My first Weightwatchers meeting (10/Nov/07)
There’s no reason whatsoever why I shouldn’t be able to lose weight by eating less, but I can’t, so I have had to resort to extreme measures. I’m going to go to Saturday morning weigh-ins. In my first meeting I was the only bloke so it’s more than a little daunting. Especially as how we [...]
Frustrated with Cook book Preparation times
I like food recipes to estimate how long it takes to prepare and cook a meal but so far I found that I can never do it as quick as it says. I’m sure they exaggerate their cooking times? Guess I’m just slow!
My Family Tree (Aug/07)
I’ve been using geni to compose my family tree. I haven’t done any of my own research so far – my first aim is to simply combined the records from my Dad’s side, my Mum’s side, and my wife’s family. I’ve already entered 185 names but only scratched the surface of the archive material that [...]
The Flood never happened
Thank goodness the flood never reached us. The only thing that happened was that we had a few inches of water in our cellar and the park got closed off due to a potentially toxic oil leak. So we moved all our things back downstairs and decided that when we buy our next house we [...]
Flood warning (July 2007)
Whenever I see flooding on the news I always feel sorry for the people involved but never imagine it would be me. However, last night a lady from the Environment Agency knocked to say that they are advising our street to be evacuated as the Thames is due to burst it’s banks early in the [...]
Shortcuts to work
I have found a great shortcut for my bike journey out of Heathrow airport to my office. Instead of following the road, I can climb a disused fire-escape staircase and cut out a big slow uphill loop. I love streamlining travel routes I do have a bit of a nightmare on the way home though. [...]
Wedding Anniversary in Venice (10/June/2007)
I took Chloe to Venice for our “paper” anniversary. It’s a very charming place. I like how there’s no cars and how most of the streets are narrow and maze-like. Once or twice we ended up at a dead end with nowhere to go except if we had a boat. I liked the waterways, especially [...]
The start of our Art collection
This is only a £20 mass production from “Next” but it’s the first piece of wall art that Chloe and I have bought together. The colours match the room. Our walls are a bit bare so I’m on the lookout for some cheap but interesting pictures. This was the first piece of art that I [...]
“What is your greatest weakness?”
“No, I didn’t download you off the Internet, I gave birth to you. End of discussion!” I have been asked this question in just about every interview I’ve been to. If I answered truthfully I’d be committing interview suicide (e.g. can you imagine saying something like “I have a bad web surfing habit”) and if [...]
We created “the Flood”
We’ve been trying some new recipes recently. Last night we made a dish for supper which took about half an hour to prepare and cook. When we had finished and it was on a plate, we both stood looking at it. After 10 seconds of silence Chloe said “Oh my God, we’ve created those little [...]
Replacement wedding ring
On Kix and my 8 year going-out anniversary I ordered a replacement wedding ring. I’ve spend more time without a ring than with one on . I lost my original ring 3 months after the wedding at the Oktoberfest in Munich and it was honestly a pretty painful experience – The sharp realisation that it [...]
Tree nation
“A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down” – Buddha. I bought a tree called Woody from an interesting initiative by a website called tree-nation. They want to plant 8 million [...]
Keeping Quail
When I was a teenager I used to keep Quail and collect their eggs to pickle or to put on baked pizza. Quail eggs are beautiful and although they are fiddly to peel, they are the perfect size for pickling in glass jars. I used an incubator to hatch new chicks. You can imagine how [...]
Updated website (Jan 2007)
I got bored of my old website and moved it to a blog. Blog’s are better for personal websites because once an entry is written it does not have to be kept up to date like a static page needs to. The entries don’t go out of date so much as become historical like a [...]
Seriously out of place!
We set up our new TV in the bedroom which has been de-wallpapered and the sharp contrast between grim and beautiful is quite shocking: As you can see, we weren’t really ready to buy a TV! I’m pretty embarrassed that we didn’t finish the decorating before we bought the TV but Chloe’s Panasonic staff shop [...]
