Exposure to two schools, and a nursery, plus public transport. And well, Britain...

Boo. Hopefully you'll just be tired for a day or two - that's what the most recent rounds (I think I've had it four times now?) were like. And good luck with the applications.

I hope that's as bad as it gets. Rest, and take recovery gently.

The brain fog/concentration issues I've had with a couple of rounds were surprisingly persistent, if relatively short in duration.

Because that’s what David does to make his notifications manageable. It’s a joke, for clarification.

You have an 'Amen' from here.

I've done that!

And taking a Tory rosette on an anti-tuition fees march (we met Caroline Lucas), is a *statement*, so fair play to him for that.

Ha!

I know there's lots of ways this can manifest, but pointing out that you're from somewhere that Labour haven't come second in a generation - it's now *two* generations - and that a genuinely inclusive party might ask questions of itself about that, goes down badly.

... his Tory contemporary, on the other hand, I actually quite liked (even though I disagreed with him on lots of stuff).

I'd wonder where he is now, but that would imply I cared...

I'm put in mind of the chap (this is a lifetime ago), in my undergrad cohort at UEA. He went from hawking the Socialist Worker on a Saturday to full New Labour apparatchik in about four years.

First Labour type to call me a Tory (but not the last).

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