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#SoCS June 10/17 – Admit

10 Jun 2017 26 Comments

by Ritu in Socs, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: ABBA's, Admit, Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, nerves, Socs, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday

Linda’s #SoCS Prompt today…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “admit.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

I’m nervous.
I admit it.
Seriously.

In a few short hours, I will be among a whole host of Bloggers, and many of them are people I respect hugely!

The ABBA’s, or the third Annual Blogger’s Bash Awards 2017, is upon us finally, and not only am I looking forward to meeting them all, but we find out the results of the Awards that many of you voted for.

I have been harping on about it for ages, and I am seriously so excited, but the nerves that accompany the whole award thing, and having to wait, (im)patiently, for all the results will be one of the hardest things for me!

It doesn’t help that the category I am nominated in will be announced LAST!

So there you have it.

I am nervous.
I admit it.
Seriously.

Blogger’s Bash Bake Off! #BloggersBash #ABBA’s

09 Jun 2017 55 Comments

by Ritu in Foodie Pics, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: ABBA's, Anticipation, Baking, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging

That Geoffles, His Geoffleship to me, he’s a champion baker!

Last year at the ABBA’s, he brought an amazing amount of home baked treats for us all… put my Maltesers to shame!

Well, he’s been busy again this year… check his efforts out this year here!

But I decided (somewhat foolishly, considering I still need to teach/parent/wife before the Bash!) that I would bake a few bits and pieces too… It makes me happy be able to offer something, considering our amazing committee has put up so much for us to get together!

So here it all is!

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I’ve made Ritu’s Rocky Road… with plenty of chocolate… gotta be done! 😉

And Ritu’s Nutella Chocolate Twists! (Kind of a take on my Nutella Christmas trees!)

And finally, Rabbitting Ritu’s Carrot Cakes!

They are all packed and ready to go… Heaven knows how I will be transporting all this with me lol!

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Here’s to tomorrow!!!!! Can’t wait to see all my Blog Pals!!!!!

Ritu’s Healthy Eating – Week 44 – #icandothis

09 Jun 2017 33 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: 3 day diet, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, British Heart Foundation, Health, Healthy Eating, Slimming World

Ok, so I had a pretty naughty week at the beginning of this weigh in week…

Out for dinner and drinks with friends…

A rather huge and naughty dessert with the kids…

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Chinese takeaway for dinner…

I had to be extra good the rest of the week!

Then a colleague mentioned a 3 day British Heart Foundation diet. It is said to have been formulated to help overweight patients who need to lose weight for operations. You could apparently lose up to 10 lbs in three days! Now, Definitely didn’t want to lose that much! And I only had two days until my weigh in, so I had a go. I tweaked it a bit as I was not prepared to go hungry!

And… well, my weight stayed the same as last week!

So I am happy because I think, had I not had a go, I would have been heavier, most definitely!

Thing is, with the Bash tomorrow, I have been creating in the kitchen (I’ll post about that tonight!) and I have to sample…

Carrot cake! At least there is vegetable in there!

But if you are interested in the 3 day diet, click here for the information.

Until next week Peeps! Have a healthy one!

Wings #writephoto

08 Jun 2017 21 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Awards, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Sue Vincent, Unrest, wings

Sue’s #WritePhoto prompt this week.

Birds fly overhead
Unrest is shown in the air
Echoing my life

Ritu 2017

Sorry if you were hoping for a sequel to the last prompt entry… I’m afraid I wasn’t feeling it, as a follow-up! Maybe next week!

#writephoto

My Miaow-nifesto

08 Jun 2017 42 Comments

by Ritu in Sonu Singh, Uncategorized Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cat, Cats, Cute Cat, Kitten, Leader, Sonu Singh

Sonu Singh stood last time too, and didn’t get in… imagine the world we would be living in now, if you had voted for him… Think again before you place that cross…

Vote for me!