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Month of May: in retrospect
May is always a huge month, in part because the weather turns warm (if we’re lucky, which we have been) and the garden explodes into life. This imposes a core theme (“gardening month”) which comprises reseeding the lawn and refreshing the borders and shrubbery. Typically there are a fair few things that need to be…
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Garden makeover weekend #2
Another super busy gardening weekend. The most substantial task was to put down 20 bags of blue slate over the tired pebbles that came with the house. I also made it to a recycling centre to dispose of my garden waste (no small accomplishment these days!), fixed my shed and sorted out the gap between…
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Results are in!: Diet week #2
On the US TV show “The Biggest Loser” (a wildly over-the-top but thoroughly entertaining weight loss contest), I remember week 2 as always being the sticky week. Contestants would lose half a stone or more in week 1 and then lose 2 pounds or less in week 2. In the show it was normally explained…
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Last day of diet week #2
As mentioned in earlier posts I set myself tough new calorie deficit targets this week. Three days in I thought I might fail to hit them but I have pulled through towards the end of the week. Yesterday sealed it with a massive 3,367 deficit! That leaves me requiring a mere 1,203 deficit today to…
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Diet week #2: half way point
For reasons beyond my control my diet isn’t running Monday-Sunday right now. In diet week #2 I’m doing six “drive days” (Sat 23rd + Monday-Friday), with my weekly weigh-in on Saturday 30th. Tomorrow I will do my first weekly weigh-in to get my bearings. At worst I hope to have held my losses from week…
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Diet reflections
Week #2 of my summer diet will be my first “full drive,” by which I mean five day’s hard dieting Monday-Friday. The key thought from my first week was that holding firm at 2,000 calories a day isn’t feasible once I ramp up the workouts. A ride day often means 6,000 calories being burned. Without…
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Amateur gardening weekend
It was the right time to get some cyclical and long-term garden work done. The perfect after pictures will take a few weeks because to make an omelette you have to break some eggs. Planting/uprooting trees is a messy business, in the immediate sense you have to go backwards to go forwards. Like most things…
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Summary: Diet week #1 completed
The debut week of my summer diet was only 4 days long, serving as a test-of-concept. Initial results have been excellent, better than expected. I’m 6lbs lighter than my start weight against the backdrop of a 9,500 calorie deficit. On one day of four hunger chased me for a significant portion of the day, but…
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“The View from Goffman”
I’m excited to have received this collection of essays edited by Jason Ditton today, who himself was the author of some of the best organisational studies of his time. “Part Time Crime” and “Controlology” remain under-appreciated masterpieces in my view. Regardless, I believe this to be the first collection of Goffman essays compiled (back in…
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What I’m working out to at the moment
Thank you John Digweed for this exceptional mix. It’s ambient and meditative rather than euphoric. The Inception/Hans Zimmer mix at around 1:08 is inspired. Me and John go way back, I’ve loved his music since my teens and we first met back in 1999 – 21 years ago! I probably remember it better than he…
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Dr Martin James 