Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Personal

No Problem in Ely

A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought 🙂

Ely Area Circular Walk – Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging

The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”.
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I have been following there travels around the English waterways in their canal boat for the past 3 years or so. So it was excellent to meet them in person, what a truly wonderful couple both very sociable with Sue being the techie who handles the steering and all the blogging, keeping up with the latest radio modems etc.

All the pictures are up on my flickr and I’m sure Sally will be saying a lot more on her blog 🙂

The big talking point was the price of diesel which at Ely was £1.05 per litre for boaters for cars at Tesco it was £1.31 per litre and the farmers diesel (Rapeseed Oil) was in Tesco was £1.19 per litre. A boater we met earlier was thinking of adding a heater to the diesel fuel line so he could use neat rape seed oil!

Talking about obesity..

What a great place to live is Cambridge. I’ve just upgraded my list of talks that I can go to in The University, where else in the country do you get such a proliferation on Nobel Laureates, Fellows of the Royal Society etc giving such talks in delightful surroundings.

Last night’s was in the tardis like Pembroke College given by the corpulent Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly on Obesity – Science & Stigma, which he started by saying that he wandered into obesity both personally and professionally!

Fascinating talk on the role of Leptin in the hypothalamus and staggering images of some of his young patients who had been given Leptin and subsequently lost enormous amounts of weight. Leptin is produced by fat cells and acts to control your appetite, if you have no Leptin or the Leptin receptors are faulty then you just keep eating (up to 2,000cals in a single meal). He went into the role of the FTO gene and MC4R gene.

Intriguing for me was his comment that Anorexia is treated & diagnosed by psychiatrists whereas obesity is treated by endocrinologists and that there is little or no contact between them, although almost certainly Leptin is involved in both. An aside for me is that do Doctors become similar in size to their patients?

14 Oct 2017 Helen emailed me a link with additional info that can be found here https://www.healthambition.com/leptin-what-is-why-should-we-care/

A hole in the Facebook fence.

VeganBob has come up with two excellent sites that help in linking FaceBook to the world outside its previous walled garden.

To extract calendar information like birthdays and events from Facebook use fbCal , you can then easily add the events to your regular calendars such as ical gcal etc

To get a neat URL to hand out to your mates use fbLink. Mine is http://fblink.com/GeoffJones