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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Good way to deal with the heat sitting under a parasol and giving yourself a holiday. It hopefully should be cooler tomorrow - the garden can wait!
I've had indoor jobs to do so kept door to conservatory firmly shut as it's like the tropics in there. Will be out there in garden watering, walking and listening to a podcast or two later.
Dinner -has been in slow cooker all day and just added the soaked low carb pasta to the Bolognese so will be easy.
Breakfast had kefir then two boiled eggs and low carb roll
Lunch kimchi with cheese and a few berries with hm yoghurt
Just sat sipping my soda water with ice and slice of lime before serving dinner later.
Busy day tomorrow caring including enabling eldest to attend and cope with his next dental appointment. I've already put half the Bolognese into a casserole to turn into a chilli to 'reheat for dinner tomorrow when back.I hope forecasters are right in their predictions of dropping temps tomorrow as if not the dentist appointment won't be able to happen.
 
I hope all goes well tomorrow - wishing you the best of luck x
 
Belated happy birthday. Sounds as though you had a lovely day.

My day has been very busy, doing some sewing for a friend and wrestling with recalcitrant sewing machines. A job which should have taken me an hour took from 8 am to 3 pm and I had to finish it off with hand sewing because the machines (3 of them) were useless. Left me with a sore back, from hunching over these machines and sore hands from the hand sewing. Must figure out what is wrong with the machines before I do any more sewing.

At 8 o'clock I thought I'd just get this job done and then have my breakfast and my pills. Had a couple of cups of coffee but not had any food so far. I have a pot of shepherd's pie filling defrosted so I'll just heat that and use it as a stew.
 
Sewing machines are fantastic when they work perfectly - which is almost never... and they are the spawn of the devil when they don't work. I hate having shuttle trouble!! I know I tend not to get things like tension for type of material right, but surely they don't need to be so objectionable?!
 
Too hot to move today except for going for a lukewarm swim. I felt very sorry for my neighbour who is a zinc worker and spent all day on a roof working with hot zinc making gutters.

I wanted to send my neighbour who so tragically lost her husband a postcard but I didn't have anything suitable, so I made something myself. I hope it helps, even if only as little as a single tear in a sea of tears.
(Dear Ellen, I have no words.)
On the back I tell how the little lucky doll is one she and her partner gifted me years ago, and I feel she needs it more than I do now, much as I've grown attached to it. And please let me know if ever she needs a hug/talk/simply not being alone.

 
And on a more positive note, I'm very much looking forward to spending the weekend with my old aunt!
We'll meet friday afternoon, go out for dinner in the smallest city of the Netherlands, and spend the night at a very interesting Air B&B (will post pictures).
The city of Sloten has only 715 people living there, but it has had city rights since 1426!

Our family used to own a small holiday house in the city, I have some very early memories of it although I think it was sold before I was 10. My aunt will have a lot more memories, it will be very interesting to spend time there!

On saturday we'll have lunch in another village where she has many memories, and I expect lots of stories about my mum.
The weekend will be bittersweet, she has cancer and it may well be the last time we'll be able to do something 'active' together.
I expect diabetes will be messy, but that's alright, back on the straight and narrow right after our sunday brunch in a cat cafe.

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I know those sewing machine blues too. I spent 90 minutes hand sewing this morning and only completed a third as it hurt my eyes.

Then down to the coast for lunch with a cousin, nicely cooler and breezier there so pleasant to sit outside and enjoy cold buffet.
It went on longer than planned and by the time we were back home it was time for the next social event, a summer party.
So today's food has been mainly cold cuts, cheese and salad, plus too many strawberries dipped in dark chocolate and 1 tiny piece of cake.
There was 1 glass wine with lunch and 2 small glasses prosecco this evening.

I feel like I've been eating constantly all day...which I was!

Happy birthday @RosemaryJackson, though you've a way to go to catch my twin neighbours who were 90 and next door who is 97!

My pair of 88 year olds, one with broken wrist have made it their cruise! So fingers crossed I can have a week's rest too.
 
Heartfelt and beautiful. Good job
 
Wishing you a very happy birthday week @RosemaryJackson and many more of 'em.
 
Breakfast was some home made salmon paste on RyVita. Made it a while ago when I had a surfeit of salmon and got it out of the freezer last night.

2nd meal will be home made sliced sausage, also out of the freezer, with some bacon, eggs and some swede chips.

Going to take it easy today after all my exertions yesterday to try to get rid of all the ache and pains that developed. Didn't help that I have a bad cold, or that I completely forgot about medication yesterday. Back to normal today for food and meds. That also might be why I have put on 0.3 of a kilo this week - not much, but it's in the wrong direction.
 
Relieved this evening as managed to enable eldest to be at and cope with his latest dental appointment to fix another crown on -although he says it feels odd so hope he settles with it. Loads of road works so lots of delays which he finds difficult but at least it's cooler so although he was very edgy and difficult to manage physically and mentally (despite his five diazepam!) managed to get him through it.
Breakfast before heading out bacon, egg and LC toast - but unfortunately toast crispy and lost part of a filling so had to book an appointment for me when taking eldest to dentist ( appointment made for just over a week for me so not too long to wait)
Dinner chilli con carne and large glass of red wine.
Just about to go and water the garden and then go for relaxing walk and listen to a podcast.
 
Enjoy your special weekend with your Aunt. Family time and memories a very important part of our lives.
 
Had spareribs and one of the the last three meatballs flattened to pretend they were burgers with a side of various emotional neighbours. (Didn't eat the neighbours though, although it would have been a clean solution.)
The one non crazy neighbour (the one in the garden) ate the other two meatballs turned hamburger and shared with the dogs.

I feel wrung out: First informing two more neighbours of the accident with our other neighbour. Then going for a swim with my friend who was very emotional after a hard week with her rather delusioned husband. Followed by a beer with her and a very tired neighbour Tale, who's still in love with her but has mostly given up on it.
Then her husband sent me a text message asking if he could come by. Knowing his dad had euthanasia on tuesday, yes of course.
He came around the back, so it was him, Tale and I. Turned out he wanted to talk about his relationship, even though his wife and Tale have (had) a thing, Tale was about to keel over from working in the heat all day, and I was doing the whole flashback thing to losing my mum, stories and all.
Still, I think we managed to give him some handles on working on the future instead of the past (he really seems to be close to being psychotic, in a still very functioning way).

Anyway, going away for a weekend with my dying aunt suddenly feels like a true holiday, no neighbours for two nights!
 
Didn't really want to bother eating but decided I'd better and ended up having more than I should have. 2 eggs, 2 rashers of bacon and 2 (Yes 2) crumpets. Just found them in the fridge and decided that they were what I needed today. No more left now, so no more temptation.

If I eat later it will be all vegetable in some form. Plenty of veg in the fridge and not much else and I forgot to take anything out of the freezer for today. Something Mediterranean maybe?
 
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