Donny? Osmond?? I know there are a few DO fans around here.
Glad you got your photographer sorted, Frus, and I hope you all have a lovely weekend swinging around.
I had a great walk this morning - it was a beautiful dawn, all apricot, pink, greys and turquoise.
I've just dried off - I had to use a hose in the garden to bath Fred and he kept shaking so I got soaked through. A deer jumped over a hump of ferns and landed in front of us - I don't think it knew we were there - and it sort of bounced up and down (to make sure we were looking) and then ran off in a straight line up the path in front of us. The dogs went after it (they'd never catch one but they keep on trying). After a couple of hundred yards the deer took a massive bound sideways over a drainage ditch with Fred in hot pursuit (George had given up by then) but poor Fred didn't make it over the ditch - he fell in and came out completely smothered in foul smelling black oozey gunge. Really strange though, when the deer realised it wasn't being chased any more it turned round to look at us!!!! Who knows - maybe it enjoyed the game. On the way home we passed a few hiker type people and they all said 'pfwarrrr - they must be muck spreading somewhere' - but it was Fred.
He's on tour next year with David Cassidy and David Essex. Actually I think it's The Osmonds without him looking at the pic on ticketmaster. Obviously I'm far too young for all that but I had to put up with my older sisters love for them.
my mum's friend absolutely loves donny osmund, so will have to let her kno about his.
My room is so fluffing freezing!! The window doesnt shut properly and have already complained like a million times to the management nothing seems to be happening now. Really starting to get fed up of living in feezing/ filthy squalour that is university accomodation now. Am being driven to eat!!!!!! Just a a bage with loads of benecol! how random!!!
Very annoyed bout his as i have just
1) signed up to the christmas challenge started by sarah ann
2) Got onto the scales and realised that i havent lost any weight since wednesday!
sorii about his rant just venting sum frustration!
I still havent lost any weight this week. I had my ED consultation yesterday and I was a kilo heavier on the hospital scales, but Im still 105 on my home ones. And I measured 2 inches less than I thought I did I hope Im not shrinking the wrong way
They are going to be starting a binge eating support group soon, and they are going to write to me to let me know when it starts
Today was great! Just me and about a dozen blokes in their mid 20s to late 30s!!!!! Cos I was the only female I spent most of it operating the chainsaw while the lads did the fetching and carrying then the last couple of hours were spent sort of weaving the tree trunks in to a kind of platform which next week's workparty will turn in to a part of a walkway over a bog. Remind me not to use that walkway!
One worrying thing - I'm waiting to die. When I got to the meeting point the organisers had got a fire going with coffee brewing and a pan with a load of mushrooms cooking for sandwiches (most of the people there were veggie so no bacon) - being the only female I got the first sandwich and OMG it was great - thick doorsteps of homemade nutty wholemeal bread with garlicy, buttery mushrooms in the middle - I ate the whole sandwich in double quick time knowing I'd work off all those calories (but I didn't have seconds like most people!) The mushrooms tasted stunning - kind of unusual - and I said so - then I was told that they'd been picked on the Moors this morning! I honestly didn't know that any of the fungi growing there was edible.
I now have a tummy ache - its possible that humping that chainsaw around has strained a muscle - but it COULD be revenge of the killer mushrooms. I think I'm off mushrooms for life now.
The dogs were great. I was asked to tie them up while we were using the equipment but after a few minutes one of the lads nudged me and told me to look at the dogs - they had both slipped their collars (they don't like being tied up) but were lying there fast asleep right next to their leads. The only drama was Fred falling in a ditch (again).
Last night two friends and myself went to a race night that my friend's son had organised to raise money for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. My friend had breast cancer last year thank god she is doing well now. I didn't win a thing but had a lovely meal of chips from a chip shop and a big greasy spring roll. Oh it was gorgeous and I was stuffed afterwards.
Today I met my father for our usual Sunday afternoon drink. He was in good from I have to say. Then came home and had the most wonderful sandwich of advocado, watercress, cucumber, feta cheese and hummous. Followed by yeo Valley yoghurt which I added nuts and seeds.
Kalijack you will have a loss this week I am sure.
Sarah that sarnie sounded gorgeous I love a mushroom. Hope your ok though!
Did I tell you how Ken (my friend's dog) ate a magic mushroom the other week and his head swelled to gargantuan proportions. He is however fine now so don't fret!!!
Is it next week Frus gets married?
No exercise for me today but I shall head back to the gym tomorrow plus my daily walk to work.
LOL Sarah, I do hope you're tummy ache has gone and that it wasn't really caused by poisonous funghi. I've often wanted to go foraging for mushrooms etc but know that I'd probably kill myself on my first attempt.
Michele - your lunch sounds gorgeous, think I should have come round to your house for that.
I'm really hungry at the moment and realised about 10 minutes ago that I've had no lunch, this is not something I usually do so I feel all the more hungry for it. I've cooked a casserole for dinner but that won't be ready for about another half an hour
Hello, I'm back! (and annoyed, I forgot to change the time on my clock radio when I got in last night so got woken up an hour early this morning).
We had lots of fun at the weekend at Go Ape and out partying on Saturday night. I've got some photos which I'll try to post tomorrow, there are a few of people ending up in a heap at the bottom of the zip wire, and others of us in flashing devil horns
It's meant to be running club tonight, but I've had this really annoying pain just below my ribs on and off all weekend so I don't know whether I'll be able to run. I'll take my stuff into work and see how I feel I think. I'm really hoping it's not gall bladder related, but reading the descriptions on the internet, that's exactly where the pain is so it could be I suppose. Hopefully it's nothing serious and will go away as quickly as it came.
Expect fly-by posts from me. Obviously my mind isn't into this healthy lark this week! Had chip-shop chips and a pineapple fritter last night! I am drinking lots, eating plenty of fruit and veg and cutting down the sodium this week. Hopefully all will go well.
I bought a new camera It's a Canon Powershot A620 if anyone's interested! My old one died between Go Ape and the night out Ah well, spanking new toy for me!
Well I'm alive - it wasn't the mushrooms - but I think I've pulled an abdominal muscle and my arm muscles are singing a bit as well.
Frus and Helen - Glad you had a good time and I'm really looking forward to your pictures.
Frus, make sure you get loads of sleep this week otherwise it'll show on your face in your photos.
Michele, Katie's right - your sandwich sounds gorgeous.
I've gone on to 'Sarah Winter Time' starting today. No more early morning walks - from now until spring I'm walking mid-morning or later so I don't get another attack of that SAD thing. I always used to get it and just thought it was 'depression' it never occurred to me that it was seasonal. Anyway, as I found out last year, spending an hour or more outside in the middle of the day stop it completely - last year was the first year that I can remember than I haven't just wanted to crawl in to bed when the clocks changed and stay there till spring.
I get the same thing quite bad.
I can diet all summer, then put it all back over autumn and winter, eating cause I'm depressed.
This year is going to be different though.
I bought a SAD lamp a couple of years ago and am gong to set up behind my computer so I get half an hour each morning.
I always intend to go outside, like I know I should, but I hate the cold as well, and can never be bothered as soon as the leaves are off the trees.
I've just been to hang the washing out and its like a summers day here today.
I'm off to France for 5 days on Wednesday hope its like this over there.
Carole - good luck with the lamp - this SAD thing is a real misery. My doctor told me that people can get suicidal with it! I get the craving for fattening food as well - it all seems to be part of it. Its like a horrible loop I get on .... the shorter days make me depressed, depression makes me eat, eating too much AND the shorter days makes me very depressed, depression makes me eat, and so on. Last year talking my walks in the middle of the day seemed to break the circle and I managed to keep control over what I ate for the first time in years.
Luckily my dogs have got an internal body clock and they won't let me skip their walk. Often, if the weather is bad, I start the walk intending it to only be for 30 minutes or so but once I'm out there I'm happy to just walk and walk.
Its beautiful here today, as well - my garden is a bit of a sun trap so I had my morning snack and coffee out there. Its very nice but it shouldn't be this warm on 30th October!
but I had to put up with my older sisters love for them.
I hope Im not shrinking the wrong way 
I honestly didn't know that any of the fungi growing there was edible. 
I am drinking lots, eating plenty of fruit and veg and cutting down the sodium this week. Hopefully all will go well. 
Ah well, spanking new toy for me! 
