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11 Aug 2020 11:33 PM
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@Emelia8, I've been reading a few news articles about some of the areas that were firegrounds earlier this year, and now coping with flooding and/or wild weather while trying to deal with the virus... Big load. Lots of thoughts and prayers with you and your community. x

Also in the position where both Hubby and I have had to stop work due to our Older Daughter's MI. She doesn't live at home, but having to be available for repeated crises wears you down over time. We're both "creatives" so were self-employed working from home, but there's still social circles connected with that kind of work, and one odd thing is that there's less of a dividing line between "employed/not employed". You cut back and slow down until eventually you realise it's gone so far that there's no foreseeable prospect of being able to "pick up" to the point where you can actually earn anything from it. I still get caught out sometimes with grief over what I've had to leave behind.

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