Susie and Orbit's daily dribble

Morning all

Working from home today again - getting the managers used to me not being there two days a week :) Not madly busy, so was able to have a little lie in hehe and can now concentrate on cleaning out my intray and writing a couple of releases.

Vaiva, my lovely cleaner (my one real luxury!), is just finishing cleaning the entire back patio, which was completely taken over with weeds - it looks amazing, she has done such a great job!

B - not hungry, cup of tea
L - still not very hungry, might have some bacon and cabbage again
D - Will probably be lamb curry

Not very pleased with myself about the load of wine I had last night, but I did do a lot of walking yesterday so hopefully that will go some way to balance it out.
 
Morning all

Sneaky WI shows the wine has indeed taken its toll - but will be clean and green and see how I get on.

Just heard the weather forecast talking about 70mph winds - time to baton down the hatches - again!

Thought I would bore you all with the strange dream I had over and over last night - I was in France on a tour and we got dropped off by a really posh department store, which was having a sale - but I couldn't find what I wanted, and was getting really panicky about trying not to miss out on the bargains before I had to get back to the coach. I kept getting lost and find myself on the wrong floor, or be looking for clothes and find myself in a department selling motor parts (in a department store?!). If dreams are all about your subconscious trying to tell you stuff, I wish it would be a bit more obvious! The Dream Interpreter says "To dream that you cannot find what you are shopping for suggests that you are trying to find a solution to some life problem." - which sounds about right, I guess. Maybe the motor parts bit is about whether I should buy a car or not when I move.

Anyhoo...

B - cabbage and bacon with some chilli flakes and Dream - mmmm
L - chicken and salad with lemon oil
D - pork with mustard cauli mash
S - ham

Have a lovely day, all xxx
 
Morning Susie, Your dream sounds spot on, not wanting to miss an oppurtunity with your flat hunting/job and deciding what your next step will be! I love dreams, our brains know what we need automatically but it takes us a while to listen and the best way of doing that is to listen to the subconscious when your dreaming as it's the only way it gets a word in edgeways during our busy lives!

Look at the Shamans, according to them everything that we see, hear, smell, taste, happens etc has all been dreamed into creation by someone, And they live their lives governed by what elders dream about, much like the Egyptians when they used to have huge sleep temples to manifest dreams and prophecies!

Useless information to some but some bloody good scientific back up! And dream interpretation is what you make of it, never trust those books, they are a catch all disregarding what one has got going on in their personal life at present.

I've gone off on a tangent now lol.............

Food sounds better today, and don't panic on the wine front, if nowt else it's good for the soul!!
 
Not sure what the shamans would make of my reoccurring dreams about fighting with celebrities over my little ponies.

Hope you got some rest Susie!
 
Thanks all - it's always lovely to ramble on about silly stuff here and not be ridiculed :D

Just having lunch and I can report that my mega expensive citron olive oil, bought from the giftshop at the Pont du Gard, is YUMMY! Am defo in K, got that delightful mouth pong start today - but I do feel a bit dizzy every now and again, which is a new thing for me on low carb....anyone else experience that?
 
If it was early on I'd suspect the natural lowering of blood pressure that happens when you lose retained water (it's a good thing, for your heart at least!) but you've been in keto and on the diet for a while... Though maybe the wine made you retain and now you're dropping the water again.

If it is that, you should pick up once the water weight is gone. Step away from the vino!
 
Oh! Susie... Since you've just been on a lovely holiday I thought I'd ask you. I haven't had a holiday in 8 years or so and have some time right now (though not much money) and I'm thinking maybe about France either at the end of July or start of September. I really want to visit mont st Michel and have been looking at staying in Caen or Bayeux and making a daytrip there and also one to Paris. I'd be on my own of course. The cheapest options I've found are - ferry to Caen and then either 5 nights in a ver very basic hotel in Caen or renting a tiny little apartment in the middle of bayeux - more expensive but day trips would be easier...

Anyway I'm just poking around at things a d was wondering if you had any suggestions for good websites or what have you to research trips on.
 
Hiya ML

Eight years! My god hun you REALLY need a holiday :D

I'm a big fan of the coach tour when you're travelling alone - you get to wander off on your own and/or make friends and have people to eat/chat about the day with, all the getting there is taken care of, as well as day trips - some are optional, so if yuou don't fancy them you can do your own thing. I did independent travel for 30+ years and I'm really over it :)

A coach tour might look more expensive on the surface, but I costed my trips out and a DIY holiday wasn't much cheaper - with the added convenience of a) not going through an airport and all that palaver; b) not having to cart heavy luggage far; c) just sitting there and relaxing while you get to actually see the scenery :)

I'd have a good browse around this site - here's a Rouen short break, to give you an idea - Coach Holidays - Coach Trips, UK Coach Tours with Shearings Holidays, Leger Holidays and more - Escorted coach tours to Europe and Worldwide

You don't always pay a single supplement. I've been with Leger twice via the Coach Holidays website (once to Lake Garda, and just now to Provence) and mostly got double rooms, although it was a large single in Rocamadour.

Hope this helps. There is of course an advisory charge which is that I come with you LOL xxxxxx

PS think you're right about the blood pressure, etc - felt better this afternoon, and took my vits too :) So lovely that my appetite has dropped away a bit.
 
On BBC2 tonight at 9pm

BBC - Media Centre - Programme Information - The Men Who Made Us Fat

Here's the guff -

Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished; two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese. In the first of this three-part series, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionising our eating habits, to find out how decisions made in America 40 years ago influence the way we eat now.
Peretti travels to America to investigate the story of High Fructose Corn Syrup. The sweetener was championed in the US in the 1970s by Richard Nixon’s Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to make use of the excess corn grown by farmers. Cheaper and sweeter than sugar, it soon found its way into almost all processed foods and soft drinks. HFCS is not only sweeter than sugar, it also interferes with Leptin, the hormone that controls appetite, so once you start eating or drinking it, you don’t know when to stop.

British nutritionist John Yudkin was one of the first to raise the dangers of sugar but his findings were discredited in America at the time. Meanwhile, a US Congress report blamed fat, not sugar, for the disturbing rise in cardio-vascular disease and the food industry responded with ranges of ‘low fat’, ‘heart healthy’ products in which the fat was removed – but the substitute was yet more sugar.
Meanwhile, in 1970s Britain, food manufacturers used advertising campaigns to promote the idea of snacking between meals. Outside the home, fast food chains offered clean, bright premises with tempting burgers cooked and served with a very un-British zeal and efficiency. Twenty years after the arrival of McDonalds, the number of fast food outlets in Britain had quadrupled.
 
Evening Susie, coach trip sound very relaxing way to go on holiday.

The wine weight will fall away very soon. Great not to feel hungry isn't it.

Bet that's one shocking show, must tape it.

Have a good night. x
 
Re the BBC2 programme - to be honest I recognise the hands of lobbyists in it - but nice to hear someone is challenging the "wheat is good for you" scenario on mainstream tellie! :D
 
Thanks for the link xx I shall check it out. I'd be happy to do a coach trip if I could find one that exactly suited where I wanted to go, but so far I haven't found one.

Thinking about it though, I think I'm going to do a few days in a b&b in Cornwall instead and a couple of local coach trips so I can see Tintagel - the place popped into my head a while ago and I've been meaning to visit - and then maybe if time and funds allow get over to bayeux in late sept/early oct when prices, availability and crowding should be less of an issue... Of course I might well talk myself out of it in the meantime, but Cornwall can be my way of working myself up to it.
 
Tintagel is amazing, walk down the path, and be blown away by the Arthurtian-ness of it all - then take 40 minutes to walk up what took you 10 mins to walk down (it's a severe hill lol) - and then visit the nice man at the top of the hill, across the road, who does a Tintagel Show - it might look tacky but it's well worth it :)
 
Ooh, tell me where you stayed when you visited? Or was it a tour?
 
moonlights said:
Ooh, tell me where you stayed when you visited? Or was it a tour?
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Other amazing places to visit in Cornwall are Fowey and Falmouth (if you like old harbours and gorgeous scenery ) and Penzance where you can take a trip out to St Michael's mount. On a clear day you can see France. And don't forget Boscastle. The town that flooded and was rebuild. They have a museum of witchcraft there (not that I'm into that but it's a very interesting place to visit)

Can I recommend cottages4you. They have thousands of cottages for hire for excellent prices. We used them a few times now.

Sorry to hijack post Susie ;)
 
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Hijack away Tigs :D

ML - I hired a cottage in Bude for the week, went down on the train and travelled about by bus.

Morning all

Working from home this morning - got a few planning docs to get sorted, then managing a photo shoot with a politician and some dancers later - sounds like a headline from the Mail :D

B - not had any yet, been in meetings
L - bacon and eggs
D - sossies and mash, i think

Enjoy xxx
 
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