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I heard somewhere about helping dogs for diabetics and tried to imagine how they'd work, in particular relation to a friend who's a type 2 diabetic but loves his food, particularly sweeties and cookies:

Type 2 Diabetic: I wonder if I should have a cookie?

Dog: WOOF!!!

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Diabetic Alert Assistance Dogs are a specific type of Medical Assistance Dog that has been trained to use their highly sensitive scent capabilities to identify the changes in blood chemistry that occur during rapid changes in blood sugar levels.

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( it goes against the grain to call biscuits cookies on a British discussion but as piglet has started it ... )

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... it goes against the grain to call biscuits cookies on a British discussion but as piglet has started it ...

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Quite right - but the friend I was thinking of is Canadian, and the confection I'm thinking of is what he would call a cookie, and most Brits would call a tray-bake (think of things like tiffin, Nanaimo bars or (Heaven forfend) date-squares).

I usually call them "wee buns".

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Recently I have seen a dog being trained to help people with PTSD and other anxiety disorders.

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That sounds brilliant. How do the dogs help (other than by being a trusty companion)?

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I think they start with a very empathic dog and work with it to pick up cues of stress and anxiety - in some ways not too different from an autism service dog, but there are differences.

ps - re autism service dogs - My great niece Katie had to go to the hospital one night for observation after an an evening of increasing breathing problems. The dog, in harness, lay down on the stretcher with her and we have a wonderful shot of Katie using the dog's butt to prop her laptop (which has 95 million Dora websites bookmarked )

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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
I'll let you guess what flavour it was

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I'll let you guess what flavour it was

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I heard somewhere about helping dogs for diabetics

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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
... what I'd class as a cookie. From the fresh bakery section ...

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That sounds more like what I'd have called a cookie, as sold by the bakers at home (and the school refectory at morning break).

They were soft, sweet bread-rolls, and IIRC came in three varieties: "cream" with the top split and filled with baker's cream; "iced" with the top glazed with white icing, and "coconut" - similar to the iced ones but with desiccated coconut mixed into the icing (my favourite).

Rats. Now I want one ...

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Some of us were stuck in a rehearsal taking a load of rhythmically challenged men through the finer points of Stainer's Crucifixion

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But Maunder's Olivet to Calvary is still around

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...Maunder - rarely do people live up to their name so completely.

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Originally posted by Boogie:
Bright and sunny today, I hope it stays that way. I am off to Manchester to search for the dress (mother of the groom).

My personal shopper will be with me so I'll be fine (a good friend who knows what I like)

It's a bit of an adventure for me as I don't do shopping. I go in plenty of shops for Gypsy's training - but shopping? No.

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Be careful. At eldest son's wedding I had just about settled on one particular outfit. Something stopped me. Wedding day arrived and DIL's mum had bought identical, down to the colour I liked.

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Help!

But I know for a fact that his new MIL will be wearing a trouser suit - she hasn't been seen in a dress for 20 years.



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Are you quite sure you're a woman? At our wedding, my mum and D's both had outfits in similar colours (turquoise with navy accessories), but they were different enough for it not to matter. We were at a wedding in Orkney last year where the bride's and groom's mothers had what appeared to be co-ordinated outfits - both the same colour (a pale lilac trimmed with lace) but in slightly different styles, and with different, but equally elaborate hats.

Poor La Vie - that does sound like a duff weekend. Hope Fiancé en rouge feels better soon.

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Bright and sunny today, I hope it stays that way. I am off to Manchester to search for the dress (mother of the groom).

My personal shopper will be with me so I'll be fine (a good friend who knows what I like)

It's a bit of an adventure for me as I don't do shopping. I go in plenty of shops for Gypsy's training - but shopping? No.

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How this takes me back to this time three years ago, shopping for my mother of the bride outfit for Nenlet1's wedding. I don't do shopping either and everyone who had been mothers of the bride/groom were telling me how they went to this and that large retail outlet and shopping mall to find their outfits. I even had one friend who told me I wouldn't find anything in such and such a place as she had already looked for me. Great was my determination therefore to find the outfit in such and such a place. Which I did; on the first shopping trip I did for myself. Picture if you will the subsequent conversation between me and NenFriend - Did you get your outfit on Saturday? I did. Where did you get it? Such and such a place.

I named the colour I wanted to wear beforehand to avoid clashes. I hope you found something you will love to wear, Boogie.

Beans on toast - yum!

I have not yet seen my first butterfly of the year but according to Moomin lore if the first you see is yellow you'll have a happy summer. If white, a peaceful one.

Nen - hoping for a brimstone.

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I hope you've been dosing Fiancé en rouge with lots of Manuka honey, lemon juice and whisky/ginger/Lem-sip*.

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Almost. A French hot toddy (known by the charming name of "grog") is made with *cognac*.

The over the counter cold cure is a product called Fervex, which works pretty well (I don't think it's available in the UK, which is a shame because I think it works better than British cold cures), but it's only really meant for colds/mildish viruses, not full-on influenza .

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