Edgware and baby cucumbers
After a poor night's sleep, up to see Mum and Mas this morning, reading and writing on the trains, including Bold Move , my Dr Luana Marques. She describes how our response to anxiety can go three ways, fight, flight or freeze. People either react immediately or angrily, the deny the problem and bury themselves in everything that isn't the actually stressful thing, or they freeze in place, staying in the job or relationship or other situation that is unsatisfactory. I have definitely frozen before, when two of personal values meet head on, such as loyalty and being true to yourself for example in a relationship. Arranged to meet my old school friend Peter Hoibak in Brighton next week, for a drink after 40 years. Did some of my own writing in short burst that I was pleased with on the train. Met Mum and Mas in the Jolly Badger, arriving at exactly the same time as them. I chose a good meal, with lots of salad, some lean chicken and a bit rice, washed down with a ...