I do understand the physics involved, but thanks to the current global political situation we see plenty of photos of oil tankers and cargo ships on the news and I can’t help but think that they really shouldn’t stay upright. They so look like they should roll over 😀
I guess it’s similar to the fact that an aircraft weighing hundreds of tonnes can fly.
It’s all magic, I tell you. All magic!
As they say on the interwebs.
Missed doing a BP reading this morning, but didn’t feel great this afternoon and felt that this reading explained it.
But then I took a reading this evening when I felt much better, and
What?! How does that make sense? I might have to discount it as experimental error and see how the next few days go 😀
It’s the first hydration break, and I am presently leading 17-1. Little blighters were coming at me mob-handed this afternoon, within a couple of minutes of my arrival in the veggie plot. I’m slightly worried that by killing off so many in previous years, I’m evolving a smarter horsefly 😀
More weeding again today. I was hoping to get stuff planted out too, but… life. Nevertheless, the current compost heap became larger by five heavily loaded wheelbarrows of weeds, mostly nettles and cleavers. I kind of like weeding cleavers. You can just throw them at the wheelbarrow and they stick there. On the other hand I do have a few light welts on my arms between where the cuffs of my gloves protected them and the ends of my t-shirt sleeves.
My weeding did however reveal a crop I was more than happy to harvest.
Plenty more to come. Just need to unbury them first.
BP readings for yesterday, morning, mid-afternoon and evening.
On top of one of the compost heaps, in the sunshine 😀
Found whilst I was weeding out some creeping thistle this afternoon. No sign of mushrooms in my logs as yet, but at least I know I can grow them somewhere 😀
No idea what variety they might be.
Surprise, surprise, more weeding today. I finished uncovering the beetroot and sugar snap peas and weeded around them as well as doing a bit of path. The yellow beetroot aren’t doing quite as well as the red, but I think I may have planted them out slightly later.
The sugar snaps appear to be recovering well after they were heavily pruned by visiting deer. It won’t be too long until we have enough for a meal.
One “weed” I didn’t remove was a purple poppy. I’ll wait for these seeds to ripen and sow them elsewhere in the garden for next year.
I managed to remove the broken bracket this morning. There wasn’t an awful lot of room to play with and I added a few more scrapes to my forearms. This is it.
Now I need to work out how to hold the two pieces in the correct orientation, have a bit of a practice with the welder as it’s been a while, and then get it joined back together.
I hate going on about blood pressure stuff, but honestly it is rather dominating my life right now. I think however that I am getting to the point of understanding what is going on better, unless I’m completely wrong 😀
This is my (pre-meds) reading from yesterday morning:
And early afternoon:
And evening (fairly late this one, because I was at a meeting):
This suggests to me that what I’m taking at the moment (2mg Lacidipine) isn’t having much of an effect beyond ten to twelve hours, leaving my BP at its “normal” level overnight. I’m also coming to believe that a drop of 50mmHg or more between morning and afternoon is something my body just can’t cope with. I have a further suspicion that what I’m eating for lunch has some sort of effect too, to the point where the drop can be 60mmHg or more.
I’m going to keep track of this for a week or so, but I think it might well be time to ask for a medication review.
