Well yes, actually somebody already has. Do you know Oingo Boingo...? no, not the name of the song – that’s the name of the artist who wrote and sang it! so yes, somebody did write a song about Treadmills so one obviously made an impression on him at some stage – many romances do start in the gym…

We have still to restart our fanatical fitness regime since arriving back from our two months in France; before the end of June we were going and working out every day of the week and seeing some great results but funnily enough we seemed to lose more weight when we were over working in France. The heat and the hard physical labour was instrumental there for sure. We are looking around for a new gym to join up with and we always take a good look at the equipment…basically to see if we can actually use it without looking like total incompetents. And that is easy to do! Arnold has an ancient exercise bike sitting in a corner of the house that neither one of us feel inspired to use so we thought of getting rid of it and buying a couple of Treadmills in it’s place.  I like the idea of doing a workout in the sitting room in between gym visits with my stereo playing full blast – those tiny portable ear pieces never stay in my ear and at the gym you need one.

Now that I am getting back to work we wont have time to go to the gym every day – as much as we’d both like to – so a little at-home-gym is looking a real alternative for us right now.

You have got to admit that motorists who do this kind of thing really need a particular style of sorting out should the drenched pedestrian ever get his/her hands on the driver…

If it has not happened to you then you at least have seen it happen to someone else; it’s been raining, there’s deep puddles of water along the kerb and you are walking along the footpath when some mindless goon deliberately speeds through the puddle which throws up the water all over you. And it is deliberate so let’s not give the mongrels a shred of a benefit of the doubt.

One idiot female, Kerry Callard, did such a thing and drenched some school students at a bus stop on purpose while her moron of a male partner, Alec Goff, actually recorded the incident on video then posted it on YouTube. She now faces prosecution and so she bloody well should! if I took a bucket of dirty water and threw it over the bloke walking past me two things will happen: a) he will most likely floor me with one hit (just as I would do…) and b) report me for assault. And it is a form of assault this so-called happy splashing and it is as mindless a prank as it is would be to throw a bucket of water over anybody in the street and then expect them to laugh about it.

What she did was dangerous – deliberately aiming her car at the kerb where a group of teenagers were standing and in wet conditions one slip and she could have been facing manslaughter charges. It would not be the first time a supposed ‘joke’ has turned into a tragedy.