New Year's Resolutions - 2008

[Snadger]

My New Years resolution is NOT to make any resolutions because I always finish up breaking them after a week or two!

[Seahorse]

Mine are:

to be more organised and try really hard to keep the house tidy

if practicable, to do the Race For Life in memory of my step-Father (and if not, to find another way to raise money for cancer charities)

to go away for an entire weekend without my children, to meet up with some dear friends

to spend less time with Mr Smirnoff, Kate Bush and Kirsty MacColl and more time with books, knitting and stitching

Good luck to all of us! :0

Btw Minty - my six year old has just asked if you're Bill Bailey!

[JennieAtkinson]

Bummer - had the diet weigh in this morning and 8lbs will NOT be enough.

Depressed of Shetland

[Minty]

Mine are:

to be more organised and try really hard to keep the house tidy

if practicable, to do the Race For Life in memory of my step-Father (and if not, to find another way to raise money for cancer charities)

to go away for an entire weekend without my children, to meet up with some dear friends

to spend less time with Mr Smirnoff, Kate Bush and Kirsty MacColl and more time with books, knitting and stitching

Good luck to all of us! :0

Btw Minty - my six year old has just asked if you're Bill Bailey!

Admire your resolutions especially the race for life. The girls of our clan did it last year because a little like yourself we lost our father last March.
Anyhoo on a brighter note. BILL BAILEY !!!!!!What a great compliment hes one hell of a funny guy. However the photo is a little dated as i now have a very spikey blonde mohican(punk style not footballer)......Yep total mid-lifer, but what can you do Minty X

[Seahorse]

Admire your resolutions especially the race for life. The girls of our clan did it last year because a little like yourself we lost our father last March.
Anyhoo on a brighter note. BILL BAILEY !!!!!!What a great compliment hes one hell of a funny guy. However the photo is a little dated as i now have a very spikey blonde mohican(punk style not footballer)......Yep total mid-lifer, but what can you do Minty X

Heheh - 'Midlife Crises R Us'! And yes, no higher compliment! 'Unisex Chip Shop' is top of my kids You Tube requests!

[Minty]

Check out Madhur Jaffrey's cookbook, I won't recommend the one we've got cos its for veggies!

This blog looks interesting (there are many out there) with pictures! The link is to the recipe (I liked the sound of the saag but for you meat-eaters).....

http://prawn-bhuna

route79 blog - recipes listed on the rhs

Thanks for that Manda. Saag is the only time i eat spinach , don`t really like it otherwise.

[SarzWix]

Bummer - had the diet weigh in this morning and 8lbs will NOT be enough.

Depressed of Shetland

Heigh ho Jennie, at least it comes off faster at first if there's more to go

I was advised to work out 10% and aim for that as a first milestone, rather than thinking about the total all at once. It's definately better for morale that way, whichever diet you choose to follow.


My goals for 2008 are to sort out my finances, enjoy my kids more (they're growing up so fast ), and set the bar a little higher for my 'getting fit without breaking myself' regime.

[veg4681]

And having just finished ANOTHER seed order for herbs and chinese veggies

A small group of us here are also into Chinese veggies that goes beyond the usual Chinese cabbage and Pak Choi. Please free to ask for opinions and seeds sourcing.

[Shortie]

and sit and read a good book a bit more often instead of under the covers at night.

hmmm maybe I have a dirty mind but.......

[smallblueplanet]

A small group of us here are also into Chinese veggies that goes beyond the usual Chinese cabbage and Pak Choi. Please free to ask for opinions and seeds sourcing.

Interesting, where do you source your seeds from Ami?

[Nicos]

Bummer - had the diet weigh in this morning and 8lbs will NOT be enough.

Depressed of Shetland

Jennie....unless you have put on half a hundredweight over the festive period...you look perfect the way you are! Don't get hung up about your weight...many of us would love to swap bodies with you!!!

Keep smiling kid!!

[JennieAtkinson]

Jennie....unless you have put on half a hundredweight over the festive period...you look perfect the way you are! Don't get hung up about your weight...many of us would love to swap bodies with you!!!

Keep smiling kid!!

You've made my year Nicos!

[wellie]

Girls! Your men absolutely adore you, so just continue being Gorgeous for 2008....
It's not easy being Gorgeous. No?! There you are then..... sorted.

And both Trousers and me/I are going to 'kill two birds with one stone' in that we have Freezers full of gorgeous vegetables and soups, and INSTEAD OF a full evening meal, we're going to have homemade soup every evening until the freezers are empty.
That way, we'll be minimising the number of calories that we'll be taking to bed with us, AND LOADS of FIVE A DAY seeping into our bodies without even 'trying'....

[Shortie]

Wellie, they sound yum, but won't it get a bit boring soup every night for what sounds like quite a while?

Says Shortie, who has little perserverance

[wellie]

Well Trousers does want to lose about 2 stone Shortie! but no, there are millions of Corn on the Gob, and casseroles for a change at weekends. It all has to be used up before we move to France you see....