Mi-Cuit

Yesterday's culinary experiment was to attempt semi-drying tomatoes. I halved them, laid them out on a tray, gave a quick sprinkling of salt, pepper and sugar then put the tray on the top of the wood burning stove all evening/night. I came down to find them looking like this in the morning. I think they could do with just a little more drying so I'll put them on the stove again tonight, but already the flavour has really intensified. A successful experiment I think. I'm going to freeze them for future use.

I've had a rough day today, with my second ever migraine. Blurred vision, pins and needles in one thumb, garbled speech (for a few minutes) and then the headache started. The first time this happened (earlier this year) we had been camping in Dorset and we ended up calling 111 and being sent to A&E as the symptoms are quite stroke-like. However, they did lots of tests and reassured me it was a type of migraine, obviously brought on by tiredness and possibly dehydration. Today it took me a while to realise I was experiencing the same thing as initially my vision was just a little blurry, but as soon as I worked it out I took paracetamol and went for a lie-down. Thankfully Ted was at Playschool, so even though I had a million and one things to do, at least I could just lie in peace. It took several hours to pass completely, but after a terrible night with Ted teething (damn those final 2 molars!) I'm heading for bed by 8 tonight. Ted is dosed up with Calpol too so fingers crossed for some rest.

Kind of bad timing though as it's November 5th... Lots of fireworks outside tonight. Earplugs in!