It's not Texas hot or Texas muggy, but Perth County is nevertheless not very comfortable today: hot and overcast with "risk of thunderstorms", and rain for sure tomorrow. I'm puttering about getting ready for an afternoon session of sorting last season's sheet music with a pair of fellow choristers. Before they arrive, I must put a nice bottle of chardonnay in the fridge. The Stratford Concert Choir library crew runs so much better with routine doses of chilled white wine.

Perrier for me, however. When you eat less than 25 net grams of carbohydrate per day, leafy green veggies (high in Vitamin A and iron) take priority. Tonight's menu is spinach salad with pine nuts, with enough cold rotisserie chicken to make up the protein quota.

My life has improved ever so much since I allowed myself to become a frequent flyer at the rotisserie chicken counter. They actually cost less than raw chickens that are not on special, with no pot to scrub. I can hear 40-year-old me sneering, but these days the alternative is likely to be fish from a can or a protein shake.