Cheese and ham chicken Kyivs, chips, mixed veg with garlic and smoked paprika butter; peach yoghurt, chocolate chip digestives

So, so tired. 🥱 I’ve got a lot done today (well, relatively, anyway) but it’s done nothing for my pathetic attempts at fatigue management. So, in brief, today I have:

• talked to a very nice man from the DWP (apparently not a contradiction in terms as I always thought) about the application to the Access to Work programme I submitted back in June last year. It turns out that the ATW programme doesn’t actually help with access into work, only with keeping people in work once they’re already there, so is no help to unemployed people like me, but the person I spoke to was very pleasant, so that was good;
• received a surprise delivery of a wheeled trolley to help me carry things around at home (I was expecting the trolley as I ordered it from the community reablement team; I just wasn’t expecting it today);
• accompanied mum at an in-home meeting with a rep from the local council’s adult care team to review her care package, where mum decided – after changing her mind so often I genuinely lost track of what she intended – to cut down her visits to twice a day;
• placed a grocery order for delivery on Thursday, as a major storm is forecast for the weekend and I’m not going to try and drag a delivery driver out in that;
• had a visit from a family friend who popped in for a cup of tea on her way home from work, which is always a pleasure but was perhaps one thing too many today.

At least dinner was easy: cheese and ham chicken Kyivs (or kievs, if you prefer), with McCain “quick cook” thin chips which are meant to cook more quickly than standard chips but don’t seem to actually do so, both of which could just be put on a baking tray and put in the oven.

To accompany the chicken and chips I defrosted some of a bag of mixed veg (sadly no broad beans included) which I jazzed up with a big chunk of butter, a tsp of chopped garlic, a shake of smoked paprika, and some salt and pepper. It wasn’t wildly exciting, but it was fairly tasty. I also had some mayo to go with the chips, because mum had some and I thought I would too.

Then I had a peach yoghurt – Oykos brand, and so tasty I promptly had a second one, followed by rather too many Tesco dark chocolate chip digestives, which are crunchy and sweet-savoury and chocolatey and come with my heartfelt recommendation.

And so, after an hour spent alternating between writing this and watching Winterwatch, and consequently not giving sufficient attention to either, so my apologies for any and all typos, to bed. Night, all.