Diet Day II

Only one glass of wine last night. Woo-hoo! I can feel the pounds dropping off - I shall be lithe and lissom, and I shall conquer the WORLD! And I shall succeed, too, unlike Pinky & The Brain - useless rats.
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Diet Day I

So, TW and I are starting a diet today. Except I got drunk last night, so have had to rely on the restorative powers of Coke & Doritos. Not a good start. But I am a stone and a half overweight, so it's time to take action. I went to see the nurse last week and my cholesterol and blood pressure are both at the upper limit of normal, so if I can watch the weight a bit, and reduce my alcohol intake, I may get back to acceptable levels. Who knows?
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O Internet! Save me!

So, Saturday evening while TW was watching an evening of Neighbours retrospectives on BBC3 I was reduced to trawling the internet in the hope of finding something interesting. Unfortunately, I found nothing.
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Cricket Round-up: West Indies

So, the final tally:
Test Series: England won 3-0
Twenty20: Draw 1-1
ODIs: West Indies won 2-1.

Bring on the main course (I mean India, of course).

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Waiting for the Man

Still waiting for Sky Broadband. It's not funny any more. Told them today that if they didn't get it done by the end of July, I'd be considering going back to NTL (Virgin).

England's Twenty20 Survival

Well, I am satisfied. Having beaten the Windies 3-0 in the normal form of the game, the Twenty20 side did okay. The Windies batted excellently on Thursday night, and played us out of the game. On Friday, we held them back and gave ourselves a chance, which we promptly took.
I'm looking forward to the first ODI later today - if it's not rained off...
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Crackberry III

Sold it! Result!! For £45!!! Boo!!!!
Enuff of the exclamation marks. They're making my eyes bleed. It's odd, I rang O2 and asked if I could have a Blackberry payg sim, and they said no. I had the expensive hardware, all they had to do was charge me for calls and data transfer. But they weren't interested. I'm just not important enough to be given a company B'berry. I dream of annual bonuses and blue-sky thinking. And car allowances, and super wages. Still, there's always €uromillions tonight...
I'm on holiday for a week now. Have it!
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Crackberry II

And now I'm trying to sell the Blackberry for £50. It won't sync with my work email without being on a Blackberry Enterprise Server, which is a bit of a shame, but will probably save me mentally from devoting my life to answering all the emails in the world, ever.
Unfortunately, no-one seems to want to buy it...
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Crackberry

For some reason, I bought a Blackberry today. For £50. Still playing with it...
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NTL Hell

I've finally made the switch away from NTL / Virgin Media to Sky. I reckon I'll save about £8 a month, and be able to set series reminders. And organise my reminders. And use the red 'active' button on Sky Sports. The only thing I am slightly concerned about is Sky Broadband - but I'm sure it will be okay.
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Worthing I

So, we went for a walk in Worthing today. It was warm. We ate at the Denton Cafe, which is on Worthing Pier. It was a strange mix. Worthing Pier and Denton Cafe is frequented by old people, but in the theatre there was a web business seminar. It was drily amusing to see all these old dears sit down to eat their fish and chips and peruse 'own your website!' fliers. Hmmm.
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Gosh! Isn't it Warm?

Well, sleeping is still a problem. I'm going back to work on Monday, and our two daughters are conspiring to deprive us of any chance of sleep. Having said that, at 12:45 now, both are asleep. Tiger sleeps until 04:00, and then feeds. Then Daughter #1 (Monkey) has been waking at 05:00 and screaming, which is fun. But this is probably due to the number of visitors we've had, and the fact that we've got a new addition (only 15 days old). Daughter #2, Tiger, has already been to hospital twice due to an infected umbilical cord, and the existence of 'group B Strep' in her umbilical swab. But apart from oral thrush and a lot of mucus (possibly a cold, but she doesn't have a runny nose...), she's okay. So, we'll see how things go.
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Disappointing Outcome

I see England lost their Cricket World Cup match against Australia on Saturday. That's disappointing. Now they will need to win all three of their next matches. Will they rise to the challenge, or will they sag like a wet sponge? Only time will tell. Thank God I didn't choose Flintoff in the Fantasy Cricket though...

Beautiful Day I

So, for the past few days I have been acclimatising to having two daughters. It's tough. Up at all times of the night, and then Monkey normally wakes at 06:10. This morning she woke at 05:20, which was a real shock. TW got up with her and left me in bed with Tiger, who grunted and oomphed for an hour and a half until I got up. TW had been asleep downstairs for pretty much the whole time! I'm just destined not to get any sleep, I guess.
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O Frabjous Day!

I'd just like to mention that our second daughter, hereafter known as 'Tiger', was born last Friday, 30th March, at 06:35 BST, weighing 11lbs 11oz, or 5,320g in new money.
Treb, TW and daughters are well but tired.

England - Commonwealth Bank Champions

Do you know, I am completely amazed. I am in awe. I am very nearly speechless. England have shown an amazing degree of resolve, and Australia seem to have become bored with winning.
I joked with my boss after England won the first match that all three games might not be necessary, but I was expecting a 2-1 victory for the Aussies. Admittedly, the game on Sunday was interrupted by rain regularly, not allowing the Oz to get a rhythm, but in the same breath, the English bowling and fielding was excellent.
And in the end, England have won their first major overseas one-day tournament for ten years. Just in time to go into the World Cup, with a rebuilt sense of purpose. Excellent.
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Dry January Days - III

Well, my dry January days came to an end last night. Admittedly, this was the 30th January, so I didn't do a full month, but I did do over four weeks. I nearly buckled once or twice, but with the help and disdain of TW, I made it this far. I was planning on going out tomorrow night with a friend, but unfortunately he is otherwise engaged, so my plans fell a bit flat. And then I thought, 'why wait until Thursday?'. So two Buds later, my drought is over. I could have chosen a better way to finish.
I think I will aim for one week per month off the booze. I think this would be most beneficial. Now, where's that bottle of Jura whisky...?
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Labour Declares War on Single Parents

Well, well, well. People always thought the Tories & Labour were amalgamating, even as far back as when Labour delinked from CND. But withdrawing benefits from lone parents because 'the quality of childcare is so good'? Tone should declare that he is 'New Tory' and be done.
TW and I have enough trouble fitting childcare for lickle Monkey into our days, and there are two of us. Christ knows how difficult, logistically, it would be for lone parents forced into work.
They should have worked out by now that the benefits pot is not bottomless, but I don't think they're focusing in the right area.
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Well, Really...

Just when you think it couldn't get any worse.........
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Quelle Horreur

There's only so many ways to say it. We are fucking shocking.
I am quite disappointed. The English Cricket team seem to be rudderless, drifting from humiliation in the Ashes to ignominy in the Commonwealth Bank triangular series. How inevitable is failure at the World Cup and a swift slide down the rankings?
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