vivdunstan

As I say on my profile page I mainly use this blog to keep track of dosage changes and symptom patterns/progression in my neurological disease. Those entries are restricted to family only.

I do post more widely though. Many early entries are friends-locked. If you know me, either in person or online, feel free to friend me.

But some entries will be on more open access, especially those I link to from Twitter.

Finally our postal votes have arrived! We were expecting them from late last week. Finally here. This is for the local Westminster by-election in our constituency. One of two Westminster by-elections currently in northeast Scotland, caused by the sitting MP winning a seat as a MSP in the Scottish parliament, so needing to be replaced at Westminster. Martin has the joy to look forward to of me loudly commentating as I battle with envelope A, envelope B and envelope C!

We enjoyed watching this immensely. It’s prompted by the newly rereleased remastered 1996 TV movie. But the chat with Sylvester covers his whole TV era of Doctor Who and more since then.

I'm newly reading Bluff by Francine Toon, which is set in St Rule, a thinly disguised version of St Andrews. I'm not sure why she bothered making it a fictional place. Not least when I read of the "Isle of Maeyar" ...

So far I'm finding the book frustratingly choppy, with incredibly short chapters, and constantly changing POVs and time periods. But hopefully it will settle down.

Still in waiting limbo re the gynae cancer investigations, but generally happy, and my brain has thankfully stopped overthinking relentlessly at 4am/5am every day! Side effects from my Covid vaccine on Monday have largely eased, though I'm still popping painkillers every 6 hours, and am giving Paddington Bear level stares at my frustratingly itchy red and swollen arm. Anti histamines can only do so much! I hope tomorrow to tackle a big pile/clearing out area in the sitting room. Martin might be happier if I left it alone 😜 But we'll see what I can do.

Rewatched this pair of episodes last week and the week before, as part of our continuing 20 years on rewatch of the first David Tennant series.

Going to discuss some major spoilers, so going into spoiler space. Spoiler discussion will also include the later 2006 series finale.

( spoilers )

Another day, another drive around Google Street View, checking the route for a NHS appointment. This time for my NHS Covid vaccine (#13). I may be the only under 75 patient there again! Closer venue and sooner than originally booked for me. Important, given I'm due major surgery, one way or another.

It is very amusing to be counting roundabouts for directions. We were last at this venue in November. Not the main Dundee vaccination centre, and it's quite a bit closer to our home. But still a bit of a venture into a new area for us, so always a bit of an adventure to get to successfully.

Completing a Tolkien Society member survey, and had to double check my answer to the first question. I've been a member since 2002, though I think I was a member some years earlier too. Definitely "21 years or more" though!

Just mused some thoughts about this on my academic blog.

Just played a SpringThing interactive fiction parser game that includes an accordion 😜 I absolutely loved this game, and not just for the squeezebox!