July Mid-Summer Chat
 

Pinch, Punch First of the Month!

Is it warm where you are? Its boiling here and due to get hotter! (Supposed to go up to 31c with rain tomorrow - yuck!)

I found myself walking my dogs at 5am today - it was too warm to sleep comfortably then someone's house alarm developed a fault and kept going off every 15 minutes for 5 minutes starting 2.30 - not what you need on a hot night! Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Half way through the year whereby I hope to reach my goal weight by the end. Ideally I would have reached it by now, but I'm making progress so that is all that matters really.

It is very warm here too, supposed to be the hottest weekend of the year so far - damn ( I dont like taking my clothes off )! Nice Barbeque weather though.

goin to the gym, then off to densit with the g/f, then home for a bbq....

need to prepare for my interview on thurs!... i got all the stuff i jsut have to read n remember !! eeek...

Blimmin heck it's July! :fr: :sp: It looks very hot not that I've been out. :rolleyes:

I can't believe it's JUly already. I'm also hoping to get to target by the end of the year but have been lagging a little lately! Any one got any inspired ideas to get my but moving and start loosing again? I just seem to be lurching from one excuse to the next. My weeks are good but my weekends are terrible and I need to break the cycle.

I accidentally walked 15k yesterday. I only meant to go to town but I was rushing all over the place then looked at the pedometer and thought that can't be right then added it up and realised it was.

Had my cholesterol tested and I'm 3.88 which they said was quite good and my blood pressure was normal (thats a miracle because its normally scarily low so for me it was sky high because it was within the normal range), my pulse was high though I got it done before the exercise well Id just walked into the lower part of town about 3/4 of a mile and then had an hour of sitting down before I had it done and I was 111 thats a bit high for a resting pulse rate isnt it. He said it was a bit worrying but could just be because it was hot I'm guessing it was that because I had a dizzy spell later in the day.


Anyway a good weekend was had really just wish we'd won the footie.

I'm having a good weekend :D The rugby yesterday was fab, and the journey wasn't too bad, despite being hot and sticky. I left plenty of time so I kept on stopping for breaks, and my eating was utterly angelic. The only thing I bought to eat or drink en route was a couple of extra bottles of water, other than that I stuck to the healthy stuff I'd taken with me - and I didn't even eat all of that!

Then this morning I managed to drag myself out of bed for a 15.5 mile run. I wish I could have got out earlier than I did, but I only got in at midnight so I think that setting out at 7.30 was quite early enough! I intend to doze a bit this afternoon, but not until I've made a trip to the off licence to stock up on supplies. A nice relaxing afternoon of doing very little awaits :D

I'm having an extremely BAD weekend.

I wouldn't mind the hot weather except for the idiot chavs next door and being forced to chose between boiling slowly to death with the windows shut or having them open and getting so angry at their thoughtless noise that I have a heard attack!

Mr Chav has got his kids from his previous relationship visiting for the weekend. This is always a problem time and this month it seems to be worse than ever. He spent most of yesterday screaming at his son - the lad can't seem to do anything right - until finally I cracked and went out and gave him a piece of my mind. (Just the little bit that I didn't want any more ;) )

Then last night him and Mrs Chav left the kids (ages 9, 10, 11 and 13) and went to the pub to watch the footie and didn't come home until 1am by which time they were :censored: as penguins. The pub is in walking distance and on the way home they had a very personal type argument at the top of their voices - you know, the sort you shouldn't have in front of ANYONE else - so we all know about their (lack of) sex life now! We could hear them at it all the way from the pub to their house and then they spent another hour standing outside our house screaming and swearing at each other and then screaming and swearing at all the neighbours who were shouting at them to shut up. This went on until the Police turned up.

Today - well - it was quiet this morning because they had hangovers but he's taken on board the concept of the 'hair of the dog' thing and has been knocking back cans of Stella - and he's now :censored: as a penguin again - and is singing rude rugby type songs at the top of his voice (in front of the kids).

Apart from them its such a nice quiet little village - so why did we have to chose the house next door to them??? :( :( :(

sods law I think. Its always the way we have the family from **** across the street they aren't quite as hellish now they've grown up a bit but everyone in the street calls them the hells and so has now forgotten their real name. They managed to have a party and be sick on their own roof once which is quite impressive I think.

Sick on their own roof? Wow that is impressive! (sorry there is a teenager in me trying to get out!!).

It has certainly been hot where I was. Saturday I decided to go to see my Aunt before she goes on her jaunt down to Suffolk to see a friend and pet sit for them. I was trying to get a dress for the 50th party of my friends in August. I thought East Croydon was as good a place as any as I dreaded going up town to Oxford Street. Well I managed to get a dress in Allders (it is still there until the end of the year) from Kalliko, reduced to £59.95. Silk patterned in cream, green and a poppy red colour. It even fits!!

Today (Sunday) unfortunately I am in work finishing off a psychiatric report. It is not as bad as the Prof's usual ones, the dictation is ok for once - perhaps there wasn't an airport noisey enough to go stand in, no babies screeching on the ferry to France etc.

I really must introduce him to SarahAnn's Mr & Mrs Chav. He can quiz them about their non existant sex life and dictate the report to me while they stand there having a slanging match. I usually put a line of xxx's when I cannot understand a word (reports normally full of 'em cos he has a habit of missing the first few words of a sentence by turning the machine and an off and doesn't speak in full sentences anyway). If he did a report on the Chavs it would be full of **** Mr Chav said "**** off" and Mrs Chav said "You **** off." Lovely

did u know... it is illegal to be drunk and in charge of minors!..
i think its ok if they are over 6 tho... !...

I've just been very brave and talked to them about what a misery they're making everyones' lives during this hot weather. They were lying on their concrete garden looking a little fragile so I gave them 15 minutes of some very loud old death metal music first, then turned it off and went and talked to them. They seemed to understand.

I then had to go apologise to my other neighbours.... The woman who phoned the Police is also going to report them to Social Services about the way he treats the kids. Life is going to be interesting!

u have to for the kids..

anyone read victoria climbe inquiry... sacrey...

maybe he just needs some guidance... humm

yup the parents clearly thought that the kids were mature enough to be left for the weekend with just someone occassionally checking in on them they were 17 or so the kids that is, so no they had a massive party climbed onto their roof drunk and puked all over it, dented some cars etc etc neighbours weren't happy bunnies.

off to look after shiney new student on their placement... 1st day haha they wont know whats hit em in the world of kids itu...


had a txt 2day my friend had her baby... boy 7lb 11... awww... shes only little so not bad size... cant wait to go n have cudles... (my excusse will be she can go 4 a sleep and i will look after baby .. hahah)

Congrats on friend's baby Lou - must have been awful carrying that around in this heat!!


Yesterday was stinking hot at work. Like moving through treacle I did not do as much as I could have done. I cannot work in this heat!

OMG - it must have been AWFUL giving birth in this weather.

Its very hot here but there is a light breeze which is making it bearable. I've got my exercise class this afternoon - I think I'll go along because they are trying to build up the class so that they get additional funding and they've got to hit a participant target for 12 weeks in a row before they'll be considered.

BBQ tonight - I've been marinating chicken breasts in a spicy yoghurt mixture and went a bit heavy handed with the turmeric so they are flourescent (sp??) yellow.

Hello everyone, my sister's boyfriend's sister is having a baby at the moment too (try saying that fast 3 times in a row). I can't imagine having a baby in this heat!

Hope everyone has been having a good weekend. I went shopping for a dress to wear to my sister's graduation on Saturday and I bought a size 12! (Ok so it is a baggy dress and I've had to buy a jacket in a much larger size, but still, a size 12!)

Yesterday I spent the day lying in the sun trying to get my legs to go brown. My shoulders, face and arms are often exposed to the sun so they are quite brown (well not really, but brown for me), but I always keep my legs covered. What is freakishly wierd though, is that after sitting in my garden in a bikini (!), my face, shoulders and arms are all burnt, and my legs are still a glowing white. WTF, how does that happen?

My legs are glow-white like that, too - which is why I use that gradual instant tan stuff on them. Its not ideal but its better than going out with brown arms/shoulders/face and pure white legs.

Sarahann - just say it is Homer chicken (Homer Simpson!).

Well done Pach on the size 12!!!

It actually tasted okay - turmeric doesn't seem to add any particular flavour. It just tasted like a slightly sweet chicken tikka. Yum!

My aerobics class was unbelieveable today. I have never, EVER been so hot in my entire life. I got through two litres of water in a 90 minute class. I thought one of the golden oldies was going to go to the great workout class in the sky when she just laid down and started panting. Scary!

The chavs next door had another very loud marital disagreement this afternoon and Mr Chav stropped off at max spead on his motorbike and hasn't come back yet. No doubt he will turn up again at - probably in the small hours of tomorrow morning - and then they will probably have another argument. I truely do not NOT understand people who wash their dirty laundry in public.

My dad's decided to come over and stay on Friday night. Gah, there will be no way to hide the pitiful state of my attempts at gardening. I wish he'd give me more notice... He'll only be here til Saturday (when I go to stay with my parents for 10 days), so he probably won't even be able to rescue the situation in the time he has available.

He's going to hate his food next week, my mum emailed me and asked me to bring some recipes with me as she far prefers my food to the stuff she normally eats at home, but dad's very much a meat and no veg man so I'm not sure that vegetarianism will go down quite so well with him! I've scanned in a couple of recipes and sent them over this evening so that mum can go shopping in advance of me getting there, I've tried to make sure I haven't chosen anything with ingredients that are too exotic as their local shop is a bit lacking sometimes and she hates going to the big hypermarket. Fingers crossed the recipes will go down well! I guess that means there's no excuse for eating rubbish though... (although we'll probably eat out a fair bit so dad can order a nice big chunk of meat).

Sarah Ann, your neighbours sound horrible...we've only got one neighbour right next door as we live on a corner plot, but they manage to annoy me daily.

They have this HUGE rottweiler and whenever I am outside, and it's out, it flings itself at our wall, I can see his head and half his body at full jump, he barks and barks and then my dogs retaliate...it's very annoying to say the least, at least the actual humans don't yell though, they're very slobby though, they don't look after their garden, have loads of weeds and apparently don't have a clue how to use thier lawn mower...I swear it's that house though, we've had four sets of neighbours in there and they've all been a tad strange....I think when we move to Mass. I'll be checking out the neighbours before we move into our next house....

Hope you're allenjoying the hot swealtering weather you're forecast, drink plenty of water, I've been on to my Mum about that, she said she's been awfully uncomfortable of a night time trying to sleep the past few nights, bless her....thank God for A/C I say....that truly is a wonderful thing over here....we have the same temps daily as wimbledon court. Those poor tennis players, I know I couldn't run about in this heat, I'm a lazy moo and get in the pool and float around on the lilo....ok, time for bed....AZ time.

I've just been out for a 4.4 mile run. I really didn't want to get out there this morning, but I'm kind of glad I did. At least I've got it over with, but one of my toes is a bit painful with a blister and I don't enjoy running on it much. I'm looking forward to letting my feet heal for a bit next week!

Ooooooooh Hoooooooooo! Mr Chav didn't come home - maybe he's gone back to his ex. We had a very quiet evening - bliss! Chris, its only the neighbours to my right which are awful - the other side are lovely. We've been told that when our our chav neighbours moved in they had a very pretty garden but within a week they had had it concreted over and the concrete is now all cracking with weeds growing through. It is now a 'yard' in the British sense - with a caravan plonked right in the middle of it where Mr Chav's many kids from his previous relationships sleep in at the weekends on a rotating basis.

Now.... what I DON'T understand is how one of his many children from 'a previous relationship' is a year younger than the child these two have had together. ;) ;) ;)

I was up and out walking this morning at 4.45! It was lovely - quite a cool breeze and all the bunnies, foxes and deer were out feeding so it gave the dogs something to chase (they could never catch them). I thought I'd hurt my back yesterday - all I did was sneeze when I felt an almight great big TWANG in my back but it seems okay today - only a little twinge every now and then.

My neighbours are a very strange bunch too. On one side we have the now well behaved, but previously very rude neighbours who swore at us when we moved in. Opposite, I do not even know what they look like. I have never met or seen them. I don't think they ever come out of their house! The other side are a very nice man who works for Williams, and his very difficult and moody wife and her kids. But the women behind me are the strangest. I think that they are probably witches, they have a lot of late night bonfires (by late I mean between midnight and 2am!) and are basically a very wierd couple of people. What is funny, is that when I was tiny we lived in a housing estate that had several council houses and flats which was known as as a so called "bad area", but we had much more normal and polite neighbours than we do in the "well off" pretty village lane we live in now!

Sarah, turmuric is supposed to be very good for you. They have found a link between turmuric and a reduced incidence of Altzhiemers and Dementia. People who have diets that are high in turmuric such as the Indians, have a much lower incidence of those sorts of diseases.

Morning all!

This heat is horrible and I'm supposed to be doing a 5k run this evening. I think it's going to be more of a walk as the race starts at 6.45 and I doubt the temperature will have dropped that much.

I feel sorry for all those pregnant ladies out there at the moment, especially those using public transport - the tube was horribly sticky this morning and I'm lucky enough to only need to travel 4 stops.

Why did they swear when you moved in? Did you dare to say Hello or something??!!


They may be druid types. There were some next to my Brother's lodgings in New Cross who were pagan/druid types and lit bonfires often.

I have to laugh about those strange neighbours cos when Ma and Pa moved into their house they found out the man next door was rarely there. He has obviously been broken into by kids often and there is barbed wire everywhere and there was a housefire. His son keeps coming over to do things in the deteriorating house but the man is not living there now. The other side I think they split up and he is only there sometimes but you never see her or the kids now. What have my parents been doing???!! Mum is not very mobile so she can't be misbehaving!! My Dad is too shy to be in their face, so it is not that. I do love to tease them tho'!!

Why Mr Next door (in fact both sides) don’t put the houses up for sale I dunno - mind you "your" neighbours could move in!!!!!!

Apart from the Chavs the rest of the people in this road are fine - mostly very quiet and I'm very happy living here. If we ever move it will be because we want to live within easy walking distance of a beach.

When I lived in London I used to live next door to a practising white Witch - she was really nice but some of her friends were a little strange.

My back is getting a bit worse now - silly me, I did an abs workout and I think I did one crunch too many - I got stuck on the floor and it took me ages to get upright!

I don't actually understand why they swore at us, it was so bizarre. We have a shared driveway, and they would tear out of their garage and across the front of our house, swearing and sticking their fingers up at us. We have never really understood what their problem was. Now they just behave normally!

I think Chris is right though, sometimes the house can just attract wierd people, so if your Mr Next doors moved, you could get worse ones! The house on one side of us (the most expensive house in the lane at £600K+) has had 4 different owners in 7 years, all of which have been strange to downright rude. The current lot (Williams man and difficult wife) have lots of cars and lawnmowers stored in the front garden, a particularly lovely "feature" for the garden.

Sarah: Oh no! Ice and rest for the rest of today. You don't want to make it any worse. I hope it gets better in time for tomorrow's run/walk/jog/scramble!

I think that next time I move house I will pay for one of those house detectives to check out the neighbours at various times of the day / night and weekend.

I've mostly been lucky - over the years I've only had a few 'bad' neighbours and they were mostly elderly and confused like the old man who p'd over my garden fence every night when he came home from the pub and the old woman who got dementia but her sons refused to have her put in a home - she deteriorated so badly that she'd turn a hose on me if I dared to have a BBQ.

The thing with my neighbours is strange because when we have ever said anything about their kids, language, stadium volume music, etc, they are always polite and full of apologies and for a day or two they are thoughtful and quiet - then they just revert back to their normal very loud selves again. I don't much like it that Mrs Chav flirts with DH but at least he knows she's doing it now and avoids her as much as possible.

I've taken some Ibrufen (sp??) - and DH is home tomorrow so if necessary he can walk the dogs. I'll go swimming instead which is great for backache.

Oh so it's her is it, the one you had to go to the gym with?!

p.s. Swimming sounds like a great idea

:doh:

I just posted in the June thread and wondered why nobody was posting! :rofl:

Did you miss me? I've been on a course for 2 days. It was really interesting, and they had great food. Had a bit of a carb frenzy, but I'm back now! I tried to go running on Monday but I almost melted walking back to my hotel, so I just scoffed a magnum on my bed and watched a program on a little booy who wanted a lap band. He just obviously hadn't tried hard enough with diet and exercise and wanted an easy way out. Thankfully by the end of the program he's decided to diet and exercise properly without the surgery. I don't think he'd realised that you have to eat healthily after the lap band surgery!!! :doh:

I am aiming for the gym at lunch time, then I'll be getting home early-ish and having a good tidy! One of my bridesmaids is coming to stay at the weekend :D We are going shopping with no money! :rofl: I'm thinking I might do my New York City ballet video at home, with the windows open and the fan on! :D

Yes, its her. I'm actually beginning to feel a bit sorry for her. Mr. C arrived back home at 1.30 this morning and sat at the end of the drive revving his bike before finally parking up and slamming his way indoors. Within minutes they were having a screaming fit at each other - probably because he woke her and the kids - then there was an almighty great crash and LOTS of screaming - turned out he'd chucked something heavy through their large kitchen window.... again! :censored: At this point DH decided that he was worried about their kids' safety and rushed out to make sure the littlies were okay, with me following along behind - I got out there just as Mr C took a swing at my DH for offering to take the kids in to our house to let them sleep while everything was sorted out!! That was enough for me, I kicked him (Mr Chav) in the delicate bits, told him that civilised people don't behave in such a childish way and then phoned the Police on my mobile in front of everyone and made sure they knew exactly what I was doing and why!

By this time half the road were standing watching this going on (I got a great big cheer for the kick) - so when the Police turned up there were plenty of witnesses. I've had them here again this morning to give a statement. He's actually talking about pressing charges against me!

Oh Gawd Sarah Ann!

You have to be so careful and you could well be up for assault (however right you think it was). Never a dull moment in your place is it? I did have a grin on my face when I read you saying that "Civilised people do not behave in such a childish way" and then you kick him in the nuts!!! Lol!!

SOrry, being serious, I would be the same I guess. I hate selfish people like that.

Pre-emptive strike, you were scared that he was going to attack you and your DH :yes:

Well done for standing up to them and your street is better than Corrie ;)

My god Sarah, that sounds awful. I'm sure the Police would have enough sense not to pursue a case against you though. You were just scared and trying to protect yourself and your family, after all he had just attempted (or done?) ABH on your husband! That and the fact that YOU called the police should be enough to stop this going any further.

I'll be thinking of you.

Frus, I have the New York City Ballet work out too! I find it a really good workout, and if I haven't done it for a while it kills me!

Glad you enjoyed your course, and of course we missed you. It gets quieter when you're not around.