La Vie en Crepe

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And a new door opens...

BD, great news.

MI, nice pic - was this for a special occasion of some sort?

Well done on the first hobble run, Herbs. There are lots of different C25K Apps around, so try a few. I started off with the Robert Ullrey podcasts (he's a supremely irritating Californian, who burbles encouragement at you over a slightly trippy electronic backing track), then eventually moved to something very simple, which just plays your own music, adding beeps to tell you when to start and stop running.

I'm going to try and get to the gym today, to kick off my free 2-month membership. Very excited! One of the other MN Testers has been there, and says it's very flash, and full of gym-bunnies driving 4x4s. I shall fit right in.

Ooh, get you, CV.

Lalsy, I regret to say it was a fairly normal day, though I may have made a Special Effort as it was what then qualified as a day out in my life, being a jaunt to Object To Things at Upper Heyford air base back in the days when I was a student (overlapping with Addle and just missing CV). We took our own virtuously vegetarian sandwiches, obviously. And Beer.

CV, have fun! And well done MI. I have circuits after work!

BTW CV how are the pipes? Our dishwasher is now functioning again...but the shower is blocked.

Bah, I wish you'd not mentioned the Aldi tinned haggis. I snorted and told dh about it and he came over all Scottish and nostalgic. Said he needed to go and get some immediately and would give it to the dcs. Yeah, good luck with that, I said. He said he used to get haggis and chips from the chippie. I just don't go much for innards. Gack. Mind you, despite his Scottishness, he has never been to a Burns Night. I think maybe having to learn all that poetry at school put him off...

Stropps, my Scottish friend is a veggie so she has veggie haggis - no innards in that!

MI - I haven't tackled my leaking U-bend yet. To be honest, the vast bucket is doing such a great job as a sink-trap I've somewhat lost the motivation to sort it out until the weekend.

Addle - were you at the same uni as MI and me?? Which college?

bought a haggis in lidl today; figure that given the nature of the ingredients it doesn't really matter where you get it. also, have a tin of haggis brought back from j o'g by cycling DH in haze of cycling confusion

cv - i was at pembroke, went up in 1980. how was the gym?

I went to collect free Waitrose tea yesterday and was tempted by a haggis...it was vast though.

BTM, I have just googled various recipes for vegetarian haggis. Kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, hazelnuts and shallots all at once? I'd need to kept in isolation for 2 days after eating that lot.

(Sorry for lowering the tone. Again.)

All this talk of haggis is making my mouth water.

BD, good news re DB.

Looks as though we will go and pick DM up this w/e. And then she can do the Address to the Haggis, since she speaks broad Scots .

Just decided to hand in my lease car, since they've changed schemes and it now affects your pension. This will make us v dependent on 9 yr old Renault (gulp). Need to think of backup plan.

Stropps The one my friend served up one Burns night was quite nice IIRC. Probably not tinned though!

Auriga, we have an old banger. The DC are petitioning for a newer old banger!

Bd I'm so glad about your brother .
Thats very good news indeed.

Am watching The taste with Nigella. It's a bit trippy to be honest- she seems even more dispraxic than usual. Have boosted open cheese and crackers so most of the slog at the pool today is ruined. I find it impossible to watch these food programmes without props.

Gym Bunny checking in!

It was fun; very nice place, but heaving with buff bodies. I had to perform an emergency epilation on my lower extremities before setting off - the Neanderthal look is fine when you are running in the dark at 6.30am, but I didn't want to frighten any gym instructors on the rowing machine with my woolly mammoth legs.

I had a short induction, then did a "Fierce" aerobics class (African-stylee), finishing off with 20 minutes on the treadmill. Am now sweaty and slightly stiff.

Addle - Magdalen 1985....So very long ago.

CV - how often will you be doing the gym thing? and what is an African-stylee aerobics class, and most importantly, how do you feel this morning?

Well done CV! I am a bit at an African-style aerobics class - tell us more! And how are your body parts? Mine are often worse two days after circuits, but feel OK this morning!

Garden is nearly done. Looking very muddy ATM!

CV, I actually feel quite faint at the very idea. The few times I've tried anything like an aerobics class I was embarrassingly bad. I prefer my exercise solitary and in the dawn gloom, meeting only other middle-aged runners and dog-walkers. I do think there is potential in a set of linked short stories, La Ronde-style, based on the park. As I think it is unlikely - though, given the resilience of the human spirit, not impossible - that they are conducting wild affairs with each other.

MI :) - I am with you - I prefer, where possible, not to be witnessed exercising...

Cremo - The Taste is just bonkers isn't it..... Dp and I watched it last night and were just and

I used to love step classes, back in the day, and found that the herd mentality kept me going. When on my own, my natural laziness tends to let me stop once I start feeling out of breath, or sweating, or any other life-threatening condition.

My obsession with Didrikson parkas goes on. I'm coveting the Lindsey, but can only find it in my size in white, which doesn't sound terribly practical. It's washable, but no doubt that would compromise its waterproofing.

Otherwise, this season's one is £240. Which isn't terribly practical in a month when I've got to pay a tax bill, the car service, car tax, etc etc. But it would be so WARM. And it's got a big hood, with FUR.

Herbs, I found some on here - not the Lindsey though. Given Sam's age, it would be an investment buy - you have probably got about 5 years of going to the park. More if he gets into footy/rugby, etc!

I am rubbish at classes requiring following an instructor. Step aerobics possibly the worst!

I can't decide about the 'taylor'! I fear the toggles might strain over the boobage, and the pockets aren't as practical for hand-insertion... Apparently, though, after bending the ear of the poor lady at Viking Kids, the Taylor has nicer fur round the hood!

But yes - it is indeed an investment. I could flog off a few of my existing coats to at least partially fund it...

Oh they are nice......