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I made an appointment with my doctor this morning, but the first one available is a week tomorrow.

I made the appointment, but I hope I shall be better by then and can cancel it. The trouble is that she's a very popular doctor and she only works 4 days a week.

I find it pointless seeing another doctor unless it's an actual emergency like when my abscess broke, because there's such a lot of background and medication to consider and in any case, I have so much faith in her, as it seems others do too.

In the meantime my ribs are aching even more, although I didn't wake coughing in the night or even this morning and neither John nor Charles heard me coughing last night.  It's a mystery!  It's so bad now that it hurts even to laugh!

I've decided to have an afternoon trying to write at home, and tomorrow I shall go to the Lit & Phil. 

Charles has his second IT class tomorrow.  I've told him that he must register his disappointment at there being no Digital Photography class and to point out that he acquired a camera specifically to take part in the advertised class.  I've also told him to ask if there isn't some way he can skip through at least the first part of the ECDL, because it's terminally boring for someone of 32 who has been using computers since he was 7 and it will probably put him off going quite soon.  The he'll never get the photography course!

It's another lovely day today but very cold indeed.  The forecast is for it to get even colder tonight and tomorrow so I think I shall leave the heating on tonight, because it takes soooo long to warm this house up if it gets very cold.  It's lovely in the summer when it's nice and cool when you come in from outside, but it's a hooter in winter!

My digestion seems to have recovered, although I still feel a little nauseated if I think about it, but I still have a vague headache.  It doesn't really seem as though it was a migraine, or anything else specific, and I don't really think it was overeating, so I'm putting it down to one of those 24 hour bugs, which no-one else seems to have caught, fortunately.

It has had the effect of putting me off anything but the plainest of food, so my lovely box of Mother's Day chocs is untouched except for the two I gave to John and Charles.

I did go to Costco yesterday even though I felt fragile, because we needed wet food for the Tootles and they were beginning to look very reproachful.  We also needed bottled water.

What I found there was a box of blackberries from some unlikely country I can't now remember and they are now sitting in the fridge waiting for me to turn them into blackberry, blackberry liqueur and rosewater muffins!

I simply must stop messing about on the Internet and get stuck into my character plotting.
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I knew for reasons I can't be bothered to explain that Charles had bought me a present, but he forgot to give it to me!!

It wasn't until we were preparing the spuds this afternoon for roast potatoes for this evening's dinner that he suddenly remembered and said mysteriously that he had to see me upstairs. I refused to go upstairs until the spuds were ready and by that time he had forgotten again. He finally remembered at about 4.00 pm when he presented me with a cup of tea and a box of my favourite Thornton's Eden chocolates and a packet of chocolate ginger. He knows me so well!

So I have enough chocolate to keep me going for about three weeks, on a ration of one a day, although I had more than one today.

In return, I cooked us all a lovely free-range organic chook with roast potatoes, some surprisingly wonderful sprouting broccoli and superb gravy, even if I do say so myself. And as a bonus I made a syrup sponge pudding.  I haven't made one for ages so it was a real treat, although the amount of extra golden syrup John ladles onto his portion worries me a bit. Sponge pudding is the only thing, apart from spinach and fish, that I ever cook in the microwave.

I wish I could remember where I bought the sprouting broccoli, because it was excellent - very fresh and succulent. I think it may have been in Lidl, which I find surprisingly good for vegetables.

This morning I made a batch of blueberry muffins. I had specially large blueberries that I bought from Costco and I put double the amount in. They burst during cooking and made lovely little rivulets of juice all down the sides of the muffins.

I found a recipe in the book which I hadn't seen before for blackberry muffins with blackberry liqueur and rose water. I shall make those next time I find some expensive imported blackberries!

Before I left the kitchen I made sure to put the remaining gravy in the fridge.  I didn't want John throwing it away like he did the stock a couple of weeks ago.

We wormed the cats this afternoon.  They all hate it, of course, but Phoebe takes it very personally and won't speak to us for days, except that she had to come round today if she wanted her share of roast chicken!

Charles and I both got covered in quantities of the Panacur stuff.  I hope it doesn't bleach my ochre top.  I bet it has!

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