Learning to walk before I run

Suffolk_lass

South_coast said:

edinburgher said:

....apart from a pointless row with Mrs E about chores

I so read that as a row about cheese 🧀🤦‍♀️ I have food on the brain!

Shh! we are not allowed to mention the Ch word here. Mr Sl still having withdrawal pangs. Dreaming of it, I understand.  He is 20-21lb lighter than before the hospital episode though. So that is compensation for him. Me? I finished the chocolate bars that imitate water a week last Sunday and have been doing the 8WLBSD since Monday. 5lb so far.

I was the tallest in my Junior school pictures by almost a head. Mercifully it slowed down a bit at senior school. Husband was the heaviest baby in Devon, a home birth his mother managed on her own in a snow storm. When the midwife got there, she knocked a few pounds off. Then DS was the longest baby they had recorded at the hospital where he was born (another reason I have just the one). Sat at 98th percentile for height throughout his childhood but mercifully stopped at 1.95m. Weight was always under until the first year after he left home (8 stone [junk-food] gain) - he's pretty lean again now after going on a salary controlled diet. As a postie he walks around 20k steps every day he works, so no weight watching for him.

I hope the rain in the West of Scotland has stopped for you ed. My Mum's having one side of her roof replaced (cedar shingles) after eight years of trying to find someone to do it for less than the value of the house, so I receive regular weather updates

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - quite a bit of that made me laugh 😂 I'm wondering what bits the midwife knocked off and I giggled at salary controlled diet. I was a postie one summer, was dreadful at it as I just wanted to go out drinking 😅

The weather here has been blissful of late. Lovely and warm, wee bit of rain over the last couple of days. Had an amazing day out at Largs today. Warm and sunny, ice creams, arcade, walk along the sea front, lunch from award winning chippy. 

Pretty sure I'll need to control my own calories soon, I miss Mounjaro!

edinburgher

Easter break was very good fun, if ruinously expensive.

Back to sackcloth and ashes, £6 OPed. Surveys seem thin on the ground?

QueenJess

edinburgher said:

Easter break was very good fun, if ruinously expensive.

Back to sackcloth and ashes, £6 OPed. Surveys seem thin on the ground?

Lol 😂 You said exactly how I feel.

edinburgher

The usual frantic end to the working week with deadlines, last-minute letters and overtime to consider. Managed to get a couple of hours in today.

Payslip is out for next week and I'm being paid £700 in overtime, which sure beats the surveys! I've only earned about £20 in surveys this month. 8% paid into my SIPP, fractionally over £70 after pension tax relief. I've also been topping up my very small ISA pot by whatever the daily %age fall is as the crazy pronouncements arrive from across the pond.

Grocery shopping done, one child off to bed and another on the way. Might be time for a wee drink? 😉 

Suffolk_lass

Ooh yes, a wee drink. I helped at the children's agricultural show in  err, Suffolk yesterday. Literally thousands of children to talk to. They are so loud! At least one (maths) teacher was thrilled when I mentioned the perfect hexagon shape of the wax combs that bees make. They were all perfect little hexagons until the boys started pressing and crumbling the brace comb! Revolting little horrors! Some of the girls too, but noticeable the boys could not just weigh in their hands and examine. Their urge to crush and destroy at aged 7-10 was apparently overwhelming! Take heart that girls are certainly easier, although with the disposition to say "Wow!" in response to every new piece of information (which I took to signify "la, la, la, I'm not listening!"). I had forgotten how exhausting large numbers of them can be. I think I am getting old!

earthgirl2

Amazing overtime payment! Well done Ed. 

Watty1

Incredible overtime payment, but, do hope you are not overdoing it to be banking that.

LadyWithAPlan

Watty1 said:

Incredible overtime payment, but, do hope you are not overdoing it to be banking that.

yes don’t forget the work life balance - still £700 is great 

edinburgher

Thanks all. That's just over 5 hours a week. It's probably less time than I had been spending on AI studies, so probably an improvement to my work life balance

I am loaded with the cold today, only managed 4 hours of sleep last night. Still, medicine and caffeine are helping. Fitting in 3 hours of overtime this morning, on a brief coffee break.

£8.82 OPed.