Progress of a kind

Mr Half has finally put in a leave pass to cover the 4 weeks I could be having off work soon(ish) so I've been able to book flights to take he and I out to a family apartment on the sunny island of Tenerife. It's going to be strange taking him out there, as the village is like my second home, and I did alot of growing up on my visits over there when we were visiting before mummyhalf moved permanently, while she was there and since she subsequently moved 'home' to the UK with my almost step dad. I say almost because sisterhalf and I live in hope that they'll decide to get hitched to save us from nanahalf's incessent nagging about when she gets to buy 'a nice hat and frock'. Naturally being the only one in my family other than my mum in a long term relationship I get harassed every time I go back to visit which is in turns irritating and sweet - nanaH has said in the past that if not for the age gap she'd probably have gone for mrH too, her late husband was when she met him on medical leave from the merchant navy during the latter stages of WW2 and she firmly believes some of his experiences contributed to him suffering from a form of PTSD throughout his entire life.

This of course worries me somewhat....I dont want to turn in to my Nana!
Then again she's planning her 90th birthday party and has VERY strong ideas about exactly what should happen, has brought up two strong minded independent women in the shape of my mum and aunt, was married to my grandad for almost 50 years- that landmark was sadly missed by a matter of months when he finally succumbed to assorted cancers which he'd been fighting for almost 10 years (yeah apparently stubborn comes from all sides of my family) - has beaten cancer herself shortly after she lost grandad, and thanks to finally accepting that she needed it has recently under gone cateract removal on one eye and is currently terrorising the neighbourhood in her 'leccy wheelchair while awaiting the go ahead to have the other eye treated.

Maybe my Nana is exactly who I want to take after, she's a tough auld bird, but loyal, stubborn about the things that matter most to her, and honest even when it hurts to hear it, with two adult children who love her faults and all.

Struggling onwards

Mr Half has restarted his blog, for an idea of what we are going through feel free to pop over and visit him at mrhalf

He's been taken out of the unit he has been working with and has been moved to another job within the camp, oddly its a fairly isolated job but on actually forcing him to discuss it I (even if he doesn't) think a part of the reasoning will be down to it giving him firm and fixed targets to work towards which he doesn't have in the previous role.


In crater reduction news, erm, I've put back on 1lb, but have stayed at the same weight now for two weigh ins, this without having actually dragged my wobbly backside out for a run once. So over the next couple of weeks I need to keep a closer eye on my food consumption, as I know I've been letting the food diary slip somewhat missing out little things like that handful of jelly sweets or the 'odd' latte.... Daddy Half is coming to visit soon and is going to bring with him my mountain bike and one of the old ones which in another lifetime were my his or Mummy half's, I'm hopeful that once we have them we can try to make the most of the local cycle routes on our one shared day off, and I intend to use it for getting to and from work - much quicker than walking, if nothing else!