This article tells us that every single team lined up for this year of F1 is happy to limit their testing time throughout the season. All, that is, except Ferrari. Surprise, surprise, the boys in red have decided that they're above the rules that apply for everyone else and will test whenever and wherever they feel like it. Whilst they're not actually breaking any ruling, some may call this an …

Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant. In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion. McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - that's more than the entire population of Spain. French Fries are the most eaten vegetable in America. You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a …

Today involved Super Size Me, The Whole Ten Yards and a plateful of nachos. Unfortunately, Mr C hasn't seen The Whole Nine Yards and given the amount of time we needed to spend at our computers this weekend, watching three films was just asking a bit too much. But never mind, there's always next time. Super Size Me was a real eye opener, and I think it's a good job …

Today I'm having a solo DVD Day, which only involves one film - Open Water. I was not a fan of Blair Witch, so the cover advertising it as the next best thing was not really something that made me want to watch it. But Mr C definitely didn't want to see it and I was curious, so while selecting DVDs for DVD Day #5 (you can read about that …

Back in the days when Mr C and I first began spending quite a lot of time together, we went to London several times, and on one of these journeys, I was introduced to the phenomenon that is "Underground Bridges". I have mentioned them briefly before but not in too much detail. Basically, entering London on the M4, you travel through what any normal person would call a tunnel. But …

I'm glad I live in a world of heaters and electricity and extra thick cuddly jumpers and soft slippers. And I'm glad I live in a world of air conditioning and ice cubes and cold showers. Can I decide which world I like best? Um, no. When I get cold, I really get cold - my hands turn to blocks of ice and my nose is always colder than the …

Today, I managed to actually enter my pin number whilst paying for something. Up until now, I've managed to say that I don't know it, or go to Sainsbury's who have yet to implement it in their stores. But today, I took the plunge, bought the goods and typed the number, and you know what? I kinda liked it. At first I was opposed to the idea, and it makes …

I got kicked by a pony yesterday. Don't laugh. We wanted to make the most of our last day of freedom before I return to the drudgery of the workplace, so we decided to go to Beaulieu. Mostly to see the cars, but the other stuff looked interesting as well. Here are some photos - they're not great, I'm saving the best for the Photo Blog: Once we'd done at …

The judges on Strictly Come Dancing Champion of Champions saying that they wanted Denise & Ian to win when we could all see that Jill & Darren were the best by miles. Harry Potter VI topping the best-sellers chart when it's not even out for another seven months. I'm looking forward to it too, but I'm not that crazy. That having got bored of the Christmas songs we were allowed …

My father has been in the habit of buying himself a new camera for his birthday every year, and he passes his old one to my mother who then passes her old one to me. It works pretty well, and I've just recently become the proud owner of a snazzy silver number, with a great zoom in facility. I hate getting my films developed at a counter. I do not …

Electric 6 have covered Radio Ga Ga. It’s awful. Enough said.

Before I go any further, I officially admit I am now too old for bouncy castles. I'm not sure whether it was because we were on there for longer than last year, whether it was because there were more kids, or whether they were just much more violent, but we definitely came away with more aches and pains than last year. It goes something like this: "Did you have a …

With Christmas fast approaching, people are really beginning to struggle with the idea of me skipping it. They don't seem to understand. So, to help out any who are still a little confused, I've laid out some of the rules here: I do not wish to celebrate anything to do with Christmas, however, I will not ruin anyone else's fun. For example, a colleague said he would sulk and not …

Quality Street I Like: Orange Chocolate Crunch, Country Fudge, Toffee Penny, Noisette Triangle, Toffee Finger, Coconut Eclair, Malt Toffee. Quality Street I Don't Like: Milk Chocolate Hazelnut, Caramel Cup, Hazelnut in Caramel, Strawberry Dream, Orange Creme.

I forgot to write about DVD Day #2, which included Spiderman 2 (not as good as the first) and Garfield (not as good as the trailer), so it wasn't really worth talking about. Today, whilst partaking in popcorn, Pringles and dips, we've seen I, Robot and King Arthur. I, Robot was brilliant, funny and unusual, and I didn't find myself picking many holes in it at all. Plus, Will Smith …

In accordance with some websites that I have been perusing recently, it appears to be important where you fare on a search in Gooooooogle. Woke Up This Morning is way too far down the list to make it worth my while searching, but "101 Words" (without the quotation marks) is around about 63. Check it out for yourself - how cool am I? Of course, if you search for "101 …

I was going to sit down and think of something intelligent to write, but when I arrived home after a stressful day, Mr C had purchased me the new Zoo Tycoon 2. That’s distracted me for the next century!

I'm not watching X Factor anymore, due to its descent from a decent talent contest into what is essentially a forum for Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell to bicker with each other. Not good television. And Kate Thornton is just too strict, making sure everyone is in their place - sometimes with live TV, you just have to just go with the flow - take a leaf out of Davina's …

I'd just like to say that although I appreciate the sentiment of the Girls Aloud Children In Need single "I'll Stand By You", they just shouldn't do it. They're too happy about it, they don't have the emotion in their voices and they don't appear to understand what they're saying - they may as well be singing about candyfloss. As I have been saying all weekend - It's just wrong.

This Boycotting Christmas thing is much harder than you'd think. It started with me just saying I wouldn't go to the Christmas Meal. Then a colleague said that if I didn't go, he wouldn't go and then he'd have a miserable Christmas and it would be all my fault. Well, I have principles, but they don't stand up to that kind of pressure, so I agreed to go. But now, …

We so should have called our film festival DVD Day. Anyway, we watched The Day After Tomorrow and Troy. During the week, Mr C purchased Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure and Live Aid 4 Disc Special Edition. He'd previously seen Dave Gorman live on stage, and laughed so much that DG actually stopped and looked at him, so my expectations were pretty high. I only managed to watch half of it …

I bought some Pop Tarts today but it wasn’t until I got them home that I realised – we don’t yet own a toaster. D’oh!

When I was younger I used to do 24 Hour Famines for World Vision, and it used to be really difficult. These days, I don't blink if I forget to eat all day and when I do eat, I don't really appreciate what I'm taking in. I was never very good at the sponsorship side of the fund-raising, I detest asking people for money, especially the people who would put …

I so desperately wanted to call it "Film Fest Friday" for alliteration and general coolness reasons, but unfortunately it takes place on a Sunday. Following a complaint from me about the amount of Quality Time we were spending together, Mr C made a special effort and we are now taking part in our second Film Fest Sunday. This involves me renting us two films, us digesting the first along with …

We had an email at work today, with an Excel spreadsheet attachment, inviting us to select our Christmas Meal Menu. I have a slight problem with this, as I am not participating in Christmas this year. Call me a Scrooge, a Bah Humbug, a grumpy old woman, all you like, but I have legitimate reasons and they are five-fold. Christmas is first and foremost a Christian festival. I am not …

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I'm not very well today, a lot of coughing and stuff, it's not very nice. Wrap up warm in front of the telly, that's the advice I've been given, so that's what I'm doing. At work, there's a contact we have at a branch, and she is always, always rude to me. She's sometimes rude to my boss but never rude to my colleague who happens to be a man. …

Happiness is being too busy to be sad.

I really thought this post wouldn't happen for quite some time. It's inevitable every year, but I thought I still had a few weeks left, at least. Doing the shopping today, I was surprised to find Halloween goodies decorating the entrance to the store. Orange and black was the main theme throughout and I suddenly realised that yes, it is October already. Pushing my trolley through the wonderland, with children …

Credit where credit is due, Michael Schumacher drove a great race today. It's hard to hide disappointment in the fact that he completed the first lap down about 15th and finishes the race in second, but if it was anyone else but Schumi, we'd think he was a star, so I guess he should have a well done. An interesting point to note - they didn't push Alonso back on …

You know all those people that are flitting off to Spain and Australia to start a new life in the sun? (You'll know what I mean, there are about a hundred programmes following their fortunes on the television!) I have one word for them - crazy. I stepped outside today for a moment and almost melted. It's almost winter time and where the hell is the Autumn? It's September and …

Okay, I have been proclaiming several things as rubbish the past couple of days and every time I have been proved wrong. The most important one is the new comedy Green Wing which has just begun on Channel 4 and stars a whole host of comedians. The adverts didn't really get me chuckling and I was determined that it was going to be rubbish, but when we sat down to …

The Marathon Wrecker - It's the same guy that ran on the track at the British Grand Prix. Last time they locked him up for trespassing, but this time they can't really do anything, it was a road, public property. But seriously, the guy should be locked away where he can't get at anyone.

We went to a country fete today, and it's very heart-warming to know that people do still leave their houses for things other than football, the pub or shopping. Some parachutists flung themselves out of a plane, and I got a headache from straining my neck towards the sun so long as we watched them descend. There were also Morris Dancers, but let's not get on to that subject, eh? …

I've had a much better day today, although I'm still annoyed at the lack of anything decent to watch on TV. However, in the meantime, there are only 18 days left until The Sims 2 comes out and I can hardly wait. And I'd just like to say, even though I don't watch Eastenders anymore, having Martin cheat on Sonia just weeks after they've got married is not on and …

I made an iMix but half the songs aren't in the music store. I've been bitten a million times - AGAIN - and it itches and it hurts and I hate it. I started watching Nip/Tuck, but didn't think it was very good. I watched the first ten minutes of Ny-Lon but thought that was rubbish too. Where's all the good TV gone?

Mmm, haven't had a Crunchie for ages. I'm trying really hard to learn this database stuff and I am getting somewhere, but I always end up feeling so stupid because I understand how all the stuff works. I can see how the code makes what happens happen, but I can't begin to construct my own code, my brain just isn't logical enough for that, I guess. It's really frustrating, because …

What a great day! The sun is out and it's beautiful! I got up this morning and the first thing I did was fling all the windows open to let a non-existent breeze in. I didn't get a lie-in today, I woke up early which was a bit annoying. It did mean that I was up in time to watch Ministry of Mayhem though - my new favourite kids show! …

Lots to say so I'll just get on with it. I've been buying games by the truckload, even though I wasn't really done with the ones I had before. Have now got The Simpsons Hit & Run (very funny), Pirates of The Caribbean game (a little hard to control but I've not given up yet!) and Zoo Tycoon Marine Mania, which is really fun and adds dolphins and jellyfish and …

Anyway... website update - 101 Words will have its own site very soon. I apologise for the delay but learning PHP and MySql is bound to take more than a day and it happens that I keep getting distracted by iTunes and Prince of Persia! And on the subject of iTunes, please note the new iMix section, I just discovered playlists and will probably be up till the early hours …

It's been a mad few days and if I wrote any of it down here, you'd never believe it, so I won't bother. What I actually want to talk about is the computer stuff I've managed to get done today. On Thursday when I was setting up all websites and such, I got a little annoyed when everything I was trying so hard to fix wasn't working and I ended …

I've got a couple of days off and I'm being quite productive with them for a change. Instead of just sitting around and doing nothing, I'm sitting around and getting things done! It's great. I just set up Thunderbird with all my mailboxes and things. I've been sorting out my websites and getting them sorted out on this new system, and also setting up Apache to be able to do …

I had such a good post planned. I was thinking it up the whole time I was doing the ironing (which spanned the listening of all of my newly downloaded The Calling album - yes, there were that many clothes). I had it all perfectly written in my head and had just sat down to post it... when what happens? Mr C happens. I don't want to complain, but when …

I've never wanted a day to go so fast in my whole life. And did it? Nope. But now I'll push the never-ending day from my mind and concentrate on the good stuff. For my birthday (a rather belated present, but TOTALLY worth the wait), I got a new computer. A brand spanking new computer with a marvellous graphics card and a super duper silver screen. It's just the best …

...wisdom teeth hurt! Mine take it in turns to grow a tiny bit at a time, sporadically over three years (so far). It's probably the most painful way they could have chosen to do it and I just know they're not done yet. I've come home at lunch to grab some paracetamol to last me through the day. I sure as hell don't remember teeth hurting so much when I …

The end of June already. I can't believe it. A quick note to those who don't believe I can read fifty books in a year... I'm on my 41st. So there. Henman's out. The English suck at every single sport possible. ~~Except curling~~. Apparently that was Scotland.

I was mega happy this afternoon after watching Tim Henman win his match - it had everything you could ever want, a Brit, some diving and some swearing, and a sulky Delta Goodrem, she's famous you know! There was also a little bit of tennis going on as well... Now, I will talk to you about iTunes. I want to recommend it to each and every one of you. I …

I was cajoled into downloading Firefox for the Mac and I moaned quite a lot about doing this (mostly because it was heading towards midnight and I was flagging in the energy stakes) and I was grumpy and said it was "okay". I now, however, want to say "Strike that, reverse it" a la Gene Wilder, because it is actually a really good browser. Get yours here and spread the …

We went to the pub to the watch the footie - something I have never done before. I'd always been a bit nervous of the idea of hundreds of people yelling at the television. But where we went was surprisingly empty, a group came in at half time with their faces painted, and we sampled lots of nice beer, so I learnt that it can be fun. Of course, I'm …

Although it is simultaneously amusing and heart-warming to emerge from a shop and find a sea of England Flags filling the car park, please could everyone make sure they are attached properly. I was driving behind someone who's flag fell off (I'm still not sure how that can happen - aren't they attached to the windows or something?) and as it flew up and over my roof, it gave me …