Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now

My Back Pages by Bob Dylan (from the album 'Another Side of Bob Dylan')

Happy birthday to me!

I do, in all seriousness, feel much younger every year - hence the song from Bob Dylan. I recommend it - getting younger at each birthday, that is.

`I don’t understand you,’ said Alice. `It’s dreadfully confusing!’
`That’s the effect of living backwards,’ the Queen said kindly: `it always makes one a little giddy at first –
`Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. `I never heard of such a thing!’

Well, now you have!

Day 7 Update
Zero and total calm.

I can do it!

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, Bob Dylan. It may well be. But what is the question?

Here's one. Why am I at home in my office so early in the morning instead of out and about exercising one of my horses?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind! And also, I value my own personal safety, sometimes.

It is INCREDIBLY windy today. The horses are high as kites, galloping round the fields.

Wind-blown horse by Debbie Lincoln

It's not very funny riding a horse who is as high as a kite and wanting to gallop round the fields when you need her to be sensible in traffic...

So here I am at my desk.

It's less fun than riding.

But safer.