An improvement (from my point of view)

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Another day, another forgotten reading in the evening, but I can at least cope with 140. It’s not enjoyable, but it doesn’t leave me completely wasted. Just mostly 😀

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Break out your recipes!

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

The courglut is about to start 😀 Any day now we’ll be knee deep in courgettes.

I’m also running out of coleslaw to have with lunch so cut another cabbage in (say it) anticipation. I think this one is going to make an awful lot of coleslaw 😀

My biggest white cabbage ever, though I suspect there are bigger to come.

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It’s all going a bit Pete Tong

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Getting close to the limit in the morning, a hideous drop in the afternoon which I did mostly spend lying on the sofa, either awake, daydreaming or asleep, and then I forgot in the evening.

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A confusing letter from the NHS

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Not the National Honey Show 🙂 The National Health Service.

At our last meeting my GP said that I should go for an ECG and an ultrasound scan of my kidneys. I thought he was going to organise the former and he gave me a sheet of details that I needed to sort out the latter for myself. Then I received a message saying that I needed to call the surgery to organise an ECG and today received a letter from the NHS saying that my urinary tract scan has been booked for late August.

I’m not sure if a urinary tract scan and a kidney scan are the same thing. I shall have to call on Monday to make sure there hasn’t been a cock-up (if you’ll excuse the pun 😀

The ECG is no big deal but for the fact that they’ll want to shave some of my chest and leave me looking like a panda with alopecia. I’ve done an echocardiogram before — an ultrasound of the heart, basically, but not one for the kidneys, so that will be interesting.

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That’s about what I can cope with

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

The first (morning) reading, that is. The plummet to 136 (which seems to be a popular afternoon reading) is just too much. Then I forgot to do the evening one.

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A good start

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Then it all went downhill from there 🙁 I felt so awful in the afternoon. Second reading is before lunch again, third is after.

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A first “proper” tomato harvest

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

All from the Garnet vines (they often do stay a little green at the top). Lovely to have with lunch, especially in the warm weather. May there be many more.

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Living on the edge in the morning

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Not far off 200 first thing 🙁 And then a drop all the way down to the 120s in a matter of hours — the second reading is pre-lunch and the third post-lunch. This is really quite punishing. At these levels, for now at least, I am completely useless.

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Delights from the veg plot

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

This pepper is looking so nice. Can’t wait for it to change colour. I don’t actually know what colour it is going to be. It’s either a red or a yellow Corno di Toro, but I carelessly dropped one batch of seeds into the other when I was saving them last year so it’s anyone’s guess 😀

Also in the polytunnel, the tomatoes are now starting to colour up en masse. Can’t wait for these to be ready to eat so we can stop buying ones that are nowhere near as nice from the supermarket.

And out in the main plot, I think this is a spaghetti squash starting to form (yes, another seed mix-up, though for different reasons 😀

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Just the two readings today

Posted on August 2, 2026 by james

Another difficult day with an afternoon reading of 136 again. At least the morning readings seem to have stabilised below 200, though I suspect the GP is still not going to be happy with one that high.

(Ok, so I lied in the title. It was actually three. I’d just misplaced the last image…)

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