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Beating inflation
For various different reasons, the UK is facing inflation of between 4.8 and 7% this year. This is against the backdrop of a highly priced housing market and fuel shortages (if you’re a big energy provider), driving up the cost of power being delivered to houses. It’s not uncommon for people to be facing increases […]
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Reduce and reuse in the kitchen
We’re all used to hearing the slogan reduce, reuse and recycle when it comes to waste in general especially man made products. When it comes to eating though, it all seems like such hard work and not necessarily that environmentally useful. A different approach is needed, then? This is an experiment I’ve been running the […]
Posted: March 13th, 2022 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Living la dolce vita
On the face of it, our lives at the moment should resemble hell. We’re having building work done and have vacated our bedroom but thankfully our son is a grown up and living in Newcastle, so we can live in his old room. Despite the noise (we’re both still working from home), life is surprisingly […]
Posted: March 9th, 2022 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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it’s an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)
I’m typing this in bed due to being infected by Covid-19 at some point over the last two weeks: I tested positive very late on the 16th February. I feel reasonably lucky as the impact has been devasting on my insulin requirements, but I have food booked via my local supermarket, the internet at my […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under 42, Diabetes.
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Hotter in the city
Location is so important in where you live, we have a show in the UK called Location, Location, Location. We ended up moving for that very reason 8 years ago but after the initial shock of the cost of moving, one thing we noticed moving from a village to the main town was how cheap […]
Posted: January 13th, 2022 under 42.
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DIY is not what I wish to do
Many things are happening tomorrow, the result of which is I’ve just spent the best part of 6 hours designing and making a pump case so I have the luxury of being where I was this morning at 6am with a new insulin pump. Let me explain. My first ever pump came with three cases […]
Posted: January 12th, 2022 under 42, Diabetes.
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Timing is everything
As you’re aware, in my spare time, I’m an insulin kineticist. That means I study the impact of artifically given insulin on the human body. The title is putting it mildly. Timing matters, it’s not necessarily what you do but when you do it. Take today. After a very lazy Christmas, I’m starting to exercise […]
Posted: January 5th, 2022 under 42, Diabetes.
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Twelfth night cometh
I love Christmas. I love the fact that in Europe, the rising Christian monarchs pragmatically looked at the climate, the food stocks and the people and took on the pagan celebrations as Christ’s birthday and in most countries said that should be a bank/public holiday. Ours is a little beyond the shortest day in the […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2022 under 42.
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Retrospective as 2021 comes to an end
Like many, this year has involved some changes health-wise (4 vaccinations, 3 for Covid-19 and one for influenza) and some sole searching following COP26. COP? Police? No, the climate crisess :D. For me, this has to be a personal thing. While governments and business can do their bit to ensure we can’t screw up, there […]
Posted: December 18th, 2021 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Now winter is almost here
It’s November, news flash, it’s winter! Very few days have peaked at 10°C, so it’s still autumn… Anyway, the heating is definitely on. Which is a great time to get a new EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) done. There’s no reason it cannot be done in the summer, any measurements are done in reverse, rather than […]
Posted: November 14th, 2021 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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