For the last few weeks I’ve been on a mission to get healthy. I’m exercising five days a week (mixture of yoga, weights and steps) and trying to get out for a walk as often as the weather will allow.

I’ve also been trying to sort out my eating habits. Lots of fruit and veg and nutritious meals. Part of this is to try to sort out my dodgy skin. I’ve got some weird combination of eczema and acne which quite frankly is beginning to piss me off. I started out by cutting out beer (in the all-encompassing alcohol sense of the word rather than just the brown stuff) and having chocolate just once a week as a treat. After three weeks of no booze there didn’t seem to be much in the way of improvement. In fact, I decided that three weeks was long enough and after a challenging day yesterday treated myself to a pint or two. Not sure how good an idea that was so might give it a miss again (once I’ve finished the can of Stella I’ve got sat next to me…).

Apart from that I’m trying to establish whether I’ve got some kind of food intolerance so am cutting out dairy for a couple of weeks. Let’s hope I see some kind of improvement as a result of that, otherwise it will be wheat next.

On a positive note I’ve started to lose some weight and have been feeling pretty good because of the exercise. Will definitely be keeping that up.

After a fair few years with the same ISP we’re finally moving.

We’ve probably been with Pipex for something daft like five years and while over all the connectivity has been pretty good, we’ve seen their customer support gradually dwindle away into being rather laughable. Right now, it feels like walking a tight rope; yes the connection is good but we’re constantly in fear of having another problem because Pipex’s customer support is woeful. (Apologies to anyone at Pipex who feels they do a sterling job, we just haven’t had the good fortune to be put through to you.)

Oh, and they’re now owned by Tiscali; a company that we moved away from many years ago. It’s like we’re being followed!

So, we’re pinning our hopes on Zen Internet who have been recommended to us. Fingers crossed!

Sometimes it’s hard to let go of a website. You keep asking for little changes here, a few tweaks there when really these kind of things can be done once a site has gone live. We know. We understand. We’ve been there.

But there comes a time when in order for a website to grow and blossom you just have to let it go. Let it run free outside in the glow of the internet.

And pay us the final instalment.

Over the bank holiday weekend we went on a guided walk of some of the local wells. Why go on a tour of the local wells? Well, (tee hee!) it was fascinating finding out stuff such as the reason why a stretch of wall near my mum’s house randomly has an arch is because it was once the site of a public water pump. I’ve blindly walked past this arch without giving a second thought while I was growing up and I would never have guessed that there was any more of a reason for the arch other than somebody sometime fancied one there.

This is relatively recent history (folks in St. Just still drank from wells & pumps up until the 1950s and 60s) and yet most of the sites have either been built over, capped or ruined by the various permutations over the years of the local water board.

The tour was by Rory Te’Tigo of the Stone Age Studio who has had a crack at uncovering and to an extent restoring a number of the local wells in the area.

Somebody has been very very silly: Bank customer data sold on eBay. I know publicity is supposed to be beneficial whether it’s good or bad but who’s going to trust their data to that archiving firm now?