Take it easy Minols, it’s quiet on here when HH is on holiday. Just done a bit of decorating, bathroom,Will finish it tomorrow hopefully. Not been a bad day food wise less than 200 calories so far but didn’t plan a FD for today so will see what happens.Got to keep up with Nana and Kay.

Just home – that’s me done for the day, and looking forward to my cup of tea.
HOping to fast tomorrow – did you fast today in the end, Dave?
Mx

Fasting and filming today. Hopefully I’ll find all the pictures I need in my inbox from the uniformed organisations so I can put together a wee video for Remembrance Sunday, and then I just need to film my parts of the service for the facebook page, and I’ll have everything I need for the zoom service…in other words, lots of interesting distractions that will hopefully make a fast day do-able – given my past record!

Catch you all later.
Mx

Morning All…

A lovely river walk this morning, I went a different walk beautiful and so quiet..a lot of thinking done… I think Charlie enjoyed it too…

A few jobs to do if I can be bothered, touch up painting in a few rooms to tidy them up and some grouting in the downstairs loo…a good book is pending too, to start …

A cuppa is the first job…

Minols..
You are always so busy you remind me of my daughter…hope you get all the filming done…our church looks lovely and our village..someone has been busy knitting poppies…decorated loads trees and the church railings, everywhere looks beautiful..
Back to daughter, 7 teachers isolating, year bubbles off school, now lockdown more teachers may have to go off, the children off school need deliveries of school meals, vulnerable children at home need checking, the list goes on…like you she’s going in circles ..

Dave..
I shall be out early walk before the fireworks…lots last night it unsettled him….your fasting is very strong at the moment well done..

Hedgehog..
When are you back home…today??…hope you have had a good time…

Have a good fast day…..it’s Thursday…I am not with you yet…

Jean x

Dave..
Be positive…you will do it 😀👍
X

Dave – our old boy has been deaf a few years now, and it makes a real difference at this time of year!
Jean – hope Charlie’s managing to cope. Your daughter’s spinning round in circles – is this the US daughter? I have friends who are teachers and it’s really tough, but fortunately where we are we’re not in the central belt, so things fairly stable-feeling just now.
Managing not too badly today – had a protein-packed omelette at about 1.30, and managed to resist biscuits and sweets so far. The boys are having ribs tonight which do NOT tempt me, so I’ll have a stock cube/soup and oat cakes, and then I have to go to a big zoom meeting so that should stop me nibbling…too many eyes watching me!

I’d love to settle down with a good book, Jean…someone loaned me The Sealwoman’s Gift over the October break, and I’m managing to keep track of the story between spordic reading bursts, so maybe I’m on my route back to being able to build reading into my life again…I used to read voraciously, but there just hasn’t been time in years, and I miss it!

Having said that, when I was sewing, doing the housework, sorting out the leaves over the last month, I have listened again to Northanger Abbey…just hysterical!

Mx

Well be around 1800/1900 calories today and will try tomorrow to fast. I think Heidi may be able to hear the very loud bangs but is asleep now as usual.

Morning everyone a quick check in to report a half pound lost this week would have preferred more but there we go.
Lovely sunny morning here so will be helping husband with digging up a long past its best large bush in the garden.
Have a good day everyone whether fasting or not today and keep safe.
Nana x

Hi Everyone
Up ridiculously early again today…I think it might hve been that post-fast restless night thing. Means I maybe managed a decent fast yesterday!

Succumbed to toast and honey at 8am, and just had soup and oatcakes now. Heading off on my bike to take a funeral, and then just some tidying up. I need to decide tonight between a fish supper or a salad from the takeaway…our chippy does do an amazing caesar salad!

Mx

Hello where are you all?

Good morning everyone.A dull day here, I worry about Heidi’s legs going when she is on the stairs.I stand behind her and help her up the stairs,she won’t stay down on her own. Denise was up at 3-30 am, she fishing feel well so I locked Heidi in the bedroom with me. I managed 3 fast days last week so will try and do it again.

Hi everyone – quiet weekend, I guess for everyone. It’s been really cold here, and today was decidedly soggy! Tech all worked this mornign for Remembrance on Zoom – thank goodness. It’s so important for folks.

I’ve had a look in my diary – a quiet week ahead, so I must make the most of it and write like crazy. It would be brilliant if I had everything written by the end of the week – or more crucially, a comprehensive list of things I need volunteers to prepare! Don’t even think of raisin gyour head around me, or I’ll slap you with half a dozen recordings to do, or pictures to stage…and I don’t care if you don’t think you can sing – give verse 3 of Once in Royal David’s City, please by the second Sunday of December!!

Jean – evening are difficult, aren’t they. And from memory, the TV isn’t quite as distracting as you’d think. Hang in there, m’dear.

Everyone here has knitted me a host of angels over lockdown – I have about a thousand so every single child in our primary schools will get one! Just starting to tie the tags on now ready to group them into classes and wrap them ready – still a way to go in our tasks, but they are very very cute. We even have some ‘day glow’ ones! Some with halos, some (to reflect the minister) with slipped halos, and faces of every shade possible – there’s an angel to look like you. Even one in a fair isle top!

May try a FD tomorrow, but pie from the butcher tonight and roast spuds!
Mx

Evening…
Jean- thinking of you, hugs…evenings must be very long 😞 Your poor daughter too, sounds very difficult & spreading alot your way. A shame you haven’t been able to see her.
Dave- a worry with Heidi, maybe you could keep a pair of tights handy, use them as a strap under her tummy to support her back legs? Especially on a walk if she gets tired…
Minols- you’re so busy! Glad you have a quiet week & can hopefully get ahead! Glad your sister’s near your Mum too.
Kay- poor Neil’s Mum, hope they can sort out more care for her so she can get home, a worry for you both…Hope your neck & shoulder get better soon!
Nana- maybe you could meet your daughter outside for a walk? Sounds like you, Kay & Dave have all being doing well fasting!
Mel- thinking of you, waiting for Jodie’s op…
Holiday was lovely, but feeling pretty tubby now! We did 2 walks every day, but at hubby’s pace & not as long as I’d usually do! Stressful time coming up with Mum- 2 year anniversary & her birthday, on top of lockdown, hope I can do some fasting! Saw her today- have got her laptop back, her internet still wasn’t working, so got son to come round & he managed to sort it! The router had gone loopy & wouldn’t accept it’s password! Then after he’d gone she told me the new printer wasn’t working too! Managed to get that working for her though! Have a birthday cake to make this week & a Lightning McQueen car one to do for someone on Thursday.

HI Everyone

Dave – I think HH was proposing to improvise a sling with the tights…not try and put fishlegs on Heidi! When the boy was bad aft ersurgery, the vet give us a sling to go under his lower back as he walked, so we were effectibely taing the weight of his back end off his back legs. We still have it and have used it occasionally when he’s tottery.

Nice to have you back HH – and glad the break was worthwhile.

Not fasting today – pretty shattered again…I think we’re back to the nervous energy of big Sundays wiping me out a bit on Mondays – that’s my excuse, anyway!

Right – this is the week for knuckling down, so shout if you see anythign more than the top of my head!

Mx

Morning All…
A good park walk with Oreo this morning, Charlie played and ran a lot, they do love each other…he’s asleep now.

My to do list is on going, gone off the idea of painting today….so house cleaning, it’s so much cleaner with just one person….although I would have put Steve as tidy..I might be doing it more often…just lounge to do, thought I would catch up and start again.

I am still eating light, so no fast day for me today…I need to be were I am weight wise…I am sure it won’t last… I am eating too much sweet stuff cakes, biscuits etc, I get them in for people then they leave me to eat them, still no excuse in lock down…I won’t buy any more…

Dave..
Heidi is a worry, hope she is a bit better on her walk today..

Minols…
It must take it out of you, lots of planning and zooming, recording..so much harder than getting on with your ‘usual job‘…daughter finds it much harder…
Try and have a relaxing day if you can….fasting tomorrow??

Jean x

Evening everyone, have had a good Fast Day managed to have nothing to eat until this evening and didn’t feel to hungry so that was good next one planned for Thursday.
Minols sounds like you’re busier than ever at the moment so take time out for yourself easier said than done I know.
Jean no rush to restart 5:2 Just keep coming on here for a chat.
Welcome back Hedgehogs- sounds like you’ve got a busy few days ahead for you.
Enjoy the rest of your evening everyone and stay safe.
Nana x

Morning All…

Woken up to another foggy cold damp morning…..we have another play date at the park this morning at 9 am…he has a better social life than me..😂

Nothing planned at the moment…a bit of shopping in the village…Covid if rife around here or towards Hull, 600 per 100,000 so not good at all..daughters school is in a very Corvid hot spot..hospitals are filling up, Scunthorpe and Grimsby on stand by and taking the over flow.

Dave..
Hoping the sling will help Heidi, sounds hard work for you still she won’t be walking far…poor girl.

Nana..
Enjoy your walk hope you have not got the fog….

Hedgehog..
Just touch up feather in wall painting…step daughters when they stayed took loads of bags upstairs and marked and scratched the walls!!..accidental I know but needs attention…
Trying to keep busy then the evenings are not so bad…long walks and lots of thinking seems to have helped, remembering a few things we spoke about the last few days…

Have a good walk your self…a grotty day…

Minols..
Are you calming down and take time out for your self…a fast day for you??

Jean x

Fasting today. Just had porridge which will keep me full for a while. I have taken one of my stronger tablets to try and ease my shoulder and as I need to take them with food I figured that porridge would be a good plan.
Formulating a plan for tea which will be low, so as long as no snacking this afternoon, it will be job done!

Neils mum is still in hospital. They are trying to come up with a plan to getting extra calories into her but I don’t think its worth it tbh. Yes she’s extremely thin but she does eat. Its just the constant battles of breathlessness episodes that makes her body work hard.

I want to get on with my winter cleaning but conscious that I should be resting my shoulder too. I will have to see how I am tomorrow and whether I can work or not. Darent take Tara out as she pulls so much. Reminds me, we need to get back on the targetted training! We tried a walk on the beach on Sunday but as soon as she got closer to other dogs, she did her usual lunging and barking😕

7 weeks until Christmas..is that all…even at a pound a week, I won’t hit the stone! Never mind, head down and stick with it.
We aren’t going to bother much with extra food over Christmas anyway. Need to decide what to have for Christmas dinner…Neil fancies something different to the quorn roast we have had last couple of years…maybe lobster or crab…

x

I think we may have chicken instead of turkey,I prefer that. Just took Heidi out and she was ok so the harness for Heidi is coming today so that will help her get up steps,don’t know if I can use it to take her walks out not. I took the shower guard down yesterday to change the rubber at the bottom and ordered the wrong size and have chucked the old one away 😱.So I will have to see if I can get a new one quick.

Took Heidi out in her harness,she looked at me funnily at first but seemed ok after a few yards. It’s good if she has to climb up steps.Had lots to eat today so definitely a FD tomorrow.

Morning everyone – doing some walking round town today for chores because it looks like rain is due. And then it’s back to those angels and the tags around their necks. Some of them are so beautifully created…some are really alien-like. And there’s one that has a beautifully knitted creamy robe – and a dark magenta face and wings? Why -o – why did they not do that the other way round?

Dave – Heidi will get used to it, especially if it’s only as and when she needs it. The first time with the old boy it was deep snow, and his surgery was so new and raw, and his whole back so shaved…he looked a right sight and I think it offended his dignity – but he got used to it!

Mx

Afternoon All…
A good park walk then I went to my sisters for three hours, just lunch and chat. I have decided she can be in my bubble as my daughter is in the thick of Covid!…might change next month 😂

Minols..
Lots of angels to do…good luck…

Dave..
Hope the harness helps Heidi…

Nana..
Poppy is heavy at 37 kg, Charlie is about 31 kg he’s a weight when he pulls…think he’s put a bit on…definitely need something to stop them pulling.

Jean x

Hi Dave – it is quiet on here…are there lots still involved on the whatsapp group? or the facebook group?

All angels from the box tied – and the call is out for strays to be brought in this weekend! No doubt there’ll be a pic on our fb page nearer the ‘launch’ time!

Glad Heidi’s getting used to the harness. Old boy has been a nightmare this week with sniffing and going back over whole stretches of the walk again. And of course he can’t multi-task, so his ears close completely when he’s sniffing. Still keen as anything to go out – and as slow as anything to come home!

Mx

Morning!
Sorry, not been on much, very hectic few days!
Dave- sounds like you need moee hands walking Heidi- I thought you were going to say you’d trod in the poo! Hubby’s just changed our shower door seal thingies, ours are curved so had to soak the thingy first so it would bend, all sorted now. Sounds like you’re doing well!
Minols- that’s alot of labels- should look lovely when all the angels are done, except for the alien ones! Our WhatsApp group is private, if you do want to join in? It’d be lovely to see your craft projects, & old man doggy!
Jean- a worry with all the Covid your way, nice for your sister to see you I’m sure, even if you don’t get much from it! Thinking of you, sending you a hug…
Kay- hope that your shoulder gets better soon, & that Neil can get something sorted for his Mum, a long day & alot of driving for him, although I guess the driving doesn’t bother him…hugs to you too.
Nana- hope all the fencing gets done! I bet Poppy’s really strong when she pulls! Is she still on a diet?
All out of routine today- up late (for me!), son wanted a fry up as he’s doing funny hours at the moment & missed his dinner yesterday, so cooked that, then not long for a walk with Xena as I have a set time to ring my new HS family, so we had to go to the park- met lots of other dogs there though so she had a good run with them! Rang both HS families, now shoukd get some jobs done- all neglected as the cakes I’ve had to make the last few days have taken alot of time! Lightning McQueen has been safely delivered!
I might be fasting today, although have alot of leftovers in the fridge…

Dave, I have to admit I did chuckle a bit when you ran out of hands yesterday, I also thought you were going to say you had stepped on the full poo bags 🙊

Minols, sorry not been posting on here as much, I just find it more of a faff to open up the website etc. WhatsApp is much quicker and we get to see doggie photos every day, plus HHs cakes. You could have shown us the purple angel 😆
The angels are a lovely idea.

I should have been giving blood today, but I’ve rescheduled it. I’m still in pain with my shoulder so taking painkillers and don’t reckon its a good idea to give blood with those in my system.

Still waiting to see what is happening with Neils mum. Hopefully now we have got hold of the social worker, the hospital discharge can be stopped. What a nightmare. I feel for Neil as well as his mum…

Today is supposed to be a FD and I really need to be disciplined. Trouble is I’m a stress eater, so I will need to be extra strong.
I’ll be glad to have not put on weight this week, never mind lose anything! Seem to have food in transit issues too.

Mel, I hope Jodie is back home with you this evening. She will recover quicker when she starts eating again.

Jean, I’m glad that you had time with your sister yesterday. I think its a good call to stick to a bubble with her rather than your daughter at the moment.

I caught up with bake-off last night, I wasn’t fussed about the jelly desserts, not the best week. I am surprised that Laura is still in it….Still think Lottie should have stayed instead of Laura…
Masterchef started again now too, although never good to watch on a FD!

I have a bag of apples to sort out and cook up, might do that now, whilst I’m waiting to hear back from Neil to see what’s happening x