Digital Trail

Yesterday (Sunday) was the annual Bristol Media Football 5-a-side competition. Our Team, representing our parent company BHP Information Solutions put in a solid performance and narrowly missed out on getting through to the Quarter Finals. But that’s another story for another time…

This morning, as I hauled my weary ageing body up from what was an otherwise brilliant slumber, I realised that it wasn’t my legs which were aching but my arms. I did not play in goal, did not perform any stunning handstands having scored or anything like that. Of course my natural course of action and instinct was to Tweet the fact I had aching arms:

Why do my arms ache more than my legs after football yesterday?

A few minutes later I had a reply from a Twitter follower:

Re: football arms. A core strength issue. You’ve been using your arms/shoulders to keep your balance. Work on abs&back!

So there we have it. I get to have a good little moan on Twitter and someone offers me real, practical advice to rectify the problem in the future-even if they are highlighting that my fitness is not what it should be!

You can follow me on Twitter and give me further practical advice on any issue I have a little moan about by clicking here

On Saturday morning there was the familiar sound of un-oiled letterbox creak giving way to package hitting floor thud. I like getting post. This particular delivery was a neat brown box that I had been expecting.

The arrival of this package deserves back story, for no back story would render this postal delivery superfluous and indistinct from junk mail or bank statement hallway litter.

Having read Stephen Waddington’s brilliantly engaging and readable blog, I had taken great interest in his post about the healthy food delivery service provided by Graze. More pertinent was the appearance of a voucher code, of which I took full advantage and hence the Saturday morning delivery of a small brown box.

Put simply and in their own words, Graze is ‘Healthy eating by post.’ You pre-order as many boxes as you want and specify just when you want them to be delivered direct to your door. You view the myriad of healthy snack options on their site and rate them according to your personal tastes.

To quote Stephen’s blog post and by way of highlighting the wide ranging choice of snacks available, read on:

My box today contained red grapes, dried fruit and cashews. Last Thursday I got freshly cut pineapple, japanese rice cracker mix and cajun seed mix.

The Graze website registration process is simplistic enough and once registered you have the opportunity to grade your preferences so as to determine as to what might be in your packages. The random nature of what your package may contain is one element of what you buy in to and engages the ‘Try Something New,’ horizon broadening aspect nicely.

Saturday’s box contained fresh Baby Cherries, Raisins infused with Pineapple Juice and a Goji Berry Seed and Nut mix – providing at least two of your 5 a day and all to my door and within minutes, also my stomach.

Graze is a convenient way to get great tasting healthy food while you are at work. Everyone is different but we have found that most people find a box just the right amount of food for a whole day’s grazing

If you too would like to try the service out at a discounted rate then I have a voucher code (LVVXK3L) for you to use also. This is the viral effect of product awareness leading to the conversion of a sale. Having been introduced to the product by word-of-blog, something i would not have bought into without the voucher code hook, you now have the opportunity to do the same and take advantage from this here blog and voucher code and to join in the healthy to your door grazing experience too.