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New Year, Same Goal
Happy New Year to you. I’m just back in the door with the family after seeing of 2012 in style at her brother’s house in Perthshire. Two days of good food and booze on top of months of indolence. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 2013, alcohol, blog, booze, diet, dieting, fat, gym, hogmanay, Iain Pope, New Year, perthshire, Shaun Milne, swimming, Two Fat Laddies, weight
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Much too late for goodbyes
Tonight is the night then. Hogmanay. Out with the old and in with the new. When the bells sound this evening I’ll be watching Primal Scream live, in the Shadow of Edinburgh Castle, watching the fireworks above us with my … Continue reading
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The best laid schemes of mice and men
Two Scottish lads with one year to lose ten stones. That was the plan. But as Burns himself said, the best laid schemes o mice an men aft gang aft a-gley. Now that 2011 is nearly out I wonder if … Continue reading
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Is it feasible to lose two and a half stone in 75 days?
When I was young I would always push it to the wire with exams. I’d never bother my arse until the last minute, then cram it in and scrape past by the skin of my teeth. It might have seen … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, dieting, hogmanay, Iain Pope, journalism, school, Shaun Milne, Two Fat Laddies, university, Verdun, weight loss
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Just what is it that you want to do? We wanna be free!…we wanna be free! To do what we wanna do!
When news first came out that Primal Scream are to headline Edinburgh’s Hogmanay bash this year by playing the whole of their album Screamadelica live and back to back for the last time..and then a selection of their greatest hits … Continue reading
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