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Oh the Italians....they just love their sport and their football.

I cant quite get over this hilariously inappropriate headline on the sports page on the back of a respectable Italian daily tabloid. Brilliant!

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We are the IMAGE CONSCIOUS generation,

We want to look like the people we see on tv, youthful, well groomed, well dressed, tanned and slim.

We all know if we're giving out the right vibrations, then we're going to attract the right people and situations into our life.

This blog though will concentrate on 'body image' and how we can feel and look good.

Most of us have something we aren't happy about, or we know friends that get depressed about their looks or are always on a diet.

One of my best friends is very ...

I bet you have heard the phrase, "The Money Is In The List", at some time or another. If you are promoting products or information via a website, whether they are your own products or whether you are acting as an affiliate, the larger your list is - the better your profits are likely to grow.

As a rule successful online entrepreneurs grow their list employing an [URL="http://whichautoresponder.blogspot.com"]auto responder[/URL]. As the name suggests, an auto responder is a piece of software that delivers pre-written messages, information, offers or promotions ...

Long ago when someone required to make penitence, they would wear a hair shirt under their clothing. The rough fibres of Goat hair rubbed and irritated with every movement leaving their flesh red raw. Now we practice our [URL="http://golf-swing-woes.blogspot.com/"]golf swing[/URL] instead!

How often have you arranged a tee time and waited eagerly with anticipation to a wonderful day, playing a round with your buddies in ideal conditions, only to lumber off the 18th green with a scorecard to forget? We've all been there, often more commonly than we would care to admit. ...

One of the most challenging food items to deal with is flour. It’s such an integral part of our diet, that it invades virtually every meal and snack we eat. When you can no longer eat foods that contain wheat flours, everything you put into your mouth becomes a potential food hazard. Fortunately, the manufacturing sector is becoming sensitive to those people who are wheat / gluten intolerant and a broader variety of food products are becoming available. Still, much confusion seems to swirl around the word flour.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary offers “any fine powder” as one of the definitions ...

Warning, if you are easily offended please read No Further! You Have Been Warned...

Here is a little taster of things to come in the Sequel:

The Snow Cock

There has been an increase in the construction of snow cocks (large artistic snow sculptures of the male genitalia : ) in recent years, always game for a laugh British military personnel have been rising to the challenge and over the years, during heavy snowfalls, military made snow cocks have become a hard feature of the snow landscape.

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"Pull Up a Sandbag" the Sequel/the animal has begun!

Meeting up with the Co-Author tomorrow lunchtime for our first 'Jonathan Smiles' Happy Hour come Authors' Weekly Meeting of the New Year, at our usual meeting platz close to Sarajevo Zoo.

We'll be typing up a few stories each during the week then collaborating over them over an Ale or Two to decide whether to include them in the Sequel or not.

I'll head out early tomorrow to the local store to pick up a new Barrel of 'Midnight Oil' for the months of burning the stuff to follow!

Thanks

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Dumfries Half Marathon
This was billed as the oldest race of its kind still organized by the same club. I still have a lovely medal and good memories from doing this as a 25 year old.

I give myself 6 - 7 months to train with this one race in mind. In March I could manage 10k in 60 minutes. By Sept 1st I could manage 10k in 42 minutes, so training went well.
The only hiccup was a cold/infection that meant virtualy no runs in the last 2 weeks. It probably meant I lost a bit of endurance, but ...

What is gluten? Very simply put gluten is the elastic protein in wheat, rye, barley, and, to a lesser degree, oats (WRBO). This elastic characteristic is what holds baked goods together and allows them to rise and keep their shape. Gluten is the glue that holds together baked goods and pasta. In fact, gluten comes from the same Latin root as glue.

Sounds benign, right? Wrong. The gluten protein is actually very complex. It is made up of smaller parts called peptides. These peptides are of two types: 1) water soluble peptides called glutenin, and 2) alcohol soluble peptides ...

A gluten-free diet isn’t just for those with celiac disease or a wheat allergy. Although eating wheat products, especially whole wheat, does offer some health benefits, the gluten can actually be harmful. Here are some reasons you may want to go gluten-free.

Humans don’t fully digest wheat. The undigested portions of wheat begin to ferment, producing gas. Icky, belchable, fart-forming gas.
Wheat is a pro-inflammatory agent. A pro-inflammatory agent is rapidly converted to sugar, causing a rise in the body’s insulin levels, causing a burst of inflammation at the cellular ...

Get Fit, have fun, and raise valuable funds for charity at the same time. Here is one I'm very excited about:
The Dumfries Half Marathon. This will be my first half marathon in 18 years. I've decided to spur myself on by running for a cause I'm passionate about:

Please take a minute to visit my Just Giving fundraising page at www.justgiving.com/Ernie-Bryden

There are some jobs that require a certain level of fitness, and these specific careers have devised many tests either upon entrance or perhaps yearly.

Ones that spring to mind are the Police bleep test, the Army's BFT (Battle fitness test), Royal Marine Commandos, SAS, Foriegn Legion, The Paras, Fire Fighters, Swimming Pool Life Guards, etc.

I,m going to dicuss some of these in more detail, especialy the ones we can recreate at home, watch this space.

We are Foodamentalist and through our philosophy of Foodamentalism we are solving the problem of people not being able to eat great Yorkshire produce every day if they can’t, don’t want to or just simply don’t have the time to cook.

We’ve developed an exciting range of home-cooked meals made with a veritable feast of local produce, such as meat, cheese and cider that can all be microwaved and enjoyed in a matter of minutes.

As Foodamentalists we believe that convenience can be achieved alongside great quality local produce and great taste.

And ...

An ambition of mine since I was at school is to cycle 'end to end'. It's 874 miles by road, but more like 1,000 miles if you cycle avoiding major roads, and aprox 1,200 if you walk it.

I think the first person to do it pushed a wheelbarrow, then it became popular by motor vehicle. Celebrities like Sir Jimmy Savile, and Sir Ian Botham's high profile walks have made it popular. Cycling appeals because you can comfortably do it in 2 weeks, rather than 2 to 3 months to walk it.

I plan to start training ...

This is actually my idea of a holiday, just need to hook up with Julia Bradbury and I'll be sorted lol.

A Few Adventures On My List:

WALK THE HADRIAN'S WALL PATH 84-miles (134 Km) following the line of Hadrian’s Wall, the world’s finest surviving Roman frontier, and right on my doorstep too.

WALK THE PENNINE WAY Made famous by Wainright, and there's a free pint at the end (well there should be)

HIKE THE GREAT GLEN WAY 73-mile (117 Km) Fort William to Inverness, pasing the caledonian Canal, Loch Ness, Castles, etc

WALK THE ...