Today, as i so often do, I rose trotted along to the bathroom and looked at the clock. Time, I thought, to start my energetic morning. And for once I was right.

As I sit here. full of potato cakes, sausage and scrambled egg, I feel frugal and well fed. The sausage was one set aside from last night’s meal (sausages with onion gravy and mustard mash – we had to change plans at short notice so I fell back on something easy) and the potato cakes were made from the leftover mash with spring onions, flour and an egg.

As I write, I can hear the soup maker on its final blending cycle (broccoli and leek – I should have used onions but we have too many leeks) and the scent of slow-cooker lamb casserole is filling the house. It’s not quiet the same recipe as the one on the internet (which is so often the case when using online recipes) as the recipe uses just carrots, onions, peas and potatoes as the vegetables. We only had one carrot so I made up the deficiency with sweet potatoes, parsnips and swede. We also had surplus leeks and celery (see above) but it’s true to the spirit of the recipe. However, I was a bit annoyed to find it was New Zealand lamb when I looked at the label. I had assumed, in the absence of information on the supermarket website, that it was British lamb.

And that is pretty much all the news for the day. I am now writing, and that, if I’m lucky, will fill the rest of the day.

This is how I filled some of it.

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