2022 - Moving forward

jwil

Today's PAD - £2

Jan - £126
Feb - £106
Mar - £136
Apr - £122
May - £113
June - £108
July - £177
August - £115
September - £92
October - £87
November - £80
December - £35

jwil

It's felt like a long time coming, but I'm finally on leave!  No work until next year hurrah!  I've cleared my inbox and caught up on all the urgent to do lists, so I feel like I can properly relax.  Sod's law though there are rumours there will be a long awaited policy announcement tomorrow, so I might have a look at the detail on that so I'm prepped for going back.  I did warn that I won't be there to write any briefing papers though!   There's also one task which I left with someone else to find some data which I might need to resubmit.  Hopefully not though.

Tomorrow's the last day of school for the kids, and I'll be attending little jwil's carol service.  Swimming in the evening, then that's on a break for 2 weeks too.

I plan on just chilling for much of the time, pottering around and catching up on things I want to do. No pressure, the kids will enjoy chilling as well.

I won a big stocking full of chocolate in a school raffle today, the kids were so excited  

savingholmes

How lovely to have finished already. I wish I was. I know you doing compressed hours has helped with that though.

Lovely win on the stocking 

Enjoy the carols. I love singing.

beanielou

Woohoo. Relax & enjoy.
THat's a good win.

CRANKY40

Oh how lovely. No work for ages and a little people carol service. I'm jealous of the carols - my House Troll is 18 now and won't even let me play Christmas music in the car  😂 Enjoy your time off. 

jwil

savingholmes said:

How lovely to have finished already. I wish I was. I know you doing compressed hours has helped with that though.

Lovely win on the stocking 

Enjoy the carols. I love singing.

Yes, the compressed hours have helped.  Today is my normal non working day and then two weeks off from Monday   

beanielou said:

Woohoo. Relax & enjoy.
THat's a good win.

Thank you .  We were pleased with the win.  It looked quite small in pictures but was much bigger than expected!  There are a few bits in there that we won't eat, so sending them over to the food bank, and hopefully some others can enjoy.

CRANKY40 said:

Oh how lovely. No work for ages and a little people carol service. I'm jealous of the carols - my House Troll is 18 now and won't even let me play Christmas music in the car  😂 Enjoy your time off. 

Thank you   It is a nice long bit of time off, I'm very excited.  I love carols too, they don't seem to sing so many traditional ones any more, I hope they will this afternoon.

jwil

Today's PAD - £2

Jan - £126
Feb - £106
Mar - £136
Apr - £122
May - £113
June - £108
July - £177
August - £115
September - £92
October - £87
November - £80
December - £37

jwil

I'm very excited to see what my final PAD total will be at the end of the year.  I can't believe it's so much.  I thought it would wind up around £30 a month.

It's my first day off today, hurrah!  I checked the policy earlier, and it hadn't been released then thankfully!

I'm taking advantage of my last few hours alone to get the wrapping done.  Then I won't have to mess around in the evenings when the kids are in bed.

My shopping has been delivered, and I've got another slot booked for Wednesday.  I've pretty much got everything now, just veg and a few fresh bits.  The veg offers weren't showing yet, so I'll stock up next week.  We got our turkey joint last weekend.  I didn't order one this year, as I wasn't sure what the prices would be.  I'm very glad I didn't, as the size we normally buy was £10 more than normal!  We did get one, but I normally order by value, so if I'd done that, it would have been tiny.

NeverendingDMP

Yay to time off and winning the raffle. Hope you manage to get everything done today. 
I went for frozen turkey crown this year as dh working all Xmas and in-laws/parents not at ours so am thinking pizza and nuggets. Will check if that's defo what the kids want.
I always find that hard if I order online. Never know how big a roast I've ordered when prices change or something has an offer on.
Something to do with being at school when they swapped to metric so learning half of each 

savingholmes

@CRANKY40 Adore the phrase house troll - I'd adopt it but would be worried about being beaten up

Hope carol service went well.