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Sabbatical: Week Four
The fourth week of my sabbatical is over. Right now it still feels like an extended holiday rather than the “oh wow, this is something special” that I know it will morph into over time. The week is interesting because I’ve started to feel less fulfilled from what I’m doing each day – I get…
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Shed and loving it
One of the biggest jobs of my sabbatical was going to be sorting out my shed. Which, I know, doesn’t sound much but it’s been in a state for the last 10 years and, due to the shed being quite large, was going to be not a small job to sort (which in itself is…
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Having Covid
I’ve done pretty well not having Covid before now and I thought I’d document the experience. But before I get started, I want to prefix all of this with the fact that I’m very grateful that I’m of a health level and hitting a Covid variant that means that my symptoms are far worse than…
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Sabbatical: Week Three
As I come to the end of my third week of sabbatical, it’s time to look back on my first fully planned no-family-at-home and no-Covid time. It’s not been a week of anything momentous but the starts of lots of smaller things.
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Sabbatical: Week Two
Well, that’s the second week over with. And thank God it is. Covid is not much fun, and I appreciate that I’m getting it at a time when the strain is weaker and I’m fully vaccinated too. But, bloody hell, I’m ready to move on. Although I continued to do “things”, it hampered what I…