Monday, March 10, 2008

Fat Old Fart (weekly bulletin)

89.2, That's a real surprise! Given that 5 out of the last 6 nights have been football nights on the T V and I was unable to resist opening a second bottle on most nights!

That makes it 6.5 Kilos I've lost since I started and that's a stone in avoirdupois (which is the English weight system) and would be a real target to most dieters. Friday I had my routine 3 monthly check-up at the doctors and having lost weight fully expected that my blood pressure would be lower, but no it was higher than normal!

Our little town, down in the valley, lies on one of the main routes for holiday makers heading for the mountains. Traditionaly the winter mid term holiday is two weeks long and is the main skying holiday for the French. In recent years this holiday has been staggered over a 4 week period to reduce the amount of traffic and hopefully the number of accidents. This being France the two regions that access the Pyrenees rather than the Alps for their skiing are carefully staggered so that the full brunt of our region coming home meets the full brunt of the region to the north going on holiday. Whether there is any reduction in accidents is a moot point but it does mean that our little town is mobbed out for 4 consecutive Saturdays. Being 2 hours from the heart of the mountains it's an ideal place to stop for lunch and the restraunters cram in every table they possibly can. This very much interfeers with my regular Saturday drink in Regis Bar so I was pleased to note this morning, the Monday after the end of the holidays, that there had been the first fall of fresh snow since January and the skiers had missed it!!!!

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