PS Neil, just saw your post. Hope you can share a meal with your wife, but remember you don’t need to eat it all anyway. Once you are eating more than you need you are making your body into a rubbish bin. Better to let it go in a real rubbish bin. (This is what I have to tell myself at these times).
Good luck sorting out your strategy!

Wednesday 9am in the freezing cold Flinders Ranges. Minus 2 degrees this morning. Had to scrape the ice off the car windows……brrrr.

Like Ljoyce our supermarket catalogues (coles, woolies and foodland) are put in mailboxes. As I live in a small town with no mail service the catalogues are thrown in driveways. I have a ‘No Junk Mail sign on my fence as I have the coles app on my phone and check the weekly specials there. The added bonus in using my Flybuys card when I shop at coles is I receive an email each week showing me all the items that I buy regularly when they are on special. I save heaps on coffee, tea, grass fed meat and my veggies that way and always buy in bulk. I dislike shopping at woolies and our foodland supermarket is small so has limited variety but the upside is they do stock a lot of South Australian produce and products.

Great article Ljoyce on ferments and yes little and often is correct. Sauerkraut for example 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon with each meal or once a day will suffice. I’m down to my last jar of sauerkraut so made a huge batch on the weekend using red cabbage and wombok.

I’m off to Adelaide next week for 4 days for work so as usual will scour the health food shops for lots of goodies to bring home. I pack as little as possible in my suitcase for the flight down so I can fill it up with goodies and not go over the baggage weight limit on the return flight home.

Must go do some work. FD for me today

Good morning cyber friends, just dropping in to say I’m alive and well. You might be interested to learn that I’m having a strange type of Wednesday FD. I have lost more weight than I wanted (5 years ago, I would have never have dreamed I’d ever write those words!) and staying around 57.3kg so decided to revert to 6:1 just for a short while starting today (Sundays). But, set in my ways, I did have one A&C coffee and will have a leftover FD meal tonight. I’m now having a frothy coffee! So weird for a Wednesday. I hope that milk doesn’t spark any food desires.

A few days ago I skimmed the posts and read the possibilities about what might be happening in my life. Hilarious, Cinque. The full report on how to lose weight without 5:2 follows but I’m experiencing one of those life with a capital L things that Intesha and Merry talk about. Only kidding about abandoning 5:2. I will never give it up.

By now Quacka will be on holiday (hope the flight was OK), LJ will be the full bottle on bridge and everyone will be reporting good health and weight loss where desired. I miss everyone and wish I had time to read what’s happening in your lives. Take care all.

Neil, in the early days you may have finished your sons’ leftover – perhaps now they can finish yours? But I do agree with Cinque, just because someone puts it on your plate, it doesn’t mean you have to eat it all. If I know I’m going to be too tempted by something I either ask for it to be left off of my plate or I find a grateful recipient as soon as my plate arrives. That way the temptation is removed – chips are something I often do this with.

Thin, thanks for popping in. Hope you are ok and the issues you are dealing with are under control soon.

GDSA, even in Adelaide it can be challenging to find a good health food shop these days. I live near Marion shopping centre, which is huge, but they don’t have a decent health food shop. I usually find myself driving back to the Organic Market in Stirling for things I can’t get near me.
When you made that comment about the processed food in the catalogue I knew you were talking about the Coles one because I’d read it that day and thought something similar.

Cinque, When I tried making the custard tarts, I made the pastry from scratch. It was the rolling it up and cutting rounds that caused all my problems, because you need to get a sealed disc of pastry that won’t let the custard run through and I found it hard to achieve that with a spiral. I probably need to watch a professional do it so I know where I went wrong.
I tried the quiz and assumed initially that maize would be number one (mostly because of the huge quantities of corn syrup that are produced), but I wasn’t that surprised by the sugar.

Anzac, I know it’s moving slowing, but your weight is creeping down.

I’ve had a challenging food morning. Lack of sleep and too many pain killers had me up a couple of hours before dawn. The lack of sleep had me craving carbs. I knew by mid morning that I’d need a good lunch otherwise I’d be snacking all day. So I switched my meals plans and made the roast for lunch. It was wonderful and included 6 different veg of many colours. I feel full and not tempted to snack on anything now, so it seems to have worked. I’ll have my planned lunch for dinner.

Just a quick hello and goodnight because I’ve spent too much time researching some things for work and reading up on a couple days of posts I’ve missed here. DS had yesterday and today off of work so we all had some larger meals and our Monday FD was delayed til Wednesday and so the Thursday will be moved to Friday. I much prefer having 2 days between FD’s but don’t want to fast on Sat, so….

Welcome back, Penguin! I’m sure you are an expert at getting holiday weight gains off by now. A lot of that is probably water weight. It’s good to have you back.

Lyndsay, I hope you’re doing better and that we hear from you again soon.

Good to see you again, thin. Great to hear that you’re maintaining your 57kg weight. You must be really busy if you’re maintaining without too much effort. Hope all is going well.

Quacka, that food looks both amazing and healthy. What a great find in that restaurant.

Hi to LJ, Cinque, Anzac, Neil, and to our new members. I’ll post some more tomorrow.

Lyndsay. So many posts whilst I was away that I skimmed them and missed things. So belated good wishes. With luck by now you will be on the mend.

Penguin, we have custard slice here too – another of life’s delights, although I must say I prefer them with a light dusting of icing sugar on the top rather than a layer of icing. If the pastry isn’t up to scratch I’ve been known to just eat the filling with spoon.

Cali, good to hear from you, I was wondering if you were ok.

Switching today’s meals around helped a bit, but it was a reminder that lack of sleep does my appetite no favours.

NFD Fess Up:
Early morning: pot of tea, banana, 2 tsp peanut butter
Mid morning: pot of tea, 2 wholemeal crumpets with butter & vegemite
Lunch: roast lamb with onion gravy, roasted potato, parsnip, pumpkin and carrot. Also broccoli and kale-sprouts.
Mid-afternoon: stewed apple and blueberries with yoghurt.
Dinner: toasted rye sourdough with pesto, lean grilled bacon, boiled eggs and a tomato. Dessert was an orange.
Supper will be a hot milk drink.

Penguin. You are right about the custard slices, we call them vanilla slices and they are very yummy but I couldn’t eat a whole one now.

Thin. Nice to hear from you, sending good wishes. Sensible to manage your eating so that you don’t get too low.

I have just realised that I am at my 6 month anniversary of 5-2. When I think back to the time before I started, it is hard to believe how much has changed. I had a healthy, functioning body which I wasn’t treating very well and I knew that eventually I would pay the price. I’m so glad I had the sense to take charge of my health and along the way I found this forum. It has been much easier to stay the course having your input and being part of such a supportive, fun and interesting group. Thanks

Anzac, thank you for your concern but please don’t worry. I am fine. I am hesitant to write much because I have told so many people about 5:2, that I feel some may be lurking and ‘following’ me here. A bit paranoid perhaps.

My ‘non-FD’ turned into something strange, starting with an A&C milk coffee and ending with a small square of chocolate. That’s because, confused, DD asked, “Mum, are you fasting today or not?” and then I knew there was a treat lurking. And since I didn’t think I was fasting, I ate it. Much better to have very well defined days/plans that everyone knows about. In between those things, I hardly ate at all (my Weds FDs are well-entrenched in my psyche) and this morning I am 56.6kg. Converting that to 125lbs makes it seem very low. So, I will stick to 6:1 for a while starting with Sunday’s fast.

Penguin, I loved those custard slices when I lived in England but wouldn’t touch one with a 10ft pole nowadays. Slippery slope. I tried a pastel de nata in Portugal. Delicious! So sorry to have missed all these posts, wondering if you’re in Portugal now.

Klond, Noosa is so pretty. Haven’t been in 30 years. Congrats on your 6 mos anniversary.

Lindsay, hope you’re soon better. You too Betsy.

6.30am and must get on with my drill. Have a wonderful day all.

Hello everyone!

I dropped in a month or so again but hadn’t regained my 5:2 mojo. It’s back!! I’m currently hosting the June challenge (bashful face) but as most of the posters are in the northern hemisphere I’ve decided to jump on here for some fellow accountability during my waking hours.

I’m on a FD today but struggling!! Good to read a few pages of posts and see some familiar names. It’ all helps, that’s for sure!

Right, motivated again, I’m going to take my lazy rear outside for a brisk walk in the single digit temperature.

Good afternoon, another sunny but cold day in Sydney. That said, I just looked out the window and it is now clouding over.

Congratulations on 6 months of 5:2 Klondi. I’m at about 8 months but I don’t want to think about it as then I start realising how little/slow progress I’ve had. I like to think ahead instead as well as realise that despite slow progress I am putting better things into my body all the time these days.

Your trip sounds awesome Klondi and Noosa is such a beautiful spot to holiday in. Glad too that your OH is doing well on 5:2. It’s hard to take a step back from drinking when you enjoy it – I know that from first hand experience. We have finally managed to knock the wine on the head mostly – but still have weak moments when we both cave and get stuck in. We are both extremists where it’s hard to stop at one.

WFH today (hooray) and had a great walk in the sunshine at lunch time.

Great idea to switch meals LJ and I totally agree that lack of sleep plays havoc with many things including appetite, will power and motivation to exercise. Glad you had a better nights sleep last night. I did too

Hi Penz, welcome back 🙂

Thanks for the info re Lisbon Penguin. I’ve put it in our ‘things to do’ column in our Lisbon page. Yes, we are documenting everything on a spreadsheet and it is getting bigger than Ben Hur but it is backed up to a remote device each day just in case it implodes.

A mystery indeed about the demise of your Polish shop penguin. This just adds to the vision with which my imagination pictures your lovely village/town. I picture a rural setting with much greenery, often misty and full of wildlife, birds and friendly dogs with wagging tails. Often can be seen tall men trudging into the forest with hounds at their side to forage for wild vegetables, returning triumphant with baskets overflowing.

Sorry….work is very stressful so I am taking time out to imagine lovely places where I can leave the office well behind 🙂

On that note, back to it. Sigh. Chat tomorrow everyone

Despite a large plate of veg with dinner I was still hungry – probably ate it too fast. So I went looking for dessert and will need to amend my dinner accountability post:
NFD Update:
Dessert: stewed fruit (apple, blueberries & cranberries) with greek yoghurt.
Also 2 squares of dark chocolate.

Hopefully that’s the end of it!

Morning all. I’ve decided on a strategy for this weekend to try and stop the binge. I’m going to try doing a milk fast. I’m going to eat nothing and instead drink 1 litre of Protein+ milk each day. The litre of Protein+ milk will give me the 60 grams of protein that I try to consume as a minimum per day and should be around 600 calories. I’ll see how I get on with that just as an experiment this weekend.

Anzac, I had a bad afternoon yesterday too, had some of the pear slice that I made for kids lunches, some leftover cream cheese icing that was in the fridge and nibbled away at the macaroni cheese I was making for the boys’ dinner last night while I was cooking. My dinner was a bit better though, I had some leftover dahl, curried livers and a couple of boiled eggs mixed in.

LJoyce – Yes, I found I needed to up my fiber intake so I’ve been adding plenty of legumes into my diet. I’ve found green lentils to be the best because they have both the highest fiber content of the legumes but also one of the highest protein levels. Dahl is a personal favourite.

Happy semi-anniversary on 5:2 Klondike. I’m at 5 months (well first 3 months were fast 800 and last 2 were 5:2) I’m set to go back to the doc on my 6 month anniversary next month to get my bloods done to make sure everything is still ok, I can’t wait to see the faces of the nurse when she sees me because I haven’t seen her since I was only 4 weeks in and still weighed 123 kilos. I’m now knocking on the door of double digits and starting to tone up. I’m really liking how my legs are looking now, and it’s been a LONG time since I’ve actually liked something about my body. I hope to be double digits by the time of my appointment, it’s 5 weeks away and I’m just 2.4 kilos away, so that’s an average of around 500 grams per week.

Ohhh, don’t get me started on custard squares! It was my favourite and is my oldest boy’s favourite. There is a local company that makes them and they even export them round the world https://www.denheath.co.nz/ Their custard is so good, it’s whipped up so it’s nice and light, unlike the gelatinous mess that you usually find in most café custard squares. Although of course these days I don’t eat them as much.

Have a great day everyone

Hi Penz, I’ve never done an egg fast before but I’m thinking it would be pretty good for a fast day now and then. With only 90 calories in an egg it means you could have like 9 of them during a day and still be within 800 calories. That’s 3x 3-egg omelettes!

I’ve been there before on the exercise. On Tuesday I usually swim laps while my boys are in their swimming lessons. This week I found I’d forgotten my goggles and said I’d give it a miss. My wife suggested that I pinch my oldest son’s goggles when he finished his lesson and I’d still get 30 minutes in while my youngest was in his lesson, but by then I’d already set myself up in a comfortable corner of the spa pool and I couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to move. I guess some days we’ll find any excuse to drop the exercise.

Forgive my ignorance but what is OMAD? I’m not really up with chat abbreviations, I’m still getting my head around FD, NFD and TDEE

Anzac, we all have bad days. I have been known to have bad weeks, and before I started the 5:2 there were a number of bad years!

A few years ago any suggestion of eating multiple eggs would have been met with shock and horror – too much cholesterol – but they have been rehabilitated. An omelette is one of my regular FD main meals. Often preceded by hard boiled during the day, but I have never done nine and Penz has a point, after a few days of nothing but eggs it would start to feel like punishment.

It is now four days since the post holiday weigh-in and five of the seven pounds gained in Portugal have gone. It has not been hard, no water fasts. Yesterday was no breakfast, a fruit scone with butter and jam for lunch (shopping with OH) and a cauli/mac cheese, lots of cheese, followed by rhubarb and custard in the evening. We do seem to have a custard theme going. It was not hard I think because my body seems to have a weight/mass self image to which it returns easily and which it re-sets after a few weeks at a new weight. Unfortunately when I lose I need a few disciplined weeks to re-set at the lower weight.

Hi everyone

Friday night now, we got home yesterday afternoon. It was a little cool when we landed but wow last night and today has been freezing! I’m sitting in front of the fire, still in holiday mode, but wishing I was looking over the ocean in Cairns instead…..

A funny thing (well kind of). Yesterday morning as I was looking out to the water and saw a man doing laps along the beach. Ummm, SWIMMING, laps along the beach! Crazy nutter. Or fool.

We did our river fishing trip on Wednesday morning and I spotted a crocodile as we were heading up the river back to the ramp. The skipper turned the boat around and we got a good look at him but then in a split second he flicked himself into the water and he was gone. It was so quick. No wonder people get attacked by them.
The skipper told us that they are not as common in QLD as is made out but they are definitely still around. He said the Northern Territory is where the crocs are really thick. Refer to previous paragraph about swimmer.

Never mind about the crocs. We caught some amazing Queen fish. They put up the biggest fight and are actually quite big. I’ll try to post a photo later. We were really happy as the skipper let them all go except for two and you all know how we prefer catch and release to catch and kill. There was another guy on board who even said he is a catch and kill fisherman and the skipper let him keep the first one, but when he wanted to keep the next one (a big big one) he said no because it’s a female and a breeder and should be released. The guy asked how the skipper knew it was female and he replied because of its size but I actually think he was setting the standard early and making it clear that it was not going to be a ‘keep everything you catch’ trip. The second one that was kept was only allowed because it wasn’t going to survive anyway, unfortunately.

We had the most amazing time on our holiday. I was really surprised by how I handled the flying, I wasn’t even scared. When we first left the ground from Sydney I did get a fleeting moment of fear but it left as quick as it came. OH was loving it and was enjoying looking out the window and pointing things out to me. Can I say that it was fun? Lol
On the way home the pilot said there was a strong tail wind and we got home much quicker than on the way up. That was weird. I have a lot to learn about flying still.
It has definitely awakened something in us and we are planning our next holiday already. We are hoping to go over to NZ and maybe do the ‘hire a campervan’ thing, this time for about two weeks. 5 nights was not enough in Cairns so we hope to get back there again too and I would love to go over and see our dear friends in WA.
Aaah, so much flying to catch up on lol

I’ve quickly caught upon everyone’s posts but can’t remember everything.
I hope everyone is losing or maintaining as they want and I hope you are all happy and healthy. Especially you, Lindsay.

I apologise in advance for any typos as my iPad is playing up and I need a new one.

Back to normal next week and looking forward to FDs again. I haven’t weighed myself yet…..Wow, it’s been a week since I have weighed. That’s the longest in two years! I don’t feel like I have put on much and I don’t want to bring myself down by weighing. I think I am going to do my two normal FDs next week and THEN weigh. I think that would be better for my Quacky brain 🙂 🙂
I like your idea Penguin, that whatever we have put on in two weeks can be taken off in the same time. In my case one week but the principle still applies. Thank you.

Ok best go. I’ve waffled on enough haha. Take care all x

Cinque, I noticed you haven’t posted for a few days. Are you OK? Not like you. I came here to say I was thinking of you because I made Mung Bean Soup yesterday. My neighbour came round to ask what the fabulous smell was and ended up trying some and asking for the recipe.

Quacka, safely back already! The year my OH and I arrived in Australia, we didn’t know a soul and we spent Christmas Day on the beach in Perth where we exchanged our presents. I gave him a book entitled. “Dangerous Creatures of Australia” and he gave me one, “Crocodile Attack”. We’ve been too scared to enter the water ever since.

Klond, I bet those parts have changed in the decades since I passed through. I won’t return to Port Douglas as I prefer to remember it as a sleepy little fishing village. I also remember the Bundaberg distillery. I find their rum too sweet.

56.5kg after two NFDs. An all time low. I really don’t want to lose any more weight.

I am still alive! Lovely to hear that delicious mung bean soup is traveling further, Thin.

Hello everyone,
I had a lovely, but tiring, day visiting my friend in the country, and then a sister visiting from the country, and she and my nearby sister helped me buy and install a new computer. It took all day and involved lots of stress, but we did it and my life is easier and more pleasurable as a result. I’ll be taking it easy over the weekend though.

Quacka, welcome home. So delighted to hear that your dreadful fear was dealt with so well and has moved nicely from phobia to sensible. And that so much fun was had.
No matter how cold you are at the moment, your consolation is that it’s colder here!

Gday, brrr, it will be colder again at your home, I hope you are somewhere warm in Adelaide.

After I posted last I remembered I have some naturally brewed soy sauce and some particularly high quality fish sauce, as well as my delicious bonito flakes, to add to my list of fermented things 🙂 Little and often!

Neil, I know exactly how you feel about wasting food, I feel the same. And while I try so hard, I still haven’t, in my heart, accepted that eating it when it is excess to my requirements, is also waste. Thinking ahead is the best answer, so hooray for the way you and Mrs Neil managed it.
Enjoy your milk!

Thin, I am thinking you are really busy with your project (running for council? bringing it down? organising the state bridge titles?). Being flat out puts food issues in the background (so long as we avoid junk food) and makes staying low weight easy.

Custard tarts, I can imagine the rolled up pastry of the Portuguese ones could be very tricky. I loved a good vanilla slice. Those lovely bite-size NZ ones look great! It was the cheap, claggy, vanilla slices sold in school tuck shops that earned the name ‘snot blocks’.

Sorry to hear about the Polish shop, Penguin, it sounds like a good source of great food.

Penz, lovely to have you posting here. I am glad you got through your difficult fast day. I bet you enjoyed every mouthful of your meal last night.

Klondi, happy anniversary!

Thanks for the BBC high fibre foods link, LJoyce, I love looking through them (and to share them myself).

Anzac, I love to think of you enjoying your weekend after a busy, hectic, week of work. I hope you are having a lovely one, with OH and Maxx.

Klondi, does your lovely catch up mean you have your new ipad? Say hello to the north from me. The shortest day is over and so there is optimism here, even though I know the worst of the cold comes over the next couple of months. I must look up the local season we are in now!
I was glad to read what a lovely send off your BIL had.
Hooray for kind scales, and smart Klondi, and Mr Klondi.

Day before fast day for me, and recovery day too after my busyness. I plan to do all the good things. And to grapple with my new email program. Sigh. Best wishes everyone.

Unable to edit my post.

Thin, 56.5kg is a BMI of 19.8.

Hi all

Cinque. Yeh for new technology, you will not know yourself. Yes, I have my new iPad and I couldn’t believe it. To set it up, all I had to do was put my iPhone near it, push a few virtual buttons and hey presto, all my data downloaded. So easy. You are braver than me, I couldn’t bring myself to call them ‘snot blocks’. Be kind to yourself, I see the weather there is pretty ordinary. It was 25o on Noosa beach yesterday and I am threatening to get a watch mark. I am very fair and this is the only way I can tell I have had some sun.

Quakka. Welcome home even if it is to cold weather. What a lovely break for you and now the world awaits you. I can see you haunting the travel agents now. Many years ago, OH took a small catamaran out in Port Douglas and capsized it, easy to do and easy to fix. Afterwards he realised the salt water crocs could have been around. Didn’t do that again.

Thin. Definitely not a sleepy village but still not super developed. We will probably come back here on the way south and see some more.

We seem to have lost a few of our regulars. Rosy, Crazy and Turn, hope all is well with you

Doing my FD’s on Wed and Fri this week felt strange, but I made it through without too much trouble. The upstairs thermostat for the new furnace and air conditioner decided to stop working early in the week. (It was the same one from the old furnace) so it took the rest of the week to get it sorted. Fortunately it was finally swapped out for a new one tonight and we have air conditioning again.

Thin, being a bit lower in weight than where you want to be sounds like a good problem to me! I hope life settles for you soon. 6:1 sounds like a good solution in the meantime.

Penz, welcome to this thread and welcome back to 5:2 again.

LJ, you always post the best recipe links! I will definitely try some of those from the BBC site.

Cinque, glad you got your new computer sorted. New computers are great, but getting settled into a new one is like moving house, usually with lots of stress involved. Technology moves so quickly that you can usually see a big improvement when you get a new one.

Penguin, good to hear that you’re making such good progress in getting the holiday weight off. Quacka, you will probably have the same experience. So glad that the flight wasn’t stressful for you. Your holiday sounds like it was lovely. Crocks are only in the rivers, right? They don’t go into the ocean, do they?

Klondi, you must have your new iPad after seeing your long post. I doubt you’d have the patience for that typing on your phone. Glad to hear your trip is going well.

Neil, I can’t wait to hear your doctor’s reaction to your weight loss. Perhaps he’ll start recommending 5:2 to other patients.

Anzac, glad your rough week at work is over. Hopefully next week will be an improvement.

Ha ha thin,you made me laugh when you said you haven’t been in the water since you came to Australia. You jest surely? If not I totally understand your fear as there is a real risk there just like flying, just like driving your car, just like eating popcorn (a big favourite of mine).
Cali, actually crocs are usually found up the rivers, still salty or brackish, but not running fresh water. Usually. They can also be found on the beaches but not common, still a big possibility. Personally I think if you do stupid things like swimming/fishing at dawn and dusk and going anywhere near the water where the crocs are known to be, you are playing with fire. The fishing charter skipper told us about the man that got taken in croc waters spear fishing alone at dusk. He told us the cops came looking for him and the croc swam up to the boat and presented his body. The skipper said it was all territorial. Well, you want to play in their territory you need to expect them to react. Respect is what it’s all about.

Hi Penguin,

9.10pm here at home;
12.10pm at yours, and Hi from Mr M😀

Our expat child has gone back to the USA, earlier this week, and it’s a few months till the wedding over there. We have another week here, then a week minding our grandkids, and then we’re off to the US to meet our future extended in-law family, do some wedding planning, a bit of shopping, and spend some more time with the happy engaged couple.
So we’re getting ready for an International marriage and the inevitable “Where are they going to live?” question. A. There to start with.

Your grand daughter’s drawing is going with me to the USA in my Passport cover🙂I hope they’re both going well too. Please say hello to them for us. Lovely kids!

Mr M is doing well and now we just wait and see for awhile. He’s also been kept busy this year with practical stuff at home here for us and for a few others. We’ve been doing a bit of Fast 800 to get us to a couple of goals. I’ve just started working on another kg or 2, and still buying my Scandinavian kefir from the supermarket. I’ll get to making my own one day.

It seems I’ve missed the news about your Portugese holiday. Good to see you both made it in 1 piece this time, and I hope you both had a lovely holiday, as well as partaking of a few of those little tarts.

I wish we could just drive up the road a bit to visit.

Hugs to you both!
Merry and Mr M

Merry, last year you had a major project nearing completion. With the distractions since did you get it finished?

Enjoy the trip to the USA, as much as any Mum can enjoy wedding planning. My Mother became seriously intense over my wedding and those for our kids were not drama free. The things causing the problems were not things we wanted for our wedding or the kids for theirs, it seemed every family member had an opinion on how it should be done and voiced it.

Hi Cali. Because there was no history of impact damage the decision to do an x-ray was somewhat delayed, so some healing had occurred. The solution seems to be a built up shoe insert and more painkillers and anti-inflammatories until it sorts itself out. OH is not as mobile as before, but can manage to walk about 3 miles before it becomes too troublesome.

We have both spent the day on a working party in the village churchyard. OH was tidying up the vegetation and I was one of four moving old Victorian gravestones that had fallen over. Four of us could not lift them, so it was slide and shuffle. I feel as though I have had a very serious workout in the gym weight room.