I just got back from a six-hour “Diabetes Day” at the hospital. It wasn't entirely pointless, despite featuring the world's most boring yet confrontational dietician, since we were all given a free blood sugar tester - Accu-chek's new “Aviva” model in fact. So, now I have three, including my original US one.

However, in my rush to get there I forgot to buy a ticket in the car park and thus got clamped. It was a £25 fee to get unclamped. Hopefully I confused the hell out of the clampers by being reasonable about the whole thing and then going and buying a ticket for the rest of the day (I'd realised what I'd done during the lunch break and decided to get it sorted then, rather than later when the [at least two] other clampees turned up). One of the clampers even said he'd have waited until he wanted to leave had he been clamped - then again, possibly he hadn't read his own leaflets which say “up to two-hour waiting time”.