Finding the chase and cutting to it

Being diabetic, I have a bigger footprint than the average person on the planet. As a household, we’re making an effort. The Electric Car According to the New Scientist this week, in the UK, a fully electric car has a much lower carbon emission footprint than a hybrid petrol/electric car this year and on-going years.  […]

I love when people talk about things that have happened to them.  My mum was telling me how she had been driving for a long time and got dehydrated and made a mistake in a parking lot and reversed into a car. Being tired and dehydrated affected her ability to react to her surroundings.  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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