woohoo! - found out tonight that marie and marie had both passed our second tai kwon do grading [held on sunday] and are now the proud possessors of yellow belts.
this was in spite of my cocking up chon ji tul the first time and having to do it again - d’oh! 
i have a [...]

woo hoo! - yesterday i found out that i’d passed my first tae kwon do grading and thus earned a saucy yellow stripe for my weedy white-belt - and the designation “9th keup”.  although the cynical side of me reckons that you’d pretty much have to run up and shit full in the examiner’s face [...]

well, after a couple of weeks of writing, scrunching up, rewriting, revising, scrunching up, rewriting, un-rewriting, un-scrunching, editing, rewriting and going back to what was originally there in the first friggin’ place, i finally decided to stop tweaking and uploaded my entry for the BBC’s last laugh competition [i did an ending to "the old [...]