Watched Bath rugby snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...again. I am glad the season is almost over! Watching one of the LOTR. They're in the Mines of Moraira at the moment.
Can I have a biscuit? 10 mins later - I'm thirsty can I have a glass of milk? Get ready for change of pj's and sheets
Well it's been a shite week on the health front. Not my health - I feel in the pink. But... Only caught up on Pete1950's problems this evening. Close friend told me this week he has diabetes (quite seriously, I think). Not overly surprising, TBH. He is very fat. As one in 11 of the world population has diabetes (can you believe that?) you sort of wonder, if not him, then who? Very close friend has cancer of the gullet, I learn this week. He is too weak to get upstairs. Christ, that was sudden. Last time I saw him a few months ago, he was fine. I just hope everyone is going to be OK. I'm a bit young to start losing friends. I feel quite positive about it all, but then I'm not the one suffering, am I?
There was some good news: check out what was growing in the herbaceous border. That, if you don't recognise them, is a morel - the king of mushrooms. And there were more. I've always wanted to find some morels, but I never thought I'd find them 30 feet from the front door. Result!
Got taken out for a posh brekkie/brunch overlooking river Thames in Windsor by my little princess and her intended (wedding end of August this year - ouch!).Lovely food and great venue - they wanted to hand deliver my wedding invitation which I thought was a lovely gesture.When I was just about to open the beautifully presented invitation I said " bloody hell how do you know him! Steve Martin is bound to upstage me on my daughters big day?"Waitress laughed and she was French but daughter and fiancé just stared at each other! Might have to do a few freaks on what I thought was a quality,amusing bit of prose?
I'm a Type 1 diabetic (hereditary ) always have been and will have it until I go - it's a bummer but 500 times easier to manage than years ago with 6" huge needles and pig insulin of all things? Now it's a little pen with throwaway needle so thin you can't really even feel prick you.Its all about how you manage it and balance your lifestyle,exercise,booze etc.Type 2 diabetes is usually bought on by shit diet,too much sugar for your system to process,overweight,obesity,boozing,no exercise etc etc - most type 2 diabetics are causing their problem and this is the diabetes increase you hear so much about in paper - it's out of control in USA and getting that way here - quickly! However,in a lot of cases it is reversible and at the least controllable through correct diet and exercise leading to removal of need for tablet medication.
Well, obviously. Why wouldn't you? Morels are about the best mushrooms you can get. If they are not so well known in the UK, it's because they are a whole lot rarer, harder to come by and expensive than field mushrooms. Make a sauce with these babies and you will be astonished. Go and get a packet of dried ones and try it out.
Went out for a great ride. Thought the rear end of my 899 felt firmer than usual and found that the place that did my tyres has massively over adjusted the chain adjusters. No movement in it at all when I'm sitting on it. Not happy. Not the first time either.
Today I took my grandchildren climbing (all except the 1yo so he played in the ball pit with grandma). They were all good but I have to say I was really impressed with my 4yo granddaughter. She seems a natural working out how to climb the walls and use the boulders. Then we all went for lunch. It was mayhem. Tomorrow is for riding I think.
Long hilly cycle ride around the Mendips today, long walk with the dog, feeling knackered now. Tomorrow, mountain biking on Salisbury plain. Got the next week off though so might get a lie in one day.
Proper exciting day! Decided to go on line and buy a new walking stick that says more "sports/motorcycle permanent leg injury" rather than "Free NHS silly old twat whose fucked and on the way out?" Looked on dreaded e bay but every single one that was sensible money and looked good in photos was from India! After seeing my mates "Hand fabricated alloy cafe racer motorcycle tank" that he gave £425 + postage for from India I thought I would pass? His fuel tank looked like it had been crafted from a 1960's Washing machine by a blind man working in a garden shed? It looked like it had been in a few fights and lost them all - I was there the 1st time he put fuel in the fukker - collinders hold water better.I had visions of his mate being the walking stick guru,walking to the nearest dead tree,snapping a branch off and fitting a piece of animal bone for a handle? I opted for this off Amazon
