There are an awful lot of young brunette women in our office of a certain age, and certain height, who wear the same clothes, and have...

Today at work I sat down on one of the specially procured ergonomically designed chairs in the open plan area, carefully thought through...

We're on the first floor in our block of flats, so if there are any intruders we've got the loss leaders of the two flats below us first...

The light in the eyes glints differently. There's slightly more white too. And it comes with the occasional shudder. When you see it, you...

Amazing how big a deal the national day of one particular country is around the world. There are about 195 of them, but the Irish...

Saturday has arrived and its time to chill. And take in our achievements so far on this diet. Well, that was the plan. A key point I'd...

Caesar was warned to beware the 15th of March and look what happened to him. Well, for me it's a case of 'beware the day before the Ides...

Just got back from the client drinks session tonight. Not as disciplined as I'd hoped. Sad. A bad night for the diet. The things you do...

An occupational hazard for diets is evenings with other business people. The social lubricants for productive conversations usually...

Iulia made a very good point today. Too often on this diet we treat the week like we would a project at work. Essentially delay until the...

Weigh in day today and the scales gave their judgement. Beginning to think we may need to install some kind of CCTV for the weigh-ins...

Rained all day today on Mother's Day in London. Normally we'd get a takeaway or goto a nice restaurant and have a big nosh up with some...

We're beginning to get into the rhythm on this diet. It's only taken about seventy days, but we're finally starting to be good during the...

March 8th is a big day in the Balkans. A day to celebrate mothers and women. And for the men in these women's life, a treacherous...

As I've mentioned before, my partner goes out a lot more than I do. She's clearly a terrible mother as a result. But putting all that...

There's usually about an hour or two between the moment Iulia conks out on the couch and the time when I'm ready for bed. I'm a bit like...

I'm incredibly jealous when Iulia goes out in the evening for one of her fancy gigs. It's not my fear of her finding another bloke and...

Not a bad weigh-in today. Almost getting to the stage where my portrait in selfies doesn't look like I'm wearing a latex mask on top of...

Weigh in day tomorrow will be interesting. I feel like I've lost a bit of weight but I'm not sure whether it's just the impact of...

Trying to find a decent film to watch when you're a middle aged couple is a battle of wills between your inner complacency and the...