It always rains in Manchester…

…and low and behold, it rained there yesterday when I was there for a meeting with a customer.   The water falling out of the sky didn’t really bother me; it was a fairly fine rain and it wasn’t coming down too hard.  I just walked through the streets, oblivious to the fact that my Customer Facing Hairdo was [...]

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Weigh In

4½ lbs off this week
Obviously I’m delighted with that – only another pound and I’ll be back to where I was two weeks ago…
I feel much better for it – not as bloated and swollen and clothes are starting to feel looser now.  I’m getting plenty of exercise too.  All the running backwards [...]

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Little’un told her first proper lie at the weekend… aww bless!

Shouldn’t have laughed (and I managed not to in front of her) but it was funny…
Me:  How did that crayon get on the sofa?
Little’un [looks sheepish]:  I don’t know
Me:  Who drew on the sofa?
Little’un:  Ermmmm… it was Charlie (the cat, curled up fast asleep on said sofa)
Me:  Really?  Are you sure?  I don’t think Charlie [...]

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Today I will mostly be smiling through a deluge of self pitying tears… (aka this week’s Weigh In)

I put on 5½lb last week – I knew I had put a bit of weight back on but that number shocked me almost into a stunned silence.  I didn’t think it was possible to put on that much weight in just seven days.  I’m putting it down to a combination of things – a week [...]

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Stats, stats and damned stats

I love my WordPress stats page, I look at it several times a day to see how many people have passed through and how they got here.
I also love the Clustrmap widget in my sidebar – go and have a look if you haven’t already – which shows where all my readers originate from.  I [...]

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A rant about road charging

So the government has decided to review its intention to tax per mile for road travel. Bloody good job say I, the whole thing was particularly badly thought out.
It’s all very well for city folk to say, “Get a bus instead!” but out here in the sticks that just isn’t an option. If I were [...]

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Happy birthday to me…

… I am thirty-three

No candles on my birthday cake

I’m not fireproof you see

 Plagiarised from Pewari’s birthday song
Well I was another year older on Saturday.  A fine excuse to get BabiesEverywhere, Deckchair and Babychair over for Chinese Takeaway and wine.  My diet is screwed for this week, but we had a really nice evening and it [...]

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Yesterday it snowed…

…pretty much all over the UK. It happens every year but it is always big news in the UK, with school closures and travel disruption aplenty. It’s very difficult for aquaintances of mine from foreign shores to understand why it’s such a big deal; after all in New Zealand/Germany/wherever life continues as normal when the [...]

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Weigh In

Another 2½ lbs off last week.  11½ lbs in total.
I’m not expecting to lose much this week, if anything at all.  Illness meant that my appetite was virtually nil for most of last week and now it’s back with a vengance so I don’t think that my system will cope with the starvation followed by [...]

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Size 0

With the start of London Fashion Week on Saturday, the issue of the size and health of models has raised its head again.  Body size is an emotive issue for me as I have always struggled to keep mine down to something healthy and I am constantly battling against my huge appetite and sweet tooth.
I [...]

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