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My diet for the last ten days has been carb-heavy, mostly oatmeal for breakfast and peanut butter and jam on whole grain bread for everything else. Did have some chicken veg soup I made pre-op, but didn't really care for the taste of this last batch.To correct the nutritional deficiency, I got some raw veg and hummous dip in my grocery order yesterday. Alas, my system has grown unaccustomed to such healthy food, so I'm back to crackers today. Crackers are Triscuits, also part of my self-indulgent order (which included cheese and mint chocolate and turkey bacon) and I may go on ordering same because they are so salty and good.

I continue with the good days and bad. Today was good and I went eight hours on my morning meds without quite noticing it. Still think things may be less stiff/ achey once the staples are out of the knee.

Have read all the Christianna Brands that the library has in e-format and am embarked on one of Elizabeth Peters' avatars. I like Mrs. Bradley because, unusually for an English writer, she clearly likes young boys, a number of whom feature in various volumes, portrayed sympathetically whatever their roles may be.

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I like Mrs Bradley too. The books are entertaining, and nicely unpredictable.

Sometimes a bit too unpredictable, it seems, with odd loose ends. But that might be just the perils of reading in a format where I can't leaf back sixty pages to double check.

(Eg who killed the black rooster in Tom Brown's Body? and why? I know there were other books where I had questions at the end.)

I think there was a short tv series based on the books, about 20 years ago, starring Diana Rigg as Mrs Bradley. I must try and look it out some time - I think that's an actress who'd have fun with the part.

I should think she would do. She might even cackle.

The pleasure of having an older female protagonist who cackles and has a batrachian look, rather than one who knits sweetly in the corner...