What I did today.

Hey, you are IN your new home. And decorating! Don't work too hard.

ariadne I would love a coffee now..... drifted off again while reading only to be given the fright of my life when the mobile rang a 7 .48.... yes it was DH who thinks the whole world is out and about if he is. Hope the colour is perfect, you are doing well to have started painting already.

nellie I have only just caught this thread - many congratulations to you and your family, and welcome to Noah, I know you will enjoy all those very precious moments

jeni so sorry to hear of your problems - I think all professional people find themselves at some point, on the receiving end of completely unjustified complaints and it is very hurtful even when you know you have done nothing wrong. Unfortunately these days people are encouraged to complain, without ever stopping to think that the person they are complaining about is another person with feelings, or seeing it from their point of view.
I hope you are feeling better today - try to focus on all the good things you have done in your working life, and if as you say, your boss is supportive, it might help to talk it through again with him/her?

Thanks Jane.
When I've had my coffee I'm going to take the bull by the horns and write an answer to the longer complaint. I'll probably feel better when I've done that.
Still feeling weepy but that's probably due to lack of sleep.

Best get it over with, jeni. Then perhaps you can get some much needed and well deserved rest. I have seen the effects of an unjustified complaint on a very close relative who was devastated and took a long time to recover, even though she knew she was completely innocent and was exonerated without a stain on her record.

Well, I've done them now! As my computer got the sulks and refused to talk to my printer, I had to handwrite them. At the finish my wrist and elbow were clicking and really painful. I hadn't realised the arthritis in my upper limbs was that bad! I suppose it's because I'm constantly in pain with my ankles and feet and that takes up all my tony mind!

Tiny! Who's tony?

jeni, . Hope you feel a bit better now.

Thanks bags!

jeni, try to have a good weekend now - relax if you can.

Will do.

Today I did some housework. And fell over DH's slipper left by the back door. Went sprawling. Luckily the spin dryer took the brunt of it.

And then I moved some bits and pieces on the fireplace to hoover up the summer soot from behind the firescreen. And knocked over my lovely metalwork candle holder breaking the glass inner.

Why didn't I just go for a walk?

The moral of that is: housework is more trouble than it's worth!

I know! Thanks.

Work/flu jab/bookies;crash out on sofa with cup of tea...

[just ate chocolate cake that I had the strength of will to not eat yesterday ]

Bread making session with my 4 year old grandsons, who loved playing with the dough (no worries, the dog ate the dough that somehow made its way to the sitting room carpet!). One very large pizza base and a three-legged elephant successfully baked without me being stretchered off. A final flourish before putting the elephant shaped bread in the oven - Dairylea triangle slapped on its tummy! They've eaten everything they made

Anno and crimson
Ariadne
kitty and jeni
Jings you'd have been safer on your bike...hope that you can replace the glass inner. (hug)

when, [gold star]

Sweet-smelling grandsons have just gone home. Why sweet? They have been testing all my perfumes in the bathroom!! As soon as I heard giggling, I knew it would be mischief. Just recovered the remote mouse for my laptop, which was posted down the radiator cover. Now all I have to find is the dog's collar!

when...love it!

Took DG to Disney on Ice, left when she had had enough. Had to run the gauntlet of merchandise sellers on the way out...

Dropped her off at home then DH & I went for a curry before going to see Medea at the Citz. Seem to have been doing that for nigh on forty years.

Succeeded in persuading MrA to go dancing tonight. Might have reached the stage of unconscious competence in Foxtrot. It's only taken six years......

Had the man out to measure the study for carpet, how come floor covering for a tiny room costs half as much again as my new large bedroom ? Now I only need two office chairs and we are ready to go. I don't know how it will work with both of us in the same room, maybe I will wear headphones and listen to music while I am on the computer