Day 39

My colleagues organised a gals night out this evening to see The Vow at our local cinema. It was only starting at 7pm so I thought we'd enjoy a little tour of a few events happening this evening. We started off with a spot of bubbly and strawberries at Serendipidity where beautiful bouquets of flowers greeted us at the door before popping over to the opening of the Usual Offenders exhibition at the community gallery. Heading off to the cinema, we spied an old wheelbarrow sporting a little herb garden planted right in it's tub of soil - I thought what a great idea - a mobile herb garden - I will have to look for an old barrow now and get one started! It was parked right out front of Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food and we couldn't help but have a peek as the kitchen was so colourful and inviting, bunches of coriander, crunchy snow peas and all sorts of delicious ingredients laid for the evening's 7pm class - the menu Thai curry stir-fry! Dinella welcomed us to have a look and shared about the program - we really are most fortunate to have the school right here in Ipswich and at such an affordable price - you're literally just paying for the food you get to take home and eat! What an opportunity and last minute romantics - a great Valentines Day gift idea to boot! Sign yourself and your lover up for a ten week evening course - they say intimacy starts in the kitchen and there you have a lovely date night to look forward to each week. We took our leave as students began to arrive and skipped over to the cinema to meet up with my learned friends, one of whom is most cinema savvy - she ordered our tickets online and picked them up that day which meant we 'jumped the (gargantuan) queue' and if you're wondering...yes I did the little jiggle (don't you love nerds!). The Vow was a beautiful film based on a true story and for a couple of hours I was lost in the world of romance forgetting all including my rumbling tummy. LouLou's strawberries kept me going for awhile but by the end of the film I was decidedly peckish. The candy bar, a saloon of sugary seduction, was awash with colour but didn't have anything even remotely healthy let alone raw and Susanne and I were kicking ourselves for not popping over to Wray before they closed this afternoon to pick up some healthy cinema treats. Preparation, no matter what kind of nutritional programme you have committed to, really is the key to avoiding the hunger and snack traps and staying on target, I was given a little reminder of that this evening. I'll let you know what ideas I come up with for my next film night! I've just devoured a handful of walnuts, some papaya, a few spoonfuls of almond butter and a delicious banana and strawberry smoothie - now I am feeling much better and time to to turn in.