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Archive of entries posted on April 2009

What would it have been like?

There is a very funny commentary in the Guardian today where the author is imagining what the first 100 days of a John McCain Presidency would have been like.  I’ve reproduced it here so you don’t have to go elsewhere, unless you want to.
Day 1: Having spent the nearly three months between election day and [...]

It’s been a while

I haven’t heard about (or sought out information on) Peta in a while nor veggie-fascists. I unfortunately came across this commentary on Guardian today from my ‘favourite’ atheist-bus-campaigner. Setting aside her whole ‘there’s probably no God’ malarkey it was a good article. I was intrigued by this sentence: “Despite the best efforts of Finding Nemo, [...]

I like running

I like running so much I’ve entered the ballot to run the 2010 London Marathon. That’s right, all 26.2 miles of it. I will find out in October whether or not I have a place.
Even if I don’t make it in with the ballot I can still run for a charity as they have guaranteed [...]

My personal challenge

Today I ran home from work. According to Google maps it is 4.2 miles. I walked .65 miles to warm up and another .26 to cool down. I ran 3.57 miles. Now that’s not that big of a deal normally as I’m currently running that every other day. The major achievement today was the fact [...]

Proverbial lakes

There are just a few things bothering me of late; therefore, let me dip my proverbial toe into the proverbial lake of political commentary as I have not done for a while.
Explain to me, please, why an anti-racism conference has as a key speaker someone who is, by all accounts, racist himself. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has [...]

Tenby

As promised, I can now reveal the glorious Tenby photos; all 136 of them! (if the slideshow doesn’t work, leave a comment and I’ll email you a direct link) I’ve added tags so you can tell what’s what. You may notice a bit of an obsession with an old fort. It’s privately owned and I [...]

Watch this space

Hubby and I went to Tenby in west Wales over the Easter bank holiday weekend. It was four days of sun, sea and fudge. I’m still going through the nearly 150 pictures I took so check back later this week for the whole story.

The Incredible Shrinking Leah

Friends and family will know that I’m on a weight loss regime and have been for the better part of a year now. As of today, since last January, I have lost 34 pounds. I don’t know how many inches because I didn’t bother to measure.
The first time I noticed a major difference in my waistline was [...]