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Google Docs lets you link a spreadsheet to a web form. Entries via the web form (by yourself or anyone else that you have sent the link to) update the spreadsheet automatically.
I use it as a food diary: I enter the food and quantity eaten in the form (via any desktop browser, my mobile or [...]

Oggi vado al lavoro a piedi
Today I am walking to work
Literally: 'Today (I) go to work at feet'.
Today is Walk To Work Day.
Yesterday I pledged to walk at least thirty minutes to work, but then I figured out that I could go the whole way in about two hours.
So I am setting off now, equipped [...]

Ho dormito sul divano
I have slept on the sofa
Literally: '(I) have slept on-the sofa'.
On average two nights a week I sleep on a sofa that is two feet shorter than I am, lulled by the sound of the TV via wireless headphones.
I'll accept it is odd, but most times when that happens, like this morning, [...]

Ho messo su quattro libbre in una settimana
I have put on four pounds in one week
Literally: '(I) have put on four pounds in one week'.
Three and a half weeks ago I decided to stop counting calories and to stop weighing myself every day.
I have put on five pounds during the first two and a half [...]

Oggi mangiamo uova e pancetta per colazione
Today we are having eggs and bacon for breakfast
Literally: 'Today (we) eat eggs and bacon for breakfast'

Do you want to get rid of that little bit of extra weight you put on at Christmas? You are still in time to turn into a gay man and book yourself on [...]

Today's phrase is
Finalmente è venerdì
At last it's Friday
Literally: At last is Friday

It's been a short week (I worked on Monday, went out on Monday and Tuesday night, had a day off work on Wednesday and was back to work yesterday and today) but I'm very glad the weekend is here again anyway.
I have absolutely nothing [...]

A friend sent me this notice he found posted at his gym, which I don't think it's even one of the gayest in town.
You go to a gym? Then you are expected to be supple enough to soap your own back.
Otherwise, they will preserve it as inappropriate behaviour. Preserve, regard, same thing…

It was not without apprehension that last Saturday I set off to go visit my mother in Italy. She had been ill for a while, was taken to hospital for six weeks of tests last spring, but they could not find anything wrong. She was ill again recently, and this time the local hospital sent [...]

I have already written about how two days into my holiday my mobile phone reset itself and all data was wiped out.
I saw this as a sign to let go and try not to make a note of absolutely everything, and also told myself that I might not need to keep a food diary any [...]

So now I'm told that my mother has been in hospital for a week. Same medical problems she had a few months ago. She is waiting to hear what they think she has this time, hopefully in a few days and not after weeks like last time.
I could not sleep last night, snoozed on the [...]

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The contents of our fridge, originally uploaded by bitful.

I am considering buying a new compact digital camera for a forthcoming trip, and was not too impressed with anything that's on the market at the [...]

There seems to be a trend around to persuade people to stop eating reduced-calorie processed food and eat a pretty much everything in moderate amounts. You know it when it get to read about it in Metro (Wednesday's issue, page 11, I'll be damned if I ever manage find a Metro article online to link [...]

I knew it was a good idea to keep reading the work club newsletter even if, week after week, no item caught my attention. Because finally yesterday there was an offer to try out the work gyms for free for four weeks.
As this comes at a time when I do not have much time to [...]

So now not only can I squeeze into my skinny jeans again (well, I say skinny, the label says 32W), but I can even go out in public in them (I wore them a couple of weeks ago to a garden party spent inside due to the rain). The trick is not sitting down.
I have [...]

I have been exchanging emails with Dr B.'s brother, who is into his third month since stopping smoking, and only a few weeks since giving up nicotine patches.
He has been having dreams about smoking and I told him I used to have them all the time too when I stopped over four years ago. He [...]

I like to record data and then I like to look at data. Sometimes I like to share data.
Just like I like to write down every single penny I spend, I also enjoy making a note of every single calorie that passes my lips. I then weigh myself every morning and in order to [...]

Ten days ago I watched the BBC's undercover investigation on lack of basic hygiene in supermarkets.
For the last ten days I have been living on hard-boiled eggs, canned tuna, rolled oats, and assorted fruit and vegetables. Anything with the least amount of human filth added to it.
I can now button up my skinny jeans. Without [...]

I have always enjoyed the convenience of supermarket food. However, I have lately started reading labels a bit more thoroughly than just the calories content, and I did not like what I saw.
The other night I got stuck in watching Whistleblower on BBC1 against my better judgement:
For six months, two BBC reporters worked undercover to [...]

Last Thursday night I was about to start dinner when a sudden urge to go running came upon me.
Alright, it's just that after gaining a considerable advantage over Dr B. by running every other day last week in Italy, I would have hated for him to sprint and win our 'Who runs 100km first' [...]

We are in the middle of British Sandwich Week 2007.
Unfortunately, we are also in the middle of our 'ZOMFG we only have three weeks to squeeze back into last year's swimsuits' week. There's no way I'm buying a larger size. I mean, my trunks were loose last year!
I know a sandwich can be a very [...]

I've been in Italy for the last few days to see my mother who is in hospital.
It is very hard to say whether it is serious or not; she had been losing a considerable amount of blood through her faeces and was taken into hospital to receive some blood transfusions and to undergo a series [...]

Yesterday I entered my first race and completed a 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) run.
It is probably not a big deal for most, but I consider it a great achievement, because as recently as last January I could not run for more than ten minutes without being out of breath.
I trained regularly, went for lunchtime runs [...]