Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

mystic_trev

tomterm8 wrote: »

9 times out of 10 it means either:
(a) The engine overheated, and once it cooled down it was fine or
(b) there is a loose wire in it somewhere... and it's going to stop working again.

[c] It's visited Lourdes

tomterm8

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm looking forward to them finding this establishment figure with no establishment connections, should be interesting.

Esther Rantzen.

Nikkster

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think I'm on a post-goal slump... So, on Monday in my official weighing I was 100lb down on my "maximum weight". That's not to say I've lost 100lb on the current diet (since I've been on a few diets since maximum weight), but it means that I've reached a major goal that I set myself years ago but never really thought I'd get to.

And that's left me feeling down and scratchy.

Maybe I'm odd that way? But I tend to find it often how it is.

Tomterm, that's an amazing achievement. Are you wanting to set a new goal or is the next step to maintain? A goal to have not put on weight in say 6 months perhaps?

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

.... 100lb down

That's a LOT. That's a whole smallish fully grown adult (7 stones). Congratulations.

I think there is an anticlimax because there's no fanfare, no "before" and "after" photos .... no party.

That's a whole lot of pies

Nikkster

mystic_trev wrote: »

[c] It's visited Lourdes

Or d) the person who has come to repair it has just walked through the front door!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

...A goal to have not put on weight in say 6 months perhaps?

That's a tricky one. So much easier to put it on than take it off... life's not fair.

I really larded out between offering on the house and completing ... sitting on the sofa "waiting" for a development, thinking it'd all happen faster... and now not many clothes fit me.

I should diet again. Nearly pumped the bike tyres up today, to go collect the first bucket of shells .... but I need to find the box with the panniers in as the tyre pump is in one of the panniers.

tomterm8

Nikkster wrote: »

Tomterm, that's an amazing achievement. Are you wanting to set a new goal or is the next step to maintain? A goal to have not put on weight in say 6 months perhaps?

I'm not ready to go into maintenance yet, I'm still on the diet. I want to lose roughly 1 1/2 more stone. That will take me down into the overweight category in terms of BMI. Once that happens I will probably set a new goal...

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's a whole lot of pies

And I enjoyed every one of them

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My aunt and uncle lived in Sweden and commuted by train over the bridge to Denmark for a couple of years. Said it was by far the worst, most unreliable service they have ever used and made connex south east look adequate!

I've only used trains in DK, not the ones to Sweden and they were great. DH took the train to Sweden last year for Eurovision and said it was brilliant, but it may have been on its best behaviour, a bit like all the trains in London were for the Olympics.

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm not ready to go into maintenance yet, I'm still on the diet. I want to lose roughly 1 1/2 more stone. That will take me down into the overweight category in terms of BMI. Once that happens I will probably set a new goal...


And I enjoyed every one of them

Brilliant news! Congratulations tomterm!

chewmylegoff

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think I'm on a post-goal slump... So, on Monday in my official weighing I was 100lb down on my "maximum weight". That's not to say I've lost 100lb on the current diet (since I've been on a few diets since maximum weight), but it means that I've reached a major goal that I set myself years ago but never really thought I'd get to.

And that's left me feeling down and scratchy.

Maybe I'm odd that way? But I tend to find it often how it is.

Crikey that's a lot. I always think of dieting in terms of packs of butter. 100 packs of butter lost is a hell of a lot! Hope you can keep the motivation going and get to where you want to be. How is the cycling going?

chewmylegoff

Re: trains I think our trains are much maligned and it's part of the national psyche to complain about them, but certainly the routes I regularly use are pretty good - although these are mainly in and around London I use the lines to Reading, Oxford, Leeds and Birmingham a few times a year as well and generally I think they stand up pretty well. I have certainly experienced worse in France and Belgium. Further, the trains here are a gazillion times better than they were 10 years ago and the tube is simply unrecognisable in terms of reliability from when I first started to use it in 1997.

I expect regional services not on main lines are godawful but then I doubt that is much different in many other countries really.