I bloody hate this. I may well have mentioned it before. For some reason, my corner of Plymouth is blessed with the humidity of Thailand. If I hear one more person on TV, the radio or within reach of my fist go on and on about how lovely it is, murder will be done.

I used to think in my pre-medication days that I always hot due to my simmering blood sugar but now I realise that everyone else is just mad. As I sit here writing this, I would swap my large and moderately valuable Star Trek comic collection for something resembling a breeze.

So anyway.

Hello.

Sincere aplogies for the long gap and all but nothing too exciting has happened. I have been off work all this week and before that it was 5 weeks of Excel, Visual Basic and thinking a bit. I am sure there are 3 or 4 of you who would find that intriguing and interesting. In truth, its quite fun and it does have the distinct advantage of getting me off normal work duties. On the down side, I not earning any more money than usual and Friday arrives with alarming frequency. Normally this would be very cool but when you have a deadline, its bloody frustrating.

I had the first part of my annual Diabetes checkup last week. It was a surprise event as I had only gone in for another jab and the nurse noticed it was due. One feature of each checkup is the foot feeling. Yes, the nice lady feels my feet and checks my pulses and nerve responses. It may be immodest of me, but I do have very nice feet but mild panic did set in when she sprung this spot check on me. I wasn’t even sure I had matching socks on inside the Timberlands. Luckily all was fine. My pulses are still strong and I can still read the bottom line on the eye chart. Finally, she took a pint or so of blood out of my arm for testing and the second part takes place next week with my GP.

I see that the O Level Pass rate has gone up again. Something that seemed to begin the year after I sat mine. My O level tally still shames me like a former life of male prostitution and I have no intention of telling any of you who don’t know already. Suffice to say I now earn a respectable salary and always have.

So there.

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