Spot the difference

The only difference is my weird hair doesn't have any pink dandruff. I just hope the old man doesn't use my head to clean out the pans. I can't dye it for another few months cos it might fall out again but when it has grown a bit longer I'm going to treat myself to some highlights and lowlights even. Currently it's a head full of product.

The swimming or the chlorine probably haven't helped, but right now I feel like wearing the wig again. Just like Andy

Here comes the arty bit:

In the mid-1960s Warhol carried his consumer-product imagery into the realm of sculpture. Calling to mind a factory assembly line, Warhol employed carpenters to construct numerous plywood boxes identical in size and shape to supermarket cartons. Then, with assistance from Gerard Malanga and Billy Linich, he painted and silkscreened the boxes with logos of the different consumer products: Kellogg's corn flakes, Brillo soap pads, Mott's apple juice, Del Monte peaches, and Heinz ketchup. The finished sculptures were virtually indistinguishable from their cardboard supermarket counterparts. Warhol first exhibited these at the Stable Gallery in 1964, cramming the space with piled-high boxes that recalled a cramped grocery warehouse. He invited collectors to buy them by the stack, and though they did not sell well, the boxes caused much controversy. In reference to his boxes, Warhol later said that he "wanted something ordinary," and it was this mundane, commercial subject matter that infuriated the critics. The perfectly blank, "machine-made" look of Warhol's boxes contrasted sharply with the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionist paintings.

He would have liked my hair too.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Missing you already

Britain's Olympic athlete's have made their own version of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now to celebrate the success of Team GB at London 2012.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMySZa0TzQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player



- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

6,700 identical bouquets

http://www.koco.com/olympics/London-flower-shop-makes-winning-athletes-bouquets/-/15411300/15930176/-/op1du3/-/index.html


And it's nearly all over.





- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Why the tiny pool?

Answerer 1
Yeah, it's a hot tub. They get into them after competing so that they aren't tense for their next dive (it keeps their muscles relaxed). Also, jumping in just to get back out makes you really cold--I would be sooo happy to have a hot tub if I were an Olympic diver.

Answerer 2
Its a kittypool and they go in their to party like its 1984.





- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Breast stroke

As Brighton's most enthusiastic single breasted breast stroke swimmer, it is much easier getting about in the water, rather than out of it. The 'Speedo' should be changed to 'Slow coach'. But like the tortoise, I get there in the end.




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

If you are like the 20 million viewers who watched Mr Bolt for 9 seconds last night, then why not spend a bit longer watching this, it might be the only way we mere mortals can be as 'fast'.

Michael Mosley presents Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer on BBC Two at 21:00 on Monday 6 August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf

“I decided I couldn't manage ADF (Asian Dub Foundation?), it was just too impractical. Instead I did an easier version, the so-called 5:2 diet. As the name implies you eat normally 5 days a week, then two days a week you eat 500 calories if you are a woman, or 600 calories, if you are a man.

There are no firm rules because so far there have been few proper human trials. I found that I could get through my fast days best if I had a light breakfast (scrambled eggs, thin slice of ham, lots of black tea, adding up to about 300 calories), lots of water and herbal tea during the day, then a light dinner (grilled fish with lots of vegetables) at night.

On my feed days I ate what I normally do and felt no need to gorge. I stuck to this diet for 5 weeks, during which time I lost nearly a stone and my blood markers, like IGF-1, glucose and cholesterol, improved. If I can sustain that, it will greatly reduce my risk of contracting age-related diseases like cancer and diabetes.”



- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Chariots of fire

My old man finally had his moment of glory, cycling in the velodrome, in front of those lovely boys and just a few billion viewers.

It took me ages to sew the black lycra catsuit. He kept complaining about it being too tight and I had to keep letting it out. He wanted Stella to have a look but I said NO, she'd laugh at my dreadful hemming. I thought he looked very smart and I promised not to call him Il Duce.

During the ride of his life, he was terribly serious but he told me later that he was concentrating on not falling off. I was very proud. He was going for gold but when he went the wrong way those scallywags started cycling really really fast. Anyway, he had his moment of glory.

I think the sage tablets might be causing me to hallucinate, my son got them for me... ...he said they were sage pills.





- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

sage advice

Oh this sounds a cure; take Tamoxifen, Tamoxifen brings on the menopause, Tamoxifen makes you gain up to 40lbs, Tamoxifen makes you feel like jumping off Beachy Head...

Tired of the short gray hair and enormous weight gain, even though I am trying to swim as often as I can. Then I read something Jennifer Saunders said when she had to take tamoxifen, apparently no one tells you about the side effects, otherwise no one would take it for five years.




I'm carrying on being a guinea pig and am taking sage to try and ward off the hot sweats. I'll let you know if it helps.

But feeling somewhat tested by all those fit olympians.

McGoogle offered this bit of Tamoxifen induced dietary advice; (a few weird products and I've no idea what they are, but what harm can 'pam' do?).
Yanky Google Dandy Diet
Water - 8 - 10 glasses of water
Warm water and quarter lemon squeezed in water
I have one glass a day of V8, low sodium tomato juice. I add 1 oz of aloe (supplement)
I use unsweetened almond milk in my coffee and cereal - 40 calories per cup
Breakfast
1 package of unsweetened oatmeal (Trader Joe's) with 1 cup of fruit (strawberries or blue or blackberries), 1/2 package of stevia (natural sugar sweetener) and cinnamon
I use 1 tablespoon of chia seeds on my cereal.
OR
3 egg whites. I spray the pan with pam. Sometimes I add peppers and onions and some Rao sauce on top
Can have 2 slices of turkey bacon
OR
3 egg whites in a coffee cup sprayed with pam. Put in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes. Cover first with plate. Sometimes I saute some vegetable in pam to put over the eggs and add some tomato sauce. It comes out like an egg mcmuffin.
OR
Barbara's cereal (original or with cinnamon). I buy it in Trader Joe's and some super markets or any cereal that has 5 g or less of sugar and 5 g or more fiber
Snack
1 piece of fruit (apple or orange or other fruit) plus one package of 100 calorie Emerald almonds or 25 pistachio nuts
OR
2 teaspoons of peanut butter mixed with 1 cup of plain non fat yogurt
OR
Baked apple with cinnamon and 1 tablespoon chopped nuts
Lunch
Veggie burger - I mix my own sauce of gray poupon mustard, horseradish sauce to taste and a few drops of hot red pepper sauce. This pretty much has no calories.
I make a salad with it. The dressing I use (from my nutritionist) are equal amounts of rice vinegar, balsamic vinegar and water. Has hardly no calories and it is pretty good.
Sometimes for lunch I have a salad with above dressing and chic peas (which is my protein).
I buy a lot of barbecued chickens and just add it to a salad or mix it with mustard and some grapes. At times, I have added some fat free mayonnaise and pepper. I hardly ever add salt.
Shrimp - either fresh or steamed
You can have salmon or fillet fish. I only eat shrimp.
Snack
Glenny's soy chips
popcorn with parmesean cheese
fruit
almonds
smoothie
any of the above snacks
Dinner
any protein, chicken, fish, chic peas. I use lunch and dinner interchangeable.
vegetables - spaghetti squash, artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, brussel sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, green beans, lettuce, mushrooms, okra, onion, peppers, radishes, spinach, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, zucchini
Have a snack after dinner. It is about 1200 to 1500 calories per day.
No white potatoes.
Hope this stops you jumping.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Finally, something in common

Hey, we are all flat chested.





- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Scratch'n'sniff blog

The whole of Brighton is being barbequed this evening and the smell is immense!