Yay n stuff!!

I haven't updated this properly for ages, and lots of cool things have happened over the last few days that I should've written about!

All this week I've been trying to stick to the Cabbage Soup diet, which consists of eating cabbage soup (strangely enough) every day, along with loads of veg, fruit, and on 2 days fish and chicken. The day when I could only eat vegetables & the soup was really crap, cos I hate veg. Well, I like it with other things, like roast dinner or whatever, but I have a really sweeet tooth, and I honestly would prefer to eat cake all the time; not cos I'm greedy, but I just prefer sweet things! (If that makes sense...?) I tried to bake an onion, but it wasn't cooked properly and I felt sick for ages! *shudders* And I put too much garlic in the soup that day. The diet itself was quite hard, but once I start something, I do tend to stick to it - it's just the starting it that's hard. Anyhoo, I did it, and I lost - wait for it - 12lbs!!!!! In a week!! That's nearly a stone! WOOHOO!!! *does a (much lighter) jig of triumph*

Ooh ooh, Richard sent me copies of like, a million CDs in the post this morning - yay! I'll list them:

Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Karine Polwart - Faultlines
Martha Tilston - Rolling
Sandy Denny - The Anthology (disks 1 & 2)
Sandy Denny - Sandy Denny Box Set disk 1
Ushna - Brew it Up!
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - Cruel Sister
Emiliana Torrini - Fishermans Woman
Alex Parks - Honesty
Kate Rusby - Underneath the Stars
Kate Rusby - Hourglass
Eliza Carthy - Eliza Carthy and the Kings of Calicutt
Eliza Carthy - Anglicana

Phew!! So, that's a good few hours of amazing music to listen to! Woohoo!! (Thanks Dicky! :D )

Aaaand I won a red velvet Laura Ashley armchair on Ebay, which I'm going to get as an Xmas prezzie! Yay! Here it is:




Oh and some people from the Lake District were on Ready Steady Cook, and one of them brought in some Garstang Blue cheese in their ingredients bag! Woot!! So, umm, I was quite excited about that for a few minutes... er, yes.

And one last thing; the second part of Ham's bday present FINALLY arrived today from Ebay, so I can post it at last! (Sorry for the delay Hamcsh! xXx)