Dom stayed at a friend's house last night & Andrew left early to play golf so I had a lovely sleep in this morning & got up around 9:30am.
Got dressed & left for the gym (ate a banana in the car on the way) promptly as had to collect Dom around 11 & get home promptly.
Good workout this morning - funny thing happened at the gym :) I recognised a girl there & realised she was Toby's teacher at cheder. I couldn't remember her name but luckily she recognised me too and asked me if I was 'Toby's mum'? We had a quick chat, mostly because I can't exercise, sweat, breathe & talk all at the same time, which was really nice but I realised that I've become my dad (strange but true!!). I remember him saying that 'once he was Philip Vandermolen' but suddenly he'd changed into Lisa's dad!!' - I suppose it had to happen but that's just how I felt this morning :-)
After the gym I picked up Dom (ate a nectarine in the car), went home, took some meat out of my little freezer (will have to stock it up this week) for a BBQ tonight, finished off the chicken from Friday night, and then left to collect Toby from Borehamwood.
Before I left Betty (my cleaner) phoned to tell me she was retiring - very said but inevitable as she is 79 in October!! She's been my cleaner since before Dom was born but this house has been too much for her really & I've known that for ages but wasn't prepared to do anything about it. As she broke her collar bone after slipping on my stairs about a month ago I've been using an agency so I've had my house cleaned and in reality it's much better than Betty did it but I will miss her.
Anyway, I digress, arrived at The Venue, Borehamwood at 1:30 but sadly the coach didn't :(
Anyway there were lots of people to talk to & they were only about 45 mins late!!
Toby emerged from the coach with his face covered in green marker pen - oh the joys of a dare :)
So lovely to see him though - clearly he's had a great time and made loads of new friends from all over the UK & the large group of Israelis. That is what makes JLGB so great (in my humble opinion!)
He's away again on Tuesday so have done loads of washing (TG the sun was shining) and got ready for the BBQ. While Dom watched the football, Andrew mowed the lawn & picked fruit from the garden, and Toby, who wasn't tired, went to sleep!!, I had a coffee and some cherries and read the paper.
BBQ was lovely - burgers, lamb sausages (only 1 for me), beef shishlik, green salad, beetroot & potato salad. Fruit salad (melon, blueberries, strawberries & an orange) followed and lots to drink.
And that's about it for me now - weigh day tomorrow & not feeling especially confident (not sure why) but whatever will be will be !!
Lx
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