I'm now getting up an average of an hour earlier than  I used to and going to bed about 15 mins earlier.  I'm also getting to sleep much faster.

Why?

Wonderfully simple.  My son Henry has joined the ranks of the employed.  A full time, permanent job, in a field he enjoys, within walking distance of home.

I get up earlier to make him breakfast before ( Read more... )

When I applied for this lunchtime supervisor (dinner lady) job, I dutifully filled in about five separate forms, answered honestly all health-related questions including the fact that I'd been on incapacity benefit and that I had problems lifting things.( So what happens at work? )

Richard and I both started new jobs today ( Read more... )

Today, (and yesterday, and several days last week), Richard and I have been working on micavity  and entorien 's back garden.

So far, we've cleared and shredded a large quantity of brambles (and dug out the roots), removed large quantities of weeds from around the pyracantha, deduced one of the pyracantha to be  a trailing variety which isn't going to work in what ( Read more... )