Hi all!
Jade I’ll alert all drivers in the south that it’s safe to stay on the roads after all 😉👍 Sorry for lowering the tone with the poop emoji, but that’s what life felt like at the time 😉😡
Doggy, good to hear from you again. We all get derailed from time to time, but we also know we can hop on the train again and that a break from this wol is just that, not a fail. So take heart, we’re in this together! 💪💞
Gyps, I’m just catching up on the news from Canada….it’s unbelievably devastating! You’re right about SJ’s OH’s painting and it really brings it home to us how fragile our beautiful world is. I hope all casualties, human or animal, are kept to a minimum.
SJ, please check in and let us know you’re ok 💕 I know Canada is vast but we still worry 😟
Cookie, how are doing? Are you fasting today? Best of luck! 👍💪😃
CG, I’m glad you’re keeping safe and dry in your changeable weather. It’s a bit like Ireland at the moment. We had four seasons in the one day yesterday. It’s dull this morning but brightening up as the day goes on and the forecast says we’ll get 20 degrees later….yippee! I’m fasting too, so being out and about in fine weather will keep me positive and distracted! 💪👍😃

Hey Fit & everyone,
I am fasting and it’s going well 👍🏼I even went to the gym and smashed my workout. Preparing and prepping are really helping….only used 197 so far, normally I’ve used them all and end up hungry…..
Thanks guys I hope your day has been going well too😉
Cookie

Thanks CG, I’m really getting into the habit of not even thinking about food until my one meal of the evening and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest now that I’ve adopted that mindset…..incredible! I never thought I’d hear myself say that! 🙂
Well done Cookie, you’re playing a blinder! 👍💪
Jade, I think the horse will have plenty of go left at this rate….so far so good, let’s hope pride doesn’t go before a fall! 🐎📉⁉️♿️

SJ, phew! Good to hear you’re safe! I hope your knee keeps improving so that you can get the best out of your holiday plans. Take care 💕💞

Hey there GG! Great to have you back! Well you sure celebrated your birthday in style….fantastic! It must have been the most amazing experience from start to finish. Well done to OH for organising it all 👍💪 Best of luck getting back on the fasting horse….we’re right there with you 🐎🐎🐎🐎 💞💕😃

Mornin’ CG! Gosh that sounds like very dramatic weather….please stay safe! I hope your wounds are healing without any signs of infection. Well done on your successful fast but I sympathise about all the trips to the loo during the night….it’s such a nuisance, especially when it’s been hard to get to sleep in the first place! The joys of being a woman! 😁😡 I’ve had a very good fast too so I’m heading off to bed now feeling quite proud of myself 💪😃 Night, night! 🌙🌓

Hey GG welcome home!! Your vacation sounds dreamy and I’m so glad you got pampered💕🍷🔆😍
Oh Lordy CG take care in the weather – yes our docs are bossy that way too – hope the news is all good! Gosh SJ take care and I hope you can still enjoy our visit despite the mishap😟♥️glad you are not in harm’s way. X

Cookie and Fit thank you for not wearing out the FD horse, I’ve managed a 400-cal day and low-carb to boot 🏇🍗 and now it’s storming here again, thank heavens I got the pups out for a last little fling in the backyard. I think I’ll go hide under my bed and pray for strength. I hope there is no food under there. See you all tomorrow! 🌞xxx

SCC…hmm I don’t know either. Boy don’t we spoil our loved ones, 2- or 4-legged!♥️🐶🐱🐮mCG glad you are still enjoying Downton👑

Fit, we’ve added another city to our trip – nudging right along – at least we’ve stopped subtracting them! Better retract that all’s clear to the southern drivers, we are in a legendary state of flux here. Beyond ridiculous! But almost compelling, the way a good murder mystery is. All fun and games except for the victim!😂😈 Oh mercy it’s time to go run errands, see you lovely lot later — jade xx

Oh Gyps, SCC already sounds quite scary to me…. I think I’ll have to wear a burka when I get to your neck of the woods! 😡 That’s me red from sunburn if I don’t! Wish I could send you some of the rain I’m getting right now…..it’s absolutely lashing down! 💨🌧💨🌧
Jade, I can’t wait to see what your eventual itinerary turns out to be….but I love a good mystery (let’s leave out the murder part for now, even though I know you probably feel like committing one!) 😁😡👿

Hi all. Just popped home for the night and left OH to it with his mate for one night. We decided to stay another two nights as the crabs are just great. Nice sized muddies just jumping into our crab pot. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Beautiful weather🌞🌞🌞✨✨💫🌟🌛, have not even needed a cardigan . Daughter and her friend came for a visit yesterday afternoon and we sent them home with crabs for dinner. We had friends come for a BBQ dinner last night so enjoyed nice fresh crab nibbles before dinner with some nice white wine.🍸🍸🍸.followed by BBQ lamb Chops and vegie bake with some red wine…🍷🍷🍷it’s a tough life but someone has to do it. Just so peaceful and relaxing and enjoying great company. No internet connection so completely safe from all the election news etc too. What more could you ask for. I am having a night at home then going to bridge tomorrow then heading back down to the van for the last night. Will come home Friday morning. Did a Fast day last Saturday thank goodness..will try for another one tomorrow but don’t expect to lose this week as you can’t have nice fresh crab without some nice white wine!! It would be sacrilege. 😳😳

GG. Sounds like you had the most beautiful holiday and were spoilt rotten, just beautiful.🍸🎉💐🍾💞💕
What a man!! 💓💓. Too bad we have to come home and get back to real life…however real life is what we make it and I’m sure you make yours exciting most of the time.

SJ. Good to hear from you. Hope the knee improves, however being with your wonderful family would be making the pain easier to bear. Keep enjoying every day💞💞

Jade. You do crack me up…no matter where you end up going or what you do it will be a hoot…just as long as you get to Dublin🍀🍀🍀. Great still about the successful fasts. You are smashing it!!

Fit. I think I may need your horse next week! 🐎🐎🐎hope he still has some go in him. It’s only a week before my family from Canada get here for their visit and I had planned to have a few more KGs off by the time they got here. Really need to get on that horse and get going…🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎
have decided to ban Scotch from the house for the month and just have red wine spritzers!! Maybe that will do the trick and once we have eaten all the crabs won’t need the white wine either. As per usual Monday will be DDay…..to start being good again. 😇😇😇😇

Doggy. You will know when it is time for you to get serious again…when it is you will be OK. This has to come from within you and only you can decide..we are here to help anytime.

CG. You certainly did the right thing getting those cancers taken out when you did. Your weather sounds just awful.⛈⛈⚡️🌬💨💨⛈☔️☔️..and of course you have overdone it again but it would,not be you if you weren’t doing too much. Time to take it easy for a while and at least the weather is helping you to stay indoors. You will have to find something else to watch now that you have finished Downton. Take care of that back!! And spoil yourself😘😘💐💕

Cookie. Well done with the fasts.✅✅✅ You really are doing well! Especially in a new country. I’m sure things will become easier with time and you will settle into your new life. So exciting to take on a challenge like that…good on you. 💐💐😘😘

Annie. Hope thing are good for you and you are now on enjoying your freedom once again. What a great big Heart you have continually doing things for those less fortunate. 💐💐💞💞💐

Up. How is the camping going? Good I hope.✨✨💫💫🍃🌴🔥🍷🎣⛺️🏝🔦🚺

Gyps. What a gal. Bummer about the pending weather and the cancelled camping. 🎪🎪🎪 Wish I could send you some nice sunny days from here. 🌞🌞🌞 I’m sure you will make the most of whatever it is comes your way can’t keep a gal like you from making the most out of life..💞👯💃🏃.🎭🖊🖊💞💞

Hope I haven’t missed anyone!! Have a great day/night all 💜💜💜💜💜

Hi again ADers. Well I had to face up to the dr today as knee was getting worse not better, so gave in and went. Dr says he suspects a bruised/strained patellar tendon below the knee from the area of pain. X-rays showed no fractures at least. So……have a leg brace and crutches!! Damn##&*$$! For at least 10 days and of course a few 100 dollars paid out, hopefully we’ll be able to claim on travel insurance. Could go ahead and have an MRI but as he said it won’t change the treatment & cost $4-500. So we’ll go with that for now.

So boy this will sure curtail fun with the grandies and the things I can do to help my DIL! Never mind we’ll come up with some sort of plan. Kids are loving reading books for sure. Changing diapers on the floor is another story!! All for now folks. Suejen xxxx

Oh the lovely couple we’ve stayed with for a week have offered to have us stay here for another 4 days as the next house we were going to has loads of stairs. Wasn’t that great!!!!! Silver lining behind every cloud eh.

Oh rats SJ that’s a tough break 😞 but good for you for finding the silver linings (perhaps with some help from our fearless leader) – nothing is broken, you have lovely hosts in (I’m guessing) a relatively stair-free house, and best of all you are with your family. I shudder to think what might have happened that could’ve been worse….still and all I know how frustrating it is to be the incapacitated one – you have taken care of so many, now let yourself be cared for.🤕💕
CG I am the same as you, because even though OH “The Legend” is here, I am the one who does the things that need doing. I remember when I had carpal surgery, I had to drive him to the dentist for an impacted tooth. I mean, he couldn’t even see straight, so I figured I could one arm us into the city with better odds of surviving the trip.
Lol Gyps Trip Master…more like trip messer upper (seriously, teleophobia!!) It is with students but I’m not in charge of them so just having fun. At least that’s the plan. Thanks for the SCCexplanation, nasty stuff but common here – I have been to Dr. Scalpel for a going-over but also religiously use sunscreen for about the past 30 yrs. Ah…but what a magnificent rendition of that song! Rainbow men indeed, and man that guitar solo…always loved that. Loved all the action on that stage, can you imagine what it took to put that together.

And…speaking of trips, and a small bribe a/k/a change fee and fare difference to Aer Lingus, and we are Still On for Dublin. But all’s clear for the southern drivers, we shall not be terrifying them with our lack of skills there. And Dublin is a few days later that week Fit – I’ll email you.☘💚
PH what fun you and your friends have! I’m drooling just thinking about those crabs. Bet there are some mighty laughs you all have down by the river😂🍷
Gosh what a day. Was about to hit the hay at midnight when OH announced the cat was AWOL. And like any cat, he was inside SOMEWHERE while we searched high and low. And after coming in from the back yard to look upstairs again, he nonchalantly strolls down the stairs. HA. And now we can all finally go to sleep at 2 a.m. Night all. 💤💕jade xx

Hi people,

Started my very first fast on Monday 9th, breakfast at 0730. It was a busy day at work and I felt no hunger at all until 1900, but held out until 1930 and enjoyed my meal.

Tuesday morning waited until 0730 and enjoyed breakfast. That evening I felt fantastic! Let’s just say that I felt a specific biological urge (peristalsis) for the first time in 4 years and went to sleep feeling satisfied but with an empty stomach and with a smile on my face.

Today was a breeze and I cannot wait until tomorrow when I fast again, 0730-1930. Did you read that? “I cannot wait until tomorrow when I fast again”.

Only one fast and I’m loving it.

Paul

OMG Jade! I can’t stop laughing at you leaving the car open to the elements, it’s just like something I’d do! 😂…..and have done in the past but don’t tell OH! Oh dear, aren’t those tunes on automated phone answering services just god awful! Poor you! I hope you got sorted in the end. So is the itinerary finalised now or is that a stupid question? 😜😳😉
I got the home care sorted for my sister and I was able to go to my French class, which I would have missed, so there’s that silver lining again! 👍😃🌥

Hi there Jade! Good idea to binge on words instead of contraband! I’ll have a look at your email and try to advise you as best I can. I don’t have much need to use public transport so I’m not exactly an expert but I’m sure we can come up with a plan. (Say the ‘p’ word quietly, so the Legend doesn’t hear!)😉👍👌

Hey Up! Great to hear from you and that you’re having such a good time. Please do take care in the sun, any mention of skin cancer scares the pants off me too! Best of luck with your skin check when you get back. Enjoy the rest of the holiday too! 👍💞😃

Oh, Jade, are you sure you aren’t a comedy writer? I’m in stitches laughing here at your way with words and powers of expression 😂 Yes, that was me waving…. I have big, glass panels in my living room so I’m sure you saw me quite clearly! 😉 Looks like you’ll have to clean out your purse as well as the car….forget about the cupboards for now! 😃

Morning CG! Oh what a treat those lovely woolens will be for your aunt. Glad you put on your Cap of Wisdom and didn’t climb up to wherever to get to your winter clothes. I confess, I don’t know what a walk in robe is but I gather not a robe that you wear and walk around the house in. 🤔 Love learning all these new expressions. And yes, that’s my version of a balanced diet, something good in each hand!🍷🍩 I’m glad we can share the laughs with each other here, life isn’t any easier without them.♥️

I’m pretending I didn’t eat those peanuts earlier, and so I stuck to a small bowl of chili for dinner (watered down with chicken broth) and called it a FD. Mostly I’m trying to drown my sweet tooth. If I have any wisdom I will get myself to bed soon – OH had plenty of sleep and is now full of endless ideas about side trips. Ha ha, yesterday he wasn’t feeling like leaving the house, today he wants to visit every single village in Ireland. This is the look I gave him 👺- definitely a face that needs rest. Night all!😴💓✨🌘xxx

Hi all!
CG, I’ve just been dreaming about building walk a in wardrobe. My bedroom cupboards are useless because I either can’t see what I have or else I can’t take the item out without causing an avalanche! When my sister moved into an apartment in our local village, my brother organised getting a large storage unit from IKEA that runs along one wall of her spare bedroom. It’s amazing! There are drawers with clear fronts, shelves, two storey rails, shoe holders, drawers with hollows for putting jewellery into and more. I’m very jealous 😬 That’s a great idea to pass on your good clothes to your aunt, it’s a win/win situation. Isn’t she an amazing woman to be still looking after her husband ….brilliant for them both to be still at home together at that age and quite rare, I’m sure. Well done for not putting your stitches under pressure! Are we finally getting through to you to mind yourself? Ha, ha! 😉😃
Jade, nuts are essential to one’s diet so you also had a balanced diet fd! You can tell OH if you get the bus to my village, it’s pretty typical of an Irish village…..not one of those Hollywood, picture postcard types, just very ordinary but the real thing! I hope you got a good night’s sleep and got your beautiful face back again or I won’t recognise you when you arrive! 😉😃💚💞

Night, night Jade, I think you need to sedate those furry friends! Or yourself…..or OH! 😂😉
CG, the IKEA wardrobes have baskets as well as clear drawers so open shelves are only for bags or hats….no more avalanches! I agree that you’d need to be a genius to assemble those sorts of storage but for a quite reasonable extra cost, they will come and do it for you….brilliant! That’s a pity about Poldark, I can’t understand why Netflix wouldn’t do it as it was very popular. I know what you mean about changing your clothes, often having to do so in the one day! It’s very blustery here today and not that warm but when the sun comes out, it’s quite pleasant. I’ll be bringing my sister to hospital tomorrow and, luckily, my SIL is able to come with me for moral support. I’m bringing her to get her hair cut later…. I couldn’t bring her before now because she had a nasty cough. No blood results yet, things are very slow here on that front! I’m fasting today so I’m going to keep busy with ironing this morning…..fun, eh? 😉😃

Back on the meds then, Fit? Sorry the test results haven’t helped identify other problems – medicine is such an inexact science, very frustrating. Have they gotten a better handle on foods that help lower cholesterol (unlike the old ban on eggs and meat)? Good luck with your FD – ride that horse till he screams.

I am running on fumes and caffeine over here, would hate to have my blood tested at the moment. Feels as though I have 1,000 meetings planned and 1,000 more waiting to be set up. Luckily at my age I retired my superwoman’s cape long ago and have learned to say “no” – especially to emergencies I didn’t create. Of course I’m talking about work 🙂 – I’m about to run an errand for D because the mom-cape is never retired! HA. Up up and away….. xxx