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Avril & Frank, it is music to our ears that you are back home together where you belong. Glad to see you only needed an iron tablet and the need to dodge the salt and steady with the liquids ,Oh and the Vape in the bin ,your doing well, keep the good work up .. Best wishes to the both of you Mr & Mrs Kalos 😃

Before you fly get your self some breakfast ,may I suggest a Beer-Can sandwich ?🙃 Have a great cruise 🙂

@Eddie99 Have a great time ,we are all sure you will 🙂 @Ardennais We have happy memories of Queen Vic as well and glad you and your family also had a good time 🙂

Regarding bread I eat brown bread which is amber 0.35g or sometimes a 50/50 loaf 0.4g but am not a very big bread eater but for those who are making your own bread is a viable option. When making Yorkshire puds we simply omit the salt . Things like pizzas ,Mrs K will make her own using wraps as a base , things like crisp are far to high in salt apart from the ones with the blue bag as you throw the salt away but personally only as a treat every so often , Another one is if we decide on a chippy ,we ask for a thin batter on the fish and some places will steam the fish for you . @Adawn47 Hope Frank gets good news today I think he's due some 🙂

Morning 4.c and dull here ,nothing much doing today. Yesterday we decided to go out and check the car tyre pressure for the first time this year . The air machine is now card only and as you swipe your card it says .. "Thankyou for using me "🙂 Then charge you .50p and to think I keep a couple of .20ps in my wallet for such things . It's a £1 on some of them .😲 Inflations gone mad ! Never the less they needed checking with all the bad winter weather that they say could hit us next week . I wonder how many will be running around trying to find an air line that has not frozen if the temps really dip ?🤔 Take care 🙂

Just asked Mrs K Salt .. Anything under 0.5g is green and good and 0.9g is amber . Some foods we go to 06;g at a push . I will put the light system below for you to read ,hope it helps . https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/check-the-label

@Adawn47 Hope things go well for Frank tomorrow Avril. I think Frank will be ok giving up the Vape and the salt ,lets face it with HF you have little choice if you want to improve as their is no cure . Just read out your post to Mrs K and she remembers doing exactly the same as you . Clearing out the freezer and fridge of anything that had a "Red" on the traffic light system on food packages . Lots of stuff she will make herself as I am low sugar too. Can be a pain but Frank will get there as he has a woman called Avril looking out for him 🙂 Onwards and upwards , take care .🙂

Looks like it's going to be nice when finished. Hope you have many years of happiness in your new home 🙂 @Adawn47 What Michelle said above .. Take care 🙂

I had that happen to one of my bank cards which I did not use much. They froze it due to no activity as a safeguard but they don't tell you this . Got them to reactivate it and now will use it at least once a year even if it's to buy a bottle of milk from shop .

Black n White night of the future ? Wicked or wot ?😉 Plus Vape night cos we don't do cocktails 🙃

If your ship is calling at Gran Canaria there is a big shopping centre opposite where you normally dock called "Centro Comercial El Muelle" On the ground floor of the complex is a big supermarket we use. I am limited to zero sugar soft drinks ,so grab a few cans for use on the balcony and had no probs taking them onboard with security .

It's the fear of the unknown Avril and we understand how your feeling. Mrs K saying you will be fine and me telling Mrs K the same . Truth was we were worried others on the Cardio unit were getting told your going for a stent or a valve or pacemaker fitted at Sheffield and will soon be home.All I got was the cardio specialists are going to have meetings about your condition but no fix or answers for me. I was also pining for my own bed ,not much fun when alarms are going through out the night and the nurses change over from night to day shift , So Frank wanting his own bed is very understandable . Getting back home felt emotional but that was just the start as I would be sent between Rotherham and Sheffield outpatient hospitals for even more scans but was worth it as it lead to a bit of normality in our lives as they will for you and Frank Avril. Long way to go yet. Just hang in there, your doing fine Avril and so is Frank .. Chin up lass 🙂

Morning still a cool 2,c this morning .Next doors flew back from Tenerife yesterday morning and said it came as a bit of a shock when they landed . On these dark mornings we must remember to switch the lights off when it becomes light Have a good day 🙂

I was a bit bored and decided to Google, look up ..Err put politely some poor chimps looking for parts of their anatomy that had fallen off their body . I am now a bit wiser after looking up the brass monkey and cold origins .. Seems it is a load of balls..Cannon balls to be precise stacked on an old battle ship . I never knew this ,we live and learn .. Mr Google says ... Used to describe cold weather, this saying derives from the traditional Navy phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". This references the brass structure or 'monkey' where cannon balls were stacked

Morning 1.c here .Managed to wake myself up with a freezing arm ,I must have stuck it out from under the duvet and when I pulled it back in and it came into contact with the rest of me ..Guess you could call that a rude awakening 🤣 Have good day everyone 🙂

Same here I wish I had listened to my doctor rather than others and maybe who knows could have prevented some of my conditions. Mrs K was advised to go on statins and did not make my mistake and is ok with them .

Excellent advice . Make sure you look after No 1 or you will be not much use to others . That does not mean you are not there for them in an emergency , just not at everyone's beck and call .. Be good to yourself guys 🙂

I got mine back under control but the travel insurance we use asks .. "Have you ever been told your cholesterol has been raised Ever in your life time" I would hate anyone to fill in their insurance declarations falsely and end up with a non payment should they put a claim in at a later date .

Sorry to read this Josy I know you said the other day you had booked a cruise, may I just remind you to let your travel insurance know that you have had raised levels of cholesterol . Most insurance class this as "Ever in your life time " I got mine back down but still have to declare it .😒

Yep they can be frustrating my Mrs had a big op around beginning of Sept and was told that the dept would give her a telephone appointment to make sure all is well a few weeks after. This has been cancelled umpteen times and told to make a new telephone call appointment. The other day they decided all must be well and said for her not to renew any appointments they have cancelled. Luckily she's fine .

Not sure if you mean this January or next year but can't see why not . A year or so back we moved a select fare forward to October that's just gone. I think I owed them £20-30 more in total but the re booked cruise was over £100 better in our favor regarding the OBC .

Morning it's 2.c and dry here . Now the weekend is out the way @Adawn47 Avril and Frank hopefully will have the main doctors doing their rounds and giving them a few answers and plans. It must be nice for some to get back to a "proper " Monday now the festive season is over ,which throws your days out . Fridays feeling like Sundays etc. Anyways hope you all enjoy your day 🙂

I'm sure we have all flown in an Airbus ,one of the first ones crashed at an airshow. Lessons are learned from these mishap/disasters in the long term making them safer . Those Max -9s are grounded until they find what went wrong /

Good morning a dull 2.c here ,so a day for doing very little apart from staying snug and warm. Whatever your doing have a great day .