1st August!

Yeah, the day dawned with sunshine!  I feel so much better today than I have the last couple of days.  Yes it is very hot, but I do so much better when I can see blue skies and the sun.

Today I started my getting back on track food and health wise.  I want to lose all the excess weight I put on while on medication and now I am feeling so much better I feel I can now tackle the juicing and raw foods again.  The first three days will be just juice as I work on de-toxing my body.

The main juice for the day is made up of:

2 apples

1 carrot

1 slice of lemon with rind left on

1/4 yellow bell pepper

1 inch slice of cucumber

1/2 piece of celery

1 inch broccoli stem

1 inch slice of raw beetroot (I actually used more than this)

Another juice I have made up to have during the day is:

1/2 pineapple,

2 apples

1 carrot

1/4 raw beetroot

handful of spinach

1 inch slice of courgette

We went out this morning to take my Mother in Law to the Butterfly World which we are now members of.

Inside the butterfly house we saw:

Inside the Ant House:

Leaf Cutter ants hard at work.

Locusts

Inside the Insect handling house there were opportunities to hold:

A Giant Cockroach

A land snail

A stick insect.

Outside we enjoyed wandering round the wild life gardens.

Bumble Bee on Echinacea

Beautiful Peacock butterfly

Small White butterfly

Dragonflies

Tadpoles

Green-veined White butterfly

Six-spot Burnett Moth & Bumble Bees

A lovely Bank Holiday Monday

It's been a busy kind of day today.

Lots more washing on the line.

I've mowed the lawns (yes I did them!)

Done some weeding, then went for a walk as felt quite sore and stiff after the weeding.

I took Pirate with me and we had a leisurely walk through the fields

The grass was so long, he almost disappeared at one point.

I spotted an orange-tip butterfly and managed to photograph it much to my delight.

Last week in November - Gosh!

We still have a rose bravely flowering, which is nice considering how awful the weather is at the moment. A little bit of colour and brightness to light up the grey fog that seems to surround me at the moment.

I am working on my clearing, sorting and paying off still, albeit very slowly having been waylaid slightly by, first my surprise trip to Paris and secondly by the dreaded lurgy that struck me a few days after my return.   Hopefully on the mend now, just need to find some oompf!  I think I used up all my energy stores on my weekend away.

I have listed another 16 or so items on Evilbay last night so hoping they will sell and have a box of 'stuff' to take to the local CS.

I am joining in again this year with Floss and her 'A Pause in Advent' which starts next weekend.  I think this will do me a world of good this year especially as we are hosting Christmas at our place for a change as my MIL is finding it more difficult to do.  Of course that also means I have to clear space for a dining table, as we cannot really all fit round our little kitchen table comfortably!  Hopefully the thought of this will inspire me and give me some of that oompf I keep looking for.

 DS1 is doing very well at his cadetship course and has passed all of his exams with flying colours so we are really proud and pleased for him.  The next few weeks he is working on all his short practical courses such as first aid, fire fighting etc...  

It is strange the things that suddenly fly past you as you are typing on the computer!  This must be a first...

Yes that is right, a butterfly...now how often do you see these in late November I wonder?  Not sure how it got inside the house.