I'd have been happy with a simple step counter if I'm honest but I do like the heart rate feature on my Fitbit. I thought I was getting loads of cardio, before I got it, but I wasn't, so it's really useful for that, and I like all the stats you get sent too.
Lovely day here and it looks like it's staying that way so I'm planning to go off into the sunshine at some point, once I've ploughed through more worky stuff. As always, I'm in a race against time to get as much done as is humanly possible before I jump on a plane.
I've a strange trip planned - some hideous bureaucracy to deal with but I'm also seeing an old school friend. We met up over a year ago after decades of lost contact and had a fab time, so I'm hoping for more of the same. And cake. :kitty:
Laura, good to see you.
Hope you feel a bit better now the heat has eased off ((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))
Plum, hope you get to do some fun stuff with your hols. Being Human is amazing; it has some really interesting points to make about discrimination and is scary and funny successfully, which I think is quite hard to do.
Not much to write about here - work during the week, combination of recovering from work and trying to keep on top of clearing the house up at weekends. Melony went on a Brownie sleepover last night so of course we were massively adult - ate loads, watched DVDs until the small hours and then i was nearly late picking her up cos I slept in. And that was *without* the wine!
Batty, I hope you get a bit of you-time in amongst it all. Big hugs.
Amica, if you come up with an idea let me know - I've seriously considered leaving teaching a couple of times now and even at my current fabby place of work it's a tough old slog; Ive never been able to think of anything else to do, though!
Anyway, this won't fill the dishwasher! Toodles! ((((((((((((((((((((((GOW)))))))))))))))))))))))))
I think I've managed to get everything done Here, or done enough, so I can start packing my bag and thinking more about what I need to remember to do Over There.
Amica and handy - include me in your career change planning. I could do with something new too. Shame we don't live closer or I'd be suggesting we go into business together. No idea what we'd do but my mind went straight to cake.
Amica and handy - include me in your career change planning. I could do with something new too. Shame we don't live closer or I'd be suggesting we go into business together. No idea what we'd do but my mind went straight to cake.
OMG - go global and have an australian branch, I'd be great at it ... whatever it is that we're doing business-wise!
Have a great holiday snowY !
My holiday is tootling along in a very sedate manner - YoungPlum and I are carrying on like 6 year olds and having a whale of a time without really doing anything, going anywhere and best of all spending anything! well spending more money than is necessary on tv snacks .... we're currently saying a BIG YEAHHHH BABYYYYY to LARD! I'll reap the consequences no doubt but til then ... fancy some cake?
Have any of you seen The Dressmaker? That's a great movie - enjoyed that one immensely. Getting through a heap of movies and still on Being Human - it's got some great lines including "They ate my focus group" which cracked me up last night
I think I'm going to go and get my taxes done tomorrow - I hate doing it and i have no idea why as I will no doubt get some money back, but I suspect not as much as in previous years, and I was sort of relying on it so I don't want it to be less than I fear it will be .... it makes no logical sense as anything is better than nothing but when I know the actual figure it will take away hope with only a small chance of "yayyyy" and a much higher chance of "oh poop, is that all" It has to be done though. On the plus side, at least I'm not going back to work yet!
Amica and handy - include me in your career change planning. I could do with something new too. Shame we don't live closer or I'd be suggesting we go into business together. No idea what we'd do but my mind went straight to cake.
I reckon somewhere around Pontefract is about equidistant for us all...
Start looking for a vacant cafe!
But handy's definitely onto something - I can see it now, Grumpy's in Pontefract and their lard based confectionery quickly becoming a rival for Betty's, just the start of a countrywide chain, making the owners fabulously wealthy and... Okay, the lard bit might need rethinking... I'm sure chef KJ will think of something to give us a unique selling point, though.
I am loving the idea of the cake shop - but am wondering what we will be selling as we will eat the stock!
In the meantime, I have a part time job at my local for when the work gets sparse (5-9 a couple of nights) - and Christmas etc. Might be good for the holidays too if other staff have children. Just hope that supply doesn't pick up so much that I can't do both! Minimum wage sucks!
I am loving the idea of the cake shop - but am wondering what we will be selling as we will eat the stock!
In the meantime, I have a part time job at my local for when the work gets sparse (5-9 a couple of nights) - and Christmas etc. Might be good for the holidays too if other staff have children. Just hope that supply doesn't pick up so much that I can't do both! Minimum wage sucks!
I will do the Gluten Free is a special unit and bring to shop no cross contamination for Coeliacs. Enjoy your holiday Snowy Nothing much to report more appointments and more tests, went yesterday for a test and they didn't like what they saw, so had to have a ct scan also that i wasn't expecting, so hay ho we will have to wait for the specialists, gosh it feel like Friday but its hump day instead grrrrrr love and hugs grumpies
Have another interview next week for data entry a couple of days a month.
At this rate, I'll soon have three jobs! Thought I was going part time! it just is looking like supply is not a good bet in the long term - schools are using cheaper staff to cover. I think it's very unfair on them but I suppose they can say no.
I have just finished a 6 day placement so will be taking a couple of days off to catch up on the housework etc. Will probably rain tomorrow now lol.
Have another interview next week for data entry a couple of days a month.
At this rate, I'll soon have three jobs! Thought I was going part time! it just is looking like supply is not a good bet in the long term - schools are using cheaper staff to cover. I think it's very unfair on them but I suppose they can say no.
I have just finished a 6 day placement so will be taking a couple of days off to catch up on the housework etc. Will probably rain tomorrow now lol.
Lidl have a fitbit type thing as £24.99 from tomorrow I think.
Poor laura, the fun just keeps on coming for you, doesn't it? (((hug)))
We should ***deffo*** have a gluten-free range.
Mr M works near Pontefract, he says it's a good place for a cafe.
Can we have bookshelves and some comfy chairs so people can chill there for an afternoon?
Not sure about the customers chilling there, but they definitely should be available for the staff ... well if I were involved they would
I so wanted that job that I applied for before I started at the supermarket where they had bookcases, a piano, a cat and a dog - could the job have been any better? Sadly it wasn't to be, but I still gaze wistfully at the place when I drive near it.....
News from da'an South (... well the extreme south) is that I survived a teenage sleepover! woop woop! It wasn't so much the teens that were the issue ... actually it was only YP and her mate.... the issue was Destructo! I had to spend the night with her ... i hate spending the night with her - it's bad enough when YP isn't here, but the fact that she was in the house and Destructo was being deprived of fun made her huffy and she whined and jumped and whined and wriggled and whined and growled ... and was generally having a major sulk half the night. She's happy now she's got her mum back, but i'm whining and sulking because my room has been dog-stinked - going to have to wash my bedding to get rid of the smell. YP claims it doesn't smell, but it does .... dog stink!
Today, when I take YP's friend home, I get to play with puppies and they're at the best age where they look like the dogs that they're going to be (boxers) but just in miniature and with the innocence and joy of pups! Last couple of times we've been out there when there have been pups, they've still been at the slightly blobby stage, so cute but not totally awesome
I'm a bit worried about what summer is going to be like this year, we're only a few days into what is technically spring I suppose and it's stinking hot already - 32c in the day and mid 20s at night. Oh woe! On the plus side, I get to work in aircon and better than that, i get to work in the fridges/freezers - the downside is that my system is in an almost permanent state of shock at the rapid temp changes
I've got apple crumble slices in the fridge..... yum! I just remembered! the day just got even better!
And what fab weather Plum! Though I take your point that it can get too hot. Nice for a holiday but harder to live with.
My trip was neither eventful nor hot. I got done most of the stuff that was waiting for my attention and had a couple of very nice social meet-ups, one with my old friend and one with my newer friend, who introduced me to her old friend who is great and is now my newest friend.
Lots of cake was had, and also some very strange drink. The newest friend does her own alcoholic concoctions and the one she treated us to was a mix of Polish spirits, some kind of a dark beer, and coffee. I've no idea what % it claimed to be but it nearly took my fillings out and having had one sip I didn't dare to go back for more. They others knocked it back like it was water. :eek:
I was fine the next day... not so my newer and newest friends.
Eeeep @ earthquakes snOwy! there was one down south from us a few weeks ago, some people said they felt it in Cairns but I didn't. Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod though That's a bugger about your specs too - that would be a catastrophe in my world!
Glad your trip went well Batty and at least your drinking lesson learned was without dire consequences I generally needed to wait for the dire consequences to learn lessons - like when my uncle who lived in Gloucs gave me home made scrumpy from god knows where he'd got it - it wasn't even very much but man it near killed me
YP was out shopping with one of her mates yesterday .... well when I say "shopping" - it was more out being a mall rat as in hanging around and trying on clothes that look ridiculous, but they had a great time so that's the main thing! I decided to do some book shopping, but the book shops are dire here they didn't have any of the books I wanted. I was so trying to support the economy here by spending in shops, but I was thwarted so I went back to the Book Depository when I got home ...
I've got Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch, Lamentation by CJ Sansom, Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson all on their way ... hopefully soon Oh and one by Jo Nesbo but I've forgotten which one I'm up to in the Harry Hole series ... think it's The Leopard. That should keep me out of mischief for a while, I like re-reading books but I need new blood from time to time
As I said before, YP and I finished Being Human and now we're on to Suits, we watched the first episode last night and that seems like we'll enjoy it, we'll see how it goes. Someone else recommended Call the Midwife or somehing like that - might have a squiz and read about it to see what that's all about - did any of you watch that on tv?
Including today, I've only got 3 days left of my hols - oh woe!! Unfortunately I also have to do loads of ironing and stuff in those days as I never really got to grips with it at the start of the holidays and it's mounted up again since - dammit! Today however is going to be a day of leisure - haven't had one of those since ummmmmm yesterday
Thank you Plummy, having a lovely one here. Well, about 80% of it is lovely. The other 20% was silly old me opening the post and starting to deal with stuff that has no business intruding into my life on a Sunday.
So I put a stop to that and took the bike out for a 25 mile spin. Very bracing!
Sad to see the leaves starting to go, though. I'll cycle through the winter if at all possible but it's never as much fun...
I love autumn. In autumn one is allowed to team a flirty little dress with a woolly cardigan and thick tights and look boho. Also it can be sunny without one breaking out into a muck sweat every time one moves. Also, Hallowe'en crafts and Bonfire night and Hull Fair. fab, fab, fab
Plummie, am glad you have had such a great hollybobs, you so deserve the break!
Snowy - I am blind without my glasses! Hope you got sorted out OK
Batty - well done stepping away from the non-Sunday items, keep it up!
(((((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))))
We saw Kubo and the Two Strings today and it was AMAZING - superb stopmotion animation film by a studio called Laika who also made The Boxtrolls. Highly recommended.
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Lovely day here and it looks like it's staying that way so I'm planning to go off into the sunshine at some point, once I've ploughed through more worky stuff. As always, I'm in a race against time to get as much done as is humanly possible before I jump on a plane.
I've a strange trip planned - some hideous bureaucracy to deal with but I'm also seeing an old school friend. We met up over a year ago after decades of lost contact and had a fab time, so I'm hoping for more of the same. And cake. :kitty:
Laura, good to see you.
Hope you feel a bit better now the heat has eased off ((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))
Plum, hope you get to do some fun stuff with your hols. Being Human is amazing; it has some really interesting points to make about discrimination and is scary and funny successfully, which I think is quite hard to do.
Not much to write about here - work during the week, combination of recovering from work and trying to keep on top of clearing the house up at weekends. Melony went on a Brownie sleepover last night so of course we were massively adult - ate loads, watched DVDs until the small hours and then i was nearly late picking her up cos I slept in. And that was *without* the wine!
Batty, I hope you get a bit of you-time in amongst it all. Big hugs.
Amica, if you come up with an idea let me know - I've seriously considered leaving teaching a couple of times now and even at my current fabby place of work it's a tough old slog; Ive never been able to think of anything else to do, though!
Anyway, this won't fill the dishwasher! Toodles! ((((((((((((((((((((((GOW)))))))))))))))))))))))))
I think I've managed to get everything done Here, or done enough, so I can start packing my bag and thinking more about what I need to remember to do Over There.
Amica and handy - include me in your career change planning. I could do with something new too. Shame we don't live closer or I'd be suggesting we go into business together. No idea what we'd do but my mind went straight to cake.
Just getting everything ready before clearing off to Lindos for two weeks
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OMG - go global and have an australian branch, I'd be great at it ... whatever it is that we're doing business-wise!
Have a great holiday snowY !
My holiday is tootling along in a very sedate manner - YoungPlum and I are carrying on like 6 year olds and having a whale of a time without really doing anything, going anywhere and best of all spending anything! well spending more money than is necessary on tv snacks .... we're currently saying a BIG YEAHHHH BABYYYYY to LARD! I'll reap the consequences no doubt but til then ... fancy some cake?
Have any of you seen The Dressmaker? That's a great movie - enjoyed that one immensely. Getting through a heap of movies and still on Being Human - it's got some great lines including "They ate my focus group" which cracked me up last night
I think I'm going to go and get my taxes done tomorrow - I hate doing it and i have no idea why as I will no doubt get some money back, but I suspect not as much as in previous years, and I was sort of relying on it so I don't want it to be less than I fear it will be .... it makes no logical sense as anything is better than nothing but when I know the actual figure it will take away hope with only a small chance of "yayyyy" and a much higher chance of "oh poop, is that all"
I reckon somewhere around Pontefract is about equidistant for us all...
Start looking for a vacant cafe!
...... but Pontefract cakes suck .... just saying
But handy's definitely onto something - I can see it now, Grumpy's in Pontefract and their lard based confectionery quickly becoming a rival for Betty's, just the start of a countrywide chain, making the owners fabulously wealthy and... Okay, the lard bit might need rethinking... I'm sure chef KJ will think of something to give us a unique selling point, though.
In the meantime, I have a part time job at my local for when the work gets sparse (5-9 a couple of nights) - and Christmas etc. Might be good for the holidays too if other staff have children. Just hope that supply doesn't pick up so much that I can't do both! Minimum wage sucks!
Having a fab hol here in Lindos
There are two of here in a hotel
And the other 6 are in apartments in the town .
We met up in lindos on monday night and one pal has broken her ankle:o:o:o
We ate in the hotel last night and had an earlyish night
I was reading in bed about 12 midnight
And felt an earthquake happening
I didnt realise what it was at the time
But was chatting to peeps today ......and there have been two since we have been here
I will do the Gluten Free is a special unit and bring to shop no cross contamination for Coeliacs. Enjoy your holiday Snowy Nothing much to report more appointments and more tests, went yesterday for a test and they didn't like what they saw, so had to have a ct scan also that i wasn't expecting, so hay ho we will have to wait for the specialists, gosh it feel like Friday but its hump day instead grrrrrr love and hugs grumpies
Stay safe , SnOwy.
Have another interview next week for data entry a couple of days a month.
At this rate, I'll soon have three jobs! Thought I was going part time! it just is looking like supply is not a good bet in the long term - schools are using cheaper staff to cover. I think it's very unfair on them but I suppose they can say no.
I have just finished a 6 day placement so will be taking a couple of days off to catch up on the housework etc. Will probably rain tomorrow now lol.
Lidl have a fitbit type thing as £24.99 from tomorrow I think.
We should ***deffo*** have a gluten-free range.
Mr M works near Pontefract, he says it's a good place for a cafe.
Can we have bookshelves and some comfy chairs so people can chill there for an afternoon?
As long as they keep buying coffee and cake and not just sitting there using your wi-fi or sheltering from the rain.
Not sure about the customers chilling there, but they definitely should be available for the staff ... well if I were involved they would
I so wanted that job that I applied for before I started at the supermarket where they had bookcases, a piano, a cat and a dog - could the job have been any better? Sadly it wasn't to be, but I still gaze wistfully at the place when I drive near it.....
News from da'an South (... well the extreme south) is that I survived a teenage sleepover! woop woop! It wasn't so much the teens that were the issue ... actually it was only YP and her mate.... the issue was Destructo! I had to spend the night with her ... i hate spending the night with her - it's bad enough when YP isn't here, but the fact that she was in the house and Destructo was being deprived of fun made her huffy and she whined and jumped and whined and wriggled and whined and growled ... and was generally having a major sulk half the night. She's happy now she's got her mum back, but i'm whining and sulking because my room has been dog-stinked - going to have to wash my bedding to get rid of the smell. YP claims it doesn't smell, but it does .... dog stink!
Today, when I take YP's friend home, I get to play with puppies and they're at the best age where they look like the dogs that they're going to be (boxers) but just in miniature and with the innocence and joy of pups! Last couple of times we've been out there when there have been pups, they've still been at the slightly blobby stage, so cute but not totally awesome
I'm a bit worried about what summer is going to be like this year, we're only a few days into what is technically spring I suppose and it's stinking hot already - 32c in the day and mid 20s at night. Oh woe! On the plus side, I get to work in aircon and better than that, i get to work in the fridges/freezers - the downside is that my system is in an almost permanent state of shock at the rapid temp changes
I've got apple crumble slices in the fridge..... yum! I just remembered! the day just got even better!
Hot here
Am bitten all over by mossies and managed to break my specs by sitting on them
And experienced an earthwuake
And what fab weather Plum! Though I take your point that it can get too hot. Nice for a holiday but harder to live with.
My trip was neither eventful nor hot. I got done most of the stuff that was waiting for my attention and had a couple of very nice social meet-ups, one with my old friend and one with my newer friend, who introduced me to her old friend who is great and is now my newest friend.
Lots of cake was had, and also some very strange drink. The newest friend does her own alcoholic concoctions and the one she treated us to was a mix of Polish spirits, some kind of a dark beer, and coffee. I've no idea what % it claimed to be but it nearly took my fillings out and having had one sip I didn't dare to go back for more. They others knocked it back like it was water. :eek:
I was fine the next day... not so my newer and newest friends.
A lesson to be learnt I think - drink PG.
Glad your trip went well Batty and at least your drinking lesson learned was without dire consequences
YP was out shopping with one of her mates yesterday .... well when I say "shopping" - it was more out being a mall rat as in hanging around and trying on clothes that look ridiculous, but they had a great time so that's the main thing! I decided to do some book shopping, but the book shops are dire here they didn't have any of the books I wanted. I was so trying to support the economy here by spending in shops, but I was thwarted so I went back to the Book Depository when I got home ...
I've got Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch, Lamentation by CJ Sansom, Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson all on their way ... hopefully soon
As I said before, YP and I finished Being Human and now we're on to Suits, we watched the first episode last night and that seems like we'll enjoy it, we'll see how it goes. Someone else recommended Call the Midwife or somehing like that - might have a squiz and read about it to see what that's all about - did any of you watch that on tv?
Including today, I've only got 3 days left of my hols - oh woe!! Unfortunately I also have to do loads of ironing and stuff in those days as I never really got to grips with it at the start of the holidays and it's mounted up again since - dammit! Today however is going to be a day of leisure - haven't had one of those since ummmmmm yesterday
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
So I put a stop to that and took the bike out for a 25 mile spin. Very bracing!
Sad to see the leaves starting to go, though. I'll cycle through the winter if at all possible but it's never as much fun...
Plummie, am glad you have had such a great hollybobs, you so deserve the break!
Snowy - I am blind without my glasses! Hope you got sorted out OK
Batty - well done stepping away from the non-Sunday items, keep it up!
(((((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))))
We saw Kubo and the Two Strings today and it was AMAZING - superb stopmotion animation film by a studio called Laika who also made The Boxtrolls. Highly recommended.