Roughly three times a week. I like to run places that are a bit further away, where the surface is more forgiving, so it takes a chunk of time.

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. Is there any possibility of a secondary job, even if it's not in the kind of work that you have been aiming for?

@wintermom strangely I don't get bored now that I'm not following some training plan that breaks up the time and makes me anticipate the end of each segment. Instead I just put on a podcast, today it was In Our Time on the Interregnum, and run for three miles at whatever speed feels good. Glad you found a canoe partner.

@Soror no side effects at all with the second jab. I was rather looking forward to an afternoon watching telly in my pjs like last time. Your holiday sounds like fun. Three mile run in the fog on the beach today, then three mile walk with Evie.

For me - a beautiful piece of locally landed fish, simply pan-fried with a caper dressing, plus local sprouting broccoli and asparagus. Followed by oaty apple crumble with cream - oat cream for preference, apples from our own trees.

I lived in Northern California and also in two monsoon climates (winter dry, summer wet). I really didn't like the predictability. I love our changing weather in Scotland: bad things rarely stay for long and there's endless variety. I remember my BIL coming off the Old Course in St Andrews completely happy at having played a round on the famous course but, dressed for summer in Texas, having experienced: sun, horizontal sleet, rainbows, sun, hale, sun. I've never seen as many rainbows as I have since we moved here. We've had a cool, wet spring, with frosts well into May. My tomato plants are still sitting on a window sill waiting to be planted out. But today the sun is shining, the grass is incredibly green and the weather feels like a gift in a way that a sunny day in N California never did.

No reaction 24 hours on - not even a sore arm.

Your dedication is really impressive, given how much you have on your plate! I had my second Covid jab yesterday evening, so I decided not to push it today. Instead of running, I just walked one of the dogs for an hour, and I'm about to do some yoga. No side effects from the jab yet.

I had my second Oxford-AstraZeneca today. No reaction so far. Very good verbal and written information about when you should get help if you have particular reactions.

And to you! I do know where my towel is. When my brother cleared my mum's house, a beach towel came up wrapped around some china. It's the towel we used in the 1960s on holiday in Devon. I get warm and fuzzy when I towel off the dogs with it.

Thanks. Glad to hear about the arm strength. Well done for persevering, with all the other busyness in your life. 3 mile run yesterday. Physio this morning. Daughter comes to stay today so probably just a dog walk today, then second jab tonight.

I'm sorry, it was all so long ago. If you ask a question, I'm sure you will get some responses.

I'm glad you are enjoying them. It's been so chilly here this spring that I'm still in multiple winter layers, but maybe I'll get into my dungarees soon. Hmmm... lined dungarees, there's a cosy idea for next winter ... So much great advice from the Hive, particularly on gifted and LD issues, and Third Culture Kid stuff. And... you have all just broadened my outlook, allowing me to eavesdrop on conversations and cultures that I would not otherwise have experienced.

Best of luck!

A piece of non-study, anecdotal information - the university where I work, which has 10,000 students in a normal year, had zero cases of transmission in class. Students and lecturers were masked and the rooms were at low capacity. All the transmission was due to unmasked socialising in residences. We know this because attendance was taken at each class.

That sounds like a lot! I only walked the dogs today. I slept badly and it rained all day, so I took an extra day between runs. I'm due to have my second vaccination on Wednesday, so I might end up having a few quiet days after that. Gratuitous dog photo -

Residents of care homes were vaccinated fast in December/January with both jabs, before the decision was made to spread the doses. This happened to my mum. I think that some NHS and care staff were inoculated at the same time.

Red lentils are your friend, because they dissolve easily, so that they are not visibly lentils. Searching for red lentil pasta sauce, red lentil lasagne (assuming you can get GF pasta), etc. will pull up lots of options. This one was a hit with us; I used red lentils https://rainbowplantlife.com/healthy-vegan-lentil-shepherds-pie/

I’m a Vaccinated Transplant Recipient. I Don’t Have Antibodies. Now What? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/opinion/organ-transplant-covid-vaccine.html

What kind of food do you like to eat? Italian? Middle Eastern? Asian?

Sounds wonderful!

I'm sorry it's been such a tough year. One of my kids has had a massive change in their life, following on from around five years of debilitating illness. The second has a recent diagnosis and is repeating a year of university. They are both communicating and not in danger. That's a success.

@PeterPan yes. My mother would rather not have lived so long. And despite having very good health for her age, and still having family, she doesn't have much fun. Forgetfulness seems to be reducing her bitterness, but one can't rely on that being the case. Suicide discussed in the following I know of a case where many people knew that a very old person intended to take her own life. They believed that she was rational and that she just didn't want to go on with a reduced quality of life. The police were called after her death but no action was taken. I'm pretty sure that at least one person gave her advice about method. In that particular circumstance, I don't think that was wrong, but it's a slippery subject to legislate.

Tim Spector addressed this in a question session this week. In a large international study of 52,000 people, 500 fully-vaccinated people were hospitalised and 100 died. Eta 90 percent of the deaths were people with weakened immune systems due to frailty or other issues. It's at minute 4.45 here https://youtu.be/eZlNqMR0u9M

@Soror have a great trip! Doing a lot of house cleaning today. It's got away from me while I've been dealing with dogs and running and such. I'll walk the dogs later.