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Some scumbag stole my bike from the tenement close

My bike got tanned. I got home, as usual, and walked up the stairs to the flat. It wasn’t until I got to the landing just below home, and found my way blocked by one of the massive full length … Continue reading

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How Much Weight Can I Lose in Five Weeks?

I’ve been a large man since I was in my mid-20s, and for all except a year in 2005/6 when I lost lots of weight, I have been pretty large indeed. There are times when you just get on with … Continue reading

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Where has the time gone?

Hard to believe it’s already April. That means we are a quarter of the way through the year already and I am still as fat as a pig. But, in the wrods of Inspector Cloueau, I have a plan. Bookmark … Continue reading

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Buerk, Bothans, Booze and Being Good

Do you remember it? Do you remember that report, the report from the Dark Continent that changed the world? Michael Buerk’s astonishing story from Korem in Ethiopia in October 1984 was so eloquent, so shocking, but most importantly so revelatory … Continue reading

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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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Shaun’s Taking the Plunge

It kind of says it all that Shaun has asked me to help him out by doing a quick post because he is currently on his way to the start line of his third 10k of the year while I … Continue reading

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Three years and counting

So me and the good lady were lying in bed the other night and she was saying that she had been wondering what was important about the date – April 26 – and she couldn’t quite remember. She had crossed … Continue reading

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