My journey to a debt free life

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

Very annoying about the delivery. DPD are usually good as a rule. The shop should send you a replacement free of charge and claim from DPD. I hate doing mandatory training 🥱 

I must admit I've never had a problem before 😊I don't like mandatory training days either but ours is quite practical so at least we are up and moving about for some of it 😊

Onebrokelady

Nicnak said:

Frustrating about the delivery.
I've found a chewed bag of rabbit food in the garage so suspect I have got mice in the garage. Once the kitchen is done and out the garage, I'll be storing everything in a storage box to stop them getting to it. X

I recommend buying a metal bin as that is possible the only thing they can't chew through, the rats in the garden chewed through the side of my new at the time plastic shed to get at the food when I used to keep it outside, I keep it in the house now in a secure bin 

Onebrokelady

Cherryfudge said:

Onebrokelady said: I don't like training days either for the same reason, it's also freezing cold in the training rooms now because they insist on having all the windows open 🙄

They've moved all of ours - even Challenging Behaviour and Moving & Handling, both of which require physical activity - online. The only exception is Fire Training which used to be four times a year. My most recent one is now 11 months old. I much prefer to be on the laptop at home: a group trying to use a work laptop ended up breaching social distancing just before we had a positive test, so being in work to train certainly doesn't make sense.  

I'm afraid I'm the villain who goes round opening windows at work!

P.S. I'm not a big fan of training days either - in normal times the trainers are pretty good about keeping us involved, letting us move around etc but that's harder on the computer. I once drifted off in a muggy training session (hope no one noticed!) so online isn't the only guilty party. I'm just not cut out for sitting still without a forum or computer game to hand!

All our training for January was cancelled and we now only one day to cover Basic life support manual handling and fire safety, it was good fun today because we got to play with fire extinguishers 😀

Onebrokelady

foxgloves said:

Oh that's really annoying about your order, OBL, especially as you could see a trail of the item outside. Yes, you should definitely get a refund. It's just the faff of putting these things right which puts us off, I think. It's a hassle, but you have paid for something, you should get it, not whatever little % of t is still in the bag after the delivery man has finished wafting it up the street!
F x
P.S It did make me smile that the chickens have turned their beaks up at some worms, which are now seconded onto being badger dinner!

Only the best worms will do for my ladies 😂😂 Im not even sure if the badgers will eat these, they are called calci worms and I've never seen them before,I put some out on the bird feeder to see if the birds will eat them , if not I will chuck them on the front garden because something will be glad to eat them 😀
Ive emailed Pets At Home but haven't heard back yet 

Onebrokelady

Today's training was better than it has ever been. They normally use staff from the ward but today we had two people from the resus team to practice our resus skills with. The fire guy let  us have a go with some carbon dioxide fire extinguishers so we went outside and froze some moss 😀 even the manual handling was interesting when done by the Moving and Handling team, they showed us lots of equipment we didn't even know existed because they presume we only have little people on our ward when in actual fact our patients are aged up to 18 if they are in full time education. So they now know that we do have a need for this equipment sometimes and we now know how to access it, I've only been there for 28 years to find this out🙄
The training finished half an hour early so we go to go home a bit earlier than expected 🎉🎉
Tonight I have watched the film called The Dig on Netflix and I really enjoyed it. I am fascinated by anything to do with Anglo Saxons and the Sutton Hoo Hoard and have always wanted to go and see it,I didn't know the backstory though of who discovered it.DD1 text me today and told me to watch it so now I know, I've looked up Basil Brown the man who discovered it and it wasn't until later years that he was given any credit for his work. He actually ended up working as a school caretaker who used to encourage children to dig for  objects he was also an amateur astronomer, imagine having the man who discovered the biggest hoard of treasure in England as your caretaker and not realising it 😳
One day I will get to see the collection which is in The British Museum 

foxgloves

Sutton Hoo is amazing, OBL. I'm looking forward to the film, as read the novel some years ago. We have stayed in Edith Pretty's big house on the site as part of it is NT holiday apartments now. We are actually booked in for later this year for our 20th wedding anniversary, but that will depend on the pandemic, of course. The treasure is amazing. I've seen it both at the British Museum & at the Sutton Hoo visitor centre, which is very interesting & often has items from the hoard. Walking around the burial mounds at dusk is very eerie. It's somewhere we never tire of visiting.
F x

Onebrokelady

foxgloves said:

Sutton Hoo is amazing, OBL. I'm looking forward to the film, as read the novel some years ago. We have stayed in Edith Pretty's big house on the site as part of it is NT holiday apartments now. We are actually booked in for later this year for our 20th wedding anniversary, but that will depend on the pandemic, of course. The treasure is amazing. I've seen it both at the British Museum & at the Sutton Hoo visitor centre, which is very interesting & often has items from the hoard. Walking around the burial mounds at dusk is very eerie. It's somewhere we never tire of visiting.
F x

I'm so jealous that you've been to the site Foxgloves, I would love to do this 😊 I bet it's eerie walking round the mounds, I didn't know you could stay there too 😊I'm also very interested in Vikings and would love to visit the Jorvik Viking Centre in York . I wanted to go for my 50th birthday but it didn't happen for various reasons , one day I will get to visit both these places 
The film is really good, I'm not sure how close to the book it is because I haven't read it 😊

Onebrokelady

Woke up late again today and I'm feeling a bit disorientated for some reason. I get days where I can't focus on what I actually want to do and end up not doing anything which I hate. I'm just having a coffee then I'm going to concentrate on doing one thing which will hopefully lead to doing another thing 😀
I have taken B for our walk through the fields today, I'm aiming to do that regardless of how I feel mentally or physically because it does do me good, it was lovely and sunny when we set off but then rained on the way back so we got a bit soggy, I don't mind though if I'm on my way home to a warm house 
Today will be NSD 2 of February, I'm hoping for quite a few this month 😀 

milann

I watched The Dig at weekend. I loved it. We visited Sutton Hoo a couple of years ago. It’s not in my neck of the woods but we’d been on holiday to Southwold and detoured on the way home especially. I’d have liked longer there but if ever venture that way again we will definitely re visit.
I’m just finishing watching something called Traces on BBC i player - that’s set in Dundee a place I’ve visited a few times. I’ve enjoyed that too. I like watching things set in places I’ve visited.
That’s the best thing to do......concentrate on one job at a time then see where it leads you.

foxgloves

Yes, OBL, the burial mounds are eerie at dusk. Sand bodies were also found on the site - as explained in the visitor centre, very interesting. The apartments there are out of our price range unless we go well out of season, but we quite like that, as more opportunity to explore with fewer folk around. 
Maybe you will be able to visit one day. 
I hope so. It's a special place. 
F x