Yes, hello again. People have been worrying, apparently, so I’ve been meaning to pop back and reassure everyone that I’m fine.

Then this happened. I’m still fine, though. Well, mainly. I mean, as fine as it gets, for me.

My wife was symptomatic, is the thing, and had been travelling to affected areas. She’s fine, too, but now I’m also mildly symptomatic, and since I’m somewhat high-risk, well, we seem to be doing this.

I’ve been reading some historical fiction for review, and it’s inspired me to create some writing tips for the genre.

Follow these simple guidelines, and you too can produce immersive and convincing period fiction – all without ever setting foot in the actual past. 1. The first thing you’ve got to get right is the weather. The past all happened in England, where a low pressure system settled from the late Middle Ages until 1972.

Precipitation persisted for centuries, as did extremely portentous mists. You’re going to want to mention these.

When you have a neurological illness, you see a lot of lists like these. They can be alarming at first, so it’s important to inform yourself. That way you can be properly terrified.

Here are some fun things you may not know about neuropharmacology.

https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster/status/1143224288171974657

Until the 1930s, we didn’t really have any medicines to treat diseases of the nervous system. That was because no one really knew how the nervous system worked.

When we did begin to develop treatments, it was mainly by accident.

You’ve probably read this week’s stories about threats to insect populations and why they’re alarming (scroll down for spoilers*). Here are some things you can do to help.

*We could all die. The bad news, to be clear, is almost unfathomably bad. The large scale causes (like habitat loss due to climate change) are extremely difficult to counteract. Also, certain losses (like extinctions) are obviously irreversible.

So, there’s a little story I’ve been meaning to tell. It isn’t funny or anything. It’s not one of those stories. It’s just something that happened, something that altered me in a small way.

This is, as far as I can tell, a real thing that a British commentator has written in a published article about Ireland. There’s something almost fascinating about the extent to which the reality of Brexit has distorted the perceptions of its proponents.

Quietly judging all your 280-character tweets, like. Tfw when a 280-character tweet quotes another 280-character tweet.