Mainly, all I want to do is to be at home, lie on the bed, read my book and possibly take a nap! However, that doesn’t happen too often. There have been pockets of activity – usually when the sun has been shining or when ‘big’ things have been in the diary.
I spent a weekend in Manchester visiting my niece and starting the next lot of accommodation moves! She will be moving closer to the family mid-April – so moving to Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire or thereabouts. Paul and I have joked that we could set up our own removals service as we have done so much of this over the past few years! My niece and I also managed to catch-up with some of my friends – who coincidentally had also just moved house and that had encompassed over 200 boxes apparently (gulp) - so that was good. It’s great that after two-and-a-half years, because of lockdown and restrictions, that we were able to slip into ‘normal’ chit-chat as though we had seen each other just a few weeks ago. My neighbour and I enjoyed something a bit different one evening – taking part in a cookery class and “Pan Asian 'small plates", making dim sum, summer rolls, bao buns and other Asian small bites. Different influences from Vietnam, Korea, Japan and a nod to China too. The course we attended was a mid-week evening between 7pm – 9.30pm, but they also run day courses, and corporate events. Check out: https://www.foodworkscookeryschool.co.uk/ I have made a few changes recently in a bid to balance my time better: Without going into details (boring as) I have handed in my notice for one of the Clerk positions that I hold. Basically, for this particular site, there’s too much work expected for too few contracted hours and the possibility of additional work and travel with no option to even claim for those additional hours or petrol! It is just not worth the hassle; let alone the very limited income it brings in! Subsequently I have spoken with the other schools about what is expected / contracted and – happily – slowly but surely - the hours are being increased, as well as the rates of pay. Outside of official [paid] work, I have told the powers-that-be within the local church community that I am unable to run the Winchcombe Open Gardens event this year....as I am in effect a "committee of one" and there is too much to do and I can't do it by myself! I am also not in the right frame of mind to 'chivvy' people along to get them to either open their gardens and get involved or bake cakes for teas and coffees on the day (in June) or provide plants for sale (on the day). I am fed-up of trying to be bright and cheery and a nice person and doing the 'right thing'. I am admitting that there is too much on my plate but, moreover, the past two years have caught up with me. And I am giving in.... or giving up!
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Barbara
2/4/2022 15:53:03
I think it is time that you kick off your shoes and relax. Of course it’s a shame with the open gardens but how anyone can expect you to organise everything on your own is beyond me.
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Dad
2/4/2022 16:50:48
Good decision, Rosie. Glad to see that you are braking (gently) from your high-speed list of commitments. I, too, am downsizing a bit after my marathon 80 teaching hours (40 weeks) with Shakespeare's 'King Henry VI'. Terminated my Weebly account after 12 years and offering just a 6-week term in the summer (2 groups) with 'Macbeth'. Then taking a sabbatical during the normal Autumn term. Hopefully returning somewhat refreshed January 2023.
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Phillip Manno
5/4/2022 06:59:49
Rosie and Paul,
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