I had a good night’s sleep, eventually emerging from my pit
at nine o’clock. I made toast and had my usual peer into the Internet as I do.
Loads of people had wished us a happy anniversary on the photo I posted to
Facebook yesterday. My colleague who had been in Shanghai and Chongqing last
week was in Vietnam (or had been last night) and posting photos of some
rather good food. Back in the day I would have been scoffing that like a thing
possessed. Back in the day I was three stone heavier.
I find myself wondering just how long this diet lark will
last this time. I’ve lost lots of weight in the past but have always put it all
back on again. Losing weight is easy. Keeping it off – that’s the tricky part.
I munzed and got Wordle (plane) on the third
attempt, then got ready for a little outing.
The plan for today had been to meet up with friends for
brekkie at a café in the town centre but again that was calories I didn’t need
to be scoffing. Instead we thought we might take a slow walk up to the town
centre Munzing as we went, and meet brekkie club as they came out of the café.
And that’s what we did. We then walked round town together. It was good to
catch up.
I don’t go into Ashford much, and every time I go the town
is different. Where once the town was nothing but estate agents it became all
hairdressers, then all nail bars. Today there was more take away burger bars
than ever and quite a few happy-clappy churches.
We came home past the park and had a little Munzee session
round the local roads.
Once home I had a little doze, and “er indoors TM” had
another go at the chestnuts. We came home with ten pounds (in weight) of
the things yesterday. Yesterday’s lunch was roast chestnuts… Have you ever had
roast chestnuts? There’s this romantic ideal about the things but getting the
shells off is a lot of farting about. Today we had boiled chestnuts. Boiling
then made the shells softer, but it was still a load of farting about.
We’ve still got nine and a half pounds of them left.
There’s talk of pickling them now. Apparently you have to have special vinegar?
Personally I’m thinking about dinging them out with the garden waste when the
bin men come later in the week.
I then had a rummage in my box of clothes upstairs and
found half a dozen pairs of new trousers which at the beginning of the year
would have been far too small for me, but now they fit quite nicely; if
anything, a tad baggy. That’s saved a little money.
And then we had something of a lazy afternoon. “er
indoors TM” made cards, and I played Mahjongg. I
downloaded half a dozen Mahjongg games from the play store… and deleted them
all. Each one was crystal clear that it was just a game and no adverts
whatsoever, and each one was full of endless adverts. In a fit of pique I gave
them all a one-star rating on Google. And one of the game developers had the cheek
to say “while the game includes some ads, we try to avoid anything annoying
or disruptive. We focus on ad quality, keeping them short and easy to skip”.
I have to ask why they advertise the game as being advert-free when they admit
that it isn’t.
Eventually I gave up with phone apps and tried Microsoft
Mahjongg on my laptop. The size was bigger and didn’t strain my eyes, but still
had adverts. Graciously it gave me the option to pay so as not to have adverts.
Back in the day a new laptop came with free games. Nowadays
if you don’t want adverts, you pay not to have them.
I suppose that is a sign of the times, isn’t it?.
We scoffed dinner whilst watching the final of “Lego
Masters: Australia vs The World” in which the German young lady broke with
tradition by covering up somewhat. I won’t give the result away, but I will say
that I wouldn’t have voted for the model that won.
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