Your Chance to Influence the ‘Squatters Rights’ Laws

3 September 2011
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I came across a consultation by the British government yesterday asking for people’s opinions on squatters and that current situation where the police don’t get involved because Trespass is a civil (not criminal) matter. But when your house is possessed and trashed by squatters, like Julia High’s (right) was when she went away for the [...]

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My Rotator Cuff Tear Exercises & Workouts

24 August 2011

I’ve been holding off posting an update on my torn rotator cuff (specifically the supraspinatus) as I went for an MRI and Arthrogram (MRA) 3 weeks ago and was hoping to post the result up. The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK may offer free quality care, but it’s certainly not fast! 3 weeks [...]

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Rotator Cuff MRI Shoulder Scan & Arthrogram (MRA)

4 August 2011
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A little while ago I posted about my torn rotator cuff (PASTA lesion), well this week I went to hospital for a shoulder scan, looking for a SLAP Lesion Tear. Just to be clear about the differences here, the terms mean: PASTA Tear – Partial Articular Sided Tendon Avulsions, which in terms you and I [...]

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No Charges Against Man who Stabbed Burglar to Death

24 July 2011
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It’s the classic nightmare scenario: it’s nearly midnight and you’re asleep in bed at home and hear noises downstairs. You go down to investigate and are confronted by 4 masked men in your house, one armed with a machete. In the struggle that ensues one of the burglars is stabbed in the chest. His 3 [...]

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>1,000 Visitors to my Blog Yesterday!

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It’s been tantalisingly close for some weeks now, but for the first time since starting my blog 4 years ago, I tipped over the magic 1,000 visitors mark yesterday. The actual number was 1,103 visitors, and that doesn’t include me (I filter out my own ip address from the stats). It’s interesting that Mondays or [...]

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Self Defence Lessons from Jaycee Dugard’s Abduction

11 July 2011
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The astonishing story of 11 year old Jaycee Dugard’s abduction, 18 year captivity and eventual escape is so rare and so horrific that it’s been headline news throughout the world. It’s coincidental timing then that the same weekend that sees me assisting on another 2.5 day PDR self defence course with Tony Blauer, Jaycee launches [...]

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CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Cert Review

4 July 2011
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Given my rotator cuff tear of the supraspinatus I very nearly cancelled going on this weekend’s CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting certification. Boy am I glad I didn’t! I of course had heard that Coach Mike Burgener was, apart from being quite a character, a great Olympic weight lifting coach, but that doesn’t do the man justice. [...]

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Thesis – My Cool New WordPress Theme

29 June 2011
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I’ve used the same Ocadia theme on my blog for 4 years and to be honest it was looking rather tired. Apart from anything, it was very thin! One of the reasons for this was that 800×600 resolutions were still quite common 4 years ago. They’re not any more and I wanted something wider (steady!). [...]

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There are now 60 CrossFit Gyms in the UK & Ireland

24 June 2011

It’s been a couple of months since I last updated my map and list of CrossFit Affiliated Gyms in the UK and Ireland and surprise surprise, another 6 affiliates have sprung up! Congratulations and welcome to: Crossfit Bold CrossFit CM2 CrossFit Cork CrossFit Fareham CrossFit GU1 CrossFit Harrogate What’s more, this now makes an impressive [...]

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Rotator Cuff Tear from Butterfly Pullups

22 June 2011

For no good reason, other than to learn a new skill, I made learning to do butterfly pullups one of my goals for 2011. If you’re not sure what I mean, these are butterfly pull ups (or sometimes called cyclic pullups, or butterfly kips): WPvideo 1.10 So when an open skill session came up at [...]

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