Le disgrace

After an afternoon/evening in town with Trevor; currently watching a documentary about Lance Armstrong and doping. I’m one of the many people who believed in him at the time, but it’s shocking how deliberate the whole thing was. The attempted cover up was even worse.

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One has to wonder whether he would have made it without transfusions, hormones, etc. He possibly could;  never for so many years, but surely one or two.

The threats against people who’d potentially give evidence is particularly disappointing.

Gardening

I don’t think I’d quite realised how much the bush in front of the shed had grown. After some pruning, the shed is once more visible.

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Father Neil Hannon

My youngest child has been hinting for tickets to see the Divine Comedy as a birthday present. I may have explored such things before hints, but Ticketmaster seemed to have lost my debit card details and had refused to let me update them. So I gave up an paid by credit card.

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Now reducing my blood pressure with red wine and Augustines.

Garden

I do so love our garden. It may not be he prettiest, but it’s sort of cute.

After meeting my second in command for an apres work beer in the Split Chimp, we went to Tesco to buy wine and nuts (good for blood pressure), then spent a little while in our little garden.

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I made stuff too, while my second in command was Facebook-ing.

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It may have actually have taken me 12 years or more, but what the hell. A piece of hawthorn I cut when I was 14 or 15. An offcut.

The pigeon, above, is an old friend. If I don’t leap about, he just wanders about.

Mr Lydon

Along with many men of a certain age, Dave and I went to see Public Image Limited yesterday evening, at the Point, in Sunderland. All told, an excellent evening.

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Blood pressure/wine

Currently 128/77. Red wine seems to be the answer. I could bottle it as a high blood pressure cure at twice the price. More if it works for low pressure too, but I’d need to test it. If anyone has low blood pressure, I can be contacted at ….

Jukebox

The space previously occupied by the (deceased) jukebox has been empty way too long. So I have begun to construct some shelves.

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A picture of the finished project will follow.

Wine

In a controlled experiment (really), I’ve found a correlation between drinking wine and lowered blood pressure. I do recognise that correlation does not imply causality, but I’ve concluded that I need to continue drinking wine to further reduce my blood pressure.

Blood pressure

After last Saturday’s scare at my asthma check-up, my second in command has purchased a blood pressure device. I tested said device at various times yesterday, then again this morning. I decided that it would be wise to record my blood pressure at intervals before my appointment with my GP. Determined to avoid medication, I wanted to show that I have some form of white coat syndrome. I’ve also made some pretty severe dietary changes, even though I already had a decently healthy diet.

My first day’s readings are strange, varying quite madly at different times of day, from borderline mild hypertension to dead. I may have not used the device correctly for the latter. Thinking positively, my blood pressure isn’t (well, in one day) consistently excessively high.

I shall continue using the device, perhaps conducting a test involving beer.