Well dear blog followers another instalment of my ramblings about things in general. Actually I am feeling much better today despite it being the official day when we are all supposed to be feeling low or depressed. I, on the other hand, am feeling quite well thank you!
My supposed "dry" January fell by the wayside this weekend with a much planned gathering of friends to meet up at an hotel in the West Midlands. Much hilarity, excess food intake and accohol were involved. I actually visited the gym prior to undoing all the good work later in the evening.
The point here is that upon retiring to bed my good lady wife announced that she had forgotten to pack her contact lens case and had to improvise overnight. I was, at that time, approaching comatose and took no notice - she would add at this point "nothing new there then".
At about three in the morning I arose to attend to a call of nature (being well trained) and thought a glass of water might assist with recovery the next day so drank a couple of large glasses. On getting back into bed my wife said "I hope you didn't use the glasses in the bathroom, they've got my lenses in".
Ooops!
Anyway, despite the excess calorie intake I have suffered no ill effects and managed to read the Sunday Times whilst sat on it driving home later that day!
More meters to follow tonight.

Following my self imposed exile from blogging I thought I'd get down to it, invest a few sparre moments, and put some more ramblings onto th'interweb!
After some impressive (by my standards) meters since Christmas I actually handled down this morning having started a warm up with the good intention of 40 minutes hard push before work. A sore throat yesterday and restless night should have warned me off - BUT I'm far to stupid for that! Less than 2k and I was done in so shower, breakfast and off to work with an unimpressive 1700 odd metres to post today. I will now probably take time off until the weekend before my next attempt. This is the first cold I've had for over two years - a testament to what a healthy lifestyle can do for an old chap!
However, for you with an eye for a bargain and a few quid to spare, buy shares in Boots - with the amount I spent in there on remedies yesterday the price is sure to rocket and trouser you investors a pile of dosh!
Actually, I put this blip in my unblemished health record down to stopping drinking for the month of January. Following an excessive (and again impressive and enjoyable) festive season of alcohol intake I thought (mistakenly) that I would improve my health by abstaining until February..........and look what's happened! Oh well, I'll learn from my mistakes. I think that next year I will keep dating the daughter of Mr & Mrs Artois even after the festive season has passed and see how I get on!
So for now having picked up the cudgel of blogging again I wish all readers a happy and healthy New Year with many PB's and ever increasing meters under their respective belts.
SimonG
P.S. you must have too much spare time if you've managed to get this far!