How to get through the day

Sometimes, when you are very, very tired, the winter is drawing in, the Christmas madness is threatening to overwhelm, climate catastrophe is nearing and the world economy is on the point of total collapse, it is hard to get through the week. It is at these times, when the weekend seems an ocean away and the night offers a false promise of sleep [due to endless awakenings with small people] that the small things matter. Call it a crutch, if you wish, but we all need that little something to get us through to tomorrow. Ladies and gentlemen, I have found that crutch and it is called a Tesco lemon curd cheesecake.

I came across it by accident. I had ordered the value cheesecakes in the online shopping. A lucky star seemed to be shining on me that day because they were not available. Often, I have found the substitute stuff they give you is of much superior quality to anything you might have ordered yourself. It is as if they are ordering for a doppelganger who lives a far classier life than you. Indeed I have considered trying to seek out value products that might be out of stock so they can replace it with better stuff, but it is a very inaccurate science. This particular day the Tesco delivery man apologetically handed me my order and said there were a few substitutes. He gave me a few lemon curd cheesecakes. Lemon curd, I thought, recalling being forced to eat lemon meringue pies in my childhood because my brother liked them. Yuk. But I tried one that night all the same. It was my entry to another universe. Every level of the cheesecake is a taste sensation, as they say on Master Chef [see, I do pay attention when my partner watches it].