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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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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 could do but, also, I felt quite weak and tired. None-the-less, stuff did happen.

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As I said initially, this week (particularly as schools were home) was always going to be a planning and build-up week.

However, it hasn’t quite ended how I wanted it to.

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Half way through the first week of  my sabbatical.

Yesterday involved some baking with Lucie – a rather lovely lemon drizzle cake (I went heavy on the lemon so it has quite a zing to it). See the image below for how it turned out! Otherwise, it was a relatively quiet day.

Today, we met one of my brother-in-laws and his wife at Chatsworth House (or rather the farm and the surrounding grounds).

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So, I’m minutes (in terms of how long I’ve been awake) into my sabbatical. Needless to say, I’ve not done much so far.

I got back from a team meetup yesterday, tired and spending most of my time unpacking and catching up with family.

But what are my immediate plans?

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