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Weight news, maybe

Monday 4th August 2008

... I think

So I was on the Manchester Comedy Store all weekend (with Toby Hadoke as MC; rarely have Doctor Who nerd conversations been that hardcore outwith a convention setting) and as such the family and I have been staying at my parents' house in Liverpool (had a hell of a trip getting here, about which I may go into lengthy detail another time; suffice it to say if you've never had a tyre explode while in the fast lane of a motorway, I don't recommend it). And we're still here, and since my folks have a PC (and broadband these days, hooray - you know it really is the 21st Century when your mum and dad have broadband. AND a SatNav), I thought I'd at least try and do my Monday weigh-in from here.

Mum and Dad have two sets of scales; a traditional mechanical one which only goes up to 19 stone, so no good for me, and an electronic one which reckons it can do up to 24 stone, which is - NOW - high enough. So onto the electronic scales, and it's reading 22st 3lb, which the attentive among you will recall is (according to my own wobbly mechanical scales) exactly what I weighed a week ago. Not to worry though, as Clara hopped on and noticed that these scales read HER as being 2lb heavier than our own scales, so I may still have lost a bit. In any case I don't seem to have gained any, and when we get back to London tomorrow I'll see what the wobbly scales say and post that as well.

Maybe it is time to step things up a bit, anyway. I've got a rowing machine that's been in storage for the past nine months - first there was the whole business with my knee and after that we were trying to sell the flat; if our flat has a shortcoming it's that there isn't a lot of storage space, and nothing highlights this quite so vividly as a bloody great rowing machine taking up half the living room. Now we're under offer I guess it can come out of mothballs.

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