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Sorry I'm posting so little at present. I had Covid. Yet again. And it leaves me so drained afterwards...

I think I'm past the worst now, but it really is frog climbing well (for every two steps forward, you slide one backwards) territory.

I'm finally starting to clear the worst of the email backlog.

What with sciatica and Covid, I've been very behind on pretty much everything for the last year (probably the last three...) and I've fallen behind on a lot of morris and sword dance stuff that needed doing.

At least I've found a volunteer to take over event organising for the morris team (bagman). I'm breaking him in very gently, as he's had his own health problems and I don't want to over-load him.

And I've finally written down the instructions to a sword dance that we perform to 'Wellerman'. I'm hoping we can video it at Swanage Folk Fesitval.

If I'm fit enough to dance in 2 weeks time.... I had to miss it last year due to pain/exhaustion.

Fingers crossed!

andrewducker

Spent the afternoon being serenaded by a cinema full of kids at the K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-a-long.

As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.

andrewducker

1. Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse: (tags:race ethnicity history viaPatrickHadfield )

andrewducker

Gluten free pie and a collection of badges to indicate my new age. I think my family might like me!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

andrewducker

I've just discovered that Android has an option that lets you snooze notifications. You have no idea how happy this makes me.

andrewducker

1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling): (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries: (tags:inheritance tax uk )
3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses: (tags:ai energy co2 water )
4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story: (tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )
5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?: (tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )
6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland: (tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )
7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings: (tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )
8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh: (tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )
9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.: (tags:cancer alcohol disease )
10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC: (tags:law uk usa censorship )

No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!

andrewducker

So far today, I was woken up at 4am because the children had been playing with an old alarm clock yesterday (I got back over though).

And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.

Happy birthday to me!

Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.

andrewducker

Gideon, heading for a recently arrived package, holding a knife "I'm not going to stab *anyone*!"

andrewducker

I've not been out this late since Gideon was born, but when my music-obsessive photographer friend Kenny told me I had to come see Fantastic Negrito at the Fringe I decided to make an exception.

The support band (Megan Black) was better than most support acts. The main act, on the other hand, is just, well, fantastic. Maybe even worth missing the kids bedtime for.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.