Start: 95.4 Last week: ? This week: 93.3

This morning’s weight was totally scary, almost back where I started from. A wake-up call, and a reminder that the Shangri La Diet really isn’t a diet, it is more a way of life. You have to have those flavourless calories to maintain appetite suppression....

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Who says you can't go back?

Small tomatoes on a napkin inside a basket

All those tomatoes, all those seeds. I felt the old stirrings. So when I got home this evening I picked everything that was not absolutely green, paused momentarily to snap a faintly artsy shot (see above) and repaired to the kitchen. Slice and scoop, with a nice smal...

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In 100 words? Odd one this. I was born in Africa, but I’ve never visited the country of my birth, since leaving. Lots of reasons, most of them probably not worth much; fear, most likely. I have visited other countries though, and something truly visceral happened to me when I smelled rain on red dir...

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I’d been looking forward to this evening all week. (How sad is that?) It was time to bake, or at least to prepare loaves to bake tomorrow morning. I’ll deal with that tomorrow morning, when the bread comes out of the oven for judgement. For now, lets just say that it was very scary. And it ain’t ove...

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Sticker on a door advertising a household gas subscription service called Pass Gas

It would be easy enough to post every time one went to an exhibit here, about the disrepect given the English language in Italy. Sponsors pay large amounts to support beautifully staged art exhibits, and then allow the boss’s 14-year old to do the signage because they’ve had a couple of years of E...

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