Shine On --with-- --The Kooks-- nah, The Shiney Girls

[bellavita]

Poor thread title, I know....

I think this is our 39th thread and we are still going strong. Our leader Shiney is well what can I say.. just bloody fab.

We do like a lot of cock and cake chat with lots of healthy stuff thrown in too.

We welcome any one who wants to join our thread - just one rule, post post and post more!

Also another tip, don't add your exercise points. I tend tend to have them as spares when I have some wine IYSWIM

I absolutely love the fact that your meal out might be affected by whether or not the fishermen could get out Bella. Somehow it is just so real and human IYSWIM..

Hells lives in London non?

Does DEM live in Didsbury? I have never been there but it is supposed to be very nice.

Morning

DH scanned me last night and we have one very wriggly little person incubating with a very good heartbeat so feeling quite chilled now

Huge bowl of coco pops for breakfast, and DD and i are off to the market in a minute to get fruit and veg. Really fancy some fruit salad, so going to see what they have got on offer.

Very windy here too, just so glad to be rid of snow and ice!

Well done all you clever people who have lost weight, and good luck with the WW Shiney

Shiney - final tip, when you are looking at recipes then look for ones that are totalled with potaoes.rice etc already included.

wow - Georgi, Sazz and Flam. Those bikini's are looking feasible aren't they (though mine will have to be one of those horrid built in boulder holders

I'm down to 10 stone 5 now. I really can't wait to hit 10 stone. And then the magic 9 and a half (Trills has made me see sense on 9 stone being a bit too thin)

Lizzy - the meatballs...can't find the recipe thread so I hope it's o.k to post here. It uses the american 'cup' measurement system. I had some measuring cups from John Lewis so I was ok with it. If you haven't let me know and next time I make it I'll weigh stuff. Also when I made it, it was a bit dry so I either cooked for too long or perhaps the meat was just too lean. STill...they weren't bad for a diet supper:

Here goes:

500g lean mince beef, 1/2 small onion (I used whole!), 1/2 cup crumbled low fat feta, 2 crushed garlic cloves, 1 large egg, 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (plus more for the baking dish), 1 tablespoon dried oregana, 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper.

Heat over to 200. Combine all the ingredients and knead to combine - it says 'being careful not to overmix??!'.

Oil a 9 by 13 baking dish with olive oil. Shape meat mixture into 40 (1 tablespoon) meatballs. [note from Hells - errr I ended up with 20 using teh tablespoon measurement so assume their 40 is a typo].

Bake until cooked through (they say 12-15 mins, 1 did 25 mins as I get paranoid about undercooking...but I suspect 15-20 would have been fine as mine where dry)

We had it with a feta, cucumber, tomato, & red onion salad or you could do normal greek.

yes Bella - I'm in London....and if you lot are meeting up there, if there is anyway I can get to it (work permitting) - I will!

Alice lovely news on teh scan. How many weeks are you now?

Hells, tis Saturday 20th Feb. Sazz mentioned something about a liquid champagne nice lunch

shite - I think we are visiting friends that weekend but will double check and see if I can move it around with them. What time are you meeting up?

Not sure Hells - it was something Sazz said and I wasn't sure if it was out of politeness

Basically, I will be on my own from about 10.30ish till about 3ish when I can check into the hotel. I have no problem with being on my own as I will just wander round the shops, but company for lunch/coffee/champagne or whatever would be nice

Ummmm Alice, how did DH 'scan' you?

But lovely lovely that he did. I am weirdly broody at the moment but don't want another DC. I love remembering being pregnant and giving birth and the exquisite feeling when that tiny little mite wraps it's hand around your fingers, blows a tiny bubble and falls to sleep...Awww...[mushy gooey emoticon]

Sazz...another one for whom Thursday is not a good day . And Manchester is just out of easy travelling distance with the DC's being at school. We do have a coach that goes straight through but would be tricky.

I would love to do a meet up though...

Right. A little bit of work to do so I can go out and play later..

I don't imagine anyone would want to meet you just out of 'politeness' Bella, you are lovely.

mitts - don't get me all broody...what about that turtle thing they do with their neck and the eye roll when they latch on and are in heaven at getting milk (the be all and end all at that age).

Bella. Let's put some pressure on Sazz and I'll see if I can change dates with friends. I'm sure they'll be fine on it (well will try anyway!). DH is going to think I'm bonkers though....he already get's cross with how much time I spend on here! He says 'but what do you do on Mumsnet....I don't understand' and rolls his eyes in disgust!

Bella - i dont live in didsbury but thursday is uni day and that is where the campus is.

My head hurts today. someone turn the heating up last night and forgot to turn in down for the overnight bit. So i have a thumping heading. Doesnt help the fact that ds is feeling poorly he has a cold manflu and has managed to drop and essential part of my laundry basket in the the toilet whilst being stinky. it survived the flush so i need to go rescue and disenfect many times.

My lego is absolutely fab! Although if you stumble across my phone i have lost it again. And i cant find my spare one. My guess is that it is a clean up day.

And i am very glad i havent managed to poison myself and it was AF causing all the pain yesterday.

Right erm, cant remember if i menationed i was sending out load of parcels to people which had been promised. If i didnt its a good job as i havent got as far as sending them. if i did sorry i have been carp. I am going to shove them in the post this morning.

I am off to Buxton this morning. I fancy a drive and this rain should me the town is now open and functioning better after all the snow.

Alice - how does your DH do a scan? this bit confused me. Fab news on healthy wriggler!

Ooh, all the stuffed peppers sound good! Will have to put that in my rotation, haven't done them in ages.

Last night had meat loaf, 'rustic mash' (aka too lazy to peel potatoes), and green bean casserole. I love making the meat loaves individually in a muffin/cupcake tin, so much easier to control portion size!

Sazz, forgot to say yesterday but well done! I didn't realise you'd lost so much weight!

Shiney are you on Quidco? I checked yesterday and I definitely got £15 cashback from joining WW online. Oh poop, just saw you already joined....well welcome to it anyway, let me know if you have any trouble with it. (I'm actually an IT trainer in real life)

hells, that woman sounds like a prize loon, I'm sure you're lovely to talk to. She's probably got weird emotional baggage from something that no one could be expected to know. I feel like I say the wrong stuff a lot of the time too, but people tend to ascribe any perceived rudeness/weirdness on my part to being from the U.S. Don't give it another thought.

Vinny, hope you have a good time this weekend!

FB, yay for the little flamingos!

Chaos, at your lego. My high school boyfriend and I used to build scale models of our houses out of lego together (when we weren't trying to find a private place to shag).

Alice, yes, I want to know how your DH scanned you? but lovely to hear about a wiggly baby!

Morning ladies

Hellish weather again, the snow is nearly all away.

Hells, I shall try and find the recipe thread

Shiney - good luck with the WW! I think it will be £30 well spent.

DH is off for 2 weeks after today, we were gonna go skiing up north but with this wind it's not even pleasant, probably yucky slushy too. Plus we'd probably be cheaper going away to the Alps for 3 or 4 days TBH.....£50 a day here for 2 lift passes, then fuel, hotel, food....will see what happens.

There, I'm caught up with your news, but forgot to add my own....

DS had another bad day yesterday afternoon/evening/night, lots of moaning and wailing, wouldn't be put down, would scream and claw at me while holding him. Very hard going. He didn't poo at all yesterday and is normally quite regular, once or twice a day. Am fairly certain it's down to the nurofen I gave him Thursday when I thought his teeth were bugging him. Both times I gave him Calpol previously, he missed his regular poo the following day. He didn't go to bed until 1am, but woke up at 7:30, so I'm shattered! Expecting a poo explosion today.

Started another thread asking opinions on carpet vs laminate for upstairs landing, and have decided to go with carpet. Now need to find something I can get for £155 installed as we can't really afford to spend more than what the ins co are giving us.

That would be lovely Hells

Poor little Yank - more tummy rubbing and jiggling?

I too would like to know about Alice's scanning!

Hells - recipe thread

Morning!

Well done Georgi! Well done Flamingo!

Good luck with the WW Shiney!

I'm presuming Alice DH used a hand-held Doppler scanner, though I did have visions of him pulling down specs a la Clark Kent and using his x-ray visions.

Had enough rain now, want to go out.
Though it did wash all the snow away yesterday, which was nice.

Hehe

DH is a Vet so borrowed a portable ultrasound scanner from work. I was getting a bit stressed tbh because of the possible heart probs, the fact i am having cramps and no one was bothered about checking the baby. I am about 9+4weeks now. Slept really well last night so obviously a weight off my mind

We were aware that we may not see anything because DH is not trained to look for human babies, but uses a scanner to look at tendons and things, and just because we couldn't see it didn't mean everything wasn't ok iyswim? But it was very clear, very wriggly and the heart was very clear.

Oh wow Alice! How exciting! Have you got a date for your official scan through?