Erm, didn’t happen. He weighs the same! Oh but he’s asked me to point out that he’s 6’2″ not 6’3″ and I can’t persuade him that the correction makes things worse, not better!!!

I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since I last blogged. Life seems to be running away with me again. (Does it ever NOT?) Billy and I watched the England football team in a boring 6 – 0 win over Andorra. Yes. Boring. Somehow it was a very tame game but a good run-out for [...]

Billy has challenged me to me blog each week about his dieting efforts and his weekly weigh in! So………. challenge duly accepted! This has come about because he IS overweight – both “on paper” and in his own opinion. A home cholesterol test has revealed he has a slightly higher than ideal cholesterol (6.1mmol/l) and [...]

Last weekend at Mum’s, I commented to her that I was needing the loo often, but put it down to drinking plenty of fluids as it didn’t seem to be a case of an over sensitive bladder (which I’ve had before.) On Monday at work I was the same, and I was feeling vaguely nauseas [...]

Apart from the fact that I’ve been spending part of each week at mum’s, generally, things have been settling at home. Billy and Raji are now into their cricket season (oh joy! Two lots of cricket whites to wash each week ) Billy is first team captain this year – which he assured me would [...]

It’s now 9 weeks since mum’s hip replacement op – 9 weeks which have both flown by, yet lasted forever. As you may recall, the first 6 weeks were ones governed by strict rules as to what mum could – or rather, couldn’t – do and so were a period of little change. She also [...]

Last week was a week of finals: The football play-off finals: I didn’t get to watch any of them but wanted all the underdogs to win. And they did! Well done to Burnley for beating Sheffield United (I prefer Wednesday); Scunthorpe for beating Millwall (As with many, I don’t like Millwall’s reputation); and Gillingham for [...]