Inner winter

S and I wrote a list of all the things we wanted to do on our last day off for the week, mine was a bit more housework and food focussed whereas hers was a bit more ‘do a puzzle, play BBQs and draw a cat’. I had a busy kitchen day. First I baked my sourdough loaf, then I made a yeasted sandwich loaf for S for the week, it turned out very well. I made a sourdough focaccia which I will bake tomorrow with some olives poked in. Then I made a Nigel slater flapjack full of fruit, nuts and seed. S and I went for a big walk as she was so full of energy, we sat on a big rock by the loch and watched herons and talked about ripples. This afternoon I roasted a leg of pork from our lockdown pigs, we had it for dinner with sweet potato and veg.

Cycle day 1 for me, it’s been a long journey of regaining control of my hormones and I’m very grateful for this ‘inner winter’ arriving and reassuring me everything is working as it should. I’m making a huge effort to eat according to what vitamins and minerals I need at that time of my cycle.