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04/10/2026

On my way to… 🚶‍♂️
like it’s summer 😎 in fall 🍂
With a City of view to beat the

Walking is the best therapy



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03/10/2026

Today I’m feeling a bit tired after my jab yesterday cos i was already feeling like I had a cold last week. But it’s important that those at risk or immunocompromised are prepared for this flu season. I can’t afford to be off sick in terms of time, money and my soul, so every little helps 😷 💉 🤧 💉 🤒

This morning in Chinese class, we learned about Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), cleated last weekend, and I haven’t stopped t...
03/10/2026

This morning in Chinese class, we learned about Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), cleated last weekend, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. 🌕

It falls on the night the moon is fullest, and the whole point is to be together: family around a table, mooncakes cut into wedges and shared, everyone looking up at the same sky. The round moon and round cake both stand for wholeness. 🥮

Then we read Su Shi’s poem Shuidiao Getou (水调歌头), written in 1076. He was far from his younger brother, whom he hadn’t seen in years, and he spent the night drinking and talking to the moon. What gets me is that he doesn’t pretend the sadness away. He says partings and reunions, sorrow and joy, are as natural as the moon waxing and waning, and that it has been this way since ancient times (此事古难全).

And then he lands on the line everyone still quotes: 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟. May we live long, and share the beauty of this moon across a thousand miles. 🥹

Nine centuries later, that feels so true. I’m learning Chinese in a different country, I’ve lived far from people I love, and the same moon is still up there for all of us. It’s strange to feel connected to a poet from 1076 and to people I miss, with one glance at the sky.

And yes, I had a tasty bao after to celebrate. 🥟 Some traditions from when I lived in Taiwan stay with you!

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30/09/2026

Never a dull moment with the kids on a road trip I’m sure! 🚙

My twin niece and nephew are avid listeners to their aunty’s travel stories 😂

29/09/2026

Noting that a stiff coffee can’t fix 🧘‍♀️ ☺️

Still bridging the gap with private medical care while I wait over 9 months for my referral on the UK National Health Se...
29/09/2026

Still bridging the gap with private medical care while I wait over 9 months for my referral on the UK National Health Service.

Many trips to London’s private medical centres around Harley Street and the surrounding area to see the same doctors, but privately, while we wait for the system to catch up.

It would be very expensive- £ 1000s for each scans and bloods-, although the consultations themselves are fairly reasonably priced. The rare medication is a hit, costing several thousands a month.

Luckily, I’m still able to use my employee insurance which has global gold level cover while we wait for the public health system to catch up.
It would not be feasible at all without the support from my employer and clients.

I know many people cannot afford the copay or off license costs of similar medications for rare diseases, or blanket exclusions for pre existing conditions.

My out of area funding is underway on the NHS but the wait times for an initial appointment with the same doctor was averaging 49 weeks, but I should have an appointment in November and hopefully access to meds a couple of months later.

In the mean time, I’m having to go through weekly/ monthly pre-authorisations with the insurance, including global MDTs multidisciplinary tribunals for medication approval. Now it’s in place, hopefully it can be renewed to continue to bridge the gap.

There’s also a gap in responsibility from the consultant and GP, where the GP will not take over routine meds yet either, even though it’s within their remit. Rare disease complications often fall through the monitoring gap. This will need to be resolved soon as the consultant NHS will on cover the expensive meds and not routine meds which should fall with the GP contract.

Let’s hope the bridging of the healthcare gap until the end of the year continues to go well 🙏

I have reservations on the Ray-Ban | Meta Meta Meta Rayban glasses. 🤓 📸 As a long term glasses wearer since childhood fo...
28/09/2026

I have reservations on the Ray-Ban | Meta Meta Meta Rayban glasses. 🤓 📸

As a long term glasses wearer since childhood for astigmatism and severe myopia, I wear my prescription glasses or sunglasses daily.

Also with dry eyes producing a 1/3 less tears 😭, blepharitis and recurring conjunctivitis with flare ups, and risk of retina damage due to long term hydroxychloroquine use or inflammatory damage, I don’t qualify for laser eye surgery and I tend only to wear contact lenses for sports or the occasional going out.

With particular sensory sensitivity from autism traits, I’m also quite fussy about how my glasses feel on my face, and with pale fragile thin skin that irritates easily.

Not too heavy on the bridge of my nose (which I once broke as a kid faceplanting off my bike), not too cutting into my nose sides, not too heavy or rubbing on the back of my ears, not too big a lens to touch my cheeks are only part of my specifications.

As my prescription strength is big, I also need to spend a lot of money thinning my prescription lenses to the thinnest option, and adding lens treatments like anti-scratch, anti-glare, blue light filter or reaction lenses for brightness, or polarised if sunglasses. 😎 🕶️

So it’s quite a mission to get right, and I tend to keep wearing the same glasses until the lenses change or they break (bye bye limited edition Gucci frames that were not replaceable). After the Prada glasses I never wear because they are too heavy and make my nose and ears red, I tend to go for the combined frame/lens boutique independent optical options which are a lot more affordable. I do also like Rayban for my non-prescription sunglasses.

But I expect that Meta adding a small camera and lens screen to any glasses will add to the weight felt on the face.

I’ve also read that it’s easy to disable the “camera on” light, so covert recording is a risk. I’m also not sure if we should be going round recording each other and everything we do, for personal privacy, consent and surveillance reasons, data storage and so on.

Are we looking at this new technology with rose tinted glasses? 🤓 👓

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