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.

Spent this morning again at the gym. Arrived early with the youngest daughter for her skating lesson at 7:00 a.m. and the wife dragged me off for a brisk walk around the lake having also made me stagger down (and up) a long flight of stairs. The wife wanted to go round a few times … More Here we go again!

Facebook, that ubiquitous networking service, has, in its wisdom, decreed that breastfeeding is immoral!! A letter they sent to this ex-member includes the following Please note, nudity, drug use, or other obscene content is not allowed on the website.  Excuse me? Breastfeeding is obscene? Or are they suggesting it constitutes drug use?? Or is it … More Breastfeeding still an issue

So we all get up, wife goes to work, I jolly the kids along because today is the day the eldest goes back to school. However we have to visit the Orthodontist first to let him give her a check up first. Still, I make her get ready for school… after all it’s just a … More More on the daughter

Daughter came through ok. Spent until lunchtime in the hospital because the bleeding wouldn’t stop, but eventually she was allowed home 🙂 Her face was really badly swollen so she’s been wearing an ice-pack most of the day… the one they gave us was pretty good. I might keep it in case it comes in … More Just for info.

The eldest daughter is off to the hospital tomorrow. She needs lots of teeth out. Not because she doesn’t look after them, though she doesn’t, more because of ‘something’ that happened either before she was born, or when she was very young. Apparently at some early age she was affected either by a virus or … More Where's me teeth?

I’m a bit concerned lately. I think I’ve spent a lot of the last 20 years more or less alone and I’m concerned it might finally have got to me. I suppose truth be told it might have got to me a long time ago but I’ve tended to wash over it. Can’t do anything … More Gets lonely sometimes

I think I’ve finally caught something – oh joy. Nose running, yet strangely stuffed up, Throat ticklingwith something you recognise as the beginnings of bronchitis. Headache. Unidentifiable aches and pains in joints and muscles. General feeling of unwellness. Oh yes… it’s there. 😦 In the past this would have meant an immediate retreat to my … More Me cisk.