World Of Winfield

Category: Uncategorized

Do I Still Enjoy Living In London?

By

It’s only Wednesday evening and I’ve already ditched the vaguely less unhealthy diet (ie less than 3,000 calories a day), and opened a bottle of red wine.  Actually it was already opened – I’m finishing it off. I am questioning things at the moment.  Particularly in terms of where I work and where I live. Why do I live in Harrow?  Am I still happy in my job?  Is the commute worth it?  At what point do I get fed up of being on junior pay?  Am I still a junior developer?  Should I start looking for another job?  Should … Continued

Complaint: Sainsburys Cucumber

By

Cucumber clipart, cute illustration psd

Dear Sir/Madam I still have not worked out the point of cucumber. It tastes of nothing.  It seems to be just water.  It is utterly pointless. Yet I add it to my salad.  Why?  I have no idea.  Just one of the many pointless things I do in my life, like writing letters of complaint over something worth about 55p in the vague hope that I am making someone smile somewhere with my vague attempts at humour. Anyway, I had a cucumber bought from my local Sainsbury’s store the other day.  Other week, actually, I’ve been busy. The sell-buy date … Continued

My Favourite Foreign Cities

By

I wanted to create a list of my favourite cities. I appreciate that it isn’t easy to put them into context – those that I have visited most recently are most likely to be fresh in the memory and hold fond memories closer to hand. Also I have visited the cities with different people and for different reasons – some cities I got to know much better than others. 24. Rome I was only there for a short weekend, and with a couple (the female of which I rather fancied) so maybe this was never going to feature too highly … Continued

Who I’m Voting For In The Local Election 2018, And Why

By

Harrow-on-the-Hill Underground Station

On the off-chance that someone who doesn’t already know me reads this, a little introduction. I am a lifelong Tory.  I have always voted Tory, I am pretty much in love with Margaret Thatcher, I was a great admirer of David Cameron – and I always vote Conservative. More importantly, I am a free-marketeer, I am an economic and social liberal – though I believe in individual responsibility and minimising government spending.  Though occasionally the Conservative Party can make me wince socially – they have proven time and again that they are the only political party that will allow a … Continued

Investing For The Future

By

Microprocessor Development System - National Semiconductor Co., Model SC/MP, circa 1976

I’ve always thought of myself as someone that can spot trends, and as such have long been keen to try investing. The only reason I didn’t before was a lack of capital.  When you get charged like £12 to buy shares, then you cannot really be investing £100. My Easynet redundancy money had been sitting in my account, and I had managed not to spend it during my subsequent period of unemployment.  We are only talking 4 figures – nothing crazy – though that is a lot to me.  My, erm, life savings. And then last January, I read in … Continued

Crappy Little Day

By

Fat-lady figure Circus World Museum

Well that was a crappy little day. I woke up late, and tired.  Drinking Red Bull and eating shit food from the off. I’ve said it before, but being fat is the one thing guaranteed to make me miserable, and putting on weight when eating healthy and doing some exercise like I did at the weekend has triggered me off on a run of eating lots of shit – approx 4,000 calories a day.  As opposed to 1,500 a day last week when I was happy…or a least content. So, of course I’ve put even more weight on and am … Continued

Detox Is Over

By

So it finishes.  3 months without alcohol.  Finished already. I almost feel a little sad about it.  It’s like the end of a holiday.  I expected to jump up and down in excitement about the upcoming retoxification, but nah.  I feel very nonplussed about it. My 3 month detox was on doctor’s advice.  There is nothing wrong with my liver per se, but it needed a reduction of the fat content otherwise there was a good chance that there would become a problem. I’ve had my blood test today and now await the results.  Hopefully the doctor will say “party … Continued

I Have Joined A Gym

By

Indoor gym

Yes, you read correctly. I have joined a gym. I figured that as I am nearly 40, exceptionally unattractive to women and still absolutely desperate to have multiple children – preferably to different women but the same one will do I guess, I should really do some critical analysis of why this is. The question that I have been asking all year to myself after 1000’s of unreciprocated right-swipes is why am I not attractive to women.  I mean, I have a mullet, after all.  And don’t forget the shiny green meggings. So I changed my gender on Tinder to … Continued

Work/Life Balance

By

Harrow on the Hill Station

As good as everything is at the moment, it would be ideal if I had more time for myself during the week. I appreciate that people in other vocations sometimes have longer hours, but 9am to 6pm was a bit of a surprise when I started working at Lovespace – I hadn’t asked about the hours during interview, it was kind of irrelevant – but they are the longest working hours that I have ever known. Add on the journey to and from work, which is normally around 1 hour 15 each way – but can easily be more depending … Continued

2018 Goals

By

purple foot bridge

I have goals.  I started thinking about them in January and finished some point last month.  In no particular order of priority, bar the top 2. Lifestyle Lose Weight.  Shock horror, this is here again and my number one goal.  Last year I started at 90kg and aimed to get down to 82kg.  I finished at 96kg.  This year I start at 97kg and want to get down to 85kg.  And next year, no doubt, I will be aiming to get down to 90kg or something fuckwitty like that. 3 Month Detox.  No alcohol and limited red meat for 3 … Continued