Scales - 1, R - 0

It's no good, something has to be done. This morning I stood on the scales and was horrified to read 9 st 6. I'm at least half a stone heavier than I want to be. Ideally I'd like to be about 8 and a half stone - no lighter, because then I tend to catch bugs. But all my jeans and trousers are squashing me, and the next size up gapes around the waist so the change has to be in me.

And when A called me for a lovely chat, she said the same thing! Excellent - I have a buddy to work with, and moan at, and be hungry and cold and miserable with! ;-)

I know that if I go heavy on the veg, fruit and protein and light on the carbs, I will get fast results. That's the way my bod works. So the change started at once.

Breakfast: banana, green tea
Lunch: home-made vegetable soup (no bread), home-made trail mix with lots of almonds, pumpkin seeds, dried cherries, blueberries, and cranberries.
Half-past-foursies: more trail mix
Tea: 2 boiled eggs, 1 slice of flax bread toasted (kind of - I was too impatient!) spread with Marmite
Supper (because I know I'll get peckish later): more trail mix
Sins: 1 piece of mint dark chocolate

What are you having A?

Tawny frogmouth

Photographed attempting to roost in next door's garden for the day. He was convinced that his camouflage as a tree was undetectable. To be fair, if he had been IN a tree, it would have been. Bless him. He got bothered by the other birds all day and at twilight he flew back to his nocturnal life again. Just precious.

What? A quokka!

Neil Diamond

Now why didn't I go see this guy live sooner and more often????
Failed totally to get decent live shot of the man on stage despite all sorts of tinkering with camera.


These and my memories of an amazing evening will have to do.....

Came home feeling domestic. Made lemon cupcakes. YUMMMMM

Stayed in London for middle bro's 40th - view from my window in the morning.

The Mad-Dogs are hot Dogs and the doggies snooze in the sun while they score.