It feels like the most common subject I blog about over the last few decades has been how little I blog. But I value all my old blog posts and Marjorie and I fairly often use it as an aide memoire. And as most of the shine has gone off of Facebook in my eyes, it just seems to make sense that I should write about things here more often, even if it will go unnoticed by most. So let's see if I can get back into this.
We are still happy with our choice to move to Ely, and plan to stay an indefinite while. A statement like that obviously means a lot more now than it would twenty years ago, as it's time to consider when, where, and how to retire. We are glad to have the options we do, especially as everything has gone haywire thanks to our batshit fuckwitted leader.
We lucked into a house we like a lot and are surrounded by great neighbours. We also have something we've never had before: a pub. Yes, we've lived near pubs before, but now we're part of a Stammtisch at the Prince Albert where we can just show up randomly and get into great conversations with all the regulars, who have become friends. We seem to learn so much there about life in the UK, life in Europe, history, etc.
Hamish the dog is still kicking on, and loves to go to the pub. He's 15, and arthritic, but still has an undeniable zest for life. We have a harder time leaving him these days as his pace has slowed and he tends to come back from the dog sitter knackered. But we took him up to Thornham in Norfolk for a quick weekend getaway last weekend and he had great time.
Our jobs are... fine enough for the moment, though here as well obviously we wouldn't mind a bit more security. Retirement would be great but it makes loads more sense to be stockpiling all we can at the moment.
What else is new... We got a bass guitar, named it Minty, and I'm going to try to teach Marjorie what I know (at least the parts that overlap with playing a regular guitar, which is a lot, but there's still loads specific to the bass that we'll have to figure out together). She's had one lesson from me so far and did awesome.
I'm taking an online class on basic astronomy at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, just because the chance was there. Two hour classes on Tuesdays for six weeks. I could probably teach the class tbh but I wanted to get thinking about cosmology again just to have something to ponder that isn't the shitty state of the world. It's a subject I sometimes wish I had pursued, but what can you do. (Funnily enough, Marjorie took an astronomy course in college and hated it because they expected her to do math when she just wanted to look at stars, while I was unable to get into my college's astronomy courses because of all the people who signed up for it just wanting to look at stars!)
That will do for a catch-up post. The plan from here is to get back to posting smaller stuff, if I can sustain this.
