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08.25 – 08.31

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Life

The GP signed me up for a battery of blood tests to see if anything’s up. I’m fairly sure they’re going to tell me that I’m totally fine. Of course that would be the best outcome, and still I find myself hoping that they’ll discover my stores of a particular vitamin or mineral are mysteriously depleted and there’s a simple fix to make me feel infinitely better. Rather than it being because I’m in my forties.

Σσ and Ηη got to Scotland. Me and a still-slightly-too-snotty Αα stayed in London. Αα initially took this quite well, but it slowly dawned on her that 1. mummy was going away and 2. Ηη was going to get to spend time with Aila, Danny, and Johnny, and she wasn’t. She got understandably quite upset after that.

As luck(?) would have it, Jim and Ange were coming down to Beverley for the weekend, so I managed to soften the blow by taking a now almost-snot-free Αα up to see them the next day. She got unfettered access to Cameron and Rory for a day too. The next day Σσ and Ηη came down from Scotland and we all congregated in Beverley. I think everyone got what they needed.

Reading

• Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks – just one more to go and I can stop reading Iain M. Banks books at the end of this self-inflicted Culture series marathon. This was was among the (sometimes, very much depending on the chapter) more readable ones for my money