Walking Thoughts

The personification of nature Heading in post.  We live in a world where nature and finance are mutually connected. Indeed there is no economy at all without nature. In a gfi’s brilliantly written report We are called to value and invest in nature.. and provided with the  quantification to support that request. The call is urgent  - we must act now. The report makes clear that action must go beyond carbon reduction alone, but must incorporate nature. The report comes in the same week as … nature recognised as an official artist on major streaming platforms, and a share of the artists profits will be distributed to environmental causes. Some thing I did today was to specifically seek out Nature as a credited artist in a streamed music service. The result was wonderful. Where the publishing artist credits nature, so nature gets a share of the profits through environmental causes. Sounds such as bird song, waves and wind will pay nature royalties. It is one way that the fina...

 Jonathan had an urgent low at 3:30 a.m I woke up feeling better. I have had an open window all day and the coolness has helped. I have a blocked nose, making it hard to breathe and making my sore throat worse as I have to breathe through my mouth. So I got up, took a shower, used some Vicks, cleared my nose and monitored Jonathan s sugar levels, It was skimming along the 3 and he slept through the alarms, so I let him sleep. The sugars have now recovered. It is 0421. I feel a bit groggy but awake.

 Jonathan had an urgent low at 4:18 a.m This meant I got about 2 hours sleep Combined with the cold illness I had a really bad night and was very ill at waking up time at 0600. At 0645 I checked on Jonathan. He doesn’t remember the low, but his sugars had recovered. He had a temperature and we agreed that he’d have the day off school given we are both ill. I took a neurofen and went back to bed. Jonathan made me a tea later. About 3 pm I felt well enough to get up.

 Pretty pleased with myself today Jonathan is off school sick I’m not well either! Today he had a low of 2.7 and falling. I prepared him a glass of orange juice and a cereal bar and brought them to him in bed. His sugars are now stable. Result.

 Marine carbon dioxide removal Maybe considered by some to be emerging technology in the continued efforts to combat the climate crisis. It is certainly true that applications have only recently closed for the Small marine carbon dioxide removal pilots that are worth $100 million, which were announced by the United States government in October last year.  https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/10/06/marine-carbon-dioxide-removal-potential-ways-to-harness-the-ocean-to-mitigate-climate-change/ This follows the £24 million of funding on 17 projects Announced in october 2023 https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FY23_NOPP_mCDR_Awards_full_list.pdf . Technological solutions have been emerging in the field of marine carbon dioxide removal for many years and natural solutions have existed forever .  The fossil record had the oldest known copepods at the early Cretaceous period ( 146 - 65.5 million years ago, while the researchers contend that ...

 Sterilised Jonathan’s water bottle - gave it a good clean with soapy water and then filled it with sterilising fluid, stood for 30 mins, triple rinse. Read up the info on using neurofen for a child to make sure it was safe for Jonathan. I’m also taking into account his kidneys.

 I gave Jonathan a neurofen last night . 1 200mg tablet. He is ill and sleeping in today. So it’s a day off for both of us. For me a day off looks like; Alarm 0700 Get up, check on child Unload dishwasher  Reload dishwasher to clear kitchen Load washing machine, set running  Weed the garden Make tea Clean a nd fill a water bottle  Wash and chop a Sharon fruit Unlock door as expecting prescription s today Take water to child 0800 E mail the school. 0815 inform his dad by messenger 0817 check Jonathan s sugars on the app. All good. They seem to be rising slowly with no food eaten. 7.9 to 8.3 in the past few minutes.

 The fire retreated The fire grew cold The fire listened The fire understood The fire was greedy

 Jonathan was off school sick yesterday. His Sugars were okay, but he didn’t eat well he was suffering from a sore throat and had pain in a knee. In the late evening, his sugars fell low. He then prepared himself some snacks.  His prescription arrived at 9:15. It was dated the 5th of April so I’m not convinced we can use the interline. There were no needles, and the other items were glucose and two libre 2 we can’t use. The second order was automatically ordered by the system which I can’t access and also automatically be cancelled by the pharmacy. I believe we have enough needles and insulin not to worry about this. naturally I didn’t get done the things I have planned to do yesterday.

 Last night was another hypo at 2 a.m This morning is another train crash getting ready for school and my day.

 Jonathan had a hypo 2 hours ago and I still can’t get back to sleep. It is now 0430 a.m. I have a job interview booked for the morning. It is in London and to get there I need to catch a mornings train. 0700 hard but necessary to get up and get Jonathan ready. He reveals he had a low and lost conciousness in English, the last lesson of the day, yesterday. His cgm graph is mountainous  I have e mailed the school to let them know.

 I’ve just realised the irony of smart meters Growing up the metres were inside. So they had to come indoors to read the meter. I remember asking him how much gas we used theN? As he peered at the meeting in the kitchen into the kitchen. He said he didn’t know, but I did. We hadn’t used any because we didn’t have gas. Today I live in a house with the meters are outside. But no one comes to read the metres. They are smart meters, and To read them, I Leave the kitchen to go outside . go outside from the kitchen

Two stories this week have caught my eye. Both are offering options of manufacturing alternative fuels. One from equatic carbon that will to make hydrogen from seawater. And the other to make sustainable aviation fuel from sewage.  Both technologies at an early stage of exploitation. They are at the stage in which I have most of my career experience and the source of many stories as this is the stage of discovery, where an emerging technology is yet to be implemented at full scale. I need to undergo pilot trials and a pilot scale state.  I am beyond excited that both these technologies each aiming to produce a different alternative fuel are happening at all. A technology that offers to make green hydrogen, the good kind, created from splitting water, as opposed to hydrogen that is derived from methane, the greenhouse gas, is especially welcome. And sustainable aviation fuel is something of a holy grail for decarbonising air travel. Equatic’s technology  simultaneously rem...

 Leicester may seem an unusual resting place for a London girl. But Leicester is where mum was happiest. And she had a living will, which said where she wanted to be buried. Her will said she wanted to be buried at a natural burial ground. And that living will was held by her friend Linda, who lived in Leicester. Mum died in Peterborough, So I registered her death at the Peterborough register office, which incidentally is next door to the Quaker meeting house. Peterborough register officer recommended the ketton burial ground. So faithfully, I went out to see the burial ground in ketton. It’s not what she wanted, and indeed the car mysteriously turned around and started navigating away before I got there. When I visited the burial ground near Leicester, I knew that this is what she had meant. Mum was living in Leicester. She was happiest in Leicester and left her living will with her friend Linda in Leicester. This was clearly what she had in mind and that is where she rests eterna...

 I remember the moment that I formed my definition of middle-class. As a child, I was visiting a friends house. In the living room, they had a television. And that television lived inside a cabinet. They had bought that television because it worked out cheaper than renting, and they had the upfront cash to do so. Some of my friends families also had a car. With a car, they were able to get to the cheapest supermarket, The large ones that they just outside the town. Mum and I sometimes took the bus to the big Sainsbury’s and going there is not too difficult. But coming home with the extra large haul of shopping to take advantage of the special trip, you’re carrying and pulling a large amount of groceries back up a little hill to a bus stop because there’s no pedestrian route to the Sainsbury’s,  onto the bus and then you’re holding onto it during the bus journey and then you’re hauling it home from the bus stop. So it’s not that we couldn’t use a large out of town supermarket i...

 She looked at the woman. What she saw utterly horrified her. Woman’s mouth opened in a sneer, large, pointy, teeth, dripping with blood. Nasty, predator, eyes stared hungerLy. The woman did asked for her to give up her seat. This could only be so if I had taken accidentally wrong seat. So I apologise profusely until immediately get my boarding pass and check where I’m supposed to be. I am so very sorry. I’m checking I’ve boarding pass and the seat number printed on it against the seat I’ve taken and the seat number on it. To me, they seem to match so clearly I’ve made a horrible mistake. And air steward passes, so I stop her and ask her please which seats should I actually be in please could you check my boarding pass.  It says that I am in the seat stated on my boarding pass. I’m very confused.’ So I’m in the seat and paid for?’ I say. Yes, says the steward. But this woman says that she wants to seat. So which seat am I supposed to be? Have I paid for this one? Then why woul...

  Welcome to Wednesday. We are halfway through the week.  This week is World autism acceptance week. it runs from the 2nd of April to the 8th of April. The national autistic society have published a few statistics to raise awareness this week. There are many aspects to autism, many of which are less well known. Have you heard of, for example, hyperlexia?  Or that 70% of people with autism, experience mental health problems.? Much more information on both of these topics is available from the National autistic Society. Too many people are failed by mental health services.  Despite calls for parity, Spend on mental health services is still far below that of physical health services. In  2021–22,  the NHS spent £12.0 billion on mental health services , around 9% of its total budget. This piece of information come from the UK government Report progress in improving NHS mental health services, Published in July last year.  2022/23, the NHS plans to spend £1...