Fruity Rides Again
Right - time for a big catch up. What's been happening in my life?
First of all - the knee. It seems to be holding up okay. I've done a body pump class (minus the squats and lunges, doing step-ups onto the step instead) and also been going on the spin bikes and gradually building up my times and resistance from 5 mins to 20 mins. I'm booked in for a proper spin class tomorrow morning too, although Mel knows abut my knee and I'll be taking it easy.
I've also been swimming, which has introduced me to a new gym member who I shall call "Swan Vesta Man". I have no idea what his name is, but he's about six feet five, is very thin - like ridiculously so, and has red hair - so tends to resemble a swan vesta match. He also has a pierced nipple which let's face it looks weird. It might look okay if he had a decent physique but he makes Mr Muscle look like an Adonis, so it's not really the case.
Food - I've been rather stuffing my face trying out new breads and also pizza. The latest creation was a mushroom, caremelized onion and feta pizza, which can be seen below.
Only problem is, they seem to visit a curry house on the way home. I mean - look at that big splodge down the side of the bike - that's not normal for a pigeon to do all that amount of poo unless it's had a serious amount of Chicken Madras. It's either that or there's an albatross living in the tree or something :-(
This morning I went back to Croydon College where they wanted to speak to me for marketing purposes. As I did so well in my exam (polishes halo) they wanted to use me to publicisse the college. I wouldn't normally be that fussed, but I did like the teacher so I thought I'd say lots of nice things about him as I think he's like me - he won't always toe the line on college policy and goes with his own judgement based on years of teaching.
Anyway - I met up with marketing peep, who was very nice, and not at all smarmy like I expected, and she took me up to the bio lab to have my picture taken with the skeleton. We couldn't open the cupboard where it's kept at first, so after battlign for ten minutes we got in, and then I said that actually we didn't study human anatomy as part of the A level, so it wasn't quite relevant to my A level, although it was to physio. They went ahead anyway, and there may well be pictures of me in the local paper examining a skeleton. Because physios need to check out the spinal alignment of skeletons. All that lying in a coffin in one position all day can give you dreadful backache you know ;-)
Then - onto the interview, which was really just asking what my story was, how I'd found the course, what I'd liked about the colleg and so on. I also found out (which I hadn't been told!) that I got one of the top ten scores in the country for my A level.
First of all - the knee. It seems to be holding up okay. I've done a body pump class (minus the squats and lunges, doing step-ups onto the step instead) and also been going on the spin bikes and gradually building up my times and resistance from 5 mins to 20 mins. I'm booked in for a proper spin class tomorrow morning too, although Mel knows abut my knee and I'll be taking it easy.
I've also been swimming, which has introduced me to a new gym member who I shall call "Swan Vesta Man". I have no idea what his name is, but he's about six feet five, is very thin - like ridiculously so, and has red hair - so tends to resemble a swan vesta match. He also has a pierced nipple which let's face it looks weird. It might look okay if he had a decent physique but he makes Mr Muscle look like an Adonis, so it's not really the case.
Food - I've been rather stuffing my face trying out new breads and also pizza. The latest creation was a mushroom, caremelized onion and feta pizza, which can be seen below.
Those ruddy birds have been shitting all over my scooter again. Trouble is I have an allocated parking space and it just so happens to be under a tree where the birds go to roost or nest or whatever they call it in bird circles.
Only problem is, they seem to visit a curry house on the way home. I mean - look at that big splodge down the side of the bike - that's not normal for a pigeon to do all that amount of poo unless it's had a serious amount of Chicken Madras. It's either that or there's an albatross living in the tree or something :-(
This morning I went back to Croydon College where they wanted to speak to me for marketing purposes. As I did so well in my exam (polishes halo) they wanted to use me to publicisse the college. I wouldn't normally be that fussed, but I did like the teacher so I thought I'd say lots of nice things about him as I think he's like me - he won't always toe the line on college policy and goes with his own judgement based on years of teaching.
Anyway - I met up with marketing peep, who was very nice, and not at all smarmy like I expected, and she took me up to the bio lab to have my picture taken with the skeleton. We couldn't open the cupboard where it's kept at first, so after battlign for ten minutes we got in, and then I said that actually we didn't study human anatomy as part of the A level, so it wasn't quite relevant to my A level, although it was to physio. They went ahead anyway, and there may well be pictures of me in the local paper examining a skeleton. Because physios need to check out the spinal alignment of skeletons. All that lying in a coffin in one position all day can give you dreadful backache you know ;-)
Then - onto the interview, which was really just asking what my story was, how I'd found the course, what I'd liked about the colleg and so on. I also found out (which I hadn't been told!) that I got one of the top ten scores in the country for my A level.
Final news - thanks to Jogblog I now have my own web doman - I can be reached at
Great name for a web design company eh? Almost as daft as Shiny Octopus FFS ;-)
Now I'm just off out to meet a friend who's back in London for a few days and who I haven't seen for ages. Will be good to have a catch up over a coffee or seventeen!
Now I'm just off out to meet a friend who's back in London for a few days and who I haven't seen for ages. Will be good to have a catch up over a coffee or seventeen!
posted by XFR Bear @ 3:07 pm
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that pizza is making me hungry
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