4 days!

Don't judge, but I slipped off the wagon. I know you're all disappointed. Scrub that, my mum is disappointed, I'm sure no one else cares a cotton tail. It's complicated, so bear with me. I decided to do sober October as I'd been drinking too much recently and wanted to be a little healthier, and October seemed to be a convenient way to go about it. My choice. Now if I was being sponsored for charity I would easily have gone the distance. Even if I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, I would easily have managed (well, clearly not, obviously) but on Saturday we were battened down because of storm Amy, huddled in my living room cosy with a blanket and reading the paper, I simply decided I fancied a cocktail. Then Sunday we had fillet steak (last Christmas' butcher's voucher gift from work). And it would be so wrong to have best beef without a delicious red wine! So that's my story. It's not all lost. I'm still being sober between the drinking! I did feel bad though when a reader/colleague told me I'd inspired her to also be healthy, and she had decided to go for a wee walk every day this month! Oops, I managed 4 days!

Another reason I need to eat humble pie - having no plans for anything this month I fell off the holiday/short break/hotel wagon too. I've booked for Mark and I to stay at The Marcliffe (Aberdeen's only 5 star hotel). I found a great rate, for a superior room including breakfast. Would be rude not too. My daughter then reminded me that I had said I was booking any more holidays/short breaks/hotels until after we had moved. We need to save as much money as possible for the new house. God I'm crap at these things. I might or might not have also booked next summer's holiday. I'm saying nothing and you can't make me. Only that it was such a good price that again, rude not to. I just couldn't resist. It's a good job Mark loves me, and I take him with me. Trust me, he loves the holidays just as much as me. Don't think he will be retiring next year after all. He has a wife that needs to be kept in the manner that she had become accustomed too. 

PS hundreds have looked at our house online but still zero in the flesh. Let's not panic! I have manifested.

PPS as you can see the apples pretty much survived Amy though the leaves not as well.

Don't ask me for life advice, you'll end up with a new dog.