It turns out that staying
off the drink agrees with me. I was down
two pounds this week. This could be down
to the amount of running around I am doing too.
I’ve been so busy with jobs that haven’t had time to scratch
myself. I spent most of my time trying
to wedge food into me whenever and where ever I could. Life is tough when you are trying to get into
the printers before closing, flying to get your favourite shoes heeled as you
lost one heal to a cobble in Dublin Castle.
I didn’t do anything of note
this week only work and eat and work and eat.
I did find time to buy a pedometer.
A pedometer to those of you that don’t know is a little device you wear
that counts your steps and your calorie burn over the course of the day. It’s mad, there was me thinking I am walking
miles every day when in fact I am jumping out of the car, walking ten yards,
then jumping in again. This made me
realise how little moving I do during the day if I am not consciously
exercising.
The setting up of the
pedometer was a little difficult to say the least. After you input all your personal data you
have to walk a hundred steps so the little device can calculate the length of
your stride and pace your walking. I
apparently must walk like some sort of one legged hobbit as the device couldn’t
determine how long my stride was. So after 4 X 100 steps it managed to read my
steps and it was all systems go.
If I get up in the morning
and spend the day drawing I literally don’t move. Sometimes five or six hours will pass before I
realise that I need to pee, or more importantly, eat. I think this is where I use to fall
down. It was so easy to just pick up a
jambon or packet of crisps. Now, I will
pick up fruit if I get peckish. I have
started to get real adventurous; I find that a walk through the Lidl or Aldi
fruit section is becoming the highlight of my day. I found a little piece of fruit called a
Kaki.
Now I know what you are
thinking “I bet it tastes quite Kaki too”.
But you would be wrong. Kaki is a
yellow fruit that looks like a squashed yellow pepper. It has no core and tastes sweet like a pear
but not as sweet as an apple. The
texture is nice and you can eat it exactly like an apple. You should definitely try these. Not being a fan of apples I now live on them.
There is also a Papaya, a
larger fruit, yellow/orange in colour and goes a little green when ripe. This ,when you open it is full of seeds. Do not taste these, they are “Kaki”. You scoop out the seeds and then eat the
‘meat’ as it’s called. These are not as
delicious as the Kaki but are tasty enough.
Now to passion fruit. These are
delicious, but don’t eat these if you are looking for sustenance, these
wouldn’t fill a gap in your tooth let alone your tummy, but they are real
tasty.
I’ll tell you something that
happened that definitely wasn’t Kaki. My
niece Lucy had to do a writing assignment.
She modelled her essay on one of my little Magazine + pieces and low and
behold got great praise from her teacher on her honest essay. This made me feel delighted and proud that I
am influencing a young mind. Now I’m off to Lidl to buy some more Kaki.
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