I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
Most people will never have heard of Clare, but she died today after losing her struggle against skin cancer. Clare used a tanning solarium around 20 times in her early 20’s but three years ago was diagnosed with a particularly malignant form of cancer. She was operated on, but the cancer returned and yesterday it … More Clare Oliver dies
Two hours in a gym at my age and weight isn’t easy and I’m not even certain it’s good for me 🙂 Still, I suppose I could feel a lot worse than I do right now.
As lots of you know, I have two more kids in the UK, a daughter and a son. While I often refer to my daughters here in Australia as ‘eldest’ or youngest, both of my kids in the UK are a lot older than them. Of course distance is a killer when you want to … More Charmed I'm sure.
Feels strange here today. The eldest daughter has gone to Canberra on a trip with her school for three days, the youngest is in school so no real change there, they’d be out of the house anyway. The *real* change is that the wife has gone back to work. True she was only home for … More Quiet here today.
So did the receiver/transmitter thingy work? Nope. The connection on the back of the Foxtel box is a D coupling… whereas on the transmitter… it’s a standard AV triple wire thingy. This means a visit to the shop to buy a converter. Grrr…. More later once I’ve bought one! 🙂
Just an update. Saturday morn at 11:00 a.m. I weighed 157.9 kilos. This morning I weighed at 7:00 a.m. and was 148.5. Something seems to be working. I just need to keep up an average of three quarters of kilo a day (or so) and I’ll be a shoe in for winner of the competition!! … More The Diet
No not the radio… nor my LAN… just that months ago I bought a wireless transmitter for our Foxtel connection and am yet to install it. The connection into the house is upstairs, but when the old man and old lady came to stay we moved downstairs to make life easier for them (and us … More Wireless blues
The wife is into spring cleaning mode. Her few days at home coupled with *her* diet have resulted in her getting quite manic so to use up her energy, the place is being given the once-over. We cleared most of the downstairs and odd spots through the upper floor and today we are starting the … More Spring cleaning time again
I thought maybe this time I’d document what I’m doing in terms of diet and exercise in a different blog… I don’t want to fill Opinion Australia up with diet stuff, it’s not really what it’s for. If you’re interested, the new site is at http://www.odps.net and it’s called ‘Fat Man on a Diet‘. Seemed … More New Site.
As said the other day, I joined up with the Biggest Loser program in a make or break attempt to get rid of the weight. So far all is well. The wife is still doing all the cooking and keeping me out of the kitchen which is a *big* help. I weighed in on Sat … More Progress report.
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