Got my fitness levels back and can go pretty damn fast beating most people on my London commuting route apart from the wannabe Tour De France poseurs on their carbon fibre replicas. The beer gut is receding as fast as my scalp hair now :)

Work

Not a lot to do. Bored but the money's good and the hours aren't bad for an investment bank. Thinking about doing a History degree at Birbeck College (a London university college that specialises in part-time degrees).

Other Crap

Got my bathroom done by the proverbial Polish builders. Gone from a total dated 1970s council stylee shit hole to lovely modern blue mosiac tile 'n' white shrine of cleansiness.

My psoarisis is much better due to the Jordanian jaunt to Dead Sea. Only a few small patches left. Will go again next year and prepare my skin better so that I get maximimum benefit.

Went to the FA cup final at the new Wembley stadium. Stadium is big but pretty anonymous. The Man U fans were larging it before the match with their smugness at winning "our" Premiership but were not so evident at the end of the match when we celebrated winning the cup. Saw a bit of handbags betwen a couple of Chelsea fans and several Man U fans on the way home along Wenbley High Road but it was swiftly broken up by the police who drove their van onto pavement almost instantly the trouble started and leaped out on top of them and pinned the truble makers to the floor.