Afternoon tea

This week, the staff restaurant are doing "the best of British" to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. Today, it's the tea party.

As it's also my birthday, a few of us decide to have a tea party for lunch - complete with royal headwear.

Thanks to Lisa, who's missing from the pic as she took it, and to the restaurant staff, who excelled themselves, as usual!

Happy Birthday

This is my family celebrating my mum's birthday - on Dec 27th. It's a full table (in all senses of the word full).

We did dinner between us all - one doing a starter, one of us on veggies and vegetarian option, one on chicken and one on dessert.

I'm not going to list all the things we had, because if you're trying to be good, it won't help, but it was lovely!

Happy Birthday mum!

Albert's crew

And this is the crew. From left, Yvette, Angela, Louise, Alex, Claire and Louanne. Unfortunately Christina and Charlotte left before I remembered to get the camera out for a group pic.

It was a good night - I'm pretty sure we were the noisiest group in the restaurant - not bad considering we were all drinking water!

Some great stories, ideas, recipes, tricks, tips and encouragement. They really are a lovely and inspiring group of people on this plan, and great fun to be with.

Here come the girls!

Here we are, after dinner and a good night's chat. From left:
Louanne (Lulu) who's losing about the same amount as me - she's about 3 weeks ahead of me on the program.
Me (Ophelia on the forum)
Katie (Katfish) who has finished, having lost over 10 1/2 stone and
Alex (the Geordie) who is two weeks in.

I love these evenings out with others on this plan - we have some no-holds barred conversations about everything, and they offer such inspiration and support. Roll on the next one!

Dinner Out - Albert's Shed - again!

The picture really doesn't do this justice - a beautifully spiced stir fry at Albert's Shed.

Had a wonderful night out with some of my forum friends. The staff are all so lovely and accomodating. A huge thanks to Laura and her team for making us feel so welcome and looked after. Can't wait 'till the next time!

Royal Visit

Preparing for a Royal Visit - The Queen of Rhubarb is coming to stay. The Queen of Rhubarb is one of the Alizonne forum members who knows everything about rhubarb (and many other things). We seem to have started Alizonne together, although she's at a different clinic, but have about the same amount to lose and are pretty well shadowing each other.

In preparation, I went shopping today - what a delight! I didn't have to worry about what food or drink to get in - I know exactly what she will eat, and that the biggest choice in drinks is going to be "still or sparkling".

I'm looking forward to it - and to dinner with some other Alizonners tomorrow night - always great to chat about what we're going through.

Right, off to finish the dusting now...