Over The Hill Health Matters

Hello, hello! It’s that time of year again for many of you — flu season. The common cold. Pollen and mould allergies. Please feel free to try my very simple, yet extremely effective, cranberry and ginger tea.
We film people work twenty hour days in all kinds of weather, and cranberry ginger tea keeps us [...]

For a craft service person, life on a film set is spent on one’s feet for 18 to 20 hours a day, if not more.
I am not kidding you. We never stop! Feeding a film crew and the actors and production management is a never-ending affair.
Lucky for me, I have a “pioneer” body type! This, [...]

Good day, eh. Panic Away, the mini course.
Dare the cause of your anxiety to attack you. Give it twenty seconds to rear its ugly head and kill you.
Think warm, happy thoughts.
Drink plenty of water.
Don’t fret if you are not sleeping throughout the night. Be happy for what rest you do manage to get. Worrying about night [...]

The Suicidal Contemplations of a Food Connoisseur
I shan’t go on for life’s own sake;
My wife has left and I can’t bake!
(The old cow drove me ’round the bend.)
I now must plan a fitting end
For a man of such esteemed cuisine
As I uphold should not beseem
A silent passage from this earth
But one comparable in girth
To Buddha’s, [...]

Surely makes you lose your mind! Life in the fat lane… denandenadenada.
I want a metabolism!
I went to a specialist once, back in the day, after my son was born and I had lost my metabolism. I told him what I ate every day, which consisted of lots of fruit and salads, some pasta, roasted chicken, [...]

I have once again taken a craft service job in the film industry. I am classified as a chef-driver, and while I love the chef part of the 20-plus hours a day job on a film set, I am no longer a confident, happy driver.
I have been recently plagued with chronic panic or anxiety attacks [...]

While still on the driving blind and fat scenario, shall we also note that such moments of heightened stress are often accompanied by a lot of involuntary cheek clenching? Of the buttocks variety, if I haven’t been clear.
Fear can truly be more than a metaphoric pain in the behind.
Fear can be a true pain in [...]

Do you know what is even worse than realising that you have to negotiate eight lane changes in a cube van without a functioning side mirror?
What is worse is looking over at the reflection of your scared but always charming self and realising how FAT you are in those big truck side mirrors. Not only [...]

I was drivin’ down the road tryin’ to loosen my load, with a world of trouble on my mind… No, wait, that was the Eagles. When it comes to driving, I am now amongst the ranks of the chickens — big, fat chickens!
Actually, I was driving down the road in a cube van converted into [...]