So ... How's Your Girl?

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I’ll spare the gore, but after a rotator cuff injury that crept up on me and took weeks of physio to shift (but is now fine) Crohn’s was diagnosed (unusual in one’s 50s, I was told?), then treated, which resulted in 5 days in hospital with treatment-drug-caused pancreatitis (about a <1% side effect, apparently). I would classify this experience as "unpleasant". The arm full of morphine was the best bit. The early effects of this spoiled one of my "holidays", and one (world class whale watching in Indonesia) was put off for 2 years. My June 22 trip to the Galapagos is looking decidedly shaky just now, too. The last two are somewhat first world problems, I grant you. The year started with me in Shielding (immunosuppressed) and both Offspring learning from home. Shortly after Shielding ended, Offspring the Elder had a spontaneous pnuemothorax (collapsed lung) so none of us could mix outside the household for risk of bringing home an infection, surgery in late June, and by the time she was able to leave the house she was off to university. She’s settled in amazingly well, considering, although health is still fragile (within days of coming home for Christmas, we had an ambulance to the house and a trip to A&E for x-rays). What is clear is that, initially at least, Brexit is making us poorer. It has contributed to labour shortages in many business sectors as EU workers have returned home. The student ignores him and clutches his phone tightly with both hands as the teacher tries to pull it from him. Eventually he takes the phone and walks to the front of the class to continue the lesson.

I don’t want to be all-consumed by my diagnosis, it is what it is and I prefer to ignore it as much as possible.”– Yes! That’s how I feel EXACTLY. 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. There are so few people who know what it is like in our country for other people from different cultures. I’ve been fine, thanks for asking, and I hope you and yours are too. I’ve stayed well and not being a sociable man, wfh suits me. So long as I have my other half I haven’t missed seeing other people. It sounds cold, but I’ve never enjoyed company in large or frequent doses. The good people of the Afterword have kept me smiling and thinking all year, thanks to you all for your bounteous wit and wisdom. May your God go with you all.Whatever issues were riling Frost the most, delivering on Brexit promises is proving a lot harder than making them had been.

English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–VietnameseDo miss being in the Office – one day a fortnight ago I was in the Office with about 4 other colleagues. It just “felt” more real than just pressing buttons and talking to photographs on Teams.

On the plus side my teenage daughter now lives with me full time, that also brings quite a few challenges. Managed a couple of trips, one semi regular one to the paradise that is Prince Edward Island and I made it to Yorkshire for a week to see my brother. If for some reason you are unable to access the MagnetDL main domain then we also have the MagnetDL Mirror as a second option. For those who like to use the Tor network a MagnetDL Tor link is available. Also useful if the domains are inaccessible. As a corollary I have always kinda liked walking, and walking reduces my blood sugar (= good for diabetics), so this year I’ve been walking tonnes and really enjoying it. First thing I crave in the morning now is a big hike through a muddy forest with the dog. What a responsible teacher. He restrained himself from hurting the student during the violence,” another person wrote.I started the year as a postman, which I did until about May, when I quit because a) the office I finally ended up at, after being shunted around, wasn’t that well run. b) I didn’t want it to become what I did. So is a very common discourse marker in speaking. It usually occurs at the beginning of clauses and we use it when we are summarising what has just been said, or when we are changing topic: Reland says that in agriculture, city regulation, and areas such as green taxation and fintech, new ideas and progress on divergence are evident but in big areas such VAT little or nothing has happened. “There is no joined-up thinking on divergence strategy across government,” he says. We’ve seen other bits of Australia, and liked it. Perth Freo, and Brissie area – all nice, and great to visit.

Big change for me this year (stretching into 2022). I’ve sold my flat after living here for 20 years. I’ve finally decided I want a house, but will be lodging with my partner’s family until we find somewhere suitable. Due to move out in January – just waiting for the date to be confirmed. A viral video shows the teacher walking to the student’s desk and noticing he was playing video games on his mobile phone instead of paying attention to the lesson.So, we’ve covered the nineteenth century and we’re now going to look at all the experiments in the novel in the early twentieth century. My company has ‘enjoyed’ a merger and gone mad. As a colleague said the other day the new ‘leaders’ (not managers or anything silly like that) are trying to turn a global company with 5,000+ employees into a start-up. The results aren’t pretty so far. We’re good at what we do, could do with some updating, but that’s not going to work. WFH (apart from the brief interlude in the pueblo) was getting trying and solitary but a very brief return to the office wasn’t a great success. Hybrid working meant that there were about 10 people there at any one time. So, acres of empty space, very few water-cooler moments and plenty of tumbleweed. Now I’ve decided to make the focus pretty much purely about the running, to try and see how good I can get. If I can run 5k in under 20 mins while eating for a serious calorie deficit, what happens when I forget about the calories, eat for running, and just try to be fast? That’ll be fun.