Alexis

It all depends on what day you post it. There are fast days....and others!  

The only thing I miss is the "new posts since last visit".  

25 kilos is excellent.  Well done! I have taken myself in hand after the Christmas Cake fiasco...I counted calories[:)][:)][:)]  Boiled egg, enormous piece of cake as I work on the principal that it is better to get the thing eaten, and a nice salad..... Anyway, next week is Valentine's Day and don't forget we had goals to reach!!!!!!! About this vodka, I have decided that Ricard and water is about the best carb free drink you can have.  Unless someone knows differently? Not that I drink of course.  Just in case....

I'm a Grammar but they call me Nana.

People might say that prices have gone up but it depends where they live.  Perhaps they are just being hopefull when they think of an asking price?  A real slump. Why oh why didn't I sell sooner?[:'(] Mind, for the first seven or so years, the prices stayed firmly the same.

It all depends where you are arriving from.  I go to Orvault and park in Leclerc's car park and take the tram. Other teminuses are Neustre, Beaujoire, Sauton, St Herblain (Ikea!). All take about 30 minutes to arrive at the centre and cost 2.10€ for two tickets of one hour.  Orvault can be reached from the peripheric but when you leave the route, go down to the roundabout, over the tram line, turn right, go down to the next roundabout and right round.  You have to keep "messing about" because of the tram lines.  Don't take this entry into Leclerc.  Go right at the next roundabout - it is all within a couple of hundred yards - go down to the next roundabout, turn right, right again, then right into the parking in front of the petrol station and there is loads of room.  There is an 'official' car park but barriers.  Lots of folk use Leclerc.  Grand Val is what you look out for. Ikea is alright but they have height barriers. Phew!  Have a good time.  I love Nantes.  ps.  don't know anything about the other side of the river but I know the terminus is Neustre as it is the other end of the Orvault line.

You are not alone.  There is a site just for complaints and slagging off.  I have taken it off my favourites but if you google, you will find it. I had one which just would not work.  A very nice man came and within a second he said it was cream crackered. Trouble is, you should have kept the box.  Try going back to France Telecom and chucking it all on the desk and saying it is broken.  When they give you another one, check in the box as although the new one they gave me was apparently sealed, half the stuff inside was missing. Just a thought, is your access code still on the disc?  When you get to that page?

Yes, good luck with the op.  Hope that you will soon be dancing around your handbag like the rest of us. Just two words.... CAKE CHRISTMAS Not necessarily in that order.....[:$][:$][:O]

Cheapscape! Sauterne is what you want[:)] Time I went to the shops I think....

Mmm.  Love foie gras.  I think that I have a tin of it in the fridge. Ready. Certainly no butter.  I wonder if it will go with redcurrant jelly?  Perhaps too sweet. Will test tomorrow. If, and it is a big IF, you have some left over, it make a wonderfull sauce for chicken.

Well, up by 300g. Could have been worse!  I am sure the scales were playing me around!  Up by nearly TWO kilos on Wednesday..... Until I dusted them[:'(][:)] So.  Not too bad after all the trauma and the bottle of Muscadet[:$] Hope that you are all losers this week and not following my example but just you wait until next Friday......

Nantes - St Malo is quite a hike.  I will have a think.  I am "not keen" on St Malo anyway.  Looks just like an old prison. Dinan is worth a visit.  Thursday is market day.  Dinard is great.  Rennes has the old buildings plus a lot of new shops.  Nantes I just love.  All those wonky houses.  I have been going in every day but catch the tram as the centre can be a bit much for me, driving wise.  Anyway, you see more!  Josselin is a bit off your route but is very nice.  Vannes likewise.  So....Dinan.  Then Dinard.  Don't bother with St Malo - sorry Miki - unless you REALLY want a stripy jumper or a piece of false Quimper ware.  Anyway, you can see it from Dinard[:)]  Cancale for the sea food and on to Mont St Michel.  Not sure about interesting spots between Nantes - the coast.  Will look out map.  It is not an area I know. Of course, if you want a good laugh, you can go to St Malo and pop into the Brittany Ferries office and read their price list[:D][:O][:O]

Le Pen always seems to be at some groovy party. Could be a man after my own heart....until he opens his mouth, of course. Rave on Jean-Marie.

Thanks for the site.  They seem to think another 20 kilo!!!  I have to agree but I am aiming for measurements, not weight.  If you see what I mean[:)] Anyway, this glass seems to have a hole in the bottom[*-)]  Best go and check it.

My Beloved is home after his latest stay in hospital so, to celebrate; the old muscadet is slipping down a treat!  It is a month since I drunk alcohol!! Let's hope he has the strength to carry me to bed later[:)] I have decided - because of these changling scales - to weigh myself Friday and go on from there as if it was the first reading. Still lost a stone though[:P][:P]  

I too can remember going to pick my brother up from the maternity home.  We must all be traumatised! Another memory is going to stay with relations in the Lake District and, once in bed asleep, the cat coming to join me.  How I screamed!! I remember we had to cross the railway line in front of the house to get onto the beach. I think the Lakes were the first memory. I remember all the kids telly.....and I'm only 29 and some months[:)]

These are the first scales I have owned - or stood on - for about 25 years.  After the last 'let's diet for Christmas' fiasco when I seemed to be getting fatter, I bought some for the "new" diet. Anyway, I have dusted the top and carefully wiped the feet because there might have been a stone or something underneath making them go wonky....... [:D][:D][:D] Next I shall weigh some bags of flour...just to check!  

Aren't we a bunch? No, back on the straight and narrow and I hadn't even got off it[*-)] I'll not be beaten when everything was going so well.  If this happens on Friday I shall kick the scales!!  The tape measure is still being kind though. To think I was so pleased with the scales too.  After all I said! Obviously faulty[:D]

I got weighed yesterday as it was four whole weeks since I started. I had put on 500g! Gutted!  How?  Why?  What is going on? And bugger[:)] Blast too....

Blast!  We have almost bought a house by the sea.....  Thanks Pat! I did get 'aggrivated' in Ullapool last year. I know!  I will start smoking again[:)][:)][:)]

Ah!  Was she the one who gave the finger on the line up for the Misses on the telly supplement then? That was very quickly hushed up.  Mme d'Fountney (sp) said that she would find the culprit and punish her severely.  Wouldn't have looked very good if it had been the new Miss. It is all very exciting yawn yawn. (nice to know who the naughty boys are though!  See me later Smith and Miki....)

Blimey, all the signs are that I am 60 already and I have a LONG way to go yet. If I get there[:D][:D][:D] I shall probably stay at 29 and some months for a good few years yet.  At least until my grandchildren arrive at 29  too! Up at six or before, bed at nine, yes, yes, forgetfull, that too... Nothing wrong with an elasticated waistband either[:P]

I saw your other post Lee and wondered where you had been.  I haven't been up to date recently or just a lapse...as usual.  Last I read you had decided to go to the UK but had changed your mind. Glorious, Scotland! Shut up about the midges.  I'm pretending they don't exist[:)] It is a front room Miki.  Stop trying to make it sound posh[:D]

I can't help you with markets but have you tried the depot vente's?  I have bought some nice stuff there but it isn't always cheap. Depends if you want something no-body else desires.

Just the day for it Nick! I am freezing. I am not a curry buff but Miki liked it when he went and my friends go quite regularly.  Sounds as if I didn't rate it but it was very nice. I just am not a curry fan.  Give me a nice Chinese. It is very small.  I think it seats about 16.  It is the front room of a house.  Very popular so you should book at the weekend.  Open every lunchtime I think but not every evening but will open if you are more than ten people. You can shout to the chef to throw a few more spices in as he is virtually in the room!  Go early as popular starters soon get sold and he only does a limited amount. Actually, reading through, it sounds a bit bizarre!!