Can a horse tell time by a watch?

My mother has been making vague noises about getting a new car for a while now, and this week something clicked and she decided now was the time. So this week she talked to Mr McKeever, mechanic and old family friend, and he found two possibilities that met her requirements: small, not silver, four doors. This afternoon when I finished work we took them both for a test drive. One of them - the 2018 Kia Rio she's going to buy - had a reversing camera, which, as a passenger, I did not enjoy. I could feel myself tensing up every time the orange direction rectangle veered off-course.

I was thinking that it must be nearly a year ago that I was made redundant - it was the end of November - and when I looked at my entries from last year, it was exactly one year ago today. What a strange and ultimately lucky experience that was. The local paper often does stories about mental health initiatives, and the charity I worked for is no longer mentioned as being part of them. I think the Powers That Be in New South Wales are starving the local office before shutting it down completely. I'm glad to be out of it.