I feel like I should post just to say I'm okay. I've been lurking a bit, but had nothing much to say. February has been very hard work, at work (both jobs), thanks to all manner of things getting postponed from January due to covid. I'm not yet out the other side, but I can almost see it coming. Things I wanted to do have not been possible (I tried ( Read more... )

It's been a dull week, not improved by having to take a covid test daily after getting pinged for a covid exposure... while getting my booster jab yay. Ach, they've all come up negative, and I'd rather be safe. But still, my nose is sore ( Read more... )

I think I said back on June 12 that that might be my last covid-style post for monthly diary (July being a holiday). But nope. In justice to the improving situation, I should note that I was in the office on Tuesday, and will be again next Tuesday, and so some kind of commuter routine re-establishes itself. However, for now ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the exhibition at Tate Britain, a solo show by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. It's the first exhibition I've been to this year, and I honestly wouldn't have gone without friends suggesting we meet there. LYB is very much my contemporary, and I've tended to avoid solo contemporary shows as there aren't that many artists I want to spend that ( Read more... )

It’s been a year in lockdown and I think it’s time to do a DITL with photos, just because… well, I hope life won’t always be like this. I was planning to do this for 12 March, but I was feeling really ill then. I’m better enough to find it a cheering distraction now. And this Monday is pretty typical. ( Read more... )

Meme of the month first ( Read more... )

I've used my day off to do pre-lockdown things - a train to another shopping centre, buying a dress, buying a couple of frivolous homewares, a walk by the Thames, a frappucino (the day before my free Sbux drink expired though that's a total coincidence - I hadn't even downloaded the app onto my phone which I got in pre-lockdown when I started ( Read more... )

Hello folks. I knew not posting the meme would make me go quiet, so I've decided to go for it next month. I can already tell some of the questions are going to be super covid-ironic. But then that's quite interesting in itself.

I'm still okay. Quite good in many ways, I've got new routines (Sunday walks) and cheering activities, and plenty of busy ( Read more... )

Just to confirm I'm still around, still healthy (ish, curse this plane pollen), still working harder than I am really happy with (ow, my back), still absolutely no likelihood of returning to the office (absolutely not till July, probably not till autumn even for the odd day I think ( Read more... )

I said a while back that I was finally going to shift my longstanding menu planning game to include a veganish week (it's now veganish week then veggie, then poultry/fish, followed by a week of anything goes). I'm not wild about the rhetoric of veganity, but undeniably plant-based eating has upsides, and I had found my veggie week cooking getting ( Read more... )