Monthly Archives: January 2012

An apple a day is supposed to be healthy, but I can think of several reasons why this may not be the case. Let me give you an example:

We’re sitting in the living room on Saturday afternoon and the conversation goes something like this: (more…)

We were watching the Top Gear Christmas Special repeat the other day. The one where they go off to misbehave in a tenuously transport-related way in India. Yes, I know Clarkson is a bit of an arse and it’s all just big boys playing with toys and being silly, but it’s funny.* Truth be told, I sometimes rather envy them having a job where you can just muck about being as stupid as you can get away with (and then some) while getting paid rather well for it.

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I should warn you (or possibly reassure you, depnding on how you feel about this topic) that this post has very little to with Astrology. January is the month of Capricorn, however, and the word play in the title amused me 🙂

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I’m always a little depressed on New Year’s Eve. It has never been an occasion that particularly fills me with the urge to celebrate. Christmas, which is usually the fun part, is over, and all there is to look forward to is the artificial marker of midnight to mark the passage into another year. Another year that begins with two months of bleak winter, a return to work/school/reality, financial and often literal belt-tightening, as most of us begin the lengthy slog to lose the lbs gained over the festivities and it all kicks off with a stonking hangover* and a tongue that badly needs a shave.

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