Going forward on Tumblr

This week hasn't been a great one with pretty bad muzzy head for a large chunk of it and as I'm typing this apart from the bang bang bang of next door erecting another shed it is raining pretty hard here, to hard to be honest for me to be out spotting the wildlife and no I don't mean Grumpy by that,lol!

I've been working a little on my Tumblr which I've had for a while now tidying the odd post up and working on the style of it as some of things I might of considering posting to be honest I had grown a bit tired of.

Part of that is really more to do with how Age Dysphoria runs in my life, I don't so much need a regressive tumblr so much as one that covers just what interests me a bit like a half and half of this blog and my other one cos I'm in the same space.

So that does have things related to manga, anime and lolita fashion mixed in with some past childhood related posts minus much of the age regression war discourse which as I've said before ironically takes you out of the very headspace you need just for arguments about terms and that.

That's always been me I feel and getting that tumblr right so I feel comfortable posting on it the stuff that matters to me is important.

The summer on temporary hold

 

The summer has been paused due to concerns over the extent of case rising of the Delta (previously known as the "Indian" ) variant until July 19th with just a few relaxations around things such as weddings and  few events going ahead as "test" events  and the break on when people and businesses can be evicted for being behind on rent shunted forward to March 2022.

Of itself that doesn't surprise me because it is generally accepted the variant is something like 60% more transmissible so you need a higher ratio of people with at least once vaccination and more including all vulnerable groups on double vaccinations to keep the transmission and hence the number of cases down.   

The good news is the vaccine especially where both doses have been given does reduce the number of severe cases up to and including needing hospitalization down and those that are seem to recover quicker than the initial Covid form so take less time in hospital.

By today all adults over eighteen will be able to book their vaccinations and a combination of intense surge testing and mass immunization in hot spots including all of the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire with their modern day "City Regions" of Liverpool and Greater Manchester cases will be flattened as well as nearby Leek here in Staffordshire where it is clearly linked to high schools and colleges so were already on eighteen plus vaccination.

I see masks and much of the one metre plus rules staying in place for the foreseeable future although it must be stressed we WILL need to live with this virus, keeping ourselves safe rather than be kept on permanent restrictions because as sad as the impact of Covid has been on health and deaths, the measures being taken to deal with it are also having a severe affect on health from operations and treatments postponed leading to people losing health, massive impacts on mental health even amongst those less vulnerable, time lost in physical well-being and education and so on.

We can't permanently pause society due to concern about NHS capacity, we need to address that capacity issue through increasing it.

Past loves and the struggles today

Not being a good week here with a muzzy head and migraine for a few days only semi-interrupted by a trip to the hairdressers so while haven't been able to prepare very much my brain was going backwards.

One of my first earworms was Sugar Sugar as performed by the Archies who had in 1969 had a tv show apart from being a massive comic giving an outlook on the teen life but having at least a dog and super clothes to grab my attention back then

It was a funny kind of era because coming in from the end of 1967 into 1968 a mixture of sophisticated productions, allied to a more child-like comic book approach to pop music and even cartoons had come in from songs like "Simon Says" the party game we played set to cheesy organ driven pop, catchphrases like "Quick, Joey Small" turned into songs and then things like the Archies and Josie and The Pussycats.

That was before you took into account things like Rupert The Bear being sang on Top of the Pops and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by the Middle of The Road being in the charts

I always loved watching The Wizzard of Oz with it's songs I loved to sing along to.

I did see this crib sheet come up which I thought was handy.

Finally like a good number of us with autism I find small talk in parties, social get togethers and even in the world of polly ticks very hard going and remain unable to make eye contact without freaking out.

I was once told in a employment annual review to apologize for not making eye contact something which I saw as being near enough having to apologize for my autism, that I absolutely refuse to do.

It's one thing to say if someone's notices it "Due to my autism I'm afraid I'm unable to make eye contact with people" it's another to have to apologize for not being able to meet a norm due to a disability I have no control over.

The alpaca's pj's

Phew, it's been a pretty warm week here so I've had to keep up the hydration here with extra glasses of water and pop as the heat takes a fair bit out of you and I tend to run on the warm side normally as it is.

I've been outdoors a fair bit taking in the sun, meeting people as you do while I've been exploring and sunbathing trying to stay healthy after all of last years business apart from obviously having now had both of my vaccinations.

While out I spotted these Alpacas playing around, half expecting me to toss them a carrot or two otherwise they'll send a posse around. 

I think they're really cute.