Archive for the 'Exercise' Category
Windmills of the Mind
Part of my personality profile is idealist, and though I don’t really know what that means in its entirety, I know that it means that I like knowing two or three ways to do the same thing. I like to use the keyboard shortcut and/or the contextual menu and/or the normal menu click command. I [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Exercise, Family, anxiety, autobiography | Leave a Comment
Tags: boredom, idealism, personality profiles
We are a Medium
I bought a new belt, as do-it-yourself belt holes tend to be unsatisfactory. As of right now, I’m officially a Medium in belt sizes, not a Large. This is because I have dropped around 7kg (a stone… ish) since starting WeightWatchers (online) just under 6 weeks ago.
You don’t need to be a maths genius to [...]
Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Exercise, Middle Age, Movies, Time-Wasters, ambitions in life, arts, film, happiness, health, marketing, media studies | 4 Comments
Tags: diets, lifestyle, slimming, weight loss, weightwatchers
Captain’s Log
I’m still aching almost all over from a weekend spent splitting logs. The county council felled some trees nearby, and they left a notice on one of them with a phone number if you wanted some of the logs. For a £50 donation to the local tree-hugging society, we scored 10 cubic metres of wood. [...]
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Tags: apocalypse, firewood, fuel, logs, winter, wood
Walk this Way
“Nothing left to the imagination.”
It all dates back to when I hit puberty. I’ve been asked to clarify a certain matter concerning men’s undergarmentry, so here is a warning: what you are about to read may contain explicit reference to the male bollock.
I was svelte and fit and I could run and run and run. [...]
Filed under: Cycling, Exercise, Middle Age, anxiety, clothes, hypochondria | 1 Comment
11 Reasons to Love Le Tour
I love the Tour de France, it’s my favourite televised sporting event, and the only reason one would ever watch ITV4. I only watch the one-hour highlights, mind: I’m not completely mad.
There are many things that make it ace. Here are eleven:
1. It’s surely the only professional sport during which spectators (and dogs) can (and [...]
Filed under: Character, Cycling, Exercise, France, Television, countryside, heroes | 5 Comments
Perfect Skin
(There is probably still an editor/producer of a Radio 4 arts programme who thinks Lloyd Cole is the cutting edge of rock music.)
This is a miscellaneous entry, no guaranteed theme.
I have a sunburned face, that’s the first thing. It was Sports’ Day on Thursday at my school. Nobody thought it would happen, because of the [...]
Filed under: Commuting, Exercise, Socks, anxiety, hypochondria, omens and portents, paranoia, summer | 2 Comments
Tags: Shoes
Boing
Fittingly, this Easter weekend has felt properly spring-like. We’ve already had the first giant wasp of the year (in the bathroom, where they usually turn up, which is disturbing because it might mean they’re nesting in the loft again), the first giant bumblebee (in the conservatory), and I’ve even seen a giant Red Admiral butterfly. [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Climate, Conspiracy Theories, Cycling, Exercise, France, anxiety, climate change, countryside, omens and portents | 2 Comments
Cramp as Kiss M’ass
[Please excuse me while I arse around with the template. It's only because I can.]
Today, I wish to talk about cramp. This is not something I have suffered from a lot in life. When I’m fit, I’m fit, and I guess my diet has just about the right balance of salts and fluids etc. So [...]
Filed under: Cycling, Education, Exercise, anxiety, health, hypochondria | 1 Comment
Miscellany at Large
Here are a few searches (the others are fairly repetitive as these things go).
This first one is funny:
a place to heat unsigned artists – I think it’s fairly true to say that all artists are destined to go to hell, once they make their pact with the devil and sign for a major label.
blackberry picking [...]
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I know what this reminds me of…
I’ve been keeping up the cycling for two or three weeks now. Do I feel fitter? No. Am I slimmer? Not that I can tell (my face may be less fat). Have I lost weight? Er, no. In fact, I appear to have gained a kilo.
So what’s the point of all this exercise then? I’d [...]
Filed under: Cycling, Exercise, health, hypochondria, summer | 1 Comment
