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February 01 2026
© Michelle Christopher © Michelle Christopher

After a difficult year, there are small improvements in circumstance on the horizon. Keep going. By Michael McKeon

Last year was a pretty difficult time for me.

I know a lot of people are struggling at the moment, so let me qualify it: I suffered burnout, lost all my work, then my partner recommended I go home to my mum’s and dry out, so I did. Whilst I was taking the cure, my wife then dumped me over the phone. Now I can’t go back to the flat we shared for eight years because she took my keys and she won’t let me in to get my stuff because she refuses to let me take it away in bin bags.

I ended the year in a tent on Hampstead Heath, with no money, eating out of bins. Everyone was looking at me like they were waiting for me to do something I hadn’t even agreed to do in the first place.

But there was one thing that happened that was kinda good.

I was using the Islington Library computers – and anyone who knows about Islington Library knows they’re a nightmare: the system operates on Microsoft Edge.

I found out from their Digital Access and Learning Manager that they’ll “be rolling out new public PCs across all our libraries starting in February, which should greatly improve the user experience.”

So that’s sorta progress, I guess.

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