Archive for the 'Health' Category

Exciting News About My Cold!

The exciting news referred to in the post title is… that I feel marginally less rough than I did, and if I carry on coughing, sneezing and spluttering green/yellow stuff up and out at the current rate, my body must surely soon run out of toxic waste. Either that, or I’ll have to consider buying [...]

Caught a Cold

I came down with a cold since coming back from the Midlands earlier in the week. I’ve been taking it easy to give myself a chance to get it over with ASAP, but I’m getting bored of hanging about the house all the time. I was supposed to be cycling tomorrow, but I don’t feel [...]

Family Visit

I’ve been away for another family visit so I haven’t had as much exercise as I’d have liked, but I squeezed in what I could. I’ll give you a summary of the last 6 days…

S.A.D. Alert – the End of British Summer Time!

This is where the hard work really starts…
The clocks went back an hour this morning which means it is now getting dark here before 5 pm and sunset will just continue getting earlier and earlier until close to Christmas. I really struggle with this time of year. The local hillsides have been looking lovely [...]

Road Ride – Fettled Basso & Recuperated ColinJ Test

My old cycling pal Bill is back for the summer so I called upon his workshop skills to sort out my Basso which I had stripped down some time ago, but not got round to reassembling.
Bill got stuck in, and after a quick trip down to the LBS (Local Bike Shop) for some replacement ball [...]

Walk – Jumble Hole Clough

Well, I was still feeling ill but I’d been stuck indoors too much this past week so I was determined to get out for a while. It has been my least active week so far this year – that due to a combination of the mysterious ‘lurgy’ that I’ve picked up, but also due to [...]

Aaaargh – Boar Flu (Swine Flu for men)!

There’s been a lot of talk in the media about Swine Flu and how it is going to end civilisation as we know it. I know that a really serious flu outbreak could kill thousands of people but this really doesn’t seem to be it, at least not yet.
I’ve been pretty healthy for the last [...]

Phew – All Clear!

Just a quick personal note. My sister and I took our frail, elderly mother to the hospital today for some medical checks and she got the all-clear – phew! We had been worried about this so it was reassuring that the doctors didn’t find anything to be concerned about.