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These last two posts here have been a bit grim and personal. Hm, I guess this is my personal web site and my personal blog so I shouldn’t worry about being personal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last three months have included a very small amount of time in South Wales overlapping there with my sisters and my father to celebrate his 98th birthday (and my 69th: I was a birthday present to him!) Obviously losing his wife of 72 years suddenly and facing health challenges of his own means that his life hasn’t been a picnic these last six months. Mum would have said “I’m not doing any high kicks” it was a quote from an elderly relative of Dad’s speaking to Mum some time in my young childhood. It was a phrase she had used a lot in recent years. Despite all that I think it’s fair to say that Dad is doing well really and my sister living near him has been a godsend. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my last post I said that in 2026 I was going to have to take greater care of my own health and follow up with investigations of the various surprises revealed in December. I haven’t done very well with that plan yet but there are pleas in mitigation! Partly those have been good events impinging: two whole weeks up here in the Alps with the family as they got their last skiing\/snowboarding out of “L129” the apartment we have owned since December 2003. Those will be the last as it looks increasingly certain that I will move out of here at the end of this month and into a lovely new place in May. I am still feeling very superstitious about that and won’t say more until it has, I hope, all happened. For now I am living pretty much in the bunk room in L129 as I pack things up for the move … and that’s one vital part of starting to move on and hasn’t been conducive to lots of exercise nor medical investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Work ticks on at a slower pace than usual and is in an ongoing reappraisal. I hope that will mean my being able to work in ways that are more satisfying for me in the second half of this year. Let’s see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am struggling to find a moral position, with all my privileges, in a world that our species is violating, and in which we violate and abuse each other. Like many I know, I feel utterly disgusted by Trump, his cronies and MAGA base and seemingly completely amoral Republican party, equally by Benjamin Netanyahu and another disgusting government in Israel and, of course, all the other continuing horrors and amoral power brokers around us. I have am clear that I can be vehemently against the current governments of the USA and Israel and that that doesn’t mean that I am antisemitic. I am not much less disgusted by the government we have in the UK. I should write about these things in some detail but at this point I don’t have the clarity and “grace” not to descend into rage or despair so that will have to wait. However, clarifying that more, and finding more activity to change things has to be part of all this “moving on”. That’s it for now: thanks for reading assuming you have!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having said that, as is my wont: some closing images. As ever (WordPress has made this easier at last), clicking on the images will give you the full size image). This shows how MMV, the apartment building below us in Aime2000, is starting to move on from the fire back in July last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n