A last ditch effort...

[nonethewiser]

That cat! My brother had The Big Dog but I think of all 'our' bets as mine because it's me that arranges it. I do likes an occasion. Gutted about that poor horse though.

My 'slim' weight was always 9stone 3pounds, and I was FAT! Size 16 and couldn't wear jumpers and skirts, too much roll. This is why I always think 8stone. I'd have to be that if I wanted to look 'normal' but never going to happen now. Today is another 'using up all the bread' day. I hates myself. It's all Warburton's fault.

3 horses sadly died in total yesterday.

Placed bets each way & Skybet pay out on up to 7th place, 2 of our horses came in 5th & 6th so managed to make £16 profit in end.

 

[AndBreathe]

3 horses sadly died in total yesterday.

Placed bets each way & Skybet pay out on up to 7th place, 2 of our horses came in 5th & 6th so managed to make £16 profit in end.

I thought the 3 was for the Grand National meeting, with 1 of them being yesterday, during the big race. It doesn't stop it being awful for those losing animals, but the pedant in me is strong.

How many horses died during the Grand National 2023

The race was won by Corach Rambler, who was ridden by Derek Fox

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[Ditto]

Today I'm sorting out my Avocado grown from a big seed. It's all wilted. Leaving it in the bathroom sink for a bit. Used to have it on the kitchen windowsill but Polly was eating it. Wonder if I should get Polly a baby parrot to keep her company. She looks bored. I know nothing about parrots, or anything really. I go through life like a dodgem car, crash bang wallop. Dunno how I made it to nearly 70.

 

[Ditto]

I think I have it in the bag now. Don't have anything to eat in the house. I'm back in the 13s yay. I did not like being in the 14s again. It's going to be downhill all the way for sure. Famous last words. It's gorgeously bright out and the cat's aren't fighting, life is good. 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

the cat's aren't fighting, life is good. 🙂

Unless it means they've decided to join forces & plot against you, of course. But cats are pretty useless at strategic planning so you should be able to foil them without much trouble.

 

[Ditto]

I have every window and door open in the bungalow. If that pesky bluebottle doesn't fly out to freedom I don't know what I'll do. I have a phobia. I hate flyspray though and anyways I've lost it, I could have sworn I had a Raid under the sink. I tried furniture polish spray and nearly did for the parrot. 😳 Today is a very bad day. I'm taking horse tablets for the blepharitis so maybe that's what's making me feel sick and I could have been at Dunham Massey with family with a nice meal and I'm stuck in crook. Fed-up. Arm aching me, I hates that. They say arthritis, yeah right. Poor me, poor me, pour me a drink! I'll have a Sauvignon Blanc please nom...

 

[AndBreathe]

I have every window and door open in the bungalow. If that pesky bluebottle doesn't fly out to freedom I don't know what I'll do. I have a phobia. I hate flyspray though and anyways I've lost it, I could have sworn I had a Raid under the sink. I tried furniture polish spray and nearly did for the parrot. 😳 Today is a very bad day. I'm taking horse tablets for the blepharitis so maybe that's what's making me feel sick and I could have been at Dunham Massey with family with a nice meal and I'm stuck in crook. Fed-up. Arm aching me, I hates that. They say arthritis, yeah right. Poor me, poor me, pour me a drink! I'll have a Sauvignon Blanc please nom...

Thankfully, I'm not phobic about flying things, spiders or rodents, but don't want them in my life.
A couple of days ago, I was in my sewing room, happily pressing something I was making, when a ginagerous wasp started buzzing around me. Obviously, opened the windows, but for good measure gave him a decent spray of spray starch that was to hand.

He disappeared. Maybe he left the house, or maybe I'll find him preserved in a corner one day.

I hope your chum pushes off soon.

 

[Ditto]

A stiff wasp. 🙂 I don't mither about other flying stuff, just nasty flies and bluebottles. I just catch wasps and chuck 'em out. If you kill them they sometimes send out vibes to bring others into the fray. I have a nasty fishy oil bowl on my patio table and the nasties fly in and drown. I drain the tinned salmon and tuna. I take no prisoners.

 

[Ditto]

Nobody's posting in the book thread. I think I frightened everybody away again. My sister once flinched and I was only suggesting we all go on holiday together. It hurts to think about it. So I'll post books here then, it's handy having one's own thread.

Finished Margaret Forster's Mother's Boys wanted to read it straight through and was loathe to put it down. Horrid content though, harsh mind-numbing abuse and attack of a teenage boy by two others, proper nasty. Quite a satisfactory ending considering. You never know what you're going to get from her, a gripper or a gently, slightly boring, read. This was a gripper.

Mother's Boys

 

[Ditto]

Finished The Dead Zone and have just finished Firestarter. Both excellent Stephen Kings. 🙂

Quite good day today considering a bit crook, might have finally got the hang of low carb living.

 

[Ditto]

My telly has packed up. Volume only. I had a funnypec day yesterday because the telly is part of my routine. I went a bit bonkers because I couldn't tune into Midsomer Murders. I just didn't know what to do with myself. I had two hours that were supposed to be for mindless gogglewatching and I didn't want to read anymore, there's only so much reading you can do. Nasty wind out and too crook to garden yesterday anyways. Haven't made a start yet on sorting out a pile of stamps I'm doing for somebody. Can't start sorting my photos and snaps until I buy two more billybookcases. I was out on a limb. Bro is coming in a mo, he might be able to get it going otherwise it's tootsweet to BHF and buy a second-hand one this Friday when I get my pension. I'll be on the tuna next week, no hardship, I luvs Tuna Salad.

I hates living on my own. My sister and hubby did ask me to go and live with them at the beginning of the year but there's always hoards there and I like to be quiet sometimes, also it would mean leaving the area where family are, who I am usually there for. A quandary. I need to buy a lottery ticket. With money you have options. 🙂

 

[Ditto]

I am okay today thank you God. 🙂 Gonna try for half hour in the garden this evening. Arm a tad achy but it often is and shoulder and jaw have given over so I'm made up. Did not want to go to A&E. Couldn't face it and I'd only be okay in the end with any luck so that's been avoided. Thank goodness for little blue pills, they're only antihistamine but they don't half chill you out. 😎

Forced to get on the bus this morning and go library, had to fight with myself at the bus-stop coming home as it's near the best chippy ever. After the last two days of suffering I'm still lusting for chips! I'm crazy. Weight back down to 14 3 this morning. Can't believe I let myself go all that way back up again after nearly getting into the 12s.

 

[Mrs Mimoo]

I'm back on the SlimFast and watching YouTubes... I need to just get the damned weight off like the doc said. That's the only thing she could say, try and get the weight off. I'm supposed to go to Manchester Royal now for a camera down and I think I'm supposed to go to our local hospital for the same thing. Don't get that. I'm not going to either. Also I did promise the doc I would got to healthy food type meetings but I'm not going to them neither. They'll probably say don't diet, eat normally. I'm not normal so you can forget that for a game of soldiers. It's all good, keep going, today wasn't too bad. No huge binges.

i used exante shakes 2 meals and a 400cal low carb high protein meal as my system. i got hba1c down to 37 in 100 days. and lost 12kg. put 4 backon but now doing it again. Beige Food is the enemy for me so i eat lots of omlettes, steaks, fish and full fat dairy to have good satisfying meals with at least 300g of green leafy veg a day.

 

[Mrs Mimoo]

Thank you for that information Lilian. I didn't know about all that stuff, I thought it was just Cambridge Diet or SlimFast.

I'm trying low carb again. Fed-up of myself. I wish I had some staying power.

i like exante. Slim fast for emergencies.

Thankfully, I'm not phobic about flying things, spiders or rodents, but don't want them in my life.
A couple of days ago, I was in my sewing room, happily pressing something I was making, when a ginagerous wasp started buzzing around me. Obviously, opened the windows, but for good measure gave him a decent spray of spray starch that was to hand.

He disappeared. Maybe he left the house, or maybe I'll find him preserved in a corner one day.

I hope your chum pushes off soon.

i like spiders. i rescue them from the cat! (and my husband)

 

[Ditto]

i like spiders. i rescue them from the cat!

Me too. I rescue everything except fleas and cockroaches, with them all bets are off!