Seacow that's really interesting that you can bounce back. I need to learn the mechanisms to allow my body to do that. Maybe the repetitive hobby thing is a thing that could help me. I always think back to the Shelock Holmes books and think about how he distracted himself with concerts even during the more intense periods of work.
Sorry to hear about your poorly patients Girlie.
Wreck I didn't know there was such a thing as an EOL or palliative care list. I wish I knew more about how it all works. My new GPs surgery organises talks for the patients and I've asked if they'd do one on caring for elderly relatives at a distance, so maybe I'll learn more about it from that.
need We have sausage and chip a lot. 
If you want it to seem posh you can buy posh sausage and oven chips as we do, but it's still fab.
You're ahead of me need on the cucumbers. I've never grown them. Let us know how it goes. It's always good to hear from real experience on the ground. The climate is so variable too, that even the professionals have to wing it a bit.
I was thinking need rather than me running muddily to the bottom of the garden, and you reading a boring article in New Scientist, maybe you could tell me one real source of joy that came to you on your run today and I could tell you something that really pleased me from my newspaper. We could call it FrugalJoys or similar. Then we could all learn sources of happiness from each other.
I realised btw that I sprint to school and back every lunchtime with ds on his bike, so I'm not totally stationary at least.
Oh gosh Wreck sorry about your Mum. Well done for sorting it. What did you do?
Great news on the babies Snuggly. Fantastic work there.
Well done on the chat and headache fix been.
Girlie Does EOL mean that the person has a terminal illness and nothing can be done? I always get puzzled with very elderly frail people because some may be close the end of their life, but some keep going forever it seems. It's hard to know which are which sometimes.
Good work on nodding off Em! Triumphant!
Trying Good to know that you are a runner too. I heard people before say that long distance cycling is like that. A friend once said that getting a girlfriend is hard for a long distance cycler as she has to be able to do it too. He said if she couldn't, he'd have to give up the bike and the endorphin withdrawal would be too hard. He was considering a tandem . Life is so weird.
Sorry to hear about that little boy Cag who's just come out of school. The school system is ridiculously high pressure here. I could scream aloud about it, I honestly could.
I'm still sitting in bed munching the potatoes. This bug is a long boring one, but I asked on Health and many many people said there's a howler of a bug going round, so it must just be that.
The lovely Tesco delivery man comes today. What splendid people they are.