an hour's quiet reading
carrying on sorting out the library
call from Eric about G
call to P to discuss changed work arrangements
sorting guest bedroom to get ready to start decorating etc
bank
building society
present buying for Lauren (having decided that the present I originally bought was not a good choice!)
Laura at Addiction (wash and blow dry)
to sainos to get some odds and ends for G
bumped into Joyce and ha a chat
visit with G ~ chat with staff, chat with G, card game, cup of tea
load of washing on
tidy house ~ found book I had lost ~ yay!
stitching birthday card
bath and change to go to Lauren's birthday meal
lovely meal ~ super company and food ~ and a splendid cake!
home
chat with Stella on facebook
bath
bed
cup of tea and P G Wodehouse!
I like my job but this 'holiday' was great and I would never have had time for all this on an ordinary working day!
back soon
Po xx
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
time for an update . . .
so much has happened that it is difficult to know where to start . . .
Book Club at Anne Wo's house where we talked about Pat Barker's 'Toby'sRoom'. This was another WW1 tale which is a period of history I find very interesting (early input from G!). This book was beautifully written with powerful imagery although I found parts of it uncomfortable reading. We had read 'My dear I wanted to tell you' by Louisa Young very recently which covered much of the same ground: some of the characters suffered facial injury and were treated at the Queen's Hospital in Sidcup and the surgeon Gillies featured in both stories. On the whole I preferred the Louisa Young as I disliked most of the characters in the Pat Barker and Toby was downright unpleasant. If you would like to know about facial reconstruction during and after the First World War, then 'My dear I wanted to tell you' would be a splendid choice but if you can't get hold of it 'Toby's Room' is a good alternative.
G went into Care Home G almost two weeks ago and decided he would like to stay ~ good news! Unfortunately, however, he became ill last Friday and was admitted to hospital. Discharge came today and I collected him and took him back to the Care Home. I so hope he settles in again.
Lpip was in a ballet show. In fact it was a celebration of 90 years of Chorleywood Memorial Hall in which all the groups who use the hall took part. I went to watch it with Frankie and Dpip. Dpip was lovely! His little friend A was there too as her sister was also performing. The two littles sat together and chatted and watched the show and were very good (even in the one bit that really was exceptionally boring!). Lpip was in the toy shop dance and she made a perfect little Native American Indian! We only stayed for the first half as it was quite late for the small children by then so we went home and had nice warm mug of tea.
Quiz Night at the Colosseum on Monday night ~ Cat and David had invited me on to their table. It was quite the largest quiz I have ever been too ~ 48 tables with 10 on most tables. We acquitted ourselves well coming 5th! Hoorah for us!!
I have taken yesterday, today and tomorrow as leave since I have to use it all by end of March. Stella and the Pies came yesterday for lunch and then Stella took Kpie and Cpie to their violin lessons and J and I visited G in hospital. We went home and while we waited for Stella and the girls to come back I taught J to play rummy ~ and he beat me 6 games to 2! He is obviously a chip off several male relatives' blocks!
I am having trouble with my computer ~ well more trouble with the anti-virussy thingy really. I can't access loads of stuff I used to be able to and I can't comment on blogs ~ all of which is a darned nuisance and is more than likely something that a reasonably computer literate bod could sort in a jiffy ~ but sadly, not me!
Back soon
Po xx
Book Club at Anne Wo's house where we talked about Pat Barker's 'Toby'sRoom'. This was another WW1 tale which is a period of history I find very interesting (early input from G!). This book was beautifully written with powerful imagery although I found parts of it uncomfortable reading. We had read 'My dear I wanted to tell you' by Louisa Young very recently which covered much of the same ground: some of the characters suffered facial injury and were treated at the Queen's Hospital in Sidcup and the surgeon Gillies featured in both stories. On the whole I preferred the Louisa Young as I disliked most of the characters in the Pat Barker and Toby was downright unpleasant. If you would like to know about facial reconstruction during and after the First World War, then 'My dear I wanted to tell you' would be a splendid choice but if you can't get hold of it 'Toby's Room' is a good alternative.
G went into Care Home G almost two weeks ago and decided he would like to stay ~ good news! Unfortunately, however, he became ill last Friday and was admitted to hospital. Discharge came today and I collected him and took him back to the Care Home. I so hope he settles in again.
Lpip was in a ballet show. In fact it was a celebration of 90 years of Chorleywood Memorial Hall in which all the groups who use the hall took part. I went to watch it with Frankie and Dpip. Dpip was lovely! His little friend A was there too as her sister was also performing. The two littles sat together and chatted and watched the show and were very good (even in the one bit that really was exceptionally boring!). Lpip was in the toy shop dance and she made a perfect little Native American Indian! We only stayed for the first half as it was quite late for the small children by then so we went home and had nice warm mug of tea.
Quiz Night at the Colosseum on Monday night ~ Cat and David had invited me on to their table. It was quite the largest quiz I have ever been too ~ 48 tables with 10 on most tables. We acquitted ourselves well coming 5th! Hoorah for us!!
I have taken yesterday, today and tomorrow as leave since I have to use it all by end of March. Stella and the Pies came yesterday for lunch and then Stella took Kpie and Cpie to their violin lessons and J and I visited G in hospital. We went home and while we waited for Stella and the girls to come back I taught J to play rummy ~ and he beat me 6 games to 2! He is obviously a chip off several male relatives' blocks!
I am having trouble with my computer ~ well more trouble with the anti-virussy thingy really. I can't access loads of stuff I used to be able to and I can't comment on blogs ~ all of which is a darned nuisance and is more than likely something that a reasonably computer literate bod could sort in a jiffy ~ but sadly, not me!
Back soon
Po xx
Sunday, February 09, 2014
busy week . . .
At some point in the future I may have a good old moan about John Lewis and how they have messed up with my blinds, my carpet and now my curtains . . . but in fact I just don't have the energy to do that right now
On to nicer things . . .
On Wednesday I was on a course at work in which we all had to do the Myers Briggs Test. It was a good day and a really great trainer. And lovely to reconnect with people I had worked with before my current job and to get to know 'new' people. It was fun!
After work visited with G. Stella and the Pies were
there too. They all played their instruments. Here is Kpie on recorder
and Cpie.
Friday I took a day's annual leave in order to look after
Kpip. I wish I could do it more often! She played with the dolls'
house, we did a jigsaw and here she is playing with the blocks.
Sat for the Pips last night. They all make me laugh so much! Lpip wanted to play the 'Going to Buckingham Palace Game' with Dougie ~ which we did but not sure that either of them have quite got the hang of it! they went to bed and I watched 'The Talented Mr Ripley' and then an episode of Desperate Housewives from the first series.
Visited with G today. Frankie, Alex and the Pips were there too and then I zoomed off to Jackie's for her birthday meal (cooked by Brian). Lots of people I was really pleased to see so had nice chats and a superbe Banoffee Pie.
A good week all told (for me). Sadly it has not been good for many here in England. The flooding has been dreadful in the south west and my heart goes out to all the poor people who have been flooded out, have no electricity and are suffering in so many ways from the terrible weather. Parts of Watford were under water over the weekend and one enterprising couple went shoping in the Lower High Street in a canoe! Long delays on the roads (Stella and Jpie had to abandon J's viola lesson as the traffic was so bad it took them 40 minutes to travel less than a mile). Here on top of my hill I am counting my blessings!
Back again soon
Po xx
On to nicer things . . .
On Wednesday I was on a course at work in which we all had to do the Myers Briggs Test. It was a good day and a really great trainer. And lovely to reconnect with people I had worked with before my current job and to get to know 'new' people. It was fun!
Sat for the Pips last night. They all make me laugh so much! Lpip wanted to play the 'Going to Buckingham Palace Game' with Dougie ~ which we did but not sure that either of them have quite got the hang of it! they went to bed and I watched 'The Talented Mr Ripley' and then an episode of Desperate Housewives from the first series.
Visited with G today. Frankie, Alex and the Pips were there too and then I zoomed off to Jackie's for her birthday meal (cooked by Brian). Lots of people I was really pleased to see so had nice chats and a superbe Banoffee Pie.
A good week all told (for me). Sadly it has not been good for many here in England. The flooding has been dreadful in the south west and my heart goes out to all the poor people who have been flooded out, have no electricity and are suffering in so many ways from the terrible weather. Parts of Watford were under water over the weekend and one enterprising couple went shoping in the Lower High Street in a canoe! Long delays on the roads (Stella and Jpie had to abandon J's viola lesson as the traffic was so bad it took them 40 minutes to travel less than a mile). Here on top of my hill I am counting my blessings!
Back again soon
Po xx
Sunday, February 02, 2014
'hook ups' . . . .
. . . with family, friends and old school pals
The weekend started well even before I finished work! Worked at home on Friday morning and then arrived at the office after lunch and opened my phone to find a request on facebook from a family member we had lost touch with a few years ago. To say I was excited is putting it mildly! More the girls generation than mine ~ it would be lovely to catch up properly soon.
In the evening we were at the Elton John Suite at Watford Footie Club for a surprise!!!!! party to celebrate Peter's 30th birthday. He was suitably aghast (fortunately!) and it was a great party and wonderful to chat with lovely family and friends some of whom I hadn't seen for a while.
Saturday: school reunion which started (as ever) at the Scotsbridge. Only 6 of us managed to get there but again it was lovely to meet old chums. Fran and I were the only ones to actually go to school and we had left it so late I could only stay a short while before zooming off to Frankie's to babysit for the evening while she and Alex went to London for the 'Jack the Ripper' tour (which was tr'iffic apparently!)
Babysittng: The Pips are great company and make me laugh till my sides ache! Once they were in bed I watched 'The Nutty Professor'' (which was truly awful) and had just started in on the Pilot episode of 'Desperate Housewives' when Lpip sneaked into the sitting room. She had been reading and was then unable to sleep so we talked and I taught her the 'I'm going to the Moon' game to great hilarity on both sides. Fortunately she had gone back to bed before F & A arrived home!
I don't know why it is that I can't seem to sit still long enough enough to watch TV at home but really enjoy looking at it when I'm babysitting . . . .
I visited G this afternoon and managed to catch Peter and Emma there before they left to go home. We are hoping it will not be too long before G can spend a few weeks at Care Home G to see if he likes it. We played a few games of Rummy after P and E had left ~ I was on a winning streak which doesn't happen too often with G!!
A great weekend! and only four days at work next week!
Back soon
Po x
The weekend started well even before I finished work! Worked at home on Friday morning and then arrived at the office after lunch and opened my phone to find a request on facebook from a family member we had lost touch with a few years ago. To say I was excited is putting it mildly! More the girls generation than mine ~ it would be lovely to catch up properly soon.
In the evening we were at the Elton John Suite at Watford Footie Club for a surprise!!!!! party to celebrate Peter's 30th birthday. He was suitably aghast (fortunately!) and it was a great party and wonderful to chat with lovely family and friends some of whom I hadn't seen for a while.
Saturday: school reunion which started (as ever) at the Scotsbridge. Only 6 of us managed to get there but again it was lovely to meet old chums. Fran and I were the only ones to actually go to school and we had left it so late I could only stay a short while before zooming off to Frankie's to babysit for the evening while she and Alex went to London for the 'Jack the Ripper' tour (which was tr'iffic apparently!)
Babysittng: The Pips are great company and make me laugh till my sides ache! Once they were in bed I watched 'The Nutty Professor'' (which was truly awful) and had just started in on the Pilot episode of 'Desperate Housewives' when Lpip sneaked into the sitting room. She had been reading and was then unable to sleep so we talked and I taught her the 'I'm going to the Moon' game to great hilarity on both sides. Fortunately she had gone back to bed before F & A arrived home!
I don't know why it is that I can't seem to sit still long enough enough to watch TV at home but really enjoy looking at it when I'm babysitting . . . .
I visited G this afternoon and managed to catch Peter and Emma there before they left to go home. We are hoping it will not be too long before G can spend a few weeks at Care Home G to see if he likes it. We played a few games of Rummy after P and E had left ~ I was on a winning streak which doesn't happen too often with G!!
A great weekend! and only four days at work next week!
Back soon
Po x
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