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Your blog as your resume how to get started in sports nutrition the best internship

Every week I get contacted by people who wanted to get started in a career as a sports nutritionist. If I've directed you here, then the information in this post if you act upon it could be the defining point in your career. It's not an easy task getting paid employment as a sports nutritionist [...]

Cultured day out in London

Just coming back on the coach from a day out in London. We headed for Borough Market to begin with, it’s a little bit of foody heaven with loads of great stores. Got some yummy salads from a middle eastern stall, a bottle of flax seed oil some sumac dried and crushed middle eastern berry [...]

Oxford town and gown 10 K

Running in the town and gown this morning my mate chalky has predicted a 42 min 30 sec time, not done a 10K for 20 years so will be interested to see the time. Running with a couple of the personal trainers from Vida my local gym so that will get the juices flowing. Quick [...]

Kids Protein shake

My son and his cousins drinking kinetica protein shake

On the caledomian sleeper

This is the way to travel instead of a 10 hour drive, slept like a baby on the sleeper train. Got woken up with a cup of tea and a bacon sarnie.

Can going back to dial up speed things up?

Can you remember what using dial up was like? I was visiting my in-laws in France with my 4 year old son and his 6 year old nephew and 2 year old niece. They live in an amazing house right on the Dordogne river, near Bergerac.  (rear of the house below) View from Master bedroom [...]

Jack and Stan looking like Vampires

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Do I have any talent?

I spent some time over xmas learning to draw, this was the best of my efforts, what do you think ? 24 December 2007

Alan Sugar and Donald Trump – You need to look at this 9 year old apprentice

If you’ve got children in your family this could be a way to introduce them to the world of enterprise. Let me introduce my 9 year old niece Esme, her mum and brothers have been staying with us for the past few weeks. We read about an eglu (www.omelet.co.uk) a funky looking chicken house in [...]

Harry Norman _7 year old nephew swam 25 m for the first time

Young Harry – the intrepid swimming maestro plunged into the shallow end and swam the length of the pool, he tried to grab hold of me with about 5 metres to go, but I got out of his way as he was easily going to do it. Harry commented I was pleased because I didn’t [...]