Day 19:  Wednesday, 5th June, 2013

Another bad night.  I lay awake for hours and was unable to settle and sleep.  Drank some water.  Eventually fell asleep at dawn.   Got up at 8.00am and had a shower.  Felt much revived and ready to face the day.

Had a rice cake with local honey, to help counteract the hayfever, for breakfast.

Lunch today was a green salad, with cucumber and alfalfa sprouts plus the remainder of the tinned salmon.

For our evening meal, I cooked a free-range chicken in the oven and served this with fresh asparagus spears and green cabbage from the garden.  No potatoes for me.  I am not all that keen on potatoes anyway, unless of course they are made into chips!  I am slowly getting accustomed to meals without black pepper, and I am still finding this the hardest thing to manage without.  I thought giving up dairy would be the most difficult, but surprisingly, no.  I am quite enjoying the freshness of black coffee, and I always had soya milk on cereals anyway.

Hope I sleep tonight as I feel very tired this evening.