Wednesday

It was good to see Dr Crippen back and on form. His Crippen Diaries this week certainly provoked a lot of discussion (60+ comments so far and two of them mine).

Dinner tonight is going to be my take on Sheftalia. I saw a recipe for it/them on TV a few weeks ago and tried it out on the family. We all decided there was too much garlic in the recipe for our taste so I will reduce it a bit. I also added some shredded lettuce to the Greek Salad but the hummus was perfect (and so easy that I have decided never to buy the commercially prepared stuff again). If you don't know what Sheftalia are, they are pork meat balls, made from minced pork with garlic and onion served with a sauce containing chopped red onion, olives and chillies mixed with the pan juices, then served with Greek salad (chopped feta cheese, olives, diced cucumber, quartered tomatoes and red onion dressed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and some herbs) also a good dollop of hummus on the side. That's it, no potatoes or rice to cook and minimal washing up - my sort of meal, especially after a day at work. Not that I'm back yet; I have been signed off for another two weeks and I am getting quite bored with my foot not healing. Roll on the result of the bone scan on Friday.

Today I have an appointment to give blood - though I don't know whether they will take it due to my having been injected with a 'noxious' substance last week. The radiographer assured me that the half-life of Teknesium 90 is only 6 hours but the blood transfusion people are, understandably, a bit careful if you have had your skin broken recently, especially by a hyperdermic. Our local hospital doesn't seem to have hit the news over the numbers of patients contracting MRSA or c.diff so maybe it will be OK.