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Coke (the drink) is killing me!

May 23, 2011
By admin in Diet

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I don’t have many issues with my diet – I try to eat healthily and my alcohol intake is very low – but one of the main ones is the amount of coke I drink! I know that it’s bad for me, but I can’t seem to stop drinking it! I’m sure it’s probably partly the addictive nature of caffeine, but it’s a habit I’m going to try and stop this summer.

I don’t believe that leaving your tooth in a glass of coke overnight will completely dissolve the tooth – I’ve seen several TV programs where this myth has been debunked – but I do believe that drinking coke is bad for the teeth. One or two a week isn’t going to make a difference in the long term, but drinking three or four a day definitely is!

So here are my goals for the summer.

  1. Get my coke intake down to a maximum of two a day
  2. Then reduce it to one a day (I think it should be easy to this point)
  3. Once I’m OK with one a day reduce it further to three or four a week.
  4. Finally, stop buying coke altogether and only have it when I go out to eat (which is what I used to do until a few years ago)

I’ll let you know how I get on! I think it’s probably going to e harder than it sounds – this type of thing always looks easy on paper but more difficult in real life.

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Cricket Season Is Here

May 23, 2011
By admin in Cricket

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Now that the football season is over the real sport can begin – cricket. There’s going to be loads of good cricket on this summer that I’m really looking forward to. Last year we had Bangladesh and Pakistan touring England which just didn’t really excite most cricket fans. There were some one day games against Australia but I think a lot of fans are bored with those too. This year we have both Sri Lanka and India coming – they should provide a good test for the England team and a chance to see just how good they really are.

I think that the team didn’t get the credit it deserved after the Ashes win simply because the performance in the world cup was so bad. Some of the test matches were outstanding in Australia though, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an England team play so well. How it could have suddenly gone so wrong in the World Cup is something I don’t really understand, but I’m sure it had something to do with tiredness – whether it was mental or physical.

I’ve already got tickets for the first day of the third test which I’m really looking forward too. I’ve just got to hope that there is good weather! Ticket sales for some of the tests haven’t been great which I don’t find surprising – two tickets were £120! That’s a lot of money, although you do get a full days entertainment. Even so, if ticket sales aren’t that good they should lower the prices. It’s better to have a full ground than a half empty one even if it does mean that the tickets are worth less.

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Snooker Needs Players Like Judd Trump

May 2, 2011
By admin in Snooker

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Snooker isn’t anywhere near as popular as it used to be, and it’s not really surprising. There’s only so much snooker one person can watch, as it doesn’t have the speed and action of other sports (if you can really call it a sport). I’ve really enjoyed this year’s world championship though – mainly because of the emergence of Judd Trump.  As I write this Judd is in the final against John Higgins and it’s 4-4, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens from here on.

The great thing about Trump is that he’s not just a good player but he also wants to entertain the crowd. Often when he’s one a frame (and sometimes even before) he goes for trick shots to provide some entertainment. In what can be a very repetitive sport at times, I think this is something more players should be encouraged to do.

There’s a reason that players like Ronnie O’Sullivan are so popular despite causing more controversy than any other player, and that’s because they’re entertaining. We don’t want to watch potting machines trading frame for frame. Some people seem to think that personality means laughing and joking at the table, which is good to see, but having people try different shots and being aggressive is most entertaining for me. The contrast can make for some very interesting matches – a lot of games are so similar at the moment that they could almost be played by any player, whereas you immediately know that Trump and O’Sullivan are playing.

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