Random Blog Button

Came across an interesting site today. http://randomblogbutton.blogspot.com/

If you are interested the link is also in the Links section.

It is a kind of enhanced Random Blog. You have to join it to get your blog added to the list but I was fed up using the Next Blog button (which keeps on moving) and getting foreign language sites. Now don't get me wrong, they are more than welcome to have their blogs, it's just I don't want to visit them as I can't understand them. I want to visit blogs written in English so I can read and be entertained/enlightened by them.

It would be much better if you could have a language setting in your profile that the Random Blog button could use and so only return blog's with that language. Maybe you could set it up to access several languages if you are multi-lingual (not me I'm afraid - I struggle with english!! :).

Just my 2 cents worth.

Byeeeee

Bahrain

You may have wondered why I have put a link to a Bahraini blog site on the left. Well, I used to live in Bahrain and spent 8 wonderful years there returning to the UK in December 1986. In fact, in a few days it will be exactly 20 years since I left. Well, I still miss the place. The work was hard, but then so was the social life!!! I made many good friends there and I still miss the lovely waters off the coast. I used to co-own a ski boat and we would go water skiing or have a picnic on some of the smaller islands near to the Yacht Club.

I was browsing some blogs last night and decided to do a search on Bahrain and came across several sites. One had some pictures, including a trip out on a boat and seeing the colour of the water brought it all back. Ah happy days.

Mind you, in 20 years it has changed an awful lot. They had started land reclamation before I left but now there is masses of extra land on which they are building all sorts. I would like to go back for a visit but can't afford/justify it yet.

One thing to remember though is that it gets HOT and very HUMID there in the summer, but the spring and autumn were delightful. Winter even felt a bit chilly (well compared to the 42 degrees centigrade in the summer, when it falls to 10 degrees it feels cold (grin).

It would rain occasionally in the spring but most of the time it was dry. Not like here in Scotland where it is occasionally dry and rains most of the time!!.

The blog on the left is a fairly political site at the moment (they have just had elections there and some of the practices seem a bit dodgy). This guy certainly does not hold back, but he also has links to a lot of photographs and that is what I like looking at, seeing what has changed and what has not. I may add a few more links as and when I find them.

Byeeeee

I've done It!!!!!

Well it wasn't quite the way I was expecting but here we are, a picture of me. It was a tough evening on a Caribbean Cruise last year. Boy they have some great sunsets in that part of the world.

It was my wife's 50th birthday last year and as a treat I took her on a cruise on the Ocean Village. It was our first cruise and we thoroughly enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone. The only down side was that we had booked all the trips before we started and it was a bit tiring day after day. Don't get me wrong, they were superb (most of the time) but just a bit knackering. :)

I may chat about the cruise some other time. It took me the rest of the year to pay off the credit card so this year we just went places in our Caravan. Equally enjoyable but in a much more relaxing way.

Byeeeeeee

Diabetes Strikes Again

Oh Dear. Well I have just been to the Doc's and it is not good news. The change of tablets has not improved my diabetes at all. If anything my blood sugars are higher!!! So he has given me some more Metformin (which he cut down on when I went to the new tablets). Let us hope these tablets, to be taken at lunch time will improve matters. I hope so. He says there is one other tablet we can try but after that it is Insulin for me :{


Blood pressure is dodgy and kidneys are not functioning correctly, which he says is a side effect of the diabetes. I think I am falling apart at the seams!!!!! All this just before my birthday on Saturday. Well sod it, I am going to have a good day and a very good meal with wine. I'll just have to cut down the rest of the week.

My wife and I are taking a long weekend break Friday-Monday and are staying in a 4 star country hotel in East Neuck (? spelling) in Scotland. More on that later, maybe even some pictures.

That's it for today.

Byeeeeee

TGIF

The title says it all!! Thank God It's Friday. It will be even better next week. The 2nd is my birthday. One of my birthday/Christmas presents has already arrived. My wife has bought me an HP scanner/printer (OK I KNOW I am sad) from QVC . I have yet to unbox it but I will at the weekend.


Not a lot happening at the moment. Last night I was dead beat. My wife was out again (every night this week - mind you I do know where she is) and I just slobbed down in front of the telly and flicked through all the channels and dosed at bit. I certainly agree with that song '57 channels and nothing on' - or something like that. Was that not Bruce Springsteen? I can't remember.


I did watch the new episode of Heroes that I had downloaded from the US. I quite like the series, a bit slow and quirky at times (a bit like me I suppose) but I will give it a chance to pick up.

Time to go. Talk to you later.

Richard.

Another Day at the Fun Factory

Well last night was a wash out AGAIN. My fault entirely. Well, mine and Stargate SG1. I watched the preview for the 200th episode on Sky 2 and then switched over to Sky 1 to watch it. It was a p**s take of every Sci-Fi show including itself. It was a bit of fun, but that is all. Especially as they have canceled the show at the end of this series. Mind you, 10 years is not a bad run for a TV show.

Then I went and watched the new episode for Stargate Atlantis which must be back on in the US by which time it was well past my bed time. So here I am again, typing away in the office.

Still haven't been able to get any pictures uploaded. I think I should fire an email off to the help desk to try and resolve it. I had a look through the help files for beta but couldn't see anything that would help me. Anybody else come across this problem?

Talk to you later

Byeeeeeeeee

Failed in my Tasks

OK I admit it, I missed last nights update. I blame Eve-OnLine. It is a great on line space adventure and it took me a little longer to finish a 'mission' than I thought it would. If you would like to find out more just do a search for eve-online and you will find lots about it. I have been playing it for just over a year. It costs a fixed fee each month so I suppose it is the most expensive game I have ever not bought ?? I enjoy it much more than World of Warcraft.

My diabetes is playing up again. My bloods are in the 9's and should be a lot lower than that. Still I am to see my doctor next week to 'have a chat' about things. I think he has reduced my Metformin to too low a level when I changed over to a combined Metformin and Rosiglitzone tablet a couple of months ago. It was supposed to improve matters. It sure didn't for me .

Still haven't managed to get a picture into the blog. The problem is, I think - and I may be wrong, that I created this blog using the new beta version. If I try to log into Blogger.com it does not recognize my account but if I log into the beta it works fine. Now Hello tries to log you into Blogger.com to upload the picture and if that login does not work then 'no picture'. I will keep trying, one of these days I may scare you with my ugly mug!! I wonder if anybody can actually see this blog? Certainly, if I do a search on Blogger.com it does not find it. Am I talking to myself?? Hello, anybody there????

I hope the boss isn't looking, I am typing this at work during my lunch break. It should be OK, he is a good guy and as I work in IT I may get away with it .

Till next time.

Enjoy!!

Who Am I ???

Greetings to one and all. New and Return visitors are welcome.

OK, I asked the question so I suppose I had better answer it!!! My name is Richard Chambers and I live in a village called Elderslie in Scotland. I am more years old than I care to publicly admit :} and have lived here for the best part of 15 years.

Elderslie's claim to fame is to be the birthplace of Sir William Wallace (aka Braveheart) and there is a monument in the village to celebrate this fact. There is even an annual parade through the streets from a local town centre (Johnstone) to the Wallace Memorial . To my shame, I drive past it most days but have never been up to look at it :{ If you are British then I would mention that Tony Robinson (Time team et al) has done a program on William Wallace and his investigations suggested that this could indeed have been the birthplace. Such is fame.

My claim to fame? Don't have one. I am just an ordinary member of the public, although I have travelled well and I may reminisce about my travels at some other time or times. Once you get me going, I may not stop!!!

However, I do suffer from Diabetes. Type II Diabetes to be exact. Thank goodness that (at the moment) I can control it with tablets and I do not have to inject insulin. OK, I admit it, I got Late Onset Diabetes because I was overweight. I have been diagnosed now for about 10 years and it first raised it's ugly head in my mid forties (Oh heck, I've given my age away! :} ) I have learned to live with it and it's limitations and may add further comment in the future on Diabetes, Metformin and Aspirin (the tablets I take along with Rosiglitazone) to control my blood sugar levels.

Next time I may even manage to attach a picture to this blog. You will have to excuse me but I am new to this lark.

Good luck and may your God go with you. Till next time.

Byeeeeeee

Regards
Richard.