Spinach Borani (courtesy of Ottolenghi)

Another triumph. Just prepared and eaten,. Would never have considered cooked spinach with raw celery (other ingredients are walnuts, garlic, coriander, lime juice - and topped with dried mint stirred into hot oil. Looked and taste delicious. Followed by potato gnocchi with tomato sauce.

Early start preparing for the on-line Teams Licensing Meeting with the Council. The outcome will come through in a few days. The department responsible has listened and cut back music and alcohol consumption hours by -1, and respecified the decibel levels. So some success. More to go - we are still worried about the music decibel levels, and the number of events. .


Got a last minute cancellation today at my optician. He said he had recently seen another patient with (unusually) similar problems after having cataract and vision correction done.

He did a very thorough examination. The first step is prescription reading glasses, ready in ca. 10 days. It’s possible even though the blended vision has ‘worked’ (ie left eye for reading, right for distance, - my right eye is the dominant one and causing these issues as a result (ie not allowing the two eyes vision to ‘blend’).

So another few days of irritation and perhaps with luck this will work. If not he may recommend I return to the hospital.