Sounds well dodgy then. Don't engage him.

All done and dusted - the Police traced him from the registration number and he works for the DSS (or whatever its called nowadays). They talked to his boss and he's getting a reprimand for being a) in the wrong place and b) behaving in such a stupid way.

Stupid really, the entire village know about it now so he'll never catch the scroungers.

:rofl: Nice one! What an arse!

Dito what Frus said really. No wonder there are so many benefit fraudsters if they can't even find the right addresses for them. You'd think they'd just put the postcode into multimap or something, then at least they's have the right street!

At least it wasn't a nutter!

Yeah at least it wasn't a burgular.

Dopey S*d!. Never catch the cheats now and the fact that someone had obviously let them know - they will wonder who in the village ratted on them.

I would think that most of the people in their road (if not the entire village) ratted on them!

The people here tend to be not very well off but are VERY hard working and the general feeling is that the spoungers (as they are not-so affectionately known) are not just defrauding the system but are also stealing from their own neighbours by living off of the taxes that the rest of us have to pay. They are not at all subtle about doing well with their market stalls, etc, they both drive nice cars, are constantly decorating, having expensive holidays and their kids have the most fashionable clothes/toys. I'm only surprised their neighbours haven't done even more to drop them in it.

People like that make my blood boil!!

Woo, 7 miles at just under marathon pace on the treadmill this morning. Now I'm intending to rest for most of the day before my 14 miler tomorrow :faint:

I'm in a good mood, the rugby seems to have turned round a bit and we're actually winning. Still bottom of the table, but winning... I'm trying to work out whether to go down to London next weekend for a game on Saturday, I wasn't going to but now we're playing a bit better I'm more tempted. The sad thing is that one of the factors I'm weighing up (as well as whether I can afford it) is whether I'll still get my runs in, it's meant to be a 15 miler next Sunday (with 7 on Saturday).

I had a nice surprise when I got up this morning, I went downstairs and realised I'd been to Tesco on the way home from the rugby at about midnight. I'd completely forgotten overnight, so that's one less job for today, although I have some work I really should do over the weekend :(

And only 2 weeks til my holiday now :)

I've found myself a lovely new route for my walk - the direction I normally go in is a bit flat - this one is VERY hilly. I thought it was private land but I found out that there is an unused ancient public right of way across it. Some of the hills are very steep and are more like a scramble, on a couple of them I'm having to pull myself up on the bits of shrub/grass clumps.

This is my second day for it and, for the first time in ages, I'm REALLY feeling that I'm getting a proper workout with my walking, especially in my :censored: This was the idea of the trainer who takes my Monday exercise class - she recommended that I incorporate as many different gradient hills as I can in to my walk and that I run up the hills and walk down them and interval jog on the flat. The dogs think its great fun, especially as the new route has a HUGE bunny population for them to chase (they are too slow to catch one) and they've been coming home exhausted. The only problem is that its quarter of an hour shorter than I've been walking.

:( :( I lost my pedometer yesterday - this is the fourth one I've lost this year!

:wave: Hello all!

Sarah - your scramble sounds fun!

YP - only a few months to go and I will be running 14 miles too! :lol:

I have been to kickboxing, only to find PG is 2, yes count them 2 belts ahead of me. I am so :censored: :tantrum: It's not FAIR! But still, respect to her, but now I feel like a failure... Why, God only knows!! :( I was really :censored: up my grading things too, just wasn't feeling confident enough I guess. Although we did do lots of rolling around on the floor things :chin: And I did my first backward roly poly ever!!!!! It's only taken 23 years :rofl: And I can NOW stand up from forwards roly polies too! :faint: It's a miracle! :lol: I think the real reason is no-one ever really taught me... We were practising a flip move, from lying on your back to flipping up onto your feet... I can't quite do it yet, but I seem to know what to do - practise methinks, then I will be able to do cool martial arts flips whenever I am lying down! :hyper: Can't wait! :hyper:

Apart from that, not done a lot else, just been lazing around and reading, which is good - I need my R&R! Tomorrow we are visiting cardiff by coach :rolleyes: The fun just never ends! :lol: It will be a nice day out though, the Cardiff Bay bit is nice and we shall have a little wander round the shops and bars, then sleep on the coach! :D

Frus, you won't need to run 14... unless you're planning a marathon too! ;) I like Cardiff, I've raided many shops there over the past couple of years!

I've had a nice lazy day today, trying to eat a few more carbs than normal then an early night. This training really eats into your social life, it will be hard enough with a clear head and lots of sleep so I dread to think what it would be like with a hangover. I'm trying to decide whether to change my planned route for tomorrow, I've realised that part of it goes round the course of a local 10k that's taking place tomorrow and I don't want to get in the way of that! I must tell myself that that's not an excuse to not do the last 2 miles though (that's the bit that's affected)...

I'm back, and my run was SOO much better than last week. I slowed the pace down a bit and ran it all at a slower pace rather than doing the running bits faster but needing walk breaks. OK, I lie, there were 2 walk breaks, one up a steep but short hill that I'd always planned to walk, and one after 11 miles or so when I got a bit of a twinge in my hip and had to walk for a while before running the rest. But still, it was so much better, and a confidence boost because most of it was the same route that kicked my :censored: last week.

2 things I'm definitely going to do in future. First, lucozade on long runs is a lifesaver. I usually just take water, but the lucozade did make a real difference. And secondly I ate a lot more carbs than normal yesterday, I figured that if I carb load for a half marathon I may as well do it for long training runs, particularly as I'm on my feet for longer because I'm running at a slower pace as well as running further.

Now I'm going to relax and put my feet up I think! I never thought that I could run for well over 2 hours with only a couple of walk breaks!

Phew! Just finished my walk/jog/run/scramble (not sure what to call it!) and I'm :censored: Its re-starting the interval jogging along the flat after running up the hills which is a killer for me and George is also finding it a struggle - Fred's okay though.

Time to do some abs work and stretches, then some gardening then a Delia dinner. Good ol' Delia - her recipes are so reliable. We're having chicken done in sherry with tarragon and shallots, jersey royal spuds, spinach and runner beans.

I can't drink Lucozade - I used to live on it until I started low GI and now even a mouthful makes me hyper. I don't know if its all the glucose/sugar, the caffeine or that strong colourant. Probably the colourant.

I don't particularly enjoy the taste, it tastes very artificial. But it does make a real difference on long runs, so I tolerate it. I drink it very slowly (a mouthful every three or four minutes) so the hyperness is spread out throughout the run...