Hi everyone. I hope you have been well. Good to see Sue's collection get its launch last week, and to put some faces to the names of AWers/Sisyphites. I'm also glad to have played my part in the proceedings with a reading of part of a story of mine.
That story first appeared in 2021 and was reprinted this year in Best of British Science Fiction 2021. It's my only story publication this year and is likely to remain so, but I've just today had notice of another story accept. I can't say more than that, but the one accepted today did start life in very different form as a Sisyphus story.
Writing has been a mess this year, with just the one new story (done for Sisyphus) and hopes to spend up to half the year working on the existing and new Maud stories gradually vanishing in to the mist. I've also not been well for the last month or so, with a combination of what presented as a moderate cold (tested negative for Covid, three times), insomnia, and cellulitis in my right leg. Fortunately the first one has gone now and the latter two are eventually on the way out. So it's probably just as well I didn't take part in the summer Sisyphus. Sounds like you all had fun.
My big news is that with our office closing soon, those of us working in Aldershot (all from home, anyway) will be leaving under a release package, and at my age it should take me through to sixty and a pension. So after 31 January, I'll effectively be a full-time freelance writer as I shouldn't need to get another job.
I do intend to sign up to the (Northern Hemisphere) winter Sisyphus.
I HAD A STORY ACCEPTED FOR AN ANTHOLOGY, AND IT WAS ONE OF MY SISYPHUS STORIES! 
