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Wait, did you hear that. Oh this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me
Posted Nov 1, 2014
Currently in Nodnol having managed to wangle a week down here for a course.
While I'm down here I might as well try and meet up with one or two friends who live this way so many thanks to Bald Bloke, Solnushka and Agapanthus for putting up with a tourist.
Bad Bloke showed me round some of the better pubs in his manor as the locals would say.
Meeting Solnushka we ended up visiting and going past the locations of several past meets. Ye Olde London, nowhere near as interesting now all the goth and stempunk decorations are no more. Walking back towards Trafalger Sq, we passed the Wellington, the upstairs of which served as a base for at least one meet, at the end of Kingsway, we thought of the Shakespeare's Head and round the corner the Pendrels Oak two pubs which were the venues of later meets. We ended up in the Coal Hole, an old semi-regular haunt of mine back when I lived in Nodnol. It was then I remembered the other meet venue in the vicinity. A small pub in a passage round the back of Charing Cross station. My curiosity piqued I had to find it and eventually we did. It was the Ship and Shovell, a Hall and Woodhouse (aka Badger Brewery) pub.
It was an earlyish meet but I can't remember when in the chronology of meets it was. Any other of the H2G2 ancients like me remember this?
I know it wasn't the first meet I went to as that was softball in Hyde Park then to a pub near Lancaster Gate (everybody getting drenched between the two).
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Watching Flowers in the Rain
Posted Jan 7, 2013
Look out there seems to be a broken bowl with some flowers by it
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Don't Look Back in Anger
Posted Jan 23, 2012
90 years ago today a medical researcher took a very risky decision and used human insulin to treat a patient with type 1 diabetes.
The patient survived.
I and many others are grateful for this every time we inject insulin to keep us alive.
Over the last week I've been working at a beer festival, something I do a few times over the course of the year. While I was there I was asked if I could do something on the saturday night after hours staff party. I was asked by a good friend if I would present an award to her husband. On hearing what it was I immediately agreed in fact I was very honoured to have been asked. I was asked to present the Alan Narbarro medal to my mate for the fact he has survived with diabetes for over 50 years. The medal is only given out after the diabetes care team apply to Diabetes UK on behalf of their patient. I was shown the complements slip enclosed with the medal after it had been sent to his hospital consultant. It pointed out that he was nearer 60 years with diabetes than 50 and the doctor should be planning to apply for the Robert Lawrence medal for 60 years survival!
This looking back makes my near 11 years with type 1 diabetes seem simple.
It hasn't been.
Having easily available insulins and simple almost pain free injecting devices makes it easier.
Having a friend who I can have a moan and laugh about it all with makes it easier still.
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Don't Look Back in Anger
Posted Jan 23, 2012
‎90 years ago today a medical researcher took a very risky decision and used human insulin to treat a patient with type 1 diabetes.
The patient survived.
I and many others are grateful for this every time we inject insulin to keep us alive.
Over the last week I've been working at a beer festival, something I do a few times over the course of the year. While I was there I was asked if I could do something on the saturday night after hours staff party. I was asked by a good friend if I would present an award to her husband. On hearing what it was I immediately agreed in fact I was very honoured to have been asked. I was asked to present the Alan Narbarro medal to my mate for the fact he has survived with diabetes for over 50 years. The medal is only given out after the diabetes care team apply to Diabetes UK on behalf of their patient. I was shown the complements slip enclosed with the medal after it had been sent to his hospital consultant. It pointed out that he was nearer 60 years with diabetes than 50 and the doctor should be planning to apply for the Robert Lawrence medal for 60 years survival!
This looking back makes my near 11 years with type 1 diabetes seem simple.
It hasn't been.
Having easily available insulins and simple almost pain free injecting devices makes it easier.
Having a friend who I can have a moan and laugh about it all with makes it easier still.
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Are You Going To Scarborough Fair
Posted Nov 29, 2011
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
That's what I've added to my stockpot along with some roughly chopped onion (skin on), a carrot, some black peppercorns, mustard seeds, a bay leaf and the main reason all that and some water are in there is the pheasant carcass. Leftover from our Sunday tea.
Normally we get the meat from our local butcher, he's won awards and been on the telly you know, a piece to roast or nice chops or steaks or if the weather is very good s selection of things to go on the bbq grill. One a month though is different. On the last Sunday of each month in one of the next towns over is the farmers and producers market.
All sorts are there. Preserves and jams, specialists in spices and dried goods, fancy cupcakes and plain looking flapjacks, bread of all shapes and sizes, fruit and veg, smoked goods, cheeses and of course meat. The chap with his stall of highland cattle beef joints from yorkshire, all things turkey, the Welsh lamb and lamb from much more locally. One butcher comes down from the southern end of cumbria. His speciality is game. Fur and fowl. In autumn this is at its peak. Rabbit, venison, hare, wood pigeon, teal, partridge and pheasant. Oven ready birds that will make a nice roast for two people with little waste.
So now the leftover bones and meat are getting a second bite at stardom, the centrepiece to a tasty stock that could be used for all sorts of meals. Soup, risotto, or the base for a casserole made with a mix of cuts of game meat also bought at the market, long slow cooking to bring out the best favours served with fresh seasonal root vegetables. Food guaranteed to keep one warm on a cold dark night.
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