Mutterings for the Minority

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow

The white stuff tried it’s best to cover Swansea with a blanket today - without any success I’m afraid. However, the Met Office have raised the spirits of this adult’s inner child tendancies by issuing a weather warning of heavy snowfall for the region. I might just get a chance to build a snowman with DDWT Junior after all!

Took a break from the running today as I felt somewhat jaded - so opted for a walk along the promenade instead (and promptly got caught in a major hail shower). It’s great to be able to take in the sea air during the lunchtime break and it certainly clears the mental cobwebs (more to do with the gusty wind than anything else of course).

Good news from Canon today (whom I’d got to repair my faulty Canon MV600i Camcorder) they’ve fixed the picture problems and haven’t charged me for doing so! Super, smashing, great as Jim Bowen of ‘Bullseye’ fame would say and even better the usual £96 repair charge can now go towards something else hurrah!

In the world of League One football the Swans dropped a place to 5th tonight courtesy of the Tyke’s of Barnsley’s 1-all draw with Cherries of Bournemouth. Humbug. It could have been worse though and with the Bee’s of Brentford also dropping points tonight, it wasn’t all bad news for the Swans. It’ll be a tough game at Oakwell on Saturday though and I’ll stick my neck out and predict (yet another) draw for the Jacks.

Oow, almost forgot that today was Shrove Tuesday (or pancake day to us food monsters) and I’m very disappointed to report that no pancakes were consumed at all in the DDWT household *big sigh*

Right I’m off to gwely (that’s Welsh for bed) to catch some much needed zzzzzzz’s.

It’s been a while

Well hasn’t time flown by since my last posting! Christmas and New Year has come and gone along with January 2006. However, I am still sticking to my new year’s resolution of (a) getting fit and altogether more importantly (b) losing weight.

Tipping the scales (quite literally) at some 19st over the Christmas holiday was the final straw and come January 1st 2006 I embarked upon my ‘get fit and lose weight’ scheme. To date I have managed to shed 1st 4lbs. It’s amazing you can achieve by watching what you eat and combining it with running/weights/mountain biking.

So with such great progress being made, I’d signed myself up to do the following events (so far) - Swansea Abseil (for Cancer Research) on March 11th, the 3 Valleys Bike ride and Llanelli 10K in June, the Gower Bike ride (for British Heart Foundation) in July and the Swansea Bay 10K in September.

For those of you that know me well, SnakeHips is now back in the building!