Oops! We forgot to start a new chat thread for September!

It doesn't look much like we're going to get an Indian summer this year. Its supposed to be the start of the 'Season of Mellow Fruitfulness' - but there's nothing mellow about that wind out there today.

Peacock - about Bodmin Gaol - DH gets the creeps around old buildings which have a 'history' and he says Bodmin Gaol has been the only place he has felt blind panic. Me.... I never felt anything - except, possibly, that it was a bit warmer than I expected it to be.

Good morning to you all

It's a strange kind of day for me today, it is my 17th wedding anniversary and eight years today since my brother took his own life. Memories of both one so happy and one so awful nothing has ever been as bad since. So today I shall go to the cemetary. Probably see my other two brothers, and I've also made an appointment to get my hair done. Then make something nice for dinner later on.

Sorry this post is a bit maudlin.

Take good care everyone

Michele

Michele - How sad and awful about your brother

hello all im back...!

cornwall was lovely... nice n chilled.. spent tme wiv jens mum n dad who looked after us well.... didnt want to come home..... we sneakly did all our washing so just ironing to do grrr

um.. not sure how but i think i lost when i was away... will be confirmed on tuesday..... we did a few long bike rides.... the hills dont seem so bad in the car lol.... and a long costal walk .... we had fish n chips, pasties and lots of yummy bread we wouldnt usually have @ home... other than that ate well... we were camping so did our own thing.... and recided "pastie, fish n chips, bread, sausages, cheese" on difficult hills haha... it mush have worked!

what have i missed here.. hope all is well...
lou x

*wanders in*

bloody awful weather today - it's absolutely throwing it down here. Has been all day.

at the minute i'm not feeling too well - really achy and going hot and cold and shivery. head throbbing, eyes throbbing. i'd say it was some mild kinda flu if i hadn't had a flu jab only about 10 months ago. soon as DH got home from work last night i went straight to bed. feeling a tad bit better today but still not wonderful.

So as a result, I've done zilch exercise despite my best intentions for September - totally not my fault though. On the other end of the scale, I've eaten next to nothing.

Hope you're feeling better soon Xena. Michelle that must have been awful for you. I'm feeling pretty grotty myself its my TOM and this one seems evil, I daren't look at the scales but I've managed to stay away from the chocolate (so far). You're right the weather is awful, I went to post off some ebay things this morning, and got soaked on the way back.

yeh it's my TOM too - just adds to the feeling of crapness really!

Gah, I hate my car. I got stranded on the hard shoulder of the M6 for over an hour tonight, I was taking my mum to the airport (we'd gone to see my grandparents in Blackpool on the way) and a tyre blew, I really didn't feel confident attempting to change it because it was on the side closest to the road rather than having the car to protect me, so I had to call the breakdown people and my grandfather to finish the airport trip for my mum so she didn't miss her flight. I was getting cold so I ended up putting on the coat which was on the back seat of the car - which was a size 20. I could wrap it right round me twice! (My car is where my stuff goes to die, I also have, for no real reason, a pair of crutches in the boot)

Tomorrow I'm meant to be doing a 20 mile run, and I also get the excitement of my first meal in the house (including breakfast) since last Wednesday - about 10 days? Then hopefully a bit of time to catch up and relax from rushing around - and prepare for my sister to come over next week. It's a constant stream of visitors at the moment.

Evil evil car.

I went to SOuthport yesterday, to get out of the house so that the decorator could ahve a clear run. It was, as we all know, an awful day in Southport. The Southport Air Show was meant to be on (we didn't know) and was cancelled in the finish, so Southport was full of digruntled, wet people.

We came home,a nd the b***dy decorator hasn't been. Silly dh is managing all this, and never bothered getting his phone number. We tried to contact the landlord last night, but no joy there.

So my predictions of not having it done by Christmas could be right.

I'm off work tomorrow for a funeral, the landlady of the pub that Col has gone to for over 20 years. She was really close to us, and she was the first person I met in the UK. I'll really miss her, she was only in her early 50's.

So, off swimming now people, I can only get wetter!

Oh and it's my TOM too, if it's any consolation.

I think I've got the start of a cold - bit of a temperature, feeling generally - DH keeps telling me that the people where he works are dropping like flies with flu but I don't think its flu. I only had flu once, when I was 17, and its kind of my yardstick for measuring whether I (or anyone else) has flu - I couldn't get out of bed and ran a RAGING temperature - more importantly, it was one of the few times in my life that I've gone off of my food.

D'you think its possible to lose inches without losing weight - or perhaps its moving around a bit. I am now fitting comfortably in to size 16 stuff - even round the waist - but I haven't lost any more weight. Seems strange!

Even stranger is that when I looked at myself in the mirror this morning I could only see myself as fat - this is strange because even when I was at my biggest my mental perception of myself was as being slim - how the mind plays tricks!

Oh dear.... DH tried to cheer me up a bit last night by coming home with a couple of those fresh cream yummy custard doughnuts - and I ate one. He bought them out of love and not eating at least one would have been throwing his thoughtfulness and love back at him. I wonder how long it'll take before I've got him re-trained. TBH, I think its this biz with my teeth which is pulling me down.

Had some friends over last night, and we ended up walking round to Tesco's for some food (for them), while we were there everybody was trying to pursuade me that I should have some alcohol, even though I knew I didn't want it and didn't need it, in the end they bought it anyway, when I got back, I poured myself a glass and then just left it next to my glass of coke zero, and drank the coke, nobody noticed that I didn't drink any

Haven't lost any weight for over a week, but I figure its been my TOM so I'll get a true picture soon.

Rant:
Got a bit fed up at one point last night, as we'd been out for a chinese with those friends and some others a few weeks ago, and one of the other guys (who was my husbands best mate when growing up) was very drunk, he kept trying to grope me . Anyhow I told my husband who was obviously really annoyed with him and we decided not to see the guy again. Well one of the couples last night asked if they could invite him over, and we said no, but explained why, that was ok, but then when they got here they went on and on about how he's a great guy, and it was just the alcohol, and how normally he's fine. I've seen this guy a couple of times and he's always been drunk, the time before when I saw him he started a fight at our friends wedding. I was really annoyed that I had to sit and listen to how wonderful the guy is until my husband told them to be quiet, I still feel bad about it today.

Anyhow rant over, not sure what I'm doing today, Sunday is always such a quiet day.

He tried to GROPE YOU - and they were DEFENDING HIM???? Sorry, but thats outrageous (both the groping AND the defending). Did you tell them he tried to grope you? If they can't respect your wishes not to see someone who did that to you again then I certainly wouldn't have them in your home. Are they the same people who tried to force you to drink alcohol when you didn't want to? If so, then they sound like complete morons. Like the old saying goes... 'With friends like that, who needs enemies?'

Hi Ladies,

Well everyone seems to be having a bit of a poohey time at the moment, teeth, cars, gropes and such...mines unpacking bl**dy boxes. Never in all of our moves has it taken me so long to get unpacked and organised, usually by the third day I have pictures on the wall...not this time, I'm still not completely finished in my bedroom yet, did manage to sort through clothes and put the one's I CAN'T fit into right now (too small) :embarrassed: into a box and into the spare rooms closet...and I did find my big basket of shoes and get them up there...although I need rain boots at present, we on the tail end of Ernesto, so flip flops aren't cutting it.
I weighed myself yesterday, found the scales, didn't I? God I am HEAVIER than ever! No wonder my clothes don't fit! I've got a huge spare tyre round my tum which even when I first started on this site, wasn't this big...I've found a curves here, so will be setting off to it on Tuesday, and hopefully I can find my core workout ball as well and I can get back into that.

Sarah, you can def lose inches without weight and that's what usually happens to me first with exercising...I change shape, can get into smaller clothes and I'm still a heffer...then the weight starts to go down...a friend told me, she wouldn't mind losing the inches and being in smaller clothes and staying the same weight, but I would like to see the numbers go down, probably as it's more of a visual, because, like you said, when you look in the mirror, you don't see the weight loss...we're funny strange one's aren't we?

Ok, hubby is up, I can start banging around moving and putting with the boxes, hopefully tonight I will be all done! Send me completion of the boxes wishes please....thanks

I was meaning to do 20 miles, but ran out of steam after about 15. I made it to 17 and decided that I was only going to walk the rest, so I got the bus the rest of the way. My legs just seemed to run out of energy. I still managed to average 10 minute miles over the distance I did, but wish I'd beenable to keep it up for the extra 3 miles. I never thought I'd be disappointed to do a 17 mile run

Anyway, that's the worst of the training over, I'm into the taper now. Everyone seems to say that in the last 3 weeks you can't do anything to improve your performance, all you can do is pick up injuries or overtrain, so it's important to take it a bit easier. At this stage I'm kind of accepting that I haven't trained as well as I could have done, particularly in the last month which has been a bit disrupted, but I've still not trained too badly, and I will make it round, just not as comfortably as I could have done if I'd got some momentum going in the last month of training. Still, I'm far better prepared than I dreamed I would be this time 2 years ago when I never even considered the possibility I'd be able to run a marathon.

The rest of today will hopefully involve sorting through my photos of Prague, reading the paper and generally trying to relax a bit after the last 10 days. Although it all depends whether I can stand up...