At last, I have shifted my Christmas weight gain. Over a week and a half in late December I ate copious amounts of lovely festive food. I did this at my mother’s and at Chez Napoleon. I managed to gain a stone and felt obese and very disappointed with myself. Small children were laughing and […]
Now then Mr Fantastic, I do believe that someone has a birthday today. Could it be your good self? I think it is. Hooray!!!! Time to open a bottle of champagne and a bag of salted peanuts. Let’s jump up and down and issue primal screams. Run in circles and pat a hairy dog. Time […]
I was flicking through the TV channels on Saturday morning to, unexpectedly, come across live coverage of Mansfield Town on BBC1’s Match of the Day. They were playing Middlesbrough in the FA Cup. I know it is very unusual for me to write about any kind of sport, never mind football. I admit, I am […]
According to experts and psychologists, today marks the most depressing day of the year. It is a Monday, it has been a long time since December’s payday and it is unpleasant weather. (If you work in the City then the plunge in the global stock indexes must have been a great start to the week.) […]