I'm sure you must be burning more calories than you're taking in Hope, certainly more than you usually do, so that's gotta be good news. Not much golfing from you yet this season... you must be quite upset about that, if you could find the time and energy! But I'm guessing raking uses more calories than a leisurely walk aorund the golf course.

I'm just sweating my calories off. The weather's very hot and close here, so I move a lot faster when I drop DS at school at 12:30. Unfortunately I then come back and spend most of the afternoon in a flopped out state recovering. This too shall pass. I know it will because even if the UK has a miraculously hot summer it will still be less humid than here, and it's the humidity that really saps my strength.

I'd love to tell you all something really inspiring, but right now I just wanna have a nap, and that's really not the kind of inspiration I was going for!!

It's 9:40am and my stomach and Hope are both telling me the same thing - eat! There's a convenient banana outside with my name on it which might tide me over till my early lunch.

Kerri.