With Christmas done and dusted I stood on the scales
this morning and saw I’d put on half a stone over the last few weeks. So it’s
back to not scoffing far too much and calorie counting. Currently I’m a shade
under fifteen stone; by the end of the year I want to be under twelve stone.
Realistically that’s a tad ambitious but we shall see.
I made my usual toast and coffee (two hundred and
seventy seven calories) and had a look at the internet. It was the same as
it ever was. So much frankly incomprehensible posting. If people would only
read what they’d written before pressing the “send” button…
There were quite a few photos of the snow in Scotland.
So many people I know are moving there. I can’t see the attraction of leaving
everyone you know behind and going to somewhere that is cold for most of the
year.
I had an email – the geo-fed had approved the geo-meet
I’ve set up for February.
I then nipped down the road to the dentist to see if I
could get my broken tooth fixed. You might think it would be quicker to phone –
sadly it has been my experience that they don’t answer phone calls. It only
took ten minutes to arrange an appointment. Sadly it was for mid-morning which
scuppered my plans for a prompt dog walk, but there it was.
I came home and pootled in a very cold garden. I
melted holes in the ice of both ponds, topped up the bird feeder, and fiddled about
drilling a hole in the cuttlefish bone we got over the weekend. The little
snails in the fish tank need cuttlefish bone for their shells, but cuttlefish
bones float. So I drilled holes in it and thought I might use those holes to
attach fishing weights. It took an age to find the fishing tackle; I’ve not
used it for years. And when I had got weights attached to the cuttlefish bone
the thing was still rather more buoyant than I’d have liked it to be.
I weighted it down with a stone from the rockery, and
hoped for the best.
With some time on my hands I made a start at updating my
atlas of hematology. It’s nothing special compared to
other atlases on-line, but with rather poor photos, it’s examples of what I
have seen myself, not obscure things seen by others that I will never see. And
it’s good CPD. One day I’ll get called up for CPD audit… I got the sections on
malaria, basophilic stippling and beta thalassaemia updated.
I Munzed, Wordled, and went to the dentist. It wasn’t
long before I was in the chair. On 17 November the dentist put in an
“intermediate filling”. He’s put in another and said that he’ll review
it in March and possibly think about a crown then.
I came home, got the leads and coats onto the dogs and
took them to Kings Wood. We were rather later than usual, and there were quite
a few normal people swarming about. And three quarters of the way round so the
dogs ran amok. They all ran off and wouldn’t come back when called. I
eventually found them going frantic at the base of a tree. They’d cleared all
the leaves from within about a foot around the tree, and there were a couple of
holes at the bottom. Rats or rabbits? Either way the dogs had to be put on
leads and physically dragged away.
Stomping about trying to capture hounds added a little
to our walk. But how much was arguable. As well as a difference of half a mile
between my watch and my phone, the Map My Walk app claimed I’d burned
off five hundred and seventy-six calories; MyFitnessPal said eight
hundred and seventy-two. Which do I trust?
Once home I did some more CPD and fell asleep. I woke
two hours later. “er indoors TM” boiled
up cheeseburgers and then went bowling. I put on a film. And after an hour I
turned it off.
Many years ago I watched the film “28 Days Later”
which was rather good. On 8 September 2008 I watched the sequel “28 Weeks
Later” about which I said “I’d been so looking forward to this
film. And it was rubbish. That’s two hours of my life down the pan. I hear
there’s going to be a third film in this series. I shan’t be bothering with it”. Well,
this evening I started watching that film. “28 Years Later”. It
was utter tripe in that if you are part of a community which is secure and
defended against a world filled with insane lethal murdering killer zombies, do
you either stay put in safety, or go pick a fight with the insane lethal
murdering killer zombies?
I hope this cold spell ends soon…
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