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The equation has been balanced, at least in my mind.
His lordship cleaned the bikes yesterday and I cleaned the house and did the shopping this morning.
With my eating reduced to that of a sparrow in a quest to grace my cycling Lycra without undue embarrassment, the shopping was fairly minimal, I have to say, but still it enters the equation in brackets.

With a little light baking in the offing this afternoon, I felt that I could reward myself with a coffee in my favourite onsite book shop and watch the world go by outside the window.

Apart from the cappuccino, there was a 'nil by mouth' restriction on my digestive intake, despite the array of mouth watering cakes on offer.

I'm afraid that this self deprivation will be doomed to failure eventually.