The ER -- The Track Clinic at the University of Milton North

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While everyone else is getting their thinking caps on

Hello, hello, hello....

Massive, I loved your word "outputtingness" :)

Small, it's never too early. I do wish they would do a DVD extra where all the nasty stuff is taken out and it's just lovely JP - I quite fancy a rewatch of that but some of it is just too horrid for words.

Spiro, LOL at the desk photo!! Mind you, from what I understand, there are a lot of people who wouldn't object to Harry staying Let me tell you, the day I accidentally stumbled across some some Harry/Ruth fanfic is a day I'm not likely to forget in a hurry. I'm desperate for them to get together but I don't actually want to know anything about it, thank you very much. I want them to hug and then walk off into the distance holding hands and then it just STOPS.

So we are doing a new soft play place today. Man, I hate those places. They suck the very lifeforce from me (as we have to go round on the equipment with them at the moment). I suppose at least it will be good exercise. Oh, Small, I meant to ask you if Level 2 is much harder than Level 1?

I didn't wait for the response I have been watching SB anyway.

Twigs, thats what the fast forward button is for .

Yes Level 2 is harder, well for me definitely as there is a lot of push up/ plank exercises and I have a dodgy shoulder.

Spiro lets not start talking about tables or none of us will be fit to do anything for the rest of the day!

True Small (and :) at that), there's just such a lot to fwd through...

Re. the push-ups, I can't do those at all. A fitness instructor on here suggested leaning against a wall and doing them that way, as a modified version. I'm not so bothered about the toning aspect anyway, as my muscles are so deeply hidden under all the blubber that you'd never notice whether they were toned or not :o Have you felt any fitter for it yet? Have you lost that "I'm going to die" feeling yet?!

I certainly lost that by the end of Level 1 but Level 2 has started it again! I am more interested in toning and trying to get some semblance of muscle in my stomach region.

Well you'v ejust inspired me to try it again and I have just bought a 2nd sports bra from eBay, to see if the two of them might work, as previously suggested to me.

Arf at the exercise regime and "am I going to die?" I have accepted that I will never have stomach muscles again and will just have to cart my blubber around in a wheelbarrow. I ought to make time to go to the gym but, then, I have loftier things to think about.

Geddit.

Maud those are the things I think about when I'm exercising, it's all I need to get me through.

Go for it Twigs, sadly I don't even need one sports bra. In fact a supported vest is usually enough!

Another vote for the supported vest here! I have given up on exercise. I hate it, but it also gives me a bad head whenever I get the least bit heated. Walking would be an option but it is far too boring and I need to give myself a goal or I can just not drag myself out of the front door.

I suppose I could do crunches etc though. Has anyone ever found anything that actually works for stomach muscles?

Push-ups... We used to do the sort where you are anchored on your bent knees rather than on your toes with your legs out straight. Then I found them just about manageable. but I haven't dared try for a loooong time!

Of course you get all these SAS types showing off how well they do them. But it's all to do with the laws of physics. The wider shoulders and the narrower hips is what makes the difference. Well that's my excuse anyway.

Just seen the news that the Hobbit hiatus is two months. That sounds rather promising, doesn't it?

Although the official break is 2 months I think some of the actors have longer off. James Nesbitt has been quoted as saying he's back in the UK for June, July & August, Sir Ian is performing at Chichester Festival Theatre until 20th August, and I would think anyone with a significant birthday on 22nd August would like to be at home for it...

Anybody thinking Rover here? Though of course we have heard nothing more from those folk.

My GP told me that the best thing for knitting together stomach muscles which (like mine) completely disintegrated as a result of a big baby going over term and then a section was to lie on the floor, bend legs so that thighs are perpendicular to the ground, straighten legs and slowly lower them to the ground. My friend swears by pilates, but when I tried a pilates class the teacher told us to lock our core muscles and I had to point out to her that I had no core muscles to lock. Oh the shame. Would we be more motivated if we had a personal trainer?

YES. A lot more. When can he come?

I think that would depend on what kind of reward system he had in mind, don't you?

I'm thinking, Massive, that Rover is in the same bracket as Sunne in Splendour, something of a pipedream but not certain ever to see the light of day.

Spiro - I'd settle for an introduction to his friend.

Do I mean Sunne in Splendour? Whatever historical project he was said yonks ago to be developing.

I think it was he'd read Sunne in Splendour and was interested in doing a Richard III drama, with something of a similar, more balanced take on the man.

He did read with the theatre bods for The Rover at least.

Hmm, with a personal trainer like that I would be ashamed of my sheer flabbiness and lack of tone -- muscular, in this particular case though the other could be a bit of a turn-off too I admit.

I used to go to a gym once, way back in the mists of time, and I always hated it when the dishy instructor was on duty. That machine for toning the inner thighs was particularly

I didn't get the loftier joke... ?

Does anybody else who's had a section have the charming overhang? It is beyond gross and almost makes me feel sick at times. When it's hidden under clothes at least the fat is hanging down rather than sticking out, so I tell myself that at least my stomach may look smaller :) I can't see that there's any way of ever getting rid of the overhang other than through surgery so I just try not to think about it too much! Honestly though, I swear I could hold a hardback book under there.... :o

I can't see how The Rover could happen in the hiatus :(

Well Soft Play Hell is over and we are now onto the countdown to bedtime and wine. There may be some overlap betwixt the two.

Loftier because they're on a higher spiritual and intellectual plane and, ahem, because he's six foot two.

I could hide the Encyclopedia Britannica under mine, Twiggy, and the collected works of Proust under the norkage.

::realises she is possibly not making herself sound very attractive here::

Well what about those of us with an overhang without having had a section. At least you have some kind of an excuse.

Minimum norkage here but I could still trap that pesky pencil under them.

Shouldn't that be Plato, Maud?

I don't even want to think about what could be stashed under my section scar & norks.

ROFL @ Plato

Do you think on Dadsnet all the daddies would be bemoaning the less than pristine state of their bodies?

Nah, they would all be congratulating themselves on what handsome devils they all were.

Of course, we could offer them a reality check

You're quite right, Massive. They wouldn't be having this conversation on Dadsnet.

::Stands up, straightens shoulders::

My name is Maud and I have a c-section overhang but am still a total babe.

Massive by name if not in nature. And comely,withal.