Elementary, my dear Jones

How is a girl supposed to maintain a strict dieting regime when there is so much else to think about?

I did however manage to start very well - with a post-work run on Friday (some might say it's a bit sad to be running on a Friday evening at my age, but I know it's just jealousy talking - no really - it IS jealousy).

An Aside
Just while we're here - let me tell you about the running...
This is something new that I took up about five weeks ago. I'm rubbish. Have you ever been wandering around the park, having a pleasant breath of fresh air, only to come face to horrified face, with a sweating, red-faced, heavy breathing, belly over tracksuit vision of unfitness, lolloping around, legs everywhere, arms desperately reaching towards the nearest thing to rest on, expression set to "Oh please, god, can someone just help me out here"? Well there's every chance that was me. It's not pretty, it's not clever and frankly, it's not really getting me anywhere. That Mysterious Extra Stone persists despite my efforts to struggle around the park in what can hardly be called a running type manner.

So anyway, I was feeling rather smug about my post work fitness regime (note to reader: all activities bearing the word "fitness" should be read whilst keeping in mind the above aside) when an urgent phone call came in and lead to the unfortunate situation that followed.

I won't go into details, but it included a pub, many drinks, some pub food and a spinning head on both Saturday and Sunday morning. Possibly my first clue in the Mystery of the Extra Stone?

(My second clue arrived straight from the frying pan on Sunday morning, followed shortly by clue three which involved involuntary eating of a large luxury cookie. You can take your smug after work run, my dear Ms Jones, and shove it in the pan with your sausage and eggs).

However I'm not one to be put off by a little lapse. Or two.
I fully intend to continue with my investigation into The Mystery of the Extra Stone and fully intend to update you, like it or not.