In a way, trying to understand why I drink once a week might be the key to understanding my health problems. There's a rhythm where we urinate, I might have messed that up through drininking vast amounts of beer.

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I like the start of this - 'no more war' - not the rest ( Read more... )

I made soup this week, a traditional vegetable soup with barley, and instead of just using a liquid stock or a cube from the supermarket I made chicken stock, dragging the pressure cooker out from under the kitchen table where it's been since I stopped making stock for drinking a few weeks ago. Using proper stock made such an improvement to the ( Read more... )

I'm taking a new approach to my health problems, while keeping my current pill regime going of course (until I run out anyway). I'm thinking now it might be a gut problem. Drinking so much beer might have wrecked my gut. I had a bit of a smell in my, I don't know, last decade of drinking. I didn't drink vodka or whiskey (I was quite food of a good ( Read more... )

I really think the damage blue screen addiction does to young people is under appreciated. When I was a teenager if I was bored I'd go to a friend's house, now teenagers get a quick hit from the blue screens on their mobiles, which alleviates the boredom to an extent. Consequently they don't end up developing social skills to the extent they should ( Read more... )

My next, after two or three novels, read, Dosoyevsky in Love: An Intimate Life. It got a good review on the library website. I'm reading a lot about Dostoyevsky before I get around to his biography, for some reason.

After 8 months in prison, a group of young men sentenced to death for sharing “treasonous” literature is marched into a wintry square ( Read more... )

I'm watching Mexican boxing, it really is on a different level to anywhere else - the winner of the fight I'm watching, 21 year Leonardo Rubalcava had only had eight professional fights, which seemed very few for a Mexican, then the commentators mentioned that he'd had 140 amateur fights, if he'd started at twelve that's around one a month, for ( Read more... )

Another bloody supplement - berberine. I suppose I shouldn't complain. I want my lifespan to be equivalent to my healthspan, as Mark Hyman says. The explorer Richard Burton who I'm always waffling on about - his biography by Edward Rice is one of the best books I've ever read - was taking five mile walks with his doctor the week before he died. He ( Read more... )

I'm now certain my weekly drinking is down to the monotony of being ill all the time. I'm hopeful about the magnesium though. On Friday I fought off the temptation to go for beer, as I do most Fridays, and that night had a nap at 11pm, an unusually late time for a nap. I slept for an hour then woke up so exhausted that I could only lie there ( Read more... )

Sadly I'm back on the beer, it's only once a week, and has been for the last year or two. Who gives a sh*t. I know the angels don't, they're high on the word!

Since I've quit the beer I have a bit more wriggle room in my weekly shop. I have to get to €50 to avail of the discounted delivery rate (it's only €2 off but it's the principle that matters!) so I've been spending a bit more on food, namely I'm buying fish. I made lox bagels, it's really easy, the only cooking needed is toasting a bagel ( Read more... )