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Journal Mostly a rest day today.

Journal One of the original functions of Notes & Links was to make the most of my sofa-bound internet surfing by making it into a writing exercise, and that is dependent on me doing that, hence some days there’s a lot and some days there’s nothing at all.

Journal Friday we had a visit from a couple of 11 year old girls and their mum to see the rabbits.

Yesterday I popped to the allotment with my sister for a bit.

The weather this last few days has been notable.

I didn’t really feel like blogging yesterday, so I didn’t.

Went to visit my sister briefly today on the scooter, thus normalising the whole “going out on the scooter” thing, and when I returned Fiona informed me that Lav had been furiously digging out Wally’s flop-hole and diligently spreading the soil across the…

A fairly nondescript day.

My local park on October 1st One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week.

A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feeling of getting something so cheaply from the other side of t…

I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic.

Lavander goes through phases of digging and we’re happy to encourage it.

Nothing much to report today.

So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted.

Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today.

The rabbit lawn.

Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system.

Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet.

Rest day, and much needed.

The view from my bench Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey.

Banana time is when the rabbits show they love me.

We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law.

Clicken to embiggen.

Because I went out on the scooter here’s a photo of the park for September.

Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome.

Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering.

Another rest day.

Nope, nothing happening today.

And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come.

One of those damn squirrels just went through the garden and Wally is not happy about this incursion.

Grass is back on the menu, baby!

Definitely a rest day.

Psychotherapy day today.

A bit of a rest day after the weekend’s exertions.

Another doing-things-away-from-the-computer day in which I might have overdone it but I tried to be careful about pacing so we will see.

I’d planned for today to be a computer-based writing day, given the rain forecast, but when I sat down to do some computer-based writing nothing was happening.

This is being stored here before installing and I thought it looked aesthetically pleasing.

Wally and Lav, impatient for the grass to go green again now it’s rained.

A geodesic dome water reclamation experiment A few days ago I was mulling over using our garden geodesic dome as a rainwater collection conduit.

While this post is mostly about Lav she wasn’t very camera friendly today, while Wally-the-tart went and did this.

Another recovery-type day though I haven’t managed it too well.

Definitely a rest day today.

Bit of a burnout day today.

The hellbound horror of GCSEs This starts as the usual “don’t worry about your GCSEs kids, no-one will ever care about them” piece with an amusingly cringe photo of the author aged 16, but then Ian Dunt gets into this really interesting idea that studying…

Lots of steady rain today for the first time in what must be a couple of months if not longer.

A day of mooching punctuated by an overdue visit from Roo to shoot the shit.

We got some rain last night, about 3mm or so, with more on the way over the next few days.

Taking things a bit easier today, after the crash.