Daily Drivel

In a spin!

I decided to have another go with my spindle tonight. I've only had a few attempts at spinning and haven't really produced anything much - haven't attempted plying yet. Anyway - here's a photo of my progress so far (not all tonights efforts I must add! Might do a bit more later)

I'm doing about 50% 'park and draft' and 50% erm, whatever you call it when you aren't parking and drafting! Guess I'll keep going with this for a while and have a go at plying when I've got enough. It looks pretty anyway!

I spent about 45 minutes in the garden tonight with my Macro lens - and didn't take one photo worth sharing with you. Sorry. They were all a bit rubbish. It's so hard - the depth of field is so tiny. I couldn't find many bugs - although I did get a couple of reasonable shots of a tiny spider but they're a bit gross - trust me - the yarn is much nicer!

I'm still loving the Wii fit - A is doing his 'workout' now - I can hear him on the 'rhythm boxing' - I'm going to try the 10min rhythm boxing tonight and I'll probably do the step a couple of times (they really needed to make a longer step 'game'!). We did lose some weight last week (I think I might have mentioned that already) - but last night we were very bad - I was feeling peed off (long story - quite boring!) so A suggested we go to the pub for a drink - and we had a pudding too. EEEK. I don't even want to think about how many calories it had in it. Maybe I'll have to do the boxing twice hehe! Nevermind - you can't be good ALL the time.

Wiiiiiiiii!

We've got a new toy - we'd thought about getting a Wii for a while now (we used to have a playstation but it got nicked - nice eh!) and we decided to get one yesterday - we got the Wii with the sports game and the Wii Fit. It's great fun - we've tried most of the sport games - I really think tennis is my favourite (although boxing was quite fun - and I didn't think I'd like that at all!). The Wii Fit board seems very sturdy (erm - which is just as well - I'm not exactly a light-weight!) and well made. We tried quite a few of the things out last night. The step aerobics workout was really funny (or rather, us trying to do the workout was funny! Maybe you can lose weight by laughing so much!). I was very sceptical about whether you can really get your heart rate going enough for it to be worthwhile as exercise but I think you probably can (mind you - I'm pretty unfit so it doesn't take much). We've set ourselves up and chosen a goal of losing 7lb in a month. I was just reading a blog of a chap who used it every day for between 30 and 60 minutes for 7 weeks and he lost almost 11lb. I'm not sure I have the motivation to use it every night - although I'm sure we will use it everyday for a while - you know what it's like having a new toy! It is fun though and I like how you can chart your progress.

I tried to get an extra controller today but no luck. All sold out. Boo hoo!

Watch this space!