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Statins and My Cholesterol

October 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I had a bad few days recently. But first, since I’m not qualified to have opinions on why my days were so bad, here are a few weasel words.

Caveat emptor: my musings may not be complete let alone correct.

The full story starts with a fear of failure. It starts with the worry that my attempts to manage my cholesterol with diet were failing. It ended with a realisation that I wasn’t able to finish any of my daily journals.

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Kylemore Abbey as revisited in December 2004 with a former student.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: cholesterol, fitbit, pandemic, photos, statins, travel, vegetarianism

Vegetarianism

March 11, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

One of the few disappointments in relocating to Dublin is the lack of decent vegetarian restaurants. That’s possibly because living in London has spoiled me. In London, it seems that vegetarians and vegans cook for vegetarians and vegans. In Dublin, there are just a couple of such places, Cornucopia the best known. Let’s not name many names but once you get out into the suburbs, the vegetarian still needs to select several vegetable dishes in order to eat with their carnivorous friends.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, cookery, food, michael greger‎, mildreds, nigel slater, paul flynn, statins, vegetarianism

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