It seems Bloden’s an early-riser, especially when she’s got
a busy day ahead. First of all, it’s breakfast in front of the telly – ooh,
looks like it’s going to be a sunny day! Bloden insists that it’s not usually
sunny this time of year in Northern Spain, but she isn’t complaining.
She nips upstairs to do her warm-up exercises while I catch
up on the Spanish news. Looks like there’s an election soon: hoi, man in suit,
put that baby down, you don’t know where it’s been!
Now it’s time for a bit of exercise. My legs are a tad short
for this great lump of an exercise bike, so I’m putting all my energy into
cheering Bloden on: go Team Bloden’s Glucose!
You’d think she’d go for a nice walk or something, living in
the countryside. What’s that, Bloden? Rapid insulin takes all the fun out of
exercising…she says she either goes hyper or hypo and ends up feeling
miserable. So she’s conducting her very own DSE (Diabetes Science Experiment)
to try and build up a bit of confidence…can’t argue with that.
Anyway later, Bloden informs me, we’re off to deepest,
darkest western Asturias – where her husband is renovating a big ol’ farmhouse
– so she needs to pack some diabetes supplies.
It used to be a bit of a faff, but now she’s all organised
and gets everything ready in a ‘plis plas’ (that’s Spanish for ‘jiffy’
apparently – always the teacher, eh?).
Well, I must say, the scenery here is stunning! But there’s
no time to relax in the sunshine.
We’ve got a busy cleaning schedule ahead. First stop is what
will be Bloden’s bedroom up in the farmhouse roof. She and her OH have always
lived in small houses, so she’s looking forward to living somewhere
spacious…gadzooks, it IS spacious! And we’ve got to hoover every single
millimetre, including the ceiling and the stonework?! “Of course”, says Bloden,
“what with all the cement-mixing and plastering and sanding the place is
filthy!” This renovation lark is more serious than I thought – I imagined we’d
be rearranging some furniture and hanging some new curtains, but they’ve had
the roof off and everything. Oh well, best show some willing…
It turns out Bloden and ‘su media naranja’ (‘her other half’
in Spanish – enough already, teach’!) have been renovating their pile in the
country since 2010 and are a bit fed up now. I know, I’ll cheer her up with a
sneaky overnight hypo (she HAS been physically active this afternoon, after
all). Oh no! She says she’s going to lower her Lantus dose, and suggests a
bedtime snack. Hypo pooper!
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