A bit of this and a bit of that

Bit of a depressing weekend this. We’ve been stuck at home with different forms of flu and terrible weather outside. It’s the middle of summer, 15 degrees and raining so the weather really reflects how we feel. It hasn’t been all bad though, we spent some time together as a family and Arthur and I [...]

Do you ever get those days when you’re bored out of your skull and looking for any way to keep entertained? Well, I’ve been sick at home since yesterday, nothing major, probably some sort of flu bug. It’s been strange though, I’ve been feeling nauseous all day and had fever most of yesterday and last [...]

You might have read in my previous blog posts that I’m currently on a mission to lose some weight, keeping my calories down to 1500 a day. It seems to be working well, but it also means that I’m reading more about the subject too. I came across a great post that talks about why [...]

Camille and Arthur are traveling back to the Isle of Man tomorrow, so after a week of spouselessness, things should be returning back to normal. It’s funny how their absence reminded me of how it was when I was commuting here initially. I would fly here on a Monday and fly back home at the [...]

I took delivery of a huge package yesterday (well two huge packages) which turned out to be Arthur’s new wardrobe. It could have been more messy actually, as when I got the note that I missed a package, I phoned up to ask them to redelivered the package to my workplace, thinking it must have [...]

I’ve decided to try a new way to record what I eat. Not that I had any problems with Calorie Counter, it’s a great website and extremely comprehensive. But, as I’m always playing with new websites and this one is a novel idea, I’ve decided to switch to TweetWhatYouEat.
The way it works is simple. [...]

I’ve been getting some really weird spam on this blog over the last few days. I’m used to all the spam about pharmaceuticals, acne treatments and even adult websites, but this spam had none of that. It just consists of chunks of text which seems to be taken out of a book somewhere, no links, [...]

I’m alone at home in the Isle of Man at the moment and catching up on a number of different things. I have some websites that need attention, I have some cleaning to do and I’m hoping to find some time to practice some piano pieces too. It’s nice to have these sort of days, [...]

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, [...]