I'm still here I guess

[fivemack]

Still not sure I've got over the cold that I had at my last post three months ago - I tried a couple of 5km runs on consecutive days near the start of lockdown and my lungs complained for a fortnight. I'm managing hour-long cycle rides aiming for every other day, I was sad how wobbly and breathless I got after two hours weeding in the midday sun on Tuesday but Kirsten made an insightful comment about mad dogs and Englishmen.

I got my group-project for the MSc finished and submitted, am slowly reading through the tables of contents of various relevant-seeming journals for the individual project … it's almost tempting to write about the sociology of people who have clearly been doing similar-shaped projects to mine for the last 25 years without very much progress.

Slightly fretfulness-inducing weekend: uncle Philip is very ill in Inverness (at least there's a diagnosis, it's dilated cardiomyopathy), and my pregnant sister-in-law Marian has just gone into the Rosie to be induced (at full term).

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[rmc28]

Fingers crossed for your family frets and I hope everyone has the best possible outcome.

[fivemack]

Thank you!

[hilarita]

Hooray you're still here!

[pameladean]

I see you in passing in many familiar online places, but I think it's been some time since we actually addressed one another. I am glad to see you more or less well, and hope your family health anxieties will have happy outcomes.

P.

[fivemack]

Anita Elizabeth Womack Via arrived on Saturday night by emergency caesarean; 2.6kg and with a full head of light brown hair; mother and baby are well and were back home by Tuesday morning.

https://twitter.com/beekeepermadrid/status/1259895431326306306

Uncle Philip should be out of hospital this weekend.