Sorry it has taken me so long to get around to an update. I have written up my entry from Monday so you can have a read of that if you like before getting stuck in below. Updates will be more erratic from now with this major shift in my evening routine. However, I intend to keep my Friday night slot to review the week and look forward to the weekend.

My first week at the gym, and I feel a little better but let me put it into context it has only been three sessions and a total of 138 minutes (2.3 hours). Most regular gym users cover that in a single session. The programme is just a warm up and I managed the three sessions without any major issues. It is all about getting into the routine for the first few months. Then building up the time from 46 minutes to an hour and beyond. The gym is not that busy during the three evenings I have attended straight after work. Monday it was perhaps the busiest with Wednesday the next most busy period and Thursday was relatively dead. However it is difficult to judge with Easter holidays at some (but not all) schools. My programme is very simple, I will admit that but remember I am a person that has had very little active exercise over the past ten years. Exclude last summer, I can most likely count on one hand how often I broke into a sweat since leaving school. The ultimate plan would be to fit in a session at the weekend as well to take me from three to four visits a week and I feel I would really feel the benefits.

Just watched the Torchwood season two finale on BBC2 (I know I could have watched it last week on BBC3, but opted not to). I feel quite disappointed, not just with the final episode but the series as a whole. I expected so much more and there was a great deal of character development but there was not enough to keep me hooked and towards the end, I watched just to see how it would end and if there would be any further cross over with Doctor Who. Do not get me wrong, there were a few fantastic stand out episodes, but I would even go as far to say it was worse than the first series. Maybe ‘worse’ is the wrong word to use. No match perhaps would be the better phrase. At times it was far too emotional and the big action set pieces did not live up to the expectation of the stories. Maybe I am being too harsh but I might not even bother with series three.

Chuck meanwhile is good fun and I have downloaded nearly all thirteen episodes (with about eighty percent remaining on the last one). However, I only watched the first three episodes last weekend. Great laugh, entertaining, completely unbelievable but you do not care because the action and comic moments come thick and fast. Plus the action scenes are fantastic, they have the signature McG stamp on them (he serves as Executive Producer). Sure, I could have waited for them to be shown on Virgin1, but why wait when you have Pav on MSN! However with my new routine, I do not have time to watch in the evenings and will prefer to watch a few episodes back to back at the weekend.

Talking about the weekend, it is finally here! I am off to a Barn Dance in Winchester tomorrow evening. It will be my first time, so I am quite apprehensive and not sure exactly what to expect (particularly with some seventy odd guests to mingle / dance with?) I will be camping onsite in the evening and then heading back home on Sunday, most likely around midday. I really need to find a window to wash my car, preferably before the Arsenal match. The dilemmas I face! Meanwhile Pav insists on me to keep the car as dirty as possible so I can see the most dramatic contrast after my detail which has been booked in for 18th April (two weeks today!). Being the self conscious person I am, I kick myself that it has been two weeks since I last washed it and the dust and dirt looks so bad.