My talented friend Merche Martin Morillo painted this lovely illustration for my story, “The Dodo Dragon.” Isn’t it great? It’s going to be the basis for the front cover of my forthcoming ebook, “The Dodo Dragon and other stories,” and another talented friend, Helen Bennet of http://eco-geek.net, is going to do the layout. We hope to have the book out in time for Christmas. I’m really looking forward to this.
I finally got to eat English breakfast for dinner on Monday night. After the painful chocolate biscuits I didn’t dare have a big helping, but I had a little of everything – an inch of sausage, half a rasher of bacon, half an egg, half a tomato, two mushrooms and a spoonful of beans. And then I filled up on pasta. It was lovely! And it didn’t make me ill.
Every year La Palma’s big car rally goes past my front door. I usually find the first few cars exciting, the next few interesting, and the last fifty or so very noisy. But then usually, they’re racing from about 11 am to 5pm. This year, they were going to be snarling and roaring past my house until midnight on Friday, and again for most of Saturday. I really wasn’t looking…
It’s now two weeks after my op, and I can start a little cautious experimenting with fat in my diet. So I bought some luxury chocolate chip biscuits. The first one was delicious, so I had another. And another. And a fourth. And then I was doubled up for half an hour with a pain just below my ribs. Obviously four is too many. So the big English breakfast is…
Saturday was boring until they set me free, just before lunch. Rather rashly, I asked to go to the farmers’ market in Mazo, partly to get some of my favourite bread, but mostly to see something outside the hospital before I had to stay home for a while.
[WARNING! If you’re squeamish about medical details, this post might make you squeam.] Well Friday was the day I thought I might just be able to go home. Certainly I woke up feeling much more human. Muzzy, and weak, but human. I actually felt well enough to read fiction, as long as it was short. The nurse took off the compression bandages of my legs, I got out of bed (with…