Useful links to diabetes support organisations:
Excellent website called Diabetes Daily with info, forum, recipes and more
http://www.diabetes.org/ [USA]
http://www.diabetes.ca/ [Canada]
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/ [Diabetes UK home page]
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/ [Australia]
http://www.diabetes.org.nz/ [New Zealand]
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/diabetes-associations.html
[International Directory]
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/type-2-diabetes/DS00585 [Mayo Clinic Info]
I made your griddled leeks recipe this evening but since I didn’t have any leeks I subsituted sweet baby vidalia onions which fall between a green onion and a leek in size. This dish was absolutely delicious! Thanks so much for a palate pleasing recipe!
Yessss 500 happy blog day well done Rob really amazing you
are giving people food where some just thought insulin was the only answer.a decent diet is a decent life. Really really proud of you dear kind brother
Thanks Jacko–appreciate it!
Hello Robin! It has so cheered me up lying here with ghastly flu in the UK to find you online and see you and your lovely wife living the idyllic rustic French lifestyle! cooking and just enjoying your life! As many others I am a massive fan of the original Poldark series and I am looking forward to the new series with a slight trepidation although having seen a trailer Aiden seems very well equipped to reprise your role as Ross Poldark! I remember making my husband drive us to Wheal Kitty at St Agnes in our old car down a tiny road with hairy gradients that I’ve not forgotten! More recently the series was shown on satellite tv and my daughter and I used to watch it in the school holidays together! She was upset that it was only the first two series so I bought the full DVD series so she could watch it all. Lovely memories, now she’s a teacher. Fantastic pictures on your website especially of you and Capt’n Mc’Neill! god bless Angharad she was a joy as Demelza. My daughters had school friends sisters called Demelza and Morwenna too! Their mum was a big fan too! Hope your Diabetes isn’t too restricting, I have diverticulitis which means anything I used to enjoy eating I can’t eat anymore!! Oh the joys of getting older!! Looking forward to seeing you in the new series tho it will seem a little strange! Take care and carry on with the good life it looks like heaven on earth there!!
Hello, Sally and welcome to the site.
You are right, Aidan is going to be a terrific Ross Poldark.
Hope you get better soon!
I am afraid Adian Turner will never be Ross Poldark to me. I remember how much I cherished a signed photo I received when I wrote to you as a besotted 17 year old. What a great series it was – everyone loved it. Happy days!
Hello Carolyn–40 years ago, my word! Give the new series a chance I think it’s going to give a new audience a lot of pleasure.
Hello Robin-very happy to see you looking so well and obviously living a good life in France. We met briefly, many, many moons ago in Brill, Bucks. My Mum had recently moved to the village and was friends with your father and his partner(forgive me, I don’t recall their names). I remember seeing you in church and whispering to my Mum, “OMG, don’t look, but there’s Poldark”, meeting the reply of “who???” from Mum, who simply knew you as Robin!!! I, too, have left the UK and have been in Italy for 25 years, married to an Italian. I have just “googled” you, having read of the new TV adaption of Poldark, so was both surprised and thrilled to see the direction that your life has taken. Wonderful work that you’re doing, and I congratulate you on the success of this chapter. Wishing you all the best, and hoping that life continues to be so stimulating, creative and for to benefit to so many others. Hugs, Jo
Hello Jo–lucky you living in Italy. Where? I have happy memories of Brill. My parents had a happy but too short retirement there.
Is your mother still alive?
Hello again….yes, it’s not a bad part of the world, if you don’t look at the politics!!! I hope you’re as happy in France as I am here. That said, I do enjoy my trips back “home” and really miss the British trait of not taking oneself too seriously. I live in Emilia Romagna, about an hour from both Ravenna and Bologna (a foodie’s paradise). Some things are impossible to find here…rhubarb and parsnips!!! And marmite! No, Mum died 7 years ago, having moved back to E Sussex to be nearer to my brothers. I, too, have happy memories of Brill and its inhabitants. Hugs, J
Hello Robin, We met but once briefly in the mid- 1980’s at the cottage in Brill High Street when I was an estate agent in Thame- you called me in for a valuation, and although I was – and remain- a big fan of Poldark, I failed to make the connect until I spotted a big poster of Ross on the back of the kitchen door- and finally the penny dropped!!- I felt a bit of a twit, but you were very gentlemanly about it, remarking that not many people spotted you in the street….
We spoke one more time over the phone when you were back home in Cornwall, and I rang to advise the exchange of contracts ( we sold the cottage again a few years later for the older couple who bought it, but it had changed quite a bit inside I recall..). I asked if you had plans for a further Poldark series,
but you said it came down to finding a backer- and that was not so easy at that time- but you had retained the rights to further productions, so who knows, maybe…?
Well it took some years, but eventually we had Poldark back with us, and you too..! I shall not forget that handcarved cameo role as the most severe – looking district judge one might hope never to face in court- and the ‘ send him down’ look that might well have reproved my social gaffe all that time before in Brill..
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I still cringe a little whenever I recall the moment..!!
Glad to note you are still taking life all the way.. may your swash never buckle…
Your humble fan,#
Thank you, David and double thanks for helping us sell 6 Church Street, Brill all those years ago!
R
Hi Robin,
I may be wrong but I believe you were Heathgate when I was captain of games.
If I am correct, then I would like to make a confession.
How do I contact you.
Richsrd Norman 07859859781.