Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.2 This week: 87.9

Tuesday 7 August: It is kind of hard to be sure that I’ve slipped down to a new plateau, but I certainly think I have. If I just look at the whole number of kilograms, there are more 87s in the past couple of weeks than there have been before. I’m not g...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 87.2

Tuesday 31 July: I know it seems that I have neglected this particular blog element of late, but really that’s only to spare you, dear reader, from the same endless tedium I have to suffer weighing myself each morning. It just wasn’t dripping off any mo...

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A baby Maasai giraffe

I was at a zoo shindig last week, and one of my companions grew visibly excited by the announcement that a pregnant giraffe had just delivered herself of a little girafflette, all eyes and eyelashes and wobbly long legs. "How cute," she cooed. "I bet a lot of people will come and bring their kids...

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I wasn't planning to say anything about Homer Simpson and the Cerne Abbas giant (and if you've no idea what I'm talking about, there's plenty of background out there). Anyway, the Pagans were mightily offended. Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for the Pagan Federation told one reporter...

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Most film directors are content to signal boredom, tedium, ennui and the passage of time with a couple of yawns, maybe a fidget or two, and perhaps the chipmunk rotations of a speeded-up clock. (There are exceptions (http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/philip_hensher/article119385.ece)...

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