Day 91 - Thursday 18th June


Our son appears late morning to say he hasn't managed to sleep. I fix him some breakfast, and a while later we notice he's missing - he seems to have gone back to bed. I had been due to meet my friend for a coffee in her garden today, but the weather forecast is against us so we postpone until tomorrow.

Hubby has had a couple of calls with a potential client today which he feels went really well. He's hoping to find out by Monday whether he has a few months of project management work to start off his project management consultancy business. The good news is tempered by a message from a friend letting me know that her Dad died yesterday - he'd been ill for months with cancer but she's clearly devastated.

At lunchtime I have a call with a fellow trustee who is planning her exit from corporate life and wants advice on setting up a website, then I attend a webinar on managing difficult people run by an ex colleague. Another contact lets me know that Al Gore's Climate Reality Project is offering its climate leadership course online due to covid - it's normally a live learning event in the States but I'd wanted to go. I'll probably have to take holiday to made the time for it, but it's not as if I'll be travelling this year so I sign up. I share it on social media for the climate change partnership too.

My usual Monday yoga class didn't happen because my teacher was sick, so I join her class this evening. I'm feeling particularly stiff and achy at the moment, and I'm wondering whether it's the damp weather. I rarely feel my age, but I do at the moment. After yoga I cook dinner and prepare some sourdough. We decide not to disturb our son and because it's only the two of us decide on a TV dinner; we've barely started when he appears in search of dinner - clearly he has excellent food radar! After dinner we watch the final part of a House Through Time and the last three episodes of Normal People.

The big news today is that the government has decided to abandon its Track and Trace app and adopt the one jointly developed by Apple and Google. It's another embarrassing U-turn for the government but I think it's great news because I was struggle to reconcile my belief in the importance of a track and trace app with the knowledge that I'd be giving Dominic Cummings and his cronies access to my personal data. Tonight I am grateful for that.

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