A Productive Day

'To do' list for Wednesday

Bathroom cleaned
Spare bedroom walls washed
Oven cleaned
Inside of all windows cleaned

Small steps ... we are getting there.

As a reward for so much hard work today, we are going to the movies in the morning to see 'The Avengers'.

We are actually doing that because we have run out of milk, so we'll have breakfast in town - at Maccas, and I have found a list of Maccas food that are gluten free, which includes their scrambled eggs, sausage patty, breakfast steak and bacon, but I really love McCafe coffee :D

I have been incredibly strict with my diet for a month now and **oh my goodness** the wonderful difference being free from gluten has made in my life!

Just for a test, I tried a tiny bit of vegemite on some gluten free bread - that was a whoopsy!  Won't be doing that again!

It's so nice to feel normal again.  It's been more than 9 months since my body began to violently reject 'something' in my diet.  Now my body feels calm again.

I haven't taken any photos for two days now, so here are a couple from Sandra's garden on Sunday ...

I'd love to see her garden in Spring.

A sunset shot that has nothing special about it except for the colours - untouched by human hands.

I'm quite exhausted after my productive day and my body is seizing up with old age, so it's time to rest my weary bones.

Nite all.

A Touch of Winter

BRRRRRRrrrrrrr

It is currently 11C and the wind is blowing and the rain is falling.  The wind rips right through your body, settles in your bones and seizes up!  Ugh!

It was cold BEFORE we went to the movies tonight, but after the movie when we stepped outside, it had been raining and even 'I' put my coat on.

We saw 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith.

Excellent movie with great actors and being based in India, a visual feast for the eyes.  Loved it.

After we did some shopping this morning, I worked on some photos from Saturday night.

I wish I'd taken more photos.  But these will be great reminders of my birthday dinner.

It was my old friend and boss, Di's, birthday today.  She would have been forty eight years of age.  Far out, she was so young.

One of her sons posted this on her RIP facebook wall today ...

There was magic in mum's touch,
And sunshine in her smile.
There was love in everything she did
To make our lives worthwhile.
We can find both hope and courage
When looking in her eyes.
Her laughter was a source of joy,
Her words were warm and wise.
There was a kindness and compassion
To be found in her embrace,
And we see the light of heaven
Shining from mum's face.

Happy Birthday Mum

I miss her ... especially while I am here.  We always did lunch together whenever I came to town and she was always so excited to hear my news.  She told me that she lived vicariously through me and that I gave her hope for finding Mr Right in her future.

Di Beer 24/04/64 - 13/11/11

Well, now that we have a taste of Winter, it might be time for me to climb into bed under my doona and blankets, between my fleecy sheets and get all toasty and warm for sleeping.  

I need to prepare myself for a 4C morning and a cool, cloudy day.  Cleaning and packing should keep us warm!

Nite all.

Change a'comin!

I'm snuggled up in bed as I write this, listening to rain on the roof top.  Unexpected rain!

The weather bureau told us that the temperature was going to drop to 4C overnight and that our maximum would only reach 18C tomorrow!

My suitcase of clothes does not make allowances for that kind of weather, so I may have to stay in pyjamas all day!

The weather was glorious today and BGWLBH, knowing that I was missing Adoring Husband and my little family, made my birthday very special.

Breakfast was made and awaiting my arrival at the dining table this morning, along with a few choice gifts beautifully gift wrapped.

Wilbur the Turtle, a beautiful moonstone ring, a chunky gold and black cross with shiny sparkly dangly things on it
and a necklace to pull apart and use the bits for other jewellery that I make.

I was not allowed to clean up after breakfast and was made to sit down and relax, so I sat with my camera and laptop all morning playing with photos and chatting in facebook.

She then made my lunch, attempted to do my ironing (but I put my foot down on that one), took me into town for a lovely afternoon tea with the fellow teachers and then made dinner tonight.

The Girls & Co

It has been a lovely day, but I have missed home and my family a lot today.  Tomorrow will be difficult because it is our second wedding anniversary and I won't be there to share it with my Adoring Husband.

I'll just have to keep myself busy packing and cleaning so that I don't have time to think about it!

Packing and cleaning should also keep me warm if that cold change is a'comin!

Nite all.

Lazy Sunday

I didn't even surface from my bedroom til after 11am.  I was awake from about 8am, but chose to have a lazy morning.

I wasn't hung over, because I'd only had two alcoholic beverages at my birthday dinner and then a cup of peppermint tea!  But I was tired from sitting up til 2.30am and I needed to regenerate.

When I finally went looking for BGWLBH, she too was sitting up in bed reading the paper and I said to her "Don't you love lazy Sundays in bed?"  She agreed that they were great and then offered me the paper to read.

I asked her which paper it was and she replied that it was todays.  I then asked her where she got it and she said "At the shops after I came out from church".  I exclaimed "You've been to church and I didn't even know you'd left the house!?"

Unbelievable!

After a very late breakfast, we made a list of all the things that we still needed to do around the house before we move out ... and then, instead of doing any of the things on the list, we played trivia :D

We made spinach tarts for lunch, played some more trivia and then drove out to Lake Wyangan again to visit Sandra's house.

She had invited us out to see the hedge, which, she said was now vibrant red .. I wondered how it could be any redder than when I had been there a few days ago .. and it wasn't.  She must not have seen it that day because she was so busy preparing lunch for us all.

Then I decided to try to get a 'silhouette' shot for the next monthly flickr group challenge.

Sandra has the lovely little jetty over the water in her back yard, which I thought would be the ideal location for a silhouette in the late afternoon.

I was wrong.

Absolutely no hope of a silhouette, however, I got some fabulous shots of BGWLBH.  I picked twelve that I really liked, but she, being very self critical, only liked two.  My compromise is three ...

It is a floating plastic head of a crocodile ... so don't be alarmed lol.

Such a nice spot for photos.  Apparently, Sandra often allows weddings in her garden and it's easy to see why.

Well, it's after midnight, which means I am now 52 years of age.  Happy birthday to me!

Nite all.

Happy Birthday to me!

Well, ok, it's not actually my birthday yet, but what a great birthday dinner I had tonight!

There were nine of us.  Old friends from way back.  First time gathered together for about five years and my friendships with them spans twenty five years.

Some of them have been friends for much longer than that.

I couldn't believe it when everybody who I invited turned up, and what's even more amazing, is that every single one of them turned up on time!!  THAT has never happened in twenty five years!!

So many good belly laughs.  So many memories.  It was just like old times and like no time had passed at all.

I felt the love and I felt grateful and I felt lucky.

The Gang

It was such a lot of fun.

After dinner at the club, we all drove around to Miss Iconic Eighties's new home, where she provided tea, coffee and alcoholic beverages while we all discussed everything from nostalgia, to current local events, world economy etc etc etc.

Sometimes there was language flying, sometimes the music got too loud, sometimes the laughter bellowed and sometimes the debate got heated.  None of it mattered.  It was like our own little safe area where we could air our views and share our news without judgement.

Life has so radically changed for us all in the last ten years.  Some of us have lost family and friends, some of us have married, had children, moved in together, built up businesses, led protests, fought for justice, built homes, travelled the world, changed careers and developed addictions.

But tonight, all of that was forgotten and we were a bunch of friends mucking around just as we did in our twenties.

The only way it could have been a better night, is if Adoring Husband had been by my side.  That would have made it perfect.

Nite all.

Mother Nature Rocks!

We drove out to the lake this afternoon, hoping for another good sunset.

Mother Nature answered our request.

Firstly we went lakeside, and to the sound of deer mating - yes you heard correctly (there was a male with great big antlers, snorting and grunting while chasing a little white deer around the enclosure), we took out our cameras and snapped away.

As the colour began to fade on the lake, we could see up the hill to the West, where the sun was disappearing, the colour was more intense, so we drove to the top of the rise and this is what I found...

A funny thing happened before we got to the lake.

We were driving along a dirt road behind the lake when I noticed this in a tree alongside the road!  Last thing I expected to see!

So today was filled with some shopping in the morning, some cleaning and repairing this afternoon and then we looked at the outside of a couple of rental houses that have come available.

Even though BGWLBH has a house to move to, she is going to look at these houses anyway, just in case.

Anyway, tomorrow night is my birthday dinner, so I'm having an early night tonight, just in case tomorrow turns into a big one - I doubt it since we are all older and less inclined to party, but ... just in case ... I don't want to be the party pooper ... being the birthday girl and all!

Nite all.

Sunrise/Sunset

I was woken by BGWLBH at the crack of dawn today.

The rains had passed from last night and clouds were parting and it was shaping up to be a wonderful sunrise.

So I literally dragged myself out of bed, changed out of my nice warm jammies, gathered my camera gear in the back pack and off we went in search of the perfect sunrise.

It took a while for the colour to appear, but in the end it was quite special, even if it was only briefly.

We got home about ten minutes before a small storm broke right above the house.  Lightning and thunder and very heavy rain for about five minutes, which produced this!

At the time, the rainbow did not appear to be in our back yard, but this photo shows clearly that it was!

Then a nice little farm related pic...

... and finally sunset.

We walked for a long time hoping for something more spectacular this afternoon.

It was tough going because there is a lot of slippery mud about after the rains and I spent more time skating on it that walking on it.

My body is feeling it tonight.   I must have used a lot of muscles, that I don't normally use, trying to stay upright!

I'm really hoping that tomorrow sees either a cloudless sky or is completely overcast, so that I can sleep in.

Not that I'm complaining!  I love a good sunrise probably more than the next person, and if it was up to me to get up on my own to photograph it, it probably wouldn't happen, so I need BGWLBH to get me moving at the right time of the day.

It means that I am extra tired tonight.  We played bingo today and BGWLBH won three prizes and I won nothing.  We'll try again next week :D

For now, I've completed the sunrise/sunset challenge that BGWLBH set for me and I am getting a reasonably early night to bed.

Nite all.

It's Raining Again

We watched the storm build up this afternoon.

What started out looking like a pretty sunset, was soon swamped by dark clouds, strong winds and patches of heavy rain.

That's the storm building in the distance.

I think there is rain forecast for three days now.

We visited an old friend this morning and caught up over a cuppa.  It was a nice way to start the day.

Then we visited our mate at the Recycling Centre and got some boxes so that we can continue to pack and clean.

He contacted a removalist mate of his for us and organised a date, because apparently there is a long waiting list for removalists after the floods last month.

He and his wife are helping to organise my birthday dinner for Saturday night.  We are going to the Leagues Club.

I doubt if all of the old gang will turn up because their lives are all so different now running businesses, work, family and other commitments.  I know that two of them will and it will be nice to catch up with them.

On Monday, my actual birthday, we are having an afternoon tea with BGWLBH's teacher friends, so that should be fun.

Another Autumn shot from a street in town ...

Tomorrow should be a busy day of cleaning and packing so I should sign off and get some sleep.

Nite all.

Lunch in Paradise

Happy Birthday to Dad W, who turned 72 today but sadly had to spend the day in hospital.  Still, he was in good spirits and his health is rapidly improving so he could be home in a couple of days.

After we left the hospital, we drove out to the other side of town to a beautiful home that belonged to Sandra, a lovely woman who provided the most delicious and healthful lunch to seven of us who thoroughly enjoyed her very warm hospitality.

Her home was like a little patch of paradise on acreage.  Tall ghost gums among other tall trees that created the most beautiful miniature forest on her front lawn.  It was a haven for all sorts of singing birds, and the colours of Autumn were beginning to show themselves.

The welcoming driveway.

The front garden.

More of the front garden.

The splendour of Autumn.

Inside was warm and welcoming with her kids' old school pictures framed and hanging on the walls.  Her youngest is now 21 yrs old.

A kitchen that anyone would die for, with a giant island bench, masses of storage space, a huge walk-in pantry and top quality appliances including a commercial size gas stove and oven.

Lots of windows to look out into the beautiful garden and to allow all of that glorious filtered light inside.

A very wide verandah that wrapped three quarters of the way around the house that looked out over green lawns and down to a small dam that housed a mini jetty.  So serene and so pretty.

Ye old water tank.

Dam, complete with jetty (and fake aligator head)

The gang, including Trevor, the dog.

She served a dessert of chocolate meringue pavlova with assorted berries and cream, which we took outside to enjoy on the verandah.

Sandra was a brilliant hostess and then kindly allowed me to wander around the grounds with my camera to capture some of the beauty that surrounds her.

I had a lovely time and so far, today goes on my 'top ten' list for my holiday.

How nice it is to finish this post at a reasonable hour!

After a wonderful lunch in paradise, I also get an early night to catch up on some sleep ... what a lucky day for me :D

Nite all.

So Frustrating!

I can't tell you how frustrating this evening has been, trying to get this blog post completed!!

I have had a real problem with the internet connection all day.  The signal has been fading in and out, dropping my connection for at least ten minutes at a time.  Tonight it has been two hours!

I'd get partly finished and the connection would drop.  Ten minutes later, I would regain connection and it would give me two minutes, then drop out again.  This went on for two hours.

Really, I should have given up and gone to bed - but this has now become part of my pre-sleep ritual and I don't think I could sleep soundly, knowing that I had left it not done!

For the first time in almost a week, I was preparing to climb into bed at the more reasonable hour of 10.30 pm so that I could get a solid night of sleep.

My final task for the night was to update this blog.

Oh the cursing that was had!!

I guess that's the price that residents of rural Australia have to pay!  Poor internet service.

Anyway my story for today goes a bit like this ...

So much to do that it's overwhelming!


So ... we've made a plan.  Created a time-line.  (Adoring Husband, before you get excited, the time-line is only for packing and cleaning.  It does not include when we will leave for our road trip!)

Made a 'to do' list, selected our preferred rooms and jobs and chosen the days to complete them.

Today was kitchen day.

We cleaned out the pantry and all the cupboards, packed what we could, until we ran out of storage containers and boxes and re-lined the shelves.

BGWLBH drove into town to run some important errands and while she was there, got some cleaning products for the oven and some gloves, so that we can tackle that tomorrow morning.

Small steps.  We can do it!

This afternoon on sunset, we went for a walk on the farm and the golden colours of the sunset on the horizon were quite beautiful, so I took a shot through those lovely grasses.

There was a hawk way off in the distance searching for food, but he was just that little bit too far away to capture through the lens.  So disappointing.

Tomorrow will be a big day.  We are going to the movies in the morning.  We then have a lunch date with some teachers and then we'll be visiting BGWLBH's Dad for his birthday.  Unfortunately, he will be spending it in hospital.

So finally, despite my good intentions, after such a frustrating evening, I am now off to bed - at the usual 'stupid' o'clock!!

Nite all.

My Day at School

BGWLBH had to go to work today to tidy up a few loose ends before officially starting her Long Service Leave.

So I took the opportunity to wander around and get some schoolie shots.

Those are just a few shots taken in the classroom (obviously not the bird photo) while I waited.

We visited her Mum and filled two bags full of veggies from her garden.  We tried to visit her Dad in hospital, where he was admitted this morning, but they wouldn't allow us in yet.  So we headed out to the Lake to get some sunset shots.

Pretty amazing range of colours for one sunset hey?

I really need to get to bet earlier - these 1.30 am sleep times are beginning to wear me down!

Enjoyed my day at school, saying hi to some of the other teachers who I haven't seen for a while, but it's now the end of my day.

Nite all.

Quickies

This is just a quick post after a quiet day around the house.

There are all kinds of birds fluttering about the house.  Wrens, Robins, Finches, Warblers, Willy Wag Tails, Sparrows and Honey Eaters.

Trouble is, they see me coming and fly off into hiding!

I got two shots from a distance today ...

One is a wren of some description and the other, I think, is a Warbler.  I will have to get clarification on that from one of the bird experts in our flickr group, so I'll get back to you on that.

So before I leave here, I hope to get some closer, clearer shots of these little gems and more.

Hugs from a distance to Adoring Husband :o)

That's all for now.

Nite all.

Eventful Day

I did not venture from under my warm snug blankets until 9am today!  I was awake at 6.30am but stayed cosy and toasty for more than two delicious hours.

After a bit of brekky, we made ourselves presentable and drove right across town to a morning tea with BGWLBH's work friends.

There were six of us.  BGWLBH and I drank green tea and we all chatted and laughed and had a bit of bitch session about their difficult teenage children, whinged about some work issues, giggled about our ages, our terrible memories and our reliance on technology to get through the day.

It was really lovely to catch up with the girls.  I only get to do it once a year if I'm lucky.

From there we drove back across town to 'The Sporties' where we met up with Super Sue, who I was acquainted with about 20 years ago, and we have recently found each other again through facebook. A real friendship has developed between us 'on-line'.

She has done it tough over the last few years and my little 104 challenge has brought her out of a dark place.  She tells me she has found some direction in her life and has renewed a love affair with her camera, as well as having met some new friends in the group.

It's a good feeling knowing that something I started has been so inspiring for one person who needed to be inspired.  The right place at the right time.

The other girl who we met at 'The Sporties' was RaRa.  She is actually from Toowoomba and is a part of my flickr group, as well as the 104 group.

She has been on a road trip with her son, that took her south along the coast through Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie and Sydney, then inland to Temora, which is about 90 minutes from here.

They were heading home today and decided to take a slight detour in this direction to catch up, have some lunch and meet the newest member of our 104 group, before heading off home.

So five of us had lunch together and it was very enjoyable.

Ra Ra and I (her son looking on)

Unfortunately, Super Sue left to return to work before we thought about taking a photo!  So many photographers together and we didn't think of taking a photo til it was too late!

I really enjoyed myself and BGWLBH said to me after everyone had left "you know the nicest people", which I thought was lovely.

This afternoon BGWLBH and I went for a walk around the farm and I took a couple of quick snaps.

I'm looking forward to some early morning walks and hopefully some more spectacular sunsets.

We've had a very late evening playing trivia on-line (as we do) and now it's almost 1.30am!!

Must sleep!

Nite all.

Catching Up

Having a wonderful time here.

Had my hair done by my old hairdresser today and it looks and feels wonderful.

Ran into an old workmate and we'll be having lunch together next week.

One of the girls from my flickr group just happens to be staying in a town about 2 hours from here, so she is driving here tomorrow and we are going to do lunch. It will be nice ... and weird at the same time ... because we are both from Queensland and meeting for lunch in NSW.

BGWLBH and I made a delicious and healthful dinner tonight and filled ourselves up with spinach tarts made with gluten free bread as the base, filled with spinach, onion, chilli, mushrooms, cheese and egg.

I roasted sweet potato, cauliflower, onion, chilli, pumpkin seeds, almonds and capsicum in the oven.  Then we had a salad of tomato, lettuce, mushrooms, red onion with a lemon & chilli dressing and oven cooked chicken breast done in a foil parcel with red cabbage and mandarine.

Absolutely beautiful and we worked brilliantly as a team in the kitchen.

Tonight we watched 'Titanic' in honour of the 100th anniversary of it's sinking.

Then we played on-line trivia til stupid o'clock.

Time to rest my weary eyes.

Still no photos to share, but we have plans for some shots in the coming days, so stay tuned.

There is much catching up to do!

Nite all.

Mini Post

Just a mini blog post to let you know that I arrived at my destination, safe n sound this evening.

The flight to Sydney was uneventful, until we were about to descend, and were advised by the pilot that it was raining with 60km winds at ground level!

So descending through the heavy grey clouds was a very bumpy ride indeed, however, the pilot was obviously very skilled and I experienced one of the best landings ever in Sydney.  I've landed in Sydney MANY times.

I was trying to work out how many flights I've managed to rack up and I calculated very close to, if not over 100 flights.  There would be well over fifty just in the last 10 yrs.

In the early days, I would use a good number of sick bags during the flights.  In fact, on one flight to Griffith, in a small 12 seater plane, I actually used ALL of their sick bags!

In those days, I was so nervous about flying, that I  'threw up' on a number of tarmacs as I found my way to the bottom of the stairways into the plane.

I believe that it took about 40 flights before I found a way to relax and let go of the fear ... without the use of drugs (which I used for about a dozen of the flights).

Even though I still feel uncomfortable about flying, I can easily control the fear and discomfort these days and can force myself to sleep through most flights ... I find that that makes the time go a bit faster.

So I arrived at my destination on a very clear, still and cool evening, where my BFF - BGLWBH (beautiful girl with the long blonde hair) was waiting for me with open arms.

Now I have my fleecy pyjamas on and I am between warm fleecy sheets, ready for a nice sleep.  It's been a long day and I am feeling very weary.

My mini post has ended up a bit longer than I'd planned LOL.

Nite all.

Procrastinating .. again!

I had so many things on my 'to do' list for today.

Actually, I had so many things on my 'to do' list for the whole week leading up to today.

But ... I am the champion procrastinator.  It's in my genes.  I passed it on to my children, and as time goes by, they are also becoming champion procrastinators.

Even now, there are things that I could/should be doing, but I am procrastinating by updating this blog so early in the evening.

I leave town tomorrow to start my holidays.

I haven't packed.  I have ironed.  That is all.  I do have a list to check off as I pack.  My suitcase is opened, on the floor, with a few things tossed in there.

I'm very concerned that my suitcase is going to end up very heavy.  After all, I have no idea how long I am going to be gone and the weather is so changeable that I have to pack for both warm and cool weather.

Gotta take all my camera gear and my laptop.

Think I might try to wear my heaviest clothes on the plane.  Jeans, boots and heavy-ish top, with lots of jewellery.  That should give me a bit more than a kilo to play with in my suitcase!

You know, if this is the biggest dilemma that I have to deal with this year, I will be a very lucky lady!

I tried the onion trick beside my bed last night to help cure my cold.

I did wake up with a dryer nose, but who knows if it was the onion that did it!  I'm going to cut a fresh onion tonight and try it for one more night before I leave - just in case.

I didn't take any photos today.

I know.  Difficult to believe :D

My next post will be from my holiday destination - or maybe it will be from the airport in Sydney!  I think I have a few hours to wait for my connecting flight.

So I'm signing off because I cannot procrastinate for a minute longer!  Things to do!  So let's do it!!

Nite all.

Sniffle Sniffle

My friend Kaz phoned me today and suggested an illness 'remedy' that we've both known about for a while, but haven't had the chance to try.

Half an onion in the bedroom next to the bed.

I'm going to try it tonight - I'll give you the results tomorrow.  Hopefully, I'll wake up cured!

I just took the dogs outside to pee.  I opened the laundry door and the dogs went tearing outside barking like they were chasing something.

There, at eye level, draped along the top of the fence was this unhappy chappy ...

It's an Eastern Brown Tree Snake, considered venomous but not dangerous - which kind of seems a bit contradictory to me!

Psychotic dogs didn't even know it was there, although they may have smelt it and that's why they were barking as they were.

It crawled along the fence towards the clothes line (which is attached to the fence), so goodness only knows where he came from or where he went!  I hope we don't find out the hard way!

I do know that I won't be leaving the laundry door open all day and half the night, as I have in the past for the dogs' convenience!

That's the second snake I've seen on that side of the house.

They are probably eating chook eggs!  That may be why we are only getting one egg each day!

Adoring Husband is not a big fan of snakes.  I guess I'm not either, but only because I'm not confident identifying them and I wouldn't know if I'd found a deadly snake or not.  As it was, I did a google search to discover what this one was.  Thank God for the internet!!

Enough of this frivolity.  Time to get myself and my medicinal onion ready for bed.

Nite all (sniffle sniffle)

Healthful and Delicious

I've been checking my diet over the past couple of days to make sure I've been getting enough vitamins and minerals and nutrients to fight this cold off.

It's putting up a good fight to take hold, but it needs to fight harder if it wants to win this one!

Since Thursday morning, (four days) I've had lots of fresh honey and lemon.  I would have taken some good doses of Olive Leaf Extract too, but I've run out and our Pharmacy has been closed all Easter weekend... very inconsiderate I thought!

I've also dosed up on chilli, garlic and onion.  Adoring husband makes a delicious chilli and garlic paste with our abundant chillies from the garden and I use it in everything.

I mix it with the little oil that I use in cooking.  I mix it with every type of dressing that I make for the salads and rice paper wraps, as well as the dipping sauces.  I added it to a favourite lamb and tomato rice dish for the first time the other night and it was delicious!

I dab it on the veggies that I bake in the oven for a bit of zing, and to the gluten free pita wraps that I use for a pizza base on footy nights.

We love our chilli.

The rest of my diet has included green tea, lemon myrtle and macadamia nut yoghurt, avocado, tomato, shallots, carrot, red capsicum, cucumber, pineapple, mushroom, rocket, orange slices, pine nuts, walnuts, pepitas, almonds, cashews, onion, sugar cabbage, wombok cabbage, asparagus (fresh from the garden), eggs (fresh from the chooks), king tiger prawns, mud crab, lamb, lettuce, spinach, artichokes, zucchini, sweet potato, pumpkin, potato, watermelon, plums, grapes, apple, rice and a little grated cheese.

My less than healthful food has been 1 take away latte with 2 sugars each day, two rows of dark almond gluten-free chocolate each day, a 175 g packet of plain smiths chips eaten over two days and a couple of gluten free snakes/jelly babies.

Lots of water.  Probably 4 - 6 x 600ml bottles each day.

Oh and freshly blended orange, apple and plum with an equal portion of water = two large glasses.

I should be bouncing off the walls with energy and vitality!!  Not fighting off a stoopid cold/flu/virus!!

To catch up on the April Photo a Day photos...

5. Tiny

6. Lunch

7. Shadow (that's me!)

I think that I will go pop some Vitamin C and make another honey and lemon drink before bed.

Tomorrow, I will be even more healthful and delicious and make myself some chicken and vegetable soup - it cures EVERYTHING!

Nite all.