A bad day but a FREE TRAVEL MUG

Monday was not a proud day, but I’m hoping it will be a watershed moment of sorts.

My employers very kindly gave us all the opportunity to have a quick, free health check, the highlight of which was watching someone feint after having their finger pricked for a cholesterol test.  I went down for a few minutes away from my desk, and to pick up a goody bag containing a free Company-branded travel mug.

Filed under: Health, blood pressure, cholesterol, cricket, health check, high blood pressure, low pulse, nurse, pulse, walking, weight loss

My World Cup, and the terrifying thought of Glen Johnson getting a knighthood

It’s a fact of life that anyone who likes football has A World Cup, a specific tournament to cling on to and claim as their own.  It’s usually the first World Cup you can remember, and every World Cup ever after will always lack the je ne sais quoi that made your World Cup so special.

Filed under: Uncategorized, 2010 World Cup, Andreas Brehme, David Batty, David Beckham, David Platt, football, Glen Johnson, Marco Materazzi, Michael Owen, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Shilton, Sir Bobby Robson, The Who, World Cup, Zinedine Zidane

Twenty-four bags of crisps, direct and effective cheese, and clichéd hyperbolic rhetoric

Anyone who’s been reading this blog or has seen me recently will have undoubtedly noticed that the diet/fitness regime has pretty much died a death.  I kind of gave up.  Again.  I’m guessing you’re not surprised.

I’m not looking to blame anyone or thing, but I did allow myself to be tempted into buying some Walkers Flavour Cup World Cup flavour crisps.  And by some I mean twenty-four bags.  I am, as you can probably imagine, very partial to a bag of crisps.

Filed under: Uncategorized, 2010 World Cup, a shamelessly glutonous celebration, American Cheeseburger, Argentinean Flame Grilled Steak, ASDA, Australian BBQ Kangaroo, Big Mac, Brazilian Salsa, crisps, Dutch Edam Cheese, English Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding, French Garlic Baguette, Frog's Legs, German Bratwurst Sausage, Holland, Irish Stew, Italian Spaghetti Bolognese, Japanese Teriyaki Chicken, John Wayne, Mexican Guacamole, microwaved TV dinner, Scottish Haggis, Smoky Bacon, South African Sweet Chutney, Spanish Chicken Paella, Walkers, Walkers Flavour World Cup, weight loss, Welsh Rarebit

A letter in reply to the reply letter from Tesco

A while ago in this blog post I wrote a letter to Tesco about their lazy, sexist, outdated retailing, and I promised to let you know if I got a reply.

A got a reply a while ago and, erm, forgot to mention it.

Filed under: Rage, David Brent, http://www.27bslash6.com/, Robin Cooper, Tesco, Timewasters Letters

A long, self-indulgent story that starts in a far-off past and ends in a chilling vision of the future

This is a story about men.  Met who met in a distant age, before everyone had iPhones and laptops and wi-fi and facebook and neither the means nor indeed the inclination for the constant, relentless barrage of shared information which, if we’re all honest, is just another welcome distraction from what we actually should be doing.

It was 1999, and I was starting university.  I had terrible dress sense; a velour luminous orange v-neck Cotton Traders shirt was the worst offender, usually accompanied with black shiny plastic-effect trousers.  Inexplicably I was single.

Filed under: Music, Nostalgia, 1999, All I Want For Christmas Is You, Alvin Stardust, Andy, Bat Out Of Hell, Big Steve, Birmingham, Championship Manager 2, Christmas, Cotton Traders, Custard Factory, David Ford, e-mail, Eastbourne, Eastbourne Hippodrome, Elvis, Ericsson T10, Evans, facebook, Firecracker, Gareth Evans, Gary G-Man Page, Gold, I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused, iPhones, Jersey, Kazaa, laptops, Management Accounting, men, Milk & Cookies, MSN Messenger, New York New York, Nottingham, Rock City, Ryan Adams, Settlers 3: Gold Edition, Shannon Elizabeth, State Of The Union, Stoke, Sugarmill, The Settlers, whatshername, wi-fi, Wildflowers, X-Factor