I love the name Marmite and I am partial to sprouts although after eating them
I am always a bag of wind!!!

Lovely to see you again Shmoo I'm still plodding along.

We had the photos out last night blimey there were some absolute huge
ones of me. I must try and suss out how to to a before and after on here.

Take good care everyone I am so tired I can barely type.

Michele

Marmite is a brill name Lou He's got a good home that's for sure.

Peacock, that Myron story still has us all in fits of giggles... it's been about 18 years since we buried someone else's cat... he was very like Myron, but didn't have a collar, which we thought might have come off when he got hit, hence thinking it was him....bless, he ended up with nice people...and I didn't get scratched anymore.

I've been a busy bee... went to curves and then the post office, those people are expensive...84c for a stamp to Blighty now, and I had 24 cards to post, maybe I'll have to wipe some of that lot of my christmas list next year...hehehe...Mummy-Tummy, your onions are on their way, so keep an eye out for the postie

After the post office I had a nice chat with CG and then Pen and lew and I went for a lovely long walk. On the way back getting nearer the house we saw a lady with another cocker coming towards us, but she saw us and turned around and walked the way we were headed, she lives across the road, and stopped at her door and introduced herself, her pup is only ten months old and he's a beauty, lovely colours, Lew loved him, Pen hated him. As I was chatting with her, another lady came walking along and introduced herself as living two doors down, so I've met some more neighbs now...there seems to be more people in their houses now, than there was when we arrived in the summer...maybe they like winter living here more than summer? Strange.

I've swept the blasted leaves away from the door way...I'm about as piddled off with leaves as I am with wood floors...

LOL @ thought of Ellie ice skating on yours Sarah, Lew and Pen do a few pirouettes too, especially when I get the plastic bag out and paper towels for pooh pick up when we walk, Lew is sliding back an forth all over the place.

Hannah should be home in a mo and I need to get the sheets back on the beds, so we're all warm and cosy tonight....see you all later.

Will stop moaning now about the price of stamps over here, got a few Christmas cards today from home and the stamps on them cost 72 pence!! Bloody outrageous I say... and I moaned about 84 cents Sorry.

Chris, the Myron story reminds me of when my mum's old cat went missing. She was over here and my dad texted to say that he'd come back. Apparently the cat that turned up had made himself at home when my sister came round and pointed out that he hadn't had a little operation which my mum's cat had had, so he got chucked out on the street again! they really did look alike though and they kept on getting phone calls from people who'd seen their poster, and seen the other cat - and had to keep explaining in Spanish that they were looking for a cat who was rather less male than the one which was roaming around. He never did come back, but they've got a new kitten now.

5.6 miles with running club today, at a really fast pace. The first bit was a struggle but on the run back I really got into it and felt like I was flying down the last hill! I don't think I'll be eligible for the ballot for the club places for London though (I wasn't sure whether I would be, then the bloke organising it asked whether I wanted to go in so I assumed that I was, but today there was a sheet with info and I don't think I've been a member for long enough after all). So it looks like the edinburgh contingency plans might come into play after all.

And I still haven't heard anything about the Moonwalk so that's not looking promising either

Hello everyone -- Im new to this and wasn't sure exactly how to post my message or anything. Anyway I was just wondering ...
I have frozen yogurt everyday, I LOVE IT! It's really my fix of the day. I live on Long Island new york and have a variety of places offering sugarfree/nonfat/low carb yogurts or I visit TCBY for their nonfat/no sugar added flavors. TCBY IS AWESOME ! and actually the ingredients and calories ( i always get a kiddie which is a pretty decent size, 6oz. cup) are not bad at all. The only carbs and sugar come from the nonfat milk. What do you all think? Any nutritionists?

this is for the vanilla but all the flavors are the same ingredients
Vanilla No Sugar Added/Nonfat
Nonfat Milk, Maltodextrin, Polydextrose, Sorbitol, Live Active Yogurt Cultures, Stabilizer (Cellulose Gel, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum and Carrageenan), Artificial Flavor, Aspartame, Annatto Color. Phenylketonurics: contains Phenylalanin

Morning everyone and welcome to browneyedgrl0 - I've never had frozen yoghurt except for homemade and it definitely hasn't got all those gum things in it

Yayyyyy - all my Monsoon size 14 Christmas clothes now fit (although some of then are a little snug). Only the posh frock looks a bit strange but I think thats possibly because I'm not used to seeing myself squeezed in to a strapless, boned dress. (Blummin uncomfortable!!!!) I suppose it has to be tight otherwise it'll be a bit.... insecure.... but if its too tight you kind of squelch out of it all around the top. At the moment I'm slightly squelching but it does up. I might sell it and find something else to wear that I feel a bit more comfortable in.

Chris - I've always thought the expensive bit about sending Christmas cards is the postage. I buy my cards in January in the sales (not that I'm tight fisted.... ) so the actual cost of postage works out at more than the individual cards cost.

I remember a friend of mine was moving house. Early in the morning she told her husband to catch the cat, give it a tranquilliser, put it in its transporter thing and put it in the back of his car as the kids were driving up in the back of hers - and when they came to let it out at their new house (a couple of hundred miles away) he had packed up someone else's cat.

I was thinking that you don't get these problems with dogs until I remembered one of my neighbours found a black lab wandering around in the road, she naturally thought it was George or Fred but couldn't get a reply so she locked it in her back garden and brought it round when I got home late that evening - her face when I answered the front door with both George & Fred beside me was a picture - they'd been out visiting MIL with me all day. So for about six hours she had had some strange dog pooping, peeing and generally trashing her garden.

Whats with this wind today? I nearly got blown over.

OMG - next door is all over his new girlie like a rash. In public. They can't even put the bin out without exchanging germs and groping each other

Interesting! It seems pets are as much a nuisance (in a nice way!) as kids!

Those into Johnny Depp might like to know there is a nice little interview with him in the Christmas Radio Times - only a small one but I had to laugh when it asked if he 'brings his character home with him' i.e still in character. Apparenlty he was flouncing up and down stairs (like Jack Sparrow) and his daughter said "Oh Daddy, Do grow up"....

Hello everyone. I'm having a "thin" day today, my newish Mango suit trousers are feeling distinctly baggy, and the scale gave me an all time low number this morning (10 stone 12.5). I'm not counting on it being permanent, but it's nice to see. Well done Sarah on the 14s!

I finally signed up for Edinburgh this morning, so I guess I'm committed to it now! I've got another 6 weeks or so before I need to start training properly, but it looks like 20 mile runs are on the agenda again. Eek.

Well done on signing up for another Marathon Helen! I still haven't heard anything re: Moonwalk so What's happening there.

I also hate wood floors, but I hate the stupid lilly pollen more! DH decided to clean up all the fallen petals and pollen and used a damp cloth So we have bright orange streaks all over our pale wood floor... Any stain removing ideas?

I beat a black belt in Karate last night in the tournament I've even got another trophy

Bleach - its the only thing I know that'll remove lily pollen - that stuff stains everything.

Well done on beating the black belt!

Crikey Helen - well done on the all time low! The downside of losing weight is definitely buying nice clothes and then shrinking out of them within a few weeks.

I keep checking and my cheque hasn't been cashed which is often the first way you know whether you're in or not. So I'm thinking the worst and assuming it filled up far too quickly and I didn't get in. I guess until I get a rejection letter there's still a chance, but at this stage I think a rejection would be good as it will avoid the need to do 2 marathons in 8 days... It would have been nice to meet up and have cake though (although I suppose I could still come down and volunteer at drinks stations etc if there are enough people interested in a post-walk meetup anyway).

Well done on the tournament!

Baggy Mango suit trousers uh? You can go off some people you know!!!


SarahAnn- re your next door loving couple - it'll end in tears - if he cheated on his wife (must have done, the speed in which he replaced her) he will cheat on the new one!

This is what amuses me about 'The other woman' who gets upset when the man goes off with someone else or has 'made' the wife pregnant. If he cheated once, he can do it again!!

Brit NJ - your neighbours ae the oppsite of my Mum's - yours are filling up the houses, but where my mum is they have been moving. She is not the neighbour from **** , honest! On one side the man left but is leaving the house to go to rack and ruin though his son mows the lawn occasionally. On the other side the man moved out and it was very quiet but now his wife and various offspring occasionally go there and they are a 'Chavalanche' i.e. many Chavs and have been chucking over bottles into mum's garden - which Dad throws back and they do make a noise but not all the time and thankfully mum's bungalow is detached.

Oh my word girls! You can get The Best of Jackie Annual and Bunty Annual via Amazon!!!
Remember those comics? I used to wait impatiently for my friend to finish with her Bunty comic so I could cut out the paper doll and her clothes! I can remember jackie comic as well.

Ooooh have I sussed out the tracker thing?

Michele

Bugger it seems I havent.

It said I had created one, and it showed me what it looked like below
has anyone any idea what I have done wrong.

Michele