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I don't want anyone to think I'm dropping off the forum I'd never do that, I know I've been missing a bit just lately but I'm still keen as mustard. I've been a bit lax on the bike this week. I've lost another 3lbs, so don't want to blow it. I have had to drive my husband everywhere he needs to go and although I've been driving since 1967, I'm not keen on it these days. Too much traffic, cars too fast and town planners who keep changing the blinking traffic systems in town and not for the better. We have a ring road in our city, which goes straight through the middle of it. You couldn't make that up could you?
 
Polly, you do what you need to do xo. What's a "bypass" called that goes through the centre of a city? [emoji12]
We won't start on the total lack of common sense in this world!


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Polly, you do what you need to do xo. What's a "bypass" called that goes through the centre of a city? [emoji12]
We won't start on the total lack of common sense in this world!


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That, Cate, is a question we have been asking our city council for years. We found out that the firm they picked to do all the traffic flow changes, never visited the city. They did it all on a computer!
 
Oh gosh, what a miserable Mary I am turning into. I know this is nothing whatsoever to do with health and fitness, but I feel that I have made some good friends on here. Our old Labrador is not too good at all. She hasn't been for her walk for 3 days and that is not like her. She is 11 and a very large dog. people think she is a Great Dane. The vet has been doing domiciliary visits for us, because she has had so many ops over the years that she is terrified of his surgery. On his last visit he noticed that she was slowing up and her sight was going so the end is approaching, but just a bit quicker than we hoped. We will ring him tomorrow and ask him to come and help us decide what to do. This morning, she could hardly get off her sofa, her back legs are very weak. She's too big for a basket so has her own sofa.
It's a sobering thought, but after she goes we just have each other. We have gone from a family of 4 with at least 2 dogs at a time, to just the 2 of us. No more pets after this one, it gets harder as you get older, to say goodbye to them
 
The old girl has done very well to make it to 11 as a labrador at all... You guys must share an awful lot of good memories! Which is all the positive I´ve got right now: hugs for you and your dog.
 
View attachment 23175Will be missing for a while. Our old Labrador died yesterday. She has been a good friend to us through some very difficult years and we will miss her tremendously.
 
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I'm so sorry Polly! I can only begin to imagine how much this lovely Lab meant to you both. Sending you SO much love xoC


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What a horrid month October has turned out to be. What with the bleed in my husband's good eye and his having to have injections in the eye once a month for 3 months. Although he says there is an improvement after just the one, we won't know the final result until New Year's Eve. He can't drive until then and there is a possibility he may never drive again. Then there was losing our lovely old dog last Wednesday. It has been like a waking nightmare.
However it's a poor do if there isn't a silver lining somewhere in the cloud isn't it? People are noticing that I am getting thinner. The thing most say, is that my shape is changing. Presumably I am less orange shaped and more on the pear side of shape:D
 
I´m glad you´re still with us Polly, it isn´t easy to be "good" when things get tough but it´s certainly the best thing to help yourself cope with things. Yay for shapeshifters!
 
Sending you lots and lots of love Polly. You are having a tough time indeed. I'm really glad you are still with us & you should be very proud that you are sticking to your weight-loss goals & changing your shape. I'm a pear for sure. Losing fat from your middle should give yourself a much better chance of a healthy old age. Much love sweetie, xoxo Cate
 
Busy fun morning. What with my husband not able to drive and me not liking to take our big car into our town centre; it could look like things are a bit difficult for us. However we didn't look at it as a problem but as an opportunity. We went into town this morning on the bus using our pensioners bus passes and we had a whale of a time. A good laugh and chatter on the way into town, a nice cup of coffee a spot of shopping and on the off chance, I popped into a jewelers and asked them if it was possible to re pierce my ears which I had allowed to close up over the years. The upshot was that a lovely young lady did it straight away and I have a smashing pair of gold studs in and a bottle of solution which I have to use twice a day to clean around the piercing for 6 weeks. She was such a nice girl and very chatty it was a pleasure to know her and I didn't feel a thing. Then on the bus coming back, I mentioned to the lady across the aisle from me that I'd been 're-bored' and everyone was coming for a look! I've been invited for coffee at umpteen houses and I feel that I've made new friends. While I was having a look at hypoallergenic ear rings for after this 6 week period my husband went next door to the old fashioned sweet shop and got some tins of humbugs for Christmas presents. So all in all, it was a lovely excursion
 
That sounds like a lovely day indeed. Props to you for finding opportunities instead of challenges! And for making friends on the bus, I never got the hang of that :)
 
Polly + lemons= lemonade :D
It does indeed sound like a delightful day. Kudos to you, Polly for turning a negative into a big fat positive! xoxo Cate
 
Writing this early because I'm off to my knit and natter club this afternoon. It doesn't usually meet on a Friday, but for some reason they had to change it this week. It's a bit of a nuisance because I do my bedrooms on a Friday, but it can't be helped. I knit all my husbands socks and a young lady has just joined our club and wants to learn to knit socks on 4 needles so I've agreed to teach her and she is teaching me smocking in return.
The weather is quite chilly here in the mornings, winter is just around the corner.
 
Well you are doing so well despite your circumstances. Hand knit socks would be great! My wife has taken up weaving and I saw that they have a circular loom for making socks which I may need to buy "for her".

Keep up the great work and enjoy your bus rides. I miss having good public transportation. I rode all the time in Seattle.
 
Don't think I'm going to make the down 2 sizes by Christmas goal. I'm down 1 size and those clothes are getting slacker, but the next size goes over my head and top OK but wrinkles a bit over my hips... I look like a fat snake who has swallowed a goat.:rotflmao:
 
Down one size is excellent Polly!! I love the analogy thank you [emoji216] xo


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:grouphug: So sorry about your precious Lab! May your heart mend quickly.

Thanks for visiting my journal. :) Nice ta meet ya!

LOL @ snake/goat. =p
 
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