NEWS #1 I received this yesterday:
Hello Jan
I’m Emily, the Head of Volunteering at Breast Cancer Now. I hope this email finds you well and safe, during this very difficult time.
This might seem a bit of a strange email to you (I promise it’s not a scam!!) but you’ve been nominated for a Volunteer Award! We recently put out a message to staff and volunteers to ask if they would like to nominate anyone for our annual (albeit, inaugural) Volunteer Award 2021. We received a lovely nomination for you from the user Evie on the Forum.
I know you’re not an “official” volunteer, but you do so much to support people on the Forum and this has been recognised by others on the Forum, who want you to know what an inspiration and support you are.
We’ll be announcing the winner on the second day of our Virtual Volunteer Conference, being held next week. The details are at the bottom of this email, and you’d be very welcome to sign up and attend if you’d like to. Either way, I’ll be following up with all nominees after the Conference, to share more details about their nomination.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Many congratulations!
Best wishes
Emily
Isn’t that lovely? I had had a private message from Evie telling me she’d nominated me but it’s a big compliment. I do think though that, as the event is for proper volunteers and I turned down the chance to be one later last year on the basis that I still haven’t sorted my own mess out yet, the award must go to a proper volunteer. The compliment is enough.
NEWS #2 My surgery is postponed, owing to the super-spreader reaching Leeds (my thoughts about the surgery are in 218 but not yet fit for publishing.
NEWS #3 Yesterday’s hospital visit was the worst hospital experience I have had. The interior feels something like this:
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