40 is coming

I remember thinking how scarey it would be to be 32 in 2000 and here I am 8 years later and due to be 40 tomorrow.

I never had a list of things I wanted to do or things I needed to achieve before reaching that milestone but to be honest the one thing I did want was to be thinner. I never reached my 11 stone target but I still lost just over 3 stone last year and I am happy with that for now - want to shift some more weight but think that until the house is finally sold I won't be able to give that goal my full attention.

We have a viewing tonight - I tidied the house like a mad thing yesterday, even left the garage open for the man to take a look inside so fingers crossed finally we may sell the house!!

Ashridge Forest

We went up to Ashridge Forest on Monday for a walk in the sunshine. We only took Lucy and Euan, Olivia was away for the weekend and Jake was out playing with his mates.

I have never been over to the forest but have heard about it as a friend at work, Nicky, takes her dog up there for walks.

It was a lovely day, we made a picnic and then picked the kids up from their dads, we even had an ice cream when we arrived.

We walked through the trees and Euan picked up every twig and branch going and made them into guns, the buggy was full of them by the end of the 45 mins we spent in the woods. He unfortunately sat down in a load of nettles, poor thing he did cry as he has never come across nettles before.

After our picnic lunch Phil took Lucy up the monument. I havent any pictures of what it looks like from the ground but looking at the view from the top I think I would have struggled to go up there with her - you can see Canary Wharf and Wembly on a good day apparently.