I just had to put that doggie up there as he (or she) is just so gorgeous! I love the Hot Dogs. I'm doing the happy dance today............. no it's not the house! It's the diet. I lost one and a half pounds this week which means I have beaten another target. Happy dance, happy dance! I have now lost a total of 1 and a half stone or 21lbs to you Merikans. It has taken 3 months but they say that slow and steady is the best way to go so I am happy. I'm not sure how I will fare this month with Christmas and the move to get through but I'm not going to worry too much. I can concentrate on it in earnest come the new year. This is turning out to be a quite a nice day. It is our 32nd wedding anniversary today and I had a lovely card from Simon this morning and a bottle of my favourite perfume, Flower by Kenzo. We are going to my favourite Chinese restaurant for a meal tonight. Not good for the diet! Oh, I forgot to say......... I have got myself a small pedometer. I thought it might encourage me to do more walking. I am still not getting the exercise that I should. You know the saga of the Wii Fit Zumba! Anyway after programming in my weight and the length of my stride I have got it attached to my waist band for the first time. So far today it tells me that I have done 2858 steps! Sounds a lot but I would imagine it is less than half a mile! Considering the only walking I have done is around the house and up to the shops it obviously isn't going to be a lot. Still my plan is to make sure that whatever it is, that I do a few hundred more each day even if it is just walking around the house and up and down the stairs! Has to be good if I do more each day??? When I woke up this morning it was a grotty, grey day again. The weather forecast says winds of 25 miles an hour and rain. I needed to go up to the shops so I went first thing to beat the rain. It is actually fairly mild out, no wind. By the time I came back it had cheered up quite a lot. Seems like they have the forecast wrong. I went up to the shops to get some bananas for lunch. I have been trying hard to eat lunch and I usually have a rice cake and a banana. Oh and I also had to take back the leggings I got the other day for a refund............they were too big! A size 16 and they were too big! Can you believe it? They were baggy around my bum and way too loose at the waist. Trouble is that I doubt my posterior would fit into size 14. So no leggings. I am having a lovely lazy day today. As it is my anniversary I think I am allowed to just have a “me”day. I have been messing around on my computer, playing some games and reading blogs. I m going to get a coffee shortly and start on some sewing. Coralie and I went to Denise's last night for our sewing lesson. We practised doing darts. Then we spent time using some of the different feet that came with our machines. I love the button hole foot. Brilliant. We had never done button holes before. We did about 5 different types including a corded one which was really good. It was fascinating just setting it all up and watching the machine do it! Guess what? My machine even sews on buttons!!! I didn't know that. It was so cool. I am going to use it today to sew the buttons onto the little brooches that I have been making. They are really hard to do by hand as there are 3 layers of fabric with interfacing on one and fabric glue as well. They are very stiff and I have been killing my fingers and wrists attempting to push the needle through. Hopefully using the machine to do it will be a breeze. We still have no more news on our house. I haven't heard anything so far today but as I haven’t spoken to either the estate agent or the solicitor since Tuesday I think I will ring them later this afternoon. The thing is I guess we are no further on or they would have been in contact. So if I phone, I won't like the answers and then I'll get upset! Once again in a fit of faith and positivity I am posting a countdown clock. They still say the 15th of December. That is just 2 weeks away. OK, time for me to go and get myself a coffee and a rice cake and get down to some sewing.

Today’s DPT is: 2. Something Purple and round. These ones are hard. I didn't want to have to resort to Google so over the last few days I have been searching the house. This is what I have found.

First one is a tub of drinking chocolate.

The next one is an old drawing of Ellie's that is still on my kitchen pin board.  One of the "girls" has a nice, fat, round purple tummy!

I have a bracelet that has little round beads on it.  The amethyst is also purple and sort of round!

Round purple buttons from my growing button collection.

And finally.........the wheel on my Dyson hoover!

I did do a quick Google search and found these gorgeous aliums which are purple, well lilac, and round.

Tomorrows DPT is: 3 A nature macro. (Close up shot).