Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.5 This week: 87.3

Tuesday 7 November: Back on track again, with a minuscule drop over the week that is well within the margin of error of the scales but that is also entirely acceptable in the overall scheme of things. I seem to be regaining a bit of appetite, particula...

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Hurrah! The World Society for the Protection of Animals is soliciting bids to buy a whale from Iceland. Donate USD 10 here at eBay and WSPA will offer the money to the Icelandic government on condition that they spare the life of one fin whale (they’ve already killed five, apparently).

Never min...

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I can’t remember who recommended Garden State -- probably Luigi -- but I know that I have been waiting forever for it to arrive. And, boy, was it worth it. It builds slowly, wonderfully, and to me brought to mind One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the almost imperceptible transformation in the lea...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 87.5
Thursday 2 November: Things have been very topsy turvy of late. There is no week 16, because I was away eating delicious foreign muck with no scales and a dead laptop. I’m skipping the number 16 to maintain the count of the number of weeks it has been...

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Sergeant Sarah Brown: It's so delicious. That Bacardi flavouring certainly makes a difference.
Nathan Detroit: Oh, yeah. Nine times out of ten.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: You know, this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk.

The above exchange comes in the middle of one of t...

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