No Business Like Snow Business!

Posted on January 17, 2013

Unless you have just arrived home from a short break on the planet Andromeda, I am going to take a wild guess and assume that everyone reading this is under the assumption that it is going to snow tomorrow. How much snow we will get will of course vary, but there could be (I can here my Canadian relations laughing from here) anything up to six inches, which is nearly half the size of my penis! Snow in southern England is something of a ...

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The Star at Bentworth

Posted on January 14, 2013

One of the most critical things about being a forty-something singleton, is to make sure that you have at least one friend who you can go out for a quiet pint with at short notice on any given day. My kids are knocking around my house for at least half the week but on the other days, particularly at weekends, I rapidly tire of my own company and feel the need to talk to someone or something other than the Facebook and Twitter pages I spend far ...

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Christmas Lag Dissipates

Posted on January 11, 2013

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog posts, I would like to confirm that I am not dead, at least not yet anyway. The fact is that this week, I have been trying to readjust my body clock to a sensible time and it is with some relief that last light I went to bed at 11.30 and slept through until 6.30 this morning; that is bordering on normality! There are varying reasons for these fitful nights, including a heating system that ...

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The Campaign For better Health Continues

Posted on January 4, 2013

My campaign to be healthy in 2013 reached day four today, something which, if I am not mistaken, must be a new personal best. As a bonus, after successive work outs at the gymnasium and a long walk along the seafront at Keyhaven and Milford yesterday, I was lucky enough to bump into my old cricket buddy Andy "Rowlers" Rowley who challenged me to a game of badminton this lunchtime. Andy was given a month’s membership of the gym where I am a ...

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The Battle With New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on January 2, 2013

Thirty-six hours after smoking ten fags and decking a full bottle of vintage port, I went in to full scale self-righteous mode this lunch time and embarked on my first trip down to the gymnasium since mid-December 2012. New Year’s Eve was the first and only time I really abused myself with toxins over the Christmas break, something that was partly due to being physically well off the pace and partly to do with deliberately avoiding my new ...

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