w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:
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"Now I've made up my mind - I've made my mistake
And I know that she cries for you, when she's barely awake
Well she's going to bend your mind - well I hope it don't break
Now it's my turn to talk and your turn to think
Your turn to buy and my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink down in the Blue Chair
Down in the Blue Chair."

Elvis Costello: "Blue Chair"
From the album: "Blood and Chocolate"

Spotted on a fellow commuter's freebie paper - an ad for "The Dyke Golf Club".

And I thought, No! - they surely couldn't restrict...

Then I saw it was based at The Devil's Dyke, Brighton.

Phew.

I realised this morning that I never did explain the secrecy behind an earlier post.

Mrs.D. is on a GP-approved diet which involves no solid food (or alcohol) for 100 days and only 500 calories per day, via liquid, vitamin-supplemented drinks. And by the end of her sixth week, she'd lost 24lbs. She just wanted to get used to the regime, before 'going public'.

But like a fool, I volunteered to not drink while there was just the two of us at home, a proposition only to be broken if we had guests or were going out. All too rare an event, as it turns out. Hmmm.

The 13.76 in the post title refers to my weight at the start of this vigil, and six weeks on, I'm now 13.44. So 42 days virtually without any wine or beer and not significantly lighter than normal weight fluctuation would generally give rise to?

Only 58 days to go...

Labels: Diet