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[danieldwilliam]

A quick update.

1) BB is visiting for a week. She is back for another week at the end of her Easter break. Her 21st birthday is coming up. She is talking about buying a flat with her boyfriend. She graduates in July. Still no job but she tends to take things sequentially. Degree first. Then Job. Then  Flat.

2) See point 1 - I am about to propose a complicated property transaction to my family. No downside there, folks.

3) Work busy - lots of side projects for me personnal and generally very busy. Feeling quite engaged but there is lots to do.

4) Drama club - I think I have finally lost my patience with drama club - being on the committee is no longer fun, no longer valuable, and not really helping me get what I want.

5) Rugby - ran my first coaching session as lead coach. Did the coaching plan and lead the delivery. Lots of hats invovled to try and get the kids to think about their structure. Went okay. Need to explain the concept more to the other coaches and being earlier to the location would have helped. I do like the kdis, they are good value and seem to be progressing and enjoying themselves.  We have a nice run up to the end of the season, with away games at Stirling, our own festival and what I suspect might be a grudge match at Lasswade. They were not good sports when last we played. (Any game in which the Captain is provoked in to scoring a hat-trick generally invovles some skulldugery by the oppposition. He strikes down with great vengance and furious anger when provoked.)There is  coaching challenge re Lasswade in that I think we'd quite like to beat them but that's not really our ethos (Play when we're 9, win when we're 18.)

6) The Amelia sitution seems to be moving to a close out of stage 1.

7) My youngest niece is doing well. It was nice to see her last week.

8) I am looking forward to having a bit more headspace to spend some time with some friends.

9) Brexit - not sure how long May can keep the Tory Party together as they confront the nightmare that they have created for themselves. Hopefully long enough that they are utterly unable to function as a party ever again but I think they will either break more gently and sooner or smuggle themselves over the Brexit line and end up with zombie internecine fight for the ten years it will take to sort out our future relationship with the EU and all the constitutional damage we've done to ourselves. It is a shame Corbyn is unsuited to his current role.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Already one resignation over May working with Corbyn. More to follow if she continues, I'm sure.

Transferring your energy from drama to rugby sounds much more fulfilling.

[danieldwilliam]

Not just a minister, a whip.

What I'd like to be doing at drama club is more improv but it's not a top priority for them and I don't have the energy at the moment to make it work through them if it's not a priority. There is plenty of drop-in improv available in Edinburgh. I don't need to be on the committee to do that.

And the rugby is very rewarding. I get to spend time with the Captain. I like the other kids too, they are good value and they reward the effort I put in both as people and as rugby players. I'm learning more about the game which is interesting and I enjoy the sports coaching process.

[andrewducker]

Yes, worth putting up with other people's improv if it means less effort overall and still getting to do some.

Bluebird sounds like she's being very sensible. And buying a flat is worthwhile if she can make the finances work. Are you about to propose that you buy it, and she slowly buys it off you? Do they know where they're going to live post-degree? Or going to wait and see where job offers take her?

[danieldwilliam]

The scheme is a bit more complex than me buying it and slowly selling it to her.

I'm looking at some sort of co-ownership model involving various grandparents and aunts and BB herself.

She is very sensible. Somewhat conservative but that's not unreasonable.

Her boyfriend has a job in Bristol for at least the next few years and Bristol is growing economically. Perhaps not as vigorously as Edinburgh but pretty briskly. so easy enough for BB to get a job there too.

I am pretty convinced that the difference between an old age of relative poverty or relative affluence is how soon you buy a flat.

[alithea]

I don't know what job BB wants to do but Bristol is a nice city and seems to have a good range of jobs so it's probably a good choice of location.

Also, I agree re: Property owning as soon as you can manage, my friendship group is already divided between the comfortably off folks who have owned property since their early to mid 20s and the folks who still don't or only managed it well into their 30s, and that's in our late 30s to mid 40s.

[danieldwilliam]

I don't mind other people's improv - it's a good way to be challenged and gain experience, but it does involve putting up with other people's organisational structures rather than my own and the difficult interface between art and commerce. Drop in improv and improv lessons are a business designed to put money in the pocket of the organiser / teacher / venue and not necessarily designed to produce great art or great artists.

[notasupervillain]

So far as I can tell, there no coherent path to anything but there is a default position. I am displeased with the situation.