Another Watery Post

I am just whizzing off a post because it is too ironic not too.  I am not aching too bad after last nights swimming.  It is a very cold wet day here today.  I went to work and all the windows were steamed up, which I thought was very strange, then noticed a flood!  My shoes are soaking so I have come home for wellies and a quick caffeine boost.  No children in today but somehow we are expected to be on site and sort a flooded building.  With a broken mop and two broken water sucker hoover type thingies!  It never rains but it pours.  It feels filthy in there.  Somehow the hot tap was left on over night!  What a watery mess.  Water water every where and not a drop to drink!  Every room is soaking wet, apart from two, one of which is mine.  Ahhh there is a God!  Mopping must be a great activity!  I better swig this coffee and go....  xxx

Ladies Night!

Ooooh, what has happened to Blogger?  I am not one for change!  This is just a very quick post because I need to tell someone...I got my swimming costume wet again today!  I couldn't face a hobble  walk so I 'Manned it' again and this time went swimming on my own, without my trainer!  I went to the local pool to 'Ladies Night'.  I felt dreadful on the way there but was determined not to bottle it.  I swam from 8.45 - 9.30, my body is in shock, it doesn't like change either and that is sofa time.  I swam up and down to motivational tunes by Madonna and the Bee gees!  That cheesy Yazz tune 'The Only Way is Up' is now going around and around  in my head!  I feel as dead as a doughnut.  There has to be an easier way...I do not have the energy to lift my hook!   xxx 

And the Winners are....

The Saint George's Day winners of the 'Give Away' are:

Number 14 Chaucer's Auntie

and

Number 5 Gill

I will be in touch to get your addresses so I can post your goodies out.

Thank you very much to everyone for entering and following,
Lucy     : ) x 

Sunday Times

No rest for the wicked, Pedro, myself, the dog and My Boot camp trainer were up and out by 9am.  Good job too because there is another large grey cloud overhead now.  We headed off for the local lake.  I hobbled a bit as my exercise regime is taking its toll.

I stopped to admire the flowers, I love Cowslips.  Euan spotted the next image and asked me to take a picture for my blog, we both thought it was very funny.

 Mr Duck sitting there, hint hint!  Sorry Mr Duck no bread today, we were on a mission.  The lake was busy, so I am sure the ducks will be stuffed silly by bedtime.

Some of Her Majesty's birds.  There are some historical quirks left in our country and one is that all wild Mute Swans on open water are the property of the Queen.

Here is my 'Boot Camp Instructor' demonstrating the Outdoor Community Gym Equipment.  This equipment is great, there are several ways in which one can choose to punish and torture oneself on a Sunday morning.  I know I enjoyed it!  I did ten thingamee bobs which involved lifting my body weight!!!  As you pull down your seat goes up!  I am sure they will get much easier if I lose weight.

There are about six lots of various mechanics to choose from and people just hop on.  I nearly did myself a mischief the last time on a 'Body Toner', I gave that a miss today.  It seemed easy at the time but I ached like stink the next day!  I am afeard to make a mockery of myself in public, it is not lady like to grunt and groan and huff and puff whilst one is on a Sunday jaunt.  Will have to be up even earlier if I want to use the Community Outdoor Gym without an audience.
          I thought the little clump of Cowslips were lovely but plodding on I was rewarded for my efforts with this little meadow of wild Cowslips.

Homeward bound across what we call the 'Kingfisher Bridge' if you are lucky you can see a Kingfisher from here, I have seen one once and it was a flash of electric blue.  Euan has seen one too.

Now these are a stink but a foragers delight. . .

Very very pungent 'Wild Garlic'.  I remember Henry picking some and putting it in his pocket when he was younger his coat stank for days!  I have made 'Wild Garlic' soup once but quite frankly it was awful.  We leave it in situ now and admire it in the ground.
           One last bloom absolutely synonymous with Spring:

May Blossom, which will feed the hungry birds in the Autumn with Hawthorn berries.  My grandmother used to say 'Ne'r cast a clout til May be out!'  It is an old saying that you should not go out without your coat until the May blossom is out.  I did indeed go out without my clout coat today.
          I hobbled home, to cook the Sunday Lunch.  After all this healthy healthy healthy malarkey, I so needed a stodgey pudding!  I wanted 'Bread and Lots of Butter and Sugar Pudding', so I invented a 'Bread and Butterless' Pudding which was almost as good.  It contained sugar substitute, Vanilla extract,  no butter and my nicest chuckie eggs.  It hit the spot!

       
             Tomorrow is Saint George's day, also locally William Shakespeare's Birthday is celebrated he was born on 23rd April 1564 and Died on the 23rd April 1616.  That is not good is it?  To die on your Birthday.  I have made a mental note to self to try not to do that!  Tomorrow is the day I will announce the 'Blog Give Away Winners', I am working though, then will come home and have Mumsey stuff to do.  I will post the winners on here tomorrow night.
Love Lucy :) xxx

Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana!

My goodness, I was getting worried about my lack of crafting time.  I have been so busy walking and weighing and measuring. . . . guess what?  Today I went swimming for the first time in 3 or 4 years.  I spent 90 minutes in the water, swimming, treading water or moving.  When I wasn't in the water I was climbing a large spiral staircase up to the water slides/tubes.  I did check with a lifeguard that I wouldn't break anything.  Euan had a whale of a time and was very impressed with the tidal waves I made hitting the water at the bottom of the slides.  We both loved the wave machine too.  I felt really embarrassed in my costume and nearly bottled out of going, but I decided to 'Man it' and just go.  I can't believe I have actually christened 'The Costume'.  Yesterday Pedro Pedometer said I walked 7.5 miles, that was two school runs and a dog walk.  The dog is nagging me right now to go out, but I am trying to time it as we have had April showers and Hail storms.  My Other Half has just said 'Can you believe it is nearly May?'  I can't quite, can you?
              I wanted to show you my crochet 'Hexagon' progress.  I managed some hooky time yesterday and will hopefully manage some more tonight.  Can anyone guess what I am attempting to make yet?  What do you think of my colour choice?  If you don't like it, I am not 'frogging'!  I am unsure about the colours but I am definitely not a 'frogger'.  I am at the flummoxed stage of where to go with this now but I will take the proverbial 'Bull by the horns' and 'Keep Calm and Carry Yarn!'

Another one of these will take the edge off any uncertainties I am having about it.  I really should get my self some 'nice' glasses.  Well I am off for a stroll around 'Blogland' and if the April Showers hold off, I may have a stroll around the 'real' world.
Hope you are all having a good weekend doing whatever it is that makes you happy.  :) xxx

Meet My New Best Friend - Pedro the Pedometer

Isn't he lovely?  I wear him all day long, I even wear him on my PJ's.  He is telling me I need to do 1052 steps until I have earned my next Weight Watchers Point, then he bleeps at me and I get to feel a bit smug.  Day six was a good day, I earned 8 points by bed time.  8 points is the equivalent of 4 Gin and Slimline Tonics, the best news is Lemon is 'free'.  4 Gin and Slimline Tonics = a very drunk me.  One will be nice though to drink guilt free at the end of the day.  It my take the edge of my hunger pangs, food cravings and crabby mood too!
          I had my first weigh in today.  I was really nervous about it and ready to tantrum in the Village Hall.  I have spent the week weighing my muesli, measuring my milk and trying to convince myself I like crispbread without butter.  I have enjoyed every mouthful to pass my lips, some days I would have been thankful for gruel.  I have come to terms with the fact that 'Pie Days' are no longer a weekly thing and 'Salad Days' are a daily thing.  I don't want anymore Cous Cous for a while though.  I have been motivated by 'Pedro' and my 'Boot Camp Trainer'.  Each day I have been trying to walk further for longer.  Today I even walked in the rain!  Guess what?  Nothing bad happened.  If by bedtime Pedro tells me I need 500 or less steps to do until I earn my next point I have been walking frantically around the house or jogging on the spot in my PJ's!  I have got into bed puffing and panting like an asthmatic octogenarian.  How dedicated is that?  Pedro is a clever little chap and the more weight you lose the harder you have to work to earn the point.  The sneaky little devil!  The more weight you lose the less daily points you are given to eat.  That feels like a blow below the belt.  I am good and you take a point away!  I have daily points and weekly points and I can earn activity points to eat.  Yep I no longer eat food I eat points and by golly they taste good.  By day three I had blown my weekly budget!  I will have to change my ways this week.  It is suggested that you measure and record your body measurements, I don't think  will worry about that until the tape measure will actually fit around me!  It won't fit for at least three of the five required measurements.   The result of all this purgatory and self torture dedication and self control is 5 1/2 lbs off.  I think I have lost one of my seven chins!  1 week down, about another 200 to go!  Wooo Hoooo!

These are my Pedro Stats for the week:

Day 1: 5144 steps 2.02 miles 0 points

Day 2: 5052 steps 1.99 miles 0 points

Day 3: 8867 steps 3.49 miles 3 points

Day 4: 11468 steps 4.52 miles 5 points

Day 5: 15787 steps 6.22 miles 8 points

Day 6: 15773 steps 6.22 miles 8 points

Day 7: 10418 steps 4.11 miles 4 points