Recent Content by Niall27

Some of these are excellent ideas I can definitely look into. There is plenty of water around, but I would need to learn how to use a sea kayak safely, so I'm not sure how that would work. I have always wanted to learn to sail, and there are sailing clubs at every little harbour all around the...

Thanks, folks. Yes, cardio is not the problem. Most weeks I exceed the cardio recommendations, sometimes by a considerable margin. I invested in a set (to 3 kilos) of weights, and plus some resistance bands, and have a rowing machine left over from the height of the covid pandemic. There is no...

I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes about 15 months ago. Since then I have brought my A1C levels down from dangerously high to just within the bottom end of prediabetic with a combination of the elimination of just about all carbohydrates, a lot of walking, a certain amount of Munro- and Corbett...

I grind dried wood ear mushrooms to a fine powder in a spice grinder. This absorbs several times its own weight in water. You can find them in Chinese grocers. Other dried mushrooms would work, but this seems to be the one that absorbs most water.