under another sun

So feeling a tad brighter. Covid test was negative. Not poked one of those bad boys up my nose for a while. Unhappy memories. I sloped about doing nothing much, instead of meeting up with Mark Hartley and Peter Hoibak today, my old school pals, as I had planned.   Finished The Naked Neanderthal , by Ludovic Slimak, which was better about what the author thought was erroneous in the study of Neanderthals than on what was actually true. Nevertheless, deeply interesting. The thrust was that we should stop looking for ourselves in Neanderthals and try to see them on their own terms for what they were. He thinks they were creative people, with less of an ego compared to Sapiens. Their demise was brought about by Sapiens simply, he thinks based on his his work in a cave where Neanderthals lived for millennia and then were replaced in the space of a year by Sapiens. A nasty business first ethnic cleansing.  A weird side effect. I am interested now in going to Jersey, as there is a Ne...

Woke up feeling unwell. A bit of a temperature and zero energy. Have had to bump my several social arrangements for this week -- also decided to bump the freelance work I was offered yesterday.    Otherwise, lay on the sofa and slept lots, in between listening to my audiobook, The Naked Neanderthal , by Ludovic Slimak. The perfect thing to be doing, as it took zero energy and nothing fascinates me as much as the story of hominids and early humans. A good article here .  Lorraine looking after me, fairly early to bed.