something else

I'm very fed up with myself and my weight. Since I started the Global Corporate Challenge walking event, it has actually gone UP 1 kg. I got to the point of starting a food diary last week, but who am I kidding. I know the rules, I know what I should and shouldn't be eating, and the reality is, I'm just eating too much of the wrong foods. Well - I did set out today to purchase all the items on my list of `mediterranean' diet foods, which I had carefully constructed from a weeks meal plan downloaded off the internet. It does have a few weird items on it, as it came off an American website, so it has things like `crunchy granola' which I will substitute with bircher muesli, and arugula leaves, which I suspect are baby spinach and can get from my garden. Off I trotted with my pink, wheeled trolley, walking from work like a good green citizen. I was feeling so green that I even bought my low fat yoghurt, light sour cream and ricotta from the organic stall at the market...

Well somewhere between this first photo and the last photo, taken on July 5th, winter arrived with a vengence. The rain finally came and the dams are now back up to 30%. We could still do with more before summer, but after such a perfect autumn, it seems churlish to complain. Rain brings such beauty. The mornings become misty and puddled, while soil softens underfoot. You can almost hear the slow swelling of new roots deep beneath the still barren trees. The frosts bite. I've woken three times this month to the sight of ice across my new vegetable patch. The deep straw beds seem to be insulating the lettuce roots, they haven't frost burned yet. When I get into my car at 6.55am the digital dash beeps at me and flashes a sign "Warning: Risk of Ice" The first time it happened, I didn't know what to think! This week, when the ice warning beeped at me, I decided to try out the `tiptronic' gearing and pressed the snow button! I turned it off again when I got t...