Finding the chase and cutting to it

They say a change is as good as a rest.  As a programmer who has spent much of the past few months working out how to automate cloud building, I thought I would take the opportunity to learn how to re-upbolster some chairs my mum had lent us as a stop gap when they bought […]

In What does exercise do to your blood sugar levels? I shared what I did for the 47 mile (45 mile my ****) Palace to Palace run. Planning for 100 miles should be similar.  I am not looking to break any record (though doing it in 8 hours would be amazing), just make it to […]

I live in the UK, which is lovely in the fact that no two months are precisely the same in terms of weather and our flora and funa respond to that.  In the summer, we have amazing blooms, the crops grow tall, etc, etc. It makes budgeting your household bills non-trivial.  Even our esteemed meteorologists […]

Home automation is a hot topic but along with the ability to control multiple devices on a pre-programmed schedule or from the other side of the world comes that nagging feeling: is it secure? This is a complicated question to ask and answer.  What do you mean by secure? For me, in home automation I […]

When I read my blog, I sometimes feel like it must seem like a bit of a whinge. Type 1 diabetes can be mindblowingly frustrating as no two days are the same and much of the theory regarding what you should do does not cope with the edge cases when the normal rules do not […]

Thanks to the majority of people being well fed these days, being ill is unusual.  I’m not talking about the odd cold that refuses to shift, but an actual viral infection. As seen from my last post, Sometimes, it just doesn’t work, I should have guess that something was brewing.  It didn’t actually hit until New […]

I hope you’ve had a great Christmas. We went to my parents, my men visited my sister in law and family and then headed home. This is a short note discussing some bright ideas and how we worked round some limitations. Eh? Like many working families, the holiday season is a chance to catch up […]

I hope you are well. I have wiled away my hours not smelling the flowers but wanted to capture the fact here and share my learnings with you. Nuh? A couple of big changes are coming our way: our 18 year old will be leaving home and along with that gaining of responsibility we lose […]

I’m not discussing the joys of winter sports at the moment, but the thrill of going for a walk in to town with an air temperature of 10°C and a wind chill providing a real feel of -5°C! The sky is overcast and to beat the Christmas Shopping parking blues, I take the bottles to […]

One of the biggest things I hate about type 1 diabetes, aside from the constant need to run a big part of my metabolism up to 4 hours behind the curve, is other people’s understanding of the disease. Before we talk about this subject though, we should examine some base facts. About 0.02% of the […]