Morning all, sunny and warmish today, the threatened snow hasn't arrived thankfully.
Glad you are feeling a bit better about the self isolation craftyone, it might not even have to happen. I don't think my aunt on the IOW is happy about it at all, she was upset her singing was cancelled yesterday. I saw your many suggestions on the 'occupy yourself' thread, I'm sure you inspired many.
Good you had your big delivery Whiff, sorry you couldn't get toilet roll. My husband's family had an outside toilet in Manchester with newspaper on a string, no wonder it used to block all the time!
Thanks for the tip Franbern, I will tune in. I have got the third book on Kindle, and because I know his fate, am looking for signs of when his demise begins. I hope you can get your normal food shop today, they had just had a loo roll delivery yesterday.
Thank you all for your encouragement about the auction. I know I should be up at the house sorting things out, and can't face it, I seem to have ground to a halt. I am going to have to force myself. I do go and collect my post, check around the house every day, and feed my birds. I've relisted the wardrobes and chests on ebay for one more week. The man who bought the bench is coming next Sunday, Mother's Day, so I've had to text him and ask for an approximate time as the kids are coming up for a beach walk and picnic.
An old lecturer friend in Oban phoned me to tell me she lost her husband in January, I'm going out to shop for a small care parcel for her later, just a few things like Rescue Remedy pastilles, Snore and sleep tea, handcream etc. I taught Business Admin and IT full time in London and when we moved here in 1999, taught adults part time for seven years, but was made redundant.
I was devastated as I was only 49, it affected me very badly. I went to the only local college in 2006 with all the kids and retrained in Travel and Tourism, not realising it is just hard selling, so I didn't pursue working in a Travel Agency. I had to take a variety of jobs until I was 55. My best job here was working for an Event Dresser, who dressed weddings - very stressful! Especially when the candles provided by the bride's mother don't fit the candleabra and you have to use a lighter to fix every one!
My very first job in 1973 was as second secretary at the BBC working for Bill Cotton, Head of Light Entertainment. Ten years later when I met my late husband, he supported me while I retrained as a teacher and I got a job teaching visually impaired adults audio typing at the RNIB, the college was in Notting Hill Gate. Sadly they moved to Loughborough or I'd never have left. I wish they'd been in the Teacher's Pension scheme, I didn't realise at the time.
I'm still in touch with my boss from there, she's in her 80's now. I left them as we didn't want to relocate 'up north' and went to the college I spent the rest of my teaching career until 1999. I was so very sad to leave my work colleagues, we were a great team.
Which job did you enjoy the most in your working life?