A soaraway success
Tim: I awoke this morning with a slight hangover, but still flush with the wild success of Shoot Up’s first ever meet up / piss up. As advertised in those articles down the page, my esteemed co-writer...
View ArticleThe Tale of the Drunk Diabetic
By Samantha Beer. It’s brilliant stuff. It tastes nice and it gets you tipsy. However, for a diabetic, it can be pretty nasty. The thing with beer is that it shoots the blood sugar levels through the...
View ArticlePartying with humalog
Last weekend I met up with two old school friends in the party capital of Europe, uhm, Brussels. While it may have a reputation for bureaucracy and dreary boringness, Brussels does actually have a...
View ArticleCarb counting for posh people
I was idly rummaging through my old notes, leaflets and booklets that I was given by the DSN when I was first diagnosed. I did because I wanted a) clear some space in my drawers; and b) remind myself...
View ArticlePartying with the pump
Hello beloved Shoot Up readers and a belated happy New Year to you all! I hope you had an enjoyable winter festival and, if you use the Gregorian calendar, a wonderful New Year. Being pseudo-Scottish,...
View ArticleMission impossible?
Last weekend I had the pleasure of going along to my brother’s stag weekend in sunny Bournemouth in advance of his impending nuptials. As well packing comedy antlers, Hawaiian shirts and inflatable...
View ArticleShoot Up meet up – Liverpool
If only I could spend a pleasant evening chatting with some other pancreatically challenged types… well now you can. If this is your dream (and why wouldn’t it be) come along to the latest ShootUp meet...
View ArticleShootUp meet up in Liverpool, this Saturday 14 April
Excitement is building with only days to go until the first ShootUp meet up in Liverpool. Tim and I, plus our pancreatically privileged other halves will be in Doctor Duncan’s pub, St John’s Lane,...
View ArticleCurse of the ShootUp meet up is broken
We’ve done it. We’ve broken the curse of the ShootUp meet up. Tim and I live several hundred miles apart, so we only get to see each other a couple of times a year at most. Whenever Geoff and I meet...
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