Fortunately I wasn’t quite so sore from personal training as I had anticipated, though what I was anticipating was not being able to walk for some days. I think the *relative* lack of soreness was in part due to my treadmill run on Monday – to my delight, I managed to run for an hour, with no knee pain.

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On Sunday afternoon we made bacon, turkey and cider pie from the excellent Bay Books: Pies – sweet + savoury [ISBN: 9781921259951] (p.16). No pix, but it was wonderful.

I stepped out of the pastry comfort zone and used lard (as opposed to butter).

What a revelation! Amazingly yummy. Will be revisiting!

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I’ve been lost in a vortex of frugal/early retirement blogs/forums for the past couple of weeks. I’m better now.

Sadly, the only WackyFrugalTip I came away with was to not shower daily – saves water & electricity/gas! I think I can say with some confidence that is one tip I’ll not be adopting.

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wcoic 2014 starts tomorrow!

We’ve eased off on the rules somewhat (we can eat out, we can use not-new-to-us recipes) and picked all the easy countries in the first week.

It’s been a tough week.

Fortunately I’m escaping for another weekend to Melbourne with my lovely husband in the not too distant future.