb , your table problems made me laugh out loud!
Not at you, I fully understand the tiresome issues, especially living on a small island, but still!

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I know - it's a ridiculous quandry to have. We just have too much of everything, except space, in this house. Too many books, too much china, too much cutlery, too much glass, too much furniture, too much fabric. It's all old, even my oven is a venerable age and some items of the furniture are family pieces from the 19th century, and they are pretty well all big and heavy. Even too many musical instruments, too many old typewriters (eldest is from about 1880), too many elderly computers, too many tools - also some of them from the early 20th century. I want to get a new printer but Neil wants me to use an old, refurbished one. I've just sorted out some pens - 2 of them are the type we used to have when I was learning to write in primary school - they were my father's and probably date back to the 1950's. I did actually throw out some of them but the ones that still work, I've kept - have to have something to use with my bottle of ink. Do I need 10 pens - dipping ones and fountain pens? No, but they have some very nice writing nibs. I'm obviously a hoarder, as is Neil, as was my mother, as was Tom. Is it genetic? In my DNA?

Annb said:

I know - it's a ridiculous quandry to have. We just have too much of everything, except space, in this house. Too many books, too much china, too much cutlery, too much glass, too much furniture, too much fabric. It's all old, even my oven is a venerable age and some items of the furniture are family pieces from the 19th century, and they are pretty well all big and heavy. Even too many musical instruments, too many old typewriters (eldest is from about 1880), too many elderly computers, too many tools - also some of them from the early 20th century. I want to get a new printer but Neil wants me to use an old, refurbished one. I've just sorted out some pens - 2 of them are the type we used to have when I was learning to write in primary school - they were my father's and probably date back to the 1950's. I did actually throw out some of them but the ones that still work, I've kept - have to have something to use with my bottle of ink. Do I need 10 pens - dipping ones and fountain pens? No, but they have some very nice writing nibs. I'm obviously a hoarder, as is Neil, as was my mother, as was Tom. Is it genetic? In my DNA?

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Oh my, I'd love to visit and see all your stuff, sounds wonderful despite it taking up too much room and being useless!

Annb said:

Still trying to sort out this kitchen and seeing if I can fit an extra armchair in when my royal visitors come. It's proving difficult because it already has my big armchair and an office chair in the sitting down/office bit of the room. The table is really too big and I do have another one which would be better, but Neil has started stripping the surface to get rid of the whitened area where my mother in law used it for ironing with a steam iron and lifted the French polished surface. Then Alistair and family had it for a while and it has come home with lots of little areas of water/tea rings on it. Neil is hoping to strip the whole surface and repolish it. It's a lovely, old (about 1935), art deco, oak table and just the right size for this room, unlike the one I have here at the moment, which is a 1970's Danish, solid teak, circular table which can extend to about 10 feet long. Too good for a kitchen and has to be heavily protected at all times and too big anyway.

We have a problem in this house with tables. Neil brought a huge, oak refectory table home with him when he came back, Tom bought this Danish extending teak table in 1971, just because he loved it, and I love my old oak table. We just don't have space for all of them but they are all valuable and I'm not prepared to just give them away. However, I don't think anyone on this island would have a house big enough to have either of the more valuable ones. I did have another table. It was pine and, again, Tom bought it because he liked it. I sold it about a year ago but it was a better size than the 2 problematic ones I am left with. Neil thinks he might try to sell his one, but I can't see anyone giving him a good price for it. I suppose I should be glad to have too many rather than not enough but what I could do with is a bit of extra space.

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What a nice problem to have! @Annb. Your solid oak refectory table sounds splendid. There's a market for those here in London.

LivingLightly said:

What a nice problem to have! @Annb. Your solid oak refectory table sounds splendid. There's a market for those here in London.

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London's a long and expensive way away from here, unfortunately. Here, I don't think there will be much of a market. Neil told me last evening that he is intending to sell his heavy duty welding equipment. He bought it when he was renovating the house that Alistair and his family live in now but it is too big and not delicate enough for the work he wants to do now. I think someone would want it. That would be one thing gone and a tiny bit of space gained.

Breakfast: a sandwich of 2 RyVitas and 2 sausages. Sausages a bit charred because I ignored them while I was making some piccalilli. Never mind, I don't mind a bit of charcoal.

2nd meal will be a turkey burger with a little salad and maybe a smear of the fresh piccalilli. I know it should be kept for 3 weeks at least to mature a bit, but fresh it's rather nice as well.

Woke very early with a really painful migraine. No idea what started it. Took double medicine as I was planning a day out. Lost my speech for over 3 hours!
Luckily my friend drove and by the time we got to the garden we were visiting I was nearly better.
No breakfast
Some cheese and olives at lunch time and shared a piece of cake
D: 2 eggs, cheese and 4 slices salami.
Still got a nasty head but not quite a migraine.

Out to 2 meetings tonight.

Annb said:

London's a long and expensive way away from here, unfortunately. Here, I don't think there will be much of a market.

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In any case, it's hard to part with a beautiful, high quality piece of furniture @Annb

LivingLightly said:

In any case, it's hard to part with a beautiful, high quality piece of furniture @Annb

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Absolutely. But, if I don't, I'm going to have to build an extension to hold it all. I daresay we would fill that up as well though. It does seem that, as soon as we clear a space, in a short time, it is cluttered again with other "stuff" which has been moved on from elsewhere - where that might be isn't clear because we can't see a clearance anywhere else.

Breakfast will be another sausage/RyVita sandwich. Cold sausages this time.

2nd meal depends on what Neil can get for me in the shops while I am getting my legs rebandaged.

Had a tiny amount of piccalilli with my turkey burger yesterday. A bit on the sharp side but it went very well with the turkey. If I leave the rest for a week or so, it should mellow down a bit. I made it with a mixture of apple cider vinegar and white wine vinegar, so it shouldn't be as harsh as the stuff we can buy which is made from either malt vinegar or non brewed condiment, as well as goodness knows what else. Has anyone else noticed that Coleman's mustard powder seems to go off in pretty short order once opened? It seems to in this house - goes dark brown and just doesn't look fit to use. I'm going to try to find an alternative for future use. This time, I used some ready made Dijon mustard instead, along with some mustard seeds.

10:30 a 90 second bread with cheese
Dancing
L: 2 slices live life with marmite . Some lc mango and coconut sorbet (clearing out freezer)
D : steak. 1 carrot, 4 chips

MrsA2 said:

Woke very early with a really painful migraine. No idea what started it. Took double medicine as I was planning a day out. Lost my speech for over 3 hours!
Luckily my friend drove and by the time we got to the garden we were visiting I was nearly better.

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You seem to suffer more than your fair share of migraine attacks @MrsA2. Could eye strain be a contributing factor?

Morning all. I went to the dr yesterday because I thought I had Angina but had an ECG and it just showed an irregular heartbeat, nothing else, so no explanation of chest pains which I still have, intermittently. I did find out I have a chest infection and a urine infection, so it's anti-biotics . I do wish I didn't have to take them, it takes the body so long to replace the good bacteria that they have killed off. I'll just have to find out how long the effects last after finishing the course and see how I can help myself. Keep healthy everyone.

RosemaryJackson said:

Morning all. I went to the dr yesterday because I thought I had Angina but had an ECG and it just showed an irregular heartbeat, nothing else, so no explanation of chest pains which I still have, intermittently. I did find out I have a chest infection and a urine infection, so it's anti-biotics . I do wish I didn't have to take them, it takes the body so long to replace the good bacteria that they have killed off. I'll just have to find out how long the effects last after finishing the course and see how I can help myself. Keep healthy everyone.

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i used to have a lot of chest pains but not so much these days. Nothing wrong with my heart - odd but regular heartbeat, but not an issue. I think mine was related to arthritis, but that was never confirmed. However, since going as low carb as I can manage, those pains have gone pretty well completely.

Didn't bother with a 2nd meal yesterday - just had a couple of slivers of cheddar around 19.00. That leaves the lamb chops that would have been my 2nd meal for today so I might just have them with some very nice looking tomatoes that a friend grew in her greenhouse, for my breakfast - just to make sure I have one good meal today.

2nd meal, then can be something light - some cheese and pickle maybe. I really ought to use some of the pickles I have made over the months and not be tempted by the fresh piccallili that I made a couple of days ago.

Today was going to be a baking day, but my arthritis has flared up again and it's making it difficult using my hands, although I have been forcing my fingers to move by using this keyboard - just to try to loosen the joints. Maybe I should try WD40.