Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 89.3

Tuesday 4 September: As if to mock me for saying that “what you eat is up to you” last time, I return from a very social holiday 2 kg heavier. But it was all so good! Particularly deadly, of course, are little buffets, where the only portion control is...

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There’s something deeply appropriate -- and equally deeply stupid -- about IMDB’s Plot Synopsis for Down by Law. It reads: “This plot synopsis is empty. Add a synopsis.” And one is tempted, deeply tempted. But there’s no point, because plot is not the great driver of this wonderful movie. Indeed,...

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I like blog carnivals. They expose me to stuff I might not otherwise see, and they expose people who might not see it to my stuff. Win-win. (Apart, if I’m permitted a niggle, from what seems to be a complete absence of carnivals devoted to agriculture. Is there any demand?) Anyway, the latest Mende...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.2 This week: 87.9

Tuesday 7 August: It is kind of hard to be sure that I’ve slipped down to a new plateau, but I certainly think I have. If I just look at the whole number of kilograms, there are more 87s in the past couple of weeks than there have been before. I’m not g...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 87.2

Tuesday 31 July: I know it seems that I have neglected this particular blog element of late, but really that’s only to spare you, dear reader, from the same endless tedium I have to suffer weighing myself each morning. It just wasn’t dripping off any mo...

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