Just testing the new blog editor system

I have a new car, it’s a Vauxhall Omega and is rather huge. I’m still getting used to all the dials and thingies about it, and thought I had them all sorted out until just now.

Somebody just knocked the door to tell me I’d left my lights on. Bit bizarre (it makes a really loud beeping noise if you open the driver door with the lights on) but when I looked the lights weren’t on.

Instead, it turned out that I’d kept the left indicator on and that if you do that, the corresponding lights switch on and stay on when the car is off. It looks like it’s a side light which makes perfect sense at night if you’re parked on a dark road, but is a complete novelty to me.

So there you go. Don’t leave your indicators on unless you mean to

H’ray. It’s been exactly one month since I started my exercising at Holbrook gym and I’ve just mounted the scales again.

First of all, a correction: I didn’t have scales on 2 May, so a few days later I got some and weighed myself - I was actually 216lb (98kg).

I’m now…. 212lb (96kg).

Yay. I think I’m not particularly disappointed though - it’s early days and I’m more interested in losing the waist, which I’m glad to report appears to be working. I’ve been testing this using the not-really-very-scientific method of ‘do I fit in these jeans yet?’. I have a pair of 34″ jeans which are normally a bit tight (odd - other 34″ jeans fit fine), and I’m now wearing them without any problem!