Preparing for winter III

nursey3

MaxSusie: Congrats on the job!!

MaxSusie

Nursey3 thank you I'm thrilled and scared at the same time iykwim? I'll be at a new branch which will be better really as my old branch is now ran by different people and I'd maybe feel a bit odd. Or maybe its just me losing my marbles!!

ebayqueen_2

Thats great news Maxsusie

All the best.

E

nursey3

MaxSusie: Change can be daunting..but remember the exciting bit too! I left a job in London I had been in for approx 10 years (where I knew everyone and all the 'shortcuts' to get the job done smoothly, and all the politics to avoid!),to move to my current job in Norfolk (where I had only visited once for an informal visit prior to interview, knew NOBODY, didn't know the area...and the place is full of strange names which are spelt one way and pronounced completely differently! ..much to the amusement of my new colleagues!). I was absolutely scared silly, but I kept/keep repeating a little mantra to myself in that...I now have a quality of life (where I am no longer working 90-100hr weeks!), I can potentially afford to buy a house in a couple of years (or at least try and get a mortgage!) and i get to experience new challenges. Take the move as an opportunity, if you don't know anyone there etc, you can reinvent yourself if you want to..you don't have any of their preconceptions to address, and then you can just be your usual talented wonderful self (I'm sure!) and let the others get to know you and be impressed! Anyhows, if you had no anxiety at all about the new job, then it would mean you didn't particularly care about it..so its a positive thing!! Enjoy your remaining peace and quiet before getting back into the hectic flow of things, and once again, congratulations! (sorry for the long post!)
Nursey x

tugrin

Ah nursey that'll be Wymondham, Hindolveston and possibly Happisburgh! Bet you love it now tho'.

nursey3

tugrin wrote: »

Ah nursey that'll be Wymondham, Hindolveston and possibly Happisburgh! Bet you love it now tho'.

Yup...and Costessey is a good one too!! Caused much amusement with work and estate agents! Add to that my wonderful sense of direction and is it any wonder that for my first week at work I got there just fine, but ended up coming home a 'different', circuitous route each and every time just because of a sneaky double roundabout! lol. That and its sooooo darn quiet, I often still have to sleep with the TV on! But all in all, it was definitely a move for the better...and certainly better (IMO) than me moving to deepest darkest cornwall to be with my beloved! (he didn't want to live in london, I didn't want to live in cornwall, so I moved here, told him that there are beaches and countryside so to hurry up and move and stop complaining! ) Bless his heart, it only took about a year of him commuting from cornwall to norwich every weekend to agree hehehe!

Tugrin, we are in the area tho, so if you get stuck and need help...please feel free to 'scream'!

Ellie/Nursey

Aldahbra

Gettingtherequickly wrote: »

Can I ask a daft question? I have bought candles, in case they are needed, but I don't have any candlestick, got plenty of tealight holders. So what can I use for candles to ensure that they are as safe as possible. I live alone, so don't have to worry about nippers or anything.

You could always go all eighties and stick them in the top of a wine bottle, to make it really eighties use mattius rose and let the wax run down the side of the bottle, alternating with different colour candles.

Rose_Crow

Oops - as soon as I cross something off my list I think of something to add.

Every year I have trouble getting the hay up for the horses from the bottom of the field to the top (up a hill). Had the idea to buy a sledge or two and some of those Ikea tarp type bags and put all the hay in those and drag them up! Now looking for super cheap sledges. Will re-check this thread when I have time, but in the meantime does anyone know offhand of any cheap sledges (spotted the one about the GoOutdoors ones thanks!)

Oh and of course, we can wizz back down the field on the sledges when we're done!

rising_from_the_ashes

Maxsusie - huge congratulations on the new job:j - you'll soon settle in.

Welcome to Ben


DM just phoned to say she's found a big roll of material up her loft (which she's trying to clear) and did I want it :eek: as if I'd turn that down!

Have no idea what it's like so will have to wait and see but I bet I can find something to do with it!:)

goerdievik

Asda have those quite large round 'sledges' that look like an oversized tea tray in their Winter section for a fiver