Remains a grey overcast with bursts of rain. Went to the local shops then on to a cash and carry store from that short journey the wind had picked up greatly and it nearly knocked me over it was so strong. Our weather is cooler that normal for this time of year I think I feel so sorry when it is so hot for others at this time and here us complaining where is our summer.
Our school children have now broken up from school for either one or two weeks depending which county you live. My sister children have broke up for one week which they have been spending in Ireland as it was her FIL 90th birthday this week.
ROSEBUD I hope the bulbs you plant come up next year. Bulbs are great way of giving a splash of colour without much gardening to be done. I have quite a few in my garden that spring up every year, from lilies, gladioli and daffodils to name a few. I did have more but our wet garden I think they rotted
It is not how far you walked the important thing is you did some exercise. No matter how little it is more than we did before that is how I look upon it. Each little bit adds up over the weeks and months. I walked around the cash and carry place today which is a very big place which is a good work out for me.
I had started my drug regime given to me by my doctor with disastrous results for me. I was hungry all the time so as much as I could I ate healthy snacks but the weight piled on. It made me very unhappy especially as I had been maintaining for a long time now at a constant weight. I did not want to pile the weight on with all the hardships it did took me to take off. I decided to stop the medication I need to talk to the doctor and ask what can I take that is not going to give me weight gain. I hope I haven't spoken too soon but I have started to see a downward spiral in my weight for the first time in weeks. I had crept up to 182lbs when I normally sit comfortably at 176 -178lbs. I know that how our bodies fluctuate with many things but my appetite had really changed. Now I normally do not feel really hungry on the diet regime that I have. I have not changed my diet in anyway but I feel ravenously hungry. For the first time yesterday after stopping my drugs I did not feel like it. I would never recommend anyone to stop taking drugs but I know what these are for and that you may stop them slowly which I did. I now just need to sort out something that is not going to cause me weight gain if possible.
Here in the UK there is very little with no sugar added products we have not cottoned on yet to that. There is a small range of diabetic produces which are sugar free or no added sugar but like you they are far more expensive than they should be. I am sure we will cotton on eventually as we follow trends from the states so fingers crossed this food will be marketed here soon. I am really envious of the range of products that you have available. That is why I have to be so inventive here as we just do not have such things mores the pity.
No like you said 2 hours of your time for fund raising is nothing for a good cause you believe in. Here in the UK frequently supermarkets have the type of fund raising that I am going on Saturday. Also supermarkets will annually support a different charity each year say like cancer research or heart research. I filled in a form in hope that one supermarket will raise funds for our centre for a year. We wish to expand our services so that we are able to offer to a greater range of people. We would like to tap in more with sports injuries, offering a service to parents with children with autism, cp to name a few. Though different conditions require maybe a longer time in the tank than say MS so things would need to be arranged differently. We have not the seating for many more people so are limited by this. A gentleman (will) recently left us a share in a bungalow which should give us around £70.000 which is a huge donation. It was such a kind gesture which means will such be able to expand if we find the right property to rent. Moving is expensive as we have specialist equipment such as hyberbaric chambers to move. Also refit the new unit with disabled facilities and section off usable spaces. For physio, reflexology, reiki etc.
No further gossip now and I want to have a little rest before we go out tonight to recharge those batteries. Bye ladies and take care
purpleorc 
our way and cooled us off. I even went out on our porch and let the rain fall on me until I was drenched and it felt really good. Then I dried off and put a clean shift on; but was so much cooler for it. We used to do this a lot when we were kids; and I thought to myself -- why don't we do this anymore? Why suffer in this heat when GOD sends us cooling rain: it's a nice way to cool off.
It is the first time in about 5 days I think since we have seen Mr sunshine. 
I loved standing in the rain yesterday; it was very cooling. Sometimes, I will take a quick cool shower if I really can't stand the heat. We do have our fans and our A/C here though, to try and push the hot air out of the house.
The bathroom was soaked and his black hair was everywhere sticking to the walls, etc. While we were in there, the forecasted thunderstorms showed up and drenched our front livingroom and my rocker, becuz we had the windows open to cool down this place which was tres, tres hot when we got home.
What an earth possess them to roll in the most disgusting thing they can find is beyond me. Rizzie has done it three times first time with fox poo, ( now that pen and inks 
or in English stinks) the second time the same as NIKO. The third attempt was in left over takeaway food like a Chinese or Indian we were out with him miles from home when he did this. So before allowing him in to the car I wiped him down as best as I could with the water we always have. That car seem to stink for weeks despite been cleaned after that antic. Now washing it all off is a mammoth task in itself as your bathroom takes the brunt of it. My parents dog when he was alive bless it decided that the perfume of the day was pig manure 
technically I am still overweight by I think 21lbs to just get in to what it healthy body weight. Oh it would be lovely to be in that region but I will be not too unhappy if I say as I am. I look how far I have come and if I was told at the beginning I would be this size I would have jumped at the chance 
breaks on and off throughout the day. I was awoke by a phone call from my BIL that his daughter (DH's niece) was on her way up to visit us from down south (about 400+ miles). Not much notice there, so DH and I spent the next two hours quickly tidying up. 