Chilly chilli chicken, cheese and bacon potato skins, salad, tzatziki
The last episode finished with me hoping that the bus would turn up on time to get me to my appointment at the GP surgery. At two minutes to the hour I was stood on the pavement outside our house, leaning on my crutches and watching a swooping swallow, a couple of swifts (my favourite birds, btw), a meadow brown butterfly, is that a painted lady butterfly? Oh, and a green dragonfly, we don’t see those very often… no bus, though.
The bus finally arrived just over ten minutes late, which wouldn’t be a big deal except my appointment was ten minutes after that and I clearly wasn’t going to make it. The bus driver thought about it for no more than ten seconds before turning right instead of left and driving straight to the GP surgery to drop me off before going back to do the rest of the route.
Thank you, kind driver, and thank you FYT Bus.
The rest of the day was, thankfully, less dramatic: I had my blood taken by the phlebotomist, who asked about my disability journey and, after I told her the details (which I really will write about on here one of these days), we parted with her giving me a supportive squeeze of my shoulder and a quiet “keep your chin up”.
Then I went into Sainsbury’s to get a couple of bits mum asked me for, got the bus back, and spent the rest of the day listening to mum complaining about her various medical issues and feeling exhausted.
Dinner was something that wasn’t on the meal plan – leftover chilli chicken which had been in the fridge long enough that we needed to eat it or throw it away, with cheese and bacon potato skins (frozen, from Bannisters, and very tasty if a touch small), salad and tzatziki. The chicken had turned a little hard on the outside so mum and I both ended up picking up our chicken legs to use our teeth on them.
Tomorrow and the weekend are all, thankfully, without appointments, as we have a lot of them atm and I’m rapidly running through my store of spoons, so I’m hoping a quiet weekend will restore some of them to my collection.
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Is it pineapple sponge today? 