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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the New Year approaches and the rain cascades down on Basingstoke once again, I find myself in the unique position of spending the evening at home with my youngest son as the elder one gets pissed somewhere in Kempshott; it appears that the baton of partying and wholesale enjoyment has been well and truly passed over to the younger, fitter and better looking man. Not that I am bitter at the passing of youth of course.
2012 has been a funny ...
Well, that’s Christmas done with and from a personal view it was one that was rather blighted by spiteful colds to me and those in my direct company. Annoyingly, a heavy cold in late December is now as traditional for me as the celebration of the birth of the big man himself.
It didn't stop the fun and games on a wholesale basis however and on Christmas day I cleared my nose and mustered the enthusiasm to drive to North London, a somewhat ...