Posh Hermit

Funny sort of day really. The sunshine was welcome and loads of beautiful blossom around made for a very pleasant drive out to Hailsham this morning. On the other hand I ran out of petrol for the second time in 24 hours - entirely due to my own stupidity - don't want to talk about it.

Was in a meeting today where they were talking about the DfES Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning agenda and all the ways schools need to address the issues to ensure the social and emotional needs of the children and I just got so cross!!! Everything we know about child development and all sorts of excellent research from all over the world and going back for years, tells us that vital social and emotional development takes place up to the age of 6 and that if you put children into formal education before 6 at the earliest, you interfere with this development and not only that, there is good research to show that children do better academically as well if they start formal education later - aaarrrrghhh. Lecture over

At the risk of going all Bridget Jones on you I am going to use my blog to record the progress of my diet. It might be boring but it's my blog and I am a desperate woman and publishing my shame on the internets might just help spur me on (even if no-one reads it). My first problem is that I am fairly certain that my scales weigh around half a stone light - I really need to check them out properly or get some new ones. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago my GP promised me that if I could lose 4-5lbs on my own, he would give me Reductil, so I'm planning to go back on Wednesday and hold him to it. My scales say that I am 11 stone 2 and I want to be under 10 stone on my scales by April 29th. My GP reckons that I will lose a stone and within a year I will have put on two stone - we shall see!! In the meantime I am hungry, hungry hungry!! And please don't anyone tell me that I should mind what I weigh or that I shouldn't diet. I feel uncomfortable and none of my clothes fit and being anything more than 10 stone makes my back hurt more - so there.

Talking of back pain, I am as we speak, wired to a new-fangled machine that promises great things in the pain relief department using something called Transcutaneous Spinal Electroanalgesia or TSE. A friend has very kindly lend me this expensive gadget and he swears by it. Well I never found TENS much good, but this is supposed to be much better - so watch this space.