Days of positives and negatives

 Thanks once again for the comments, I really appreciate your support.  Ruth - yes, just that.  And my husband only (I say 'only') has cognitive impairment, it's not even dementia, so goodness only knows how relatives of people afflicted with dementia cope.  It's odd, but sometimes he has the occasional day - or few hours - when he seems completely normal.  Other days, yesterday was one, he cannot remember anything at all.....in the space of about an hour yesterday afternoon, he'd asked me about 6 times what we were having for dinner.

The covid jabs went off without a hitch, very well organised again and got in on time.  Didn't have to wait for 15 mins afterwards either.  No side effects, other than a bit of a sore arm, although husband felt tired and went to bed for a couple of hours in the afternoon, but he quite often does that anyway.

Going to the farmers market for cheeses and veg, maybe some meat, this morning.  I've got quite a few pots of homemade stock in the freezer - chicken, bacon and veg - so will start using them up for soups and stews.  I want to do a couple of trayfuls of roasted veggies to freeze in portions, and have a big bagful of gifted home grown tomatoes in the freezer that I'll use to make pasta sauce this weekend.

The farmers harvested the back field full of maize (for winter animal feed) the other day, then cut all the hedges front and back, so we have good clear far reaching views again.  I'll miss these views, and how the farmers work through the changing of the seasons, when we do finally move house.  No suitable housing on the list for the past two weeks, nearly all flats without gardens, which obviously we don't want.  I couldn't imagine living somewhere without a garden, I'd hate it.  And obviously Betty needs a garden.

My weight loss is back on track, I'm pleased to say, it's become second nature now to follow my healthy way of eating.  No breakfast (never really been much of a breakfast eater), a small light 'brunch' around 11.30 or 12 noon, then a sensible (and fairly small) dinner around 5.30 or 6 pm of fish or a homemade vegetarian thing with extra veggies on the side.  I generally have an easy peeler or nectarine for dessert.  Husband still has his 3 meals a day, bigger portions than me and usually including meat of some kind, although he finally seems to have got out of the habit of snacking between meals, thank goodness.  He was never going to lose weight if he carried on snacking - now he's lost 6lb.  Occasionally on a Saturday we might have something with chips - a pie (veggie for me, meat for husband) or a pizza e.g., but not every weekend.  I should think my diabetes nurse will be pleased when I go for my annual review next month....my diabetes is well controlled anyway, but both my weight and cholesterol should be a fair bit down on last year.  My last 2 or 3 BP readings have been normal - perfect, in the words of my GP.