Day 686

Day 686...

Back to my normal routine and a Tuesday split between work and home.

The morning in work saw me catch up with the usual admin and banking bits and pieces as well as make a start on a newsletter. We were joined by Jon, who is the local Asda community champion, to help us make some 'winter wonderland ice-cream sundaes'! Jon is a great friend of pre-school and will visit us on a regular basis and organise all sorts of activities with the children. Suffice to say ice-cream, marshmallows, squirty cream and white chocolate went down rather well with the children!

I arrived home in time so spend the last half of Simon's lunch break with him, which meant we got chance to update each other on how our days were going. It sounds like Ethan will soon be returning to work in the office! He has been working from home since March 2020 and through a combination of the pandemic 'work at home' orders and his company needing to find new office space (their team has grown over the last two years and so they need more space!) he has spent two years with his bedroom doubling as his work space. And while it's very convenient to fall out of bed and straight into work it really is about time he had some semblance of normality return.

For those of us of a certain age we have had our time out in the big wide world working, meeting new people, going new places, work events, social events, lunchtime meetings in the pub and the rest but for this current generation so many have missed out on these 'life events'. University life has not been what university life should have been, social times have not existed and even the boring and mundane have been missed for a whole cohort of young adults and they are never going to get that time back and that is such a shame (and that's putting it lightly!).

But talking of the mundane my afternoon at home consisted of sorting laundry and getting the ironing up to date - whoop! But I was also able to keep Simon and Ethan fueled with coffee as well as make a start on my latest jigsaw. Although I think I may have made a strategic error when I decided to sort out all the pieces that contained parts of 'Stitch' - it's a Lilo & Stitch puzzle - and there are rather a lot of 'Stitch's'....

Latest puzzle...

...out sorted 'Stitch' pieces...

...but some progress has been made!

I think all I've managed to do is make piles of pieces that will need sorting through again! Oh well it'll keep me quiet!

We ended the day with a quick workout in our 'gym', throwing around a few weights...carefully of course.

Right time to log off and I'll see you tomorrow.
xx