Rain stops play

We had a welcome stranger arrive last night... rain.
I forgot how soothing it is laying in bed listening to the rain falling on the patio table etc, as you are dropping off to sleep.
It lulls you to sleep.
We really need the rain, as all the gardens were beginning to look parched. I've been informed that it has been an exceptionally good year for roses, but other plants and lawns are not coping so well and the farmers have been worrying for ages about the consequences the shortage of rain would be having on their crops.
And as it's not St.Swithens day until July, I'm more than happy to have some steady rain now for about a week.

In fact it was nice not to feel as if I should be out doing something and just sit on my sofa catching up with my magazines.
Although I did wander off round to my friend for a massage, only to find out that I'd got the day wrong and I was booked in for Thursday. Between my mother and me, I don't know who is worse at the old memory game?!
I picked Reni up from her work place this afternoon and we went off to have a coffee before doing a food shop. It amazing how quickly you can go from having a well stocked fridge to a fridge full of half eaten bits.
I do try not to waste food, but there was a quarter of a cabbage, that I had all great intentions of serving up with a lamb chop, but was still stored in the freezer.
Three very limp looking spring onions, some mouldy raspberries and a few left over strawberries that had seen better days.
Not even a side dish worth of rocket left in a bag and one dubious 'best by' egg that all got thrown away.
Plus a bar of intense dark chocolate with real orange bits that I ate over the course of the day apart from one square, because I didn't want to appear too greedy! I may go back for that before bedtime...

I do try to eat healthy and when I listen to what my friends eat throughout the day, I actually do eat very well... well apart from a rogue bar of dark chocolate here and there.
when Sam and Susie came for lunch the other week, they were really impressed just how healthy my fridge looked. Of course I had the dark chocolate hidden behind the Greek yogurt!
But I am only too aware that I have gained over a stone and a half in a year since my mobility has decreased, and all of it around my waist and I hate it.
I have decided to look on Amazon for some decent yoga dvds, as my old tape that I brought many years ago and loved working out to, goes all wobbly half way through. If I am doomed to be big, then at least I will be supple.
I have been told that I have slim legs and my arms are skinny, but it's the big bit in between that is getting me down.
At least the blood tests said that my cholesterol level is 5.1, which I can work on I know and I don't have diabetes, which looking at my apple shape is a small wonder.

If there is a skinny person inside me trying to get out, it's because if she is covered in chocolate, then I've eaten her!

Lots of love Debbie x