SUNDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2013 08:16 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (3rd February 1943)
On the Russian Front...
3rd Tank Army of Soviet Voronezh Front captures Kupyansk
3rd Guards Army of Soviet Southwest Front attacking Voroshilovgrad
Soviet warships bombard German positions around Anapa and Zhelezny Rog overnight.

In the Arctic...
US vessel Greylock sunk by U-255
In the Mediterranean...
RN minelayer HMS Abdiel lays mines in Axis shipping lanes
Italian destroyer Saetta and torpedo boat Uragano are sunk by mines.

In Tunisia...
US 1st Armored Division unsuccessfully attacks toward Maknassy
British 1st Guards Brigade and 1st Parachute Brigade unsuccessfully attack Djebel Mansour

In the Atlantic...
One American and three British vessels are sunk by U-Boats.
U-265 sunk by RAF aircraft.

In the Pacific...
On Guadalcanal, US 147th Infantry Regiment and 132nd Infantry Regiment make significant advances. 

In Burma...
Indian 123rd Infantry Brigade attack Rathedaung in the Arakan, whilst Japanese forces counterattack the Indian 55th Infantry Brigade around Donbaik.

Today's Air Raids...
Hamburg, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Abbeville and St Omer, France by RAF Bomber Command
Northern France on military targets by RAF Fighter Command and US 8th Air Force Fighters
Palermo and Messina, Italy by US 9th Air Force
Gabes and offshore Axis shipping by US 12th Air Force
Cape Gloucester, Gasmata and Rabaul, New Britain by US 5th Air Force
Wamar Island, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging, the milk-run and ironing in the morning. Long meditation after lunch, then client follow-up and me time before missus time in the evening.

   Twitter Followers = 1,611 (down 1)
      Nonfollowed eliminated = 1
      Unfollowers eliminated = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
With missus fully recovered and the weather moderate, today is the first routine Sunday of the year. Routine Sundays are about setting everyone up for the coming week, getting the laundry done, the milk supply at capacity and myself and Missus rested, cuddled and comforted. More than any other day of the week, it's about simply being, as projects and events are not thought about. One consolation of my business venture failing is that I'm no longer sacrificing one routine Sunday a month.

Though Sunday is not my favourite day (which is Monday - unusual I know!), it is the day which brings the most refreshment and restoration, a unique comfortable padded buffer zone between one week and the next.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you getting the necessary rest and space you need to maintain your wellbeing?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry, cool and cloudy all day, with some sunny spells in the afternoon.
Some showers overnight.
Wind will be moderate to strong and south-westerly at first, veeringwesterly from mid-morning.
Max Temp = 8 degC
Min Temp = 2 degC
Sunrise at 07:51
Sunset at 16:52

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
The kids text me "plz" because it's shorter than "please", and I text back "no" because it's shorter than "yes".  : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Russell Howard on the Jonathon Ross Show

8. TRIVIA
Conventional wisdom says a shower saves more water than a bath, but with more powerful, longer-lasting showers, this is not always true. An average bath uses 80 litres of water; an eight-minute power shower spurts 136 litres.

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust