This question was posed on a diabetes forum recently. It got me thinking. Not, what is the worst food I have eaten but what is meant by “bad food”. Doesn’t this depend on your point of view? If you are overweight, “bad food” may be something with a lot of calories; if you are underweight, “bad…
Do you remember Alain Robert? He was known as Spider-man because he climbs buildings: he has climbed the Lloyds Building in London, Eiffel Tower in Paris, Empire State Building in New York and more … all without using the stairs. You may think he is fearless: he is not, he is afraid of heights. I have seen him…
The Freestyle Libre will soon be made available across the NHS. I know there has been a lot of campaigning by Diabetes UK and more to make this happen. It’s great to see this kind of hard work come to fruition. Many people will be thinking “Yay – no more finger-pricks. My finger tips can…
Although I live in a city and can walk to the centre in less than 15 minutes, until very very recently, my broadband has run at the speed of a tortoise doing its best impression of a snail. The problem was a lack of fibre available on my street. As someone who works in IT and…
I climb, I walk, I cycle and I go to the gym. I move around a reasonable amount but there are still times when I just don’t feel like it or don’t fancy going out in the rain, or I have too much work to do or eaten too much or not feeling 100% or … many…
I was away from home for two weeks over Christmas: it was a combination of visiting family (mine and my partner’s) as well as a bit of a winter holiday. Half a week after locking up the house and turning down the heating, I received a message from my boiler telling me that it was losing…