The Big Event The Big Event lived up to its name with people coming from all over the UK to listen to topics about diabetes for all types (1, 2, etc.) in a single location. It’s an awareness day very similar to the JDRF awareness days (1 and 2), the …
Aiming to inspire Hedgie Pricks Diabetes (HPD) was set up by Zoe Scott with the aim to promote greater awareness of the psychological, emotional and social issues faced by any person with diabetes (PWD). As a father I’m especially concerned about these issues affecting my daughter, who’ll enter her teenage …
Day two at Alton Towers Our first day at Alton Towers was a great success, albeit slightly damp from the rain. Today was going to be different on many ways: it was sunny; it was the weekend, so queues would be longer; we were meeting other people from the #DOC. …
It’s teacher training day For the first time in years both my kids were in the same school this year and we’d promised that we’d take them to Alton Towers on the first summer-ish teacher training day. So way back in November I booked up a hotel nearby for a …
Colossus at Thorpe Parkc/o Wikimedia Commons Did you know… …that someone with Type 1 Diabetes can avoid queueing for ages at some theme parks? Fast tracking rides at Alton Towers A couple of days ago I blogged about how to get a ‘special access’ ride pass at Alton Towers for …
Did you know… …that someone with Type 1 Diabetes can avoid queueing for ages? Until recently I didn’t but some people in the Twitter #DOC (diabetes online community) made me aware of it and (after having just returned from two days at the theme park) I’m really glad they did. …
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation Going, then not going, then going again I had originally planned to go to this event, but then something else turned up, I got sidetracked and never put it in my diary. If I’m honest the photos of the previous year’s event didn’t inspire me …
Gav’s GBR30/30 Challenge poster This article is about my involvement with Gav’s challenge, where I cycled next to him during the last four days of his challenge, whilst he ran 30 miles or more each day for JDRF and DiabetesUK. If you’re expecting to find out about how Gav got …
Gav’s GBR30/30 Challenge poster This article is about my involvement with Gav’s challenge, where I cycled next to him during the last four days of his challenge, whilst he ran 30 miles or more each day for JDRF and DiabetesUK. If you’re expecting to find out about how Gav got …
Gav’s GBR30/30 Challenge poster This article is about my involvement with Gav’s challenge, where I cycled next to him during the last four days of his challenge, whilst he ran 30 miles or more each day for JDRF and DiabetesUK. If you’re expecting to find out about how Gav got …
My second Discovery Day Even before we “met” this Discovery Day and I have had a rocky relationship: “she” was the first one I booked but then I ditched her in favour of meeting friends at the Bristol JDRF Discovery Day in April. But she wouldn’t leave me alone, bombing …
Dr Iain Cranston let’s us know about future improvements Many months ago Dr Kar from Portsmouth’s QA hospital tweeted a question to the diabetes online community to see if there was any interest in an idea he (or his team) had: would people like the opportunity to meet with healthcare …
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation – the world’s biggest Type 1 Diabetes Charity What’s a Discovery Day? A JDRF Discovery Day is an event which is organised by JDRF for its supporters to learn about research currently going on, about reasons why people get type 1 diabetes, about other interesting areas …
Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower glows blue for World Diabetes Day 2012 Today marked the first time where any members of our family actually did anything connected with World Diabetes Day. Last year should have been the first but we didn’t know about it, only Twitter made sure we knew about this …