Eek, I've gone and done it now!

I've just got off the phone to my new best friend Anastasia who is going to make me thin. I'm starting the Cambridge Diet on Thursday (or maybe Friday, depending what happens with Mr Smat's job interview) which involves eating no food whatsoever for at least six weeks. Instead you have 500 calories worth of milkshake-type drinks each day, and oddly enough, the weight just drops off. So by Christmas I should be a size 10, and allowed 3 ounces of turkey and maybe a sprout or two for lunch. But a size 10 - I haven't been that since 1992, and that was only briefly (post wedding planning stress, pre Baby Smats, there wasn't much gap between the two).
So Thin and Scary Smat, here we come!

Strange happening in the House of Smat

A book has appeared in my bookshelves. Not an odd occurence - Amazon frequently delivers Avoiding the Children By Hiding in the Bathroom parcels - but this one has me flummoxed, which is not something which happens often.
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is very interesting, but I have no idea how I come to have it in my possession. I haven't bought it, nor has Mr Smat (it being a Girly Read), the Baby Smats are too little to buy GrownUp books (although Eldest Baby Smat has taken to secreting some of my books under her mountain of soft toys at the bottom of her bed - unfortunately she tends to pick the ones I'm currently reading, so I tend to notice, and as I know her hiding places.......), Mr and Mrs Smat Senior know nothing about it, and no-one else has been here recently as I have no friends and am Very Sad.
So, where did it come from?