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Fitness regime (Week One)

Although it has been only six days since I began my new fitness campaign, I deliberately weighed in yesterday because it was a Monday and (for me, like most people) the first day of a new week. Thirteen stone ten, which means I have lost just two pounds. To remind you of the basics – food (and [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

One way of passing an afternoon I suppose

Saturday 7th January 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 13: Harlequins v Sale Sharks at the Stoop, kick-off 1500 hours: Result – Harlequins 29 Sale Sharks 26. Harlequins now 7th in the league table on 32 points, level with Leicester Tigers who have a game in hand, and 6 points behind Bath Rugby in 4th [...]

January 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new (old) business idea

Whilst we await President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in about ten days or so’s time (and, on current form, presumably the end of human civilisation as we know it about a week later), it occurred to me that we ought to be sharing some of our hopes and fears for 2017. For the past few [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

It had to happen one day

Morning! Ingolby here. When I posted my blog yesterday, probably to their relief, I promised readers that I would be reporting upon progress on my 2017 fitness regime on a weekly basis. I therefore apologise for putting my head above the parapet quite so swiftly (only 24 hours later). On that [...]

January 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fitness campaign starts here

We’re at that time of year again – New Year inevitably equals a looking back at our pigging out over the festive season (when we all ‘let go’ food and drink-wise because – as we intend to really sort ourselves out over the next twelve months – we may as well enjoy ourselves one [...]

January 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could have knocked me down with a feather

Today I shall be venturing a little beyond my remit for my first post of the New Year. Perhaps due to the blizzard of family activities, the McDonnell household has been full of chaos in recent times and – with not least my own catering duties to the fore – I have necessarily been distracted [...]

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about

1st January 2017: Aviva Premiership: Worcester Warriors v Harlequins at Sixways: Result – Worcester Warriors 24 Harlequins 17. This season I made a commitment (on a personal level not as regards my editors on the Rust) to report on every Harlequins game. The truth is that I did not follow this [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Can we fast-forward exactly twelve months please?

Well, thank God that’s over – and I don’t even believe in Him! You can call me Scrooge, or worse, if you like but I always find the second half of December going into the New Year as an ordeal and this one’s been no different to any other. It’s one of the most challenging periods of the [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The purpose of it all

Please pardon the delay in me addressing this media story, but I was listening to Dotun Adebayo’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live in the early hours of this morning when I heard a segment on new research from the United States of America apparently demonstrating that sex just gets [...]

December 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

The passing of Time

You might regard this as hypocritical or contradictory, but as someone who claims he lacks personal vanity, as I get older I find that my willingness to attend reunions – be they of school old boys, former work colleagues, or the usual round of funerals, wakes and thanksgiving services – [...]

December 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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