Absolutely no will power

Ok yesterday I resolved to cut out all of the unnecessary goodies I may or may not snack on.

I did really well and managed a whole day. But I had a stressy day today and had biscuits.

Bad bad bad girl.

I will do better tomorrow.

Maybe

This is my guilty pleasure though - I have a lot of regular yoghurt - plain low fat not at all exciting but I like it yoghurt.

THIS however, is gorgeous. And we use the Gene Hunt .... 'I'm 'aving 'oops' which a lot of you probably won't get but those of you who are Gene Hunt fans .... and I am certainly one of those .... will understand. Though he meant a totally different sort of hoops.

I have another page from the developing Austria album to share. I made quite a few over half term.

This is the other half of a double page on Innsbruck and shows some of what was our first proper Austrian town.

It also details a very typically 'us' story. The tour guides were talking about the Hungerburgbahr which was so not what we thought it was.

We are both incredibly fussy about food and one of the things we dreaded about the trip was the food. It was bed, breakfast and evening meal that we were booked in for and we knew it would be a set meal and we might not like it. (as it happened I had a rare treat that evening as everyone sat down to some reasonably unrecognisable pork dish and I, as a vegetarian, had omlette and chips!!!)  As we were not sure what dinner would be like we found a Macdonalds in Innsbruck. We must be such a disappointment as tourists!

 
Today I am thankful for

• a bonus frap
• travelling companions

My one minute devotional calendar today is very fitting for a teacher

A man who was once the governer of a state told me that the thing that saved him when he was exhausted and filled with despair at the lies and machinations of man was kids.

“Whenever I got really dark and hopeless,” he said, “I would go visit a classroom. The kids would just pop with energy and questions and opinions. By the end of my term, I was canceling meetings left and right, scheduling three school visits a day, and stopping at every park and playground we passed.

“The very best times were when kids told me stories right out of their hearts. I’d be sitting in a tiny chair with my knees up, and they would tell me about their puppies or skateboards or grandmas, and it was like someone pouring hope into my head.

“I’ll miss that more than anything, being with all those kids. If we say we’ll take care of them and don’t, then we’re just sinning, and there’s no worse sin than ignoring or mistreating a child. You know that and I know that. I walked away from being governor more fired up about public service than before, but now I bend all my energies to fixing stuff for kids. Is there anything more crucial than that?”

 

and finally - a little LOL cat for you