Finding Comfort When You Are Sick

Reading time: 5 minutes Covid, the flu, the ‘long cold’ – I don’t know a staff team or student class that’s not currently decimated by bugs. It feels like a good time to think about how we pace ourselves when we are unwell, and how to find a sense of comfort alongside. Illness 101 …

Seasons of mist and mellow fruitlessness

Reading time: 4 minutes Two days in a row I have woken to thick sea fog cloaking the gardens. My view from the window is foreshortened; as I return Hope from her morning amble my footsteps sound thicker than usual, a subtle quality, the sound contained by mist. As we round the corner, turrets, …