Dragon Fruit and Guinea Pigs though not all at once!

Today has been fairly uneventful; bit of grocery shopping, visit to the folks, lots of shoulder pain but not too much nausea. It should be very exciting really, given that Monday is Chemo day again (my, doesn't 3 weeks come around fast!). Incidentally, no news on the CT Scan because they didn't think on to measure the bloody tumour! Brilliant. Not sure which genius thought the news was that there is a tumour, when in fact the news should have been smaller/bigger/still the same. So now we have to wait until Wednesday until another X-Ray doc can measure the thing and compare it with the last images we took.

Indeed, so boring was the day that we decided to spice it up in two ways;

Firstly, we bought a Dragon Fruit. It looks completely beautiful, but equally inedible. I think buying one to eat was a very brave thing to do!


It gets even more interesting when you cut it in half...


I know! It looks like facial scrub inside! Apparently, you dig the white inner flesh out with a spoon. It is quite firm, like a melon, but tastes very much like a lychee - and quite sweet. It isn't a strong flavour, by any standards, so even the hubby (who likes bland and/or sweet) liked it. He had one half, and Bigg'un had the other. Little'un is with her gran so she's missed out I'm afraid.

Secondly, as if the excitement of trying new fruit wasn't enough, we then went out to find a companion for the bunny, as the two guinea pigs she kept as pets died of old age.

This is Thumper;


And here is Benny, her new pet friend.


We've been running out to the hutch every five minutes to make sure Thumper hasn't squashed him, but she's either been grooming him, or upstairs in her 'bedroom' minding her own business, so I think it's going to be just fine! Little'un will be so excited!