The diet-pill minefield
June 8, 2009 on 8:24 pm | In Culture | No CommentsI have a friend who has been trying to shift a couple of stone in weight for almost a year and I have seen her try just about everything and every method that is on offer. I even did a whole lot of online searches when she wanted to resort to diet pills – boy was that an eye-opener!
One of the most popular, but hard to get, formulations is a drug called ephedra - you cannot get it as easily as most other pills but those who take it say it really works. It burns fuel. She has just come off that new drug, Alli, after being extremely disappointed with it. It works by stopping you from absorbing fat in your food – but in order for it to work you have eat fat…which she did but still lost no weight at all.
I think if you are going to resort to a diet pill like the first one mentioned you would be best with one of those that speeds up the metabolism and burns the fat rather than blocks it. But one word of warning – they are not for people with high blood pressure.
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A sign of the times?
June 8, 2009 on 8:14 pm | In Culture | No CommentsJust over the weekend I was taking a stroll around the local neighbourhood and seeing the neighbours all out in the sunshine tending their gardens. That’s one difference between here in the UK and back in Australia – here they have ‘front gardens’, in Australia we have ‘front yards’.
We live in a fairly quiet area which is not too known for breakins however I noticed how many of the neighbours have installed home alarm systems; just about every house in the area has one of those little boxes on the front of their house up near the roof with the security firm’s name on it.
As I say, we have had very few problems here but that guy three doors up needs to check his system as it goes off on an average of three times a week and boy is it LOUD!!!
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How time passes…
June 8, 2009 on 8:07 pm | In Culture | No CommentsMy youngest child – my ‘baby’ – starts ‘big school’ in September and, not for the first time, I have been struck by how fast time has passed since he was born. He is the youngest of my five sons and I am feeling more than a little desperate as to just what I will do when he leaves me for school.
Okay, I know it will be just a few hours during the day but it will be the first time in nineteen years that I will not have a little person at home with me during the day. It only seemed like yesterday that I was opening his baby shower presents, only yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital…
Today we took delivery of his school uniform and he tried it on for size; we took photos and it hit me with a hard smack – he is not a baby anymore. But to me he always will be 
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