Hagsnet - the crepey quiche

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Over here all you 40s and fading!

Not wizard's sleeves I hope?!

Herb I am in Bedfordshire..... We need more bodies of any description! It's v v small

Slow christmas solo unaccompanied singing is not done while drunk. Pretty 'scrutiating.

have lost the grand total of 2 pounds mind you I haven't been exactly dieting...

2lb is good. SInce when?

since I started running regularly - a few weeks ago. Have just had a creme egg and some wine though...

Running is not good for Hags. All that up and down jerky impact makes your jowls collapse. I read it in this month's Marie Claire beauty supplement.

I have not had a drink for three days. Hurrah. Must shoorly have lost half a stone by tomorrow?

I tape mine in place with sellotape before I go out

what you need is a face bra for sport. Has anyone got one of those sleeping face bras?

Alouiseg should get one. what with that and her gum shield she'll look vair sexy in bed.

Shortstuff, I'm in London, so probably a little too far for an evening rehearsal!

As for weight, aren't we supposed to lose it slow but steady?

At 9 o'clock, I had a huge bit of chicken, a fair bit of brown rice and lots of greens. Plus a spot of g&b cherry flavor. Felt stuffed, and now I'm starving. How is that fair?

I think we need a pillow with a head hole in so we can't lie on our face

yy about the wobbly face when running! My sad deflated little boobs are safely strapped inside their sports bra and don't budge an inch, meanwhile my jowls bounce wild and free.

Have you noticed how Carole the weather "girl" on BBC breakfast has had a make-over? She was looking very mumsy/old ladyish, but has done something different with her make-up / hair / clothes and is looking much better.

So there's hope for us all

I need to moan about my eyes next. They are old woman's eyes. Gone is the bright gleam of the whites, and the kaleidoscope quality of the irises, that went through chocolate to amber to olive to aqua. They look all rheumy. They look like they aspire to cataracts. They are the colour of a recent disturbed muddy puddle.

As a young gel I floored men and rendered them helpless (apparently) using just my eyes. But my weapons of mass destruction appear to have been decommissioned without my permission.

Nelson, my eyes are greatly helped by Optrex eye brightening drops. And some brown eye liner (black to harsh now)

Wow a lot of my friends are in choirs! What is that about. I have a good friend she is 44 and looks amazing no heavier or different figure wise than what we were 20 years ago. I have always assumed good genes as she never diets glugs wine and no gym or anything. Was chatting to her yesterday saying how since I hit 40 I can,t just drop 4 lbs in a week like I used to and she agreed. She says she goes at it like a kamikaze no wine sugar bread at all walks everywhere and only eats proper meals and drinks wine in company!

Did day 2 of the Shred this am. Would like to say it was easier...... It wasn't....

Smallstuff - I was just about to ask ..... I was hoping you'd say 'oh, yes, so much easier' :)
I have done hip stretches so hoping to get out running again tomorrow or Friday - feels a lot better today.

I continued drinking but not very much (one glass of the cava brought home by DP to sympathise. Although if he brought home booze every time I had a knockback my liver would have given out years ago, in all honesty). And have swum again. It is possible the second cancels out the first, but probably not.

My choir is rather good (it's a chamber one) which is a bit daunting. But - as in my cousin's orchestra - there are a number of people in Comfortable Waistlines that you can see yourself turning into.

Am I the only person on this thread who eats spinach at breakfast?|

Perhaps.
But I regularly pick and steam the spinach growing in the fields around my house and sent some to school in my son's lunchbox. He insisted. I have not gone quite as barkingly right on as that. I could imagine all the teachers sniggering and saying 'Who the hell does she think she is?'

They still harbour memories of me donating a tin of caviar to the Christmas raffle. A raffia basket of dusty Body Shop (that has been in school fair Purgatory for about 5 years, going from one cupboard to the next) toiletries is more the style here.

I have a friend who drinks spinach smoothies for breakfast I love spinach but not as a drink and not for breakfast. I had half a fishfinger and two chips for tea last night (ds's), couldn't be arsed - was so knackered, but did make paella which I have for lunch today (yum - artichokes and olives!)

Spinach is a most excellent vegetable, but I wouldn't like it - or any other vegetables - for breakfast. As a creature of habit, I have porridge with fruit, seeds and homemade yoghurt every morning. It's the only breakfast that stops me from getting that sinking feeling mid-morning.

I'll have to give the choir a miss. I'm tone deaf and sing like Les Dawson (on a good day).

You've got me thinking what I must look like when I run - it's no wonder everyone I meet along the canal towpath gives me a wide berth

I should probably explain I eat the spinach with an egg poached onto it. It's not that bizarre, in reality.

The glory of swimming at 7am is that everyone else is a Codger and calls me Young Lady.