Tuesday 1st day of Autumn - and I'm back...

 I wasn't my normal self yesterday, but I'm OK today.

Yesterday morning after I had swallowed my morning pills and as I was putting things back, I noticed an inconspicuous little yellow tablet lying among the bits and pieces on the table. How long had that been there? Since this morning,  of for several days? Should I take it, or not? Would I be under-medicated if I left it, or over-medicated if I took it? It was obe of the two steroid tablets I take every morning. 

I left it, and forgot about it. 

As the day wore on, I felt more and more peculiar, dizzy, shakey, breathless... not like me at all... then I remembered the time, several years ago, when I had been asked to try geadually reducing my steroid dose to see if I could manage on less. At 5mg, I had felt dizzy, shake, breathless... so clearly that had been today's tablet. An early night helped 'sleep off' the effects, and today I'm fine. Phew!

Sadly I had to cry off the home-group Communion featured in Sunday's 10 minute journal (complete with bonus quote - I'm drawing these in my Commonplace Book). The top left picture shows me measuring the square I had nearly finished, only to find it was nearly seven inches instead of six inches wide. Sigh.

But we've arranged another date in September. The month is filling up already. 

Here's yesterday's 

BB put in another stint of transferring old compost from the old bin (which is broken) to the new one. One more time should complete the job, We're in no hurry, as smothering the kitchen scraps in wormy compost must be helping the stuff to sort itself out after the summer drying out disaster.

You really do get what you pay for with convenience foods. We have been consistently underwhelmed by recent jar and ready meals. This M & S gastropods lasagne was a cut above - less of the gloopy generic tomato sauce flavour, less salty, less sweet, less oily. And more expensive. Still, it isn't as though we eat out very often, and this was still cheaper for the two of us than a pub meal for one.

With the cooler weather I have made meals from scratch more often and we do prefer them to ready meals. And that's just the taste!

Today's also comes with a bonus;

I'm wondering what on earth I'm going to do with all the 6" knitted squares I'll end up with. I fancy a patchwork jumper. There are patterns for boxy jumpers knitted from four rectangles sewn together, front, back, and the other two pieces folded into sleeves. Something like 48 squares should do it, but I don't think Ang will want to keep the collaboration going for FOUR YEARS!