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(A bit flat) steps : 339,144 (target 308,000) GI: 7.8 (7 day av) : ( (there was one very high aberant reading after a “weekend” while the others were “normalish”) Weight (kg) : 107.6 : ) Money Raised : £105 There is no good time to discover you have a flat tyre, although generally, noticingContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

steps : 241,635 (target 231,000) GI: 7.4 (7 day av) : ( Weight (kg) : 108.4 : ( Money Raised : £105 Clearly a bit less successful on a personal level with GI and weight both up (Boo!) however i’m still on track with steps even though I’ve lost a bit of my lead. IContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(The story so far…) Steps : 186,886 (target 154,000) GI: 6.2 (7 day av) Weight (kg) : 107.2 Money Raised : £105 (Due to a mistake-on my part- a colleague made a generous £25 donation to My diabetes the charity, but not my page, I’m counting this in here). I’m trying not to cheat onContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s life…”

(The story so far…) Steps : 90,185 (target 77,000) GI: 6.7 (7 day av) Weight (kg) : 107.8 Money Raised : £10 : ( I’d like to think that’s a decent start. Ironically – backshifts are easier, however the coming weeks of ten hour days, which generally has less “down time”, may need to beContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(Million steps) I was in two minds whether to post today (day 0) or tomorrow (day1). So I start on July 1st and have till Sept 30th to complete my 1,000,000 steps, raising funds for Diabetes Uk, and losing pounds for thinner Tony (Not “Slim Tony ” who is a New York gangster, or “SkinnyContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(Tourists) My Canadian visitors are safely returned, sent back replete (I hope ) with castles and parks, and Scottish breakfast, Nessie tea-towels, and shortbread tins. It’s always illuminating to revisit places which are so second nature as to be unremarkable, in the company of those to whom they are fresh and new. I would certainlyContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(walk the Dawg) My war on my diabetes diagnosis continues. A relatively severe no/low carb diet, and avoidance of anything that looks like a cake, or a crisp is actually producing some results. I acquired a GI monitor, so now have to daily stab myself for blood to measure. I’d have thought, given my propensityContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(passport) My ten year passport expired (already?). These days you do the whole renewal on-line, and some kind of government backed A.I. critiques your application. Mostly this is straightforward. however the “recent photo” – plain background, look straight ahead, no hats (seriously?), no shadows, glasses… My first effort, rejected by robot response, was admittedly aContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

(the awful duty) It is not given to us to know the minute when the story will end or change. The phone rings, and your cheery “hello…” is met with a somber silence, and pehaps you hear the caller sruggle to catch a breath, and you learn in rushed words, that someone has been taken,Continue reading “It’s …”

(roof) It is not widely appreciated that the natural enemy of the scaffolding labourer, is – the bee. My roof repair took all of one and a bit days, and it only needed the bit because one of the large sheets of lead was “missing”, and a replacement had to be sourced. Where, exactly, aContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”