Welcome to Littery Friction. I'm Octavia Bright coming to you from sunny, snowy, rainy, sleety London,

where the weather cannot make up its mind. Classic little April shower situation. Hi Carrie. How are you doing?

Hi, Octavia. I can't say I'm enjoying the weather, but this is the time of year, isn't it? And I'm pretty sunny myself because I'm enjoying

post-COVID life. For the first time in two years, I'm not worried about getting COVID. And I didn't

realize how freeing that would be. And maybe I'm totally misguided anyway, but it feels really good.

It feels really, really good to not have that constantly as a narrative in my mind. So I'm

really excited for you to have that. I am excited for it too because I'm still feeling pretty

knacket after it. And I basically called it in the minute you recovered. I don't get it from you.

Although we did see each other at that crossover point.

I saw you the day before I came down with it for your birthday, which was lovely.

But yeah, I mean, I'm not completely myself, but I think I'll be back to full throttle soon.

And it's been exactly as you said, like the fatigue has hung around.

It's honestly been like I've spent the whole process

really thinking about everyone who lives with chronic fatigue and other long-term health conditions

and just how much they have to withstand every day and how easy it is to not really realize

that if you're not living with that kind of thing. But you know, the upside, I suppose,

of the confinement was that once the brain fog lifted

and I was able to do more than just stare into space, dribbling, John and I watched some really

great TV, like really, really great TV. So I'm excited to recommend that shortly. So, you know,

swings and roundabout. So before we get into it, let's get business out of the way.

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