Necklace

This is the necklace I was wearing today. Original in extra. My lovely kind and supportive pal said, in a Teams meeting this morning, that it made me look 'elegant'. Elegant is not how I see myself but I took it and thanked her.

Evaluation team meeting today. Lovely to see the others and talk about early themes emerging from the interviews. I still have a tiny bit of work to do on transcripts before the festive break.

In other news I wanted (for entirely non-serious reasons) to speak to my GP today. I phoned the surgery about 08:15 and was offered a face to face appointment this afternoon. After I'd heard the First Minister speaking I phoned back and asked the GP to call me rather than go in to the surgery. This he did. After a very brief discussion he wrote a prescription for an antibiotic which is what I wanted. But I had to say before we hung up how impressed I was and how grateful. I could have gone to the pharmacy but I wanted to check my self diagnosis with the doctor. I found myself feeling quite emotional - I simply have no idea how any front line key worker keeps going these days. GPs are getting a hard time but as my doctor said, though not in a self-pitying way, "we're trying to do our best".

This is an uninspired blip but, so unusually for me, I've not been over the threshold at all today.