Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 26th August 2025.

26th August, 2025.

Right … it’s now Tuesday.

Which is nice.

As — hopefully — it means the next batch of test strips and lancets will have arrived at my usual pharmacists.

They could’ve turned up, yesterday.

Except, of course, yesterday was a bank holiday: which always holds things up.

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I have to say, though, that strips — and lancets — are surprising.

Although ‘surprising’ is possibly the wrong word to use.

I’m still getting use to using them: so it’s surprising — amazing?   strange? — to me, how quickly I get through the things.

As are some of the results.

Apparently, my safe range is between four, and seven: and I’m supposed to do two tests a day

So getting through the strips, rapidly, is surprising: and getting results between roughly four and eight — 4·4 and 8·6 — seems even more surprising.

Especially when my usual range seems to be around 5·5 and 6·6

What’s more … ?

I don’t know the how figures from the machine — 5·6 mmol*, as an example — relate to the results of the quarterly HbA1c tests I have to take: I believe the HbA1c are supposed to be roughly ten times bigger than the glucose machine’s results.

So my last HbA1c result, ~forty (40), should translate to ~four (4).

Whether I’m right … ?

I don’t know.

Thankfully?

I’ve got an appointment booked with my GP’s nurse-practioner, in September.

I can ask, then.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-4-2021: Yes, Prime Minister

4th April, 2021.

Yep: it’s Easter Sunday: and frankly?

I think it’s going to be a quiet day.

Well … bar the usual family dinner!

Here’s hoping everyone has a happy Easter.

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Are you in the UK … ?

If you are, you’re possibly aware there’s plans for what’s known as a COVID passport: a document, digital or otherwise, that will show if you’ve been tested, vaccinated or have have ‘natural immunity.’   If you’ve had it, it other words.

The idea, if I’ve understood it, correctly, is to have some way of guarantee that people with one are disease free.

I think there’s possible problems, there.

Is it going to be digital, or paper?

I know a few people who don’t have smart phones able to deal with an app.

And that there’s a lot of people who couldn’t afford one, let alone know how to use one.

I’m also very aware that — a few years ago — the Government were planning to introduce identity cards: at a hefty individual cost that would’ve made it unaffordable for unemployed people like me.

That’s the problem — or potential problem —I’m looking at.

Is there a price?   How much would it be, if there was?   Would I, as an unemployed person, get help for it?

Out side of any potential human rights issues, it’s a good idea: if it allows people to go out, or get jobs.   It would get the economy moving.

But … ?

I think there’s issues: as there always is with these things.

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