I'm doing really bad with holding on to my things lately; so not only have I managed to lose a brand new beanie (a gift nonetheless) recently, but yesterday I stopped off at a cafe while doing site visits. The guy was friendly, even pulled up a table outside for me to sit at ( Read more... )

I went into Black Sheep this morning; I almost got a "black hoof", but then spotted they had a pistachio latte, which I'm sure I'd never tried before, so I got one of those ( Read more... )

I had a couple of mini-calamities last night; first off, I managed to smash my rice jar while trying to clear away my clean dishes and cutlery probably too late. Afterwards, I went to find my umpires' shirt for the tournament, and found it wasn't there. I quickly realised that I'd let Mum take it to her house with some other clothes out of my ( Read more... )

I've been trying to make life easier for others today, but this is occasionally hard when I struggle to recognise random acts of kindness from strangers for what they are, and just see them as terse, grudging, sarcastic, even patronising. I have difficulty getting out of the mindset where I just expect antagonism from others ( Read more... )

1) What's the most cluttered spot in your home?

Apart from the attic, quite possibly the surface around the laptop I'm using; full of things I took out and didn't put away, or that I've promised to lend to others, which I just left out because I need to be able to see them to remember that I mean to give them on to someone, and there are some ( Read more... )

I'm still gutted about the stag do, but am trying to think about more good things1) I saw in the week that a colleague of mine had got over his coronavirus, and was in the office during the division meeting (I so far have escaped it this time ( Read more... )

I watched a show that I hadn't seen for a little while tonight, since my Sky Plus box put it on series link randomly: Absolutely Fabulous.


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The Prayer Triplet meeting went well yesterday; we tried out a new Chinese Restaurant - the system for ordering was a bit confusing at first, mostly because they had QR codes for a website supposedly for ordering food, but which didn't work. They had lots of bubble teas on the menu, which looked tempting, but they were too expensive ( Read more... )