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This post is dedicated to National Vegetarian Week and was inspired by Chris Mosler a fellow blogger, who shares the most delicious vegetarian dishes over on her blog, as well as inspiring parents into the gardening with kids. A couple of weeks ago, thanks to a Britmums meetup, I was taken into a fairyland right on [...]
Through serendipity I’ve had a rather ambitious goal thrust upon me: To loose 2 stones in just 11 weeks. So far I’ve received some amazing words of encouragement, a couple of people have shown their belief in me through sponsoring my efforts, by donating to The Lullaby Trust. One person who has stepped up to [...]
After last week’s flying start I knew I had set the bar high to come even close to that 4kg weight loss. Each day I will make some notes of how my day went. I’m trying to note my eating habits, small and big successes, exercise done and so on. Saturday An emotion and long day. [...]
My dairy of the journey 4th of May The resolution was made last night: I will do it! I will loose 18kg, that’s 2 UK stones or 28 lb in 11 weeks! See I’m 113kg … don’t even ask how I got here! It’s awful! So I’m slightly grateful for the skydiving company for having [...]
After signing up for the Skydiving challenge I got a phone call from the company doing the skydive telling me I’m too heavy, by about 2 stone, i.e. 18 kg more than their maximum weight for women. I was shocked, devastated and very upset to hear this! Gutted that I’d psyched myself up to do the [...]
[Warning graphic post!] Not another blooming cold! We’ve just got the family out of it, had a week of no sniffles and it’s attacking again. Grrr! After pooey nappies, my next pet hate is runny noses. I hate it when parents let their kids run around with a landing strip of snot on their baby, [...]
You may remember the amazing fun I had on my pampering day in my last weeks of pregnancy. The lovely Mona spent a couple of hours adorning my bump with a special body painting- a cheeky monkey to symbolise the little bump dweller that was keeping us all on our toes, as he was flipping [...]
Christmas is a festivity of true over-indulgence. It feels good: in the midst of winter to just hole up in the warm indoors with loved ones around you and eat, drink and be merry. Dripping through all channels- print, broadcast and online- the media promotes this over consumption unashamedly- luxurious deserts, meat cuts too big [...]
. As I sat watching a recorded part of the BBC documentary The Midwives last night a tear sprang to my eyes. They had just shown a baby being born, shown this most miraculous moment of life… and then the baby is floppy and needed assistance to start breathing: The midwife cuts the cord (a [...]
. I actually hate breastfeeding. It’s such a rollercoaster ride for me: Baby number three, two weeks in… you’d think it would all be going swimmingly. Since I’ve been there, done that… Well no! Breastfeeding may come naturally to some, but I have to start from the beginning with each of my babies. Breastfeeding takes [...]
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...AND to add to the challenge I have a grueling 11 week bootcamp leading up to the skydive- I have to loose 2 stone/ 18 kg/ 28 lb
