Lavander Graph Generator, to give her her full name, shortly after we first adopted her in 2020.
Status:
Rest day 2: Rest harder.
News today is Lav is showing signs of head tilt. On a Sunday afternoon when all the vets are closed. Because of course. Wally had this last summer so we know what to watch for and it doesn’t seem too bad so far as she’s eating. We’ll phone the vet first thing in the morning and take it from there.
Otherwise we’ve got sucked into the snooker today. Never been a fan and have no real idea what’s at stake but watching the quiet men knock the balls around while the commentators sound like David Attenborough is a good way to spend a rest day. Switched it on early afternoon and it’s suddenly 10pm.
Overnight listening:
Reading:
- Martin Parr obituary - knew this was coming after the recent documentary but even so, a great loss leaving a great legacy.
- John Harris: The right’s mental-health overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it - you give Streeting too much credit, John. “There are more people being diagnosed with anxiety and depression because of an education system and model of work that are so harshly competitive and inherently precarious, and the still-overlooked effects of the pandemic."
- The Line was the zenith of our age of insanity - a while back I had a passing interest in Superstudio whose Continuous Monument is a clear predecessor of The Line, except that was a parody and The Line was just sheer hubris. “Somewhere out in the Saudi Arabian desert, a mad prince with a bottomless sovereign wealth fund actually carved a 150-km gash in the sand, and exclaimed that he would build a 500-meter tall, mirror-glass-clad linear city and fill it with 9 million people." via