Sunday, 6 December 2020
Feline Levitation
Trans Dermal Magnesium Supplementation
My massage therapist feels I should be using magnesium oil as diabetics can be magnesium deficient and because of the way my muscles stiffen.
My gut reaction was “horse shit” as one’s skin is generally a pretty poor route for anything to enter the body, but in the interests of fairness, I went looking for the science.
From the conclusion: “However, we cannot yet recommend the application of transdermal magnesium.”.
Basically, there’s insufficient evidence currently for trans dermal supplementation though oral courses may be mandated IF one has been measured as deficient.
Thursday, 13 February 2020
Commuter Yarns #1
I used to work in London. One evening Dad and I were stood in the buffet car, reading. A bloke was giving someone 5 minutely ETA updates on his phone all the way from Paddington.
A man walked up to him from the other end of the car. He took the bloke’s phone from him without a word and threw it out of the open window. He then turned on his heel and walked away, back to his paper.
The phone owner looked like he’d been slapped with a wet haddock!
A man walked up to him from the other end of the car. He took the bloke’s phone from him without a word and threw it out of the open window. He then turned on his heel and walked away, back to his paper.
The phone owner looked like he’d been slapped with a wet haddock!
Saturday, 24 August 2019
Handbag Calamity
A friend on social media asked: “When Spring Cleaning your bag, what is the strangest thing you've found, or perhaps something you usually have that others don't”. It brought back a memory that still makes me blush. No, not for that reason, you naughty people!
A can of Ambrosia Cream Rice with 30% extra... much to the amusement of the colleague who’d asked if he could borrow an emery board.
He said “I thought it was meant to be half a brick in case you were attacked?” I replied that this was better as you had a handy snack having worked up a hunger beating the shit out of cheeky workmates with it.
I’d gone shopping on my way home from work as there was a Morrison’s between my office and Paddington station a few weeks before. I’d been wondering why my bag was so heavy 🙄.
What was worse was that I’d upended my bag on my desk in frustration looking for said emery board. The can had trundled across my metal desk, hit the floor with a sturdy thump, rolled across the floor and hit a third colleague’s desk with a loud clang.
A can of Ambrosia Cream Rice with 30% extra... much to the amusement of the colleague who’d asked if he could borrow an emery board.
He said “I thought it was meant to be half a brick in case you were attacked?” I replied that this was better as you had a handy snack having worked up a hunger beating the shit out of cheeky workmates with it.
I’d gone shopping on my way home from work as there was a Morrison’s between my office and Paddington station a few weeks before. I’d been wondering why my bag was so heavy 🙄.
What was worse was that I’d upended my bag on my desk in frustration looking for said emery board. The can had trundled across my metal desk, hit the floor with a sturdy thump, rolled across the floor and hit a third colleague’s desk with a loud clang.
Thursday, 18 July 2019
50 Years Since the Moon Landings
I was just five but remember watching the moon landings on our tiny black and white TV. It’s greenish screen took forever to warm up within its Bakelite case.
NASA created some amazing solutions to the hazards of space travel that have passed into our everyday life: space blankets, memory foam to name but two.
Today I could have a TV that almost thinks for itself to watch plans for a trip to Mars on. What have we done since that comes anywhere near producing the same levels of exploratory optimism? I can’t help but note that whilst communication has leapt forward in its ease, mankind has gone backward, misusing both our planet and each other. Will it take near extinction for our species to wake up?
NASA created some amazing solutions to the hazards of space travel that have passed into our everyday life: space blankets, memory foam to name but two.
Today I could have a TV that almost thinks for itself to watch plans for a trip to Mars on. What have we done since that comes anywhere near producing the same levels of exploratory optimism? I can’t help but note that whilst communication has leapt forward in its ease, mankind has gone backward, misusing both our planet and each other. Will it take near extinction for our species to wake up?
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Menstruation
A BBC news article asks if it is time to end the veil of secrecy surrounding menstruation?
I say yes, it needs to end.
Too many women globally are still made to feel ‘dirty’ or ‘unclean’ during their period. Too many girls still start without being prepared. Too many women go through menopause without knowing what to expect or what is available to help. Too many women are unsure about what is normal and what isn’t regarding their own body and some receive unnecessary medical treatment as a result. Still too little is understood about the biology of menstruation scientifically which means that treatments for menstrual irregularities are positively Medieval. Too many girls are missing schooling either because they are ostracised from society during their period or because they lack access to sanitary protection. Our silence as women feeds into the mythology that women are somehow ‘lesser’ because we bleed.
I say yes, it needs to end.
Too many women globally are still made to feel ‘dirty’ or ‘unclean’ during their period. Too many girls still start without being prepared. Too many women go through menopause without knowing what to expect or what is available to help. Too many women are unsure about what is normal and what isn’t regarding their own body and some receive unnecessary medical treatment as a result. Still too little is understood about the biology of menstruation scientifically which means that treatments for menstrual irregularities are positively Medieval. Too many girls are missing schooling either because they are ostracised from society during their period or because they lack access to sanitary protection. Our silence as women feeds into the mythology that women are somehow ‘lesser’ because we bleed.
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Keeping the Kids in Bed
As a result of my post on 1970s home decorating in Facebook, I've remembered why we kids didn't get up at dawn and disturb our parents. The lack of bedroom heating and relatively colder winters meant ice on the inside of the window glass.
Not that you could get up if you were stopping with Granny Greyhips (my Dad's Mum) in Townhill, Dunfermline. The beds had flannelette sheets, two (at least) good wool blankets, a candlewick bedspread, and a matching Eiderdown of truly epic weight. Basically, you had to be at least twelve before you had the strength to get out of bed unassisted!
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