Imagine… Your day started as early as 4am as you made your way to Olympic Park for the start of the Prudential Ride London 100. Your nerves and adrenalin were sky high as you set off from Olympic Park amongst 25000 riders. You’ve been riding for hours, mostly without a …
A couple of weeks ago Jane and I were invited to attend the Pop4Diabetes ball as a thank you from DRWF for things I’ve done for them. Claire and Lee from DRWF hosted us for the evening, alongside other volunteers such as Lynwood who does a lot of fundraising and …
Amy shows off the carb counting scales she won at the SweetMeet In the middle of a busy weekend – clinic yesterday, TeamBloodGlucose cycle ride tomorrow – Amy and I had an invite to the second SweetMeet organised by the team at Portsmouth’s QA hospital. For us it was another …
I joined many other friends and local people with diabetes at the 6th Annual Diabetes Wellness Day South, held by the Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation in Southampton. Last year’s event was a good one so I had high hopes that this one would be as good; it was. The …
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation Raising awareness locally Last weekend a few Twitter friends and some of their families went to Havant shopping centre to raise awareness and money for DRWF, an international diabetes charity whose UK base is quite close to me. DRWF are unique in that they are …
Announcement of new blog, November 2012 On World Diabetes Day 2012 our new blog, Circles of Blue, went live. What a year it has been. A good year. A year of dealing with diabetes proactively. A year of diabetes advocacy. whirl (hwûrl, wûrl) verb. whirled, whirl·ing, whirls 1. To …
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 …