A bit of this and a bit of that

So, it’s been around 2 months since I started my diet and today I had my official weighing. I’ve lost a total of 8 kilos so far which was a nice steady weight loss and I know I’ll be able to keep it off. The great thing is that it feels like I’ll be able [...]

I’ve just found a number of books here in Staines that I need to read. I put them aside when I was studying from my final MBA exams, and now that it’s over it’s time I get reading. Here are some of the titles I have to read:

Matter by Iain M. Banks
Bigger than Hitler, [...]

We went to watch Chicago yesterday as part of our 9th anniversary celebration. It was an excellent show and I daresay enjoyed it much more than I did the movie. It was as raunchy as the adverts suggest, with skimpily clad women (though I expected more body jewelry) and telling a tale of “Murder, Greed, [...]

We’re in Staines at the moment, and I just came across some kit which I had been meaning to take with me to the Isle of Man. Nothing too fancy, it’s really some old computer bits, a KVM and some books. Most of the things we needed from here have already come up with us [...]

We’re spending a weekend in London to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. The plan is to have dinner, go to the theatre and spend the night in London while the in-laws look after Arthur. We haven’t really booked anything yet, but are planning to either watch Wicked or Les Miserables. Trying to find a good [...]

Don’t you just love websites that can offer you a service wherever you are in the world? I was looking through Advantage car rentals which at first seemed to be a US based business, but noticed that they also offer car rentals anywhere in the world. I thought that was pretty cool. They use local [...]

So last week I posted how I had lost an entire stone on my diet in under 2 months. And to celebrate, we went out this weekend and ended up at a Chinese buffet in Ramsey. Needless to say, I can’t actually show I’ve lost an entire stone today, but I don’t even think I’ve [...]

I’ve been wondering for some time whether we should stick a TV in the bedroom. Today’s LCD screens are compact enough for it not to require too much space, but I’m not sure I’d like us to be the sort of couple who spends the whole evening in bed watching TV. Fitting one in won’t [...]

My diet seems to be going pretty well and while checking my stats this morning, I’ve realised that I’ve dropped a whole stone (14oz). Here’s what my stats looks like:
I’m quite pleased actually, partly because I’m really losing weight, and partly because this diet is really sustainable. It’s been really impressive how I’m losing a [...]

I came across this picture of a gantry crane (or a Material Handling System as it’s more correctly called) while surfing the web and I was marveling at just how huge this thing was. It can lift up to 150 tons and move it in any direction. You don’t realise how big it actually is [...]