Took a few steps backwards in week 4 of the diet this week. Hosted a dinner do on Sunday which aside from setting us back nearly £1k in food and drink, it turns out Iulia and I ate most of it. Sadly. Anyhow, here's the news... Thanks to Eric Lafforgue at www.ericlafforgue.com for his stunning photos which inspired me to draw this.

The one or two of you who have been following this blog may remember that I was on a diet last year. And it was very successful, for...

My youngest son was assessed today at the best boy’s school in the area to see if he is worthy to join, at 4. It’s very competitive. He...

It's that time of the year again when the Nursery crowd have a rush of birthday parties. For the parents it's a necessary ordeal - the...

This is a musing from my aeroplane travels last week. Despite the incredible ease in which we can go from Germany to Northern Ireland in...

It's only when you go back to corporate travel that all the tiny irritations that make it such a pain in the arse come flooding back to...

Some people think that an introvert is a person who struggles to be in the company of others. But that's only one lens. Increasingly...

Fizzy drinks are supposed to be bad for diets. But I find you need some kind of sweetness to keep you going. Diet coke, in combination...

One of the benefits of free to air tv is that you don't have a lot of choice. Not if you stick to the mainstream channels (in the UK the...

This cartoon strip is on the closing page of the first book describing my dieting journey. It seems an opportune time to summarise what I...

Last weigh in for the quarter today - reads a little like a financial report that line doesn't it? But it's true - 3 months of dieting...

Good Friday ended up being very good indeed. We took a turn to a location that my grandmother took me to when I was Loki's age, and in...

My father seemed to always be on a diet. Mysterious one at that - from what I can recall it involved calorie counting during the week,...

We're beginning to see and feel little signs that we're on the right path. I can see my cheek bones for the first time in quite a while....

Monday morning - another weigh in, and jitters about what damage the naughtiness on Friday might have brought. Different levels of...

In cricket, if you're a superstitious batsman (or batter as seems to be the current term) on 87 runs not out then it's a worrying time...

We watched an incredibly maudlin show on Netflix last night called 'One Day' which is a false name if ever I've heard one. It was a tonne...

Been a mega busy couple of days and whilst I'll catch up this weekend, work has beaten me on the cartooning front. So congratulations...

Amazing how big a deal the national day of one particular country is around the world. There are about 195 of them, but the Irish...

Just got back from the client drinks session tonight. Not as disciplined as I'd hoped. Sad. A bad night for the diet. The things you do...