Do-over

It happened again this morning. A real low feeling, but then picked up as the morning wore on. What gives?!

Anyway, I am fine now and thank you for your kind words yesterday. Thanks also to those who shared their dogging dog-owning experiences. Genuinely, very helpful and lots of food for thought there. You lot are awesome.

The exercising, caring and poop clean-up, I can handle. The main cause for concern for me is the odd overnighter I do here and there (for work), BUT it’s pretty rare that these aren’t planned with at least a few days advanced notice. As ever, I’m probably just over-thinking it and it will be one of those things that once I’ve done it, I’ll wonder why I didn’t do it sooner!!!

I was on a mental health webinar about “Change” earlier. It was a little stuttery and disjointed before talk soon turned to managing anxiety, at which point I couldn’t help but smile to myself and bite my tongue to avoid shouting “House!” as a checklist of management techniques was reeled off. On the plus side, I appear to be doing all the right or recommended things (I see a lot of others on blip adopting similar techniques), so that’s something.

Booked my first face-to-face meetings for the first time in 18 months today - will be good to get back out on the road again - and also took the children to their swimming lessons for the first time in forever too, which was much more fun and they’re both doing really well.

It was a fine end to the day getting together with the panto mob and having a read through of the script once more. There’s a few genuinely funny set pieces sprinkled throughout, but still some room for improvement too. 

Today’s photo is not the best, but does illustrate a fight back from nature. There is an area by the allotments which had a load of trees pulled down and was stripped back to bare earth. It was nice to see it so green and bursting with life.