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Continue reading →: Makes me cross bun.
The last thing I want to do is rant in my blog about anything religious, but on the holiest day of the year, the hot cross bun is hard to avoid. They’ve been around since the 14th century, maybe earlier and we’re told that a monk at St Albans Abbey…
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Continue reading →: Fat club
I’ve made no secret that I go to Slimming world, they get the credit for helping me lose five stone, which I did just before March 2020 and was at the target I’m heading for now. Like everyone during lockdown, I gained weight, there’s a future blog waiting to be…
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Continue reading →: Bad Hobbits lead to new
It’s almost impossible to be the first to do something, you imagine you’re genius idea for a brand or name has never been used by anyone else, but thanks to google, you discover in seconds you were beaten to it. Sometimes though even Google doesn’t find it immediately, or perhaps…
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Continue reading →: It is risen
No, this blog isn’t about a neutral gender Jesus coming back to life on Easter Sunday, I’m talking about one of my favourite foods, bread, which is something that completely divides everyone trying to lose weight. If I had a penny for every time I’ve listened to a woman in…
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Continue reading →: Slainte
Now we all know that St Patricks day, is the most popular of the saint’s celebrations. A time every year when distant claims to Celtic origins is made, in an attempt to get a full invite to the party. If everyone who said they were Irish, went back to Ireland,…
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Continue reading →: Cheers!
When you’re trying to lose weight, there are many thing’s that can put the brakes on reaching your goal, lucky for me chocolate isn’t a problem like most of the women in my slimming group, I can easily do without it. Apart from the odd pastry based snack or packet…
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Continue reading →: The temptation of Keith.
It was going to happen at some point, there was no way I could manage 40 days without the allure of a sausage roll entering my life, guess I should be pleased I got to 26, but before I tell what happened, let’s start at the beginning. The word’s “road…
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Continue reading →: “Anyone for table tennis?”
After years of being involved with contact sports, injury turned me towards tennis in my late 20’s, I actually got quite good at it, until the pressure of work and a moaning partner, forced me to have a break. Unfortunately, this is when my health started to go downhill and…
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Continue reading →: You can count on the Brits
If there’s one thing we’re good at in the UK, it’s queueing and the other day I joined one of the politest. After having a few health issues, the doc suggested a blood test, being a man, it took me three weeks to pick the form up and another two…






