Death From Above

It seems that my sacrifice to the Goddess Isis (shin deep wading through Thames floods on Monday's run) was acceptable to the River and the flooding went down enough for our weights class to take place at the usual spot.

Hearing that Tumblr might be fading away so waking this back up again. Might do no more than lurk.

I thusly declare Winter to be DONE. Itvwas light at 7an when I went out for my run this morning. And still light when I set off to cycle home from work at 5pm.10 hours of light is enough for survival.

That'll do, pig. That'll do.

What if, and bear with me here... What if we queered Persuasion? I lover Persuasion, it's totes my favourite Jane Austen, no disrespect intended. But still, what if...?

Say we take as our premise a British version of "don't ask, don't tell" (as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses). Ladies living with female companions are totes a thing already, older spinsters of quality setting up home together to save on the bills and allow them to maintain a quality of life they have become accustomed too once they're too old for the marriage mart.

Anne Elliot obviously wouldn't be allowed to set up in an establishment like that at a young age. Her attraction to Miss Wentworth would naturally be seen as a youthful silliness, especially while she was still of an age to make a good empression on society and receive a favourable offer.

But later... When she had a good many seasons under her belt and had attracted no offers... The idea of Anne Elliot setting up with the now rich widowed Lady (used to be Wentworth) would be 'respectable'.

Seriously tho. When is the blasted sun gonna start getting up at a decent hour? Blargh.

I didn't murder anyone at work, so that's good. My timetable for later on in term looks horrendous, but I'll have to work out how to manage the overtime/exhaustion/brain death when I get there. Joy!

But it's the weekend. I have pizza. And I'm going out for a hopefully lovely walk in the daylight tomorrow

Took the parental unit on a blustery walk over the moors today as the sun was out and it seemed a shame to waste it. Excellent fun was had by all and we didn't get blown away! (nearly, but not quite) 😁
Can confirm Christmas-Present-Hat is as windproof as stated on the packaging.

Christmas is survived. I'm back in my lively quiet house with my stuff and my programmes on the Tivo and generally aggressively pulling the blanket of ROUTINE over my head and nesting inside it for at least 3 days to get my head back on line.
Example:today is Thursday. On Thursdays we run. So I went for a wee jog - not as long as usual, but Thursday is a "change it up" run day anyway, so that's cool. And I met a puppy! Puppies are best. It was proper young and fodolopy.
later is Mary Poppins and then a swim and sit in a steam room for ages, stretching and breathing and stuff. That's usually a Monday thing, but I missed it cos twas Christmas eve. So I'm having it today.

And then much veggie stir-fry, and an early night. Tomorrow is grocery shopping, washing the bike, and maybe a cycle ride. A regular sleep cycle is the goal, and I'm gonna get there!

SAD sufferers represent!

I'm going out tonight and quaffing beer and wassailing loud and untunefully because I won against the darkest day and science says the sun will come back again!

Huzzah! It's gonna stop getting dark at 3pm!

Maybe I'll come back after all...
I do intend to keep trying to restart the blogging thing.

What's been new? Well, I got some iron tablets from the doc and realised after a couple of weeks how absolutely exhausted I'd been. So kinda unsurprising that I haven't got up to much except sleeping.

Infighting between Tory ministers spills over into environmental protection. This Liz Truss mess is all over the radio this morning. OK, so she wanted to annoy Gove and get her name in the news, but by hitting out at Clean Air Policy needs (oh look, we might have to reduce use of wood burning stoves, that's silly isn't it) we now have the degredation of authority of the Environment Ministry all over the radio news at the most listened to time.
This is why we NEEDED to keep EU environmental regulation. Without it, our environment protections are exposed to stoopid infighting by ministers. Env policy NEEDS to be long term and forward looking. It can't be that when it's in house. We've enough evidence of that from the past.
I have SUCH rage this morning. Were fecked and there's nothing I can do to stop it.