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That Zebra discovered the joys of jumping into puddles wearing your wellies .........and today he discovered that some puddles are deeper than the top of your wellies!

candlelight_2013

Bless him, he must be feeling better now, it sounds as though they have had a great deal of rain then.

Candlelightx

hoglet121

Hello everyone!

Sorry for my long absence - I have been keeping up with your news tho.

Thanks for your concern Candlelight. We're fine thank you, just been extremely busy. Weekend before this one I was working all hours trying to meet a deadline for one of my clients. Setting up my business at the same time as working full time has been pretty full on, but I'm definitely not complaining as I'm so pleased to have picked up some clients already. On Saturday the weather was awful, still so wintry, in fact I was in the office wearing a hat and body warmer. Sunday the weather was glorious and I was outside in a t shirt and jandals (flip flops).

This Saturday just gone I went to watch my cousin's son's last rugby match of the season, then straight home and into the office till well into the evening. It meant that I had all of Sunday off - wich was such total bliss! Spent a few hours with some friends and then home to spread manure around the garden. Hope the neighbours don't mind the smell of horse. :-/ Added our first batch of rotted down compost, which was just a wonderful consistency, really pleased with how it turned out.

I'm very excited becasue my day job are sending me to the UK for 2 weeks in October. I'm only going to be working for a few days and then I'm taking some leave and catching up with family and friends. As well as the UK, I'm nipping over to see a friend in France and stopping off on the way back with friends in Dubai. I'm so excited!

Right, speaking of which, I'd better get on with some work!

Love to you all,

Hoglet x

candlelight_2013

Hoglet I can understand why you are excited, what a pity you won't be here longer. If you were coming to see your inlaws, we could meet for a coffee. Never mind perhaps they will send you over again.

You sound as though you have worked really hard setting up your business, good luck to you I hope everything goes well

Flora sends lots of puuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs to the cats (who I hope are behaving themselves)

Much love

Candlelightx

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Oh dear, feeling poorly today and trying to work out if having pumpernickel for lunch yesterday had caused my sore tum. It seems more than coincidental that I had the very bad indigestion when I had some bread last week having not had wheat for a few weeks, rye has never given me problems before but this feels like IBS which I was told I had years ago but hasn't really given me problems before. I'm hoping whatever this is goes quickly, as I can't leave the house at the moment, horrid!!!

candlelight_2013

Lyn, I am sorry, the side effects of IBS are not pleasant are they.

I truly believe we change as we become older, and foods we were able to tolerate when younger, now have dire effects.

Certainly bread is not good for me, yet is one of my favourites, onions, another favourite and anything fizzy, and last year when I was in Norfolk I had cockles. I have had these many times before with no side effects but my goodness I had dreadful cramps. I had an attack the week before last and I know what it was. It was really hot and I wanted something to quench my thirst so I had fizzy water and that did it. I have known this for sometime but you think "I should be OK" and of course I wasn't.

You look after yourself and put a hot water bottle on your tummy and take things steady today, you have been really busy recently.

Much love

Candlelightx

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I had some greek yoghurt and a banana with a drizzle of honey at 11ish and have just had an apple and a piece of cheese, tum seems OK and I'm able to stay out of the bathroom. Think I'll have to avoid grains and possibly gluten foods, comes as a bit of a shock doesn't it? Have been looking at Paleo foods again and think I'll make a good enough diet using those so that at least is a positive isn't it?

scottishminnie

Hi

Candlelight- you are quite right, we haven't had a summer here and it's turned quite autumnal now with my white beam tree losing the leaves already. It was dry enough for harvest on the farm last week so the barley is in and the straw baled. Dad is a bit more relaxed now which helps. There really isn't much that we can do to help him when the weather is the issue.

I made another 2 pots of apricot jam at the weekend with some yellow stickered fruit from Mr A. I need to sort the store cupboard a but better. I think I have around 20 pots of jams so that should be sufficient for 2 of us pretty much all year.

I've conceded that I need to clear my greenhouse. The remaining tomatoes have died completely now, we didn't have a single fruit ripen. So many people I know have had the same problem. Quite simply no sunshine and vastly differing temperatures have been the problem. It's really disheartening but time to move on.

I picked up a real bargain yesterday. Nipped into a fabric shop in my lunch hour and found a single curtain in a pile of sale pieces. It will make at least 2 very nice cushion covers and cost the princely sum of £2.90. When I looked up the fabric online it was £36 per yard so I'm rather pleased with myself and that is a "winter nights" project for me.
We are off to the U.S soon for a few weeks so I'm getting everything in order at work and making sure it all runs ok while I'm gone. It's amazing how it doesn't matter when or how far in advance I plan a break it's always met with comments that it's not a great time for me to be off. If only I was genuinely so indispensible:)

Looking forward to a long weekend as Monday is the late summer bank holiday however sadly I have another funeral to attend as a family friend died suddenly at the weekend. I think I may treat myself to a wander round the local antique centre afterwards. I don't buy anything but I find it a very relaxing and peaceful place to be for some reason.

MrsLW- hope you are feeling better. I have quite severe reactions to bread on occasion which I find very difficult as I am almost addicted to the stuff. I feel 100% better when I avoid it though. It is most irritating though to have to think ahead of everything you eat.

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Bejabers it's a wild wet and windy day out there and almost dark enough in here to be needing the light on! I had a really productive day yesterday and processed lots of homegrown to go into the freezers, including some passata cubes which I think is going to be a much better way of storing tomatoes than my usual pick them and throw them straight in method. He Who Knows picked up a nice bucketfull of windfall bramleys from a holidaying neighbour so I pureed them and got them frozen too, feel like a squirrel, nice!

I'm making us a nice chickpea and sweet potato curry for lunch, I feel the need for some comfort food and my lovely Sister in Law and I are going to the cinema this evening to see The Man from Uncle and then out for supper afterwards, something to cheer us up on a dreary day.

SM so sorry to hear of your family friends passing, so much to cope with so soon after your other friend, stay buoyant love, times like these are difficult to cope with but it WILL pass and there will be sunshine again, Lyn xxx.

lucielle

Hi Mrs L, have you heard of the Harcombe diet? You may find this helpful re the IBS
L