Morning all

I’m down half a kilo this week to 102kg. I’m feeling a lot better though. Going to the gym in the mornings is a great start to the day and my strength is definitely increasing.

Charlie, happy birthday. I hope you win the war with the birds. We have a sentry guarding our raspberries. One of our cat’s favourite places to sit when it’s hot is in the raspberry patch. Often we go to pick raspberries and find a pile of feathers where she’s managed to ambush a little raspberry thief.

Oh, and I have a job interview next week. It’s a similar job to the one I do now but it pays $10,000+ more per year than my current job. I’m hoping less stress as well.

Have a great day everyone.

Good afternoon lovelies,

Birthday wishes Charlie! https://asset.holidaycardsapp.com/assets/card/bl_b_day16-d3ef3085740e27cb74d0189f47066b88bcbead2e22791c1d4feca93a2b27ee5f.png
Hooray for those baggy trousers!

I was delighted by half a dozen spaghetti squash seeds that all popped up into seedlings together yesterday morning. I disentangled them and spread them out and they survived the process and got the best watering this morning (thanks rain). They all look happy and strong.

I hope you can protect your precious raspberries, Charlie, you need Neil’s cat! I am especially envious of those homegrown savoy cabbages.

Neil, great work with your exercise and your cat 🙂 and best of luck with your job application. I do hope you get it, and that it really is less stress too.

Anzac, hello friend! You must be getting wonderfully toned with that great walking, you will be in fine shape soon.
A big hooray from me that you are looking for a new job. This one has not been good for your health. You deserve better.

I’m having slightly better days and doing all the good things for my health. planning a fast day tomorrow.

Cheers all

Hi all –have enjoyed reading everyone’s updates. Haven’t commented as I’ve had a busy time recently. DD birthday party took plenty of time and energy – we are in the early years where a party is still a big deal for our two. They talk about it for half the year leading up – and because we have a lot of family around they have lots of cousins coming too and a couple of friends. So plenty of food and cake to make, etc! I kept with the plan and have continued fasting successfully throughout and are now down to 73.5kg (down from 77.3kg) – so feeling positive about the changes. I particularly liked that I was able to wear a top at the party that previously clung and made me feel like a sausage in its casing!!! Hahaha – yeah for clothing giving good feedback.

Neil – yeah for going down half a kilo this week. Always nice to see things moving in the right direction! All the best with the job interview next week – more $$ are always welcome right! And if it’s a win-win in terms of stress levels too then that will be fantastic! The frisbee golf course sounds like a fun project. Are your boys interested in it too?

Charlie – oh your tale of the chickens is sweet! I had a couple of chicken when I was growing up in Fiji. Sadly one neighbour didn’t like one chicken who ventured into its garden and it ended up being killed by that neighbour. The other one disappeared one day and we suspected another neighbour had chicken for dinner that night. Oh dear! Thin – I don’t have family there any more as all have moved back to NZ. Fiji is a wonderful place for a holiday but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend living there 😉 Anywho…Charlie – how is the no sugar, no carbs and limited low fructose fruit going?

Cinque – I had to google what a beancurd skin roll was. What do you use as filling?

Gday – wow from 82.3 to 68.1!!! That’s incredible. I enjoyed reading what you wrote about carbs …especially in fruit. I laughed when you mentioned that you bought another fridge/freezer. You would not survive at my place – we have one typical size fridge/freezer and a little wee under counter freezer in the laundry.

LJoyce – how did the third covid vaccine go? I had my second one yesterday and have been feeling quite blah since – sore arm and fluey/tired.

Thin – are you back on your boat? It sounds like you are well suited to life on the water.

Anzac – you’ll be more toned and trim than you were 3 weeks ago. Still so frustrating to put in all the effort and do all the right things and not see the results you were hoping for. Our bodies aren’t always the most cooperative eh!

Fasting today as tomorrow is a teacher only day for DD & DS, then Friday is the North Canterbury Anniversary Day – so a long weekend. Will be needing an early night and hoping to feel a lot better tomorrow.

While pet-sitting, I took these photos of the contents of our host’s fridge. Horrified that people consume so much non-food. The door shelving and entire top shelf were given over to sticky drinks and things that food manufacturers have convinced us we need to put on our actual food. And skimmed milk as if that will help! The vegetable crisper was crammed full of potatoes. Even the dog had a rubbish diet. Yep, I am judgmental – how does your fridge rate? Photos please!
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Friday morning,
and lovely morning-after-fast-day for me.

Hannah hello! What a fab party for DD, and hooray! clothing does give the best feedback!

I did a lot of googling before I made my beancurd rolls and discovered they mostly have a tasty pork mince filling, but since I had to use things on hand I just thought ‘spring roll filling’ and had cabbage, grated carrot and dried mushrooms and I can’t even remember what else. Oh yes, I’d bought sliced bamboo shoots for the first time, so added them in, and I even put slices of basa fillet in, which was fine but I couldn’t really taste it. They were tasty, but I am excited to do better next time and fill them fatter. This is the recipe I mostly followed (but completely missed the cutting them in half bit!) https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-bean-curd-rolls-pork-dim-sum-recipe

I’ve bought two different types of beancurd skin now (both different from the sort I used last time) and am just waiting to feel I can make them again. Maybe on the weekend.

Enjoy your long weekend!

Thin, lovely to know you are happily back on your boat, and how nice to be planning holidays.
I found out about that ‘nearly 7kgs’ a year ago when I had my appt at the hospital. Previous years I’d thought it was just a bad day, or heavy shoes or something, as it crept up. I must have another appointment soon so I will see what the scales say then, but my clothes say I haven’t lost much. On a good run now though, I hope.

Have a great, powerful time getting back into the 57’s!

As for that photo of the people’s fridge https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/32/df/c032df3ffb0eb654497fd5a29345ade0.jpg

And I won’t take a photo of my fridge, which currently has 7 litres of milk in it! (I accidentally bought 3 litres of milk two days in a row because I have old-lady-brain).
Maybe I can make some ricotta/paneer.

Neil, I haven’t grown spaghetti squash before, so it is all excitement. I gather they grow like butternut, but they are more in the marrow family. They certainly taste most like zucchini, but yellow and strings.

They are so handy though! I will use them in those beancurd skins, in sushi rolls, in my miso soup, and so satisfying to have instead of pasta or noodles with a tasty stirfry or spaghetti sauce when I want less carbs.

So many things I want to make. But what I did make was urad dal! Ma Ki Dal.
I have been loving ‘India Unplated’ a local show about Indian food. Rather awkward, I think they pulled one of the hosts in because he is well known and his mum is Indian, but he has never been to India and the other two are so knowledgeable and authentic. However they are all wonderfully good willed and supportive and the food is exciting.

Just after seeing them do Ma Ki Dal I was in an Indian grocery and couldn’t resist buying the necessary. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/ma-ki-dal
I had to laugh at myself because (you’ll remember) I have bought urad dal several times and never enjoyed it. But yay! I love this. It was good for me as this recipe does have some channa dal and red kidney beans in too so it is a halfway dal. But it might be my breakthrough dish for urad dal.
Neil, do you eat them much? (Sorry if you have said before, my memory 🙁 )

Okay, the morning is disappearing, must go and see if I can be productive.
Cheers all

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Greetings Everyone,
Cinque, thank you so much for the birthday wishes, such a lovely thought.
Hannah, you asked how low carb, low fructose was going, my answer is great, this morning’s weigh in has me at 103.7kg, that’s 9kg since the end of July. Now I find sweet things are not very nice, we had some friends call in for one night on their way back to southern Victoria from Queensland, and they left some mangoes, once upon a time I would have had one a day until their were all gone, nope far too sweet now.
The only thing I have missed is pasta, as we make our own, but this time I spiraled a carrot, and it was really nice. OH has now lost 6kg as well, he only has 7 to go.
Thin, not entering into the fridge photo, our fridge is only two months old, so only has things in it that we eat now. Never was one for fizzy drinks, chocolate is gone, now only for OH, and he only likes dark anyway.
Neil, I hope the weather is kind to you this weekend, we have just had 71mm of rain in 36 hours. Our veggie patch is raised beds that have 250mm edges and the water was flowing into them last night when I locked the hens up just on dark. Luckily our catchment was dry, so no damage to our rivers.
Must fly, just made jam drops to take to older friends for afternoon tea, none for me though.
Have a great week everyone, I will check back in next weekend, loving reading all your tales.
Cheers for now,
Charlie

Cinque, I like the bean curd stories, haven’t seen any here. Lovely to read that you’re on a healthy run now. Oh dear, your nearly 7kg weight gain sneaking up unnoticed doesn’t hold much water (or maybe it does) for those in the non-weighing camp. 🙂 I’ll stick to my daily obsession. In fact, I hit my trigger weight yesterday so invoked an emergency FD. It did the trick and eliminated 900g but I want to be at the bottom end of my wiggle room (57kg), not the top (60kg) so I am concerned. It’s amazing the effect this is having on my mood. 🙁 I’m 7 years older and 23kg lighter than when I started this WOL so I just double-checked my TDEE for FDs which is quite firmly no more than 350cals.

Ha Thin,
I think I might have managed okay without regular weighing (or more regularly than once a year 😉 ) if I had kept up regular waist measuring, or at least paid proper attention to what my clothes were telling me.

And I had got so excited about wearing fitted clothes that I bought some that fit too tightly. I am taking them to the opshop today, and then concentrating on getting back into the ones that will fit nicely once my waist measurement is under 30 inches.

Good Emergency Fasting!
I had a good fast day yesterday, and am off to keep myself busy for a couple of hours doing that opshop drop off and as much browsing as I can.

Charlie, cool to read how your tastes have changed. Hooray. You will enjoy the mangoes more over a longer period of time. Big congrats on the 9kg gone!

Neil, I hope you find a nice suit. All is looking well for Interview Day, I hope you ace it.
May those afternoon cravings give themselves up soon. Keep drinking water!

Cheers and best wishes to every single one of you.

Hi all,

Just lurking at present, currently in Christchurch, trying not to get blown away!!!

Thought I’d pop in to say Good Luck with the interview tomorrow Neil I’m sure you’ll smash it, an extra 10k a year will certainly help with the motivation? How long have you been at the Council?

Great to catch up on all the posts, will post in full soon, just seem to keep running out of time……off to the Botanic Gardens today, just so gorgeous there in late Spring, and my favourite cafe of course!!

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Quick pop in,
Best wishes for the interview tomorrow Neil, we know you will smash it, have a great day.
Cheers, Charlie.

Hi all,

All the best for the interview Neil.

We’ve had an extremely cold week, with more rainfall than what we usually have for the entire year. So I haven’t been out walking and have eased up on exercising, just been concentrating on my studies as I will be in the city for 3 days next week and again for 5 days the following week so trying to get ahead as much as I can.

Last night I submitted one assignment which was 132 pages long – OMG. Geez they certainly make us jump through hoops for this weight management course. One bonus is that they finally, after 3 months of back and forth with documents, phone interviews and endless items of proof to show I am competent, they have finally recognised RPL for one of the units which is Exercise and Weight Management. You would think that providing my qualification in Cert III in Fitness and the Outcome Transcript would be enough to prove I know what I’m taking about in regards to fitness and exercise, but not with this mob. But at least now that is one full unit I don’t have to do.

I really shouldn’t be here typing now……..study, study, study.

Evening all

I think my interview went well. The guy interviewing me was a friend of my old boss who is my main referee, so that should help me. They’ll let me know within 2 weeks and they’re set for a January start date.

I made good use of my wellness day. I got some quality time with my wife because one boy was at school and the other was at school. Went for a big ride and coffee with Johnny’s riding group, had my Job interview, then finished it off with a couple of rounds of frisbee golf where the guy I was playing with hit a wonderful hole-in-one with much celebration.

Unfortunately it’s back to work tomorrow, but I only have two days to go until the weekend now.

Have a great one everyone.

Afternoon everyone

It’s pretty quiet here again

It’s a stunning day here today but again I’m stuck at work. I’m hoping it holds off so I can get out and do some outdoor stuff this evening after work.

Well have a great weekend everyone and I’ll hopefully check back in with everyone on Monday.

Greetings Everyone,
Just grabbing 5 minutes to check in with you all.
What a week, been very busy with cattle work, and now it will extend on for a while. Rejoining girls that calved late and didn’t get in calf when they should have. Giving them one cycle of Artificial Insemination, then one cycle with the bull, so far one third are done.(gives us an extra chance to use semen from all over the world without having to own the bulls).
This next week is going to be hard, working with friend who is a Cottage Industry biscuit maker, she has huge orders going into the silly season, she makes delightful little Italian treats, as that is her heritage, but I can’t get over the sugar content, I will not be tasting, we have four full on 14 hour days ahead of us, and I will be inseminating any cows that come on before and after work.
My weight this week has been steady, and at the end of the week down a bit, which I am happy about, as we often just grabbed something to eat when we had time.
Sending healing thoughts to all, especially CaliD, Mr CaliD, and Mr & Mrs Lindsay.
Great to see everyone is doing so well, Neil, hope you got a chance to do some work on Community plot, or at least got some time for frisbee golf, it sounds really interesting, love to know how it is played. Hope that you get your new job, we all deserve recognition for the work we do, and I am sure the extra pay would be useful. Thin, hope all goes well with OH and his operation,
Well must fly, more washing to peg, both here and from the bnb,
Thanks Everyone, have a great week, onwards and downwards, Charlie.

Anzac,
That’s quite a sorry tale about you Fiji holiday, I hope it turns out better than the booking process.
What are you doing with the spoilt fur baby while you are travelling?
Have a great week, Charlie.

Good morning,
It is day after fast day for me.
A good day yesterday but I think too many cuppas with milk. I hope I can do a nice fasty fast day next time. I have some lovely clothes I want to get into.

But goodness me aren’t we having a run of health scares, operations and treatments.
And Thin, you’ve got public transport added in to the tension. That is wearying. I do hope it all goes easily. xxx
Here are lots of good wishes for everyone
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Cali, I hope your treatment is done and dusted and you are not too tired. Best wishes to Mr Cali. xxx

Lindsay, thinking of you and wondering how things are going, but just keep putting your energy into making each day work, and get a big rush of our love and good wishes if you do manage to read. xxx

Charlie, wow, what a busy week. Best wishes that all goes really well.

Oh dear Anzac, what a frustrating run with sorting out that holiday. Well, they are always luck as much as planning, so I hope luck falls your way when you get there and you have an absolutely brilliant time.

Haha Neil I know that asking-for-help-without-asking-for-help trick very well from relatives.
I am trying not to do it myself, but after asking my daughter a couple of times to help me get google maps on my phone (I know! But I am generally at home, so I never saw the need, and I think I have to change some things) we had a sister’s get together in Lancefield (place most in the centre of where each of us lives) and now my Melways has fallen to pieces I had to ring my daughter twice to navigate me.
So she might consider that a passive aggressive hint to get me sorted. 😀

Well, it’s Monday. Off I go to see if I can do anything!

Cheers all

Cinque, so funny about the navigation. DD was rolling her eyes because I had to ask her how to get the cursor onto a specific word of (incorrectly) auto-corrected text in whatsapp. Then neither OH or I could turn off the 6.30am alarms on our respective phones that we’d set in preparation for the trip to hospital (originally told 2pm but then a confirmation letter came in the mail at DD’s house on Saturday giving the time as 7.30am. With no one answering the phone, we made up our own pre-op fasting rules and thought we’d better opt for the earlier time.

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. A common but unpleasant procedure for men of a certain age and hopefully will be life-changing for OH. He’s in surgery now.

Neil, OH did get the toilet fixed before we left the boat. I can’t see any updates about your job – when did they say they’d contact you?

Anzac, your poor thing. Commiserations on being stuck with a child-friendly resort. Ear plugs are ‘no go’ travel equipment for us.

CharlieG, I was interested in your AI tales.

FD for me – Monday! I’m all over the place with all this moving about. But I’m still doing it and now in the (high) 58s.

I’m not one for focussing on ill-health or pain but I am going to have a whinge about my Pfizer booster vaccine. Ouch compared to AZ! Three days later, arm swollen, red, hard, weak, sore and itchy. Ok I’m done!

Good afternoon all. I have a rare treasured quiet day at home today. Finally a chance to catch up on recent posts (and the washing, cleaning…)

Cali, I am so sorry to hear that the anxiety over your husbands treatment has continued. I had hoped after the issues with the previous medication were resolved that things might improve. Glad to hear that you are nearly through your treatment. I remember you weren’t overly keen to undertake it, but having the reassurance of reduced risk for the future is a good thing. I will keep everything crossed that the new year brings better health for you and your loved ones.

Thin, sorry to hear your OH is in surgery. I hope it goes very well and that his recovery is easy. Will you go back to the boat to recover or stay with your daughter?

Neil, excellent to hear that the interview went well. I hope you get good news very soon.
I’ve seen the Japanese blackened timber used in a few home building tv shows in recent years. Personally I think much of the attraction is an excuse for people to go nuts with a blow torch – a fun adult toy.
Thanks for the link. I think with scenery like that I’d keep getting distracted from the game by the lovely view.

Anzac, what a palaver to go through with the Fiji holiday. You might just have to find area to explore that the kids aren’t so keen on.

Charlie, what a busy time you are having. Just don’t get so tired that you forget which task you are on and start inseminating the biscuits!

Cinque, glad you finally made it to your family event. I missed my old street directory when switching to the map app on the phone but you do get used to it.

GDSA, well done on getting through your study assignments. Also excellent that they have recognised prior learning.

Lindsay, thinking of you and hope your OHs treatment is helping.

I finally got to have a dietitian appointment last week – it had been rescheduled due to a lung infection. It was useful having a chat about the impact on my eating of all the periods of self-isolation I’ve been doing with every lung infection. It has not helped my weight and I’m still in the low 80s. I even got so tired I couldn’t face FDs for a couple of weeks, which also did no favours to my waistline. I’m finally back in the saddle though and have done a couple of good FDs and been quite controlled on the NFDs. The many pre-Christmas social events have already started and are a concern. But I think I just need to face them one at a time and make the best choice I can from the menu. Then get straight back to careful eating at home.

Hello to everyone I’ve missed. My visits here will continue to be adhoc as despite my best efforts my weeks keep getting busier. Take care.

Oh goody, to top it off I just got the call to say that I didn’t get the job I was going for. This has started off as a pretty sucky day 🙁

Day one in the books. I just had three cups of Miso soup, despite my wife trying to tempt me.

We had a meal round at her mothers for our niece’s 17th birthday and they asked if I wanted anything to eat. I told them I was fasting that day, her mother looked insulted. When we got home my wife had brought some of the birthday cake back and she asked “Are you going to have any cake?” after a difficult fast day I gave a rather sarcastic answer “Oh yes, no better way to round off a fast day than with a huge slice of cake!”

It’s weird how the hunger comes in waves. Last night I was so hungry I was eyeing up the tube of toothpaste as I was brushing my teeth, this morning I woke up and just didn’t feel like eating.

If I can make it another 2 days then I’ll switch to fast800 for a couple of weeks and see if I can finally get on top of this rising weight.

Have a great one everyone

Hi all,

Back home after 3 days in the city with Mr GDay having surgery to correct a heart issue. He’s not feeling the best at the moment and will have to take it easy for 4 weeks.

I had a terrible time with food while away and so missed my normal eating routine. Vietnamese the first night and I was very disappointed in the dishes, one was bland, tasteless and looked like it had been sitting in a warmer for 6 hours and the other dish was so rich and spicy a few mouthfuls was enough. The second nights meal was another disaster, the mixed entree platter made no mention on the menu of everything being deep fried. I probably ate a quarter if it, the smell and the taste of the greasy, fatty food made me feel quite ill indeed.

So tonight when we got home I cooked some mixed veg for tea which I thoroughly enjoyed. Looking forward to my avocado smoothy in the morning after I donate blood, my first time and I’m not too keen on needles so wish me luck !

MrGday was in hospital for 14 hours and when he asked for some food and a coffee after the operation he was told that he didn’t qualify for anything to eat and they were too busy to make coffee. Times have certainly changed, not so long ago they wouldn’t let you leave after surgery until you ate and drank. I’m not sure what you need to do to ‘qualify’ to get fed at the hospital these days.

I haven’t read posts this week so hope everyone is going okay. Gee I’m quite tired so might go make a cup of tea and head to bed for some reading.

Morning all

Day 2 in the books, I had my 3 cups of miso during the day, but also slipped and had a nibble of salad while I was cooking dinner for my wife and kids, still under 200 calories for the day so basically a full fast. The waves of hunger are getting less frequent and less extreme so that is good. I was feeling a bit light headed yesterday, but this morning woke up without hunger and feeling good and I even got a quick gym session in, so it looks like my body has used up its glycogen and is starting to burn the fat (you always get a burst of energy once your body has switched) I was also peeing like a racehorse yesterday so I’m guessing most of my 2.2 kilo gain last week was water weight, which is promising for my weigh-in next week. One more day to go and then on to the fast 800.

Thin, good to know that you OH came through the surgery fine. I saw one show with Hugh Fearnley-Wittingsall where they tried to get health workers to stop their unhealthy snacking during shifts. One of the stumbling blocks they ran into was patients who were happy with the treatment they received often popped back in later with chocolates/baking to say thanks and they ended up with a whole cupboard full of biscuits and sweets.

Gday, Sorry to hear your OH is not feeling the best after his surgery, hopefully he can get on the road to recovery quickly. Good luck with your blood donation, I used to donate plasma once a month, but I started getting sick all the time so I stopped. I haven’t really been sick since I stopped so I’m guessing that probably was the cause. I might go back to donating full blood again though, that is only done every 3 months so it’s not as bad.

Cinque, I hope you have fun minding your grandie on Saturday.

Well back to work, looking forward to my cup of miso in a couple of hours, I’m starting to get hungry now.

Neil, great – things are going well for you. Rewards on the scales are coming your way I bet. I do remember the plates full of goodies brought in by grateful patients. I was a keen runner back then with youth on my side and could eat and drink anything. My slim best friend and co-worker at the time never touched any hospital snacks, repeating the mantra, “I don’t need this”. She had been hypnotised for over-eating. I tried that in later years but it didn’t work for me!

Anzac, oh no. Poor Mr Anzac and now we have the new, improved virus emerging. You seem happy with Maxx’s care arrangements and he seems to like it as well but I just wanted to give you this link FYI: trustedhousesitters.com. Having strangers in your home isn’t for everyone, I understand that. We’ve done five pet-sits with them now and it works well from our perspective.

Mr Thin is a new man. Full recovery takes several weeks but so far, so good. We are back on the boat and have almost got warmed up.

Neil, thank you and congratulations. Have you not been even slightly tempted to get on the scales? Enjoy that coffee.

Hi all from a damp Ashburton.

Yes, it is damp here this morning, or should I say soggy, we had a solid day of rain yesterday (Sat) and the temps plummeted, but almost fine again this morning, almost!

So good to hear you managed the three day fast Neil, I’m thinking I might have to do the same as I’m going completely in the wrong direction here, easier said than done, but just need to get my head in the right space. Sorry to hear about the interview outcome, I agree with other statements, everything happens for a reason and there will be something else even better out there waiting just for you. Enjoy that coffee, be lost without our machine on board!

Great to hear that you are attacking those hills Anzac, good feeling eh? We didn’t walk too far on our daily walks over winter but did a big hill walk the first week we arrived and found it tough, only to repeat the same walk by the end of the winter and found it a breeze, all through walking hills every day. Finding now we are back on the Canterbury plains the fitness levels are dropping again. It does make for easier cycling though, every cloud and all that!!! I agree with Thin re the house sitting, we have done several here too, and have another one booked for the 28th Dec in Wanaka, but it isn’t everyone’s first choice. When we had our dog, we would have probably used sitters but didn’t know the site existed, we felt us being away from him was enough turmoil for him as well as him being on strange turf. At least with house sitters the pet is in his/her usual environment.

Glad to hear Mr Thin is recovering well Thin, no doubt he is back into those chocolate bars already? Have you experienced some of the bad stormy weather I’ve been reading about over there, haven’t caught up with Mum yet for her version? Bet it’s good to be back on the boat again, my OH is like you and can’t wait to get back to the van after a house sit!

I hope Mr GDSA makes a full recovery and rests up well, I’m in no doubt you’ll be looking after him well with all that home grown/cooked food.

You sound terribly busy Charlie, don’t forget to stop and smell the roses every now and again! Although I appreciate Spring is one of the busiest months on the farm, not to mention the B n B. Your vegie garden sounds wonderful, I’m so envious. We got our herb boxes re planted a week or so ago, on our arrival here, we placed them out on the A-frame of the van as usual, we were sitting outside reading, enjoying the evening sun, when I could suddenly smell mint, then I saw a couple of sheep out of the corner of my right eye!!! Yup, you guessed it, they had munched away on the parsley, pulling one plant completely out, the tops were chewed off the basil, not that there was much there to start with, garlic chives chewed on and the top off the mint. Pleased to report they are all making a great recovery now they are placed higher up, out of reach of two very hungry woolly girls!!

All good here, both fit and well, albeit a little heavier than we would like to be, which is completely my fault as I became distracted from MM by a friend I made over the winter who was very much into Anthony Williams, the Medical Medium, not sure if anyone has heard of him, very big in the US and also the world over. She is completely vegan, dairy free, and grain free, which I found very difficult, but did manage to pull out some good bits. I have seriously reduced my animal proteins and fats, to the extent where I don’t miss them anymore, and have learnt to make grain free sourdough which is gorgeous, (even If I do say so myself). Now, though I have to get back on the MM horse to lose more weight and then start bringing in more of what else I have learnt. Hope this makes sense.

Must go, time to fix the wi-fi………..again…….

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