On a good day he could run the course in about 15 minutes I reckoned, say 20 minutes.
The minutes ticked past 20, no sign.
25 minutes went by, OK maybe he got a bit lost or was a bit tired.
30 minutes had now gone since Aleksi went out on his orienteering course.
Now I was a little concerned, I grabbed a gel pack and my crutch but just before I decided to panic and run into the woods searching for him I rang him on his phone. He wears one of Tallygears tummietotes when orienteering, 3 pouches for the pump, a fruit bar snack and his phone.
He answers with a cheery Hello - great he is not lost or so low he can't go any further. No my little man had met another little guy on his course and they had been gently jogging, walking and chatting their merry way round the course. 2 minutes later he charged down to the finishing line waving his map at me as he passed. Big sigh, more grey hairs, just another day!
Monday, 29 August 2011
Thursday, 25 August 2011
More summer fun.....
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| Caught a big fish!! |
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| Fed the duck family.... |
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| chatted to the train driver..... |
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| took the steam drain to Mallaig, passing over a familiar bridge...... |
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| went skimming stones in the old slate quarry at Ballachulish..... |
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| had a go at rock climbing.... |
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| My haven't we grown!!!!! |
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| had a great time at the Camera Obscura exhibition in Edinburgh! |
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Love/Hate
Why I love this time of year in the Finnish forests
Free food - chanterelles and boletus - Yum!
Why I hate this time of year in the Finnish forests
The dreaded Elk fly - Think spiders with wings..........
Free food - chanterelles and boletus - Yum!
Why I hate this time of year in the Finnish forests
The dreaded Elk fly - Think spiders with wings..........
Monday, 4 July 2011
I know what we did this summer......
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| Caught some fish...... |
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| Experimented with cornflour, inspired by Mythbusters!(Complete with serious summer haircut!!) |
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| Planned a morning swim in the lake...... |
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| Stayed on a 'ship hotel'....... |
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| Found a great use for the minibar... |
Ate Candy Floss - guestimated at 40g carbs!
Took the fast train.......
Went Orienteering.......
and made more Mythbuster mess!!
The best bit - we've still got weeks more to go!
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Don't cook the insulin!
Take one small boy on school holiday.
Add one week of sports activity in 25-30 degrees C heat.
Attach one insulin pump in groovy sports pouch to hot sweaty body of above small boy.
Allow to run around for 6 hours.
(Pull off failed CGM sensor after 2½ days(Grrrr)) optional
Watch blood sugar fail and rise like the Himalayas.
A tried and tested recipe for cooked insulin - works everytime!!
On a side note, I went shopping today for the biggest bottle of fizzy brown liquid I could find, along with a large tube of sweets. While it may work wonders for raising those sport induced lows, we have a mission. We are doing MYTHBUSTERS!! I'm sure you have all seen those videos and inspired by a great episode of Adam and Jamie we are undertaking our own science experiment - the coke and mints fountain. Not in my garden I hasten to add but in the safe piece of marshland next to the lake at the summer cottage - So exciting!!
Add one week of sports activity in 25-30 degrees C heat.
Attach one insulin pump in groovy sports pouch to hot sweaty body of above small boy.
Allow to run around for 6 hours.
(Pull off failed CGM sensor after 2½ days(Grrrr)) optional
Watch blood sugar fail and rise like the Himalayas.
A tried and tested recipe for cooked insulin - works everytime!!
On a side note, I went shopping today for the biggest bottle of fizzy brown liquid I could find, along with a large tube of sweets. While it may work wonders for raising those sport induced lows, we have a mission. We are doing MYTHBUSTERS!! I'm sure you have all seen those videos and inspired by a great episode of Adam and Jamie we are undertaking our own science experiment - the coke and mints fountain. Not in my garden I hasten to add but in the safe piece of marshland next to the lake at the summer cottage - So exciting!!
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Note to self...
Don't look at the screen of an insulin pump with 3D cinema glasses on unless you want a heart attack in the cinema...... Quick edit - it shows a horrible black screen with multi coloured splodges on it - thought we had complete pump failure, but no just had my groovy 3D specs on!!!!
Don't let the general public loose with felting needles unless you want a bent broken heap of metal in return...
Don't feed the cat that new cat food unless you want cat sick all over your magazines/clean washing/middle of the stairs.....
Don't let the general public loose with felting needles unless you want a bent broken heap of metal in return...
Don't feed the cat that new cat food unless you want cat sick all over your magazines/clean washing/middle of the stairs.....
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Writing
Writing does not come easily to me. I only ever managed to scrape a couple of pages of a small exercise book at school for that 'create a story ' homework. Even in my job as a Physiotherapist I didn't have to write much and even then it looked a bit like this
#RNOF-> RTHR. SLR/ hip Flex exs. Up FWB. FU OP 6/52.
Another language isn't it!
I have been blogging for just over 3 years now and my writing is still hit and miss! Nowadays the most writing I ever do with a pen is entering blood sugar numbers into a logbook and that is usually a frenzied catch up every fortnight or so! Will the day ever come when we don't have to use a pen? Even the need for signatures is dwindling with chip and pin and online form filling.
OK that's out of my system now - time to go do something I can do - making things. Yes alien production line in full flow! May have to do an Alien Sugar bolus - there's a phrase I'd never thought I'd write......
#RNOF-> RTHR. SLR/ hip Flex exs. Up FWB. FU OP 6/52.
Another language isn't it!
I have been blogging for just over 3 years now and my writing is still hit and miss! Nowadays the most writing I ever do with a pen is entering blood sugar numbers into a logbook and that is usually a frenzied catch up every fortnight or so! Will the day ever come when we don't have to use a pen? Even the need for signatures is dwindling with chip and pin and online form filling.
OK that's out of my system now - time to go do something I can do - making things. Yes alien production line in full flow! May have to do an Alien Sugar bolus - there's a phrase I'd never thought I'd write......
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