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) but I am trying and will stick to it. Mine are this year
) it will help keep you fit and improve your muscle tone to a degree. Though you don't want big wide stout tree-trunk legs (lol) so you don't need to go mad! haha Mind you, if you're washing your men out of your hair and looking to find a new one, there are some men who go for stout women - so all is not lost (as long as you're not fussy! 
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personally i do not make resolutions because then the pressure to keep to them is off,and i can stumble along in my own way xx hayleyvemehmet wrote:Good luck with that honey
It sounds crazy, but more people tend to stick to their diets and stop smoking if they start it in March - which makes sense in a way - January and February can be cold, gloomy etc, so it's not really the ideal time to deny oneself! Sounds like we have that in common.... 
hyatum wrote:I love making New Year resolutions.....well they are sort of my dreams for the year...
This year, I want to; spend a little time of each day reading, writing and learning something new! and my biggest dream is to go and do a portrait painting course in Florence !!
Nicks
I ADORE Italy (everything about it) so I'd definitely make the hop over there to watch you paint!
hayleyvemehmet wrote:Good luck with that honey
My family all race around the 'blacks' and off-piste and I am just happy to hang tentavily around the blue's. Nope, I would would rather go trekking in Kenya or Tanzania. 
hyatum wrote:Hi Strawbs
I so hope that I will get to Italy...just to paint...whenever I have been there, it is to ski...but I am so over the skiing!!! I know you love it but I was born under an African sky so the cold weather just gets to my bones. All that snow, shit-cold weather and glare, I get cabin-fever too quickly and whenever I look down the mountains I feel as though I am going down to my grave
This last year I did Turkey, the States, a 6 week trans-African trip and a trip to the Serengeti!!! I adore travelling through Africa, there are parts that are still so wild and unspoilt. This year Florence is high on my list......otherwise I shall be going to Botswana, Zambia and Nambia, Turkey and I would also love to go to China or Cambodia. Anywhere where the street photograpy is COOL!!!
Rubes, you should really take up the offer for Auz, Sydney is the most awesome city!!!
Nicks xxx
I sometimes even undo my ski-suit when I'm having lunch at the top of the mountain, and take in the sunshine. The only time I HATE skiing is when there's a white-out - it does feel cold then - and I always head for the nearest lift; get myself off the mountain and go and have a nice cup of hot chocolate with a large drop of brandy! Any excuse - me!lol
) what do you mean exactly? I always feel exhilarated at the top of the mountain, and seeing the snow sparkling like diamonds underneath such clear, deep blue skies and sunshine is fantastic. Seeing the village below is beautiful, too! Do you mean you look down a drop when you're skiing down a run and get a bit unnerved, then? 
I've never done heli-skiing, either - I think you've got to be extreme to go that far. But it's like a lot of adrenaline sports - you always need more don't you... 
just reponding to Strawbs....and yes I def need a reminder as I go off at a tangent sometimes 
I am happy on long gentle slopes but the first time I went skiing was taken on a black and had to do a lot of 'shussing' where one mountain joined the next. All the rest of the party were very gung-ho and crazy whilst I became more and more terrified, which is odd as I am mostly pretty brave and adventurous. Drop me out in the ocean and I am so comfortable, or walk in the bush with big animals and I don't turn a feather but mountains ....eish, I turn into a donkey on stilts! 
hyatum wrote:HI Strawbs
Sorry to be off the subject TLD!
Strawbs, I think I have vertigo.....I feel really uncomfortable in high places....except I do love flying (in a big aeroplane, am s$%t scared of small planes, my dad used to fly us around as kids and he was a hooligan!!). If I go to the top of a high-rise building I am terrified and the same goes for when I am on steep mountains...feel like I am on Everest and not a ski slope
Ah yes, I love Italy and I really want to go to Florence and paint, so that is my little wish for this year.
(And yes you would love it here, Africa is the most beautiful continent, you cannot beat a sunset with a cold G & T or nice cold white wine..... on the water in the wild.....but as we say in Sarf Efrican.... 'not for sissies')
Nicks xx
I even get on my OWN nerves! 
Sorry THD - you'll just have to read something else! BUT, I never have vertigo when flying or skiing, and I think that's because you know you can't fall down/off. On top of the mountains I never feel like I can fall off - because it's so wide I suppose. The only steep or very long drops on a mountain I've been on are always secured off with that red netting stuff - maybe that gives me a false sense of security? Never thought of it before! Maybe I'm the only fruitloop who feels like that in a broken down chairlift? 
Have to admit that it took all my mental stamina not to think about the looooooooooong fall I'd have if I suddenly flipped and jumped out the chair, and luckily I had my hip flask and fags in my pocket - so they helped a lot! Oh, and I struck up a conversation (albeit having to shout somewhat) with the people in the chair behind me, and that kind of kept me from flipping and having a panic attack. So yes, I probably do have vertigo in certain circumstances. But, as I say, when I'm skiing I don't at all. And I never have vertigo in a gondola either - again, probably because I know I can't fall out.
) and I have a theory that quite a few 'suicides' on railway lines are actually people who have just panicked, flipped and jumped onto the line. That sounds REALLY mad, but in London the tube has jumpers every single week and while some of them are obvious suicides, some of them are unexplained and no-one understands what made them jump. I suspect it's a kind of vertigo thing that makes them panic. Oh dear, what will THD think about THIS off-topic tangent? What is this topic, again? What on earth made them do that!? And how on earth did you manage to tackle it!? I can see how a total beginner could shush down a shortish steep stretch (though you must have immense confidence to do that, Nicks!) but the trouble with shushing is it doesn't always shush you to the top of the other side! Blimey, if you shushed all the way down a black you must have reached about 150mph! I'm surprised you managed to stay upright. No wonder you hate skiing if that was your first experience! Actually, I like a little shush sometimes (so exhilerating!) but I only tend to do those in the afternoon when I've really loosened up and am full of Gluhwein and confidence! Naughty me, eh! Do you know, it's actually illegal to get sloshed when skiing? Lots of people are well over the limit, though, in the afternoon - all those long mountain hut lunches of Gluhwein and Jagertee - hot drinks go straight to the head don't they - mind you I always soak mine up with either goulash soup or a hot bratwurst sausage with skinny fries (who would think sausage and chips could taste soooo good! must be all the fresh crisp mountain air - oh - and the delicious way they cook their sausages and grease-free crispy chips) how highs the tube platform in london? I got the rest but not that part so Im all confussed now |
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