Friday Standard work call with the Prof Sir and then off to get our blood tests. Seems as though they want to check for absolutely everything when you register with a GP here. Sadly however it still won’t allow me to donate blood in France as they have this whole CJD thing, on the plus side for our UK readers it means I can only donate to UK donors when
Read moreSaturday Matt was up early and off to the shop to get some breakfast, thankfully I don’t have this weakness for food early in the morning so I got to stay in bed. By the time I got up he was already planning for lunch, bacon and egg pie. Sounded pretty good and he had to have another egg (after the 9 in the pie) to brush it with so
Read moreTuesday Very busy start to the day but had a quick look at the first flowers coming out. In the afternoon however we rang the Vide Grenier to check if the other two ski lockers had arrived but they’d not heard back from the seller. The reminder appeared to work though, as soon as I went outside to plant a few more seeds the French phone started to ring over
Read moreThursday Mostly worked. I did give Biomedica a quick call today though. Seems they don’t do vaccinations but we can drop in anytime to get our blood tests done. Hopefully then they will also tell us where/how to get our tetanus boosters. Was then just very busy with work. In being so busy however I’d missed a rather massive piece of news: *Russia invades Ukraine* What madness is this? It’s
Read moreSunday Following a negotiation with Matt last night I managed to be in the car ready to go at 9am. Not bad on his part to get me out of bed on a Sunday morning, and pretty impressed I didn’t have to be thrown out the house. However we were on our way. So, it turns out that maybe, just maybe, Matt was right. I never seen queues like it.
Read moreWednesday Just working [16 February 2022] Thursday Busy morning with an early 8:30 start. A few back to back meetings but calls done at 12. Time to crack on and make the most of the day. There’s been some snow recently so we did the only responsible thing, headed up the mountain between meetings to get a few runs in. It was a bit slushy in places but not bad
Read moreThursday A long day of interviews today for the new Deputy Head of Comms for KHP. Some good candidates and possibly a couple that could be invited to interview for the temp work for me. 6 interviews though is pretty testing and I was desperate to get up and have a walk about. I found Matt out in the garden. Seems that he’s cleared the area ready for us to
Read moreSaturday You cannot be serious! Who knew that there was a 6am?! Bless her though, mum got up to say goodbye. I appreciated the support, and that Matt was driving, I’m not sure that I should be driving at that time in the morning, my eyes are hardly open. It’s so dark out that the first pictures didn’t work at all! Sun had risen by the time we reached Folkstone.
Read moreMonday Busy day. Work, ANAH and preparations. Work calls. Then M. Julien came round, he’s very nice and clearly when he arrived the penny suddenly dropped. He’d been wondering why the quote for pellet boiler was so large and the spec on the alternative quote was for two air source heat pumps, it had seemed rather over specced until he saw the sheer volume of the house. He was grateful
Read moreMonday Got rather waylaid with work in the morning so didn’t get a chance to call Anah to book the meeting in for Wednesday before they broke for lunch. Since the office is only round the corner by the station the easiest thing is to drop round as soon as they are back at 2pm. The receptionist was super lovely. All the appointments were booked so she rang the head
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