Recent Entries

• 10 Years On

  March 7, 2013

  Blimey! Ten years ago today, ex-tomato Michael met "Aggie" at the PL. He texted me earlier to tell me that he was out in town to celebrate. A decade ago I wrote about it here: Sock Dancer. The night of the infamous Sock Dancer! I'd forgotten about that bit. *shivers* Actually, it feels more like&...

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• Kneesy Does It

  May 1, 2012

  It's that time of the year again when I pull on my trainers and get practising for my annual running event - the local pub fun run. I started my training a week earlier than usual this year and things were going well. It helps a lot that I've continued to lose weight over the…

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• Film Night

  January 24, 2012

  I got a Sky + box installed in October 2009. I went a bit mad with it at first, putting lots of programmes on "series repeat" record. I ended up with lots of episodes of "The Simpsons" (I'd not seen a new episode since about 1999), "Futurama", "Time Team", "Doctor Who", "American Dad!" and "Famil...

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• Return of the Cordelia

  January 13, 2012

  Last night I watched Milton Jones's pilot sitcom episode "House of Rooms". I like Milton, but that's not important right now. More important matters were at hand. There she was. On my TV screen. That vision of loveliness, Cordelia Bugeja! Oh Cordelia, where have you been? You've been away for so ...

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• Run Run Rudolph

  May 1, 2011

  Yes, it's that time of the year again. First weekend in May? Must be the local pub fun run. I started training at the start of April and managed to do 7 runs before the big day, nudging the distance a bit further on every time until the last practice I did was a 4…

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• Night People

  December 24, 2010

  Last night out and about in the ebuC bar, some young people stopped and pointed at me, chanting "Elvis! Elvis!". Baffling. The week before, some blonde woman thrust her leg at me and screeched something like, "look! I've got a plaster on my leg!". She did indeed. I stroked it and said, "yes, very...

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• Dispatch from the rural idyll

  October 7, 2010

  Yesterday afternoon I got a puncture. All farmers are bastards.

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• Silent Running

  May 3, 2010

  How quickly it comes around again... my local pub's annual fun run was on Sunday morning. I started my training in early April and managed to do 7 training runs before the big day, gradually extending the distance I was doing each time. For the last two runs I was doing 4.5 miles (the distance&he...

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• Going Down

  March 21, 2010

  This follows on from my last entry. I've been weighing myself on a weekly basis since the start of 2003 and recording the results on a spreadsheet. Yes, very nerdy. It was in that year that I bought a pair of digital scales from Argos, replacing the ropey old ones I had that didn't give…

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