I just got handed a file by my boss to take the lead on that we had been co-facilitating a few years ago. I need to bring myself back up to speed on it.
I do like carrot cake, and it's ages since I made any. Maybe this is the time to try out my new oven!
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for a friend to pick me up so we can do a trial run of a minibus tour of local ancient monuments - the minibus has already been booked, and I'm the tour guide!
I've woken up to rain this morning, but I think it's supposed to stop by lunchtime, so I'm taking it as a sign to do not much. A bit of garden tidying happened yesterday, so I'm feeling not too pressured to get anything done outside.
As we have beaut indoor hanging space, I might do a bit of washing and hang it up, possibly do the floors because they are beginning to look a bit bler. I have a subscription to a decorator magazine and have not opened many of this year's issues upon arrival, so today might be a good day for that and also sort out that husband gave me a duplicate subscription for Christmas, such a pain that has turned out to be!!
I have put the shopping away and done some tidying,
I have had a long walk in the sunshine.
Eggy bread for lunch.
I have checked my work emails.
I am now in my office waiting for an equality and diversity meeting (I am a volunteer EDI champion in my faculty, with a key focus on disability).
I am watching Mochi outside my door chasing crickets in the grass.
32 degrees and I'm schnitzeling a pork loin. Whose bright idea was this? Oh yeah, mine. Because I just HAD to make tomato sauce last week with all the leftover veggie pieces and stems, and I needed something to "parmigiana" it with.
Too late for me to switch horses and just serve it over pasta or dilute and serve as tomato soup. I bought the pork loin, I have to do this now.
Up even more betimes than usual - half 5 if that. A bright morning so resumed the Big Weed, uprooting buttercup, feral geranium, wood avens and bindweed in an effort to rediscover the back fence and the rockery. Tipped the ensuing two sackfuls in an already full bin and trundled it to the kerb.
Lunch next (no idea), then probably an afternoon zonk in front of the tennis.
Dinner will be a little bit hot stovey (chicken kebabs and sweetcorn) but not too much hopefully, plus approx half the temperature @A Feminine Force is working with.
And today I'm trying to convince Discord that I am over 18, so they can let me into the nsfw spaces.
And rather more importantly, I'm complaining to British Gas because they are trying to charge me service charges for a year before I moved into this property, and which the trustees of the almshouses have already tried to get sorted out.
I'll be glad to get back to work this afternoon, where my to do list will include some light book cataloguing and serving customers.
Trying out my homemade laundry soap today. Using it on towels and similar items to see if it cleans them. It is also time to tidy up the kitchen. I will clean out the refrigator, go through the cubbard, and clean counters, stove and the floor. That should take my quota of energy.
Amazingly, British Gas got back to me within hours of the complaint, and the nice lady on the phone has promised that it will all be sorted out. Fingers crossed.
Drafted a proposal to kickstart a stalled consultation process to revise a policy. ( Some days I feel like I have turned into a bloody paper-pushing bureaucrat.)
Drafted a proposal to kickstart a stalled consultation process to revise a policy. ( Some days I feel like I have turned into a bloody paper-pushing bureaucrat.)
*Waves* welcome to the club, partner, we've got forms filled out in triplicate and double stamped on each page.
Playing catch-up as nothing ticked yesterday, though gardening was done, not by me, scaffolding removed, chats with son and daughter, two miles walked.
More finance admin
Ironing.
Scrabble group.
Music practice at home.
Dog walk
Art class till 1pm
Lunch
Wrap birthday presents for Mr Boogs
Ironing
Nail salon (bright blue is prescribed)
Gardening if heat allows
Otherwise late evening gardening
A plasterer is at the house, plastering the new spare room/my old office. As I dislike strangers in the house, my list is:
Go for an hour’s walk to avoid plasterer arriving.
Hide in garden office reading (accompanied by Mochi who is scared of strangers).
Check work emails.
View the just released BBC TV animation on bipolar disorder which I contributed to
Send apologies to non-essential meeting this afternoon.
Hide in garden office reading.
Off to trade in my old glasses for new. As they will be using my old frames, I will have to leave them and use my old, old, old glasses in the meantime. Life will be a blur for about six days. My present frames are only two years old, so it's worth the cost savings to keep them.
Off to trade in my old glasses for new. As they will be using my old frames, I will have to leave them and use my old, old, old glasses in the meantime. Life will be a blur for about six days. My present frames are only two years old, so it's worth the cost savings to keep them.
6 days?! Last time I had new lenses put in old frames it took about an hour.
Which opticians let you do this? In my experience, they usually don't. But if they did, it would take about six days for me too, because they have to send off for the lenses if you have a complex prescription. I never get same day glasses.
Which opticians let you do this? In my experience, they usually don't. But if they did, it would take about six days for me too, because they have to send off for the lenses if you have a complex prescription. I never get same day glasses.
It was quite a while ago, I think it was an independent one - they took a code from the frames when I ordered the new lenses and then told me when the lenses arrived so I could go in and leave the glasses for an hour while they swapped them over.
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I second that!
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for a friend to pick me up so we can do a trial run of a minibus tour of local ancient monuments - the minibus has already been booked, and I'm the tour guide!
I've woken up to rain this morning, but I think it's supposed to stop by lunchtime, so I'm taking it as a sign to do not much. A bit of garden tidying happened yesterday, so I'm feeling not too pressured to get anything done outside.
As we have beaut indoor hanging space, I might do a bit of washing and hang it up, possibly do the floors because they are beginning to look a bit bler. I have a subscription to a decorator magazine and have not opened many of this year's issues upon arrival, so today might be a good day for that and also sort out that husband gave me a duplicate subscription for Christmas, such a pain that has turned out to be!!
Send photos to friend
Trees (re-pot)
Sainsbury's
Check wormery
Tatze groom
Ted groom
I must: do some ironing, cook bolognese, water the garden (that's an evening job).
(Plus other bits and pieces).
I have had a long walk in the sunshine.
Eggy bread for lunch.
I have checked my work emails.
I am now in my office waiting for an equality and diversity meeting (I am a volunteer EDI champion in my faculty, with a key focus on disability).
I am watching Mochi outside my door chasing crickets in the grass.
Too late for me to switch horses and just serve it over pasta or dilute and serve as tomato soup. I bought the pork loin, I have to do this now.
BOOOOO!
AFF
Lunch next (no idea), then probably an afternoon zonk in front of the tennis.
Dinner will be a little bit hot stovey (chicken kebabs and sweetcorn) but not too much hopefully, plus approx half the temperature @A Feminine Force is working with.
And rather more importantly, I'm complaining to British Gas because they are trying to charge me service charges for a year before I moved into this property, and which the trustees of the almshouses have already tried to get sorted out.
I'll be glad to get back to work this afternoon, where my to do list will include some light book cataloguing and serving customers.
*Waves* welcome to the club, partner, we've got forms filled out in triplicate and double stamped on each page.
1:30 and I claim my prize!
Walk along the coast.
Pharmacist to talk about continued waking up early.
Job search/applications.
Take dog for delayed morning walk.
More finance admin
Ironing.
Scrabble group.
Music practice at home.
Art class till 1pm
Lunch
Wrap birthday presents for Mr Boogs
Ironing
Nail salon (bright blue is prescribed)
Gardening if heat allows
Otherwise late evening gardening
Go for an hour’s walk to avoid plasterer arriving.
Hide in garden office reading (accompanied by Mochi who is scared of strangers).
Check work emails.
View the just released BBC TV animation on bipolar disorder which I contributed to
Send apologies to non-essential meeting this afternoon.
Hide in garden office reading.
6 days?! Last time I had new lenses put in old frames it took about an hour.
It was quite a while ago, I think it was an independent one - they took a code from the frames when I ordered the new lenses and then told me when the lenses arrived so I could go in and leave the glasses for an hour while they swapped them over.