**TAMOXIFEN**the 6th

[MaryAnnSingleton]

here we go !

smee- sorry,meant to say that's good it's not burns x

SR, what a sad story. How awful.

Smee, how great that it isn't burns. That should be easy to sort: Perhaps get the silk in anyway, you may need it later. RWU and MAS both swore by it I seem to remember. And I think you deserve the fat boy snacks....as do I

I'm impressed by MAS's treats list for yesterday. I was doing really well and then randomly decided at 9.45pm (damn! so near to bed time!!!) that I needed a Flake. I wasn't even hungry, just greedy. Had just polished that off, when DH appeared in from his football match with a bottle of white wine. We drank it (yes, all of it) while watching old Mock the Week reruns on Dave.Doh!!

you lot are cake obsessed lol!

funeral today, great weather for it at least its a crem do, gathering round a muddy hole would be even nastier! leaving the kids in the capable hands of SIL- she's bound to enjoy it

The electrical contractors who installed our cooker hood (incorrectly!!) chose this morning at 8am to come and put it right some people have no sense of bloody timing- poor guy was assaulted by 4 ds's asking him constantly what he was doing until 8.45 when i packed them off to school That'll teach 'em

yes,silk definitely a good thing.
White wine sounds very welcome (and flake) - I daresay I may succumb to an almond macaroon later (am off to Sainsbury's)

What a horrid day for a funeral RWU. Not that there's ever a good one. Crem is much the better option, though. I hope it goes off as well as can be expected in the circumstances, and you all get another chance to toast a fantastic friend.

Serves the cooker man right, that'll teach him to up his quality control

Almond macaroon sounds nice. I am in on my own today so all controls are off, really. Anything could happen, diet-wise. Especially as I am off to my double header exercise class later (aqua aerobics then stretch 'n' tone - anything with an 'n' in it is the work of the Dark Side) and that usually sends me into a feeding frenzy.

I had wondered about the probiotic yoghurts, and I shall get some today, as I felt quite sick in the night. Thank you for that reminder

The chocolate cake went down really easily last night, much more easily than the horse tablets

Lol at fat boy snacks, I have deceided to have no will power for the next two weeks and have started on morning chocolate already.....all fat boy snacks welcome here.

It is true that everyone deals with grief differently, Only this morning I was talking with my lovely friend about how to help her daughter come to terms with her little brother's death a year a go, and with all of that going on she still insisted on taking me on Monday, and she was fab. I am very lucky really.

hope all goes as well as it can at funeral - pity it's such miserable weather-take care RWU- will be thinking of you.
Absolutely agree about things with an 'n' in them - yack...

Sorry about the miserable weather RWU on such a sad day, hope you get through it Ok.

Sparkle, all bets are off for you for a week or two. If you feel like eating it - heck, have two. You'll feel so much better for it, especially if you can avoid scales for a bit.

SR, your story is heartbreaking - what a terrible tragedy

RWU - thoughts with you for the funeral today xx

And Smee - also very pleased it is not burns, (although allergy doesn't sound nice - but as you say easier to deal with)

MAS - I know what you mean about your Dad, maybe it is a generational thing as well as character. My parents were also very stoical, and although they talk about my brother, they've never talked about how they felt IYSWIM. But sometimes people just have to deal with things in their own ways

No fat boy snacks (FBS) for me so far today (mainly because I ate them all yesterday).

So, yesterday when I was shopping, I bought some posh bird food, to put in with my Dad's birthday present (mum told me he loves to stand and watch the birds).I put it in the study to wrap up later. Woke up today to find DH has helped himself and fed it to our birds. I can't begin to tell you how typical that is!

On the other hand, he has been entering lots of competitions recently and this morning a prize came. It is an Electronic Door Viewer (Not quite sure what this is, or why we need it, but DH is very excited)

love to all

And yay! for your fab friend. God bless her for her loss: you do find that people who have had some troubles of their own are much better in a crisis.

A friend of mine whose dearly loved mother died nearly two years ago, and who is still coming to terms with it, as you might expect, was telling me last week that a close friend of hers suggested to her that she should be over it by now and maybe it was time she got a grip. The worst part is that this friend of hers is a nice woman, who was genuinely concerned and meant well - but she has led a charmed life so far and she just doesn't understand what grief and loss and fear can be like.

So if you've got a friend who does - hold on tight to her.

Sparkle - I x posted, - what a lovely friend you have

Cakes, you are right, I don't think you ever 'get over' a loss, you become accustomed to it eventually, but it will always be there.

I shall she is super, and obviously still needs her friends' support and love around her. There are just somethings that you can never "get over"

I raise my cup of tea and FBS to all the good supportive people out there, who touch others lifes and help them so much, often without even really knowing it. Now I am off to try and have a soak in the bath, while the baby has a nap.....

Enjoy the bath, sparkle. Hope the baby is more malleable than my dd ever was - she'd always wake up if i had plans of any kind...

Electronic door viewer. Hmm. Well it may come in useful! I wonder which bit is electronic?

Your dh sounds just like mine, KK. If ever I come in to the house with a handful of nice treats that i haven't managed to scoff yet (it happens quite a lot) - they will be gone even before I can get my coat off.

Oooh I've just looked up the door viewer here it is quite expensive! well done DH (still don't know why we'd want it, maybe we can e-bay it?)

oh well done Mr KK - cracking prize !!
Good,true friends are to be cherished that's for sure- am so glad you have yours Sparkle.
KK is right about the generational thing- my dad is no nonsense about things-he had prostate cancer but just got on with it for example. My grandmother was loved us yet was unable to demonstrate this-probably not to dad and his brother - and found it hard to relate to us grandchildren- she certainly spread her influence on to us. I think the emphasis following R's death was on being 'sensible' and 'grown up' - not said but felt.

The door viewer looks impressive - but don't be fooled by the promise of it being 'easy to install'

SR, must have cross posted last night, as only just saw your post about your BIL. Really sad - how awful for him to lose both of them. Pleased he found someone to move on with though. I hope he's happy now.

Okay, so whose DH came back with a big bag of crisps the other day?? Subliminally it must have stuck, as last night I grabbed one and ate the whole lot. DH away due to work, so that was my tea. So much for eating well throughout treatment.

Well done to Mr Kurri - DS would love one of those door thingies. He's very into spy inspired play at the moment. Nearly broke my neck last night as he'd put trip wire across the stairs..

RWU, must be a tough day to get through. Hope you got to release the balloons, in spite of the weather. Take care of yourself.

MAS, applaudable level of snacks, but why did you have to go and mention Minstrels - I'd forgotten about their very existence and now I can't last the day without tracking some down. Oh and Marmite Rice Cakes definitely don't count.

Sparkle, hope you got your nice long bath; sounds very restorative. On friends, was going to say it's great you've got someone there for you. My DH has been astounding throughout, but my best friend has been so utterly brilliant that am not sure how I'd have coped if she hadn't been there. Something about being a woman - not sure what it is, but she's been so intuitive and anarchic about it all. Hopefully you won't need a lot of support as what you have could still be something easily fixed, but if you do, well a best friend's a very good thing indeed in my book.

I think I am the guilty party regarding the crisps Smee, or rather my DH is. He is a bean pole, and can eat rubbish without putting on an ounce mind you DD keeps telling him he has a terrible diet, and he has tried to cut down on the biscuits.

He's decided to e-bay his door thingy, - our door is Glass, so it would be hard to fit, and I can pretty much see who is at the door anyway

I have had wholemeal pitta and low fat hummous for lunch, and have stewed some plums for a snack later. Feeling reasonably virtuous and ignoring all talk of minstrels and brownies.

halo emoticon for Kurri.

and for smee's ds and his trip wire. I'd have gone over, no bother.

Low fat pittas and hummous??!! That's letting the side down. I've had pate on toast (tomatoes and watercress accompaniment) , a butterfly cake and four biscuits. Sigh. I shall have to throw myself around more at exercise class later.

at the trip wire !
did my mindful yoga to can now have my almond macaroon (also bought barrel of cheeselets, and countered that by buying some organic raisins in little boxes) IN resisted the Christmas rum truffle cakes which are my festive passion,as you may recall from last Christmas

RWU - I hope the funeral went smoothly despite the awful weather. What a sad day.

Sorry - in a rush as shopping has now arrived!

KK - thought you were going to say that DH ATE the bird food thinking it was diet option...

In defence of DS, the trip wire wasn't aimed at me, but was to defend against any stray baddies, of which obviously we have several roaming round the house at any one time...

MAS, what are these macaroon's you mention and the rum truffle cakes now too? I need your expert guidance, as have never had either. Shameful whisper here, but I have a small packet of M&S cheesy wotsit type things that I couldn't resist buying earlier. I have hidden them from DS, as obviously they are bad for him. Am feeling mighty common next to your macaroons.

SR - no he didn't eat it, - he has been known to gobble the odd bird-peanut though.

My BIL's parents used to run a pet shop, and as a small boy he used to graze on the Winalot shapes

Strange men my sister and I have married!