The good news - the bad news -

The weird taskbar thing that was happening on my desktop seems to have remedied itself yay.

Did I ever mention that my GP surgery notified me that they were scheduling the next round of boosters + flu shots? - admittedly it turned out that these were several weeks ahead, but I am now scheduled at least.

A young person solicited my advice on their research and came back to my response with effusive gratitude.

However -

Editor of volume to which I am contributing chapter I have already writ substantial portion of responded to my email saying that I was not going to make it by original deadline (which I was assured was not at all hard), but within a few weeks probably, with what I consider rather belated sending of editorial guidelines. Which include reference system I do not like at all and which means unpicking referencing I have already done, moan, groan.

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In other news: save the hedgehog by giving them additional Protected Wildlife Status.

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The people in Cheshire who will tell you they 'know' the Earth is flat: I had to play that video of Flat Earther singing in a different browser and honestly, it is not much improvement over the hymn of the real (rather than spoof) Flat Earthers in Kipling's 'The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat' - 'Flat, and Flat for ever more'.