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Running our way into 2012...

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ibbydibby · 14/12/2011 21:52

Supposed to be working but could not resist challenge of new thread title!

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peachLFDTsmuggler · 22/12/2011 08:38

Just googled it wheely, it says the only diff is the White stuff is more pliable e.g. you can mould it into little snowmen etc and it can be coloured, but other than that they are the same, so you're ok!!!

peachLFDTsmuggler · 22/12/2011 08:39

chief, I will now have to go and google walnut marzipan!!

peachLFDTsmuggler · 22/12/2011 08:42

DD1 still asleep. DD2 snoozing next to me. I should be sleeping but am googling all manner of maripans instead Hmm

Wheelybug · 22/12/2011 08:46

Thank you oh wise peachy one. I can't stand marzipan either .... Or Christmas cake for that matter... Wonder why I'm bothering Grin

Cor running on Christmas day, that is serious. Can you imagine telling the kids they couldn't open their pressies until you'd done a quick 10 miles.

Now back to sleep you !

rhetorician · 22/12/2011 08:52

ah, marzipan, the great divide...I love it, DP loathes it.

bonkers good point - nursery didn't tell me about it, and I can't get to the bottom of what happened. DD1 says it was the boy (but she always does) but it looks like it could only have been inflicted with something hard. She says he hit her with his hand, but then when I suggested it that they bumped heads, in which case it was an accident. Gah. She may just have fallen over and it could be nothing to do with him at all. I'll ask them tomorrow.

I have to go into work to pick up some stuff that one of my tutors should have given me last week. Very irritating. Gotta go, DP feeding dd2, dd1 roaming free downstairs

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 22/12/2011 09:01

Morning all!

Bleurgh to marzipan/Christmas cake. DH loves those little marzipan fruits, and I would normally buy him some but not this year due to ds3's nut allergy. We try and avoid nuts in the house, especially those that look like sweeties!

Well I was all good intentions for this morning, but DH decided I looked tired Hmm and didn't wake me at 6.30 so I could go for a run. He is hitting the shops tonight so I doubt I'll get out then either Sad.

peachLFDTsmuggler · 22/12/2011 09:42

DH thought you look tired, in your sleep? Hmm

bonkersLFDT20 · 22/12/2011 09:47

Marzipan comes in different colours? Xmas Shock

sfxmum · 22/12/2011 09:53

What is this I hear? Marzipan haters? You fiends! Grin
Off to run yeah
Panto later

And btw what do you mean he thought you looked tired? Confused

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 22/12/2011 09:56

I know peach, he's lovely but barking. He woke me up just as he was leaving to tell me this, and to say I should go back to sleep Hmm.

On the plus side ds1 has just brought me toast in bed! I had to scrape half a pack of butter off it first but it was a lovely thought. He also made ds3 a jam sandwich for breakfast, how slovenly am I?!

futurity · 22/12/2011 10:06

Also agree with blurgh to Xmas cake and marzipan... They go in the pile with brussel sprouts as food that is not allowed in this house Smile

Went swimming last night...still aching but I'm glad I went and am looking forward to next years lessons and finally learning how to do breast stroke properly..apparently my timing is wrong ..,not a big surprise really!

Running club tonight.

peachLFDTsmuggler · 22/12/2011 10:07

Aww bless your DS1. Send him round here with toast! The more butter the better! DD1 just got up! Am still in bed with K. Maybe I will finish the chocolate coins...

cestlavie · 22/12/2011 10:08

Morning all too, seems I've stumbled into something of a marzipan debate... Shock I thought it was a simply like/ dislike thing, hadn't realised that there was an entire colour dilemma to deal with as well!

Actually saw something in a food magazine recently about how to build a nativity scene with marzipan and food colouring which for fraction of a nano-second sounded like a fun festive activity to do with the kids before realising that it would take several hours of which the kids would be involved for 17 seconds during which time our kitchen would look like something which should only be visited by people in haz-mat suits.

Sounds a bit hectic at nursery rhet. Do they not have incident report forms which they fill in for injuries like that which tell you what happens?

Well done on finishing the cake bonkers. Bloody hell, the things we do at Christmas huh...! Icing fruit cakes at 1am. Am looking forward to being up til 3am on Christmas Eve trying to assemble bikes in a way that doesn't kill the kids first time they sit on them....

Good on you for giving blood DrNo. I remember when my dad was in hospital some years back he needed a fair amount of blood. I always try to find time to do it was well now. Not surprised you felt like crap on your run afterwards!

Welcome back chief, great you've got your running mojo back. Sad to see I don't have any races down for 2012 yet... must get one in.

Hope your injuries get better quickly liath

And peaches - passing up sleep opportunities to google marzipan...?!

Had a little too much to drink last night (very nice evening though!) and had a horrific 8 mile run in to work this morning. Every metre hurt I think. Was very tempted to cut it short after a mile and jump on the train but decided to keep going anyway.

What is it about runners/ running that is so weirdly obsessive? I mean seriously, I could have just cut the run short, no-one would know, no-one would care, I'm not training for anything, I've run the last 4 days. Obviously, had ample time to play this thought over to myself over the 8 miles, mainly whilst cursing my stupidity!

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 22/12/2011 10:25

Mmmmm sprouts ..... Off to buy mine in a mo!

Wheelybug · 22/12/2011 10:27

Ha ha to the marzipan nativity. For a couple of years I used to add doing a gingerbread house to Christmas eve chaos. Dd1 (pre dd2) would be involved for a minute, eat all the sweets then I would be sweating over trying to get the bloody roof to stick or somesuch. Then no one would look at it, or eat it. Never again.

Did yiu wear the Orange shoes ?

futurity - I'll have no bad words said about sprouts all right

AlmaWalkingInAWinterWonderland · 22/12/2011 10:29

Well done for giving blood DrNo, I hadn't thought about not being able to run afterwards but it would be pretty nasty. Good to know.

Australia sounds very exciting Rhet! Congratulations to prize winners too :)

Oh, I hate marzipan but not really too keen on any traditional Christmas fare since I don't like turkey, mince pies, Christmas pudding, fruit cake... I do quite like sprouts though.

Feeling a bit better so might go to Running Club tonight if DH is home in time. It's his Christmas do today so not sure when he will back. I got up early to drive him to work (45mins away) so he can enjoy a drink, then went and did the shopping and feel exhausted now!

I'm hoping to go out on Christmas Day but probably in the evening. I'll be interested to see how many people are out and about!

futurity · 22/12/2011 10:34

(throws sprouts at wheely and alma and runs away)

cestlavie · 22/12/2011 10:34

That was dedicated wheely On the basis of desperate child pleading I bought a gingerbread house this year which cost approximately the GDP of a small Latin American country. Turns out the kids don't like gingerbread so that was money well spent!

(I didn't wear the orange shoes in the end. It probably wouldn't have gone down well...)

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 22/12/2011 10:43

How were the shops alma? Am putting it off. I have a low tolerance of shopping at the best of times and all that Ho Bloody Ho really tips me over the edge.

sfxmum · 22/12/2011 10:50

Cheap gingerbread houses at Ikea
And Sprouts are lovely with chestnuts and garlic especially

sfxmum · 22/12/2011 10:50

Envyat peach morning baby snuggles

AlmaWalkingInAWinterWonderland · 22/12/2011 10:52

Not good news ShredMe, I got to supermarket at 8.45am and was already pretty heaving. No car park spaces at all when I left at 9.30am and was getting a bit mad. That's just our very small supermarket in small rural town as well. The large supermarket in the city (where I dropped DH off) looked pretty busy at 8am Xmas Shock.

That said, I went once on Christmas Eve (DM asked me to as a favour Xmas Hmm) and there were checkout queues to the end of the aisles - it wasn't that bad today.

I made a gingerbread house last week. Gingerbread is probably too hard to be edible though but it does look pretty. Next year I'm going to treat myself to a gingerbread house tin and just make chocolate cake in it then ice that - much easier!

I saw the marzipan nativity as well and laughed at their suggestion it was a good activity to do with kids.

stickyLFDTfingers · 22/12/2011 11:01

I adore marzipan. I have even been on a pilgrimage to Luebeck, home of marzipan. Fearfully expensive in the UK though - except in Lidl you can get dark chocolate covered marzipan bars. They're yummy.

Didn't get out for run, was jumped on by DD2 (leaving warm bed with warm snuggly 4 yo is even harder!). But am wearing running underwear so can change at a moment's notice to get out later if DP wants a break from work to mind the DDs instead - here's hoping!

liath that's miserable, hope your gammy leg ungammyfies itself. Have never heard of pose or chi running (made me think of Madonna and her vogue song! That would be a sight to behold)

Shredme carry on like that and you will turn into Natalie. If you do, could we run away together?

Enjoy the panto sfx! Hope it's funny.

I think going out running on Christmas day is a great idea! But could possibly be construed as skiving. WOuld have do see what the family mood was.

ShredMeJillianIWantToBeNatalie · 22/12/2011 11:08

sticky if I lose three stone in weight and gain a foot in height you might be in with a chance. DH and I were pondering Natalie's boobs last night (while gargling our hearts as Jillian would say), quite large for such a slim girl? Fake do we think?

The lady that runs the cookery club the boys go to had her gingerbread house kits featured in the Guardian a few weeks back and was overwhelmed with orders, so much so she was begging friends for help. I made a ginger cake last night but that's my limit I'm afraid.

Really tempted to bin the shops.

liath · 22/12/2011 11:25

Futurity I am shocked! You can't have a sprout free Christmas, surely it's against the rules Grin. I love sprouts, one of the best bits of Christmas dinner. Hate marzipan though.

Well done to the gingerbread house makers, I am really impressed. And the best of British luck to anyone hitting the supermarket Grin.

cest the new shoes sound great, how come you decided not to wear them? I have a pair of bright orange trail shoes which I bought partly because of the colour [sad git emoticon]. IKWYM about the obsessive thing, though. I think there's a strong streak of bloody-mindedness in your average runner.

Thanks for the good wishes for the dodgy leg. I have high hopes it'll be better soon Hmm, it's hardly sore at all when I poke it and I'm getting through industrial quantities of voltarol gel. It was hill sprints that sparked it off so if I am less of a muppet and don't do anything so stupid for a while hopefully all will be well.......until the next injury. I am a biomechanical disaster area!