I am going completely batshit here. We have got the motliest crew ever going to get the shot, including a dozen or so Vietnamese, a couple teachers with cancer, Rossweisse's nurse, a good friend and former Shipmate from 20 years ago, our Scoutmaster's husband, and random relatives of people from work. I have an appeal out for African immigrants from our host congregation, but have heard nothing. Tomorrow will be "compel them to come in" time, and I may be scouring the hedgerows...
Helix - when I bought my house a friend suggested I live it it for a while before making any changes. It was good advice as it also allowed me to see how much light various rooms had at different times of the year.
Giving thanks for the system of Community Law Centres. Dealing with an ongoing issue in my family, which is causing me sleepless nights. Knowledge is power!
Gratitude for my husband's supervisor who has handled a situation with more grace and good-will than anxious hubby had even dreamed possible. An almost miraculous resolution to something that had left him sleepless many nights.
Gratitude for my husband's supervisor who has handled a situation with more grace and good-will than anxious hubby had even dreamed possible. An almost miraculous resolution to something that had left him sleepless many nights.
P&T that the Little Welsh Cousin loves her nursery - she's 18 months old and only been able to go for a few weeks, so it was a concern that she might miss her parents and Mamgu*. Also that TIG#1 went back to school in an almost palpable haze of excitement, which hasn't dissipated yet.
*Welsh grandmother, who's been living with them for months, bless her.
P&T for all teachers, TAs, nursery workers etc etc...
Thanks for the prayers before I went away. My time in Wellington was difficult, but I read The Ship at the local library, ad even though i couldn't post at the time just reading then really helped.
A small thing, but I have found my lost file for which I have spent several hours on several days searching. I had a mental image like a thumbnail, but was beginning to imagine I had dreamed it (not photographically enough to read it). But I ran a last search and the computer found it in one of those odd folders the system creates as back up, together with some associated files I had forgotten about. Now saved safely. I had been going to have to go right back to the source material in lots of places and rebuild it all.
We started a new term last week at the seminary where I teach, and wow, I have a fantastic group of students. I am always grateful for my students, but especially for this class. They're so engaged and bring so much to the (Zoom) discussions.
Also, I got my first dose of the vaccine yesterday!
For these and all the wonderful things above on this board, thanks be to God!
For a wonderful outdoor service in the church car park, in beautiful sunshine, at our place this morning. We had Live Music (!!!) and we could Sing (!!!) albeit through masks - AND we got to take Communion (bread only, but hey, that's more than I've managed in over a year!)
It was also a terrific witness, as the car park adjoins the main road though the village - though I will admit, that outdoor witness is a heck of a lot easier in the sun
I've had my grandmother's writing slope returned after work by a restoration company, looking as good as new! Polished with many coats of beeswax, and most importantly with the brass banding replaced - bits had dropped off over the years as the wood shrank, and were beyond my DIY skills to replace. It's wonderful that people have such skills, and such a love for the expressions of the skills of those who went before them.
A toddler named Axel who was lost overnight in the small settlement of Tologa Bay on the East Coast of the North Island Aotearoa/NZ has been found. I would bet that most people who live there would have been out looking as well as police helicopters and Search and Rescue teams.
This story haunted me overnight and I am so relieved.
For a bit of divine arrangement yesterday. Off we had gone to the surgery to see about my friend's vaccination, with a print out of how to get registered in order to back up arguments. Only for my friend to meet a receptionist on the way to the door and have a very positive and friendly discussion there, with advice as to what to do next. (They were, BTW, closed for training etc yesterday afternoon.)
Thanks for the Repair Shop, and specifically for the teddy bear ladies. Having seen them clean a very old sheepskin bear by immersing him in a bran tub (!) I have done the same with George and achieved some success, so I have plunged him back into his bath, prior to doing the same with Gabriel
George - who came from Atlanta, clutching a bottle of the carbonated beverage famously headquartered there - had horrible greasy dust stuck to him from a sojourn in the attic, and nothing would shift it. Gabriel's fur is curly so even harder to clean. I bought Gabriel years ago from one of those companies who used to leave books in Reception - seeing me hesitating over his purchase, my friend Eileen told me it was my moral duty to buy him and give him a good home, or else he might become a rent bear...
What kind of bran please? I have an elderly stuffed toy that this might work for. It was my youngest brothers and he turns 60 in July. (How did he get to be that old? I saw him when he was a couple of days old and all nose. Thankfully he grew into it.
I think it was just animal bran - Mr S ordered it for me over the interweb. We put George in a plastic toybox and smothered him in bran, then wrapped the whole caboodle in shrinkwrap (but it still makes a terrible mess when you try and extricate him!)
Despite my most recent line manager being *ahem* somewhat unhelpful in her references about me, hiring manager who had tenatively offered me a job is happy for me to start work now (on the basis that it's through a recruitment agency so she can sack me with no notice whatsoever if I'm completely rubbish - but I'm going to work quite hard at not being completely rubbish!).
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Cathcats enjoy your own home.
P&T that the Little Welsh Cousin loves her nursery - she's 18 months old and only been able to go for a few weeks, so it was a concern that she might miss her parents and Mamgu*. Also that TIG#1 went back to school in an almost palpable haze of excitement, which hasn't dissipated yet.
*Welsh grandmother, who's been living with them for months, bless her.
P&T for all teachers, TAs, nursery workers etc etc...
Frolicking frogs having a party out there!
And as we have No Fish Left , maybe just maybe this enormous amount of frogspawn might produce some frogs?
I am super happy today!
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Also, I got my first dose of the vaccine yesterday!
For these and all the wonderful things above on this board, thanks be to God!
It was also a terrific witness, as the car park adjoins the main road though the village - though I will admit, that outdoor witness is a heck of a lot easier in the sun
This story haunted me overnight and I am so relieved.
Thanks for the Repair Shop, and specifically for the teddy bear ladies. Having seen them clean a very old sheepskin bear by immersing him in a bran tub (!) I have done the same with George and achieved some success, so I have plunged him back into his bath, prior to doing the same with Gabriel
George - who came from Atlanta, clutching a bottle of the carbonated beverage famously headquartered there - had horrible greasy dust stuck to him from a sojourn in the attic, and nothing would shift it. Gabriel's fur is curly so even harder to clean. I bought Gabriel years ago from one of those companies who used to leave books in Reception - seeing me hesitating over his purchase, my friend Eileen told me it was my moral duty to buy him and give him a good home, or else he might become a rent bear...
What kind of bran please? I have an elderly stuffed toy that this might work for. It was my youngest brothers and he turns 60 in July. (How did he get to be that old? I saw him when he was a couple of days old and all nose. Thankfully he grew into it.
Despite my most recent line manager being *ahem* somewhat unhelpful in her references about me, hiring manager who had tenatively offered me a job is happy for me to start work now (on the basis that it's through a recruitment agency so she can sack me with no notice whatsoever if I'm completely rubbish - but I'm going to work quite hard at not being completely rubbish!).
How wonderful!