Diabetes Warning – Look After Your Feet!
If your feet, toes, fingers or hands tingle, or feel numb more often than not, and for no reason, go and see your doctor. Immediately. It might be nothing, but what have you got to lose?
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Writing Prompts – Ending or Feeding Procrastination?
I have several boards on Pinterest – https://uk.pinterest.com/daverfarmer – that range from Zombie Art to Beautiful words, Adventure photos and Writing Prompts. It has become my go-to app, and my favourite time sponge. Recently I’ve struggled with writing. Not the actual physical act of tapping away on the keyboard, or indeed the dreaming and scheming…
Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 3
When asked if there was a highlight of my Africa trip I feel my face scrunch up as I struggle to blurt out one specific thing that will make the asker happy. It’s like pushing someone to state what aspect of breathing oxygen they find the best. “Well, since it keeps me alive I kinda…
Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 2
With my Kilimanjaro summit dream dead and gone (for this trip at least) I was brought back to Moshi in a ramshackle, bouncy 4×4 truck, driven by a park ranger obsessed with two mobile phones. On the plus side we encountered a troop of baboons hurtling along the road ahead of the truck before they…
Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 1
That’s me at my summit. Shira Camp 1. Kilimanjaro. Tanzania. That’s in Africa, a place I’d never planned to visit, not through any particular fear but because I was comfortable within my little bubble. I had my work, my writing, dogs, popping to the shops, mooching around Cambridge. Nice and simple and safe. Like Sheldon…
The Dreamers of Dreams
I’ve said before that I’m not a fan of anyone sharing random memes because they’re often thrust online with little thought as to why they want to share that message, other than jumping on a social media junkie trend train to show how clued up/smart/linked in/connected/down with the shizzle they are. Choo fucking choo. Today…
We Have Too Much Choice!
If you’re not in the mood to read a seriously pissed off rant, dear blog reader, and are looking to read something sedate and pedestrian, then you’re shit out of luck because I’m here to rant about how we are given way too much choice in life. Today I’ll be pitching the polite humble…
