Today it occurred to me that I could get my own back on the squirrels who have had pretty much every walnut that has ever appeared on my tree by picking them early and pickling them, as I believe they have to be pickled before the shell starts to form.
I picked one and cut it open just to see what they looked like.
I think they might need a little longer, but I’ve never done this before so I’m going to have to do a bit of research first.
I’ve really no idea what was going on here. This is my first full day on the Ramipril (still with Lacidipine, too). I felt absolutely wiped out and hardly managed to do anything.
Morning reading. Unexpectedly low compared with previously, but acceptable.
Early afternoon. What?!
Evening. Back up (fortunately), though still considerably lower than previously. I’m sure I can live with that though.
If it continues like this though, I shall be visiting the GP again before my appointment on Friday.
Another Dog Vomit Fungus. Two days before I took this picture, when I was weeding in the polycrub, there was no sign of it. Now it is about 50cm across!
It’s a slow job, but a friend came to help out today…
of a certain wedding in New York this weekend, I thought I should offer my own “shorthand” for referring to the happy couple:
Traylor
You heard it here first.
Well, not entirely. The first reading was this morning before I took the Lacidipine.
Then early afternoon, not long after taking 5mg Ramipril.
And this evening.
I don’t want to get my hopes up too far, but that is much more promising. Ok, so the figure is still high, but I don’t feel awful at a BP that has been unpleasant on Lacidipine alone, and my heart rate is somewhere I’m much happier with it.
My BP measurements for yesterday. Probably not that relevant now my meds are being changed.
I ended up having a bit of a medication review today when it hadn’t initially been intended. After explaining all the problems I’ve been having whilst on Amlodipine and Lacidipine, it has now been decided (I think) that I should transition to Ramipril, taking 5mg with the Lacidipine for this week and then after a review next Friday taking another 5mg in the evening.
I’m not completely convinced it’s going to change things though, as I took a dose of Ramipril around lunchtime today (as instructed) and four or five hours later I was again feeling slightly unsteady on my feet which wasn’t the case at that time of day when I was only taking the Lacidipine. We shall see in a few week’s time, I guess.
On a really positive note, they’ve now told me that I can see the same GP each time, which at least means I should avoid the situation that happened a couple of months back when I was talking to a GP for the first time on the phone and he admitted that he didn’t understand the notes he was reading.
Lamb kebabs containing little (or no) actual lamb.
You’ve got to be kidding!
It’s been a few decades since I last ate a kebab from a kebab shop, but I think everyone was always aware that the meat was hardly of the highest quality. That it should turn out to contain very little lamb, or even none at all, is on one level quite amusing though. Particularly as there seems to be some sort of horror about the idea of eating goat. I don’t have a problem with that at all. The photo in the article of the ground up “meat paste” isn’t desperately appealing though.
The most bizarre part of the article for me however is the quote from the business’s representative in court saying that the company had “taken its eye off the ball”. I’m sure you don’t accidentally go ordering “waste” pork, goat and mutton instead of lamb by accident. I’m sure surprised they took their eye off the ball though. They probably threw it in with all the other ingredients.
So, on my list of food that has been found to be fake, say, since 2000, we have:
I’m sure there will be others that I’ve forgotten. And I’ll step away from the crab sticks, but the videos are on YouTube if you want to watch them.
The evening one this time. I could claim it’s down to the excitement of the England/Congo World Cup match, but I didn’t watch it and from the reports it sounds like there wasn’t much excitement to be had anyhow.
