Blackpool is used to most things I think it can cope with a thin fit person in a crop top. Good luck for your half marathon.

Not that you need any luck obviously!

Good Grief! Skinny jeans and a CROP TOP You certainly have come a long way miss Helen

I had a lovely morning - woke up early with the sun streaming in... Then I went shopping in Woolworths for Pepsi and a card for my kickboxing instructor and I picked up some fab n groovy food boxes, one has an integral ice pack, and I got three ice packs in funky colours for my lunch bag.

THEN I got a text from one bridesmaid - she has managed to get her dress but it was the only one in her size and she bought the last wrap. Apparently Bhs aren't getting any more stock in! AAAAAAAAAARGH! So I decided to leg it down to Oxford Street after my lunchtime kickboxing lesson. So I had to deliver bike to garage, walk to kickboxing, then I was tortured for an hour and a half with 30 repetitions of many many kicks It was a good job I took my L-glutamine (more on that later...) So after my lesson I picked up my bike-with-new-tyres and whizzed back home, did a quick change into my lovely thin, short, yellow, spotty Primark dress and yellow Topshop sandals and legged it back out to the bus stop. I power walked down Oxford St and threw a minor hissy fit on the poor assistant in Bhs! They dont have any teenage dresses left THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I CHOSE BHS!!!!!! THEY HAVE CHEAP TEEN DRESSES So I got the assistant to ring round just about every branch asking if they had this teen dress in Burgundy in an age 16... No luck! I am going to ring more stores tomorrow and keep scouting ebay. I will also check if any stores have a teen dress in gold, which would look nice with my burgundy gals if I can't find burgundy

Then I bought nice tea in M&S (oh and lunch at 5pm!!!) and wholemeal wraps and I've collapsed on the sofa with BFFM and my mummy on the phone!!!

*sigh*

Last night I went to the gym, it were reet gud! I went to yoga too - I really worked quite hard in the gym, did legs and everything!! This week I've been taking L-glutamine which is supposed to help with recovery, I rate it pretty highly, however I missed kickboxing on Thursday and didn't have a HUGE workout on Wednesday, but I defnitely feel sore in a different way... like I can just feel my muscles working, rather than them hurting when they work!

Well I will take myself off to bed soon - I think I need the rest! That is if the new who moved in downstairs on Thursday and promptly had his Sky dish up for noisy football watching shuts his cr@ppy music off soon.

Do you have a picture of the dress? I live right near a BHS and pop across most days on the way into town I like window shopping I can always check whether they have it for you.

I used to work at next and they could reserve things from other branches and send them to your branch so I'm sure BHS should be able to do that if they have it in.

And i'm willing to pop into Manchester and the Trafford Centre to look as well.

Shops!

I bought the most gorgeous heels today. http://www.officeholdings.co.uk/perl...color_uid=6611

My "meet my parents" outfit is a black bodice top, a black skirt with white piping, and a black white edged cardigan. I wanted some black and white shoes, and I saw them yesterday, thought about them all night, and went back and got them today.

I want to sleep in them!!!

Help I'm turning into a shoeaholic!

they are fab love them in the fuscia

I'm not far from a BHS either, just shout

Good morning

Oh what a gorgeous day, I am in the best mood.

Last night two friends and I went to Milton Keynes a place I swore I would never
return to after getting stranded there two years ago after a UB40 concert. Didn't we get lost again. We had one of those nights where you just laugh
and laugh.

We finished the evening off in a tapas bar the scales are showing ten stone six this morning but its probably water and I am due on, well thats what I am telling myself. My dress was a lovely fit, and I found a pair of gorgeous red shoes
that i had bought a couple of years ago and never wore. It was lovely to be
complimented. I just had a belgium chocolate for breakfast as you do and I shall follow that with a poached egg on toast.

Kykaree I was chuckling to myself over my drunken post. Hope you aren't hungover or anything to day.

The sun is shining life is good.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone

Michele x

It was ten years ago I was stranded in Milton Keynes not two!!

I am not going back there either!!!

Moo! That is what cats do (well, some of them!). I tis amazing how many cats are handed into sanctuaries cos of normal cat behaviour - killing birds, scratching furniture.

Mind you only our 'middle' cat killed birds - well, actually she played with them but obviously being baby birds - well it wasn't such gentle play. I remember having to finish one off with a spade. I looked up on the telegraph wire (or whatever it is called) and saw loads of birds looking down on me. She was also the only one that stratched the furniture. She was a demon, she used to look at us, then go over and 'pat' the sofa with her paw so we would tell her off. She was like a little kid, runing up to the sofa, patting it, then running off after we shouted at her!!! She did grow out of it.

Our last cat was not very good at chasing birds but one very hot day I believe a pigeon fainted - probably into his open mouth and he did a "lap of honour" around the garden with it in his mouth!!!

Well, did you cat sit or watch BB? When will Grace the Gracelesss Queen of B*tches be slung out the house??!

I fed one of next doors, fed mine, shut the back door, left the other one out with the birds and watched BB. couldn't miss that could I!!

My 4 aren't that interested in birds (too darn lazy) ... phew but next doors is a little sod, my neighbour just said when they got back yesterday there was a dead bird on their bed ... guess who forgot to check and dispose of the bodies

Hi all

No hangover here I didn't really drink.....I had a gin and slimline tonic and a weird cranberry and red wine iced drink that looked like a slush puppy, and that was it. I did try to have a pint of Hoegarden but the pub ran out so I had a dandelion and burdock instead

I did eat like a baby piglet though, and have today as well, but have also been swimming, and on a four mile walk/run, so never mind. Back on the straight and narrow tomorrow.

I want a weird cranberry and red wine iced drink now. I'll have to stick with non alcoholic cranberry drinks that's all I have.

Ouch ouch ouch. That half was hard. It seemed far harder than the other one I did, even though the bit that killed me was almost exactly the same route. My knee didn't feel right before I started, but not "not-right" enough to not do it. As soon as I started running it felt fine, and up to about 7 miles I was on for under 1:50. Then it all just started to go wrong, I got a blister on my big toe and my thighs just started to fall apart. Not literally, but you know what I mean. My knee was fine, bizarrely, although I'm not sure whether altering my gait slightly caused the blister. I slowed down from there and ended up struggling back in just under 1:54. It was slightly faster than the one I did in February, but only by about a minute when I've improved my 10k time by far more than that over the same period. But it was the hottest weather I've ever run in today, which might help to explain it!

Then on to see my grandparents and eat tasteless processed rubbish. It's quite worrying when I'm sitting in their house craving a salad...

I'm currently sitting down with some fruit (to redeem my eating for the day) and wine (to relax my muscles...) before a long soak in the bath. I don't fancy doing that 10k on Sunday now though!

Aaahhh, my legs feel human again after a soak in the bath and a bit of blister attacking. Even better, I've discovered that my last half was a minute slower than I'd thought (I clearly don't read my own signature), so I took 2 minutes off rather than 1, which makes me feel better

Poor YP, I hope all feels better in the morning......I'm sure the 10k will be fine, I'll be faaaaaaaaaar worse than you, so you can swan around feeling all superior in your posh jeans

I've jsut put a load of stuff on EBay. I have decided to have the day off after the 10k, and will spend the day packing and posting LOL.