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    Day 2 – BSD

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    February 2, 2016

    Breakfast: black coffee – 2 cups 2 boiled eggs Mid morning break: double espresso – 1 cup Lunch: Quorn curry After work drink: Water sparkling

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  • Blood Sugar Diet, health, Uncategorized

    Day one – BSD

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    February 1, 2016

    Q1.  How much weight do I plan to lose? A1.  About 3-4 stone (40-60  pounds) – 10-15% of my body weight =approx 30 pounds Q2  Where can I get a digital blood sugar monitor? A2.  Boots has a mobile tester for £30 Go M-Plan – eat the Mediterranean way (lowish…

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    Home time

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    January 31, 2016

    Poured mum a large one (watched Liam’s eyes pop) and said our goodbyes. Back to the Norbiton Dragon to watch Ulster beat Treviso then on to the Cardinal for Italian grub. Mum’s parting words might shock or alarm, but objectively are what one might say aged 86 and looking down…

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    Live music – hard to beat

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    January 30, 2016

    My Friday night led on from a hard day’s mooching about and a shortish hospital visit. The youngster didn’t fancy joining the old man, so he returned to study some more. He tries to make me feel guilty about my perceived idleness, but I’m not going to interrupt my nap…

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  • health, Type 2 diabetes, Uncategorized

    I’m a Type 2 kind of guy

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    January 28, 2016

    Fat people of the world unite. I have seen the light, or rather the book (because I’m a bookie, no that’s not right) Dr Michael Mosley is my new guru. The 8-week blood sugar diet is a book packed with hope and inspiration for prediabetics and Type 2 diabetics everywhere.…

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  • business, editing, proofreading, Uncategorized

    jdscribe.com revived

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    January 28, 2016

    My mother is now recovering well and may be medically discharged within a week. I have stayed away from the hospital for a couple of days because of a cold. During that time I have revived jdscribe.com, an online service aimed at polishing up documents written in English. I registered…

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  • nonsense rhymes, poetry, Uncategorized

    North Lothian what?

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    January 27, 2016

    God was fed up with the Scots and English always fighting, so he suggested a way to resolve matters. There would be a poetry competition. It would be a 4 line poem including the word Timbuktu. The English chose Wordsworth, and this was his poem I went into a foreign land…

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  • Anthropology, Nomadic Hunter Gatherers, Uncategorized

    Simple pleasures

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    January 26, 2016

    Some might describe me anthropologically as a nomadic hunter gatherer. Far be it for me to dispute the appellation. Last night my gathering took place in West London. An area that I should have been more familiar with since I had attended Ealing Technical College back in the 1970s. The…

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  • Football, sport, Uncategorized

    Chelsea beat Arsenal – fairly?

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    January 25, 2016

    Diego Costa got the Oscar (and an Arsenal player red carded) for a supposed trip. Was there any contact? I’m not sure, but 10 Arsenal players couldn’t beat the blues at home. I will not be popular with my fellow Chelsea supporters, but this is the sort of trickery that…

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  • cycling, London, travel, Uncategorized

    London – but not as I knew it

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    January 25, 2016

    My bike rides along the South Bank have shown me a London that has changed a lot since we emigrated to Ireland in 2000. Not just the Shard, but a scattering of  new glass and steel shapes have sprung up in the City of London. The West End looks much the same…

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