Avid readers of your very own soaraway Shoot Up won’t failed to have seen our interview with one of the founders of the brilliant Pendsey Trust. We thought it was such a great cause that I and my chum Stephan decided to cycle alongside Hadrian’s Wall dressed as Romans in a Shoot Up first –… Read More »
Recently your soaraway Shoot Up was contacted by Lucy Laycock, one of the founding members of The Pendsey Trust: a UK-based charity dedicated to helping people with type 1 in developing countries. Eager to talk about a good cause and prop up our rather shaky journalistic credentials, Lucy agreed to help us out with an… Read More »
During this last weekend I’ve been playing a favoured game of all diabetics the world over – the fabulous sport of “Hunt the Hyper”! Since Victorian times most of the sports we love and enjoy have been strictly codified; with complex, detailed and in-depth rules and customs. Not so with Hunt the Hyper. No, this… Read More »
Well, chaps, I’m afraid it’s that time of the year again. It’s cold, dark, wet, you’re forced to buy expensive presents for distant cousins you don’t like and you have to pretend to be cheerful. However, in amongst this Stygian bleakness is the one ray of the light that is the wondrous spectacle of the… Read More »
Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up forum will recall that we got in touch with Team Type 1 and put some questions about cycling and diabetes to Fabio Calabria – a massively talented professional cyclist and top athlete. He’s won the King of the Mountains Classification in the De Bortoli Tour and the New… Read More »
“You’re lazy, fat and ugly!” are just some of the insults I’ve never had thrown at me. But, despite their non-existence as Tim-directed abuse, it’s certainly true that I’m quite lazy, especially when it comes to exercise. I know that jogging or going to the gym is good for you. Exercise seems to cure, or… Read More »
Today – 14th November – is World Diabetes Day. I like to think of it as a sort of wild party where diabetics the world around can celebrate their failed pancreases with booze, cake, wild parties and crazy dancing without any consequences. Sadly, as we all know, today will be much like any other with… Read More »
Another in the seemingly never-ending series of video blogs which Alison & I recorded over 300 years ago and which I re-discover from time to time. Enjoy!