Bleh
Posted: Fri 9 December, 2005 Filed under: Health Leave a comment »Yet again, feeling rougher than a badger’s arse in wintertime.
At some point I’m going to get the time to enable me to be really really ill. In the meantime it’s more just feeling rough. Bleh.
Lennon
Posted: Thu 8 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »Twenty-Five years ago today, John Lennon was shot and killed.
Personally, I never found I could get into Lennon’s music, whether the solo stuff or the Beatles’ stuff. I don’t know why, it just never grabbed me in the same way that other forms of music did.
It’s still tragic to get killed in this way, but my personal opinion is that it’s one of those things, rather than a tragic loss to music.
Going Home to a Bus
Posted: Thu 8 December, 2005 Filed under: Festering Season, Thoughts Leave a comment »
What an absolutely brilliant idea. Old double-decker buses converted into living accomodation. The buses, converted by a bunch called Double-Decker Living, are being used by the Centrepoint charity in London to help the homeless over the Christmas period.
With luck it might be that there’s going to be a use for the fantastic old Routemaster buses that are being phased out after today…
Weighty Issues
Posted: Wed 7 December, 2005 Filed under: 2005 Resolutions, Health, Thoughts 4 Comments »Roughly six months ago, I wrote about the weight I’d managed to lose in the first part of the year – at the time I was down to 19st 10lb. I’ve eased up on the dieting a bit since, and not been cycling to work in a while – although I do generally walk home from the train station most days.
Anyway, I weighed myself yesterday, and while I’ve put on a little bit, I’m now dead on the 20st mark. No, that’s not light – but it does mean that even without making every effort for the weight to come off, or to keep it off, I’ve still managed to maintain pretty much the same weight for six months now.
And to me, that’s still a success. Yes, I’d like to lose some more, and there’s some other stuff I plan to do in order to manage that – but equally I suspect that whatever I lose in fat will just change to muscle (I know it’s not a “just change” procedure, but the fat will go and be replaced by muscle that has developed from the exercise) so I’ll still be in a similar weight range, I guess.
These are the kind of thoughts that follow you on a day when you’re sorting out techie stuff…
Driving By
Posted: Wed 7 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 6 Comments »There’s one facet of the story about South Yorkshire being gridlocked this morning due to a dead man on the M1 and a fatal accident on the A1 that’s rather more disturbing than any of the others. It’s this…
the body, which had been struck by a number of vehicles, was found near a footbridge, but it was not yet known if the man had fallen, jumped or been pushed from the bridge
Hang on, “struck by a number of vehicles“? How the hell does anyone in a car hit a body in the road and a) not stop or potentially b) not notice? Humans are bloody big things – they’re going to do damage to your car, regardless of whether they’re already dead or not. I’ve seen the mess a pheasant makes, and the one a deer makes – so I repeat, how the shit do you hit a body and not stop?
The mind boggles…
£1m. For what?
Posted: Tue 6 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 1 Comment »I see today that Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant in Cornwall is to receive £1m in public money to help with the building of it.
In short – Why?
Yes, sure, it might help some people with jobs. But why fund a private enterprise – particularly one run by someone like the Lisping Mockney Twat, who isn’t short of a few quid – to get built?