Archive for July, 2008

From my own experience, searching the web, the comments I’ve received in my previous two posts(Vibram Five Fingers and Vibram Five Fingers: 1 Month Later) and in conversation, sizing the Vibram Five Fingers is quite a concern and challenge. This is understandable as they’re not shoes in the sense we know it and they need [...]

I heard something interesting today: reversing into a parking space, or onto your drive can save you up to £100 a year in petrol.
Apparently it’s because a cold engine can use up to 4 times as much petrol than a warm engine. So naturally you want to get things warm as quickly as [...]

You know things must be getting bad when chickens are being security tagged in our local Tescos…

   
Apparently they’ve taken to security tagging the joints of lamb and beef too.

Claire saw this advert the other evening and mentioned it to me. I hadn’t seen it. She mentioned it to the people at work, and they hadn’t seen it either. Claire was certain she’d seen it on TV and hadn’t just dreamed it, especially when she could recall so much detail.
Well, [...]

As you will no doubt know from my previous post - Our Wedding: The Big Day - Claire and I got married at The New Mill restaurant and you may be wondering “Why get married at a restaurant?”.
Well, I hope to explain our reasons here.
First off, neither of us is particularly religious, so a church [...]

Interesting links for 13 Jun 08 - 15 Jul 08:

Crap Idea - The new must have festival essential. No more horrible smelly porta-potties.
Building demolition based on old Japanese game - This is very cool and very clear, and best of all, very neat and tidy. Imagine they demolished buildings like this in the rest [...]

Claire and I have now been married for 11 days, and whilst we don’t have our official photos yet, I thought I’d detail our big day for those that couldn’t attend.
This is actually the first of a series of posts that I’ll post over the next few days as there’s so much to write about [...]

This is just a quick post to let all those that couldn’t attend out wedding know all went brilliantly well. Everything fell into place and we had a fantastic day with no problems at all.
For those who did attend: thank-you very much for joining us and for your generosity. If you’ve got [...]

Well, it’s nearly a month now since I got my Vibram Five Fingers and I’m happy to say I’m still very impressed with them. More importantly, I’m also still injury free and starting to really notice my feet adapting.
To get a true reflection of the effects of running in the Vibrams, I’ve run exclusively [...]