"The Curious Incident of that annoying Plateau!"

WEIGH-IN WEDNESDAY

Well, I have "Good News and Bad News" to report this week. "The Good News" first,

unlike last weeks Blog there has not been a weight gain this week, however here comes

"The Bad News" there has not been a weight loss either! Yes, that maddening Plateau has

returned once more and left me bereft of any praise. The same old excuses are dragged 

out again - spending a fair amount of time away from home, a late night restaurant supper 

last night just before my weigh-in this morning, I could go on and on, but I just have to 

sit back and let the wrath of the Evil One rain down upon me....... and take it like a man.....

MY FITBIT

Yesterday before breakfast I put some dirty clothes in the washing machine and turned it 

on. It wasn't until it was well under way that I realised my FITBIT (My tiny device that

tracks, my steps, distance, calories burned) was still attached to the T-Shirt I could see

happily spinning around inside the machine. Oh Dear! I quickly went on-line and found

out that it was "rain-proof" but this was more like a "tsunami"!! When the Wash-cycle

came to an end I quickly retrieved my Fitbit and put it in the airing-cupboard to dry out.

I am delighted to report that an hour later when I checked on it - it was not only working

but the info on the Fitbit displayed a massive workout had taken place:

3, 954 Steps taken.

1.54 Miles

1,985 Calories

11 Floors had been climbed

39 Very Active Minutes (The duration of the Washing Machine!)

(By the end of the day my Fitbit had called me "Champ" 3 times for various activities!)

Don't be surprised if my Fitbit gets washed again if I need a good Fitness Report Card!

MY FITBIT WEEKLY STATS

MCM COMIC CON GLASGOW

My Convention Itinerary took me to Scotland this past weekend and to a City I visited for the

the first time, Glasgow. Both my hotel:

THE HILTON GARDEN INN

and the Convention Venue: 

THE SECC HALLS

were situated in the old docklands on the banks of the Clyde River.

And the "Usual Suspects" all came to say "Hello"!

This little girl literally cried when she met me and gave me a huge hug - so sweet!

OMG! I had to stop myself saying "Girls! I think it's time you came on the 5-2 Diet
with me, don't ya think!"

               Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas

  

Whilst I was in Glasgow I was lucky enough to have a meal in the magnificent Rotunda 

building seen above. It now houses 3 Restaurants on 3 Levels  - An Italian (My Choice),

 Chinese and a Spanish Tapas Bar. I asked the Manager to fill me in on some of the history 

of this fascinating building.

The Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas are two iconic red brick stone buildings which flank the River Clyde in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. The North Rotunda is located on Tunnel Street with the South Rotunda at Plantation Place.

Designed by Simpson and Wilson,^[1] and built between 1890 and 1896^[2] by Glasgow Tunnel Company,^[3] the Rotunda covered 24-metre (79 ft) deep shafts^[4] to tunnels which enabled vehicular and pedestrian access to the other side of the river.

Pedestrians, horses and carts - and later motor vehicles - would be hauled up by hydraulic lifts provided by Otis Elevator Company of New York.^[3]

During the Second World War, the tunnels were temporarily closed because all the metal from the lifts was removed to contribute to the war effort.^[4]

The tunnels were an expensive venture to run and were passed to the council to run as a service in 1926.^[5]

The increased costs of running the tunnels which were prone to damp and the increase of motor cars on the roads lead to the closure of the pedestrian tunnel in 1980,^[2] and the vehicular tunnels being filled in 1986.^[3] Though the pedestrian tunnel still exists, it is closed to the public.

Originally, three-storey red and white brick towers stood alongside the Rotundas, containing the hydraulic accumulators that powered the lifts, but these have been demolished.^[4]

ANOTHER SAD LOSS THIS WEEK

THE HILARIOUS JOAN RIVERS....

"THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME"

at the Gielgud Theatre

in Shaftesbury Avenue.

Sarah Woodwood as Siobhan and Graham Butler as Christopher Boone.

Last night I went to see my friend Sarah Woodwood in the above play. Sarah and I have been friends

ever since we appeared together with Sir Derek Jacobi in "Kean" at the Old Vic Theatre in the early 90's. "The Curious Incident" is simply one of the most exhilarating plays I have ever seen.

It's design is out of this world.

The play is about a 15 year old boy, Christopher, with Asperger Syndrome

Here is a part of a review from the Daily Telegraph:

"The play is staged in a versatile black box with clever use of projections to create different locations and key images. These range from the mathematical formulae in which Christopher excels to his terrifying experiences aboard a train and then the London Underground as he goes in search of his mother. The scene in which he jumps down onto the Tube tracks to try to rescue his beloved pet rat Toby is almost unbearably suspenseful."

"The show manages to be theatrical while remaining entirely true to the spirit of the book. The dramatic conceit is that Christopher’s warm-hearted teacher at his special needs school, reads the book he writes about his attempts to solve the mystery of a dog that was brutally killed in a neighbour’s garden, and decides to stage it as a play. That may sound cumbersome but it works superbly and the production’s mixture of narrative and acted scenes often put me in mind of the RSC’s gloriously inventive production of Nicholas Nickleby which also featured a troubled child, Smike."

After the Show - We dropped around to the Stage Door to visit Sarah in her Star Number One Dressing Room!

She very kindly provided some extremely nice Prosecco

Thank you Sarah for a wonderful evening!

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