Status:

The fatigue after Thursday’s exertions has definitely kicked in. Brain is foggy, basic tasks seeming impossible, all the usual shit. It’ll pass. I’m trying not to be down on myself for doing too much at the allotment. While I am working on maintaining a baseline of activity that avoids the booms and busts, it’s so fucking boring that it’s probably good for my metal health to break out occasionally, even if it does set me back for a few days. And the next few days are a very sunny bank holiday weekend where the done thing is to do very little, so it won’t feel like too much backsliding.

Reading:

• Anti trans organisations exerting powerful influence over media and politics, new analysis reveals
• ‘I thought I was the saviour of the planet’: how Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray found a wellness cult – and lost her mind
• US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Watching:

• Timber framed barn part 38: Flooring ‌(43:35)

Listening:

• In Our Time: The Levellers — There’s a 90s goth joke involving New Model Army but I can’t for the life of me remember it. Anyway, this was interesting. My knowledge of the English civil war is mostly informed by the Pogues lambasting Oliver Cromwell and an innate suspicion of puritanism, but a lot of solid social reforming stuff was seeded then.