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I have come to the conclusion that even if I won Euromillions and bought a giant mansion including a room dedicated to filing, nay, even if I were God and dwelt in a mansion of infinite rooms, I will never be a person who isn't constantly leaving bits of paper on every flat surface and then getting annoyed when I have to clear it off because I want ( Read more... )

This little BBC article on the importance of an empathetic approach by doctors amused me after my consultation of this morning, which was indeed very cheering and empathetic.

OK, I'm not entirely sure that GPs are supposed to make sarcastic comments about Boris Johnson, but it was very funny and entirely in the context of mutual commiseration about ( Read more... )

From the Guardian: Lingering and painful: the long and unclear road to coronavirus recovery

This morning's mistake was folding the laundry. Not doing it, mind you, just folding it to get it out of the way, and then washing up. Not the sort of thing that generally has one breaking out in chills and fatigue. Arrgh.

In better news, I have nearly ( Read more... )

PSA: The ALW musicals streaming offer for this weekend is Phantom of the Opera, available from 6:30pm BST for 24 hours in the UK only, 48 elsewhere (rights issues, apparently...). It is here. It's the Albert Hall stage production, not the film, so hopefully the leads will be able to sing ( Read more... )

The Opera North orchestra performs a social distance version of Thus Spake Zarathustra, in concet dress, naturally. Imagine being the people who live next door to the timpani. It's also quite fun to spot the Ikea furniture.

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In local news, I am in some dire need of new piano music, so any suggestions welcome (about grade 5 ABRSM, not too hard. What ( Read more... )

Where trained medical students chat to people at home with coronavirus and if necessary a team pops round in a taxi to make sure people really are all right and sometimes finds that they are not and takes them into hospital. And thus people who are moving from mild to serious cases are identified, treated, and fewer die. My boss asked if I needed ( Read more... )

It's a good thing that I didn't do a triumphant post yesterday about how much better I was feeling, as after a Saturday and Sunday in which I felt a lot better, and 36 hours without a fever, back it comes and I have spent the morning on a sofa in the warm fleecey trousers once more, under a blanket watching Spirited Away. I remain still in no way a ( Read more... )

Last time I traveled abroad: July 2019. Summer holiday to St Anton, now in a coronavirus hotspot. I see that I didn't do a post about it, whoops. The hiking was great, I bashed my knee on the last day. Of course, I should be traveling home from holiday today...

Last time I slept in a hotel Last July, same holiday.

Last time I flew in a plane: ( Read more... )

Though first, a low ( hoisting of the black and yellow flag. )