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I start, along with the confusion of achieving something new, my husband’s tone was “game show announcer” – not something I hear from him very often!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prompt for this announcement was my own surprise at having finished a packet of yeast before it had gone past it’s best before date – again, my beloved’s observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empty packet of dried yeast<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When you work full time, life is pretty hectic. During lockdown, and the great bread and packet mix shortage, it was much more understandable to be in that position, but I never really managed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Of course, life isn’t like a computer game, is it. You don’t get awards for the everyday things.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is so true. But, so far, everyday I wake up warm and safe. I do make decisions about how the day will work for me. I quite like that autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being made redundant, I now have a bewildering number of options. A pay out for the incovience (believe me, I’d much rather have the role. I was doing some interesting work on managing risk), means I don’t have to leap blind – a position I have been in a few times in my career, although I have made it work for both parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a few things to do in the house, and some skills I’d like to brush up on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or I could pull my finger out, and write my book and my apps. I’d like to form a not for profit to provide augmented tooling for people with conditions that can be chaotically modelled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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