After nearly 5 months, 14 balls of wool, and quite a lot of swearing, I am delighted to say that my Persian Tiles - Eastern Jewels blanket is complete! #crochet 💕
Mr P flu update. He’s up, showered and dressed. He’s eaten a snack. He’s gone back to bed as this has broken him and i don’t think he’ll be able to get up again for at least 24 hours
The fact that I am waiting for project partners to send letters of support by email, there’s a massive error in the grant costing and I can’t contact finance and I need all this done by COP today is doing wonders for my blood pressure.
@FredWoodard19 He already had an underlying chronic condition and when he gets actually
sick it’s brutal. He’s on the mend tho and current trajectory is positive.
@MotherOfCa25883 I get that. But he’s here now, don’t spend your time worrying about what happens in the future when you can spend the time being with him. We get them for such a fleeting span, we need to extract all the joy out of the time we have.
My old cat, Graeme, loathed everyone apart from me. When I first met Mr P after a few weeks I introduced him to Graeme. Mr P sat down next to him, rubbed his head and said “alright G unit?” in his Bristolian accent and Graeme just put his head on his lap and slept. They know.
Apparently my suggestion to our senior university leadership team of “town criers and carrier pigeons” as a comms platform during the #MicrosoftOutage today was “not really contributing productively to the discussion” and what happened to thinking outside the box, people?
@PhysWiz Nicest colleagues you could ever work with. Have no idea what their real names are but every interaction is a pleasure. Insanely, terrifyingly intelligent but also have to understand people.