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What a responsible teacher. He restrained himself from hurting the student during the violence,” another person wrote. And after 7 years of suspicions, they've finally told me I almost certainly don't have the prostate cancer they suspected I did. It took a general anaesthetic, 51 needle, biopsy though. (See "unpleasant" above. (lol emoji thing)) See also I'm a fortunate man, no mistake, above. If you say that something is so-so, you mean that it is average in quality, rather than being very good or very bad. Your first and second paragraphs are me, too, Arthur. The reason I started my current office job 11 years ago was I spent the previous 9 months WFH (following the fallout from the late 2008 crash) and missed having colleagues to talk to.

Due to Mrs F’s translatlantic work meetings, studying/sleeping teens, etc, the record player has rarely been on. The good news is, after 10+ years, work is finally underway to soundproof my garage (and have a dedicated WFH box-room office). The hernia prevents me from anything DIY, but Mrs F continues to keep me in the style to which I have become accustomed, so I’m going to pay an electrician to do the stuff I can’t.

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Been working with an Etsy Handwriting Artist to copy loved ones handwriting into frameable art and also a couple of special poems I wrote for people using my own handwriting. Started year with a degree of of optimism. The last couple of years I had lost my mum (age in the main) and brother (brain tumour). Then there was Covid and I had long Covid (mouth taste smell) which would not go away. 2021 had to be better. Didn’t it? ….. So I didn't know you knew his dorm room,’ I grinned, ignoring the flush rising up his face I continued. ‘In fact you seem to know him and his room fairly comfortably, how so?’ And in the last week or so I got offered a new job, which I will start in February – same company, same work, higher grade and more money.

I see internet’s interference with real living as a very different issue to the socializing/not socializing one though. Personally, apart from here (bless you all), I’ve never been interested in interacting with strangers on the internet. And this is before new rules on imports from the EU will be implemented in January, which business leaders say will lead to further falls and delays. Then food products from the EU will face extra physical inspections from the summer.Generally OK – no health disasters (just aging). I think I finally “got” this Working At Home lark and actually created a proper office space rather than the dining room table.

By the way, I think the flip of covid and being indoors is that it’s led to a lot of people sitting indoors glued to screens and getting gradually angrier and angrier and less and less likely to see people and touch grass. Introversion and misanthropy don’t need to go hand in hand, but I think the one is a risk factor for the other, and those of us who find socialising tiring should always be watchful of where those tendencies can lead. Misanthropy is a proper sin, in my view.) The second major event was that in April my mum died. As the nominated visitor, unlike the rest of my family, I’d managed to organise a visit to the (brilliant) care home to see her less than a week before. Fortunately we’d sorted out the house move a few weeks earlier so ‘all’ I had to do was to do learn about probate, do all the maths and fill in the 7 inheritance tax forms! At least it kept me busy and was content in the knowledge that none of my mum’s money went to a solicitor. This is a service Hannah used to provide each year – it was good to learn about what everybody had been up to. I hope I’m not treading on her toes in posting this. I look forward to reading anything and everything you want to post. I might even find the time to remember and write up what I did this year. Apart from my nephew Martin and his long-term partner Trish getting married after being together 17 years. A suitably major event, involving two families and loads of friends at a very nice venue in Surrey. A joyous occasion with no hitches once you remembered it had been postponed twice due to Covid.The resignation last weekend of Lord Frost, the minister overseeing Brexit, gave a clue that all was not entirely well. “Brexit is now secure … the challenge for the government now is to deliver on the opportunities it gives us. You know my concerns about the current direction of travel,” Frost told the prime minister in his resignation letter.