So, what's that? An upside-down canoe? Well, more than that, it's MY upside-down canoe!
We were all in the staffroom talking about freecycle and how some people give away some really good stuff for nothing. I was then saying how I had once phoned up about a free canoe but it had already gone, when Liz (who also happens to live 2 minutes away from me) said, "I've got a canoe if you want one. It will need a bit of paint and might need to be patched up, but you can have it if you want it. I don't want anything for it."
So, a week later Larry and I collected it from Liz's house. I can't believe it. I finally have my own canoe. I am so excited!
Now the problem is not so much how and when am I going to do it up, but how am I going to fit into it. This brings me to my next point: After much "putting off till tomorrow what is too difficult for today" I am finally back on my weight loss plan.
I want to lose another stone by the end of May. Well, when I say another stone, some of it has been lost already and was unexpectedly found again which is why the weight loss tracker on the front page of my blog has been stuck at the same figure since February. It has made me feel a bit sad really as I know how much effort I have put into changing my eating habits and becoming more fit and healthy and although I am by no means back to square one, I have a lot of work to do to get myself back to where I left off. I'm lucky to have the support of my friends and family though, so that will help me keep my head out of the fridge! I now need to rally some support from friends at school to help me to resist eating the treats which are always on the table in the staffroom.
We were all in the staffroom talking about freecycle and how some people give away some really good stuff for nothing. I was then saying how I had once phoned up about a free canoe but it had already gone, when Liz (who also happens to live 2 minutes away from me) said, "I've got a canoe if you want one. It will need a bit of paint and might need to be patched up, but you can have it if you want it. I don't want anything for it."
So, a week later Larry and I collected it from Liz's house. I can't believe it. I finally have my own canoe. I am so excited!
Now the problem is not so much how and when am I going to do it up, but how am I going to fit into it. This brings me to my next point: After much "putting off till tomorrow what is too difficult for today" I am finally back on my weight loss plan.
I want to lose another stone by the end of May. Well, when I say another stone, some of it has been lost already and was unexpectedly found again which is why the weight loss tracker on the front page of my blog has been stuck at the same figure since February. It has made me feel a bit sad really as I know how much effort I have put into changing my eating habits and becoming more fit and healthy and although I am by no means back to square one, I have a lot of work to do to get myself back to where I left off. I'm lucky to have the support of my friends and family though, so that will help me keep my head out of the fridge! I now need to rally some support from friends at school to help me to resist eating the treats which are always on the table in the staffroom.
