Flexitarian!

 Thank you for comments, I have some lovely readers who I much appreciate.  Happy Introvert said that Professor Tim Spector has an Instagram account - I don't, and am not very keen to open one, I don't really want another excuse to possibly spend hours scrolling!  Thank you though, I might get one of his books.  Ruta said she refers to herself as a flexitarian - I'd never heard of that term, but having seen that it refers to someone who is mostly vegetarian but occasionally eats some meat and fish, I'm happy to now join you and refer to myself as a fellow flexi!  I do mostly eat mainly vegetarian, but have fish usually twice a week.  I don't eat beef, pork or lamb, or any offal - the smell of offal cooking (husband eats it and so does Betty) now makes me heave, so he has to cook it with the kitchen door closed and the windows open to get rid of the smell (and then I have to clean up the kitchen afterwards, to get rid of all the bloody and greasy splashes he says he's wiped up!).  When I buy a gammon joint for husband, about once a month, I may perhaps eat 1 small slice of it with the usual veggies for Sunday dinner, I sometimes chop up a slice to go in an omelette or quiche.  I eat a chicken thigh for a Sunday dinner maybe once or twice a month, and again occasionally use a small amount chopped up in a pasta bake or rice dish.  I did occasionally eat a couple of sausages or a bacon sandwich but not anymore, as I'm determined to cut down drastically on UPF foods.  Burgers - no thanks, I really like the Linda McCartney mozzarella burgers, they don't have that (to me now) awful smell and horrible greasy mouth feel of beef burgers.  Yes I know they're probably UPF, but it's not like I eat them all the time - perhaps twice a month.

Yesterday we had battered cod, oven chips and mushy peas, all from the freezer, for dinner.  Quite nice at the time but far too many carbs for me, my guts and sluggish joints are certainly not thanking me this morning.  I think in future when we have battered fish we'll have it with salad and homemade coleslaw, and I'll only eat half the batter.  Today it's an egg and tuna salad for lunch, jacket spud with cheese and a spoonful of baked beans with a side salad for dinner.

Nice sunny morning, I've put washing on the line.  I was having a look around the garden and changed my mind again about where to put a large hebe shrub I want to move from its present location.  The bed it's in I have plans for so the shrub has to come out....I'd considered a couple of other locations for it but have now decided it'll go in front of the fence between us and next door.  It's quite a large shrub, it was here already when we moved in and had been neglected, along with everything else in the garden, for a few years, the previous occupant having become too unwell to do any gardening.  So it was very tall, straggly, overgrown and untidy - having pruned and shaped it for the past 2 years, it's now a pleasing (and tidy) round/oval shape.  I don't mind it getting a little taller once it's in the new position, it'll help towards screening and privacy (you'll remember the neighbour got rid of all his trees and large shrubs along the boundary fence, leaving a 3ft high fence - which belongs to us, well, our landlords - and removed all our privacy).  

Week coming up doesn't look very nice weatherwise, overcast and drizzly.  Not cold though, so that's something.