Astrid's words

New ones include: Do-da (shoulder), Eh-bow (elbow), dun-jees (dungarees), a very clear "wata" for water (English native accents may think she's already saying "water"), and, um, some other stuff.

Keep taking the drugs

The garden is sunny and hot. The laundry is drying quickly. Three loads are out there now and one is in the machine, so I'm being very productive.

I've taken my pills and ordered a repeat prescription.

This weather is great, and I'm loving it, but it's frightening, too. I watched the children playing in the garden earlier, in March, and wondered what they will look back on, and from what, when they are my age or older. The red kites are back, and there are loads of ladybirds, but the heat is ridiculous.

The water butt is almost full and we're trying to get the ground good and wet. We're hoping for rain in April to fill the butt up again, but either way, getting it wet to a good depth before the summer heat really sets in seems important.

I'm trying to decide how much of this is medical anxiety and how much is that actually, climate change is a thing. I'm trying to avoid thinking about it when I can.

I can't keep up

Linnea went into a long explanation about the difference between dolphins and whales and sharks and something else today and I just didn't have the brain to keep up with her. What her brain is willing to retain from books and DVDs on Nature In General far outstrips mine.

She finds it pretty frustrating.

Frustrating Linnea is pretty frustrating.

Today I am mostly... fighting self-hatred

I am almost certain this will turn out to have been PMS. I wish my phone full of a year's dates hadn't been stolen.