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Suggest you both take smelling salts and a strong drink with you! Its quite a shock to those of a nervous disposition!

When I've worked out how to do it, there will be a photograph on it's way to you all, it will set your hearts racing.

AS we are not on our own computer, this may take some time and I may even have to send via the lovely Moogie with a request that she post it on my behalf,

ballerina x

Was going to post and say couldn't believe our Ballerina was turning out to be so shy and modest - but you posted above before I could do so

We'll just have to learn deferred gratification (like we are doing on fast days!) until we see aforesaid photo!

But it's not a fast day today!!! And it's a Saturday!!! I don't want to learn anything!!!

Yes exactly! What we need is a handsome french techie to hove into view around Ballerina's pool, offering to upload her photo NOW!!!

YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!

I wonder if the handsome french techie did appear and is currently being held captive in the Cave de Vin as a toy boy

Tempting, very tempting Hope something arrives in the not too distant future,

Ballerina x

P.S.Sian, your post earlier looked hilarious beside your avatar saying you were off to Old Nog's blog, that made me laugh

P.S.Sian, your post earlier looked hilarious beside your avatar saying you were off to Old Nog's blog, that made me laugh

I hadn't noticed that! Priceless!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I just noticed!!!

Just home from lovely holiday in Weymouth and stupidly seemed to stand on some scales ...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Um, seem to have put on squillions of pounds, in the region of 6lbs? Is that possible?

I will be sensible and weigh properly tomorrow morning for the actual truth, but blimey Ballerina, holidays are FATTENING!!! Beware!

Hi, Ballerina, and everyone - Just want to say how much I'm enjoying reading all about Ballerina's hilarious adventures in Paris !!!!

I love shopping and I love food, and the two combined is my idea of heaven, a lovely day at the shops with lunch, great. Now, shopping FOR food is another matter, I HATE it. Hubs is the lovliest man you could meet, kind to animals, old folk and drunks and he is wonderful with babies. In fact I once told him that if he got any nicer, I'd have to leave him. That all changed the first time we went food shopping together. Put a supermarket trolley in front of him and he morphs into Ghengis Hitler, I blame it on his mother, Mrs Hitler snr but to be fair, I seem to turn into a sulky teenager. Vicky Pollard could have been modelled on me in a supermarket. "What do you want to eat?"..."Not bovvered"...." Do you fancy chicken?........"Don't care"........"Or would you rather have pork?"........"Whatever!"......"How about fish?"....."Hate fish, hate you" etc......See what I mean?
Actually, I really do hate fish, I wish I didn't as I think it is an extremely wonderful food but I just can't stand the smell, oh, just thinking about the smell makes me heave, yuk, disgusting. I once found myself in conversation with a woman I'd never met before, and she said something about some fish dish and asked me for my opinion. I said, very nicely,that I didn't eat fish which launched her into the most amazing character assassination I have ever encountered. She refused, absolutely and utterly, to believe that any human being could survive without a haddock hanging out of their mouth, with a bit of parsley on the side,and proceeded to mention every fish she could think of, all said in a patronising and questioning tone. "Cod?"..."No"....."Plaice?"...."No"....."Salmon?"..."No"......"Whitebait?"...."Definately not"... this could have gone on indefinately so I interupted her to tell her that it would be easier, and quicker, to just accept that if it had been in the sea then I would never eat it and this included supermarket trollies, car tyres and washed up ancient mariners, OK? She decided to try another angle, "You'd love my fish pie"...."Does it have fish in it?......."Yes"........"Then I would not like it, sorry".........."But it doesn't taste of fish".........."So, what's the point of a fish pie that doesn't taste of fish?" It must be like eating chocolate that tastes of cabbage. I was losing the will to live, rather like a floundering fish.
Anyway, over the years hubs has tried to get me to taste different fish dishes and we have come to the conclusion that if it is white, bland and tasteless then I can just about get it down but it has to have a lot of sauce on it and I have to have copious amounts of wine to help the whole thing along. He loves kippers but in summer he has to eat them outside and in winter he has to eat them in the garage, or outside, I don't care as long as I don't have to smell them. He has now become a clandestine kipper/mackeral eater and has been known to get up in the middle of the night to indulge his secret habit.

I got over my supermarket strop, we came home, sat in the sun, laughed, swam in the pool, drank wine and then he served cod for lunch! What do they say about revenge being best served cold? At least it was hot and yes, I did eat it, sort of!

Off for a nightcap with my lovely man, see you all tomorow,

Ballerina x

Azureblue, don't panic, it will go, you know it will, you are now a fully paid up member of 5:2 shapeshifters and you will soon be back on track. The smart money is on you girl x

Ballerina x

Thank you for your confidence in me Ballerina. I have just eaten fish and chips as a holiday finishing meal (the last meal?) and tomorrow I start back to calorie watching, TDEE here I come, and full 24 hour fast from 7pm through Monday.
I have enjoyed a week off from our regime and didn't manage anything like 16/8 and was banned from 5:2. Returning to discipline will be good for my body and soul!
Onwards and downwards. Pip pip :0)