Food | Obsessive Ramblings

Obsessing over Weight

March 4th, 2013 | 5 Comments

I am not normally one to obsess over my weight, but recently it has been foremost in my mind. It is not my weight I have been overly concerned about, although this has not totally escaped my attention, but rather the weight of my backpack and the supplies I ‘might’ be taking for my week in the desert in under 5 weeks time. Last time I was in the desert, I must’ve arrived with at least 11-12kg … Read entire article »

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Starting to Get Real (and Exciting)

January 29th, 2013 | 3 Comments

This is where it starts to get real for me. With just over two months to go to the starting line of the Marathon des Sables, I have been going through a spurt of preparation recently. This is probably because I am also focused on my race on Saturday, the Thames Trot. Five years ago (as scary as that now seems) I was toeing the start line of a similar race, the Thames Meander, which followed the … Read entire article »

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The Grizzly Death of the Frozen Mouse

January 28th, 2013 | 1 Comment

When you have children, it is nothing, if not informative! Joshua, our eldest, is 11 and animal mad. He had been begging us for ages to allow him to get a reptile of some sort and while happy to do this, the initial expense of setting up was deferred to a birthday / Christmas present. This also gave him the opportunity to firm up on a decision as to what he actually wanted to get. Having been … Read entire article »

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Meet The Vet

April 21st, 2012 | Comments Off

The kittens had their first set of injections booked in with the vet this morning. After a good night’s sleep, I felt a little more human, but still felt like I needed another few hours rest, which with kittens, children and chores to do, didn’t really end up happening. The vets is a couple of miles away, down the Epsom Road to the east of Guildford, along a route Liz and myself have often run. The “Cape … Read entire article »

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Daddy’s Home

April 19th, 2012 | Comments Off

I arrived back this morning – getting home about 11:00am after a smooth flight. Col was still here with Liz but was about to leave. She has been a wonderful help over the last few days (Thanks Col!) After she had left for her train I unpacked a bit while I had the opportunity as the children were at school. Savannah had been very excited when she woke in the morning and realised that there were now … Read entire article »

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LSD 20 miles – Tick!

April 9th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Easter Monday, so another day of rest. However, since I had not run yesterday I planned a long run for this morning. As per normal I have been increasing my weekly mileage slowly and by less than 10% a week – in fact for both the weekly mileage and the distance of the long run; such is conventional wisdom regarding endurance training nowadays. I have had a couple of hilly runs and a pace run during the … Read entire article »

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First Day Fatigue

March 16th, 2012 | 9 Comments

First day back at home and nothing much to report as it’s been a day of rest. Liz was bright-eyed and bushy tailed when she got up this morning but unfortunately Luke was still not well, so stayed off school again today, although Liz said she felt well enough to sit and read with him while I took the other members of the tribe to their respective places of learning. So, we were super-quick up Pewley Hill … Read entire article »

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Close to Millionaires

February 26th, 2012 | 7 Comments

This is becoming a bit of a habit really Sunday baking with the children, for the children – with the obvious benefits of tasters during the preparation and samples afterwards, just to be sociable, of course! Today’s delight, made by Savannah and myself, the simple pleasure of Millionaire’s Shortbread. The recipe we followed is here but these were the ingredients we needed: For the shortbread: 250g plain flour 75g caster sugar 175g butter, softened For the caramel: 100g butter or margarine 100g light … Read entire article »

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Tech Support

February 21st, 2012 | 1 Comment

Ok – Tech Support night tonight. Trying to setup a 1.0TB Buffalo Drivestation (fancy product name for an external hard-drive) to our Thompson Router as a NAS so that we can share it and I can download all our iTunes Media (music, films, books) onto it so that we don’t have to have the behemoth NAS Linkstation running all the time, only when we need to do a backup. That’s the theory anyway. As ever, nothing involving technology … Read entire article »

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