I’m following the Wahls Protocol at the moment, a primarily dietary approach to treating intractable auto-immune problems. The basis of the protocol is the need to have about 12 servings of vegetables and berries a day and lots of healthy oils and no grains. That’s a lot of vegetables, especially...
I asked my specialist this question a few months ago and he looked back at me like a rabbit trapped in the headlights, “I just match symptoms to drugs” he said, useless! I wanted to know what was happening to cause the brain fog, why I suddenly needed 2 hours...
Today I’m repairing the bathroom. On Friday I removed the loose tiles, cleaned them up and removed the sodden plasterboard that was behind them. I then replaced the plaster board with broken tiles to build up the levels and applied the cleaned up tiles again. This is all dry now,...
As I emptied the recycling from the kitchen into the bin today I was struck by just how amazing the contents would have seemed only a few hundred years ago. The aluminium cans, the trays, the glass and plastic bottles would have been treasures, now they are rubbish. The seven...
Most retirement planners suggest that planning for retirement should start about 5 years before your target retirement date, I’m 4 years away now but forced retirement AKA redundancy is a possibility before then. I need to start planning, and there’s lots to think about. This post sketches out the topics...
I’ve setup a journal on this blog, the journal is for posts that are for me only. In theory they won’t appear for anyone else and email notifications won’t work either. All journal posts are added to the category Journal
Very exciting day for me today, Steph started blogging about her travelling. She’s starting off in Hong Kong, then moving on to Hangzhou in mainland China and then she’s going touring China. She’s then home for a few weeks before spending a year in Japan. I’m very conflicted about this. ...
In my reading I often come across the fact that hunter gatherer populations didn’t and still don’t suffer from many of the chronic health problems that we suffer from in the west. One of these conditions (or families of conditions) is Rheumatoid Arthritis, which Adult Onset Still’s Disease is part...
Well, as planned I took advantage of the good weather and a week’s holiday and did the major clear out, tidy up, restructure and fix up of the garden buildings. It was a major job, involving 8 car loads of rubbish going to the recycling centre, the whole of the...
There’s a woman who’s started to come into Caffe Nero early in the morning, she’s a friend of one of the most positive people I’ve ever met who started bringing her to my haven to ‘cheer her up’. This elderly lady exudes negativity from every pore and she has the...