The other day, my friend John asked me how I kept track of people’s names and phone numbers. Every time he has lost a phone, or bought a new one, he gets particularly frustrated by having lost his old phone along with all his contact details. He was astounded when I told him I’ve never lost a number since I first started putting names in my computer. He asked me how I did this.. I said that it was really simple, but a long story...

After a tiring fortnight, it was great to take Friday afternoon off for a round of golf. I hadn’t played since 1997 and Janine hadn’t held a club since she was at school; so you are probably very impressed that she got a birdie on her third hole aren’t you? Actually it was a duck, but if I’d said she got a duck, you’d have thought we were playing cricket – (and a duck in cricket isn’t as impressive as a...

I read a good article in the Herald Sun yesterday called Top tips for weight loss, which said that we each eat between 2 to 10 times the amount of food that we did 20 years ago. When you think about it; have a look at some old news footage and look at the people in the background -  you will see that the general population look a lot slimmer than we do today. The article said that if you don’t change anything else, but you add one glass...

I was feeling very tired this morning. I rolled out of bed at 5:40am and put my jogging gear on, and strolled out the door, gradually working myself up to a brisk walk. When I got home, I showered and set about waking the kids to get ready for school. Janine had already left and I noticed there were two rashes of bacon in the fridge, so I decided to throw these on the barbecue with some eggs and tomato (anything that uses up our growing pile of...

Yesterday morning I did my fastest morning jog this year over what I call my 10km route. I was only 20 seconds faster than my previous best – but that isn’t saying a lot because I’m no speedster!! Anyway, I’d decided that this morning was a rest day (meaning no morning exercise) but Janine was up at 5:45am to go to the gym, so I thought ‘what the heck’, and I got up, put my gear on and headed out. My muscles...