Obesity is the second highest cause of cancer in the UK. So if you think you could lose weight by taking up a hobby like, say, smoking, to remove those food cravings, probably best not to because smoking is still, unsurprisingly, number one on the list. If you’re a fat smoker, it was nice knowing you.

I’m not fat. I was a thin smoker for many years before I eventually managed to transfer my allegiance to vaping. Am I at risk from digital cancer? e-cancer?? I don’t know. I was at a meeting and a chap saw the top of my e-cigarette in my pocket and enquired if it was an epi-pen. To which I replied that it was similar. Because I’m severely allergic to a lack of nicotine. Its just physiological, innit.

I missed Lila-day yesterday due to staff illness at work. I managed to do the ‘early shift’ whilst madam went swimming, then I was wrenched away, off to the tube. You know how when you leave babies they sometimes cry in protest or feeling of loss? Well that was me. I cried and had to be dragged away from my baby. Who seemed quite happy chewing some Amazon packaging. I am that easily replaceable.

Yet spring is in the air. Until you walk in that air and it feels just as wintry as it has been, but a bit brighter. Well, air can’t be ‘bright’ but ya know what I mean. So I’m hopeful that, unlike last weekend which was awful, some tennis might actually get played. Very difficult with snow-covered courts. But the clocks go forward into British Summer Time tomorrow so you have to be optimistic. At least it’ll be light coming home from work. In the snow.

And of course, there’s no football this weekend. Which is a knife through my heart. Normally I’m ok with ‘international breaks’ because if we don’t play we can’t lose. But we’re good at the moment and, if I can use the word that seems to have been totally hijacked by Corbyn’s gang of thugs, I don’t want us to lose ‘momentum’. Not ‘Momentum’, that’s ‘his’ gang of bullying, sexist, misogynist, hard-left anti-semites. But ‘momentum’; being on a roll. Never mind, at least they can have a nice rest. Those who aren’t representing their nations.

Ok, great start to the day; I’m off to the dentist. Yippee.

Happy Friday

A xxxx