An entry from "News of the Weird" today, because talking or thinking about turning 49 is simply too depressing for words. I'm pretty sure my face aged a full year over night.

The following entry appeals to the data-whore in me. Imagine keeping such detailed records for such a long time! Makes my eyes gleam with avarice, it does... Props to News of the Weird (and hoping I'm not violating their copyright).

British Royal Kitchen Tour
A new "kitchen" tour at Windsor Castle in England is based on painstaking research into royal eating habits over eight centuries. The Windsor kitchen is the oldest continuously used kitchen in Britain, if not the world, the London Telegraph reports. It's also the best documented -- there are records on what each royal ate for every single day of their reigns from the early 16th century through to the early 19th century. For example, Henry VIII, a tall slim young man, became a rather large man with the aid of a diet that was 75 percent meat and vast quantities of wine and weak ale.