Quitters’ charter No to caring about bulges – yes to a body that lifts weights. No to suffering for weeks then quietly giving up – yes to climbing more hills. No to being more like her – yes to ‘who cares? This is me’. No to finishing books that bore – yes to ‘this looks […]
Year’s end – 100 words
Dispatches from the bunker… just after the famous football game where you think it might turn out fine in the end
Well, happy new-year-new-you one and all. It’s still peachy here. You know why, don’t you? It’s because we’ve just been off for a few days of ‘sod it, it’s Christmas’ and the cold hard realities are just mustering themselves ready to pounce. So to celebrate the fact that true hostilities haven’t yet resumed, it’s time […]
Keeping up with your new year’s resolution
The arrival of spring is always exciting, the weather gets warmer and the flowers start blooming. The refreshing sight calls for a ‘fresh start’ for us and reminds us that it is time to establish new goals. There is no other time more suitable than this for you to remind yourself the New Year resolutions […]
Blethering from the Palace of Bundance
Usual festive nonsense It was shaping up to be a run-of-the-mill roundup from the Palace of Bundance, possibly interspersed with promises to remove the proverbial from the unmentionable for the next 12 months and generally buck up and make the best of it. I might even have found something meaningful to say about wonky Christmas […]