Cheese and leek plait, chips, glazed baby carrots
Today was a good day.
Mum has been cheerful and funny, making jokes and laughing at mine.
She took a mis-delivered letter round to our neighbour, and helped me hang up laundry to dry.
When I sat on my bed to call a local company to ask about getting someone out to look at the leak (or where the leak was yesterday, today being notable less soggy), mum actually asked before coming in to sit beside me and listen in.
She’s even watching the curling1 with interest and not complaining that she’s bored or that they’re making too much noise.
It’s been one of those days where living with mum is a pleasure, instead of one of those where I have to remind myself that I’m getting free food and board in exchange for my caring role.
(Disclaimer: ‘free food’ does not include chocolate, cakes from Graces Bakery, snacks from an online retailer which I will discuss in more detail in a future post, and other tasty eatables that may be my main expense atm.)
I also managed to get in touch with someone at the hospital to rearrange an appointment, scheduled for 4.30, for which I am required to not eat or drink for six hours beforehand. Not eating for six hours is fine, but not being able to drink more than a few sips of water all day would be seriously miserable. (I drink a lot of water – at least four to five pints a day – and get very dehydrated very quickly if I don’t.)
Thankfully they had an early morning appointment which I could take. It’s on a Sunday, which is a bit weird, but better than the alternative.
Dinner was a freezer special: Linda McCartney brand cheese and leek plaits (very nice – highly recommended) and oven chips. To accompany it, I cooked some baby carrots then did a quick glaze for them (butter, brown sugar, dried herbs, seasoning), which was a nice something different.
Now it’s curling, which neither mum nor I really understand but which has us engrossed all the same, then early to bed with the hope of more of the same tomorrow, please.
- Come on Team GB – you can do this! 🇬🇧 ↩︎
Is it pineapple sponge today? 