Alexis

I like the charts.  I would need two screens though....[:$] Bad, bad week.  Gimme chocolate.  NOW! I have been for a healthy, invigorating walk every afternoon so far to be followed by eating chocolate as soon as I got in the door. Nutella.  Easter egg (it was looking 'off'[:)]).  Half box of After Eights... Just a blip but I know better to say no to my body clammering for bad foods!  If I say no, eat that lettuce, things get drastic!!  Actually, my meals are spot on.  It is between them that the trouble starts. I'm going to start getting weighed on a Saturday.  I find my ''go on live a little it is Friday' has been extended to include Saturday and Sunday.  Not good. Ah well.  I will keep at it.

Exactly.  With all that freedom, I find their legs tough. When they are crammed 24,000 to a shed, they don't move much so not so muscle-y.  Not so old either.  35 days is average.  I have collected 28 day olds but there is nothing to them.  Usually for schools and the army. I buy what is on promo or half price.  Like the yellow best now though.  The last few I bought have been very tasty. Whatever...not many of us are buying chicken at the moment. I am!

I baked today.  I have been looking forward to it all week.  I ate three. Give you a clue.  Mule.  Cranberry and chocolate drop. Of course, no dinner tonight.... How I wish I could say that I REALLY enjoyed them.  Typical.  Pelican face. My diet is all down to Dr Atkins.  Same as naps.  Wonderfull, dead man.[*-)]

Morning. Well, I was up at five so I jumped on the scales and I had lost 800g.  Ace. After a bucket of coffee, I got weighed again at 8.45 and I had lost ANOTHER 500g!  I'm not counting it though.  Storing it up for next week....blooming scales[:$] That is 8 kilos lost exactly.  On my fish weight conversion chart - don't laugh - I make that 17lbs 10oz.  It is a funny game this conversion business.  Soon be one and a half stones though.[:D] Hope everyone loses a bit....

I must say that I like kilos.  You seem to lose more. 300g seems a satisfying result if you don't convert it to pounds.  Right, 5kg divided by 7 weeks = 700g/week. I can do that.....[;)]

Clever Girl.  This time next week you will be in that next stone 'range'.  I always seem to get stuck going from one stone to another.  Perhaps it is the needle on the scales?  Always wants to be climbing..... So.  I have lost 100g.  WOW! Next target is Easter.  Seven weeks.  Five kilos.... That will be TWO as in TWO stone. Longer days, shorter skirts, hotter weather, cooler body.[;)][;)][^]

Where are you all then? I will get weighed in the morning..... I was taken hostage by a gang of crazed Hot Cross Buns.  Their fearsome leader was a toasted teacake!  I had a very narrow escape!! Didn't have the fish from the chippie.  Had the Chinese and wish I hadn't bothered.  Ate a box of fondant fancies on the drive back......all alone. In the snow..... Might have been snow bound..... [:)][:)][:)] Actually though, ate hardly anything.  Dad likes to be in bed by 7.00pm.  We stopped up late to watch the curling though.  Ooh.  It was thrilling. Well.  Tomorrow morning then.  

Well, my earlier post is somewhere....but where? Not a very good week at all.  300g down but quite frankly, rubbish for the past three weeks.  Better off than on I suppose. After my holiday, I am going back on Induction but as I haven't been off it...just bits and pieces added, I haven't much hope of a crashing loss. Back next Saturday when we can all have a laugh after my weigh in.

Well, well, well. What a load of spite.  Not allowed an opinion now then?  Only Mr Smith and Russethouse have the right to air theirs.  Everyone else with a different opinion being wrong. I see. Must thank you all for the supportive e-mails.  What a surprise!  Just logged on after the blood clinic and saw them all.  Won't do much good being private though.  Speak out. What I object to - hope that there are no spelling mistakes - is the fact that Christians as in Church of England have lost their 'right' to joyfully sing carols at Christmas because it upsets other religions. Tough.  These people knew this when they moved here. As for a multi religion family, I thought about this yesterday.  You can't get more of a mixed bag then mine. In-laws.  Very devout Catholics. OH.  Very lapsed Catholic. SIL 1.  Married to a Turk who is a Muslim and children same. SIL 2.  Married to a Jew.  Converted and children Jewish. Me.  Methodist. Daughter 1.  Flirting with Buddhism. Daughter 2.  C of E. Due to short term memory loss must re-read buckets of spite again. I will answer the mails later.  Thank you all once again.

I don't give a monkey's for all these high words and all this bending over backwards to be politically correct and not racist etc.;...the truth of the matter is that the normal British born person who can find his ancestors right back to the Doomsday Book is now nothing in "His" country. Second or even third class citizens.  All these people who moved to the UK to work and took their code of dress and religion with them HAVE NOT GOT TO BE UPSET. Where does that leave the natives then?  Certainly, they seem to be the last in the line when decisions are made. Musn't say this.  Mustn't say that.  Musn't say no, arranged marriages are not on.  Musn't say no, you can't mutilate your daughters.  Can't have Christian festivals it upsets the other races....well tough. A multi-faith country sounds wonderfull but should include ALL the faiths.  Not just the ones introduced in the past fifty years. IT IS ONLY FAIR. I must say also, that the people who arrive in the UK are lucky because other countries wouldn't treat them as tolerantly as the British.  Which is why it is probably the Number One destination.

Ooh no!  He has to be micro-chipped. What if he caught the little French accent in his voice and he went back to the UK, un-microchipped and started causing havoc with the Lady Gnomes? How would they find him?  They would have to torture all the gnomes until one spoke and revealed his wicked winning ways voice if they didn't have a microchip to identify him as living in Froggieland. A bit like the French scunk in the Disney cartoons.......Âllo, âllo ma chérie....Imagine Sacha Distel seducing Cilla.  Blimey, you have to be past it to remember those two on the telly[:)] I have a feeling that Furryknickers is going to be a bit upset with your photo Mrs Animal.  You might have broken his heart.  He finds a Lady Gnome at last and it is too late as she is married. . .

How much?? Haven't they heard of Formula 1?[:D] I lived in the North of England so never found the strength to visit the Southern gardens.  This visit was carefully planned. My neighbour here arrived with a great pile of newspapers for me and I read it there.  I remember going back to the UK some years ago and first thing I saw was the death of Geoff Hamilton. I was gutted. Anyway.  Smash.  It is just those robots laughing their tinny socks off at us humans[:)][:)]

I don't see why we all seem to be leaning over backwards and giving other religions everything they want and they have moved to OUR country. If I move to a country with a different religion to mine and they say drinking is banned, I wouldn't drink.  If they cut off your hand for stealing, I certainly wouldn't steal.  If I had to wear long clothes and keep my face covered, I would. Why can't other religions/cultures do that when THEY move to a new country?  Of course they have the right to dress and worship as they want...but they must also follow that Countries laws. Why do we "let" the Chinese people have a Chinese New Year or "let" the Jews celebrate their Sabbath etc and we have to "give up" our Christmas as it is "not fair" to other Communities not of our religion? Very unfair.  I think the British must be the most tolerant people in the World. The cartoon was on the telly here for days.  I can't say the raving, angry, Muslim thugs got very good publicity.  Animals.  Terrible.  Apparently they were an organised bunch who had been paid.

That is nice Catalpa.  Got mine too.  Always an excellent read. No order this year as we are flitting. Did you know that Christopher Lloyd has just died? I loved his writing.  I finally visited Great Dixter in September last year and I heard The Great One's voice through the window.

I've got the cement mixer and the parpaings - mine are, actually, 10cm Nick.  You are posher than me though!! I have also got a pile of gravel.  How about that then??  Used the sand. I think that you won't find the parpaings on the Leroy Merlin site as it is for buying on line and a hundred parpaings weigh heavy...... Don't forget to put on your gloves as they made my hands really really sore.  I had to lavish the cream on[;)] Shall we talk about red bricks next?  I know quite a lot about them too[:)]

Typical British thoughts Gay. Just get out of the car and whip your knickers down in front of the lot of them. Up to them to turn away[:)][:)] As most of the traffic jams seem to be caused by the Parisians going on their hols and as the Parisians are not the friendliest of folk, I can't see them sharing a roadside picnic.

I have just looked - I like to make sure my links work as sometimes I mess it up and lo and behold... 10cm, 15cm, 20cm and 25cm by 20cm high by I THINK 50cm.  Don't know about the length. Look up parpaings on the site.  Some very, very interesting stuff to read[;)][;)]

Actually, there are several sizes as we are very sophisticated over here[:)] Some saddo renovator will tell you better than me or I shall have to go out and measure up. Try the www.leroymerlin.fr site.  Big Mat? 

I can't remember trying fish with chocolate but I have heard very good reports on chocolate with meat.  Usually beef or rabbit. Apparantly, it brings all the flavour out. You don't just chuck in a Milky Way but the 70% stuff which, to be honest, I don't often have in the house.  When I make a chocolate mousse, I use the Nestle Corse. Mmmmm.  Milky Way!!!! I like the magazine though.  After all these years here, I have only just discovered it.  Browsing the shelves trying to find something for OH to read these past few months - wrapped in plastic for the sterile ward - I have fallen in love with quite a few cookery magazines which I had never bought before. I'm mad keen on cookery.

You young 'uns. Not Mars bar ice cream.  Frozen Mars bars. You can take them from the freezer and chop them into neat slices and savour every tiny bite.  Actually, someone once recommended freezing chocolate in chunks and then taking one piece out and letting it melt in your mouth......Sigh.  Sigh. I find that drinking lots of wine shocks your body into losing weight.  That, fish and chips and a run in at the disco! Goodness, if only I could eat as much now as I did when I was foot loose and fancy free. Life is sooo unfair[:(]

Well, on the Sainted Atkins, all the "big" alcohol is allowed.  I should say no-carbs.  It is the mixers that are the problem.  Water is good though so any spirits with water should be allowed...in moderation, of course.  Trouble is, I couldn't fancy gin and water...[:)] I don't drink at all at the moment.  Just chance!!  If I do fancy something, I know the Ricard is there but as I am not THAT keen on it, I don't bother. I haven't bought any Muscadet since I drunk a whole bottle the other week.  Red I'm not keen on...shock horror!  Unless it is Australian. Anyway, if I fancy a drink I have one.  Can't be worrying about my body exploding and think about dieting at the same time[:)] How are the Mars bars Jan?  I can hear them shouting "Eat me!"  "Eat me!"  I would put them in the freezer.  That will shut them up. I also LUURRVVVVVE frozen Mars bars. Of course, you have to take your time eating a frozen one.  Can't double it up and stuff it right in.

I once bought a box of the Super U own brand and it wasn't bad. This past week, I bought the cookery magazine on the checkout and they had done a survey on instant mash.  I can't remember the exact scores etc., but they had included a Lidl product which they said was good for the price...which I just happened to see and buy.  OK for OH as he is a bit difficult to feed at the moment. Don't bother.  He said it was awful.  Three satchets left. I make my mash with lots of butter and créme frâiche.  Now that really is yum yum. 

Yes.  Good job you didn't follow my destructions because I meant Sillon, not Sautron but then I couldn't find your post to correct it... Lovely is Nantes.  All those lop sided falling down houses that cost a FORTUNE.

I'm going just before you Jan. Daughter mentioned something to do with "Chinese" this morning. YES!  YES!  YES!

Lost 500g.  Going the right way then! I am going to be super strong as I am off to the UK after the next weigh in and I know my limitations. Perhaps I could wear a peg on my nose when passing the chippie?  Will definately have one golden deep fried haddock though.