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FIT! Cheers! (sorry for misnaming you back there) Drink up, girl, we’re way ahead of ya’ over ‘ere!

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Get yore confetti ready!

Go on, CG! Do it!

Well done …..We did 200 pages 👍⛄🌎🍸🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉…GO GAL XXXXX

Well, it’s 6pm here on Christmas eve and I finished my jobs at 4pm so I cleaned myself up and put on my Christmas jumper and settled down to watch The Sound of Music!! Now, I’m putting the finishing touches to some of the nibbles for tonight and chilling out before heading off to the carol service and mass. When you get this, it will probably be Christmas day (if you log on at all!!) – so happy Christmas to all you wonderful, inspiring and magnificent people. I hope Santa is good to everyone because you have been very, very good girls this year !! 😉 Nollaig Shona daoibh go leir – which means Happy Christmas to you all in Irish!! Xxxxxx

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲MERRY CHRISTMAS AUSSIE DERTERMINATORS!🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲WISHING YOU A WONDERFUL DAY.
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THE MOST INCREDIBLE GROUP OF LOVING ,CARING FRIENDS.EACH OF YOU HAS BROUGHT EMINENCE LAUGHTER AND LOVE ,ADVICE AND FRIENDSHIP TO OUR THREAD.
To CG-😚😚😚WE LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK. YOU BROUGHT US ALL TOGETHER.👭👭👭👭👭👭👭👭👭👭🎅👼……..GO GALXXXXXXXXXX

MERRY CHRISTMAS FELLOW AUSSIE DETRMINATORS PLUS THE LURKERS.
Have a wonderful day. It had a sneak peak At the scales after my morning shower and I’m still on 70 kilos. Thought I’d be over that by now as I’ve not fasted this past week.
Well we’ve opened the presents and lots of lovely goodies given and received. Would you believe it but I got two boxes of chocolates from hubby! WTF has he not noticed that I’ve been trying to lose weight (and succeeded this past year ) anyhow I’m sure my GKs plus others will help me eat them. I’ve just defrosted the prawns and calamari and about to marinade them. More eating ahead. Have a great day all wherever you are in the world and whether you believe in the Christmas story or not. It’s still a fun time of the year.
XX. Doggy
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Well, it’s 2am on Christmas eve and my visitors have left. Have filled the daughters’ stockings and I’m off to bed, a very happy girl indeed. The carol service and mass went well. CG, you’ll be thrilled to know that I sent on your story about Gold, Common Sense and Fur to my priest and he read out the whole story to the congregation tonight instead of a sermon!!! It went down very well with everyone!! Looking forward to opening the pressies in the morning, singing again at mass and then having Christmas dinner with the family…..it will be brilliant, I’m sure 🙂 Hope you all have had a day to remember and that you are suitably pickled!!! 😉 Love and hugs to all xxxxxx

Wow…what an effort you made to get to the 200 pages. Feeling slack but did not get a minute last night to look. Too busy with the party. WELL DONE , especially Gyps. Loved looking back on all the pics. We have had our share of Dramas so have postponed Christmas till tomorrow. We will have it with you FIT. The wife of one of my nephews has had a severe back spasm and cannot move off the bed ..so can’t make it down with his family so his brother and his family have gone to his place with some Christmas cheer and is spending the day with them before coming down to us later tonight. So there are just four of us to spend Christmas Day together. We still did all the things we normally do and are now having a little rest after over indulging on the food and punch. we have had a lovely long Skype with our son ,his family and his wife’s family , inCanada and my nephew and his family who is also in Canada.
Also had a long phone call from Son And Partner in Tasmania. Looking forward to the next “Christmas Day” with nephew and family tomorrow.

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Oh CG . What a worry with your boy ..and what an obliging vet. Dramas all rou d on Christmas Day but everything turning out Ok. Nice you had a great day with your family, and that the presies worked out. I’m finding the same thing. Can’t eat much and so much choice. Just doing 3 big baked fish for 4 people as they needed to be cooked. Will eat one reheat the other two tomorrow. Have so much food here so will be sending what I can home with SIL to take to her son who could not make it. Other son on the way as we speak and should get here around 9pm so late night coming up but it will be good. Hope Bailey improves. Better get up and do some more prep. Sun well over the yardarm so must be time for a tipple also. Did not ant to start too early or would not last the distance.

Hi Everyone, just got a mo to say Merry Christmas before the day is over. Will read up tomorrow when the son heads off. Skimmed enough to see some have had hiccups. Hair in the mixer!

Sorry your boy is crook CG, pats to him. Glad the fires aren’t your way, Take care.

PH, what a disappointment, but spreading out the cheer is not a bad thing, so hope tomorrow is good for you.

Fit, wish I could have heard your choir sing! Hope your crissy goes well. xx

Up, Can’t open your link, but sounds like you have a feathered visitor, always room for one more Enjoy having all your kids home. And the daiquiries

Dawg your house sounds happy, thanks for the boost to inspire the countdown for 200! some of thos sayings were priceless!

SJ, enjoy Perth and good luck with the earrings!

Milena Noots, the shy Beverly and all you happy lurkers out there, ONYA! dO DROP IN ANY TIME!

Well Santa gave me a Pewter wine goblet so high time I christened it! Cheers! Have a lovely Christmas night. xxx gyps

BTW, CG, ‘Gold, Common Sense and Fur?’ Must have missed that one? must have been a beaut if an Irish Priest replaced a Christmas service with it! Well done!

Hi everyone and a,merry Christmas

Well, Christmas dinner was a tad indulgent, quite pleased we aren’t’t doing new year as I have booked an antique s fair on new year’s day, and a two day fair for the 2nd and the 3rd.

I think I need to stop eating!!!

Lots of love to all my Aussie mates, and Fit!!!!

Xxxxxxxxxxx

Hi all. CG I do hope your boy is on the mend. It’s such a worry when our pets are ill. I just love the Chicken soup for the soul. I’m going to look and see if I can find the book.
My heart goes out to those poor people along The Great Ocean Road in Victoria who have lost the homes to bushfires. For our non Aussies, there is a massive bushfire burning in the state of Victoria and so far 53 homes have been destroyed by fire. People had to drop thier Christmas preparations and evacuate to safer towns.
My diet went seriously pear shaped yesterday. We all had far too much to eat. Lunch consisted of 5 courses, all of which were delicious. Then to add insult to injury I got 3 large boxes of chocolates as pressies! Next year I need to write up a wish list I think. Nothing edible will be in it. We. Have enough leftovers to ensure that no cooking is needed today.
Erika is non the worse for her hair drama and the Pav was delicious. What’s more not a hair to be found in it thankfully.
XX Doggy

High team…….!OH and I had far TOO MUCH Christmas cheer! So today has turned into a FD for me…… much needed as I have gained 1.5kgs?…. not surprising as I have really been a very naughty girl! I have had toooo much of everything. It is now 4pm and I have had water and black tea and coffee . I am not at all hungry…. so I willl look forward to dinner.
So happy to know that your day went well for you all.Hope all your pressies were what you had wanted during the year.
I WAS VERY SPOILT,OH gave me the Adel 25 al bum and had some help choosing a beautiful outfit of white lace top and navy blue collouttes in a very cool material by one of my favorite designers DAVID LAWERENCE.
Especially relieved that Bailey is feeling much better CG.Oscar was even a bit off his food this morning did not eat his breakfast until 10am .His little nose was dry and warm.so he has had a cool bath and a rub which seems to stimulate him.
Rest up well today team another day to be with loving friends and family.hugs and thoughts to all……. 👩GO GALXXXXXX

Morning all, seems I’ve been away forever. Looks like everyone has enjoyed the silly season. Our visitors leave about 10am and I must admit I am not used to having kids in the house 24 hrs a day. Must be getting old. It had been nice though. My memories caused lots of happy tears.😂😂😂😂😂😂 Even with my Sons partner who is not easily moved. So they were a hit. So we’re the received ones. Still to open the ones from Cnada, doing that this morning so expect more “tears of joy” We have been skyping Canada a lot catching up with the two little families in Canada and the ones on the Gold Coast who could not make it and our son in Tasmania. One to go this morning before the visitors go.
Working bee at our Daughters house with her friends all coming to help unload the container starting at 9am and so we will head over when our visitors leave with some morning tea and coffee to help get rid of some of the left over food.

Must admit I really feel like a Fast Day. Can’t eat all of this food anymore. We had a “get what you feel like dinner “last night after cooking the kids some sausages and I only felt like a few prawns and some Christmas Ice Cream. Don’t think I will be having more alcohol for a few days either. How my eating capacity has changed for the good. I feel as if I don’t need to eat for the next week.

Enough about me. So lucky really compared to everyone in the fires.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 We have not had the TV on for days so just catching up with the news. We are so blessed not to be in a fire prone area. Victoria and SA seem to get the worst of it.

Won’t have time to talk to individuals as am hearing voices in my kitchen so better get up. Talk to you all when the madness dies down.

Good morning or evening team, wherever you may be. CG I’m sorry to hear about your friend’s cancer. My brother was also diagnosed with bowel cancer a few months ago. He’s also on chemo. He lives in Voctoria so I don’t get to see him often. From what I can gather he has a Hickman catheter and the chemo is delivered straight into the Superior Vena Cava ( or that’s how I remember it from my time at Peter Mac. I haven’t played scrabble for years. After the family has gone in a few weeks time I will download it onto my iPad and find a buddy to play with.
I’m still not bothering about fasting. I have the rear of the year plus the rest of my life to start it again. Mind you, we are going overseas for six weeks in February and will be staying wiht relies. I can’t see much fast I then either but will take care of my portion sizes.
Yes the fires in Victoria are too awful. I think I’ve mentioned that we too live in s very bushfire prone area so we are constantly aware that it could be us next time.
Oh dear a poor Rosella has just flown into one of our windows. Unfortunately it’s quite a common occurrence as we have trees and shrubs round the house and they don’t seem to see the windows. It seems to have stunned itself. Thankfully it does not seem to be badly injured as it has now flown away.
Yes the cricket is a non event. I’d much rather be able to watch the test between South Afrca and England but we’ve cancelled our Foxtel subscription so that’s not going to happen.
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Hi all. Good to see so many happy reports! PH, your sounded like a real success. But awful about the fires etc

My son flew in on xmas eve and we had the first xmas in years with us all there. It was wonderful. We went the whole hog with traditional fare and activities. On xmas eve the others came over to see their brother and we had a barbecue and sang xmas carols with much levity as these days no one really remembers much past the first few lines. Lots of good voices and musicians here though so good fun.

Yesterday, we went to a Boxing Day Bash where we all brought leftovers but I could hardly eat any, drank plenty though and today it is a friend’s 60th so more celebrating later on!

We are still looking after the lorikeet that dropped in on xmas eve but we will need to take him somewhere as no luck locating the owner.

Only 29 here today but steamy.

Fasting isn’t getting a look in but isn’t it great how we can’t even fit in the over eating the way we used to. Even when we try!

Up – sounds like a pretty perfect Christmas! I reckon I know all the words to just about every carol, so can I come next year please? 😉 I think I’m breaking the record for eating leftovers today!

Hi GG – just answered your email and hope to be able to skype with you soon. My scales was already one kg up this morning and tomorrow morning it will probably run away with fright when it sees me coming!!!! Definitely got to fast tomorrow. I’m sitting here with a peach schnapps in hand and toasting all you wonderful people…..cheers!!

Hi Everyone

Fit – if you are running, I reckon I could get a new world record for the 4 minute mile!!!

Put it this way, we have been working soooo hard and pretty much snacking and eating whatever we fancy, which in OHs case has been pain au chocolat and croissants!!! And I managed to add cream and butter to – well everything – on the Christmas menu – and no low fat rubbish for me! Gyp, you would be proud of me!!

Anyway, excuses done!

If I told y’all OH has put on 5 kilos – the greedy gannet – but I’ve beaten him!!!

New year we are back in harness – first three days of the New Year are fairs, one in the North of England, and the other, as two day, in the Midlands.

So at least we are away from the kitchen and standing all day – hopefully a good start, cos we have a BIIIIG target to the end of January. Best part though is when OH is on a mission to lose weight, he will drag me along a full pelt, so I am hopefully we will get there! Or divorce trying!

At least no New Year food to get in, and I suppose I’ll just have to finish the wine off before the 31st!!!

Hope everyone has a great time! OH had a headache all day yesterday and its still here today, tomorrow is Hobbit and LOTR fest, looking forward to it – I think now that the Hobbit is also in the mix we will have to start at about 9am to get the lot in!

Someone asked if I made my own jewellery? Not a chance, I have the artistic talent of Tracey Emin – well, my bed is just like hers some days – without the condoms and the ciggies though, so obviously not nearly as ‘Arty’. A lot of books and single socks though. I buy second hand and vintage – which means I spend half my life buying jewellery – its a hard life but someone has to do it!

Means I don’t get jewellery for Christmas and birthdays any more though.

Have a fabby weekend

travel hopefully

This is CG’s Daughter and granddaughter. Pick the mother!? Both look like teenagers!

CG, not sure how this will turn out, the pictures only come through very small from your Ipad, and only one. is that correct? Will check back later. heading off for a visit to friends now. have a good day all. Cheers! gyps

Hi again CG I did send my email address to Up but think it got lost in cyberspace. If someone sends me the link or whatever I’ll do it again I tend to be a private sort of person so don’t want to be receiving emails from Nigeria or elsewhere telling me that someone loves me and please send them my bank account details.
Jade my granddaughter who nearly got scalped has also got an Australian shepherd. I believe they are actually from Spain originally. My miniature Poodle, Pepper managed to leap up to the kitchen bench top and grab a champagne cork. ( sorry to any French readers, the word Champagne has escaped and can’t be put back ). So he ran around the house with it in his mouth chewing all time and eventually spitting it out everywhere. I’ve virtually given up trying to keep the hous clean as we have two kids here, four adults + dog and everyone seems to manage to bring some sort of debris in from outside.
We are joining the neighbours wiht their kids and grandkids down at the beach this evening where we have a public BBQ area. It will be very casual, probably sausages and a bread roll and the odd beer and glass of vino.
CG I’ll have to relearn how to play scrabble so that will be good for the old brain too.
XX Dawg.