Those of you who have followed my tweets today will have noticed that I am a bit under the weather at the moment and thanks to those that have tweeted me with the get wells

I tall started yesterday, when I developed a bit of a ticklish cough and had to stop off on the way to work to be up some lozenges to sooth the discomfort, sadly after paying £3.69 for some Strepsils, they didn’t seem to help and my sore throat just got worse.

So this morning I woke up with a sore throat and the sniffles, the first thing someone said to me was “Maybe you have swine flu“, some people just have no sympathy at all!

Not long ago I tried an age-old remedy of a mug of hot milk and a teaspoon of whiskey, blimey that was strong, but it’s not working, so it’s going to be a case of riding it out, most of the time when I get these “bugs” they only last for 48 hours, so hopefully it should be coming to an end very soon.

So it looks like tonight I’m going to be wrapped in lots of blankets, a hot water bottle and a glass of milk and whiskey to try and sweat it out!

Earlier today I tweeted from my local Morrisons on the way people do not wash their hands after using the toilets and then going straight off to do their shopping, so I’m thought I would post about it.

So, there I was washing my hands with the fully automated, touch nothing, washers after using the toilets in Morrisons in Rhyl and whilst I was doing these three woman came in, used the loo and then when straight out without washing their hands. So their personal hygiene practices  suck big time!

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Now for many years I’ve had the terrible habit of biting my nails, sad I know, but it is an extremely hard habit to break once you start, there are many reasons why you may have started biting your nails, it could be a catchy nail that you’ve bitten off, nerves, boredom or just something you’ve done for years!

I had bitten my nails for many years and then stopped out of pure will power, but, sadly after a week in a hospital with the lack of food and the overdose of boredom, I started again and now my lovely long strong nails are in a terrible state… Read the rest of this entry »

Those of you who follow my Twitter (@RemBeatZ) may of noticed that last night I was twitting from Glan Clwyd Hospital with updates on what was happening, so how did it all start?

Yesterday I took my wonderful mum out for the day to Llandudno for a shopping trip, but, shortly after arriving she developed some extremely painful chest pains, so, without further ado I got her in my car, got on to the A55 and got her to Glan Clwyd Hospital which was around 3pm, I then returned home to get her some overnight stuff for her.

After tea, myself and my good friend went to the hospital to drop her stuff off, only to be told that she may be able to go home, great, I thought, this was at about 7pm.

One hour later we were then told that she should have had an x-ray, so we would have to wait for them to take her down to x-ray, another hour went by and we were still waiting for someone to wheel her down to the x-ray department, after yet another hour, someone finally came and took her down to x-ray.

Half an hour later she was back up from x-ray and then told to wait for a doctor to let her know how the x-ray came out! Then after half an hour a nurse popped her head around the curtain to let us know that she could now go home as she was given the all clear, finally!

At 11pm we were finally on the way out the hospital and on the way to the local Chinese take-away in Rhuddlan for something to eat.

I just can’t believe how long it took just to go in, take a blood test, check her blood pressure and have an x-ray! And they moan in the hospitals that there are not enough beds!!!!

A few days ago, I had serious problems trying to sleep and those following my Twitter will know that I went for 72 hours without any sleep, a real bad case of insomnia so what was the problem? I mainly think it was my mind working overtime, so I decided to use a method of meditation that I used to do from the book  “Meditation for Inner Peace”

Yes I know it does sound very New Age, but there is a method in the book that has helped me sleep in the past, so I gave it a go.

It’s sounds very strange, but it does work! 

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Now I have to admit that some years ago I could never stand Olives on their own until I had them on a pizza, but since those days, I do quite enjoy them on their own or specially in a salad.

So what are the benefits of the humble olive, well olives are a good source of vitamin E and contain natural antioxidants, the only drawback is they do contain a high amount of salt.

Some time back it was thought that the olive was  high-calorie food due to the oil that they contain. But both black and green olives actually contain very few calories and an average serving of ten olives only contains around 30 to 40 calories.

As I mentioned earlier olives do have the benefits of vitamin E, you have to eat a large amount to give your diet a good supply of vitamin E. Olives also provide you with natural antioxidants.

The oil that is derived from the olives is quite high monounsaturated fatty acids, unlike saturated fats do not affect your bloods cholesterol levels and may even help to cause them somewhat.