Friday 11 February 2011

Half Term....

I'm really looking forward to half term, (no sarcasm I promise you.) The weather is warmer so we can all play outside and I've cheated, big time - I've bought a million nice pizzas, salad things and naughty puds for the sproglets as we fully intent to have the world-and-his-wife for playdates. The pizza seems to be most popular lunch item, as the muddy hordes like to eat alfresco in the various dens constructed around the site and fields.

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My potatoes are chitting nicely in the utility room. The greenhouse is spilling over with little modules of life and this morning I noticed little cabbage seedlings raising their heads.

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Archie is so close to being ready for free ranging, this morning when I offered him and the girls some leftover porridge, (which they love,) he grabbed a dollop, escaped the pen and ran off into the garden, hotly pursued by the bigger, already roaming flock of girls. Give him his due, he didn't part with the tasty blob and I had a heck of a job catching him again. All the while the cat, Tabby, (some may know him as Peter Andre) watched the antics. Hmmmmmm, few more weeks perhaps.

I'm proud to announce I've lost 11lb in four weeks on the online Weight Watchers diet.... may put some back on tonight as we're off to a dinner party across the hills, but can't help thinking that the weight loss is down to two key factors: First, I am not eating a Christmas Selection Box a day (note to self:  beware the temptation of Easter Eggs!) and Second, when I'm not writing, I'm gardening.

Soon I'll be fit too as we'll be getting in training to wrestle baby bunnies from the mouths of cats. I don't actually want the bunnies saved, (sorry,) but the hideous squealing would melt the hardest of hearts, i.e. mine.

Believe me when I say I'm still more than cuddly, so why is it that people who hear you're on a diet, (and can clearly see you've got miles to go before your jeans actually fall off you in public,) why then do they always say...

'Good on you, but don't go too far will you? Don't lose too much.'

OK. Soapbox back in shed.

7 comments:

  1. I remember those days -- nice to have the little ones at home! Our "half term" (or spring break as we call it) comes Mid March.

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  2. I'm goint to start teaching young Rooster to drive over half term so I'm not sure if I can't wait or not! Gardening is great exercise. Sounds like you are doing a great job with the weight program.

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  3. Congrats! Remember, you can never be too rich or too thin! Ok, that's a lie. But you stick with it!

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  4. Call me a cynical old hag but I think other people don't want you to get too thin 'cos they want to keep you in the place they know - as if losing weight would suddenly mean you'd change your entire personality and shed their acquaintanceship as well as the pounds. But I never know whether saying to someone 'Oh you've lost loads of weight!' like it's a compliment really is - 'cos I immediately think the flip-side of this is saying 'God you were fat'.

    Having said..... I really do need to follow your example and reduce a bit. I'm mourning in sympathy for your jeans, while glaring at my favourite pair that now won't let me in.

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  5. oooohhhhh think Madmae Smi=okin Gun has a point! I'm getting it tyoo even though I've only last 7lbs so far...lose as much as makes you feel good! Happy Half term...

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  6. Well done Lou. I've just started at Slimming World. I did it once before but then suddenly stopped losing and found out I was pregnant. Please god the same thing doesn't happen again! First weigh-in tonight..... xx

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  7. I too am so looking forward to ahlf term and oping up the doors and tiding the garden with the boys

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