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| Totally! |
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| I'm glad nobody asks what I did at work today! |
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| Practising their ho ho ho's! |
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| Your door stop is watching you! |
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| The alternate Christmas decoration! |
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| The big guys! |
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| Organised chaos I promise! |
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Finally Felt!
So I haven't been totally idle these last few weeks, some experimenting, some playing and some money spinners!
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Catch up
October next week! 3 months to Christmas! It's all going too fast! So much to do , so much to tell! Felting will finally get a look in soon - I have been busy in my chaos of a workshop and just need to take some photos of the latest creations. It has been good to get back to 'work' even though some days I struggle to motivate myself to do much at all. A 5 day craft fair a couple of months away is actually a good kick up the backside to get busy! Here's something I made this summer.
All trundling as smoothly as is even vaguely possible on the Diabetes front, HbA1c 7.4, new Enlite CGM sensors to try and also Mio infusion sets instead of Quicksets. Will let you know how we get on.
Big step - trip away for me and my dear husband, 3 nights 4 days - Olli's brother and wife are looking after the children - sounds straight forward until you throw in Diabetes as we all well know. We have already had one set change 'tutorial' and crash course in carb counting! Next task to type out some step by step instructions for the set change, not as easy as it sounds. Some things are so automatic now, you don't realise you have done them but we can do this!
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| A seat pad for the bench outside the sauna -black and red representing the Karelia region |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_pennants_of_Finland |
All trundling as smoothly as is even vaguely possible on the Diabetes front, HbA1c 7.4, new Enlite CGM sensors to try and also Mio infusion sets instead of Quicksets. Will let you know how we get on.
Big step - trip away for me and my dear husband, 3 nights 4 days - Olli's brother and wife are looking after the children - sounds straight forward until you throw in Diabetes as we all well know. We have already had one set change 'tutorial' and crash course in carb counting! Next task to type out some step by step instructions for the set change, not as easy as it sounds. Some things are so automatic now, you don't realise you have done them but we can do this!
Monday, 29 August 2011
Another grey hair!
On a good day he could run the course in about 15 minutes I reckoned, say 20 minutes.
The minutes ticked past 20, no sign.
25 minutes went by, OK maybe he got a bit lost or was a bit tired.
30 minutes had now gone since Aleksi went out on his orienteering course.
Now I was a little concerned, I grabbed a gel pack and my crutch but just before I decided to panic and run into the woods searching for him I rang him on his phone. He wears one of Tallygears tummietotes when orienteering, 3 pouches for the pump, a fruit bar snack and his phone.
He answers with a cheery Hello - great he is not lost or so low he can't go any further. No my little man had met another little guy on his course and they had been gently jogging, walking and chatting their merry way round the course. 2 minutes later he charged down to the finishing line waving his map at me as he passed. Big sigh, more grey hairs, just another day!
The minutes ticked past 20, no sign.
25 minutes went by, OK maybe he got a bit lost or was a bit tired.
30 minutes had now gone since Aleksi went out on his orienteering course.
Now I was a little concerned, I grabbed a gel pack and my crutch but just before I decided to panic and run into the woods searching for him I rang him on his phone. He wears one of Tallygears tummietotes when orienteering, 3 pouches for the pump, a fruit bar snack and his phone.
He answers with a cheery Hello - great he is not lost or so low he can't go any further. No my little man had met another little guy on his course and they had been gently jogging, walking and chatting their merry way round the course. 2 minutes later he charged down to the finishing line waving his map at me as he passed. Big sigh, more grey hairs, just another day!
Thursday, 25 August 2011
More summer fun.....
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| Caught a big fish!! |
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| Fed the duck family.... |
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| chatted to the train driver..... |
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| took the steam drain to Mallaig, passing over a familiar bridge...... |
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| went skimming stones in the old slate quarry at Ballachulish..... |
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| had a go at rock climbing.... |
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| My haven't we grown!!!!! |
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| had a great time at the Camera Obscura exhibition in Edinburgh! |
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Love/Hate
Why I love this time of year in the Finnish forests
Free food - chanterelles and boletus - Yum!
Why I hate this time of year in the Finnish forests
The dreaded Elk fly - Think spiders with wings..........
Free food - chanterelles and boletus - Yum!
Why I hate this time of year in the Finnish forests
The dreaded Elk fly - Think spiders with wings..........
Monday, 4 July 2011
I know what we did this summer......
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| Caught some fish...... |
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| Experimented with cornflour, inspired by Mythbusters!(Complete with serious summer haircut!!) |
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| Planned a morning swim in the lake...... |
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| Stayed on a 'ship hotel'....... |
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| Found a great use for the minibar... |
Ate Candy Floss - guestimated at 40g carbs!
Took the fast train.......
Went Orienteering.......
and made more Mythbuster mess!!
The best bit - we've still got weeks more to go!
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Don't cook the insulin!
Take one small boy on school holiday.
Add one week of sports activity in 25-30 degrees C heat.
Attach one insulin pump in groovy sports pouch to hot sweaty body of above small boy.
Allow to run around for 6 hours.
(Pull off failed CGM sensor after 2½ days(Grrrr)) optional
Watch blood sugar fail and rise like the Himalayas.
A tried and tested recipe for cooked insulin - works everytime!!
On a side note, I went shopping today for the biggest bottle of fizzy brown liquid I could find, along with a large tube of sweets. While it may work wonders for raising those sport induced lows, we have a mission. We are doing MYTHBUSTERS!! I'm sure you have all seen those videos and inspired by a great episode of Adam and Jamie we are undertaking our own science experiment - the coke and mints fountain. Not in my garden I hasten to add but in the safe piece of marshland next to the lake at the summer cottage - So exciting!!
Add one week of sports activity in 25-30 degrees C heat.
Attach one insulin pump in groovy sports pouch to hot sweaty body of above small boy.
Allow to run around for 6 hours.
(Pull off failed CGM sensor after 2½ days(Grrrr)) optional
Watch blood sugar fail and rise like the Himalayas.
A tried and tested recipe for cooked insulin - works everytime!!
On a side note, I went shopping today for the biggest bottle of fizzy brown liquid I could find, along with a large tube of sweets. While it may work wonders for raising those sport induced lows, we have a mission. We are doing MYTHBUSTERS!! I'm sure you have all seen those videos and inspired by a great episode of Adam and Jamie we are undertaking our own science experiment - the coke and mints fountain. Not in my garden I hasten to add but in the safe piece of marshland next to the lake at the summer cottage - So exciting!!
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