“We” have just bought a rowing machine. It’s one of these big fancy ones you find in a gym. My husband decided “we” needed one as he watched me struggle into my jeans.Anyway I bid for a second hand rowing machine on e-bay and was frustratingly out bid in the last 40 seconds. However, the women who actually won the thing, decided to pull out of the sale because she was “too tired” to go and collect it.In the auction details it clearly said “buyer to collect” and gave the choice of two locations, so she must have realised how far she would have to travel if she won. Mind you, that may not have been the case. Perhaps, as she’d bid so late in the auction she’d overlooked that bit which is something I did once to my cost.

When I was new to e-bay I bid for a bronze ornament in the final few minutes of an auction and won it. I was delighted with my purchase until I realised it was being shipped from Beijing and I live in UK. The postage was eleven times more expensive than the actual item and it is a good story to tell when my family wants a laugh at my expense. Now the location and shipping is the first thing I check.

Still her loss was my gain and so last week end “we” went to collect it, having first removed a few seats in the car as it’s a big thing but surprisingly not too heavy.

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As a woman I am exposed to articles or discussions about weight on a daily basis.

Practically every magazine will have something about it somewhere and I’ve yet to meet a single female who is content with her size, shape or appearance. No matter how confident they may be there’s always something they’d like to change and they don’t mind discussing it

Not so men and boys.

Unfortunately for the male population there are very few magazines targeted at them which actually ever raise the issue, and this is a shame because the amount of overweight and obese boys has doubled in the past ten years.

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I’ve just spent several hours in the waiting room at my local hospital.  I have problems with my eyes and this was a scheduled check up to see how they had fared since my last visit.

I have what is known as CSR – central serious retinitus, which basically means fluid leaks into the back of my eyes and forms blisters making it difficult to see.

The problem is fluid, being precisely that, moves around, so sometimes I can see clearly with glasses and sometimes I can’t.

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