sweets - non-fattening - for my sweet

All morning I've been dithering over whether to hang out the washing. It's grey and cloudy but windy. I finally decided I would and I hadn't even finishing pegging it on the line before the rain started.

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Is it possible to overdose on bananas? My Slimming World diet encourages us to eat fruit of all sorts and I do, but bananas are so easy to eat and have just that nice bit of sweetness to them.

Which reminds me of a programme on radio 4 last night. Apparently, 30 years ago, a company was on the verge of bringing out a new natural sweetener (made from miracle berries) but they were stopped at the very last moment and in an unorthodox fashion by the US Food and Drug Administration. It was suspicious and looked very much like the FDA had been got at by the sugar/artificial sweetener industry. Today another scientist is working on developing it and he is hopeful that such a conspiracy couldn't happen now. But the industry has just as much, if not more, to lose today than it did then.

You can listen to the programme here.

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I filmed George eating the wire mesh fence this morning. Elder Son said, 'Did you not think that stopping him might have been a better idea?'

'It was more fun filming him. And he didn't actually eat any wire.'

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Yesterday in work Chris was reading poetry to me. It's not everyday that someone reads poetry to me. Particularly when I'm in work.

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Ah, what a little angel.