Hello!

Hi folks, it's been a while since my last blog but to be honest not much has been going on. I guess now we're into November, the countdown to xmas has started. This should be fun!!

I am currently nursing what was very nearly a serious wound to my my wrist. Yep, I spent last night at A&E following probably one of the worst accidents I've ever had. I was cutting a cardboard box and for some reason I was pulling a stanley knife towards me that slipped and went straight through my wrist. Thankfully, I missed my artery! In fact it hardly bled at all even though it was a large open wound!! Anyways A&E glued and steri-stripped me back together and now I have to keep a large dressing on it for a week. This rules out any swimming this week and due the fact that I can hardly move it without it really hurting, this pretty much rules out the gym and certainly rules out any golf this week!! What a bummer!! Apparently it should be ok after a week or so, so I'm just gonna have to be patient.

Aside from that, I haven't played much golf. When I did play I was hitting a lot of pushes and missing a lot of shots right, mainly from cutting across the ball. This occurs now (from a one-plane point of view) when I go back to my old move of lifting my arms on my backswing rather than getting them behind me. Once this occured to me, I started to play well again almost straight away. It's always tricky to do this, as getting the arms behind me feels like the last thing I should do when I'm missing right. But i'm not missing right from an in-to-out path! It's an open face caused by cutting across the ball. Anyways, I cured it and have this knowledge in the bank for next time I struggle.

I have kept up the gym and the attention to my diet and it's going very well although I have felt myself slipping gradually. When I weighed myself last friday, I was 11 stone 6 lbs. My target is 11 stone exactly by xmas. This gives me just under 2 months to lose 6lbs, an extremely achievable target. But, I need to refocus and re-discipline myself so my eating needs even more care this week (apart from the chinese I had last night!). But, I know what to do - I've just got to do it!!!

Anyways folks, that's from me for now....