Finding the chase and cutting to it

Since I’ve kicked off my training plan, my blogs are very focused. What about the rest of life?  I have two main hobbies, riding my beloved motorbike and skiing. This is not about motorcycling (I really need to get out on the bike…) Taking a chill pill? You need two things to alpine ski: snow […]

I have six months to train for the August deadline of the 100 mile Prudential Cycle ride and that means I need six months to prepare. Today was taking that first bite from the elephant and I covered 25.7 in two sets: one of 20.5 miles and then a return home of 5.2 miles.  In […]

The past two years, for me, have had some interesting times.  I came off my push bike, a panic attack while skiing, I forgot my cannulas in Canada and had to completely overhaul my insulin treatment for 8 days and the resultant big hypo and the removal of my fixation plate (remember to do that […]

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 […]