Debbie joined me today and so we had the opportunity to do a really good tidy up, especially of the communal green paths that surround our plot and our neighbours on all sides. What made this possible was the Ryobi rechargeable strimmer which arrived yesterday and it worked a treat. ...
I was at the peak of my physical fitness and at my most optimal weight back when I was 25. Now I’m 52 and retired I decided that I would try and return myself to that same position, when I was able to commute 25 miles to work on my...
I spent my first afternoon at the allotment yesterday and it surprised me, in ways that I didn’t expect. I expected a patch of bare earth, in the midst of lots of other patches to be perhaps the definition of unsurprising, but I was wrong. It proved to be really...
I’ve always loved eating animal products, although when I found out about the inhumane conditions in which some of them were raised I immediately switched to free range eggs and more recently organic diary. For meat though for many years the best I could afford was the RSPCA’s Freedom Food,...
In a recent blog post where I started to talk about my beliefs I mentioned that living a ‘good life’ is about balancing ‘living well’ and ‘living right’, this post explores what I mean by ‘living well’. It’s not prescriptive, there are many different approaches to living well that work...
I’m a huge fan of the iPhone (and Android) app Moves, that I’ve been running silently in the background on my iPhone for the last couple of years. It provides a fairly accurate record of where I’ve been each day and how many calories I’ve burned walking and cycling. It...
I’ve been writing a daily diary for about sixth months now, and it’s been an interesting experiment. For want of a better location for it I published it on my blog, but made it slightly less visible than a typical blog post, the entries appeared in searches and if you...
Update: It turned out that the kid’s rebelled when I wrote this post and asked me to carry on writing my diary, so I changed the way I did it instead, as described in this blog post When I started this diary 181 days ago it was in a desperate...
Another good nights sleep, down to 40mg of Pregabalin and still sleeping through. Woke up at 6:30, immediately fell back to sleep and only just made it to Caffe Nero before opening time. Tess walked into town with me which was nice. Stayed there for just over an hour and...
Today was meant to be a recovery day, an essential complement to the previous day’s hiking and cycling. I’ve found that although I’m able to do a lot more now on a particular day than I used to be able to while working, on average I’m not able to do...