WWW's 10 years older slipper camp for middle aged frumps

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Hello everyone, old and new.

This is about feeling better about yourself and looking and feeling better etc. But mainly we chat and laugh quite a lot, which has all got to help towards happiness etc.

The rules (anyone can join):

• Sunscreen at all times

• No or little booze. Wine or Champagne or whatever at the weekend is allowed if you want it

• Walking is important, a small amount every day if possible. 30 mins if you can

• Lots of water, aim for 2 litres a day

• Apply body cream as often as possible

• Use hand cream

• Go to bed early, by 10.30pm if pos

• Eat healthily

• Be happy

The idea is that we all feel happier, healthier and glow with the good food, sleep, exercise, water and lack of sun damage.

Some people are doing India and Neris's Idiot Proof Diet (Atkins, more or less), others are doing Slimy World, others are just being as healthy as possible.

Welcome everyone, have a good week.

Happy birthday WWW. May your next year be drenched in cava happiness.

Hello everyone else, hope you are all well. Am too fat and tired to post properly, but am reading and keeping up with you as I bask in lard.

Duch, I had forgotten about night time wakings. Get my CS date tomorrow. Had better start remembering how lovely it is to survive on half hour stretches at a time. you have my sympathies.

Happy Birthday WWW, you sound like you have a lovely family.

Blast it Screemie, bloody sodding buyers. How infuriating. Hope you enjoyed the beer. Am so sorry.

I second Neutrogena hand cream. Haven't tried the Clarins one though.

I had my first solid meal last night after a week of juicing. Was Roast chicken and salad and to be honest I was rather disappointed. Ate loads tho.

Have been moisturising and body brushing. A bit slack on the exercising but may take kids and dog out for an hour soon.

at local contract ..,. I am back to a min 1 hour each way comute on Monday on the trainline that time forgot..... I am so and seriously wondering why the bl**dy hell I said Yes (I know why - its called money and the 'OMG I will never work again and we'll have to sell ds and the dog' side won...)
So on eating front yesterday not good:
toast
Banana (I know started okay)
pakora
samosa
dhal (I made it so at least I know it wasn't loaded in butter).
Still not enough water
Did paint half of the extension in a lush colour that is making me

zooming through as have to pop into work to talk to HR and pick up some books [joys]

Marina, WHAT did your DD do to the babysitter?! The mind boggles ...

Glad (in a pathetic, join-me-in-my-pain way) that others suffer from old-lady hands.What is with the veins ? Yuck.

And duchess/marina - and mavis, shortly - agree on the hell of the waking children. DS now sits bolt upright like a sort of reanimated zombie at 5.30am and that is THAT. What to do?! Would have a go with wake to sleep, but we are schlepping all over the country for the next few weeks, and then DS starts nursery, so not sure now's the time. Am at my wits' end - and dreading combining 5.30 waking with work in a few weeks. And god only knows what horrors the clocks going back will throw up on Sunday (4.30, anyone?)

Aaaaaaaaanyway ... must go. Great news on possible contract, WWW, and your birthday sounds blissful!

marina - yes, do tell about the babysitter.

www - how's your head this morning?

Hello
Well, I drank Champagne BUT was falling asleep on sofa at half nine and was asleep by 10 so feel ok today, phew! lol at porno bra! Enid, no have mostlyu not been drinking in week but do drink Champagne and Cava and Pinot Grigio at weekends.

Only 5 hours to go and my contract is over, hurrah

Thanks for all the lovely birthday wishes and sorry for dominating the thread with it, you're all vair vair kind

Eemie, sorry to hear about buyers, what a pita. And sorry to hear about non sleeping babies too, awful

I will start a new thread for us all on Sunday and we can be rubbish as it's half term fantastic on that.

It's Friday ladies, and hurrah for that.

I'm on half-term this week (and a couple of days next week), haven't been too rubbish and have been doing my usual brain exercise of revising helping dd revise.

There is now nothing I don't know about Elizabeth 1

Brain work uses up lots of calories you know.

About to leave work and have been given a lovely bottle of Champagne and a fab leaving presentation, feeling very happy and looking forward to getting home.

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I have my mother's hands. I wish she'd have them back

I'm off now for a week , are you freeeeeee now www? The near to home contract sounds promising.

Where's ureb?

Am bootcamp champ this week
Gym x3 plus a run
Loads of lotions and potions
No booze (having a glass tonight to celebrate dd's 15th birthday)

Sympathy on the sleepless nights Norks. ds2 who was the incredible non sleeping child handed the baton over to dd but atleast now she just wanders the house alone and doesn't feel the need to wake me up often.

Glad you had a good last day WWW - enjoy your time off and fingers crossed for the local job.

Am I right in thinking that Elizabeth I had a set of wooden teeth? (could very well be wrong on that one).

Although I have extremely veiny hands they were no use when I came to be induced for ds - apparently, after lots of faffing about and big thick needles becoming dislodged they are simply too 'juicy'. At least something is...

Screemie - so sorry to hear about the house sale (or lack thereof). I hope you enjoyed your beer.

Had two rounds of M&T stuff today so many biscuits/cakes and cups of tea have been consumed. However in all other regards I have diligently bootcamped.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Congratulations www on your Long Commute Home To Freedom.

I ate perfectly well all day, toast for breakfast, chicken soup for lunch, fish pie for dinner and lots of raw carrots to snack on. But DH is waving an enormous bag of Burts crisps and I'm hungry and tired and it's Friday and and and

Lots of water. Body scrub, moisturiser everywhere and deep conditioning hair treatment.

Lovely long walk with the dog and DD2 this morning, we collected lots of chestnuts along the way to make HughFW Chestnut and Chocolate tart thing tomorrow.

I made the very controversial Hallowe'en Names shortlist. It's such a lazy name. So I am, unsurprisingly, in last place!

I was in the shortlist last year Norks and only got one vote from Custy

www, enjoy your evening

Were you TheWickerCam last year? I only remember JackieNo & threadiekrueger from last year. Hellmouthcusty is a great name, it's rather apt and I'm an old Buffy fan.

Hey all, a quick wave as am about to head up north until wednesday - have great, bootcampy weekends, one and all. Duchess, I heart your name. And Buffy!

Hope you're enjoying freedom, WWW. And your name really unsettles me DoN - I think of you as DuchnessOfNorks so read it that you've died.

Friend came over for coffee and brought fudge yesterday. And I am fully expecting to have a bacon roll at football this morning, so will leave it there. Oh wait, except to say that my slippers arrived and are toasty warm. I might have to get Uggs or Emus or some sort of warm furry boots; I don't know if I can switch from warm indoor feet to cold outdoor feet.

woohhoo you are free www. Well done you .

oh eemie. doesn't seem fair does it

had a mad week at work and remembered, as I got into bed at 11pm last night that I hadn't sent in something that was required for legal reasons by the end of yesterday arrghh. Was virtually hyperventilating as I managed to do it in the nick of time just before midnight grrr. It has not been my week.

Have spied a bond film on this afternoon so am planning on chilling on the couch with dd and ds (they love bond films) and trying to RELAX.

I was saying to someone earlier, who decided we had to WORK to live ffs!

hello enid by the way! Wanted to catch you the other day and talk about our dds in year 4.

Afternoon all
Have crocked back, can you believe it, hurriedly putting on a pair of effing tights . I blame www because she also wears black opaques
So am officially taking it easy although did manage a crabby waddle round Waitrose this lunchtime - God I miss doing my own shopping. Start to finish whole trip (four miles away) took 2.5 hours though, and we were all hacked off with the traffic.
Cream - check
Water - check (er, does coffee count?)
Happiness - iffy, dd is the Ten Plagues of Egypt rolled into one small girl at present. She sang a rude song about her bottom to our nice, wholesome babysitter (I don't know where dd has learned to bump and grind like that but am fed up of looks about it), then clung on to her limpet style and refused to leave our bedroom (which was, inevitably, the place I had flung a houseful of clutter at 5pm and had told the children not to take the babysitter in to). Babysitter is an ed psych in training
Walking - hah. Will do better next week.
Loving some of these Halloween names - JackieNo's is a big fave of mine, but, have to say, Duch, yours bothers me too. Good to know you are NOT dead!
I hope Screemie has been shortlisted - horribly apt name given your miserable news . Will reply to your message soon.
Foxy enjoy the Bond film (dd has already requested that bizarre show featuring Anton du Beke and large lumps of polystyrene, alas) and everyone else, have a good weekend.
Am trying not to LOL at Mavis' "juicy" hands and the wooden teeth! I have juicy hands too.

marina, so sorry about your back, really bad luck

also - dd2 sings rude songs atm, mostly about her "bumpy bits" I think she was egged on by one of SILs soon to be DSSs...our Bulgarian cleaner (economist in previous life) is off home as dental treatment costs about 1/50 of what it does here, poor love is in sooo much pain.

booty v bad, drank prosecco at party for someone's renewal of their marriage vows and picked up bag of chips on way home (ostensibly for dd's). am using plenty of moisturiser and broke the habit of a lifetime today and shaved my legs!

LOcal contract, WWW? Yeehaaa! V envious! Six miles from you - in my direction or not? We could have lunch when I am having day off working from home!

Hi all

Walking good
Water ok
Food good
Alcohol - first Pimms of the year, so splendid.
Moisturising good
Sunscreen good
Husband very annoying
Children lovely
Bedtimes pre 10pm so good if dull

Happyness good, apart from horrid annoying dh. Honestly he is driving me nuts. This is when living in Australia really depresses me. As all family are back in the UK there is nowhere for me to escape to whenever things get too much at home.

Morning (v early morning, grr) all, my clock said 6.45am and the children woke up so I got up considering it a lie in and now I've been up ages and it's STILL only 6.20 due to clocks.

terrible day yesterday bootcampwise

pain au chocolat
salmon mousse
prawns
2 mini chocolates and 2 glasses of wine in a warm pub after a LONG walk in the drizzle with dh and children
hot dog with onions
new york cheescake, bought by dh for my birthday that we didn#t get around to eating then
prosecco but not much
went to bed at nine pm, just exhausted. I think it's going to take me the week to recover frm the past year

the local job probably won't come off as they've asked for a skill I don't have I don't mind at ALL, frankly, I want my break really.

So far coffee and 2 pieces of toast, brought to me in bed by ds. Will go back to bed in a bit I think and then for a walk on my own and then we're off to a friends fro lunch so that'll be nice.

Good news is that on the walk yesterday I wore a pair of walking boots, bought at great expense in Brecon about 4 years ago, that hurt my ankles last time I wore them and they were FINE yesterday, which is great for autumn walks as they're proper Gore tex and will keep my feet drier than my grotty old trainers.

Your walking shoes sound much better than the shoes I was wearing yesterday, www.

I did loads of city walking and I wore a pair of wedge heels all day. Very comfortable shoes but I am unused to heels. The balls of my feet are still throbbing.

I took ds1 to Paddington to get the train to Totnes (MIL picking him up at the other end). The first time ds2 has made the journey alone, saving much driving time and petrol for dh and MIL (hurrah!).

Then as I was alone in central London (rare treat) I rushed to Primark, Oxford Street to have a manic hour, before heading back to the far reaches of SE London. Had a few hours breather at home then dh, ds2 and I went to The O2 to hear j azz and Zydeco music at their New Orleans festival. Lovely free music but tons more walking around on concrete.

So all in all, a lovely day but my feet would disagree!

WWW, it sounds like even if you were offered the local job, you'd be ignoring your instincts if you accepted it, as you are so wanting to spend time at home. So it's probably for the best that you don't have all the skills.
Enjoy Monday - arrange a special morning treat while you think about the communiting you will not be doing