Things have been so busy: they will not get less so. Making the most of sabbatical; making plans for the post-academic possibilities. Endings are beginnings: beginnings are also endings. We closed on the house: Bertie has made the last long journey for all the necessaries. Change is the only constant. Dundee is a lovely town full of surprises and a long history. I have some plans to manifest: bit by bit they are coming together. Some surprises of my own: whether they will interest anyone else is — well, anyone’s guess. I will do as I have always done: follow the hard row I hoe because I can’t seem to do anything else and mostly — if I follow those strange impulses — I am pleased with the results even if no one else is. It’s taken a long time to reconcile myself to that. Embodying ‘be the change’ I suppose.