Well, that was fast, wasn’t it? February is over and my temperature blanket has grown by one more month, twenty nine hexagons, two blank hexagons, and one and a bit rows. I ended my January update with an earworm that had really started to bug me (‘January‘, by Pilot), happily thinking that that was it, month over and therefore earworm over. But of course that’s ridiculous. After parking ‘January’, my brain idly wondered if there were songs about February, and … boom … just like that, another earworm entered my brain. I haven’t been able to dislodge it since. This …
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grief
My beloved aunt died last week. I have said the most important things I want to say about her – thoughts I knew would be shared, understood, and similarly articulated by every single person who knew her – at her funeral. And these words were heard by everyone who knew her personally because her service was live-streamed around the world. So I won’t write about her beautiful soul specifically here, but instead reflect on how her sudden absence has upturned my thoughts now. I went to bed late on the night of Monday 19th with my head organising my tasks …
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