Day 101, Saturday April11, 11.5
Stopcock Clare: Resolutions - Take plumbing course/do more knitting/regular
To date - Completed plumbing course.
Fragrant Wife: Resolution - One sketch a day.
To date (I quote Burgess Hill Boot Boy, Fragrant Wife’s less fragrant husband) - “My dearest wife (who does not have access to this email account) has crafted a veritable Sistine Chapel of pictures. Some quite good and some, frankly, obscene. She's popping 'em out like rabbits pop out poo and I fear that she'll get RSI and/or the police will shut down my house as an artistic sweat shop.)
Burgess Hill Boot Boy: Resolution – To make no resolutions whatsoever.
To date - “You might be interested to hear that, due to excessive and tearful pressure from a brain-washed Son One, I have not had a fag since around 2200 on
Babak The Potter: Resolution – To do something artistic, like taking up pottery.
To date – “I'm struggling to find head space. Now that the days are a bit longer, anything is possible!”
Ramrod Rachel: Resolution - sort out weak back.
To date - Stopped going to the gym after doctor’s advice. Now taking up Pilates.
Kate The Toe Throb: Resolution – Do some serious running.
To date – “Hi Tony. Yes running still (ask recently witnessed by David Walker if you need confirmation!) All going well, still throbbing toe though!”
Sleepless Ruth (mother of nine, at the last count):
Resolution - To get some more sleep.
To date – No more sleep, not because of children but because of plumbing and electrical work on her and her husband’s work-in-progress house in
Bill The Board: Resolution - To learn to surf before his new-born son.
To date – “Alright alright....I'll readily concede that my progress has been pitiful. I have, though, managed to fix a roof rack to my jeep for the yet-to-be purchased second-hand surfboard (please note I am learning to surf, not windsurf, bodysurf or anyothertypeofsurf). I have also selected my venue, the rather large and scary Gwithian beach near Hayle in west
Roger The Thespian: Resolutions: 1. To adapt a one-man play for radio and hopefully get it produced and made. 2. To reacquaint myself with the piano. 3. Since I need to get one failure out of the way, to not be 43 years old in 105 minutes time. 4. To do the London-Brighton cycle ride.
To date: “Still waiting to hear if I've been accepted for bike ride. Er... that's about it. What were my other resolutions?!”
Cricketing Kuldip: Resolution - Do some walking, do some yoga every morning, in an attempt to lose weight.
To date – Walking/yoga each morning, but no weight loss. “Am told it took years to put on the weight, so don't expect it go so soon. Logical I suppose. But I am not giving up. Cant let this group down, can I ????"
Jenny The Penguin: Resolutions – Get on Facebook and try and keep in touch with people/get head around Twitter/learn how to put tunes on iPod.
Resume dieting. Become a filmgoer again after 9 years of children's films only.
To date – Going to the cinema regularly (seen Australia, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost Nixon and Revolutionary Road, Milk, The Damned United, Young Victoria ). Not got head around new technology at all.
First-Tee Juliet: Resolutions - Dyslexia teaching course/Nurturing old friendships/say ‘do more, dream less’ at least 100 times a year/learn to play golf (one lesson a week).
To date – On target with everything, even the dreaming.
Six-foot Laurie: Resolution - Hole more six-foot putts than he misses.
To date - Still missing the majority.
Matt the Mad Magistrate: Resolutions -1) ride 100 miles in a day on the way to losing weight (while eating and drinking whatever he wants – cakes and alcohol most welcome). 2) Prepare for a Masters degree in Maths. So as to carry out research at the Dept of Cosmology and Gravitation. So as to get a Phd. So as to stick two fingers up the doctors, consultant and anaesthetists living in his road (if Brian May can do it, why can’t Matt?)
3) Climb
To date: 1) Magistrate application. “This is in, locked and loaded. I have been to court several times to observe the proceedings (hangings) and now it is up to the Magistrate service to accept or reject my application, which may take more than this year.” 2)
3) “Cycling still up around the 60-70 miles level, but am sure I will get to 100 miles. 4) Health – “My kidneys have taken a big step down in the last two months and I have to be realistic that I might be on for a transplant in the next couple of months. 5) Maths Masters degree – “Revision on hold on the pure math’s as I have diverted my attention into more study on Cosmology at present. Hoping to attend a course in MIT (
Sarah La Française: Resolution – Brush up French.
To date: “Little progress. I did dust down my Teach Yourself French CDs last week.”
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