**Happy New Slimming World Year**

dizzyk

Well Im back from my jaunt to Bruges....just about in one piece, but it wasnt the complete success we had hoped.:o

The ferry crossing there wasnt too bad...the water was almost like a millpond most of the way, and we headed for the main bar where the entertainment was (and a nice spot to get outside for a ciggie)

I had 2 or 3 halfs of stella (the only lager on draught)and a couple of waters and made that do me from 5 til bedtime when I had a coffee with baileys Mr Dizzy however stayed on the stella (draft stella at home he wont touch....as it gives him memory loss from the night before ) we got talking to this older couple and he kept ordering drinks-but refusing to let us pay! anyhow by the end of the evening Mr dizzy was unable to walk straight enough to get me back to the cabin :rotfl::o in fact he nearly got us slung out of the entertainment bit (and him thrown overboard by a gang of grannies) by shouting 'HOUSE' in the middle of the bingo game.....we werent even playing!!!! :rotfl:

So this lovely couple walked back with us (it was getting a little 'sway' going on the boat by now and I was finding it a bit hard to balance as well as normal. I got Mr Dizzy in the room & we had bunk beds, Well.... there was no way he was in any state to get on the top bunk - and I certainly couldnt. So I sat on a buffet in this tiny cramped room thinking what to do while he sat on the bottom bunk & tried to take his boots off and promptly fell on the floor in a heap problem solved, I dragged the pillow & quilt off the top bunk for him on the floor and I got into bed :T

Anyway the next morning we woke up to offload to spend the day in Bruges...Mr Dizzy was severely hungover, it peed it down ALL DAY without a break, we were soaked thru (and I as you all know am not the quickest walker in the world) We made our way right up to the main square, we had ordered some tobacco online to collect at a shop when we got there, collected our full allowance each & Mr dizzy then had to carry 6 kg in his rucksack in the pouring down rain for the rest of the day as we werent sure we would find this shop again. We then set off on another mammoth walk to the brewery museum....AND IT WAS BLOODY CLOSED until the following day :mad: so we trailed a bit further and in between went to a tearoom/bar back in the square I had a massive waffle with cream, ice cream & belgian choc sauce OMG I was happy at last!!!! and a hot choc (well whats a few more syns :eek:) Mr Dizzy got his mussels with chips & mayo (I had to help him eat the chips & mayo of course)

It was getting about time to start making our way back towards where the bus was collecting us by now...we had planned visiting a bar place that sold 100 types of beer (so I could try the flavoured ones) so we looked at the map planned it out....I was so tired at this point I just wanted to sit. We made it (wet through & freezing) to the bar.....IT WAS CLOSED !!!!! :mad::mad::mad: so we ended up sat in belgium- in an irish bar :rotfl: what a disaster of a trip ha ha. It was raining so hard we didnt even get any photos.

Oh yeah and on the way back the sea was rough and I was really sick in the night because I took my seabands off to get in the shower before bed and forgot to put them back on:o

Well Ive told Mr Dizzy we we have to try and go again....

A) when its not raining
he doesnt drink stella :rotfl:
C) Just make sure it turns out better than this time :rotfl:

alimbee

dizzyk wrote: »

. So I sat on a buffet in this tiny cramped room thinking what to do while he sat on the bottom bunk & tried to take his boots off and promptly fell on the floor in a heap problem solved, I dragged the pillow & quilt off the top bunk for him on the floor and I got into bed :T

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:love it!!! Sounds like you had an adventure anyway, hope you can laugh about it now you are home.

ANY_CHANCE

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Now... do I save my syns up (I am thinking of having a danish pastry with my coffee tomorrow after my exam)

Good luck for your exam tomorrow

blackberry-rum

Oh Dizzy how hilarious - at least it wasn't a wasted trip if you can have a good laugh about it!

We have a food tasting next week and I am thinking about making the much-vaunted roulade. I've checked all the posts about it on Minimins and decided:
1. I won't use the baking powder
2. I will mix a fruits of the forest yoghurt in with the (bleurrrgh) quark and plenty of sweetener and probably some frozen fruits.
3. I will mix probably almond essence in, not vanilla.

but now I have a question. I have a microwave. I have a small GF grill. I have a Halogen oven. I do NOT have a full sized oven, nor do I any longer have a swiss roll tin. What I am thinking is to make the egg and quark bit in two or three stages in a shallow dish, then stack them like pancakes with the filling between rather than roll it up. Does anyone who has made it think that will work? We'd then cut it like a regular cake. I think I wouldn't assemble it until I got to the meeting.

(PS the hilarious thing is I probably won't even taste it, I don't fancy it at all but everyone else seems to like it)

Skintslimmer

Only you, Dizzy!

gunsandbanjos

Sounds like you had an interesting time Dizzy:rotfl:

Had the obligatory Kitkat, total syns for the day 15.

Primmer

Amilbee - huge congrats - well done you :j

Dizzy - sounds like the trip was eventful! At least you can laugh about it :rotfl:

alisont

Don't know what they are like as I don't eat dairy but noticed a pile of pink wafer snacks reduced in Wilkinsons - half price so 49p.

Said 48 cals in a pack and very low fat - couple of ladies were buying lots saying about low syns so sounded SW style!

The idea of pink wafers does not sound good to me but thought it might be of interest to some members here!

dizzyk

blackberry-rum wrote: »

Oh Dizzy how hilarious - at least it wasn't a wasted trip if you can have a good laugh about it!

We have a food tasting next week and I am thinking about making the much-vaunted roulade. I've checked all the posts about it on Minimins and decided:
1. I won't use the baking powder
2. I will mix a fruits of the forest yoghurt in with the (bleurrrgh) quark and plenty of sweetener and probably some frozen fruits.
3. I will mix probably almond essence in, not vanilla.

but now I have a question. I have a microwave. I have a small GF grill. I have a Halogen oven. I do NOT have a full sized oven, nor do I any longer have a swiss roll tin. What I am thinking is to make the egg and quark bit in two or three stages in a shallow dish, then stack them like pancakes with the filling between rather than roll it up. Does anyone who has made it think that will work? We'd then cut it like a regular cake. I think I wouldn't assemble it until I got to the meeting.

(PS the hilarious thing is I probably won't even taste it, I don't fancy it at all but everyone else seems to like it)

Oh we've had a good old chuckle about it today, its certainly one for the memory book :rotfl:It

I think stacking the roulade into layers like a cake would work fine...probably easier to cut too

alimbee wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:love it!!! Sounds like you had an adventure anyway, hope you can laugh about it now you are home.

well there are a few piccies of Mr Dizzy trying to take his boots off that weve been laughing at this aft, It was kind of like a Bear Ghylls adventure in the amazon rainy season....well without the waffles and hot chocolate

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Only you, Dizzy!

It was like a chuffing carry on film!! I half expected 'Beadles about' to jump out near the end :rotfl::rotfl:

got mi waffles tho :T

Wootball

Primmer wrote: »

Yay well done wootball and to your oh. Did you kiss your weigh in girl then?

She is quite good looking but thankfully I managed to avoid it - not sure she would have thanked me! Besides, I'm saving myself for Susan

Oh and the other half of course... :A