Yes, I know it’s slipped round to 2024, but these things happen.
Somehow, with my frequent slippages of time and my good intentions about punctuality never quite working out, it is appropriate that I am late. I have just, as usual, fallen asleep in front of the TV, woken and made a decision about whether or not to blog. Really I should go to sleep, but he urge to write is strong.
I am finally beginning to feel like I am recovering from my chest problem, It’s far from a full recovery, but I am at least starting to feel like I am making progress. It took a while at the beginning as there were symptoms from several things to unravel and I spent at least a week getting worse. Even yesterday, I felt very weak. Today I have begun to feel a little better. It’s surprising that you can sleep for 8 hours at night, then snooze through a lot of the day, and still end up feeling tired, but that’s how I am at the moment. While you are sleeping, you are healing.
Yesterday I decided I wouldn’t make any submissions for December. There seems little point in rushing work which can be left to mature. There are plenty of opportunities for submissions in the next few months – better to do something decent than rush into doing something badly. It always seems slightly rude not to support an editor who has accepted work in the past, but it also seems slightly rude to send something when you know it isn’t your best. There is so much more to making a submission than merely writing it and sending it off.
Photos are mainly Julia.
I hope you recover fully very soon, Simon. Rest and sleep are the best things you can do. Best wishes for a healthy, happy and successful 2024.
Thank you. And to you and the family. 🙂
That sounds like a good idea on the submissions. You need to recover physically to help your frame of mind to be working well. Good wishes for better times in 2024.
Thank you. And to you, Mrs T and the family.
Continue healing
If you mean keep resting, I am doing that. 🙂
Sleep is good. Glad to hear your lungs are better. Rest up, heal up.
Thank you. Best wishes to you all for the coming year.
Ah, over on this side of the pond we’re stubbornly clinging to it now being 2023. Heck, I’m clinging to it being more like 1982 and earlier, but 2023 would get less argument from the masses. Best wishes to you and yours and all–
Thank you. And to you and yours.