A bit of what’s good for you

This is today’s blackboard list. After our oat breakfast, I drop Mum at church (she fairly sprints inside with her walking stick) and pick up my friend for our weekly walk on the beach. The three dots after beach are because the weather is a bit doubtful: grey and drizzly.

It doesn’t rain, the sand is firm for walking and eventually we sit on a log to eat double dark chocolate muffins I have made and chocolate biscuits she has made.

Back home, my brother turns down my offered muffins despite the cheerful accoutrements. (Slightly anxious thoughts: What does he know that we don’t? Perhaps we know it, but we’re not worried. A recent blood test says I am not diabetic and Mum, at 97, can eat whatever she likes.) We’ll have to eat them ourselves. So sad. They’re delicious heated for a few seconds so the chocolate melts a bit and you have to eat them with a spoon.

We will enjoy one each day, with a few more in the freezer to last the long weekend and into the week, along with home-made hot-cross buns. But right now, the cocktail hour (more often a glass of water), it’s time for cheese and crackers (two each) to keep us going until our home-cooked, balanced evening meal featuring some veg from our own garden, and a little square of home-made dessert made from our home-grown fruit.

I wonder if I’ve convinced myself that it’s okay to have ‘a bit of what’s good for you’ …

PS No sign of the mouse.