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Bubbly, baps and Belfast Lough
I justified the pork and leek sausages, potato bread and soda farl because I started the day with a swim. At St. Georges market, I dodged all the temptation, including Pie Tanic, a delicious sounding mixture of haddock, cider and … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking with the Crone, Culture with the Crone, diet, Exercise, food, friendship, The Traveling Crone
Tagged Belfast, belfast lough, breakfast, champagne, crawfordsburn inn, food, Ireland, ulster fry
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Growing good ‘uns
The uncharitable might consider it little more than practice for the chain gang, but I am prepared to see it as filial loyalty, and love of both hard work and the outdoors. Hansel and the Handsome Prince have spent this … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, garden, itchy ankle, maryland
Tagged garden, gardening, hard work, memorial day weekend, raised flower beds
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The light fantastic toe
I parked outside the Georgetown branch of Comfort One Shoes. This is a shop,and a concept, I normally shun, but a pair of green sandals caught my eye and I simply had to have them. Todd runs the store and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture with the Crone, Exercise, food
Tagged atl, comfort one, food, georgetown, good night out, shoes, shopping, soft shell crab, The Oldie, the point fells point
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Position Vacant: Marketer. Salary: 1000 calories a day and all the exercise you can handle
The Duke Diet and Fitness Center is cutting back on its weekend services, a victim, it says, of the economic downturn. It is expensive to be sure–about $10k for a month, not including accommodations when I was there enjoying the … Continue reading
Posted in diet, Exercise, fat, Fat Camp, overweight
Tagged diet, duke diet and fitness center, durham, fat camp, North Carolina, the value of marketing
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Desperate Dieter in Search of Low Calorie Succour
The good news is that I have lost another 6 lbs, making my total 30lbs in all–not bad in 21/2 months. The bad news is that I have found this last week hard–and next week doesn’t promise to be any … Continue reading
Hey Dukies, I did good.
This post is written primarily for my fellow inmates at Duke Diet and Fitness center. Everyone else is welcome to read on of course, but if you are the sort of person who routinely loses weight just by upping the … Continue reading
Posted in diet, Exercise, fat, Fat Camp, food, friendship
Tagged diet, duke diet and fitness center, fat camp, losing weight
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On losing 20lbs…
I have lost 20 lbs. Yippee. I have done this in 50 days, losing 7lbs in the three weeks since I returned home from Duke Diet and Fitness center. There are those of you who will scoff I know, saying … Continue reading
The Near-Perfect Day
The day started with a delivery of a bumper birthday box from Scottish Susan. She sent some fancy soap and lotion, a lovely orange pen and notebook and two cookbooks to help with my calorie counting and portion control: Lighten … Continue reading
Posted in Blarney Family, Cooking with the Crone, Culture with the Crone, diet, Exercise, food, friendship, Gangsta Hansel & Ghetto Gretel, itchy ankle
Tagged birthday gifts, cookbooks, counting calories, diet, good gifts for someone on a diet, healthy food, itchy ankle, perfect day, portion control, princess di, swimming
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Tired, whiny and short on blood sugar
I write to you from Charlotte airport, North Carolina where I am trying not have a beer and a salty snack. I am on my way home from Atlanta and my plane has been delayed. I should be home by … Continue reading
Nonchalance at the Natatorium
It’s odd to be the new girl. Especially in the week I celebrate my birthday. I am simultaneously older than I have ever been and newer than I have ever been. I have a new office and a new laptop … Continue reading
