Beer

Taking photos

no and no

Talking
Playing the bass guitar
Carrot juice
Sleep
Shaving
Sex
Eastenders
Sitting down
The tube
Turning right

no to all of those, though one is quite close.

please don't let your guesses become un-family-friendly !

Is is related to this?
???

nope

watching TV
polishing your shoes
grumbling (though you don't strike me as a grumbler)
cutting your nails
brushing your hair
shouting
playing anything above volume 5
going to bed after 10.30pm
posting bloggs more than once a day (boo hoo)

no. none of those either.

i'll give you a clue. it's something which usually makes life more comfortable. but i have shunned it.

Please, not bathing?

no - my plan causes no discomfort to nor does it even effect other people.

Are you giving up humility?

like i ever had any. nope. nothing so etherial.

this is a physical comfort used by most people in every day life.

i have simply decided to go without it.

Underwear?
Shoes?
Toiler paper?
Give us a clue.

ok. i can tell this is starting to annoy you now. (heh).

i am aching a lot as a result of giving this thing up.

Is it lifts (elevators)

as roy walker would say "lifts is good, but it's not the one"

The important question is: Is it helping you in your spiritual journey in this period of reflection and penitence?

sort of. when i'm not doing what i should be doing because it's tricky without the thing i'm not using then i think about God so yes.

wearing socks?

london busses?

your travel pass?

inter-departmental e-mail? (you have to walk to deliver your message)

This is becoming a bit like Rumplestiltskin, isn't it?

Boots
Pillows
Bed
Shaving foam
Pain killers

BINGO !!! Pillows.

Pillows!?!??!!??!

yes. i just thought to myself "what shall i give up for lent" and i decided "pillows"

so my head rests on the bed and i wake up with a cricked kneck.

but it's only for another 38 nights.

best of all, i can complete the challenge whilst asleep (mostly)

The sad thing is that we are related.

I'm sure God understands - I certainly don't!

it's like that blackadder episode (inheritance?) where the religious aunt and uncle visit. and uncle nathanial has to sit on a spike at dinner because a chair is too much of a luxury. that turnip!

Pillows!! Congratulations to Tony. I snore if I don't have a pillow, so my other half would put her foot down - so to speak - on any pillow deprivation in this house.

by the way, is this a record for the number of replies to an blog? and a blog without a photo at that?

probably for me it's some kind of record. especially since there is no picture.

perhaps i should add a picture of the pillow. i'll consider for later.

You've just proved that giving something up for lent is a pain in the neck.