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Step, row, cycle, run a few km, home, shower, healthy food, bed- that is now my life. Having hit the gym 5 of the last seven nights, with only a small break to fall off the wagon at the CIPD awards, I feel great. The very nature of pushing yourself as far as you can […]

“You’ll feel better for it”, the words of a many a friend when I told them I was to start hitting the gym and “Bollocks” I replied in turn. I feel better watching Fraiser on Paramount TV2 with a bottle of wine and some cheese traditionally, but that has now changed. Having sweated my proverbial […]

Its bloody June! Where did that come from? The last thing I remember was ho-ho-ho’ing my way through a party at Christmas, and consuming huge portions of turkey and whatever wine was closest. Now however my weekends consist of BBQ’s, cricket, beer gardens and sleeping with the window open.
I remember my Dad saying when I […]

Interesting point- for the last couple of years I have noted that who is actually in love (yes I am watching the film at the moment)? My parents of course, a couple of friends and colleagues but that’s it: we were all single merry men.
Now however, but a few short months after, I am the only single […]

It’s hot, its humid and I have no idea what to think about it. Having spent this afternoon mowing waist high grass and sweating like a Turk’ s jockstrap I long for the cold wet winter months.
Yet now as I enjoy a cold beer in the late afternoon with the sun going down the scene […]

It is September 11th 2001 and four plane crashes iniated by radical muslim fundamentalists have shaken the world, aftershocks from which continue to be felt everyday since. A day that saw New York, the US and the World pull together in a way that lives on for ever saw a recovery from the attack on […]