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5.1 this morning. Still a bit low-energy, but I have a lot to do today, so had better get on with it!

Morning, all! Still a bit low-energy this morning, but better than yesterday. Breakfast has been overnight oats with the usual trimmings, a fig, orange juice and coffee. I have a lot to do today, so hope I can find enough energy to do it!

Whereas I love snails - but I won't touch oysters, and prawns and shrimps tend to make me feel sick, so I avoid them. I like daikon radish (it is the same thing as mooli, isn't it?) in the winter, adding a chunk to a winter vegetable stew to lighten it. Forgot last winter, as Lidl doesn't sell...

Love it! It's sharper than ordinary yoghurt, and I think it has slightly different strains of culture. I've just made another pot of it (and eaten the other half of the starter pot with fresh fruit!).

I make my overnight oats with 1/4 cup (60 ml) oatmeal and 1/2 tbs chia seeds (or milled flax seeds, but I prefer chia seeds), and oat milk (taste, not virtue - if I'm out of it, i'll use water), then add fruit and yoghurt. Also you can - but I've not ironed out the kinks yet - make...

It hasn't been a good day. I had a ridiculous breakfast, as stated above, but really felt as though I might be getting a migraine. I do get them once in a great while. I did the qi gong finger exercise for it, and the threat receded, but I've felt "off" all day and haven't had any exercise...

Didn't there used to be ads saying: "Always thirsty? Always going to the loo? Always tired all the time?" as symptoms of diabetes? For goodness sake, go and see your doctor and don't self-diagnose!

I think it's elavegan.com.

My brother gets gout, and I believe he relies on a supplement called sour cherry juice, which is thought to reduce gout flare-ups.

Similar to me; I don't know what mine was, I was just told it was "very high" and that I needed to go on 2000g Metformin immediately, if not sooner! I pointed out that this couldn't have happened overnight, and why hadn't it been flagged in previous years, but apparently "they had all been too...

I haven't heard of that one! I do know that the lower the GI, the more carbs we can tolerate (and, of course, many low GI carbs have loads of fibre, which is so important in our diet).

You can also make bread - I have - with soaked chickpeas and psyllium husks. And, which I haven't yet tried, with lentils. There's a site called Ellavegan (google her) which provides such recipes. Many of my husband's family have coeliac disease and need to eat gluten-free, so they were...

Damp and very humid here! Mr Redboots (usually referred to as the Swan Whisperer) went for a run this morning, and then had to dash down to the Youth Club as the person who runs a French playgroup there on a Monday morning had managed to lock herself out. She had made crepes, and gave him...

4.7 this morning! Jumping about all over the place, but as long as it's within range, I really don't mind! Slept welll, although I was awake for the day at 06:00, which I could have done without,

Supper was sausage, mash, cauliflower and baked beans, followed by yoghurt with fresh raspberries, and a small lager. Now trying to persuade myself I'm not really hungry, and anyway I've cleaned my teeth, both real and fake! And I did sleep after lunch, so didn't go out!

I do wish the medical profession - and the media - wouldn't put everything down to weight! For years, I wouldn't go to the doctor because I was badly overweight, and I was convinced they'd tell me that my sore throat (or whatever) was because I was fat! I was at boarding-school, and whenever...

I am now, but only since last September (Ascend Plus Trial); my 2025 HbAC1 was, so I am told, pre-diabetic! "Keep on doing what you're doing!" said my GP, so I did! And then got invited on the trial, which I accepted!

This is exactly what happened to me - after my annual health check, I had a call out of the blue from one of the doctors at my local health centre saying my HbA1C was through the roof, and I needed to go on metformin immediately, if not sooner. I refused at first - I had absolutely no symptoms...

My mother (who is 98) has one of those disability trolleys, and finds it incredibly useful, both in the kitchen and around the ground floor generally. She has others for upstairs and out-of-doors (although that's usually only from the house to the car, as she uses a wheelchair or mobility...

That was, thankfully, a year ago, and all seems to be well.