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Spring Update 2026
6th May 2026

Here’s the latest update, a chronology sort of blog post. The first section was written in Feb or early March, but before I could publish it, there was a worse period… so now it’s complete. The writing is a bit messy with some mixing of tenses due to this, oh well. And it’s written on […]

Back in February I collected notes for a new blog post about my thoughts and psychological experience of illness in the last month or two. This was partly about sharing the experience, and partly about getting the same thoughts over and over again out of my head and onto digital paper.

Autumn Update 2025
18th December 2025

I thought it time for another update blog. (Later addition… ah, yes definitely, I started this early November!) This one I’ll be trying to stick to what’s gone on and how the last few months have been, with less of the broader philosophising reflections. Partly to try and keep it concise, partly because there’s not […]

April Update 2025
9th June 2025

I haven’t been able to keep up with messages and replying to people, or otherwise keeping anyone updated on what’s going on. I haven’t been able to reply to a message for a few months. so instead of trying to catch up on an impossible backlog, I thought I’d write an update blog and circulate it.

I didn’t die yesterday
16th September 2024

I didn’t die yesterday. This is of course true every day we wake up – but we don’t often think about it. But yesterday I came much closer than usual – how close, I don’t actually know, but close enough for concern and a reminder of mortality and to be grateful for being alive.

This post is a jumbled mixture of how ill I am, and reflecting on the severity and strangeness of the condition. How Ill I am I have post-acute covid syndrome (aka long covid). At the moment, I can’t walk out of the house, have a normal conversation, or sit at a table and eat a […]

In December, after a couple of months of health improvement, I got quite suddenly much worse, ending up severely ill for 5-10 days, feeling like I was more than halfway to dead This blog is about that experience. I am writing this in early January, recovered from the worst of it, though still very limited and fragile.

Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you […]

Content note: talks about death, disability, chronic illness, exercise and fitness I thought I would write a blog post about my experience with Long Covid, which is still debilitating and significantly affecting my life 8 months after infection. I *think* I am still gradually and slowly improving, though it may also have reached a plateau […]