Notes and links from Mon 3 August

Had a nice week off from the blogging treadmill. It was a bit weird at first as one of the motivations for starting this blog up during my CFS recovery was to give me some kind of identity, a thing that I do that counts for something other than sitting around getting better, and suddenly taking that away reminded me of that need. So it was good to embrace that void of purposelessness for a bit and try not to fill it, at least at first. And then just as I was getting ready to try something new over the weekend I threw my back out. I think it was when I stupidly picked up a 20 litre bottle of grey water and carried it a couple of meters across the lawn though it didn’t really kick in until Saturday. Proper bad agony stabs and all that jazz. I don’t think it helps that I’m now three years into zero exercise, thanks to the CFS, so my core muscles are weak as shit and can’t support a sprained back. Fi had had similar a few years ago so she knew what I needed to do and it’s slowly getting…