When your knickers are in grave danger of being awarded their own BBC3 comedy slot, it's time to go shopping...

I've never been one of life's natural clothes shoppers.  I've always viewed the experience much as I would having root canal at the dentist.  For the last twenty years, my abhorrence of the task has revolved around me being very overweight ( Read more... )

 I went to Papworth Hospital yesterday.  For those of you who are relatively new to my blog, I'll do a re-cap.

Around this time last year I was referred to the Sleep Centre at the hospital because I'd been walking around like a half-dead zombie for as long as I could remember.  An amusing sleep study later ( part 1, part 2) and they diagnosed that I ( Read more... )

Twenty years ago I was just about to enter a dark period of my life.  A time riddled with depression, low self-esteem and an eating disorder.  It's taken me a clear twenty years to work through my difficulties, and although I'm not quite done yet - there's some fine tuning to do - I have, for the most part, addressed all things that were having a ( Read more... )

Any minute now I expect a knock on the door from Time Team.  For those of you who don't know what Time Team is, it's a long-running Channel 4 programme presented by Tony Robinson; where a team of archaeologists and those in related disciplines go and stage a three-day archaeological dig in order to discover something interesting about the history ( Read more... )

If I was to describe how I'm feeling at the moment, I'd offer the analogy that I was in an episode of Star Trek and dematerialising onto a transporter pad.  For some reason, and I don't think it's transporter malfunction, the pieces of me are being put back together in a slightly different order.  I'm me... but I'm not me.  I may look essentially ( Read more... )

 The weight loss is going well.  To be honest I've lost so much now and we're in such uncharted territory I that I would not be surprised if I jumped on the scales and they came back with 'Here be Dragons'.  People are starting to notice and I'm learning to take compliments, not easy when you've spent your life mentally flicking them away with a ( Read more... )