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I have to say I am a bit obsessed with The Ice Man- Wim Hof.    His scientifically proven theories for wellness are awe inspiring. They include deep breathing, mind balance and subjection to the cold. He has been immersed in ice for 2 hours as well as climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts. None of these events changed his core body temperature.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/iceman-wim-hof

So much so that I have been enjoying his breathing techniques as well as swimming in the cold Irish sea. At times I can feel invincible. I have just come in from walking in a storm with the dogs. The extreme weather and gussets of wind (intentional spelling error-makes me smile……) has energized me .   Not to the point where I plan on climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts but enough to have me dancing and head banging to the Prodigy.

My two dogs were gazing at me with their ‘She’s having one of her crazy moments’ eyes. Like I said in another blog entry, these crazy moments are vital for me.

Wim Hof has been injected with the bacteria e -coli with no symptoms.   He has trained twelve others who were willing to be injected with e coli. They were also asymptomatic. He has many other lofty claims that cannot be discounted due to the rigorous research that he has been subjected to.

Some say he is just a crazy extreme athlete Dutchman. And it’s his craziness for me that make his claims all the more plausible. He is a true inspiration.

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

Back before Covid I had a bout of tonight tits. When I recovered my friend brought me to brunch at a European and sea food restaurant.  She told me that she was allergic to crushed Asians, and ordered eggs been a dick. I had the fuck ah cho before we went to see this pickle me 3 in the sin e ma. The trailer had looked good but looks can be this evening.  My friend resisted buying sweets as she had tattooed diabetes.

This is quite an extreme example of SIRI Translation gone wrong. The correct version is –

Back before Covid I had a bout of Tinnitus. When I recovered my friend brought me to brunch at a European and sea food restaurant. She told me that she was allergic to crustaceans and ordered eggs benedict.  I had the focaccia before we went to see Despicable me 3 in the cinema.  The trailer had looked good but looks can be deceiving.  My friend resisted buying sweets she had type 2 diabetes.

This was quite a few years before Covid when SIRI was quite new. It is much better now.  But every now and then there can still be a few humorous clangers. Tread carefully as I am not sure that she is totally in tune with the Irish accent.

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

 

Wearing a backpack and headphones I watched transfixed as the squirrel busied itself.   Just to clarify I was the one wearing the backpack and headphones. I was listening to a wellness podcast and they were discussing the proclivity of allergies among people of all ages in the world today. Particularly nuts. As I gazed at the squirrel burying his nuts (must have been very painful) I began to think that squirrels may well succeed in world domination someday.  As nut allergies may claim us all. But squirrels will be unscathed.

The next episode in the podcast went onto wellbeing and mental health. But with a different angle to what a lot of us are hearing nowadays. It was discussing how our true nature can be so well hidden beneath all the conditioning from an early age.  I could relate to what they were saying.    But my favorite bit was when they were highlighting how hiding the part of our nature that can be silly, childish and even crazy can be doing us a disservice.

That unleashing the ‘crazy’ every now and then is liberating and can even help our immune system.   It was music to me ears.  That’s it.   All I needed was an excuse. I’m off now to howl at the moon tonight.  And if anyone asks, I can just say that it was the voices in my head that made me, do it.   Bring on the crazy.  All day long.

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

 

I made a woeful mistake today. I ‘m fairly good at them but this was in a different category altogether. When I told my friend she exhibited very restrained schadenfreude. I had prefaced the confession with the admission that I am a complete gobshite. There really was no saving face or coming back from it.

I had been chatting with my friend last month and she mentioned that the mother of one of the girls we know had passed away.  There is a group of us that get together for a reunion about once a year and within the group two of the girls have very similar names.

See, where I am going here? Anyhoo, I sent my condolences to the wrong person for the passing of their Mam.  She graciously messaged me back and corrected me saying that her Mam was fine.  I was mortified and returned the message with the humblest of apologies.

We attempted to dissect last month’s conversation to try and analyze how I could have gotten it wrong. The miscommunication did become apparent but it was still my responsibility at the time to clarify the news. I now realize that when I am being given grievous news, I really need to clarify the information. Or else stick my fingers in my ears and sing ‘La, la, la, la,’ in a high-pitched voice to prevent any further screw ups.

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

Whilst walking Buzz and Finn today I was pondering the meaning of life. Nothing unusual about this as I have a propensity for daydreaming.

Last week I heard of a psychological and spiritual ruse called a ‘lofty question’. This is where you ask yourself a positive question such as ‘Why am I so blessed’? ‘Apparently because of how the question is framed it allows access to the subconscious.

Anyhoo I was practicing this lofty question. Remembering what a lovely sleep I had. Having gratitude for Buzz and Finn, my health, friends and home. To be honest I was on a bit of a roll with the whole gratitude thing. Whilst walking past someone’s patio and I noticed some poo. I thought to myself ‘Oohh they must have a dog?’ I then thought ‘ What if they didn’t?’.  And a whole new set of visuals entered my mind.

I then went off into Planet Dellyland .Population of one. Thinking of what I would say were the owners of the apartment to come out onto the patio. My opening gambit would be something like ’Hey, I see you have a new dog’, and the person would reply ‘Actually, No’. And then I would slink off with extreme embarrassment for having commented on their patio poo to begin with.

Thank God none of this has happened but I eagerly anticipate seeing their new pet sometime soon.

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

Okay, so lots of celebrities are taking part in various programs on television where they compete against each other. They can either bake, do wood craft or now the latest is crafting pottery. Seeing them as they develop their new skills and have a few laughs along the way with the presenters and the judges is always worth watching.

Often, they’re finished pieces can be awe inspiring considering that they were relative amateurs before they took part in the show.  It’s always nice to see someone you like and admire out of their normal environment and facing a new challenge.

  I started to think about other crafts or skills that the celebrities could put their minds to. Fashion up cycling came to mind. Apparently, it’s quite the thing now.

In this picture the lady is actually wearing a pair of customized Y fronts which she has transformed into a bra vest top. Perhaps she has invented the new ‘Y’ bra.

This picture details a pair of stilettos where the heels that were broken are replaced with toy dinosaurs. The opportunities for design seem to be endless. I hope the wearer doesn’t have dino- sore feet (forgive my dreadful pun affliction).

If this idea wasn’t a goer maybe celebrity Christmas card making might work. Or perhaps another inspiring craft I believe is arm knitting where the person uses their arms as knitting needles. The opportunities are endless and I look forward to more laughs and giggles with my fav celebs.

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

I asked Google a question today which it was unable to answer.  My screen then froze for about 5 minutes.  I thought that it was miffed.  Then I realized with a degree of embarrassment that it is only a search engine and not a form of artificial intelligence. I was intrigued and decided to think up a few more conundrums to outwit it.

 

1. Do unicorns google? – No answer
2. What is the density of a shadow- No answer
3. Does Trump have a soul- no answer, but much debate. I also asked if he is an Alien and apparently a book has been written about this. Who knew? Finally (I was on a roll, and I know he is old and fake news) I asked does Donald Trump’s hair have his own twitter account.  And yes, it had.
4. Did Santa contract Covid to have a year off? – No answer
5. Does Enya head bang to Metallica? –No answer
6. Did the tooth fairy get chlamydia when I was 7 and that is why I got no money for my tooth? (At the time I was told that Chlamydia was an allergy to fish- clams, etc.) – No answer.
7. Does a smurf artist have a ‘blue period’ when it can no longer paint?

All in all, I can safely say that it was an extremely pointless yet enlightening exercise.  I am none the wiser for trying to cyber interview a search engine.  But as a public service act at least it has now been done and I can save someone else the bother.

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

 

 

I may well be on a roll here with the top tips this week. A certain well known Doctor famous for popping pimples the size of Mount Vesuvius has provided me with an enlightened moment today.  As I flicked through channels earlier, I happened upon her show.  I watched with a mixture of unease and aversion.  

Some of the patients had really suffered both mentally and physically as these were no ordinary pimples. Many were hugely disfiguring. I had just finished my dinner. Once she had completed the act of popping what can only be described as a pimple the size of the hunchback of Notre Dame’s hunch, I felt rather queasy.  Actually, I was almost on the verge of retching.

And here is the clincher.  The battle of the bulge is an ongoing battle for me.  I have tried and continue to try a myriad of diets, from the cabbage, to the keto and everything in between. The cabbage diet left my apartment smelling like a silage farm. I am sure that I saw both my dog’s eyes watering.

I remain stalwart in my efforts to lose weight.   Once the extreme nausea subsided, I thought to myself that if I taped the series and watched it before my dinner every evening, I would lose my appetite.  One of the patients had removed what can only be described as double chicken fillets.  I have now gone off chicken for life.

So, here goes the pimple popping diet. I will let you know how I get on.

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

I decided to partake in some extreme lumber jacking today to stave off the November cold.  Once I donned my high viz jacket Buzz and Finn went apoplectic.  They really are not fans of anything high viz.  When I am feeling feckless and see people wearing high viz clothing, I think ‘Look at them, just wanting to be noticed, huh ‘. Then I smile wryly to myself at the silly notion.  The tree was quite a challenge and I rose to it initially but then realized that as I wasn’t a tree surgeon perhaps it would be best left to the experts.

I was reminded of the Monty Python Lumberjack song with Michael Palin. (See the link below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts&feature=share

It’s almost as though The Pythons invented silly (at least for me they did), all those years ago.  Many appear to be reveling in being silly during lock down as some of the memes are hilarious.

 

 

This helium dog picture cracked me up. I hope he is Ok and that he managed to fart and burp out the helium…….

 

 

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele

 

 

 

Today has been a bit of a weird one. As was yesterday.  But that’s another story.  I had booked a webinar a few weeks ago on how to improve your memory and forgot about it. The irony is obvious but getting it doesn’t really help my memory.  I needed to head out to the shops to get some things and as usual I put You tube doggie relaxing music on the TV.

Normally my last video played comes up as saved but today it didn’t.  A ‘Doggy relaxing reggae’ video came up.  For some bizarre reason I instantly became indignant.  I am a bit of an obsessive music and music festival fan (I have been to Glastonbury 8 times since 2002 and intend to keep going till I am 75. At least that’s the pledge I made to myself in front of the Pyramid stage in 2004). Not being a fan of Reggae I instantly thought ‘my 2 pooches aren’t listening to that’.  I realized as I was thinking it how mental it was but still could not help myself.

Once back from the shops I brought Buzz and Finn for their walk.  When I got home, I checked my steps on my watch and realized that I had forgotten my watch.  I was raging as I was sure that I had hit the requisite 10,000 steps. My weekly step average would be way down as I had forgotten over the weekend also. I found my watch and put it on. Shepherd’s pie was what I had planned for dinner and as I was grating the veg my steps were going up.  I ended up grating a couple of carrots down to mini batons but I hit the seven thousand steps. I was very grateful. (euuggghhhh, that’s even bad for me- pun therapy continues).

 

That’s all for now.

Have a great day.

Stay fab.

Adele