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Feb

27

Vagabond Lifestyle | Video

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One of my favourite books in recent years is The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. He talks about simplifying your life and focusing more on living rather working. So instead of working hard your whole life until retirement and then being free to do what you’ve always wanted, he advocates doing what you’ve [...]

Feb

26

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Chili

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I love making pizza from scratch. Today I made pizza margarita with cherry tomatoes and pickled chilies. The base was a little heavy because I used type 65 flour which is semi-wholemeal but it wasn’t too bad, especially when washed down with a couple of vodka Red Bulls and followed by cloud cakes [...]

Feb

26

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Feb

26

Cloud Cakes

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Leesa was telling me the other day about how much she loves her Women’s Weekly Cupcake cookbook. It was only when I was looking through my bookshelf this afternoon that I realised I have the same one so it was time to do some baking!
Cloud Cakes
I chose to make cloud cakes which are strawberry (I [...]

Feb

26

Booty Lift Workout

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This workout focuses on the booty It’s a slightly easier workout than the ones I posted earlier in the week, thankfully. I needed a bit of a break.
Full details can be found here.
Results:
26th February 2010: 18 minutes and 58 seconds

Feb

25

Body Burn Workout

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Body Burn Workout – Super high intensity cardio workout. Just about passed out from this workout.

60 Left Leg Skipping (no rope)
60 Right Leg Skipping (no rope)
3 Explosive Push Ups (attempted the clap, didn’t really work)
60 Left Leg Skipping
60 Right Leg Skipping
3 Explosive Push Ups
Box Jump and Step Ups (1 jump followed [...]

Feb

25

France Telecom Sucks Part 721

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I must be one of the last people on the planet to get a flat screen TV. When I first moved to France I didn’t have much money so got an old style 51cm TV from Carrefour for around 150 euro. I don’t watch that much TV so didn’t really care but F wanted a [...]

Feb

25

Valentine’s Day

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I’m not really into mindless chick flicks but occasionally I do like to go see a movie which I don’t have to think about, just to pass the time. Today I saw Valentine’s Day and not only was it completely stupid and pointless and everything I hate about American movies but the cinema was full [...]

Feb

25

Round Booty Workout

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Very high intensity cardio workout. Seven exercises which flow into one another. Four brutal rounds.

20 Low Jacks
6 Pike Presses
20 Mountain Climbers
10 Triceps Leg Lifts (modified)
10 Superman Lifts
20 Toe Touches
10 Leg Lifts (modified)
Repeat

Results:
24th February 2010: 21 minutes 41 seconds

Feb

23

Tatarak

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Tatarak is a Polish movie (Sweet Rush) which I didn’t find interesting at all, even though it is (at least partially, afaik) based on a true story. I only saw it because there aren’t any interesting movies playing at the moment. I shouldn’t have bothered. The plot courtesy of Wikipedia:
The main story is set in [...]

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