Making chicken feed of my mortgage

Greying_Pilgrim

on your behalf. Will you get into Edinburgh early enough to have a little pootle about, wander around or something?

Egg shell variances never cease to mesmerise me. Even the olive shades are all slightly different. Wonder whether the big egg on the left turned out to be a double-yolker.....

Best go off and start a spot of lunch. DP is back.

Greying x

muddywhitechicken

I didn't think my skin was too bad... and then I looked in a magnifying mirror whilst wearing my glasses :eek:

So last weekend I bought some skincare products from a range I last used 20+ years ago. It was mostly a considered purchase (10% off, free gifts etc) but I did splurge on a sonic facial brush. One week on and I can already see a difference (with and without my glasses :rotfl:) :T

ETA August's good habit is to make a bit of an effort with my appearance before leaving the house. Not too much mind - clear mascara, lippy and a squirt of perfume

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

on your behalf. Will you get into Edinburgh early enough to have a little pootle about, wander around or something?

Hoping to get about an hour pootling around the shops - will head to Pepperberry before hotel!

muddywhitechicken

2 hours mooching round the shops (avoided buying any clothes but did buy a new "fingers-crossed-for-a-miracle" cream for my scraggy neck), ate dinner in my hotel room (M&S salad and low fat chocolate mousse as I'm trying to be good) and then a 1.5 hour walk in the city centre (second day of 20,000+ steps :T)

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

did buy a new "fingers-crossed-for-a-miracle" cream for my scraggy neck)

:rotfl: Pretty sure that's not how it's marketed :rotfl:.

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

1.5 hour walk in the city centre (second day of 20,000+ steps :T)

Aw rats . Whereas you'd have found me at 11pm last night walking up and down the apartment to get my steps over 10,000 - and most of them were downhill :rotfl:.

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

Aw rats . Whereas you'd have found me at 11pm last night walking up and down the apartment to get my steps over 10,000 - and most of them were downhill :rotfl:.

That was me on Friday evening!!!

earthgirl

Like your focus for August. Bit late for me - just caught up with a friend who said 'you look ..er...' (the nice wasn't fitting!) so I must make more effort. My chickens will distract me though. Eglu arriving 23rd Aug now, so trying to clear the decks!

muddywhitechicken

earthgirl wrote: »

Like your focus for August. Bit late for me - just caught up with a friend who said 'you look ..er...' (the nice wasn't fitting!) so I must make more effort. My chickens will distract me though. Eglu arriving 23rd Aug now, so trying to clear the decks!

Yay 13 sleeps until chickens :j

Nearly home - just waiting for my last connection. I might have drunk too much free wine...

earthgirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Yay 13 sleeps until chickens :j

Nearly home - just waiting for my last connection. I might have drunk too much free wine...

Is that possible?

Sounds lovely!

muddywhitechicken

Home :j and Mr MWC had a cup of tea waiting for me :kisses3:

There was good news waiting for me in the form of a letter from the hospital Clinical Genetics department. A couple of months ago I finally took them up on their offer to test my mum's tumour sample for BRCA1/BRCA2 genes. It was negative. However, given that my four closest female relatives have had/have died from breast cancer, I am still considered higher risk and it was recommended that I have annual mammograms.