Watch out Harper's Bizarre here comes M!
We'll be looking for you in between the pages.

Short and more gathered than pleated - generally a two tiered thing - where you get more gathers half way down. Fashionable in England about 1982. Probably an English take on what people thought that American cheerleeder wore - which is not necessarily the same thing!

rah-rah skirt definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta

Anyway - I have some in Newcastle. All I need is the figure and them to be back in fashion!

Hi Margaret

Loving the posts abt the ra-ra skirts! I think they were fashionable here a couple of seasons ago wait a few months and then they'll be back again! You will have such a fun time dressing up in your old clothes! And you will def be able to wear loads of them and feel really fashionable cos all the influences are coming from the 70s and 80s at the mo

Im so jealous! Have fun dressing up!!

Allie x

Apparently the 80s fashions have come back. However, when I'm at the store, they all look very 70s to me--especially the tops. How's your 70s collection?

Either way, imo, they are preferable to the baby doll tops popular right now that make you look pregnant..lol. Certainly after one has lost as much weight as you have, you would want to show off that new figure.

Thanks for visiting.

Allie
I certainly have to lose some more weight to get into the rah-rah skirts. I am certainly not going to allow any of my very old clothes to be discarded now. I want to get into them.

Kimberly
I suspect that a lot of 70s stuff went to charity shops years ago. My mother's house is so big that it is always possible that there will be more boxes of clothes there somewhere. There should be as she swears blind that she never sent anything that I knitted to a charity shop and I know that I didnt. There should be some 70s knitted stuff somewhere that I distinctly remember knitting and wearing.

If clothes that make you look pregnant are fashionable - you will look so fashion-conscious if you get pregnant - not that you need that kind of added incentive.

Take care
Love
Margaret

LOL! I told the pregnant girl at my office there's no need to buy maternity tops, as all those baby doll ones for non-pregnant women should fit her well into her 7th or 8th month... She thought that was funny. And she can wear them after she has the baby, too.

You knit? Your talents know no bounds. I'd like to learn how to knit and quilt, but have been too lazy to bother.

I think that I have always known how to knit - it is something that I was taught as a small child. I made my first garments (hat, mittens) when I was 7 or 8 years of age. In my teens there was no stopping me!

I would say that I did my best knitting when I was in my late teens / early twenties. I have to say that I have done comparitively little in recent years.

I also used to do crocheting, tapestry and tatting when I was young.

My father used to be very good at tapestrywork and patchwork when he was younger.

Tapestries? That is pretty cool. Do you have any at your home? I'd love to see some if you do.

The closest I come to knitting is knit picking. Well, I used to finger crochet as a kid--but never made anything elaborate, that is for sure.

No I havent any tapestries here. They were all small and I did them as a youngster. Nothing to write home about. All you need is a plan, a lot of patience and the ability to do cross-stitch. My father has a number of his on the walls in Newcastle - and he did lots of kneelers and things for the church.

My knitting was my major craft - and I will be pleased if I can find some of the things that I know should be around somewhere.

Hiya

Sorry i missed your huge milestone but been unable to get on the computer due to decorating the spare room so

CONGRATS

Hope all is well
Sarah

Hi Sarah

Thanks for the congratulations. As you can imagine - I am pretty pleased - and sitting on top of another great milestone. I only need to lose a very small amount of weight to get my BMI into the normal range.

So you are decorating the spare room. Is this preparation of the nursery?

All is well here thanks.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Tuesday 20/05/08

General Data:

Morning walk = about 7.2 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = walked 1.5 miles
Weight = 10st 3.0 lbs (i.e. 143.0 pounds)
Steps = 31,287
Distance = 12.09 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Basic eating plan

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
1 peach
2 kiwi fruit
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Roast pork, gravy, carrot, celery, broccoli, parsnip, onion
2 clementines
3 plums

Wednesday 21/05/08

General Data:

Morning walk = about 6.7 miles
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 1.8 lbs (i.e. 141.8 pounds)
Steps = 28,609
Distance = 11.06 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Basic eating plan

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 large handful honey Shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
1 peach
1 kiwi fruit
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Salmon, sweetcorn, peas, fry light (this was not as good as cooking the salmon in olive spread)
2 clementines
3 plums

Thursday 22/05/08

General Data:

Morning walk = about 7.3 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = walked 1.5 miles
Weight = 10st 1.6 lbs (i.e. 141.6 pounds)
Steps = 31,105
Distance = 12.02 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Basic eating plan

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 large handful honey Shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
1 peach
2 kiwi fruit
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Pork loin steak, tin of baked beans
2 clementines
3 plums

Friday 23/05/08

General Data:

Morning walk = about 6.6 miles
Round the block = 5 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 1.0 lbs (i.e. 141.0 pounds)
Steps = 29,836
Distance = 11.53 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises

My Food / Drink:

Basic eating plan

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 large handful honey Shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
1 peach
1 kiwi fruit
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola

Dusted plaice, tin of baked beans
2 clementines
3 plums