It’s day one of my writing retreat. I will be totally on my own with nobody to speak to except this cat for 6 days. Luckily, Milky is a Columbo fan, as it’s all about Columbo this week.
Today, I had to extend my arms as long as I possibly could in order to type, because Milky insisted on sitting half on my lap, and half on my laptop for about 4 hours. Now it is 9.15 pm and she is back. She is sitting on one of my arms as I try to type this. I’m taking it as a compliment…
I decided to kick-start what I hope will be 6 days of sensible eating and no drinking while I am away, with a day of the Taylor-Made Diet, and I chose day 7 because FISH is involved and I love fish.
So here’s the diet plan for the day, and here are my pix of what I had.
I thought I had been really organised, by having an Ocado delivery on day one of my retreat, but I forgot a couple of things for Liz’s day 7, bread and an apple, so I improvised a bit.
Breakfast: 8oz fruit, a rivet (predictive text for Ryvita) instead of toast, and black coffee.
Lunch: Elizabeth Taylor’s Curried Chicken Salad with red pepper instead of apple – this is still Recipe of the Month as I haven’t had time to change it…
Afternoon snack: crudités and Liz’s cream cheese and chives dip
Dinner: grilled fillet of sole, steamed asparagus and minted new potatoes
It was all very lovely, and I am absolutely FULL even without CRISPS AND BEER which usually make up most of my daily calorie intake. Thanks Liz. I enjoyed all of that. There is a lot of washing-up to do though…
I worked on the Columbo cookbook for seven whole hours today and my brain is addled. As I don’t have a TV, and the house I am looking after does, I now plan to veg out in front of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan’s “The Trip” which I discovered on Netflix last night. It cracks me up when they do duelling impressions. The whole thing reminds me so much of a mini road trip I was once on with Wayne Garvie in Portugal, where we spent hours making each other laugh with absolute ridiculousness. That was a fun day…
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I wish that the picture of the book was bigger!
I wish I knew how to MAKE it bigger – ha ha. I am so rubbish at this techie stuff – I’ll have a go at re-doing it x
I wish that the picture of the book was bigger!
I wish I knew how to MAKE it bigger – ha ha. I am so rubbish at this techie stuff – I’ll have a go at re-doing it x