Sat, Jun 28th

Weigh day in the White household and I am pleased to announce that I lost eight pounds this week, and Dawn lost 4. We were both pleased as this weight loss meant that we had been as successful as we had the first time we went on the diet back in 2oo4. We'll keep up phase one of the diet for another week and start introducing carbs back into our diet from next Saturday.

Today was also the 30th anniversary of the day I started work as a Cost Clerk at RW Munro Limited in Bounds Green, London. My weekly wage was £35 a week and seemed a huge sum then. Boy have times changed.

Back to 2008. After grocery shopping and lunch we caught the train up to Finsbury Park to pay Dad and George a visit. While there Dad got Dawn to program 999 (UK equivalent of 911 in the US), and then got me to help him with a problem he had with an Excel spreadsheet.