BASKETTCASE

Two days without chemo tabs and feeling pretty good.  Two things made my fingers tingle today: re-organising the freezers and pitting some more cherries outside while the wind was blowing.  It wasn't cold, but the cherries are juicy and I suppose the evaporation cools the skin.  I still have loads of cherries to do - I begin to be less delighted with the quantity we had this year!  Anyway, there were redcurants and blackberries as well, so I added another margarine tub of last years raspberries and cooked them all with sugar with the idea of freezinbg them in quantities suitable for summer puddings.

We have managed to reduce our freezers to three, and the new one isn't yet full.  Mum's old freezer which we took over when she moved into the annexe (mainly because it was full) had started to freeze up on the outside of the top, and with the hot weather and the porch getting so hot our electricity was soaring.  They are increasing our monthly payment by more than £10.  The little monitor supplied by British Gas was telling us our daily consumption was far higher than last year, and this was the only cause we could think of.  Hope it proves to be effective.  At this stage of our lives we need to be cutting down on regular expenses, not using more.

I am trying hard to regulate my functions by diet, but Dave hates vegetables.  I complained that the courgettes we had with our lasagne yesterday had not done anything for me, so today he bought pork steaks, then went down the garden and came back with potatoes, sweeetheart cabbage, courgettes, peas, baby carrots and a few mange-tout and runner beans.  Mmmm!  What a feast! (curry tomorrow.  I had better make myself a salad¬