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DW is hanging like a hanging thing. The Graun loads OK though my solitaire page doesn't at all. Maybe my connection is wonky, maybe greenfelt.net is having one of its periodic outages.

Bright blowy November day out there with swift clouds and the occasional snow flake tumbling from a blue sky. Snow tomorrow and on the weekend, so I went out to return Strange Houses to the five people waiting for it, and had-- err, whatever you call a 3 pm meal, the oposite of brunch: linner? at Sushi on Bloor. My waiter there loves me. But my stomach must be shrinking. The small size sushi selection is too big for me now, and I must go to the three piece + a roll sushi appetiser.

Checked out the former By the Way which is now Brasserie Côte, having a soft opening with a menu that does not inspire me to go in. Apparently it has a sibling out Ossington way, a much smaller place with a larger menu which one hopes they will bring here. Although Côte de Boeuf's menu seems to run heavily to the same escargots and sardines and charcuterie as the new place. Well, brasseries are brasseries, but I was hoping for something a little broader. Which I must still go to Le Paradis for, the bro-tachi's local, even if it's not local to any of us. But their boeuf bourguignon is amazing enough to make the trip worth it.

And since I'll be housebound until Monday at least, I walked up to Loblaws for milk and such, and to my physio's across the street to get my receipts for tax purposes, and thus racked up 7000+ steps.

I have always wanted a bidet-- more so when I was younger of course, but still think it would be nice. Especially after reading articles about how tp really doesn't cut it. My bathroom is far too small for a real one even if my knees would permit it-- which they wouldn't. Happy ads say you can add a douche to your toilet seat-- 'So easy you can install it yourself!' Uhh no, I doubt that very much. But googling around I discover something called a peri bottle, for postpartum women. Details of same make me glad I never had children: there's a lot about childbirth they don't tell you in sex ed. But peris sounded reasonable for hygiene so I bought one (from amazon.ca, mea maxima culpa, because neither Shoppers nor Starkman's has them even if they say they do) and will see if they make any difference at all. But because this isn't in any way a Japanese toilet with blowdry function, one must still use toilet paper, so what do these countries with bidets or bum guns or whatever use instead of that?

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Bidets were ever a matter of much amusement in the UK, still are. But they are undoubtedly much more hygienic than paper by itself. Never heard of a peri bottle!

Given the amount of trauma birth can cause, the perineum area can be too sensitive for wiping with toilet paper. So you rinse and pat dry, is my understanding. Obviously I have no personal experience of same.

Oh, Le Paradis. That was a destination resto for decades--with colleagues, with friends, with spouse. I miss it greatly, but since it no longer offers lunch and since evening excursions are pretty much a thing of the past for me, I have to relive the experience--food, wine, ambience--only in memory.

For nostalgia-inducing purposes, I should go over to the website and see whether they still have lamb kidneys on the menu.

They certainly have kidneys but I think they're veal. Also the menu changes in small ways from time to time. They had sweetbread appetizers when I made the reservation which were gone four days later to be replaced by a ris de veau entree.

I wish they did lunches there but things may not have totally recovered from the pandemic, so alas no.

But the note they have on the website about 'sorry, we have no quiet sections' is only too true. And for people who can't hear when there's ambient noise it's a problem.

DW was a little slow for me yesterday. It seems OK today though.

Good. Momentary glitch then.

I've heard peri bottles referred to as "poor man's bidet." I got a very simple & inexpensive peri bottle at the clinic pharmacy for 1.99 USD.

In order to avoid toilet paper I have a collection of small pieces of very soft cloth that I use for drying. Some of it is cotton knit, the texture of underwear. Some is cotton flannel. I put the used pieces in a net bag and wash with the towels.

Ah. And lord knows packrat me has lots of cotton knit material hanging about that I don't know what to do with. You aren't supposed to put old clothing in the garbage and the recycling companies are sus. Thanks. Shall cut up those old tank tops for same.