Polly,

I am holding onto the fact that good things do happen sometimes and the best thing that could happen right now is for Liz Truss as she’ll be absolutely terrible.

Hi Wi,

Good to hear you’re spending time with the family. I’m sorry to hear your ankle is causing you further problems and even sorrier to hear you and Mr Wi 😉 are once again separated by burocracy.

Amazon, I wouldn’t be surprised if Penny Mordant gets the leadership. she is superficially plausible and will be harder to beat in. GE.

I am delighted to announce that I’ve lost 4lbs in 6 days. It’s not a week because I always record weight on 1st and 15th of the month. Bit of discipline re ice cream and wine seems to have worked.

I’m so envious of you able tp see your grandchildren.

That’s interesting with the wine, A. I worked out, back in 2013 when I started this caper, that I’d always rather have 110cal of wine than something sweet, and much higher cals.
I find I’m happy to have a glass of wine instead of food. Mind you, a glass of water, and nothing else would obviously be preferable. 😏

Aren’t we just in the woes, Wi and Amazon. Fellow thoughts through the ether to you both, along with cwtches.

I’m sorry to report that there has been no improvement with my foot, and my ribs on the other side have started complaining. I don’t see any point in going to the doctor, though, as it’s a given that at our age we heal more slowly. And I am trying very hard not to fall again, Happy. I can only work outside in OH’s gumboots as mine are too tight.

We are halfway through winter, the sun is shining and its 17 degrees. Must get back in the garden before rain later. Now, where are those boots?…

So out of the garden, back to the library book and the family history? I can live with that, most of the time. Especially as the predicted showers have arrived. 🙂

Oh,you poor thing,Barata. Don’t go pottering in the garden,though. Give it time.

We’re waiting for this extreme heat that been forecast. A lovely 28 yesterday. I’m have difficulty in eating more on non fast days. I know science says IF works best to shock your system. Stuck on130.

My thoughts are with you in the NH, dear friends. Keep cool and hydrated!

Too much sitting and resting the foot is not good for my back, Polly. I’m not doing any heavy stuff out there, just pottering and weeding.

Yup! Certainly better than the alternative, P. 🙂

Happy Friendship Day gang. 🥰
I have a range of places to lie prone, B…spare beds, couches, Jason recliner,
a great camping chair with a legrest for out in the sun. I agree, getting back on the bed that didn’t work during the night just doesn’t work.😒
We’ve had a week of stunning sunny days and very cold nights. Real winter for us. Perfect for long walks (on flat, even ground).
My weight is in a holding pattern, far too high, but at least not continuing to rise. The last 3 years of trauma have left their mark. 🤨 At least I am alive and can enjoy the sunlight outside again! Always look for the rainbows. 🌈🌈 P

Lucky you.
We had months and months of that rain and with clay soils, we might as well wear gumboots everywhere, even now that it’s dry weather. 😉

Although I do count myself very lucky to have found 5:2, and when that was failing me, Optimising Nutrition.

I’m ambivalent – does that include wine?

I can do that!

We have managed to elude the dreaded Covid so far, but at 3 am yesterday I was aware of cold symptoms coming on. I wouldn’t have tested except that daughter is also afflicted. She woke up in horrible pain – legs, back, migraine – but tested negative. After listening to her for hours screaming and sobbing, I got an ambulance to take her to hospital. They were able to stablise everything and we brought her home in the evening. So she has a serious bout of it. The paramedics said they had not seen such symptoms.

Fortunately mine is like a mild cold, but of course the household is required to isolate for week. Next door has already offered to collect anything we need – no doubt I will be calling on her next week for things like milk.

OH and grandson have no symptoms or positive test results.

So after one day in the garden, with my healing foot, I am now resting. Grrrr, it’s ideal gardening weather, too.

I have discovered the source. My nephew and his wife, who came for lunch on Sunday, have tested positive. My brother, who flew in from Florida on Monday and came for a cup of tea before going on to their home further north, is most upset that I could have suspected them of being the carriers. Silly man. It had to have come from somewhere, and they were an obvious possibility.

There’s no isolation from family members. OH and I will still share a bed – the house is full – and he just has to take his chances.

We had had our fourth vaccination last week, possibly why I am having a mild bout. Daughter has only had two (source of contention that she was putting us at risk), plus her job has been very stressful, so I am not surprised that she’s been hit so badly.

OH’s cooking skills are limited, and his desire to learn even more so, so he’s on barbeque duty this evening 🙂

Hi Wi, that explains the time – I thought 4.30 am was a bit early for you. I hope we can catch up with you this trip.

Hi everyone,

Sorry to hear some of you are suffering with Covid. I’ve not had it and continue to take precautions to prevent catching it.

Wi, good to hear you’re on your way to your Southern hemisphere home.

We’re having a very nice summer weather wise which I’m enjoying but now there are the inevitable conversations regarding water supplies with hosepipe bans imposed in parts of the country but no talk of water companies doing something about the millions of gallons lost every day due to ancient leaky pipes.
They aren’t poor as their shareholders can confirm and they should be held to account and forced into action rather than telling us to sacrifice water use due to their profligacy with the supply.

My annual trip to Herefordshire is coming up and I filled the car with petrol in preparation. My car is 15 years old and it now costs four times as much to fill the tank as when I bought it.
No dent in the profit margin and all of the increase passed on to the consumer……

I’m very much looking forward to getting out of the city for a few days especially as the forecast is looking good for days spent outside in the fresh air.

My foot is still sore but once I get moving it’s not preventing me from working out or walking. I’m still massaging, icing, stretching etc in the hope it resolves soon.

Take care everyone.

Yay, I’ve finished Covid isolation, and am able to re-join the world! OH got it a couple of days later, so is still not allowed out. Symptoms have been mild for us, and I am just happy to have been able to put that behind me (for now). We have no lingering effects, smell and taste returning to normal.

I was in the gym this morning, foot complaining as it’s not fully recovered, so it is good that I have four days until the next session. After a full day in the garden yesterday perhaps I’m not surprised to feel some twinges. At least the apple trees are pruned!

Stay well, everyone, and enjoy your country visit, Amazon.

Oh, so quiet! Where is everyone?

We had so much rain in August, over two days more than the monthly average. I just wished I could send it north to Europe. Springtime now, though, and new leaves, blossoms and gambolling lambs to be seen as we travelled up the country at the weekend.

Unfortunately I came home with a nasty cold. Just one thing after another, but I may get out into the garden this afternoon, foot is nearly better – after eight weeks!

Stay safe, everyone.

I realised, after reading your post on Maintenance Poll, that I wasn’t getting notifications for this thread. I’ve caught up now! Always an interesting read.
Re your queries, Jules, most of us fast a couple of times a week, usually all day from the night before, with a light, low carb dinner after 24 hours. Read Michael Moseley’s Eat Fast and Live to understand why.
Cheers P

Hi everyone,

Apologies for a long absence I’ve had some health issues, tests, tests, surgery etc now much better and getting back to IF and exercising.

I hope all is well with everyone.
Commiserations to other UK dwellers suffering from the worst govt in modern history.

We’ve been having some fine weather here recently and today is sunny and mild although the breeze has an autumn chill.
I’ve been to Syon Park Gardens and Kew Gardens in the past 10 days and both are looking beautiful.

I’ve recently had my Covid booster and am working hard to continue to be one of the few who’ve never had it.

Amazon and Purple, I hope you’re both feeling better by now. It does look as if we’re heading for a winter of Covid again. We don’t have our boosters until 29th and we’re having a city break in Birmingham next week. It’s a place we hardly know, do why not. Cheaper than going abroad, no queuing in an airport and no exchanging pounds for euros at an appalling rate.

For the last two months, I’ve done very well, keeping under 130 lbs but mainly because of hard work in the garden. Now I can’t stop thinking about food and comfort food at that! Yesterday I had so many roast potatoes with dinner, then apple tart and loads of custard.

Just expended some energy cleaning windows, but discipline needed!

Oh, you don’t want to come here now. Settling in for a cold,damp winter. And having to cut down on heating. Some councils are setting up ‘warm hubs’ where people can go in the day!

Boris Johnson was a mendacious, flippant idler, but this Liz Truss is the epitome of incompetence. God help us!

Enjoy your summer.

It’s great to pop in and find the thread has sprung to life! Good to hear from you all. 🙂

I hope you are over your untimely complaints, Amazon and P, and well on the roads to health.

I am so grateful to be at this end of the globe. What a horrible person Putin is! And why are only such dreadful candidates standing to lead the Conservatives? Actually, there is a connection, when you know how the Russians manipulated the Brexit vote.

I can understand how it must sicken you to the core, Polly. I think we have done fairly well here, over the last two and a half years, but listening to the right-wing misogynists in the bar last night was so depressing. Apparently Jacinda will bring out a wedding and a baby next year to try and seal the next election! So no country is immune from the idealogues. 🙁