Hi freefall et al,
Hell no!- i blew it, i was doing pretty well till my 11yr old daughter cooked spagbol for tea and i didn’t have the heart to say no-though i did have a v small portion-haven’t had pasta for weeks….i’ll have to work out a few strategies for these atypical incidents…so…I’ve been reading up a bit on the program and have booked 8.30pm Monday SBSTV to watch the crucial episode with Dr. Moseley.

I do love it tho’, ‘this island’, (irrespective of the marketing campaign) and it has become a second home. I love its grizzly heart especially but the long weekend was spent with the turquoise ocean lapping at my feet…and the kids squealing in the surf…beautiful. Of course, with all this gorgeous local food, who needs kf%*#c etc- though i’m pretty partial to a decent chip, or pie or wood fired pizza and local wine, beer, or cheese (not in the same sitting mind)..as for the valhalla, it can only be equaled by almond (only almond!) magnum or connoisseur…so you can see why this WOE appeals to me…if i dont have to rule out these treats forever ill be a happy camper.

Re how’d i cop the broken ankle, my stock response was ‘knitting’…and anyone who knows me knows this is big porky…the truth of it was that I thought I’d have a new career in roller derby…talked into it by a collegue, spurred on by N&D(whose mid life crisis is this anyway!?)…seriously, shooting stars have lasted longer. So much for a fun way to get fit- as told to the guys in A&E…as they were relocating my shoulder without drugs at 1am…I needed to be half my age, half my weight and half as stupid…as for a return to the rink, never say never, but i value more the freedom and ability to get out there, and just walk, in the bush. Mind you I’ve talked to four other women -of similar/certain age -who’ve also ‘blown an ankle’-mostly in the garden/driveway-bit of an epidemic, so there’s something in the VitD lacking thing+ my sister was researching prevalence of MS in southern populations. Crap teeth, possibly also linked. Love the vision of you sun baking, even thru winter, incidence of sun angle still too low down here between march and October, but at least the feelgood factor would have been of benefit.

Thanks for the encouragement, i love your italian motorcycle pants look-id just love to wear jeans with some room to spare and set a good example for my girls. hope to drop in again with some progress, at least as a distraction on fast days…do some stalking of my own. BTW Have you been into the exercise aspect…HIT was on SBS last Monday…

@free well I already have arranged a stay @dumpling‘s place in exchange for martial arts lessons for her kids! During July and August I’m a free roamer, so… 😉

Haa…yes the skating…vdl just down the road-i didnt even make it thru freshmeat……one knee dip too far…the whistle then..then the full bowl of cereal…snap,crackle and pop…landed on the only bit of my body that didn’t have padding. so much for muscle memory..mine had alzheimers! Cant believe i had shoulder xray, not ankle-doc thought it well twisted “come back if it still hurts in a week”…sure…at least my spiral break was relatively straighforward and i didnt have to have surgery/plate+pins! So my eldest is keen to get the gear on, too young for league…and then there’s her rep soccer career, so much sport, so little time. I couldn’t imagine living in a real city- it’d take forever to get to these after school gigs and the traffic’d be ….a nightmare.

So not going too bad, first day fast went pretty well, even went for an hour walk and didnt feel too hungry, simple frittata for dinner. drank lots of tea(1/2with milk) Went overboard today tho’ with a Tas gourmet pie (I swear its right next to the art shop ) then supermarket had choc ice creams on special ‘kangaroo island honey+pistachio’ -I shared with one of the kids tho-v. very nice but that’s as bad as it got. Both tasted really rich, almost too rich, maybe there is something in the fast where winding down, allowing for repair requires less, much less. i think ill try to level things out between fast days and save the treats for the weekend…Made a mongrel salad (tabouliXgreek) for dinner, lots of green, crunchy…salty.

Hey nothing wrong with knitting-I’m just a bit envious-never really listened to grans/mothers instructions, skipped my generation….my daughters are interested but they’ll have to rely on Aunty Google ‘fraid. I was more interested running/riding about the place than learning to knit, drawing was more my thing, still is. Lately, (somewhat romantically)Ill get the sketchbook out, when most would be going about knitting…maybe one day ill be good enough to swap a drawing for a jumper…

hey all, I probably won’t check in for a bit after Thursday heading O/S for two weeks, so ill have no idea how fast day pattern will go-i expect it won’t, but there will be lots of long stretches between meals, getting about on foot a bit. ( Gunna get me some of that cedar bath soak or the giant tea bath bags.) Ill have to pick up when I get back. Hopefully some amount of time sitting on my bum, drawing too though…food esp-nothing like a little more delay in the gratification! Oh well off to bed- daughter one has early strings rehearsal…imagine that living in Sydney.