Big smiles

 Thank you for all the lovely comments about my drawings, you're all very kind.  Special thanks to you Jill - praise from a real life very talented artist is amazing!  Any tips would be welcome!

On the dieting front, we're still going strong, it's become a way of life now and we're both feeling the benefits.  I'm very pleased to say that I've now lost a stone - can't see it in the mirror, although husband says my face looks slimmer.  I can definitely feel it though, my clothes are looser - in fact I've had to stop wearing a favourite pair of cropped jeans as they are now so loose they practically fall down.

I'm losing very slowly, at the rate of about half a pound a week, sometimes a whole pound, occasionally nothing but then a pound or 2 the following week.  Whilst it would be lovely to lose 5 or 6 pounds a week 😂, I know it ain't gonna happen and losing slowly means we have time to really adjust to the new eating way of life.

Not been on the exercise bike much recently as I've had loads of pain and stiffness in my hip and back, although it's easing off a bit now.  Didn't help that I ran out of my cbd oil, have stocked up again now so that's helped.  We're off to the beach with Betty and a picnic today, not been for 3 or 4 weeks partly due to my hip/back (walking on sand or rough terrain inflames my hip), but also because the little chalet park was full of tourists, so more people and dogs about.  Most of them will have gone home now.  It's cloudy at the mo, not cold at all though and is forecast to be sunny in a while.