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Phew, it’s warmer out there than it looks this morning and here I am having decided to wear my leather jacket into work. Boy, was that a mistake, or what?

I think I’ve lost a smidgen of weight over the past three weeks or so; all I need to do is continue to cut out the lunchtime sandwiches and wear this jacket as it gets warmer and I don’t think I’ll need to do much else to shed a few additional pounds. Ah, Bryan, thy name is vanity. I want to shed the weight because I would like to lose a couple of inches off my girth so that I can button the jacket up and breathe at the same time. Currently I can do one or the other (strictly to be fair, I should have said ‘breathe AND move’ whilst the jacket is buttoned). Any health benefits are entirely secondary to my attempts to look like a U-Boat Captain good in my new coat¹.

As the mean temperature rises in the coming months, I shall have fewer and fewer opportunities to wear the jacket, so I am hoping that by the time it comes back out of mothballs around the end of September, or the beginning of October, I shall have shrunk enough to do it justice.

Worryingly a friend of mine, a geek of note² (who also has one of the jackets) has found a website that sells militaria, including as it turns out, U-Boat captains’ hats. Happily I have lost the link. All I wanted was a jacket that looks good.

Is it me, or is the Easter break taking forever to get here? I just need some time off to chill.

¹Anyone who points out that in addition to U-Boat captains, it is also the same cut as the jacket Christopher Eccleston wore for his season as the Doctor will get my sonic screwdriver something sharp pushed up a nostril.

²For once I do not mean mingmerciless. No this time it is fencingsculptor, but I can see how one might become confused

Hot

Phew, it’s warmer out there than it looks this morning and here I am having decided to wear my leather jacket into work. Boy, was that a mistake, or what?

I think I’ve lost a smidgen of weight over the past three weeks or so; all I need to do is continue to cut out the lunchtime sandwiches and wear this jacket as it gets warmer and I don’t think I’ll need to do much else to shed a few additional pounds. Ah, Bryan, thy name is vanity. I want to shed the weight because I would like to lose a couple of inches off my girth so that I can button the jacket up and breathe at the same time. Currently I can do one or the other (strictly to be fair, I should have said ‘breathe AND move’ whilst the jacket is buttoned). Any health benefits are entirely secondary to my attempts to look like a U-Boat Captain good in my new coat¹.

As the mean temperature rises in the coming months, I shall have fewer and fewer opportunities to wear the jacket, so I am hoping that by the time it comes back out of mothballs around the end of September, or the beginning of October, I shall have shrunk enough to do it justice.

Worryingly a friend of mine, a geek of note² (who also has one of the jackets) has found a website that sells militaria, including as it turns out, U-Boat captains’ hats. Happily I have lost the link. All I wanted was a jacket that looks good.

Is it me, or is the Easter break taking forever to get here? I just need some time off to chill.

¹Anyone who points out that in addition to U-Boat captains, it is also the same cut as the jacket Christopher Eccleston wore for his season as the Doctor will get my sonic screwdriver something sharp pushed up a nostril.

²For once I do not mean mingmerciless. No this time it is fencingsculptor, but I can see how one might become confused