Lotte, you should put a reminder in your phone or something re. taking your tablets. If your iron is that low it's probably not good to forget to take the tablets. Have to say my motivation tends to suffer a bit when the wind is howling outside. Hate, hate, hate wind. I have been known to shout and swear at it 
Doesn't stop it from howling but makes me feel better!
Hoggle, LOL at swimming lesson. K is like that - full of confidence in the pool in Spain last year, leaping off the side without his armbands on, head constantly underwater ... fast forward to Saturday's swimming lesson, in which he refused to jump in off the side in case water went up his nose! On holiday he would always hold his nose when jumping in, but they don't let them at swimming. He won't use the float without a woggle either at the moment. Hopefully his confidence will return - he has only had 4 lessons so far.
CM, PMSL at your description of trying to fill a tube with poo! You only need a smear!
Camlo, good for you taking your opportunities like that! I don't have any offroad shoes so it was far too slushy/icy/mucky to run outside yesterday. Annoyingly a lot of the route I planned to do was completely clear, it was just the first 2-3 miles closest to our house that were really bad. The road leading to the next area of any housing is about a mile and not used much for walking, so it always takes forever for the snow to go along there. It gets kicked up off the road by cars though and sits in piles along the pavement, which when it freezes/starts to melt are pretty difficult to run on. The last time it snowed a couple of weeks ago I headed out at around the same stage for 7 miles and it was just unproductive and frustrating - had to walk sections, some sections that looked like icy ended up breaking easily and soaked my feet and had to keep crossing and re-crossing roads to find the least treacherous stretches. Decided yesterday to cut my losses and used the treadmill in a gym up the road, which one of the mums at school had told me about. You can pay per session rather than having to be a member so ideal for times like this. 10.7 miles on the treadmill was a bit soul-destroying but the time passed quicker than I thought it would and not a wet foot in sight!
JT, you crazy lady! That's a long way to cycle! And good luck with the potty training!
Had a pancake-fest last night. Got all the batter etc. ready before I collected Kit from school, as he's mostly interested in the toppings rather than preparing the mix. Then cooked some as soon as we got home from school - he had two with banana, squeezy honey, sugar and ice-cream 
I had lemon juice and sugar on mine. Then more for dessert after tea I think it's fair to say we were pancaked out! Don't know where K puts it all - he demolished a huge plateful of spaghetti bolognese in between the two sittings of pancakes! He is such a good eater now, all that time I spent worrying when he was about two and wouldn't eat anything but toast!
