Articles populaires – L'Anglaise

Tous les blogs Top blogs Lifestyle

Suivre ce blog

Administration + Créer mon blog

Tous les blogs Top blogs Lifestyle Tous les blogs Lifestyle

Connexion + Créer mon blog Suivre ce blog

Administration

Partager

SUBTLE CHANGES

As I tread the weary path towards a 'normal' weight...what is normal...I find all my old pleasures, my old friends that saw me through a lot of bad times, are losing their ability to comfort and reassure. Oh, you might say that they were no friends of...

Posté par Jules_49 à 15:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image, Social comment

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

5 septembre 2008

ANYBODY GOT A LIFE BUOY?

In my ever escalating quest to look less like this... and more like this... I’ve taken up swimming! Or I would have if I could actually swim; what I do at the moment is refrain from drowning, which is totally different. First steps into Michael Phelps’...

Posté par Jules_49 à 17:26 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

23 novembre 2008

DISORDERLY GIRLS

At the moment I'm reading the true story of the Lady Julian, a ship commissioned to transport female convicts to Botany Bay from eighteenth century Britain. The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees tells of the rough justice meted out to women when one hundred...

Posté par Jules_49 à 09:11 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Books

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

26 octobre 2008

IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TRACEY EMIN...

When baby sis moved she didn't have room in her new house for her bed...and no wonder! the thing is a monstrosity. Six feet wide and a massive great brass bedsted, black and gold complete with gold knobs! So she asked me if I'd like it as I have a very...

Posté par Jules_49 à 10:04 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

14 juillet 2009

AND THE WINNER IS.....

...baby sis, BA, Classic's Prize winner 2009 and 1st class honours! Today we have been to the beautiful Canterbury Cathedral to see baby sis receive her diploma DEGREE (shows how much I know!) in Classics and Archeological Studies. A fitting end to three...

Posté par Jules_49 à 13:15 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Dreams

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

5 juin 2009

MY CUTIE

I recently changed my Peugeot 307 for a sexy little 107 and can now report that it's a real little cutie, I love it to bits. Agile, economical, nippy, it does me very well and makes me feel young again...not that I had a car when I was young, but you...

Posté par Jules_49 à 13:06 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Starting again

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

2 septembre 2008

POTTY TRAINING

In Amsterdam, the tile under Schiphol’s urinals would pass inpection in an operating room. But nobody notices. What everybody does notice is that each urinal has a fly in it. Look harder and the fly turns into the black outline of a fly, etched into the...

Posté par Jules_49 à 20:30 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Men

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

28 juillet 2008

ACADEMIA MANIA

Josh has had his first ever school report at the tender age of four and he's done brilliantly!...oh, yes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But he's sooo young, barely out of nappies, whatever happened to childhood innocence... Hmmm, he still...

Posté par Jules_49 à 20:48 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

11 septembre 2008

MADWOMAN OUT OF HER ATTIC

There are days that are so surreal that you think you’re dreaming… yesterday was one of those days. It started off banally enough with baby sis, the matriarch and me setting off for a cultural evasion to the Capital to visit the awesome British Museum...

Posté par Jules_49 à 00:04 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

19 août 2008

SHHHH...

There's a deafening silence and a large black hole where caramel and le grand used to be...but tchoupik is doing her best to fill it! She's taken over touching the plugs...and the television...and the mobile phones...and the coffee machine...and the computer.......

Posté par Jules_49 à 20:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

29 juillet 2008

READY STEADY GO

The wine cellar is full, the fridge is overflowing, the sun is shining, the neighbours have been warned; I've got girlie toys, boys toys and the big city just a couple of hours away. I've got a high ranking member of the Military hierarchy organising...

Posté par Jules_49 à 19:47 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

25 juillet 2008

TERRAMUNDI MAGIC

My two Terramundi Money Pots are nearly full. Yippee! I should nearly have enough in there to get my eyes lasered. The pots are really Etruscan Money Amphoras that have been used for over 2000 years in Italy; once the first coin is dropped in the money...

Posté par Jules_49 à 22:49 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

12 mars 2009

COULD IT WORK?

Paul McKenna has an original way of controlling food cravings; I scoffed when I first heard of it, but I've tried it three days running now and it works! Go on, try it: Tap 10 times above your eyebrow Tap 10 times below your eyes Tap 10 times on your...

Posté par Jules_49 à 12:23 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image, Tips

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

27 octobre 2017

SOMETHING TO PONDER

From The Girl Who Came Back , by Kerry Wilkinson: "What sort of person wants their own daughter to give away a grandchild? How is that a thing? It's easy to abdicate responsibility by saying it's a generational thing, that isn't an excuse, not when other...

Posté par Jules_49 à 09:54 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Books, Social comment

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

22 juillet 2009

CLEAR AT LAST

Today the last of the printers/phonelines/boxes/bags/rubbish....was tidied away from our front room and the guest room was cleared of its moving paraphernalia. It's been just over four weeks since we moved in and it's the first time everything has been...

Posté par Jules_49 à 22:26 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Home, Starting again

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

16 juillet 2009

WEIGHT WATCHERS WEEK 40

Minus 500g tonight...slowly, slowly, catchy monkey. Total loss 28kg 500g. Another 10kg to go... Before the weigh-in, I went into Deal to my favourite shop: M&Co. They were having a sale and I bought several things for my holiday...it was great, I tried...

Posté par Jules_49 à 11:35 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

24 septembre 2008

DIET BLUES - I'M WITH YOU GIRLS

I'd like to be able to write a funny, light hearted piece on my struggle with my weight, but when all is said and done IT AIN'T NO LAUGHING MATTER!!! Every single morning it's with trepidation that I try on the same trousers that I wore the day before...thing...

Posté par Jules_49 à 16:48 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

15 mai 2009

WEIGHT WATCHERS WEEK 31

Many weeks ago I told you about achieving my first goal of coming out of the obese II category and into the obese category I, well this week, after another loss of 1kg, I'm officially out of the obese I category and into simple overweight...I'm pretty...

Posté par Jules_49 à 17:06 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

28 avril 2009

DONE DEAL

Thanks to golfer's tenacity and footballer's generosity (they're good these sportsmen), the flat is ours! The paperwork is with the Solicitor and we are going to check that the work is completed to our satisfaction on Thursday; we should be moving within...

Posté par Jules_49 à 10:26 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Home, Starting again

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

9 avril 2009

WEIGHT WATCHERS WEEK 26

Minus 750g tonight and I really don't think I deserved it...golfer and I had a wonderful curried leg of lamb followed by cream filled meringues last Saturday, all lovingly cooked by our friends Rosemary and Tony, and I won't even mention the VERY LARGE...

Posté par Jules_49 à 21:35 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

3 mars 2010

IDENTITY CRISIS

You know when you have a baby and all that build-up for nine months leaves you wondering what you're going to do with the rest of your life? Well this baby has been simmering for 16 months and now that it's born there is a curious feeling of unease at...

Posté par Jules_49 à 12:50 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

25 février 2010

FEELING GOOD

Today I am wearing a size 12 trouser for the first time! I've been in size 12 above the waist for ages, but my classic British pear shape kept me in size 14 below the waist...it feels good...no...it feel great! So that's size 24 (52) to size 12 (40) in...

Posté par Jules_49 à 10:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

6 mars 2009

THERE'S MANY A SLIP...

Yesterday, golfer wrote the holding cheque for the flat...it's not every day you write a cheque for £5,000! It's looking great and we're very excited; it's very stressful though, lots to think about, a lot of changes, a lot of hurdles, I won't relax until...

Posté par Jules_49 à 13:05 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Home, Starting again

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

3 mars 2009

SWIMMING #2

Yesterday I shaved two seconds off my lap time at the swimming pool...4 days prior to that it was 10 seconds I shaved off! I'm really getting into it, and starting to enjoy it now that I can do it effectively and don't half drown every time. I think it's...

Posté par Jules_49 à 13:51 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

20 décembre 2008

CAN A LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SPOTS?

Since I've been doing Weight Watchers I've learnt to eat well and healthily, keep satisfied, and counteract cravings, but it's incredible the alacrity with which old habits take hold again at the very first opportunity. Conditioned reactions that no longer...

Posté par Jules_49 à 08:14 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Diet, Body image

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>