EeeeeeeeeeeOooooooooAhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Last Saturday we went to the Winchester fireworks. Had a fab time with Nieces Jenny and Catherine and Paul, Jenny's husband and Spud ( who you may remember has the nice hair). We were told there were 10,000 people on the field.
Picture 1. L to R -Spud, Jenny, Me and Paul. We were all wearing loads of layers except for Paul who is a walking radiator. It was bloomin' cold.
Winchester Fireworks always has a good atmosphere and people on the whole are fairly good natured. Although we were in a huge crowd of people everyone who wanted to get nearer the front chose us to push past. Picture 2- Spud and Catherine

Jenny's pregnancy is coming on well 22 weeks!!! Bump is called Gerald and he decided to sleep through the event which is quite amazing because it was quite noisy. The Bonfire, once it was lit was huge and the flames must have gone up 20/30 feet. Gave everyone a nice glow. We stayed warm by dancing to the music(Is This The Way To Amirillo - I ask you!!) and by standing next to Paul.

Picture 3 - Guess what...The Bonfire

They had to wait till the fire had calmed down before they set the fireworks off. It was a shame there was no music during the fireworks this time but I think our eeeeeeoooooooooooahhhhhhhhhhhs compensated quite well. There was a little boy being held by his dad next to us, I was expecting screams and crying but he loved it, shouting 'Bang' back to the fireworks that were noisy....he was so cute. Picture 4 - Jenny

Next Pictures The Fireworks

Fireworks were spectacular they did create quite a cloud of smoke which made it difficult to see the lower ones but the high ones were very good and the finale, when it looks like what ever they have left they throw up into the sky, got a round of applause.

Leaving the park was interesting with a few bottlenecks being created by the 10,000. It took us about 20 minutes to leave. Not for the faint hearted or if you suffer from crowd phobia. We warmed up at the flat with a nice cup of hot chocolate

All in all a good evening's entertainment with very good company.
(Thank you Spud for the pictures)

SUNDAY

Went for a long walk. I met crowds of runners runnig in the World Run Day 'Feed The World'. So I was quite inspired by seeing people of all shapes and ages running, even the 'Men in Lycra' were out. Felt sorry no one was cheering them on so I stood at the top of the high street and did my rent a crowd job and clapped some of them as they went past. They seemed grateful LOL. I am open to offers as cheer leader!!!

Walked for about one and a half hours and then did another hours walk in the afternoon!! Just can't sit still these days!!!Wore the wrong trainers so knees were a bit stiff

Reading a book will lent me about Optimum Nutritition. It's really interesting. I have been looking at Omega 3 and 6. As a vegetarian I can't have fish oils but a prime source is nuts and seeds. So I have taken to having 2 desert spoons mixed seeds a day. It will be interesting to see if it makes any difference to the weight loss.

I haven't weighed myself, we decided it was best just to be weighed at the gym with Wil to avoid getting paranoid about the natural ups and downs of weight