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Back from the USA

Sorry it's been a bit quiet on here - I've been away, in the deep south of the USA for the last 3 weeks. It's been awesome (but I did miss being able to cook) We took our time and travelled around a fair bit... Since we couldn't guarantee fridges in the hotels we stayed we invested a whole $4.99 in a polystyrene ice-box on our 2nd day so we could keep things cool and have a small larder of food, and more importantly cold beer when we reached our destination.  And this gives you an idea of what I ate day by day (Pete mainly ate Catfish & shrimp until we got to Nashville 5th pancakes & bacon - airline Food - crinkle cut fries-  sap (self assembled picnic) 6th pancakes & bacon - sap - Subway / rice and beans at Vaughns 7th beignets - sap - Mexican 8th eggs/grits/sausage - sap - deep fried pickles & poboys 9th eggs benedict on biscuits - sap - gumbo 10th Blueberry pancakes - sap - Creole dinner 11th beignets - burger - seafood @ underground 119 12th make...

App Review - Change4Life drinks tracker

Pete suggested I add this to my phone - well he'd added it to his own phone as part of his comprehensive health kick aspect. Google Play link I tried to do this on paper once, keep a diary of what I drank, it quickly spiralled into a selection of blurry notes on exciting evenings out and reminded me what was great about spontaneous drinking.I don't think this was the point of it. This is a bit more graphical, and it is handy to keep a track (although I'm not going to put the massive white wine binge from last week into it, that will just give me something to compare every other drinking session to e.g. - "well, it wasn't as bad as that day, I'll have another pint please" but I will carry on with it, just to see if my drinking is as bad as I think it is - it probably is. The only issue with this, and a lot of the other info on cutting out drinking is the 'tips' are full about way to not be thirsty, as opposed to bearing in mind I really like the ta...