Finding the chase and cutting to it

Now some DIY is out of the way, I am catching up on my blogging. One of my dreams for 2019, apart from my son getting a university place, is to achieve two long distance cycle rides. The first is 100 miles for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.  The Prudential Ride London, 3-4 August 2019, […]

There’s a meme going round showing a young girl with a syringe in her body representing each of the injections she does a month.  She’s on multiple daily injections a month and conservatively the photo represents 120 syringes. I am on a pump and this is what it is doing for me. I have a […]

Go back to last week and it became obvious that while I’d been backing up my data regularly I hadn’t actually tested that backup. That has been rectified, but I had suffered some data loss. Thankfully, not a huge amount not least down to Google taking a cached copy of my site reasonably regularly.  It […]

One of the things I do everyday as a software engineer is look at solving problems. That skill comes in handy in real life too.  We’re having our bedroom remodelled – we’re taking out a dressing room, which isn’t very useful and freeing up some space in the main entrance way for a large cupboard.  […]

In the case of diabetes mellitus, a rose by any other name does not necessarily smell as sweet. As a young child growing up in the seventies, very little was generally known about diabetes mellitus and in many ways the definition of type 1 and 2 helped identify that age was not a factor in […]

Route 51 has taught me a few things, not least how to make best use of my bike and its gears. There are a few facts I have picked up on the way which I would never have found out otherwise. Great Barton railway crossing Is surprising: not least in how cyclists and horses make […]

The first time I do an exercise, especially if I am heavily learning skills and techniques, will drop my blood sugar while I am doing the exercise. If I have had a big break for an activity that also holds true. But that only holds true for that one time. After that the following happens: […]

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My bike ride yesterday made me think about recovery, both physical and mental. I had a serious accident and I needed surgery to recover from it.  The bones then needed time to heal.  In practical terms, bones take six to eight weeks to heal enough to be whole. The soft tissue damage takes much longer.  […]

How on a minute, is there something you want to tell me? What do you mean? Well, you’ve blogged once in a blue moon the past year and this week, this is your fourth… Oh, I had an operation last week and while I am not up to my usual fettle (I am sleeping nearly […]