Tuesday morning

Another happy day yesterday.  I paid for the camera so it is now mine and my Hairy Dieters recipe book arrived a day early.  I spent a joyous evening reading through and, oh, my, there are so many recipes I'm going to try, I can see that they will keep be going for months.  I'm going to have to make half quantities - one for me and one for the freezer - or I will just have too much stored away and my freezer is already rather loaded up.  I think that I have to be disciplined and make one new thing a week.  It'll make the fun last longer.

Everything is ready for school - a most comfortable feeling - so I can spend the rather earlier morning than I would really like getting up to date with online things.  I've hardly looked at the OUSA forums for a couple of days, which is unlike me!  Now's the chance to catch up!  Brekky was going to be a poached egg on a crumpet but yesterday evening I was too full after the first course to want the dessert I had already prepared (spiced apples and raisins in yogurt) so it went into the fridge for this morning.  I've got some melon to use up too so it will be a fruity breakfast!  The rest of the day's eating is freezer based stuff so I'd better go and get it all out to thaw!

Friday morning

. . . and the end of the first week is in sight.  It's been a good week - a great week in some ways - and I seem to have got loads done, one way and another.  I'm getting to know another group of little people who are also getting to know me and my cupboards are looking increasingly tidy as time goes by.  I've slept like a log each night too.

We had a bit of a sunset yesterday, which was a good opportunity to try out one of the settings on the camera I am thinking of buying.  I was twiddling around with the buttons and discovered that there's a sunrise/sunset one.  This was good, because capturing them has always been very hit or miss with the point and clicks.  So out I went and below is one of the results.  A little on the dramatic side and I neglected to take a few on the ordinary setting to compare, but it makes a nice photo.

Nothing exciting about the menu today but Amazon has told me that my Hairy Dieters book should be with me by Tuesday so that's something to look forward to.  I've heard lots of good things about recipes in the book, not just the ones that were on the programmes or web site, but others as well.  Can't wait . . .

 . . . but I will have to!