been well out of touch, injury afflicted to the outside of the foot probably caused by my eliptical trainer has made me put on about 1 stone and 2 inches around the waist. I tried on a dinner suit today which was fine 2 years ago this time and i embarrassed myself - I hope this excess can be lost in time for the holidays.

Cheeriness from the day was halted by this discovery though not all the day was confined to fear. I got myself a new toy for £11 under the asking price.

I fear as to its usefulness but it got me out of a rut. Next up will probably be the descent into mad electrical toys, like gps etc but not yet. 3.5 miles today - good to get out into the cold wind and open moon.

Just discovered genius on the itunes after fearing its information hoover sucking all my records from the laptop, its pretty cool after all.