Thanks for your kind thoughts Cookie and Judy.

A lot has been happening on the forum since I was last on.  Marina I hope your OP goes well.

I have had an interesting 12 days in hospital.  4 days in the West Gippsland Hospital and 8 days in the Dandenong Hospital.  I had not been eating properly for quite some time and then I had 5 days of being unable to keep food or liquid down.  I went from 72kg down to 60kg.  The problem is with my oesophagus which goes into spasm.   There have been lots of tests and still more to be done.  Unfortunately there is no cure for this.  In the hospital I was being fed through a nasal tube to try and build me up a bit.  Now my meals will need to be mostly soft foods like thin soups and pureed meals, nothing that is lumpy or has solid food in it.  This came as a bit of a shock but hopefully things will improve in time. I think my TMX is going to be working overtime.

Chicken, pasta & vegetable dish.  Sticky toffee puddings from cookidoo.  I made the sauce on the stove as the puddings were in the tmx steaming.   Also stewed some pears.

Enjoy your meal out with your friend Chookie.

Supermarket shopping this morning, once again the shelves are very bare.

I picked up my wedding ring from the jeweller this morning after having resized.    I have lost 14kg over the past few months and my ring kept sliding off and I was afraid I might loose it.

A nice day shopping Chookie

The Lasagne for tonight's dinner and a Braised Steak and Onion dish in the SC

DS trimmed the back hedge on Friday so we hired a skip bin to take away the branches and decided to have a bit of a clean out in the shed as well.  A busy weekend but glad we did it.

A trip to Bunnings this morning to buy some potting mix, compost and fertilizer.  DH prepared a large tub ready for planting the garlic bulbs in a few days.