No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

Floss

MrsLW pleased to read that Nell stood firm and that the Head accepted her decision this time.

fuddle

Well done Nell. I expect DofE gave Nell the chance to experience what her hearts desired in the great outdoors but there are other chances to be found without a group of teenagers intow. Hats off to you Nell!

I have been cutting my hair myself for years and have let the greys keep on coming. I was quite proud of my greys really but notice I said 'was' there? My cousin came over yesterday (Regis and Saks top brass before she had her children) and gave me a cut and colour. I feel fab for the first time in a long time. Long term she's going to add blondes to my brown because at some point I want to go with the grey completely but salt and pepper, I now see, isn't a good look for me. She did a before and after on facebook, thankfully didn't tell the world I cut my own hair but my gosh what horrendous hair! :eek: I thought it was alright :cool:

I feel an OS fake now but I picture Mar with pink hair and doff my hat.

Lamb curry already made and chocolate cake is in the oven as I type. DH is starting the couch to 5K so it will be a reheat job later anyway.

Problem with my inhalers. I pulled back a sticker with my dosage on to find the inhaler in a lower dose. The pharmcist insisted it was perfectly fine just made in another country but I'm afraid when he said the words 'I will exchange them for the English version when you drop the boxes in' my cynical head suggested he had something to hide and wanted all evidence. I don't know. I have since been to another pharmacy (whom as of today deal with my inhalers. So much for trying to support independant pharmacies eh?) and the pharmacist kindly said I was ok to take them as it's all about metered doses and inhaled doses and that it will be the right dose for me but puting an alternate sticker over the product is not something they would do and suggested it was a cost cutting exercise by the pharmacy. I do feel like I have been fobbed off with cheap foreign copies of branded pharmaceuticals. Has this happened to anyone else?

Floss

Fuds sounds a fab hairdo! Not sure about the meds issue, but maybe worth an email to your local PCT to raise your concern.

scottishminnie

Hi all.

Playing catch up yet again. Been a busy week and although I'm working from home today I can see it being a late finish. Holiday Monday though so I'm hoping for a good weekend weather wise and lots of time spent outside.

Looking for inspiration from my friends here - my mother bought me "gin and tonic" frosting from Lakeland. Not something which I would have bought but I feel obliged to use it - any ideas? I was thinking of a lemon or lime type cake as that was really the best I could come up with. Open to ideas though:)

Lyn- Nell has done the right thing. She needs more "me" time and the school need to realise how much extra she did. I hope she has lots of nice things planned for her own time. Well done on the weight loss, I take my hat off to you. Despite running close to 25 miles per week and cycling another 60 or so I'm struggling just to keep my weight stable let alone lose so I think drastic action is needed:o

Fuddle - you're absolutely allowed to have a decent cut and colour. I think it's very important to have well cut. Hair. All the expensive clothes in the world won't hide a bad hairdo or scruffy shoes - well that's my justification for spending quite a bit on both ends!

Hubby planted onion and carrot seeds last night so I'll be watching the raised beds like a hawk for weeks now until I see sprouts. I'm terribly impatient. I have my tomato plants in pots in the greenhouse however have needed the heater on most days. I thought I would give them a week or so before transplanting them into the grow bags - that should also happen this weekend. My beetroot is looking healthy- I cheated though and bought plugs rather than seed - not very os:(

So, quick break over - off to try and stem the email flow. I think everyone at work is trying to offload things ahead of the holiday weekend.

Will be back

Floss

SM how about a lemon / lime drizzle, but using the frosting? If you add a tiny drop of gin or lemon juice to it to thin it down, it should behave like a drizzling icing

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The weight loss isn't hard you just have to remember every day what you aren't going to eat rather than trying to cram in as much of what you ARE going to eat as you possibly can. My days food is

Breakfast - 2 cups of tea with skimmed milk and no sweetener and I don't do breakfast food, I find I'm not hungry until lunchtime so I don't eat until then. He Who Knows has a couple of slices of toast with low fat spread and marmite/jam/marmalade or pate or some bran flakes fruit and 0% fat Greek yoghurt with some stevia sweetener on it.

Lunch - A bowl of homemade vegetable soup, a good big bowl too and I start the veg in oil spray rather than oil/butter/marge and blitz it at the end with the stick blender so it's nice and thick and unctuous. If I make cream soup I use skimmed milk and fat free fromage fraiche in it to get the creamy taste. I have a cooked chicken thigh with mine most days and it's cooked in the oven with a low calorie sausagemeat stuffing and wrapped in a piece of cooking bacon from a 60p pack from Mr.T. That's enough to keep me going through the afternoon until supper. If I do get empty I have a banana or an apple or half a dozen prunes/a handful of dried fruit mid afternoon. He Who Knows has toast or a ham/corned beef sandwich with his soup.
Supper - Biggest meal of the day and we have lots of steamed veg, some new potatoes (3 or 4) or a jacket potato a decent portion of protein (a salmon steak, a couple of low fat sausages cooked on a rack in the oven, a gammon steak with the fat taken off also cooked in the oven, an omelette with something like mushrooms and 1 oz of grated low fat cheddar, usually something fairly low fat but nutritious) and somewhere in the day we have a fat free yoghurt for around 100 calories.

We have unlimited tea and coffee (coffee is black for both of us with no sweetener, we like it best that way) and IF and WHEN we get the 'I NEED some chocolate right NOW' feeling we have a mug of low calorie hot chocolate which really hits the spot, fills an empty tum and lifts flagging energy levels and spirits.

None of it is hard, we've not felt deprived ever since we started this in November and we're both under BMI 25 now and managing the eating to stay there very well, in fact we're enjoying the meals we have very much more now than we have for years AND I can run upstairs again, WOOHOO!!!

hoglet121

Hi All,

SM - I sympathise - the more I cycle, the more weight I put on. Doesn't help that cycling makes me ravenous, even when I take a little munchie out with me.

Well, 4 days to do at my current job, wahoo! Boss called me into his office on Friday and told me some more detail on the things he's been working on, and I'm 100% sure I've made the right decision to quit now. I don't think they will be trading for much longer.

Looking forward to our break in Melbourne this weekend, and a good catch up with my brother in law and his family. No doubt the time will fly and I'll be into my new job before I know it.

Took Alfie to the vet for his vaccinations on Saturday, I had to get him done before the cat feeding lady comes when we're away and shovels biscuits into them. As it was, he's still put on 200g from this time last year. :-(

Better get onto my finishing up jobs,

much love to you all
Hoglet xx

fuddle

I Knew It Wasn't Right. Eldest DD aged 12



I knew it wasn't right,
I was about to start the fight,
I tried with all my might,
But I was reaching to a great height.

The wind cheered me on,
But suddenly it was gone,
I knew that it was wrong,
That the fight would be too long.
I realised the scars would last forever,
But I wouldn't back down, not ever.

I knew it wasn't right,
I was about to start the fight.

I launched a fish at their face,
But it didn't leave a trace,
Of blood that would decide their fate.

They pulled a knife from their pocket,
I wished that they would stop it,
Knowing that this knife
Was destined to end my life.

I knew it wasn't right,
As they swiftly ended the fight.


This is DD's poem that is to be published. It's about the danger of pride in the young when knives are disrespected.


I asked her why she would 'launch a fish'. She said she wanted to show a mediocre weapon was the same as a life ending weapon in terms of pride and that she used the wind as a cheer on to describe adrenaline and what happens when that subsides.



It's harrowing stuff from my dainty little innocent girl and has made me realise that no amount of protecting can protect them from an understanding of the real world and rightly so in the times we live in. Non of this has come from me and I'm actually really pleased that school teachings of knife crime have instilled an understanding so deep to someone who has never experienced that kind of situation.

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Amazing!!! and mature in one of her years. The girlie has a talent FUDS she is going to be as formidable an adult as is her mum, you've done a cracking good job on this one xxx.

LaineyT

Wow Fuds, no wonder that has been picked up for publication, what an insight into the kind of world that our kids have to now deal with
Certainly makes you think and that's what good poetry is surely all about xx