Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

10pm - probably time to stop work when you started at 6, right?

In my defence, it's because I absent-mindedly booked myself on one of the agency business files arriving Friday 6pm due back Sunday midday before I remembered that I had friends possibly coming to stay on Saturday night, so I'm trying to get it all done before they turn up around 5pm tomorrow (they're climbing a mountain during the day!). All done bar 6 minutes and a proofread

I had a good chat with Mr RPC today - it's the end of his VAT quarter and I needed him to tell me what three cheques he'd written were for, so we ended up talking about his business and where I fit into it, because I'm doing significantly more than just typing a few letters these days. He's aiming to double his turnover over the next few years and asked if I could or would be interested in working more or less full-time for him. Absolutely And it would fit very nicely with my plans to shift more of my time into property-related stuff.

I feel like I'm slowly carving myself out a new life, almost like a craftsman shaping something out of a lump of wood. I can only see the rough outline of it at the moment, but I shall keep whittling and turning, a little bit at a time, until it becomes something beautiful.

cazmanian_minx

It's been a good weekend The file went back to the agency on Saturday morning, we nipped over to the big Tesco and then I spent the afternoon cleaning the house while Mr Minx cleaned the car and got cooking in advance of friends turning to stay the night (and they were in a campervan and perfectly happy to sleep in it, so I didn't even have to change the sheets in the spare room!).

This morning we had a walk on the beach and round the village and then they headed off south and I rattled my way through a celeb interview, which I'd agreed to squeeze in for Journalist #1 because I'm a bit of a fan of the main programme the interviewee presents. I wasn't disappointed, he was great fun

Mr Minx and I had a chat about finances on our way into town yesterday. He had his interview panel for his new job on Friday - assuming he got it (and he was the only person who applied and he's already doing the job in an acting capacity, so we're reasonably confident) he's going to get a fairly hefty payrise so we're seriously considering him taking over all the direct debits for the house we live in (as he has a Santander 123 account, so with the monthly charge going up it makes sense for them to all go out of his) and for me to put everything I earn towards doing up Ethel's House and building up assets that will eventually bring us enough of an income to live off without needing to work. We'll see how it pans out.

AlexLK

It's been ages since I've caught up with your diary but all sounds excellent.

cazmanian_minx

Spoke too soon about the good weekend - the phone rang at 2am, 88-y-o mother in law had fallen down the stairs and been taken to hospital. Because she had neck and back pain, she was immobilised and taken to the county hospital for x-rays, because she has arthritis, they couldn't see clearly enough on the x-rays whether she had or had not cracked a vertebra in her neck and their CT scanner was out of order, so she had to have a 3-hour journey in the back of an ambulance, still immobilised, down to Inverness.

Fortunately all's well that ends well and she hasn't actually broken her neck or cracked her skull, but she does have a broken wrist, a knee the size of a cabbage and a big gash in her head. They're keeping her in overnight down there and Mr Minx will bring her back up to the local hospital tomorrow.

She did that just falling off the bottom two, Gods knows what would have happened if she'd gone down the whole flight - it looks like our first renovation project is going to be converting her house into ground floor living only. It actually won't be too hard to do, she's got a separate dining room which will easily become her bedroom, there's a downstairs loo already, but it's sadly too small for a shower, so we're going to need to re-jig her utility room into a shower room I think, and move the washing machine into the garage.

Knit_Witch

Oh no Caz , I hope she recovers quickly

dawnybabes

Oh no, hope she's ok x

AlexLK

Hope your mother in law makes a speedy recovery.

gallygirl

Poor soul, hope she makes a good recovery

Verbatim

Hope Mr M's mum is making a good recovery.
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brizzledfw

Ditto. Hope she is improving fast.

Re the new opps - all sounds v promising and I hope Mr Caz gets the permie role too