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nineveh_ukFinally tested negative on Monday and caught the train home. Despite being stuck at Crew (Oh, Mr Porter!) for 50 minutes due to points failure, my particular set of changes meant I was only 30 mins late in the end, although it still made for a very long journey. I accepted it with rather more than my usual equanimity, possibly because it was a Monday and there were seats, possibly because when you're already a week late, 30 minutes extra makes limited difference.
I'm still off work, but hoping to make it back next week. The last two days have basically consisted of essential things like phoning the GP, unpacking, and lying in the shade doing nothing interspersed with light reading. Having to get my own dinner is a bit of a shock to the system!
Inspired by the latter, all would-be writers of crime/mystery novels: blackmail is a crime! If someone is blackmailing you, you can report them to the police and you can get an injunction to stop them publishing anything. Your characters are only powerless to do anything about a blackmailer if what they are being blackmailed over is itself illegal. If it is in fact perfectly legal, was at the time, and no solicitor would raise an eyebrow about your fairly ordinary albeit embarrassing secrets, nor will there be financial consequences to their being revealed, there is no reason to listen to a blackmailer threatening you that now they are going to ruin your life because you've stopped paying up AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!, rather than taking action against this. Especially when the blackmailer has just admitted said blackmail in front of multiple witnesses including a policeman.
I'm still off work, but hoping to make it back next week. The last two days have basically consisted of essential things like phoning the GP, unpacking, and lying in the shade doing nothing interspersed with light reading. Having to get my own dinner is a bit of a shock to the system!
Inspired by the latter, all would-be writers of crime/mystery novels: blackmail is a crime! If someone is blackmailing you, you can report them to the police and you can get an injunction to stop them publishing anything. Your characters are only powerless to do anything about a blackmailer if what they are being blackmailed over is itself illegal. If it is in fact perfectly legal, was at the time, and no solicitor would raise an eyebrow about your fairly ordinary albeit embarrassing secrets, nor will there be financial consequences to their being revealed, there is no reason to listen to a blackmailer threatening you that now they are going to ruin your life because you've stopped paying up AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!, rather than taking action against this. Especially when the blackmailer has just admitted said blackmail in front of multiple witnesses including a policeman.