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It was lovely to get into the garden yesterday and I finally managed to get some plants, which had been languishing in their pots since June/July, into the ground. I'm sure that they must be very relieved to get out of their constricting pots - rather like me getting out of a too-tight bra in my heavier days!

I have been fasting today but not had time to visit the forum before now, as I have been busy preparing paperwork for our WI meeting tomorrow. I am the Secretary, so a lot of the paperwork falls to me. I produce a monthly Newsletter for our members, as well as doing the Agenda and the Minutes. Well, it keeps my hands busy, so reducing the amount of time left for nibbling! Any more WI members out there?

Hi Stowgate Resident,
WI? Also fasting today and preparing paperwork for our AGM tonight. I have just stepped down after 3 years as President. Wanted badly to end the day with a glass of wine but I resisted and just had water
Those scales had better be good to me tomorrow.

WI? World, Incorporated? Women Inventors? Wonderful Imagination?
AGM? Affiliated Grandmothers Meeting?
I could google, but it's so much more fun to guess

WI = Women's Institute.

I've been a member since the late nineties - I had to join if I wished to sell my bread products in the local WI shop. Membership was an old shilling, I remember, 5p in new money.

WI = Women's Institute.

I've been a member since the late nineties - I had to join if I wished to sell my bread products in the local WI shop. Membership was an old shilling, I remember, 5p in new money.

That's funny, @Breadandwine! My daughter has a small scholarship from the Medical School Faculty Wives Association at her university - which now has in its membership several Faculty Husbands

The sun is shining! Birds are going nuts, seeds and fatballs on our feeders!
I have sat with coconut oil sinking into my hairy head for an hour and a half and must now go wash it off under our new shower, put up by stepson at 10pm last night after his college course finished.
There is a pile of paperwork waiting my attention in the study but
THE SUN IS SHINING!!
So may not get done

Addendum: shower works a dream. The old one was 18 years old and had got to "BLIMEY that's cold" stage so this mornings warmth was a joy.

As you were :0D

The sun is shining! Birds are going nuts, seeds and fatballs on our feeders!
I have sat with coconut oil sinking into my hairy head for an hour and a half and must now go wash it off under our new shower, put up by stepson at 10pm last night after his college course finished.
There is a pile of paperwork waiting my attention in the study but
THE SUN IS SHINING!!
So may not get done

... And a little bird has told me that you are 69 something kg!

No flying fried egg sandwiches recently then!

Funnily enough I had a fried egg with meat-free rashers and rye bread and butter on Sunday. Delicious.
Ended up at a nearby zoo today, laid back and quiet, the animals were undisturbed by us wandering by, in fact seemed interested to see humans. Two cheetahs were loudly purring!
Ate avacado on rye with a splash of lemon juice for breakfast. Yummy. Mackeral and salad for dinner ... But fell into an apple crumble with custard after :0)

Just had a fillip - went to collect some dry cleaning (which is a rare event!!) and the woman behind the counter said, 'When you get to 60, you get seniors discount.'
I told her I'd qualified for that a few years ago! Unfortunately, I had to produce the ID when I took the cleaning in, not when I was taking it out!! Still, nice to know!

And everybody today told me I look good (though I shouldn't lose any more weight!!). I wore skinny jeans, boots and what I'd call a 'sloppy Joe' (showing my age) to the market.

Proper dreary November dark drizzly day. Went roaming round a nearby town but it was all a bit wet and frantic so home with tea/biscuits/banana/nuts. You see I try to keep it healthy ... :0)

Dark and Novemberish here, but not drizzly. Entertaining myself with the forum, before going to do a meal from Nigel Slater's new book 'Eat' ...

It wasn't sunny here today but the weather was dry and I was able to take my dog to the top of the nearest hill. There has been so much wet and mud everywhere recently, it's like a quagmire underfoot and has been impossible to take the dog into the fields, so it was lovely today to stand on the hill and see how much has changed in the countryside. Very wintery now, just a few leaves hanging on until the next strong wind. We have a stream running past our house on the other side of a stone hedge with mature trees dropping their remaining leaves all over the garden, when we got home everything was still and the falling leaves made a loud crackling sound as they hit the ground. It was quite magical.

Rather grey & getting chillier here in West Sussex today but my husband has just arrived home with a bouquet of flowers for my birthday tomorrow when I will be 66 We have already chosen his birthday gift to me that is an unusual silver & gold pendant shaped like an open lily that we found in a jewellers in Fowey whilst on holiday. It was also his birthday last Saturday & we have been celebrating over the weekend. Our eldest son & his new fiancé arrived on Friday to cook a Japanese meal for us, plus champagne of course to toast their engagement. Then on Sunday our other son & his long term live in girlfriend arrived & we all went out for Sunday lunch & to show them the retirement village we are thinking of moving to next year. Unfortunately none of them have spare room for many of our downsizing extra things we will need to pass on. But it was a lovely weekend & great to see them all. Tomorrow we will go to the cinema to see Gravity & have a pre- theatre Chinese meal at an excellent restaurant located across the road from The Arts Centre so the final food to celebrate our birthdays. I think I will have to do another fast on Wednesday to compensate for all the extra food & drink & try to get back on the straight & narrow to try & lose 8 lbs in weight before Christmas.

@isisIt really sounds like you and hubby are having fantastic birthdays with your family there to share the celebrations too. Very best wishes to you all!