Brunch was nice. Cali, I had something not the menu that you saw – I had buttered scones with a cup of tea (and yes we did go to the Olive Branch Cafe – at the moment it’s the only cafe in that town). They used to have another cafe that did an amazing high tea, but unfortunately they closed a couple of years ago.
I stopped at Bridgewater on the way home and did the grocery shopping. Every park and playground I passed on the way home was packed with families enjoying the first mild sunny day we’ve had in a while. There were lots of BBQs in progress.

JJulie, 3.1kg in 6 days is pretty amazing, well done.

I bought pastrami and salad veg while doing the shopping and I’ve just packed it into a w’m roll for lunch – lovely. A few years ago I used to have a salad roll for lunch everyday, but it’s a rare thing these days. I think when I was working it was easier to stick with the same thing daily as it was one less meal to have to think about, but since retirement I started adding more variety, and I was also keen to have a little less bread in my diet.

I’d like to do more gardening this afternoon but the green bin’s full. I might have to just make a pile of weeds and bin them once the council collects all my blackberry canes on Wednesday. If I don’t spend the afternoon outside I know I’ll regret it once the rain starts again.

Hello,
Oh dear, getting home after dropping off my granddaughter is a difficult time for me re wanting to just sit and eat things! Luckily it is miso soup time!

I had a lovely day, such a relief to be well enough to care for her again.

Tomorrow is a big step on the way Thin. I am also writing a ‘conceptual map’ before the Business Plan! :0

Love Cauli for Cali! Ha the Cauliflower Rice Queen!

Hi JJulie! Lovely to see you here. How frustrating to have put that un needed weight on again, but yes, I know I would too if I didn’t keep 5:2ing!
I got down to the lower end of my healthy weight range last November and just wobble down there feeling fairly stable except I want to get back into those trousers that are too tight at the moment!

Cali those Eucalypts are Australian, and now you can call the ‘gums’ like we do!

Listening to the show on Countdown. memories!

Soup is ready. Bye!

Good morning all,

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and condolences. It is starting to sink in now aswe go through the motions.

Hey Julie – hi! Welcome back and sorry to hear that weight is back but you’re off to a great start, and what a relief it must be to have that 3.1kgs gone. Like Cinque and Thin I’m still here as we go on our maintaining way. I’m also a lifer – 5:2 for life, and OH also 5:2’s on and off.

To catch up – I reached my goalweight of 62kgs in November last year. Al was hunky dory for a few months then my OH and I began an “annus horribulus” which feels a bit like living in a bad movie. You know those times when everything yuck seems get flung at you from all sides. We all get them and this year it’s our turn. Last night I broke a tooth – it continues. My goal through the stress has been to stay stable in the 64s after putting on a bit through steess eating. That was working well through the last months. The last few weeks have been horrible and again I’ve struggled with FD’s and stress eating. DFILs funeral is this week so still more stress as we prepare, less than ideal eating situations and lits of interacting with people coming up. Thur, Fri, Sat I was up to 65.9, and yesterday was 66.4 so did a FD yesterday and back to 65.9 this morning. I’m determined to get back down to the 64’s first, then get back to 62 before Christmas. Taking it 1 kg at a time, and setting tiny goals of 0.5kg if I have to.

Onwards and Downwards,
And if you fall off the horse get back on,
Merry

MerryMe,
Thanks for the welcome back. I am also reading that CharliesMum is back too!!
You must have posted yours while I was writing mine this morning. I did take a long time to write my post as I was doing things inbetween as OH is getting me to do emails for him and book flights to Weipa.
I also am reading that you have had a loss in the family. So sorry for your loss and I send my condolences. It is always a hard time leading up to the funeral, but from personal experience once the funeral is over there is that heavy weight lifted off of you. Hope you experience this too. My uncle passed a few months ago and I flew down to Adelaide for his funeral. I was very close to him and he was the last of his generation from my childhood. The end of an era for me but I have heaps of great memories.
Hope your day is less stressful for you and send you a BIG HUG!

I’m having a much needed FD today. I ate too much yesterday afternoon and am feeling a bit blah this morning.
Hope those of you who stuck with your FDs yesterdays had a good one.

I have lentil soup ready to go for dinner. So it’s a no cook day for me.

We had really high winds here through the night and I kept thinking about the birds and hoping they had their nests properly tethered to the trees. Yesterday’s spring weather has gone and it’s a whiteout today, the sky in completely white-grey and I can feel that the rain will start very soon. I’ve filled the wood basket with dry logs and lit the slow combustion and I’m settled in for the reprisal of winter weather.

Just enjoying that first pot of tea of the day.

Have a nice day everyone.

Good evening Cali – though you might enjoy this.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-17/bird-mans-rooftop-nests-boost-endangered-carnabys-cockatoos/8946726

Penguin, sorry to hear that your weight has bounced up lately. It always seems to happen so quickly. Good luck with the B2B fasts and no-alcohol. I hope it gets you back into a good routine quickly.
I’ll try to be good an not mention any foods that might temp you to stray. I know I’m probably the biggest culprit with this.

GDSA – If you have clear separation where the thin liquid is a milky, watery liquid, then what you have is curds and whey.
You have 2 options.
– Shake it well to combine then strain through a sieve to retireve your grains for the next batch. This will give you a runny kefir. OR
– Carefully remove the thick curds from the whey. The curds are not grains, they are both the thick kefir curds and also the grains and you have to separate these by putting them into a fairly fine sieve and rubbing the curds through with the back of a spoon. You should then have grains remaining in the sieve for the next batch of kefir.
The whey can be used in baking or smoothies. I have also heard you can use it to ferment vegetables like cabbage, but don’t know the process for that.

Good morning all,

Penguin, I am reading the posts about kefir. My friend in Tassie recently went to some classes that taught pickling, preserving and fermenting and kefir was something she was posting about on her FB page. I dont want to sound dumb but I dont know what this is, can someone enlighten me please?

CalifD, I live in Far North Queensland and we have heaps of cockatoos up here. We always have the sulphur crested in our front garden, but recently while BBQing at the beach I found a flock of Red Tailed Black Cockatoos and got some lovely photos of them. We also have kookaburra’s in the trees at the back of our property who wake us up mainly on Sundays to their laughing. Just yesterday while watering my veggie patch a lovely little make sunbird came flitting past me and to me surprise landed within 3 feet of me, I said good morning Mr Sunbird, he responded and then flitted off to a bush nearby that had lovely flowers out. I watched as the branches on the bush moved as he hopped from one to the other. These little guys oftern nest on our back balcony.

Anyhow, the Cairns Aquarium opened yesterday and I have purchased prior to the opening an annual pass for myself and my daughter. We are going to wait till next week and hope all has settled down then go with our cameras and spend the day taking photos.

Now to business, Question – Does anyone else have scales that have a mind of their own?
My scales will give me different readings depending on where I put it on the bathroom floor. This weight range can be a difference of 2kg or more, so I tend to place the scales in different spots to get a reading I like!! For example, this morning I could feel I had lost weight today, I had a good FD yesterday and a good sleep so I knew this should be a good reading, but no!! The scales told me I had put on 2kg!! I knew this was not right so began moving the scales to different places on the bathroom floor until I got a reading that I had lost something. .2kg was the best I could do so left it at that!! So….
Question – do I need to buy new scales and if so can anyone recommend a good one?
I bought scales years ago that cost me $120 but they were really good and never seemed to do this to me at all. They finally gave up after about 15 years so then bought the ones I have when I started the 5:2 a couple of years ago.

That is it for this morning, hope everyone has a good day.

cheers!!

Good morning everyone,

JJulie, scales ALWAYS have a mind of their own. They pretend to be scientific technology but actually they are little robot devils with a nasty sense of humour (although some days they are surprisingly kind, just to keep you interested).

Penguin, sorry to hear what your scales told you. It is a whole new game once we get down to a healthier weight and have to adjust 5:2 and the rest of our lifestyle. We can only try things and see what happens, work out what we need to be strict about, and what we can play with. I hope the alcohol break works nicely. At least figuring out the healthy weight balance is a better problem than struggling with the spiral into morbid obesity.

Stay, your scales are behaving themselves. Woot! That’s the go. Congratulations!
Lovely to hear about your granddaughters, and what a special thing to take little miss 4 1/2 to school orientation!
It is tiring work, and two would be more tiring. I looked after my three y o for the first long time since I got too sick to have her overnight once a week like I usually do. I am so glad I managed well and I will go back to having her on Monday nights now.
Her little sister is turning one next week, and I get to be with her on Wednesday when her big sister is at day care and I get cuddles while my daughter madly cleans for a couple of hours! Oooh she is so cuddly!

Merry, sending you lots of good wishes. That broken tooth is just NOT FAIR! Hopefully that was the fullstop at the end of this run of difficulties. I do hope so.

How lovely to have all the chat about birds ongoing here. I do love willy wagtails, they are so chatty. An Arnhem land name for them is Djigirridjdjigirridj. Just what they sound like!

I survived the course yesterday, and I found it very easy so I am pretty sure I passed. I’ve learned a lot from a couple of lovely chefs over the last years and it paid off. I have given myself the day to recover (I have a chronic illness so I have to be careful) but I am feeling fine at the moment.

It was the final of The Obesity Myth series on SBS last night and I cheered the woman who managed the keto diet so well, and my heart went out to the man with the infected foot, and the woman having her tummy apron removed, it was so good of her to let them film it. I didn’t know about ‘diet and exercise resistant fat’ and I can’t find good info by googling. Does anyone have a good understanding of this?
I liked the long hair of the man who had the bariatric surgery, but when I saw it short, I realised he probably wore it long because he was housebound and it was so hard to organise to get it cut.

It’s my lull day. I practiced being mindful while I had my breakfast, but I need more practice! I’ll go and mindfully have my coffee now.

Best wishes for a good day, and don’t worry JJulie, someone will tell you about kefir! 🙂

Lovely post Cinque. You sound good. I love that Arnhem Land name for the willy wagtails and it does sound just like them! Wow, the little one is almost one year old? Glad you survived your course, I’m sure you did well. You’ll be relieved to know that i didn’t watch, ‘The Obesity Myth’ so I won’t be offering my cynical, intolerant points of view – at least not today!

Merry, I empathise about the broken tooth having just experienced that recently. While out buying new shorts for summer yesterday, I spotted my now significantly overweight dentist in the mall in his scrubs, purchasing a sticky drink and some kind of deep fried something! I think I know where all that weight I lost went ……

Penguin, sorry to read that the pork pies finally caught up with you. Eternal vigilance is essential I’m afraid. At least you know what to do after all these years. I prefer not to get my precious calories from liquids. On a previous weight loss campaign a few years ago, I went cold turkey on alcohol and strangely lost the desire for it. Wine just doesn’t taste good to me at all. I used to love a G&T before dinner but can’t get the tonic down. I did more than my share of drinking at the other end of my life so I consider this a good thing, not just for my weight but for my brain cells. And I don’t feel a tipsy 60 year old is a particularly classy look. Like a lot of the foods I used to eat, it was just a habit and not worth the calories.

JJulie, I’d just get the best set of scales you can afford. A decent set of bathroom scales and kitchen scales are essential tools of the 5:2 trade. Those birds sounds lovely. We had a big discussion on birds just before you got here. CaulifD has a parrot member of the family. We have Carnaby’s Cockatoos in our street. They have gradually been evicted from their woodland habitats by construction for sprawling suburbs and have now moved into the city limits in search or urban homes. Their numbers were in serious decline a few years ago but specially constructed nesting boxes have seen their population increase in recent years so that’s one little piece of encouraging news.

GDSA, the link that thin posted on the kefir is a good one. Don’t be afraid to rub back and forth with a wood or plastic spoon when straining the grains from the curds and whey in the strainer. I always shake the curds and whey after straining to mix them together before drinking it. I think there may be more probiotics in the whey part. (But not sure of that.) Whey can jump start vegetable ferments but I’ve never used it for that. You don’t really need it. For sauerkraut I use just cabbage and salt. It ferments very easily and has lots of good probiotics in it.

I don’t drink alcohol very often these days either. Like thin, I did enough of that in my younger days and it’s lost some of the appeal. I worry about brain cells more these days as it takes me longer to remember some things. I need more RAM! 😄

Julie, seeing a flock of Cockatoos in the garden would be so amazing! It would seem as strange as seeing a dinosaur (or kangaroo!) out there! I had a Moluccan Cockatoo for 18-1/2 years who was the love of my life. He got cancer in his wing and died about 9 years ago. Surgery and CT scans couldn’t save him. He was the sweetest bird ever. We have 2 Macaws now, one who we had when the Cockatoo was alive and was his buddy. She called out his name for weeks after he died. You are all so lucky to live in a place that has so many exotic animals. Thin, we have a couple hummingbird feeders near our kitchen window and have hummingbirds there year round. Lately, a couple woodpeckers have been frequenting the feeders and I think they’ve scared some of the hummers away.

Cinque is right about the scales having a mind of their own! I leave mine in one spot and whether it’s correct or not, at least I can compare one day to the next. It is definitely not my friend these last couple of weeks. I think I will change it to kg’s instead of pounds tomorrow since most people in these forums measure in kg. I’ve gotten used to the conversions now, something that took me a while. Julie, the Tanita scales used to be very accurate many years back but I don’t know if that’s still the case. I used to have one but opted for one with a bigger, backlit display.

Penguin, it’s disappointing to see the scales go up, but 7 pounds isn’t a lot to lose again. Some of that is probably water weight and should go quickly.

Stay, great job on the weight loss! You should be back to pre-holiday weight loss in no time.

I made split green pea soup for dinner tonight. It’s a good FD meal because it’s filling.

Thin, his name was Gilligan. Amelie, the Macaw, called him Gilly. (I called him that sometimes too, which is how she learned it.) I would cry every time she called his name. I was so heartbroken when he died.

Absolutely! How about this one?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jp5XVil-zyg

CalifD, I can’t open it because we’ve apparently used up our broadband quota for the month and don’t get re-shaped to the faster speed until 22nd! Too bad because I was going to suggest that we co-ordinate the dance.

LJ, the cheesecake sounds delicious but you promised Penguin you wouldn’t tempt him! Never mind, tomorrow I’ll be confessing what I eat at tonight’s restaurant meal. Norway and Sweden have recently shown up on my travel radar too.

Penguin, glad to hear your B2B fast is going well.
The temperature of Norway in summer sounds more inviting, but there’s no Northern Lights then and for me it really is the number one reason to go.
Not sure about that kayak though. Last time I got into a canoe I rolled it over (we me stuck inside upside down under water! That was one on e of the lakes in New Zealand – can’t remember which one now. The tour leader had just gotten through telling us that women never rolled their canoes over because they have a lower centre of gravity, but the men needed to be careful. Clearly my centre of gravity wasn’t paying attention and I ended up drenched.

Good evening all,
Condolences Merryme and keep your chin up.
I must say I have been listening to more music recently instead of talkback radio when driving, the talkback can wear you down.
When I was a boy our family would visit friends who had a separate pool room with the loudest stereo system and the kids would always play Send Me An Angel and White Wedding with the volume at 10 and now I always turn it up when I hear them songs.
I enjoy cooking on the weekends for the kids. I am not great but they reckon I go OK. I did bang out two different pasta meals made from scratch the other day prior to the boy’s basketball. One was a chicken, bacon and mushroom with cream for the boy and a type of amatriciana with tomatoes, hot salami strips, onions and parsley. The daughter loves this, I reckon they are pretty close to restaurant quality.
I do feel lazy with my FD meals but it is so tasty and convenient.
Welcome to the newbies and welcome back previous 5:2 followers, I am sure you will find the support here that is sometimes needed to keep the scales ticking the right way.
I am enjoying my new clothes they definitely make you feel good and I only just got away with wearing an older pair of trousers the other night by strangling them with my belt. They will have to be set aside.
I love watching birds in the garden some New Holland Honeyeaters had nest in my front yard, the chicks have already flown the coop and my resident blue tongue lizard scared the crap out of me last weekend when he moved as I exited the rear of my garage. You know something brown and moves out the corner of your eye gets you every time.
Meals for the FD:
2 x white coffee’s 300kj, 500g minestrone soup 800kj, 100g kidney beans 400kj and 150g mushrooms 175kj Total 1675kj or 400cals.

LJ. I have been upside down a few times, but I find the need to get my head above water is usually enough incentive to get me out. If you are thinking about going up the fjords next year you really do need to start planning now. I was going to do it last year and 6 months before I wanted to go to the far north it was already booked solid. Saving is also a good idea. It is a lovely country, but expensive. Alcohol is particularly expensive. On one trip I took a bottle of whisky. On leaving I gave three quarters of it to the hotel maid and she hugged me.

Lots of exercise today. My weekly Pilates workout first thing. I got home in time to take delivery of a ton of kiln dried beechwood off-cuts from the local saw mill. I have about half of it moved under cover and will get the rest moved this afternoon.

LJ. You make me feel old – I stopped being a teenager in 1964. “Top of the Pops” was the must watch when I was a lad.

The wood is for burning. It should last me until January, perhaps February. I go through about two and a half loads a winter. I am told it is carbon neutral- as fast as they clear a wooded area they replant it, although the new stuff is mostly conifer, not the cedar and beech that are native to this area. Local custom would permit me to go into the woods and cut my own, as long as I only take fallen stuff and don’t use a power saw. I did that initially but the stuff I get from the saw mill is pre-cut to the size I want, kiln dried to less than 25% moisture and still cheaper than burning oil. It comes on a pallet. Four pallets stood on edge and fastened together make one compost heap, which is my next job. Which will be fun because I have to move the two existing heaps.

Joffy. I have no idea what a New Holland Honeyeater looks like, sounds exotic. The buzzard that lives two fields away on the edge of the woods has come up to the village and is currently being beaten up by the rooks from the churchyard. My Robin has taken cover behind the shed.

Brenda Lee, Sandie Shaw, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, a young Elvis? Perhaps even those new guys, The Beatles.

Kefir. I am now letting it ferment for 48 hours. The last lot was then in the fridge for another 48 hours. We have just tried it – very thick. OH used a spoon rather than drinking it. Taste was actually a little milder than the shorter fermentation/store. I am getting about 1 litre from a batch so I am looking for other uses. Being a bloke I am not sure what a smoothie is, but tomorrow I will blitz some berries in with it and see what that is like. The thickness tonight was such that I may have bought my last yoghurt. Grains are coming on nicely, another couple of days and it will be curd cheesecake time.

Good morning everyone, I have just been listening to John Paul Young talking to Red Symons about the Countdown show!
Each episode covers a year, so it is full of memories for Australians of a certain age.

We were vaguely aware of ‘Top of the pops’ but Countdown was where it was at, here!

Penguin, smoothies have changed over the years! When I first met them in (hippie) Nimbin in the 70’s they were healthy milkshakes made with a banana, yoghurt, orange juice, a bit of milk, honey and maybe some oats. You could add berries or mango to make it a berry smoothie or a mango smoothie.
Looking back I bet they were based on lassi.
Nowadays they are more often full of kale and almond milk.

Those trips to the arctic circle sound so wonderful! I hope you can go LJoyce!

Yummy food everyone! Joffy your pasta dishes sound so delicious!

Thin I am so glad you got some good food as well as good company! It sounds like a great night!

I had an overeating day yesterday. 🙁 I bought a curry puff at the shopping centre. Ate it mindfully and it was only okay. But I think it must have had something in it that set off the afternoon munchies. I got through it without stuffing myself overfull, so that is good. And lesson learnt (again).

Today I am having poha for breakfast (yummy Indian dish of stirfried rice flakes I’m making with cauliflower and peas and lots and lots of yummy spices) and then making zucchini and meatballs in a tomato and peanut sauce I’ll take to my daughter’s. Then fast day tomorrow!

Joffy I like that you have the same thing every fast day. Because so do I!

I enjoyed the Carnaby Cockatoos video, thank you. I’ve met Willy Wagtails when I visited my mother working in WA for a year, I stayed 3 weeks mostly in Bunbury a place I loved. I do quite like them, they remind me of our fantails, cute little comical birds. My mother taught me (by imitation) to talk to fantails from a very young age, you suck in and hold your lips between thumb and index and wiggle your lips. So I’ve always had a special place in my heart for fantails and will always talk to them when I see them. I had one young one when I visited my mother for Christmas that we had a really long chat, and then I heard it talking to other fantails I can just imagine what it was saying “mum, dad I just had a really long conversation with a human!” pretty much what I’d told my mum. Then every morning when I went out it was there waiting to talk. They also fly down around your feet while you’re walking to try and get any bugs you turn up. Magpies in my country (NZ) are scary, they’re very aggressive. We have a pairing at the hospital where I work, and numerous blackbirds turn up dead with a hole pecked in their heads. One day I saw a couple of ladies at work find a box and line it with a towel and run outside, I thought bird rescue? Sure enough, they had rescued a kingfisher from the magpies. It soon recovered, and I peeked inside the box later and this huge beak (they’re kookaburra shaped but blue colour) was pointing at my eye, so I quickly shut the box, oh it’s okay now.

I accidentally had an icecream without thinking last weekend on a fast day. I’d had to go to the laundromat my washing machine is broken, and I had to go to the dairy around the corner to buy a key card and the ice creams were there, so it was a culmination of very rare events. I’m not worried, one little slip up.

I got a fruit box yesterday from an Auckland company (Huckleberry.co.nz) whom I would thoroughly recommend for all sorts of foods if you live in NZ, and was thrilled to find a couple of custard apples in there. They’re one of my favourite fruits. I haven’t had these since I visited Melbourne in 2009 while my SIL was pregnant with my eldest niece. I first had them at Paddington markets Sydney right before crossing the Nullarbor on the Indian Pacific in 2007 I think. I remember because they said you can’t take any fruit off at Adelaide so I had to leave it all on the train, was a waypoint so I was reunited a few hours later on return to my cabin. Otherwise I think I would’ve done my best to scoff it all down there and then! I’d been to the Paddington markets and so many new fruits, I told myself buy three fruits you’ve never tasted before. So I bought rambutan, longan, and custard apples (which I’d heard about and always wanted to try but never come across). These are now three of my favourite fruits, and every time I visit Australia I seek them out and destroy (by eating). I’ve never seen custard apples in New Zealand before. I was super excited, I had half a one last night, and even better than I remember.

I forgot what else and my lunch hour is almost over so I’ll sign off. Oh I remember, there are new Fitbit scales out, version 2 supposed to be much more accurate, I would buy them if I didn’t already have some. They really keep me honest, weighins go straight to my Fitbit account, so I can’t pretend oh that didn’t happen.

Jody

Hi Everyone
Sorry I was MIA yesterday. I looked after 2 of my grandchildren as my daughter worked. I have them from 8 – 5.45 so a very busy day ( but fun, they are so gorgeous!)
Last night I went to my first ever Pilates class and was able to do most of it without embarrassing myself. My stomach muscles aren’t that good after having 4 ( quite big ) babies. It was fun to go with my 2 daughters and I will commit to Tuesday nights with them.
My younger daughter doesn’t work Wednesdays and today we walked around the lake with my older daughter and my daughter-in-law as well. Our picnic lunch was healthy with some rice crackers, dip, nuts, cut up veggies and some fruit.
My daughter is cooking dinner tonight and is making cauli fried rice.
Yesterday was a fast day and I will fast again tomorrow as my mum is coming over on Friday.
LJoyce, a cruise like that sounds wonderful but I, too, am not used to those cold temperatures or have the right clothes. It is on my bucket list 🙂
Thin, have a lovely catch up with Charlie’smum.
JustJulie that’s a great loss, good on you
Cinque, I will be watching Countdown too. It will bring back many happy memories 🙂
Have a great day everyone xx

Penguin, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when my dad let me go to the Sandie Shaw concert at the Brighton Dome. I thought she was really cool, definitely pushing the boat out coming out on stage and singing barefoot! I loved her Eurovision winner, “Puppet On A String”. The supporting band was The Tremeloes. They had a hit called, ‘Silence Is Golden’. Because I was such a huge Sandie Shaw fan, I knew that her husband was a fledgling fashion designer called Jeff Banks. I still think of her whenever I see his labels in Aussie stores.

CalifD, Rowen and Martin’s Laugh-In was a Saturday night staple at our house. There was a lot of opening and closing of coloured ‘windows’ making little one-liner quips. I couldn’t understand a lot of the humour as I was a kid and that was before I moved to the USA. Take me back to the good old days before political correctness and all the other nonsense of today. Simpler, uncomplicated times.

Stay, no apology necessary, you can pop in when you feel like it. I’m thinking of doing some pilates but just here at home. I’ve been meaning to look up about a half dozen starter exercises.

I carry on making my kefir just the same in summer. It just takes less time of course. But we do keep our house temperature controlled. Mine’s thick and creamy and I sometimes add frozen blueberries and just eat it like that, I don’t bother blending it. Sometimes, I add a drop of vanilla for a treat!

No damage on the scales after eating in a pub last night.

I shall watch those Countdown and Laugh-In clips in a couple of days when the broadband speed picks up again.