Do you think you can pre-emptively miss someone? Someone who you think you might meet one day but haven’t as yet? Someone who might be really busy and proactive right now, instead of moodily staring at the moniter thinking up semi plausible excuses for not going to the family reunion on the last long weekend [...]

Another particularly gruelling session in the park this morning. With Adam, the personal trainer. It rained again. Some comment was passed that the rain had only begun since my entrance into the land of personal trainerdom. (Yeah, right! I LIKE to exercise in the rain!) Someone asked me recently how I could stand these sessions. [...]

I took two of my favourite pairs of shoes down to the shoe guy in the street where I work. Every now and then they need a little attention to look their best – I’ve a habit of drastically grinding down the heels (although never evenly, always from the inner heel to the outer, consequently [...]

Session number two with Adam, the personal trainer, today. As was not raining I had great anticipation that I would move onto greater things. Reality strikes a fatal blow, however. About halfway through the session we were doing some ‘ab’ work wherein the personal trainee (ie. me) lies on a mat on the ground with [...]

Have just staggered in to work after first ever session with personal trainer. Alarm at 6.15 am, down to park for 6.30 am start. Running, jumping, lifting, pushing, skipping, staggering, breathing really heavily. And being rained on. Incessantly. (Brand new hair ruined in one fell swoop.) Adam, said personal trainer, is 24 and cute as [...]