h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I can get recipes, but my technique is so lacking that you could honestly wonder what I was trying to make when you saw the results.

Thank goodness for takeaways and ready to serve meals.
Some are as good as home-made meals.

"It was nothing really, just something I rustled up."


In the third isle of the supermarket.

No matter how many aisles contain nachos and other fattening snacks, they always seem to manage to stash them in front of the store, where customers will be tempted to buy them on impulse. I call this partof the store "Fantasy aisle."

They also stack them at kiddie height invoking "pester power".

That's how they stay in business

The advertising catchphrase for one of our supermarket chain is
"every little helps"
They probably mean, every little one.

It might also refer to the workforce at the store. Every one of the help is little....

There used to be a comic double act called Little and Large.
Maybe they've cloned thousands of Syd Little.
Scary thought.

We don't have to worry about them on this side of the Atlantic.

The New Statesman was commenting on the "unstoppable march of the clones"
back in 2002.
Don't look now but there's probably one behind you.

Now I'm a bit nervous about turning round.

I'm already round, nervous or not.

I haven't reached that point yet but it's not for lack of trying.

You'll get there. Eating too much is ridiculously easy in this world.

Damn right it is. I'm losing weight by the sheer force of stress of academic life. otherwise I'd be round too.

I have lots of stress, but am still getting rounder every day! It couldn't be the , could it?

So have I missed anything?

Nah, just the usual chatter. Methinks...

Is TJ feeding you too muchly?

No, I'm feeding me too muchly, but he's an enabler, that's for sure!

I got on the scales last Thursday morning, the first time in yonks.
!!!!!!!!!!!
So a strict diet is in force at the moment, lots of fruit and veg
and goodbye to the ice cream, and theand the
and the
A treat tonight, one glass of

Well, we all seem to be in the same boat ... or on the same scale ... or something ...

Without trying TJ just lost 18 pounds ... men!

Tell me about it. No, seriously!

I can't lose almost any weight, though I walk every day, carrying heavy stuff, stressed to the eyeballs... and eat . And finish the kids' supper for them. And snack... hmmm...