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Newsletter - December 2021
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Welcome to our latest newsletter which is brought to you at the start of the Festive Season. It has certainly been a very strange and challenging year but we are hoping to have a Face to Face meeting in January with an inspirational guest speaker. However, we recognise that some of you may not feel quite ready to attend Face to Face meetings and we are therefore planning on making it available virtually via Zoom. More details of this event can be found below.
We have recently received the disappointing news that we will be losing one of our much valued committee members. The committee would like to invite new members to join us to bring new and fresh ideas in order to help guide your Support Group. We welcome people from all parts of the community and you don’t need to have diabetes to become a member. If you are interested in joining us and would like a chat with our chairman about what this would involve please send an email to diabetesuk.basingstokegroup@gmail.com with your contact details.
- How many ghosts show up in A Christmas Carol?
- In the movie It’s A Wonderful Life, what happened every time a bell rang?
- What words follow “Silent Night” in the Carol?
- What are you supposed to do when you find yourself under the mistletoe?
- Which fairy tale was the first gingerbread houses inspired by?
- How many gifts were given in total in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' song?
- What are Christmas trees also called?
- Which famous Christmas song includes the lyrics: Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh?
- Where does the name “Boxing Day” come from?
- Where does the tradition to hang gifts on the Christmas tree come from?
- Why are Christmas trees very bad at knitting?
- In which year was the first Christmas card sent?
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Local News
Please get this date in your diaries – Wednesday 19th January 2022 at 7:30pm
Old friend visits us to start our season of talks
We are pleased to announce that Peter Davies, who gave us one of our first talks in the early months of our formation in 2016, is coming back again.
Peter's last talk was highly entertaining as he described his epic trip to Tanzania and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, including low oxygen levels and Insulin freezing whilst climbing. This time Peter will cover briefly his trip climbing Kilimanjaro but mainly focus on his amazing trip to Peru and his time walking in the Andes.
As Peter is such a good speaker, we have decided to move the venue to Central Studio at Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke. This is a larger venue and will seat 35 people with adequate social distancing.
Please don't be disappointed and miss out on this fantastic talk given by this extraordinary Type 1 diabetic explorer. You will have to book your place in advance so please email diabetesuk.basingstokegroup@gmail.com to reserve your seat or to request the Zoom details.
Venue - Central Studio, Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke. RG21 3HF.
Date - Wednesday 19th January 2022
Time - 7.30pm.
Please arrive in good time to take your place.
Coffee, Tea and biscuits will be available.
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Diabetes Education available in North Hants
Online Type 2 Diabetes Education
Southern Health Community Diabetes Service are running online sessions for people with type 2 diabetes. The sessions will provide you with up-to-date information and advice to help you manage your diabetes.
New2T2 diabetes course - for those newly diagnosed (under one year)
WISER course - for those diagnosed with T2 for over a year
All education is currently on line. There are online videos (which are excellent) followed by a 90 minute interactive session on Zoom. Contact your GP/PN if you are interested and they will refer you to the education team.
More details can be found in the attached poster.
Feel more in control of your diabetes
The person with the biggest impact on your diabetes is you; what you do, every day. However, we know that managing diabetes is not always easy. Work, family, caring responsibilities and life can all get in the way of looking after ourselves, Southern Health have put together some information to help you (see here).
The information is split into four themes: food, activity, getting enough sleep and reducing stress, where possible. Tackling these areas of your life will help you manage your diabetes, by reducing your blood glucose levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. This will also help you feel better.
Type 1 education courses
These courses are provided by the hospital. If you already see the team there you can ask for T1 education updates, otherwise ask your GP/PN to refer you to the hospital for this.
'Bertie on line' is also a very good resource for T1 and is accessible and free. https://www.bertieonline.org.uk
Southern Health have put together some information to help you (see here).
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One Million Step Challenge
Further to our article in the last newsletter, our team have completed the One Million Step Challenge. We also finally managed to get together to undertake a walk, starting out from Ellisfield we headed towards Cliddesden on to Farleigh Wallop and back to Ellisfield, The weather was kind and we enjoyed spectacular views.
All four members agreed that they had benefitted from undertaking and achieving the challenge, we actually managed 4,775,758 steps between us. More importantly we raised £1,000 for DiABETES UK and we would like to thank all those who supported us.
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Coffee and Chat – Monday 10th January at 11:00am
We hosted another coffee and chat zoom on Wednesday 6 October. Thank you to those of you who managed to join us, hopefully you found it useful.
We have decided to hold another call on Monday 10th January at 11am. It will be great if you could join us and we would love to hear your ideas and views on what you would like the Basingstoke Diabetes UK Support Group to consider for future activities when we are able to meet in person once again. You will need to have access to the Zoom app and details of joining the meeting can be found below –
Topic: Basingstoke Diabetes UK Support Group Coffee & Chat Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 10, 2022 11:00 AM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76234801918?pwd=OWh2UGlkZ0E5Zkt0QkF5YXVSMG9sdz09
Meeting ID: 762 3480 1918
Passcode: 3r7Tr4
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Latest news from DiABETES UK
https://www.diabetes.org.uk
The DiABETES UK website is continually being updated. They have recently launched a new awareness campaign THIS IS DIABETES featuring real people living with and affected by diabetes. You may have seen a letter regarding the campaign in the Basingstoke Gazette published on Thursday November 18th.
The campaign recognises that everyone’s story is different and DiABETES UK want to show the world what its really like to live with diabetes day in, day out.
As part of the campaign, DiABETES UK have released a diabetes e-book packed full of practical hints and tips sourced from the diabetes community, for the diabetes community. It pulls together pearls of wisdom gained from years of lived experience.
You can get your book by going to the DiABETES UK website. You can also call the helpline on 0345 123 2399 or email helpline@diabetes.org.uk to chat to one of the team.
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- Four
- An angel got his wings
- Holy night
- Kiss
- Hansel and Gretel
- 364
- Yule-Tree
- Jingle Bells
- Back in the days, Boxing Day was a traditional day off for servants in which they received a ‘Christmas Box’ from their master. They would also go home on Boxing Day to give presents to their families.
- The Druids
- Because they always drop their needles
- 1843
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