When we got back from holiday recently, everyone at work scanned my hands to see if there was an extra ring on a particularly special finger. There wasn't. I really like the fact that they're all interested though. If I was a different person and talked about my wedding non-stop, they probably wouldn't care less. Because I'm keeping my wedding quiet, they seem to be a lot more interested. One …

Is it just me or do some people swear too much? I don't swear very much. It doesn't sound right when I do it, and Mr C has been known to laugh at me when I swear, so I try very hard to avoid doing it. Sometimes, though, it's just necessary. When you drop a hammer on your foot, or when something doesn't work out like you planned, or if …

We have now officially started a new day! I was thinking, earlier, about how rubbish television is. I love watching it and I spend much too much time in front of that grey box in the corner of my living room, but it's actually getting quite predictable. The thing that most dramas are based on know is the lack of communication. The only way soaps can have so many bust …

The last time I did go to the supermarket, and that was a while ago thanks to the all new super-duper home delivery service I signed up for, it was busy, as usual. There was one checkout boy who had a completely clear conveyor belt, so I headed straight to him. I usually try and stay away from the youngsters, particularly when I have alcohol, but this time I was …

While we were in Newquay, we ventured into a club. I don't do this very often, clubs are definitely not my scene, but somehow Mr C convinced me to pay a chunk of money to get my hand stamped. Inside, I spotted a little desk set up in a dingy little corner of the club, that was selling balloons. At first I couldn't figure it out. Then I remembered the …

So, how's everybody doing? I was really having a good time an hour or so ago. I was updating and listening to some podcasts, reading and commenting on some other Blogathon participants, and even sponsoring some other people. I'm actually quite amazed at how quickly the time passes between posts. You just manage to get one written, you surf around to see who else has updated and what they're saying. …

When I was in my teenage years, I pretty much lived in my bedroom. I had everything I needed in there, books, music, television, computers. To get out of the house and to get some well-needed exercise, my mother started dragging me along to her keep-fit classes. I wasn't so sure at first, what with being a body-conscious teenager and all. Actually, they turned out to be quite fun. The …

I don't know much. I am constantly learning things. Geography, politics, history, general things in life. I am constantly learning new things. I love to learn new things though. I like it when suddenly something begins to make sense. Like why the government act like they do, or what happened in the past that makes the present what it is. I actually think I am pretty good at learning things. …

Why is it that being in upper management makes you suddenly believe that you can behave rudely and aggressively and that it's acceptable? I know of someone who is quite nice, really rather laid back and generally an okay guy to work with. Other times he's lucky he doesn't wind up with a pair of office scissors in the side of his head. So, what is it that makes him …

I was on a communications course at work, and learned plenty of interesting things, even about the art of conversation. I was told that the best way to start and maintain conversations with people is to ask questions. Ask about themselves, and when they answer, let it initiate more questions. Apparently, people like talking about themselves and love when someone takes an interest in them. Here's the thing I don't …

Snakes. Last time I was at a zoo, I went into the tropical display and the first thing I saw was a huge, enormous snake. Just thinking about it now makes my skin crawl. At the time, I jumped a mile and hid behind Mr C. Never mind the very thick glass that separated us from the snake, and never mind that it was more interested in the thermostat control …

A colleague and I were discussing the Red Arrows - she was keen to see them, and I was saying it was a lot of effort. She was a bit flabbergasted. The thing is, you see, that we have already seen them twice this year, so far. We saw them at Goodwood, where they were fabulous, although a little lost behind the trees. We also saw them at the Air …

There are building works going on nearby. It's quite annoying, but I think it could be worse. They have certain time restrictions from which they are allowed to work, and it usually manages to coincide with when I am out of the building. Not today, though, and this morning it was loud, loud, loud. People have said it must be awful for us, but I don't think it is all …

Last weekend, I had to catch up with all the television that I had recorded whilst we were on holiday and the recovering week. I basically spent all afternoon watching different dramas. I was busy doing other things at the same time, so it's not like I wasted an afternoon or anything, but it was a lot of television. So many different stories appeared on the screen, that they started …

We met up with a friend a while ago and went for a drink with him. Discussing our jobs, I expressed dissatisfaction with mine, and he said: "What would you rather do?" "I want to be a writer," I replied. Oh. My. God. I said it out loud. I want to be a writer. I went on to talk about how I want to write scripts for television and that …

A few nights ago, I came home to find a little solar panel hanging out the window. How cool is that? We've been talking about green issues recently (more on that later), and now we have our very first solar panel? We sat back and watched in amazement as the camera it was powering spat out a picture that had been picked up using the sun's rays alone. Suddenly, the …

I'm eating chocolate biscuits. It's very bad and useless for the diet but delicious. There's a guy at work who is religiously good at what he puts into his body. He has precisely two cups of coffee a day, and then up to three cups of tea. He will not have any biscuits, cake or anything anyone brings in. He has a salad lunch brought from home every single day …

When I decided I wanted to buy a laptop, I was in the middle of a shop, I saw one I liked, I bought it. When I buy things, it is usually spur of the moment, with some but very little market research, and much excitement. Mr C is the complete opposite. He does not like to buy anything just like that, will research all the possible options ever, find …

Today, for the very first time, I had my weekly supermarket shop delivered to my door. It never really occurred to me to do this before, because how hard is it to go to the supermarket? But they can be difficult places to deal with - too bright, too busy, too much sensory overload. They say that once you've tried shopping this way, you never go back. I'm not so …

It always happens: I go on holiday, taking a week off work, and when I return, they've changed everything. The IT system was completely different, logging on had changed and we were on new servers. I managed to figure it all out but this time they've got a new, stricter internet filter. The only thing I can look at is BBC News and Wikipedia. I have never loved BBC News …

I've noticed, and we're only two posts in, that doing this Blogathon means that I will never be unsure of the time for during the next 24 hours. Each time I write a post, I am checking what the time is, and which particular half an hour I am relating to this time. This doesn't really make a change because I am always aware of the time. It's a rare …

I'm blogging for Diabetes UK. It took me a long time to decide on who to blog for. I thought long and hard: cancer, lifeguards, children, Africa, but decided that I would sponsor something a bit more close to home. My family have been affected by Diabetes, and that's why I've opted to support Diabetes UK.

What have I let myself in for? So, Blogathon 2006 begins and I find myself sitting in front of my laptop, tucked away at my desk, looking forward to the coming hours. When I woke up this morning, I was concerned at the shiny, bright weather outside the window, and that perhaps I would be missing out by staying only half an hour's distance from my laptop. Now it is …

Recently, I have slept a lot, and the more I snoozed, the more tired I seemed to get. Things do not bode well for my 'staying up for 24 hours' attempt tomorrow. One of the most annoying things about the whole experience is that it's based in America, and they are blogging from 6am to 6am the next day. Fair enough. But you have to take into account the time …

Something kinda personal has happened and I don't know whether to blog about it. I have things to say on the subject, but I'm not really sure whether the blog is the place to do it. I'd like it to be something I talk about and share with others and see what everyone else thinks, but at the same time, it's not the kind of thing I would usually blog …

Every time I get in my car, I have to pull over for an emergency service vehicle. There's always something happening. Every day, for the last seven days, I have heard the sirens and moved out of the way. I'm beginning to hear them in my head and check my mirrors when there isn't anything there! Is the summer a more dangerous time for people or has this just been …

Not content with getting through an entire day at work on Monday, I also decided that was the day to go back to the gym. I was really surprised at how happy I was when I got there. Don't tell anyone I said so, but I actually missed going to the gym. While I was puffing away on the cross-trainer, I plugged my iPod in and played a random playlist. …

When I was a kid, some days I would get fed up with my mum and dad niggling at each other, sharing those little bitty remarks that seemed completely unnecessary. I would close my eyes in the back of the car and sing Backstreet Boys songs to myself shut out the noise. A few weeks ago, I was talking to my mother on the phone, and having a conversation with …

Returning from this holiday has hit me harder than any previous holiday blues I have experienced. I was definitely looking forward to this holiday from a few weeks ago and to think that it has all been done and is all over is really quite depressing. Where did the time go?

Who would have thought that getting no sleep, leaving the house at 5am, traipsing around a field for ten hours, then packing bags and driving to Cornwall would be tiring? First task was shopping. A bit of advice for you: Stay away from Truro. Last year we got stuck in roads and roads of traffic, no matter which direction we turned in. This year, we headed to Truro and got …

My mother and father are coming to stay and to prepare for their arrival, I have cleaned and tidied the entire place. There's something about cleaning that makes me feel incredibly guilty. I never enjoy it, but while I have my iPod plugged into my ears and just get on with it, it's not all that much of a chore. So, then I start to question why I don't do …

It's been brought to my attention that I didn't really explain myself properly when I was talking about Blogathon a couple of posts ago. Some people may know what Blogathon is, and some may not, and it was remiss of me to just assume that everyone would know what I was babbling on about. That being the case, I would like to introduce you to the world of the Blogathon. …

I'm doing Blogathon this year. I thought about it last year, but wasn't sure if anyone would bother to sponsor me. However, I have a bit more faith in my blog this year, and a charity that I want to blog for, so I'm going to go for it. I don't know how I'm going to stay awake for that long, but I've got some ideas what I'm going to …

I don't know if you noticed the adverts that appeared on the left hand side. I always said I would rather stick a fork in my eye that put adverts on my site, and let me tell you, if I could find a fork, I might be heading towards a hospital right about now. My only defense is that I was talked into it. With five sites to my name, …

Yesterday, finally some good weather arrived, and we went to see a friend who was about to jump off a cliff. Don't worry though, he had some kind of parachute wing thing strapped to his back, and said it was all in the name of sport. Some people really are crazy. Although he tried several times, the weather wasn't really suitable for flying off a cliff, not windy enough apparently. …

I think I've told you about how I read the entire first season of LOST through transcripts before it was aired in the UK. This wasn't the cleverest thing for me to do, because I was discussing each episode with a colleague of mine and suddenly started getting confused with what I had seen and what I had read. I stopped watching, but kept up the pretence of talking about …

I had to think for a while about this one. It was a quiet day for a lot of the drivers. I don't remember even hearing Webber's name, Alonso kept his head down at the front, Button had a quiet day until Coulthard overtook him. The main focus was on Schumacher, desperate to catch up to the front, and Villeneuve, as it was his home race. Either way, I was …

The comment spam has caught up with me. It was only a matter of time. Actually, there was a spate of it a month or so ago, (it started the day after I commented on someone else's website to say I'd never had any - now that's irony!), but we put in a temporary fix by closing the older comment forms. However, I came across some spam on my latest …

I was watching the football last night - Argentina vs Holland was promising to be a fantastic game and yet there were no goals whatsoever, how disappointing - and I suddenly realised how much sport I watch these days. When I was a kid, and I was a little bit plump, and PE was hell, and they turned my school into a sports college which was my worst nightmare and …

The good thing about moving house is that it means you can get rid of a lot of junk. You can dig through all the stuff at the bottom of the wardrobe and throw a good proportion of it out. However, you have to learn not to be sentimental about things. While we were digging through all our junk, I came across our dartboard. We haven't used that thing for …

Got to be Alonso, hasn't it? And at the end, when Schumacher was being a complete ass, and sulkily pushed the camera out of the way, Fernando's cheery and accommodating personality shone through and showed the older man up.

Broadband!!!! A day early and not a day too soon. I was about to get on here and start saying how great dial up was compared to stealing intermittent broadband. Dial up?? What was I thinking? How will we ever manage to get any sleep tonight when the entire internet is out there just waiting for us to get caught up?

Since the world and his wife started blogging, comments have become a very popular thing. Everyone wants more and more comments, recognition of the writing and opinions, and generally, nice compliments and that feeling that you are not alone in this crazy world. You would think that commenting should be a good, positive thing. A forum to share opinions, discuss important issues and find out what other people think about …

A few days ago Wayne Rooney kicked a football. Yesterday, David Beckham got on a plane. Today, Frank Lampard drank some water. This is what constitues news at the moment? World Cup fever has seriously gripped everyone. There is no escaping from it. It's in the news. It's on the television. It's in every single advert ever. An advert break on television now may contain only one advert that doesn't …

A friend of mine from work is jumping out of a plane today... on purpose... for no apparent reason. The plane isn't going to be on fire, and he's not going to have to jump out to survive, apparently this is all in the name of fun. And charity. Thankfully, he will have a parachute, and a whole other qualified person strapped to his back, so he is likely to …

You know, I was so excited that Big Brother was back on our screens. Looking forward to the opening credits, to seeing the lunatics they've picked out and, of course, the new diary room chair. A few days in, and I'm bored. It's not the people, though, I think previously, they would have been very entertaining. It's me. I've changed. It makes me so angry when they won't listen to …

Every year since I was allowed to stay up that late, I've watched the Eurovision with my mother. One year, my friend was staying over and we watched it together. We all were allowed one vote and had a fabulous time laughing at all the entries and deciding which one was going to be worthy of our vote. Last year, my parents were on holiday in this area, and I …

The thing I hate most about being ill is the lack of productiveness (is that even a word?). For the past two days all I have done is sit under the duvet, work through boxes of tissues, drink buckets full of Lemsip and my bodyweight in orange juice. All that Vitamin C - yuck.

Well, today's race took a turn for the better - not so much frustrating as boring, really. However, Schumacher didn't win, so that makes everything alright. Button was rubbish, but at the moment I expect nothing less. Have you seen those adverts on the television at the moment for Mars? They're in support of the World Cup and telling everyone that to win, we need to really, really BELIEVE. Oh, …

I was reading one of the websites on my RSS feed list, and came across this question: Which is your favourite Tom Hanks movie? At first, I thought the answer was obvious - Cast Away. But then, when I thought about it a little bit more, there are so many others. Obviously, Forrest Gump, and I am a little bit partial to You've Got Mail, which although a weird film, …