Jules Arthur
June 27, 2008
Jules Arthur has some amazing artwork on this website… his transcendent series is pretty cool!
losing inches, the sensible way
June 22, 2008
I started running a few weeks back and have been going for a run/jog regularly, three times each week over lunch, sometimes four if I fit one in over the weekend. I’ve also been eating better… I’m not talking about salad everyday, or some kind of obsessive calorie controlled tick list… Instead of three cans of coke in a day, just one, healthy breakfast and not eating the full plate when I’m full. The runs vary between 3km and 5km, usually 5-3-5. I feel a lot better in myself, although the kids are waking us up at 4.30/5.00am each morning, I feel less tired (unfortunately, not less stressed 
but then you can’t have everything). This alone has taken a whopping four inches off my belly and my belt has dropped a notch. Those are the kind of results that most think they have to pay for. I’m happy with them and the best thing is the exercise isn’t a chore, I really enjoy it.
So now I start my upper-body fitness. This is something I wasn’t looking forward to as it realistically meant going to the gym. On Friday I found the One Hundred Push Ups website, a training program that is designed to get you doing one hundred push ups (consecutively) in around six weeks. I’m dubious about the six week claim, only because I struggled to do six on my initial fitness test. I did my Day One on Friday night which means today is my Day Two, so far, so good; but it is early days. I’m going to stick with it and hopefully in six (maybe eight) weeks I’ll look like a Greek God (but without the nose).
Sequential and Ventilate
June 20, 2008
A totally cool blog on Canadian comics, comic art and writers… Sequential.
I also can’t get enough of the work featured at Ventilate at the moment either (which is where I nick most of my links).
Things That Amaze Me
June 19, 2008
- Seeing a traffic cop demonstrate how to hot-wire a car on prime-time mid-week TV… brought to you by the BBC.
And we wonder why crime is on the up.
A Good Day In All
It’s been a fairly accomplished weekend. As part of our “Goodlife’ lifestyle we’ve been planting out some fruit and veg. Nothing extravagant, just some lettuce, carrots, onions, parsnips so far. On Saturday Bailey and I built a second bed from some old beams that I had laying about from another project (that never made it) and today we all went to B&Q to get some topsoil so we could get some seeds on the go. We also stopped off at Tesco and got some more seeds (cucumber and broccoli - I can not believe that it takes a whole year to grow!) We (Bailey, Bella and even Riley) got the soil/compost in there and now… we have to be patient and make sure that Riley doesn’t go mad and dig the lot up!
Scavenger Hunt
June 13, 2008
I found this on kottke.org - the kind of thing you can only dream about. Awesome
Tekin
A nice looking Wordpress blog from Tekin Suleyman - and some nice Rails links too!