Author: Matt Jukes

  • [2024] Q1 interlude

    [2024] Q1 interlude

    I did work some of last week but honestly my head was all over the place as I tried to arrange the follow up appointments from my worrying blood test results so I was off my game to say the least. Honestly it is all pretty scary – my blood sugar numbers are horrific (much,…

  • [2024] Week 12

    [2024] Week 12

    This week has been significantly suboptimal on multiple fronts and honestly I’m not quite sure what I am going to write here. The root of my rubbish week is the outcome of this week’s doctors appointment and blood tests that led to the news that I have worryingly high (like medical professionals grimacing and doing…

  • [2024] Week 11

    [2024] Week 11

    I write this with tired eyes and fatigued fingers after a week of spreadsheeting and statement of work drafting. Tuesday was definitely a record for time spent glaring at Google Sheets and angrily clicking in cells. Trackers and calculators and balance sheets as far as my ageing eyes could see. Copy and pasting, format fixing…

  • [2024] Week 10

    [2024] Week 10

    It has been an interesting week one way or another. Waking up on Saturday to several inches of snow was a bit of a shocker – and then it vanishing as quickly as it arrived so that there was barely any evidence by lunchtime was also something that tested my trust in what I was…

  • [2024] Week 09

    [2024] Week 09

    February check-in for my 2024 ambitions. 20 alcohol free days achieved. Just 4 Deliveroos and 2 takeaways. Still cooking multiple times a week and sticking to the porridge and Actimel for breakfast plus fruit (smoothies). Didn’t stop me getting horribly ill though. Steps dropped to just under 4,000 a day on average for the month…