Day 90 -11

Just a quick post to catch up on yesterday. I couldn't post as I had my sister and her husband staying in the afternoon/evening.

I played golf in the morning and had a great walk round the course but a slightly less good game of golf! My scores are improving gradually though so I may break handicap sometime this summer!! We started at 8am so I was at my desk at home by 11.30 which is a result!

D left to go back to the rig after lunch so we had a quick walk together (my aching legs protested a bit at that!) and he said that he'd had the best trip home he could remember for years, if not ever. That was really lovely to hear so I might even miss him when he's gone - lol! Actually I don't usually miss him much as we're both so used to the routine. It's usually just when something particularly good or bad happens. Like if something breaks round the house - I could do with D there then or, conversely, when I'm at a really nice event like a wedding or party or walk or something and think how much D would enjoy it. But in day-to-day life you just get on with it and I even enjoy those couple of weeks of independence and space.

Come on, if you're honest, most married women would agree!!

Anyway, back up to my desk and managed to negotiate a tricky "political" situation at work where I was in danger of being squashed between 2 bosses of equal stature. In the end came clean to both and pointed out that I was caught between a rock and hard place and could they please sort it out between themselves and let me know what they wanted me to do as I was getting diametrically opposed instructions from each of them on a multi-million £ transaction!! Took a bit of careful wording that phone call and email I can tell you!!

Hilary and Mike arrived in the evening and were impressed by my new svelte form! I feel a bit sorry for Hils as she is also big although a lot shorter than me and with 4 kids 'under her belt' so to speak!! Must be hard to have to listen to our Dad going on about how well I'm doing. She was great though, really pleased for me and quizzed me about the diet and I'm hopeful that she will give the Cambridge diet a whirl. She can't do LL as too time-consuming for a mother of 4 and as a GP she knows all the theory anyway.

Hilary and I went for another walk and caught up before I took them to a nice pub in Castleton and watched them plow through a 3 course meal and bottle of red wine! Drank my body weight in water and black coffee and it just wasn't bad! Felt good - like a french woman or something sipping on my black coffee.

I didn't nibble either today so another day ticked off towards my mini targets. Go Lesley!