@Schwarzenegger:
“Some people say Sunday is a day of rest. I say if you eat, sleep, and breathe on Sunday, why not train? What are you doing today?”
@bazbt3:
“@Schwarzenegger I’m sitting on my lardy British arse & considering which diet programme will fit my tiny attention span. Thanks for asking!”
I’m going to start reposting some entries from previous incarnations of my blog. (I already posted about this.)
The only way most of the old stuff can be identified is by the page URL.
[Medium posts end.]
Maybe I can resume reading now?
After reading this, I’ve a question for anyone arriving here accidentally…
Dentists call to end cake culture - BBC News.
Go on then, instead of Krispy-Kremes who’s up for kumquats or kiwifruits‽
It might have been BBC’s Tomorrow’s World, it was certainly decades ago. I recall a TV spot devoted to dental health, specifically the question; which is best for your teeth, an apple a day (doctors can’t be wrong) or a nice piece of cheese?
Unsurprisingly, most opted for the apple-a-day, disregarding the deleterious effects of the acids present in most fruit.
But at least the article above got me thinking. Which was nice.
On the occasion of my next birthday I’m of the mind to subject my colleagues to a mouthful of abuse!
I’ve been copying my blog posts, first manually then more recently automatically, to Medium.com (a site for writers or anyone with a message.) The return on my investment has not been great, indeed the most views and feedback I’ve had has been from a one-line comment I posted in response to someone else’s political post.
I say investment but it’s no biggie; I’d written the posts anyway, it costs nothing to post at Medium, and I write to please myself anyway. But almost zero feedback troubled me.
Why? Well, everywhere else I post I’ve been careful to avoid statistics. Indeed I’ve never looked at any stats related to my Github.com Pages, and have no intention of doing. Simply put, I have a tendency to obsess over the irrelevant things when the simple things are key.
I’m thinking of terminating postings to Medium, and soon. A related and more positive issue, I still have a plan to release posts from previous incarnations of my blog, and that’d kill the structure, the flow, at Medium (I prefer consecutive posts, sorted by date. Obviously by date.)
The bonus: the meanderings of my less-recent mind will soon be available to reminisce over. It’s not all bad.
For years I looked at Cussons Imperial Leather soap as being nothing special. Through my childhood I had little exposure to it (not soap!) and always wondered why it appealed to so many. I thought ‘how could so many be taken in by the ads or its long history or…
During December my wife brought some home, a six-pack on special offer (of course) and when my previous, moisturising, bar became too small to handle comfortably whilst attempting to wake up, and to avoid the newly-present danger of it escaping my grasp and exiting via the washbasin plughole, I opened the pack.
What a revelation! It has a distinctive aroma, of course it has, but unlike anything else I’d experienced when my parents and I shared bars, or visiting someone else’s home.
So I sat and pondered for a while. Insularity, navel-gazing, easily bests following the news any day, and especially the latter days of the year just ended. But I digress…
Now I understand this soap’s appeal! It’s mine, untainted (too strong?) by other peoples’ lack of handwashing skills, disparate fragrances, and of course inability to empty the water and soap scum from their soap dishes. In short, no-one washes with it but I.
And, while the fragrance remains on me, I smell almost human. Yes!
But how? Well, here’s the thing. No-one else’s sweat, sebaceous oil, flakes of dead skin, faeces, earwax, nasal mucus, none of it touches my precious bar of soap.
Its a rubbish moisturiser for faces though, my newly-scaly forehead is testament to that! Perhaps it’s as well one of my Christmas presents is a moisturising cream. Now I’m definitely on the lookout for an Imperial Leather face soap.
Cussons Original Imperial Leather hand soap thus gets Baz’s seal of approval and, new for 2017, a rating of 9/10 for its intended purpose.