Roll out the savoury shortcrust pastry to 0.4cm thick.Make the pastry a bit larger than the mould and press down lightly.Cut off excess pasty.Prick the base of the pastry thoroughly with fork.
So, you can take a regular glucometer and you can actually put a glucose solution in there, prick his finger, and it would give you an actual glucose reading.
Looking like a prick, making blunders and doing bizarre things in the night doesn't render us unfit for society; it just makes us a bit more like the greatest scholar of the northern European Renaissance.
The woodpecker maybe relates to that.There was a paper published in the medical journal The Lancet in England few years ago called " A man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for five years."