For the love of food

Ive decided to to keep a food and drink diary for the next couple of weeks - if I'm honest will i feel as retched as those people on Dr Gillian McKeith's program? i want a healthier diet and i want to reduce my alcohol intake and drink more water- if i loose weight as a result - brilliant. Any suggestions as to what i can add or take from my daily consumption of delicacies would be most welcome!

'There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'
George Bernard Shaw

Foodies

'A' came round for super on Saturday, i love her and love cooking for fellow 'foodies' - there is something so lovely about sitting so comfortably and making slurping noises, ummm sounds and using your fingers to taste. it reminds me of when i was younger and sitting down with the family and a friend of theirs - my father had bought a vast amount of Dublin Bay prawns - their friend attacked them with gusto, pulling of the heads and sucking out the juices in a totally rapturous way that left my brother and i stifling embarrassed giggles - but i got it!

A Fresh Start

i cant believe January is nearly over! i have a love hate relationship with this month. its exciting because its a new year, a fresh start - a time for reflecting on the year that has passed. However, i also find it very unsettling. i cant seem to help setting myself goals and targets due to some unseen pressure to 'do things differently or do something different this time'. along with that i find i have to fend off the that same mentality that tells you that you you don't have to start your diet until Monday or stop smoking until after such and such night out.

this year i think i will look for a new job - that's something i thought i would never say and mean. i love where i work and so much more than that i love the children - but it feels claustrophobic and i find myself rebelling against the system- it feels small - time to move on?

first day of term

i love teenagers - i didn't really like being one myself, low self esteem, angry at anyone in authority etc. I am envious of the way they get to role their eyes, mutter under their breathes & wiggle their heads in a weird way when being told off. I wish i could still do that in meetings and get away with it. i sometimes mirror my daughter when she sucomes to 'the attitude' but it always results in her looking at me in disgust and stropping off in a way which only teenagers can and leaving me feeling rather foolish at having attempted to step into her world.

Log fires & Take That

I had a wonderful New Years Eve. I'm always surprised when I do. I approach them with such trepidation; there always seems such pressure to have a night that surpasses any other. on reflection the best ones have always been those spent in the company of people i don't know very well, this year was one of those occasions. For one evening in a little pub in Kettlewell there was, along with log fires, a Take That medley playing (favourite boyband to the landlord) an openness, warmth and a genuine wish that everyone would have a happy new year.

I didnt want the evening to end or the holidays but i cant escape the first day of term any longer. I no longer have the sinking feeling i used to get in the pit of my stomach as a child and part of me cant wait to laugh with a class of thirty about how my friend bought herself the new Cliff Richard CD or refer to the Arctic Monkeys as the Chilly/Cold/Freezing Monkeys just so they can laugh at me. Its just a shame there is so much work to be done and no log fires in the staff room.

Where it begins...

How old am I that I have felt the need to start a blog? What is there that needs writing down, that should be recorded? Sometimes I think that these things are impossible to count, sometimes there is nothing that I can hold as they slip through my fingers. I am sure that some things will be specific and some will be random, but I know that I would like to try this blogging thing. I wonder if anyone will read it, or if it will just be for me. After reading blogs for a while now I know that it doesn't matter either way.