Not Perfect

I've had one of those days.  I didn't get much sleep last night and I felt particularly naff raff.  I didn't manage to get out, either, but I will tomorrow.

Bless - re the rolls, I've answered your comment but I thought I'd put it in here as well.  I didn't add any salt at all to the rolls as I don't use much salt in cooking anyway, and they were not too bad.  I did find the dough stickier than I expected and I cooked them for a little longer than advised but they were abolutely delicious and DH would like a double portion cooked next time.  I found them really quick to make, even including the time looking for the measuring spoons.

We are not doing low carb  I can't tell you how relieved I am.  DH had been given advice by his work colleagues.  His work colleagues are actually very lovely, and I'm sure that the low carb diet has worked really well for a lot of people, but I think the tipping point was realising that we would have to cut back on lentil soup.  We did some research and the plan isn't recommended by governments in the UK, USA, Australia or Canada and a lot of reputable sources didn't recommend it for children.  Instead, the current plan is to change our eating habits.  We are going to have less processed stuff (which is a blow to me, as it's easy), lots more veggies, cut back on snacks and generally keep an eye on what we actually put in our bodies.  We are looking at more homemade soups and less tinned ones, more lean chicken and very lean mince and less lamb and pork, that sort of thing.  Bear will still have full access to goodies, of course, but those goodies will include more fruit and less chocolate.  I have suggested that every Sunday we have more of a 'treat' meal so this Sunday it will be sweet chilli chicken, bought ready prepared from Tesco, with roast potatoes and a heap of veggies followed by apple and mincemeat crumble.  On the other hand, tomorrow we will have butternut and sweet potato soup for dinner (I got the idea from this pre-prepared pack but I have butternut squash and sweet potatoes already, although unprepared, and I'll bung in a handful of lentils and some cumin, garlic and tumeric), with those rolls, but snacks/desserts will be fruit or raw veggies.  It's a plan that will adapt as I use up the ready prepared stuff in the freezer and build up recipes.

Fluffy - I am planning on publishing an installment of At the Sign of the White Hart every Monday.  I hope you enjoy a weekly fix.  Thank you, and everyone else who has commented, for your amazing encouragement.  I can't tell you how much it means to me.  I have got around half way through the next installment and I'm confident it will be ready on time but I've been too tired to concentrate or do much at all today.  Instead I've done a little knitting and I've started working on a decent table that tracks the characters in the stuff I've written.

So far I've self published The Forgotten Village, Digging up the Past, Dinner at Dark and Cats in the Bible.  Forgive the links, please, but it's sort of expected of a self published author.  All the books apart from Cats in the Bible have the same background and many recurring characters.  This background and cast of characters also crosses over into the tales of Steve Adderson which can be found intermixed with other work on my other blog, Always Another Chapter, where I mainly publish fiction and At the Sign of the White Hart.  It's a real nuisance when you want to bring in another character and you can't remember what their eye colour is or how they take their tea.  I need to sort it out.