6th August
Saw a programme on tv tonight about fasting and how it can help you lose weight if you eat what you want for 5 days and eat only 600 calories on 2 days:
That means 11.13 tonight until 11.13 tomorrow on 600 calories!
OK let's do it
11.17 - big glass of water
Ok I'll start at 12. Need cakey thing!
11.49 - and the last glass of wine
7th August - 12.45 - working from home, had 200 calories so far with 12 hours to go. Had a small slice of fruit loaf and a scraping of butter and half a can of vegetable soup! Hungry!
15.40 - Just had another slice of fruit loaf. Yummy scrumptious. Don;t know how easy this will be at work, need to think salad and leaf.
10th and 11th August - ate what I want, great stuff as it is my wedding anniversary and we have blown out at Tonic on Nottingham!
13th - second fast day and I'm at work. Not easy but had stir fry on the evening. lost 3lb so far!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Monday, August 06, 2012
Reasons to be cheerful 2
Reasons to be cheerful 2
6th August 2012
The sun was beautiful tonight through the windows at the back of the house. Fed the fish then went upstairs and just drank it in. The bamboo in Clare’s pot looked fabulous, the rays slanting down.
Didn’t want to get up this morning but managed to slough off the idea of a duvet day and made it in. Picked up my prescription at Boots first thing. Queued outside with a few others for it to open, then got to work.
I had made a list on Saturday for things to do in the garden, starting by the dining room window. 10 things on the list which I sorted out into those things that Brian and Julie will do, (some of which only if I ask them nicely and with notice). Like cleaning the soffits. The other 5 things were for me to do, and as I went out with my wet sponge to clean the kitchen window I realised two things. Firstly that I could open the window and clean the inside from the outside, which would mean I can clean the top window inside from outside, the main difference other than the Okey Cokey being that the washing machine is not in the way when done from the outside. Secondly that as the window cleaners clean the outside of the windows I don’t need to clean the other kitchen window and I can cross the dining room window off my list too. Suddenly I can tick a bogoff! No shake it all about! Bonus.
Brian and Julie come on Wednesday after their holiday. Happy days.
4th August 2012
Had a lie in this morning, and I didn’t get dressed till 6pm!
The weather was lovely when I got up and one of the first jobs I did today was to water the garden. Something has eaten Charlie Dimmock. I bought 4 dark purple salvia, called Charlie Dimmock, from Reuben Shaw a couple of weeks ago when I was planting up the apple tree bed, and the one closest to the hedge has been completely munched, and the others aren’t faring much better either.
Glorious day for pottering. My back hasn’t been too bad today so I sorted out the area near the microwave – the amount of cat hair and a couple of dead spiders – dreadful! Took a load of pictures of the garden, I really love it at the moment, the hard work that Brian and Julie are putting in is really paying off and it’s a pleasure to sit feeding the fish and feeling the sun on your shoulders.
Later on it’s rained, so I had to put the mats from the bedroom, which I washed, on the radiator – yes, we have the heating on and it’s August.
Jessica Ennis has just won the Gold Medal in the Heptathlon at the London Olympics. Mo Farah is about to race. And I’ve just found a cold bottle of cider in the fridge that I didn’t know was there. Bonus.
6th August 2012
The sun was beautiful tonight through the windows at the back of the house. Fed the fish then went upstairs and just drank it in. The bamboo in Clare’s pot looked fabulous, the rays slanting down.
Didn’t want to get up this morning but managed to slough off the idea of a duvet day and made it in. Picked up my prescription at Boots first thing. Queued outside with a few others for it to open, then got to work.
I had made a list on Saturday for things to do in the garden, starting by the dining room window. 10 things on the list which I sorted out into those things that Brian and Julie will do, (some of which only if I ask them nicely and with notice). Like cleaning the soffits. The other 5 things were for me to do, and as I went out with my wet sponge to clean the kitchen window I realised two things. Firstly that I could open the window and clean the inside from the outside, which would mean I can clean the top window inside from outside, the main difference other than the Okey Cokey being that the washing machine is not in the way when done from the outside. Secondly that as the window cleaners clean the outside of the windows I don’t need to clean the other kitchen window and I can cross the dining room window off my list too. Suddenly I can tick a bogoff! No shake it all about! Bonus.
Brian and Julie come on Wednesday after their holiday. Happy days.
4th August 2012
Had a lie in this morning, and I didn’t get dressed till 6pm!
The weather was lovely when I got up and one of the first jobs I did today was to water the garden. Something has eaten Charlie Dimmock. I bought 4 dark purple salvia, called Charlie Dimmock, from Reuben Shaw a couple of weeks ago when I was planting up the apple tree bed, and the one closest to the hedge has been completely munched, and the others aren’t faring much better either.
Glorious day for pottering. My back hasn’t been too bad today so I sorted out the area near the microwave – the amount of cat hair and a couple of dead spiders – dreadful! Took a load of pictures of the garden, I really love it at the moment, the hard work that Brian and Julie are putting in is really paying off and it’s a pleasure to sit feeding the fish and feeling the sun on your shoulders.
Later on it’s rained, so I had to put the mats from the bedroom, which I washed, on the radiator – yes, we have the heating on and it’s August.
Jessica Ennis has just won the Gold Medal in the Heptathlon at the London Olympics. Mo Farah is about to race. And I’ve just found a cold bottle of cider in the fridge that I didn’t know was there. Bonus.
Friday, August 03, 2012
Reasons to be cheerful
My feet are warm. I know it’s August, but it has been so fucking miserable so far this summer that that in itself is quite unusual. I have tracky bottoms on mind you, and t shirt nightie and hoody top, but even so this summer the fact that I’m wearing all that but no socks and still my feet are warm is something in itself.
It’s also Friday night which is a bonus. No work tomorrow, bottle of wine and a lie in.
I’ve done some dead heading – the trailing troughs and the clematis. Fingers got all sticky and stained red and blue. I’ve fed the troughs too, it really pays off.
Rachel’s Dad has had his operation and is hallucinating on tramadol
“Dad had a tramadol last nite and has been hallucinating all nite and most of the day!! Talking about purple tree’s and a man’s head on his table. Not supposed to be funny but I found it amusing lol!”
No Harry potter then lol?” – My mum had a heart by pass 6 months ago and had me nearly convinced that JK Rowling or an acolyte had been doing Harry Potter readings in the ward day room.
“No just clouds with claws coming to get him lol!”
“Bless”.
Oven’s on for goat’s cheese on garlic pizza bread.
It’s also Friday night which is a bonus. No work tomorrow, bottle of wine and a lie in.
I’ve done some dead heading – the trailing troughs and the clematis. Fingers got all sticky and stained red and blue. I’ve fed the troughs too, it really pays off.
Rachel’s Dad has had his operation and is hallucinating on tramadol
“Dad had a tramadol last nite and has been hallucinating all nite and most of the day!! Talking about purple tree’s and a man’s head on his table. Not supposed to be funny but I found it amusing lol!”
No Harry potter then lol?” – My mum had a heart by pass 6 months ago and had me nearly convinced that JK Rowling or an acolyte had been doing Harry Potter readings in the ward day room.
“No just clouds with claws coming to get him lol!”
“Bless”.
Oven’s on for goat’s cheese on garlic pizza bread.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Music
Listening to the Planet Suite by Holst. Just had Mars, now it's the West Side Story one, Jupiter, with take my hand and I will lead you there! And the hymn too, just like early morning assembly when I was a kid. Lovely, mellow and warm, the streams of light through the Hall windows.
I E mailed Nancy a couple of days ago, just to find out if she is OK, and she responded, I am absolutely delighted to say, and all is well with her, so that's great news.
Hub is still in Cornwall, not exactly on top of the world. No drawings, no materials, apparently they (the approved electricians) make up the job as they go along. Not the way Hub likes to work. Still, maybe they need someone like him to organise them! One month contract then Spain! Lovely jubbly!
I E mailed Nancy a couple of days ago, just to find out if she is OK, and she responded, I am absolutely delighted to say, and all is well with her, so that's great news.
Hub is still in Cornwall, not exactly on top of the world. No drawings, no materials, apparently they (the approved electricians) make up the job as they go along. Not the way Hub likes to work. Still, maybe they need someone like him to organise them! One month contract then Spain! Lovely jubbly!
Monday, July 26, 2010
3 massive things.
Hub off to Cornwall. The 1st job he has had since February. He didn't want to go. But still a massive thing.
It was Helston. Is that the flower throwing thing? Accident on the motorway.
I have cleaned the front room. bought polish and everything. Smells fresh.
It was Helston. Is that the flower throwing thing? Accident on the motorway.
I have cleaned the front room. bought polish and everything. Smells fresh.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
things just aren't the same
I have been reading about Erik Quinn the Heart of a family for several months now, and one of the earliest blogs Nancy wrote was the shock she felt when she discovered that WS syndrome was part of her life. She writes that she felt like she packed to go to Rome, her passport and tickets said Rome, her guidebook and map was for Rome, but then she woke one morning and found herself in Amsterdam. When Simon was diagnosed it was similar - the party where all your friends are on the patio, you go inside to pick up a few more nibbles or a couple of cocktails, and when you walk back outside someone has shut the patio doors - your brain is already outside, ready to riposte that last remark you heard, ready to top the comment about the checkout, and instead you hit the glass, you find yourself on the floor surrounded by sausages thinking what happened. Your head for a couple of seconds is outside.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Hub is not happy
Hub is not a happy creature tonight as he is facing a reorganisation at work, potentially meaning he is working with people he doesn't want to. Full of sympathy of course, but can't help remembering the last 6 months when I have been in such turmoil at work, only to realise that I am effectively trapped due to the money situation we are in. I did say at the time that we could sell everything - the houses etc, and start a business ourselves, but ultimately we decided that the situation was not that bad. Well, it was that bad actually, and I have taken some knocks this year, so maybe Hub has to realise it is now his turn to swallow things he doesn't like and learn to live with things.
He has a meeting tomorrow to sort it out so we'll see.
Not a bad day otherwise. Not cold, not sunny, not bright, not frosty, one of those not quite sure days. Busy as usual, got the washing picked up, did tuna and white wine sauce for tea, Oxford tomorrow.
He has a meeting tomorrow to sort it out so we'll see.
Not a bad day otherwise. Not cold, not sunny, not bright, not frosty, one of those not quite sure days. Busy as usual, got the washing picked up, did tuna and white wine sauce for tea, Oxford tomorrow.
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