Video Blogging ... the upgrade.

Me wittering on about this and that ... just like I do here but on video. It explains some of why I haven't written so much. I do need to do a full catch up here, in part to clear my head and in part because I owe it to my reader.

 

 

It's curtains for us all.

One has to wonder in this day and age, how hard can it be to find some plain curtains, pale-cream, biscuit, off-white or linen-looking, Tape top or pencil pleat, 1.9mtr drop to fit a 2.2mtr track? Machine washable, blackout, and or thermal (or both), ready lined if needs be. I mean, for fucks fucking sake, there are enough curtain retailers online, you would think they would spend some time rationalising their web offerings, so they at least stuck to the parameters requested. I'm going to have to be sexist here and suggest their websites are designed by committees of women with too much time on their hands and an inability to make a decision (Don't hate me, and if you do ... whateveaaaaaar).

And as for fucking Wayfair they get their very own FOR FUCKS FUCKING SAKE!!! Can someone, anyone come back to me with a definition of the word plain, because unless I've slipped across a dimension of reality or two, the word plain clearly means something else here.

Anyway. If anyone with the patience of a saint can spare the time to prove that I'm a misogynistic, sexist arsehole who can't see the wood for his impatient trees, feel free to find some curtain links, specified to the top paragraph, and reply in the comments below.

PS: Dunelm, close but no cigar. Who the fuck in this day and age wants to piss about taking their curtains to a dry cleaner ... or sending their butler to do it.

PPS: The best invention ever are in fact window blinds ... Otherwise, it would have been curtains for everyone. baboom chaa!

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Storm Surge Eunice

I haven't about for a while... far too busy, however, I have been about elsewhere. 

Here is a recent video I shot prior to Storm Eunice making landfall.

I will spend some time unifying the various streams of both media and consciousness here. But in the meantime, look at the power of low-pressure air above water in the Bristol Channel.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/storms/storm-surge

A short but steep walk.

 A little video I put together today 9^th January 2022, from a walk I took on Sunday the 2^nd of January 2022. I had a bit of a think about some of the things I said on the ascent. I probably hadn’t walked up that particular hill for over a year given the injury I’d had in 2021.

The tree that had a fallen limb is a Beech and was probably once just a part of a hedge on top of a drystone wall, clearly, the hedge was abandoned in some far distant time, and now the row of trees straddles the remains of the wall. It’s a mixture of bark-covered root structures and dry-stone walling, a symbiosis of two manmade artefacts writing their own rules in the absence of man’s attendance.

I said at the end “I came I saw I reacquainted.” And that was the case, walking up that hill was symbolic to me and to me alone. I needed it to underline the fact that after a fairly horrible 2021, that I had come back to Somerset, fitter and stronger than I have been for over a year, and could enjoy the breathtaking view from the Trig-Point beneath Shervage Wood, and share some old lore, and tree knowledge.

Dr Gary Fettke ( Low Carbing, Keto and the Vegan Agenda)

I have been following these subjects for a while. In an age of media saturation, it is difficult to find near-absolute truth (there is no such thing as absolute truth … only the Sith deal in absolutes, and we all know what a bunch of arseholes the Sith are).

I follow Neal Asher a Sci-fi author in the Space Opera realm, and he has been using his body as a laboratory for what seems like a couple of years now. I think the spur for him was the death of his wife way back now in 2014 from colon cancer. Though it is fair to say he had been showing a burgeoning interest in longevity-semi-immortality for some time prior to that pivotal event. You can read Neals Blog here:

The Skinner blogspot

and here: https://www.nealasher.co.uk/ and follow him here https://www.facebook.com/neal.asher and various other places on the interweb … of things in the metaverse of re-inventing the wheel … lookout for random cynical tangents.

Fortunately for those of us that follow Neal, we don’t necessarily have to go through the sometimes-icky business of using our own carcasses for the research (caveat below). We can just learn the lessons from the distillation of Neals experience. This is useful. However, while it is useful, it is also important to remember that Neal is a Science FICTION author not a scientist and so one must actually question his results and do one’s own monitoring and research of self when implementing one’s own plan. What you don’t have to do so much of is: trawl the web finding all the articles and videos. However, self-monitoring and research is important, lest one ends up in hospital `properly fucked’. To make the point. I have been living a fairly awkward life recently (see the earlier post) and I had to maximise my bang for buck in the absence of cooking facilities, storage for food etc. So, it seemed like an ideal time to go balls deep on a low-carbohydrate high-fat, high-protein diet.

I reckon my current fridge is 25 litres maximum (it is borrowed, inefficient and really not much more than a drinks fridge). So, high fat, that means fatty meat, nuts seeds etc and trying to avoid too much processed food, which is difficult when you are living out of packets. However, if you use your eyes and are prudent and read labels, you would be surprised how you can maximise your fat and protein, while eating fresh cooked meats from packets. Fruit, veg, nuts are easy peasy (I recommend Lidl for Nuts and seeds, Tesco do a range as well, but their pricing is Tesco pricing, and being cynical and knowing where nuts are grown and by whom, I rather suspect that you’re paying Tesco for the word Tesco on the bag and not the contents of the bag).

I increased my swimming, I got back to my floor-work (lunges squats etc), vigorous walks after work and started eating high-fat high-protein, lots of fresh fruit and veg, homemade kefir,l low carbohydrate. No booze, and what I thought was good hydration. I had a bought of Keto-flu. If hadn’t known what it was and why it happened (thanks to Neals experience) I would have thought I had real flu or Covid. The day it hit, followed a very vigorous exercise day; the bodies thermostat went crazy, and I hurt all over, predominantly in the muscle groups I’d been working the day before (Legs). The knock-on effect was severe back pain, just like I had been suffering for most of 2021. I was going on a short road trip to my friends in Hillperton and spent the evening at their place wrapped in blankets shivering, until about two hours after dinner; burgers and bacon in a bap with chips and Coke. Within two hours I had stabilised, with a couple of Neurofen to assist recovery, all the back pain dissipated overnight. Lesson learned, you can keto and the weight falls off, and you will still have energy in abundance and generally feel “more”. It’s hard to describe, better is probably a good word. There are issues and there needs to be some fine-tuning (ideally when I have somewhere to live permanently), but on basic principles low carbohydrates, lots of meat and fat appears to be better for the skin, there is less wind, and fatigue. And the fatigue itself may be different … not gone (I don’t sleep well) but the impacts of fatigue on cognition seem to be less intrusive. I also went through an odd but expected process of urinating all the time, demonstrating how much fluid we carry that we don’t necessarily need.

Al the words above are a preamble to introducing a video. For some time, I’ve known the bare bones of the story of Kellogg, and the fact that for nearly a hundred years a religious whack-job created a cult around his product. I didn’t quite realise how deep it ran, but I did know that because Kellogg stole the march on the narrative and was so good at self-publicity in a religious America; that by dint of the passage of time and the absence of historical context for us as a modern population, we grew up inured or oblivious to the reasons why breakfast cereals and cereal culture carb-culture etc became ingrained. 

The video presentation below lifts the lid a lot higher and having had a rummage around the internet on the back of watching this video, you discover for yourself that what the doctors in the video are talking about is solid. It won’t be everything, do your own digging, but be aware the Adventists were there first and their reach is long.

Also appended is an article from JAMA network (Journal of American Medical Associations (again)). You need to read it all, to realise that, the article suggests that the Adventist Health Studies results appear only to be true within the Adventist cohort and that if you measure their results relative to a non-Adventist cohort that the results are `null’ or put another way falsifiable (in laymen terms, the Adventist results may be a load of bollocks, however, a cautious writer, writing in the Journal of American Medical Associations may be careful of saying exactly that, because underlying all this corruption for want of a better word, sits the pharmaceutical industry …. again).

That’s enough from me here’s a link to the YouTube interview, with Dr Brett Scher and Dr Gary Fettke who has been the victim of both the food and the pharmaceutical industries machinations, to maintain the status quo, or put another way … to maintain their profits.

Dr Gary Fettke's, website

Journal of American Medical Associations (full article)

For interests only. This Wikipedia article refers to the Loma Linda University. One of the Universities that conducts the research and is itself a part of the Adventist network. If that isn't bias, then I am a Monkeys Uncle. It also suggests Wikipedia isn't doing its job properly.

Adventist Health Studies Wikipedia entry