Saturday Pudding

One crust blackberry and apple pie - recipe courtesy of Delia, adapted by me. This is what the boys all had. With custard. I love custard almost as much as I love blackberry and apple pie.

What did I have for pudding? Why sugar free jelly with strawberries and muller light yoghurt of course.

Trying to lose weight is not an easy path to follow sometimes.

Thank-you Kitty. x.

Look what postie brought for me today. Very pretty and very delicious goodies! I won a bag on Kitty's blog and oh boy am I glad it was me who won and not one of you. It is absolutely beautiful - I can hardly begin to tell you just quite how beautiful. It's a perfect size, a perfect shape, perfect handles, perfect inside pockets... oh I love my new bag - and not least because there's chocolate inside! But fear not all you dieters, I shall be limiting my intake of this chocolate - 2 squares a night providing I've been good all day. Sadly I don't think I deserve any today - I ate 2 sausages at tea time (along with lots of other 'allowed' stuff). So my penance tonight will be to just look at the divine brown stuff, smell it and not eat any. Torture by any other name.

There has once again been a lack of pudding pictures on this blog, so here's one that you might like to see. I'm unsure of the name of this - it's basically a pastry case filled with apples and cooked in a sauce that looks and tastes just like lemon curd.

It tastes very delicious. Well, I seem to think it does - I held back and didn't have any of this. Mr Stressy ate most of it and the boys had a bit. I settled for a spoon of sugar free jelly!

Hmm. I know which one I would have rather had (and it didn't involve anything remotely sugar free!)

Swamped again!

I have no exciting photos to share today (not that they're ever very exciting). I have no exciting news to share either. In fact I have absolutely nothing to share at all, but felt that being as I'd been quiet for a week, I ought to pop by and say hello.

I really am feeling swamped yet again by the multitude of things I have to do. Mr Stressy has been away since Tuesday and the plan was that I get some knitting well and truly off the needles. The knitting corner would be all neat and tidy on his return. But hey, guess what. It's not tidy. It's a tip. No knitting has been completed apart from blanket squares, so as the blankets are nowhere near finished, more clutter has been added rather than taken away.

I am beginning to panic at the sheer enormity of the 'to do' pile. And the house is untidy (ooh, Mr Stressy won't like that) so I really have to go and get something constructive done.

Where did I put the hoover? The duster (do I even own a duster?) Open cupboards, put some things away, tidy up.

But then again, the final Mystery Blanket package has arrived today and I haven't completed all of September squares yet. So it's only right and proper that I concentrate on knitting rather than house work. After all, Mr Stressy isn't back until tomorrow and that's ages away...

Oh and as to weight loss, I lost a pound. A teeny weeny stinking rotten pound. I was very upset - what's the point in dieting all blinking week to be told that's all you've lost. I wanted at least 2. Bother. Must drown sorrows. In yarn of course.

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Look here everyone! They are finished! Ensnared are finally, finally off the needles! As you know, I've not enjoyed knitting these much, but actually, looking at them here, I really quite like them.

It has an awful lot to do with the yarn, which is as near to perfect as yarn can get. Of course it's Posh, but just look at those colours. Fantastic. Mum saw them yesterday and fell in love with them. So guess what Father Christmas might be bringing her in December! We suffer badly with cold feet, mum and I, but as she pointed out, I have far more hand-knitted socks than she does (my 5 pairs to her 3), so it's only fair to share. Oh, ok mum!


I've been meaning to show you this for ages. It's another offering for the great Bloggy Diet Raffle. Now the generosity of Frances has quite astounded me. Eight (yes count them!) skeins of Fyberspates Blue faced Leicester yarn. Absolutely gorgeous. And just in my colours too. (Frances felt that 'Healthy Greens 'would be very appropriate!) Delicious. So come on everyone, if your diet has gone by the way side, start again now. Wouldn't you just love to have a chance at winning this?

It is Thursday, which means it's weigh day. And for the second miraculous announcement of the day, I am pleased to tell you that I have lost 4.5 pounds this week. I was gob smacked when they told me the news. I have never lost that much in a week before - I knew my clothes felt more comfy, but hey, I was hoping for 3!

If you're at all undecided about 'diets', I can wholeheartedly recommend Slimming World. I'm eating loads, feeling full up, not feeling like I'm on a diet and am even letting myself have a daily kitkat for a chocolate fix! Admittedly, I would like 3 or 4 kitkats, but you can't have everything can you?!

WIP Week. The End.

Well this is the sum total of the whole weekend's knitting. Not very impressive eh? There would have been at least another square, but when I went to press it this afternoon, I thought it looked rather big and not very square. Closer inspection revealed that it was in deed big and it was not square. Instead of 39 stitches, I had cast on 49. Bother. So I've got to pull that one down and start again.

I think I may call a halt to the WIP week now. I've worked hard on it and still have nothing finished. The mystery blanket is calling me, as is this Golden Wedding one. I'm longing to finish Carica. I have yet to do any more to Soho. Ensnared is almost finished. The zig zag anklet remains half done. So does the quiviut snoody sort of thing. I never have shown you the 50 miles of i-cord or what it's going to grow up into.

No, I am slowly becoming swamped by all of these things. So much I'm desperate to do, so little time to get them all done in. I'll probably do something different most nights but will let myself have a couple of days doing the same project.

Why can't I be one of these people who only ever have one project on the go. Why can't I get my arse into gear and shorten the school trousers. Why can't I win the lottery, give up work and knit all day? (And just in case any of you think I'd be bored knitting all day, no, I wouldn't be. I have far too many different things to do to get bored!)

WIP Week - Day 5

Well I seemed to be knitting Carica for ages last night and this is all I have to show for it. (But thinking about it, I was taxi service last night and later fell asleep in front of the tv, so maybe not quite as much knitting was done as I thought). This is a happy knit. Makes me smile when I look at it. I have always loved stripes and particularly blue stripes.

Today it's back to the Golden Wedding Blanket. I have been wanting to do this all week, so because I'm keen and also dreadfully behind with the self-imposed schedule, I'm going to be kind and let myself have 2 days on one project. Is that alright with you?

Off to make Saturday Pudding now. Not that I'll be joining in with it. Just fruit for me thank-you very much.