This is going to be quite a personal post and I will write about my struggle with food.  If that's not something you're particularly interested in reading about, then scroll on up :)

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Over the last few months since I have been losing weight, I've had a great number of people comment about how well I've done in losing so much weight ( Read more... )

Your weekly round-up of mad stuff happening out there on planet Earth.

Holding back the Flood in A&E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13773512

News has broken that Manchester Royal Infirmary was inundated by a flood of drunk women over the last few days, following Take That's concerts in the city. Apparently, it comes as a huge surprise to the people who ( Read more... )

I did have it all planned out in my head and I even posted my plan in my blog on 13th April.  I would finish the Cambridge Weight Plan and then transfer (seemlessly) over to the familiarity and - shall we say - security of another, weight loss company (we'll call them Whale Watchers); which would give me that accountability for the long term.  That ( Read more... )

When you're looking at some lame excuse for a pasty in some rank bakery in the middle of Bedfordshire your thoughts automatically go to what you know you could have if you got in your car and drove 175 miles up the road to Lancashire.

I pitched up at Livejournal about half an hour ago to try and snatch some time to write.  But I was not in the right ( Read more... )

 I've got twenty minutes before I have to start the next round of madness that passes for Tuesday, so I thought I'd bang out a blog ( Read more... )

 Well finally, it's Wednesday and I manage to get somewhere near a keyboard to blog.  Oh hang on, someone's sent me a text message and I left my phone downstairs *trogs off downstairs*.  It's Simon, trains are delays at St Pancras and doesn't know when the next Bedford train will appear.  Usual state of affairs for First Capital Connect.

Anyway, ( Read more... )

Here in Britain there is a TV advert which goes something along the lines of 'This isn't just any [insert product name]... This is a Marks and Spencer's [insert product name].  A Marks and Spencer's anything is usually pretty good, as was demonstrated in the film Calendar Girls when Dame Helen Mirren entered a Marks and Spencer's Victoria sponge ( Read more... )

 How many times in your life do you get to hang around with Fire Fighters?  Well, unless you're the type of person who starts blazes just so the local fire crew can come running around to your house in their big shiny engine to hose you down with a water cannon...  That's you is it?  Ok! *backs away*

It's a truth universally acknowledged that you ( Read more... )

 

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Today at our morning service we said goodbye to our Senior Pastor, Stephen, who is off on a three and a half month jolly, sorry, sabbatical.

This is the guy who can bounce off the walls of the Church office first thing on a Monday and is even bouncier after he's been away for a couple of weeks on holiday.  His potential bounciness after three and a ( Read more... )