May 2007

Matt Lucas Is In the Big Brother House

May 31, 2007

The annual car-crash TV event kicked off last night. This year’s twist is that all the starting house mates are supposedly female. I have my suspicions about a few house mates, but one is obviously male. Yes, I can exclusively reveal that Matt Lucas has entered the house in deep disguise under the name “Laura”. [...]

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Cormack McCarthy – The Road

May 29, 2007

Apocalyptic stories fascinate me. Man’s struggle to survive when all is lost holds my imagination. I attribute that to growing up in the 80s when the threat of nuclear war was at its peak and there were dozens of post-apocalyptic tales in book and in the cinema. I also have a predilection for stories that [...]

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Pirates 3: At World’s End

May 25, 2007

Warning. Here be Spoilers. Kind of. Alright, I’ll do my best to not give too much away, but I may mention a few things which may spoil your enjoyment so if you really don’t want to know anything, click away now! So, the cinema threesome (that’s me, Debbie and Debbie’s sister Jacqueline) descended upon our [...]

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Junk your scales now

May 18, 2007

When you mention diet you instantly think of several things, two of which are calorie counting and weighing yourself. In our goal oriented society the amount of gravitational force acting upon your body (that’ll be your weight) is regarded as the single most important figure when trying to lose weight. After a weeks hard graft [...]

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Exercise Log Sheets

May 14, 2007

I like to keep a record of my exercise sessions. I log the exercises I do, in the order I do them and how many reps I perform with the weight I use. I find it really handy to keep these so I can look back at my progress, or lack-thereof and decide if something [...]

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Exercising for weight loss

May 14, 2007

Introduction The first thing people think when you mention the words “fat loss” and “exercise” in the same sentence is running. I know I did. It makes sense too. Running makes you sweat and leaves you puffing for breath. Professional runners are skinny. Case closed. Where’s my running shoes? It’s actually not that simple. Running [...]

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Losing Weight

May 11, 2007

Preamble Health and fitness has become a bit of an obsession of mine. The picture shows me at my heaviest in May 2004 and most recently at a 5k race in March 2007. I’ve always struggled with my weight which basically means that I struggled to take weight off. Putting it on was very easy. [...]

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Excellent Elevator Music

May 10, 2007

The Arcade Fire are one of my favourite bands and their latest album “Neon Bible” is a brilliant snapshot of life in the 21st century. Here’s the band playing “Neon Bible” live in an elevator. Brilliant.

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Spider Man

May 8, 2007

If this doesn’t make you want to keep your ears clean, nothing will. A nine-year-old boy complaining of “Rice Krispies” sounds has discovered he had two spiders living inside his ear. Jesse Courtney from Albany, Oregon, complained of snap, crackle and pop noises in his ear but his mother Diane had no idea what his [...]

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130 minutes into 5 seconds

May 8, 2007

Don’t want to spend over two hours watching Scorsese’s latest mob epic “The Departed” (although you should, because it’s very good) – then get the gist of the film in 5 seconds. Genius. Check out his other movies. My favourites include “The Return of the Jedi” and “Edward Scissorhands”.

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